cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Ur-Mutter #8: framing art's political impotence
Creators: name: Bobier, Kimberly
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: Adrian Piper's 1989 photomontage Ur-Mutter #8 juxtaposes two provocative images. Both are reproduced from mass circulation periodicals that the artist adjusted to the same size and grayscale gradient. On the left is Jeff Koons's Artforum advertisement for his 1988-9 exhibition, Banality; on the right is New York Times photojournalist Peter Turnley's picture of a malnourished Somali mother and her child. Turnley's somber family portrait seems especially jarring beside Koons's theatrical shot of himself as a schoolteacher indoctrinating a classroom full of American kindergarteners into his art. My paper explores how Piper's appropriation frames Koons's ironic critique of mainstream art institutions' exploitative practices as an affirmation of them. I argue that Ur-Mutter #8 exposes ways in which his depiction of art's impotence diminishes the significance of art for marginalized people, like the hypothetical Somali subjects, who must fight for images and words in order to represent themselves. Because art's political relevance varies when approached from different perspectives, I contextualize Ur-Mutter #8's imagery in terms of Piper's and Koons's relationships to art establishments, art criticism, and art history during the late 1980s and early 90s. Through this analysis, I find that Koons's light treatment of social disparities suggests an aloof and privileged position. Piper's work, however, appears more concerned with interrogating the social insecurities that prompt the dismissive attitude expressed in Koons's ad. Although in some regards elitist and idealistic, her photomontage demonstrates that art is political because it demands that we negotiate representations with our own actions and beliefs.
The influence of individual nutrients, foods, and dietary programs on weight loss in overweight and obese adults: An umbrella review of meta-analyses of randomized controlled trials
Creators: name: Jayedi, Ahmad
name: Soltani, Sepideh
name: Johnston, Bradley
name: Ball, Geoff
name: Shab-bidar, Sakineh
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences

description: To present a comprehensive assessment of the effect of supplemented nutrient, food or dietary programs on body weight
Spreading the faith or sharing the faith? Contrasting conversion opinions and evangelistic behavior among religious young people in the United States
Creators: name: Long, Adam Layton
Publisher: name: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Year: 2014

description: This paper contrasts correlates of conversion opinions and evangelistic behavior of religious young people in the United States by comparing two random effects longitudinal logistic regression models based on three waves of the National Study of Youth and Religion. By distinguishing a) the belief that it is okay to convert others to one's own religion from b) sharing one's faith with people of other faiths, this project demonstrates that proselytizing and evangelism are distinct though overlapping social phenomena. Interpreting odds ratios from models including both internal and external factors highlights the differing effects of control variables and measures of religious content, conduct, and centrality. Interpreting this evidence prompts a theoretical discussion of how greater religious pluralization may lead to more unsettled lives, which may produce increasing evangelism.
Striped quantum Hall state in a half-filled Landau level
Creators: name: Wan, Xin
name: Yang, Kun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Nature of the fractional quantum Hall state at Landau level filling factor 5/2 remains elusive despite intensive experimental and theoretical work. While the leading theoretical candidates are Moore-Read Pfaffian (Pf) and its particle-hole conjugate anti-Pfaffian (APf), neither received unambiguous experimental support. We show that a state that is intermediate between them, made of alternating stripes of Pf and APf in the bulk, is a viable candidate. Such a state is shown to be incompressible and thus a charge insulator in the bulk, but a heat conductor due to the presence of gapless neutral bulk modes. We argue that properties of such a state is consistent with existing numerical and experimental work, and discuss possible experimental probes of its presence.
description: 5+4 pages, 7 figures
Rothamsted Experimental Station Report for 1978 Part 2
Creators: name: Rothamsted Experimental Station
Publisher: name: Lawes Agricultural Trust
Year: 1979
Subjects: subject: crop yield
subject: meteorological observations
subject: fertilizer application
subject: wheat
subject: soil
subject: crop rotation
subject: agricultural research
subject: agronomy
subject: barley
subject: fallowing
subject: farmyard manure
subject: nitrogen fertilizers
subject: rothamsted research
subject: rothamsted classical experiments
subject: broadbalk long-term experiment
subject: park grass long-term experiment
subject: rothamsted long-term experiments
subject: hoosfield alternate wheat and fallow long-term experiment
subject: exhaustion land long-term experiment
subject: broadbalk wilderness experiment
subject: geescroft wilderness experiments
subject: agdell long-term experiment
subject: barnfield long-term experiment
subject: Garden clover long-term experiment
subject: woburn experimental farm
subject: nematodes
subject: population dynamics
subject: Longidorus leptocephalus
subject: potassium
subject: saxmundham experimental station
subject: soil pH
subject: nitrogen
subject: leys
subject: rhizobium
subject: Neuroptera

description: Scanned PDF of Rothamsted Experimental Station Report for 1978 Part 2
description: ROTHAMSTED EXPERIMENTAL STATION Report for 1978 Part 2..............................................1
CONTENTS............................................................................................3
FORTY YEARS' RESEARCH ON PLANT VIRUSES AT ROTHAMSTED EXPERIMENTAL STATION...........................5
NEMATODE PROBLEMS IN THE WOBURN LEY-ARABLE EXPERIMENT, AND CHANGES IN LONGIDORUS LEPTOCEPHALUS POPULATION DENSITY ASSOCIATED WITH TIME, DEPTH, CROPPING AND SOIL TYPE..27
THE ROTATION-FUMIGATION EXPERIMENT, WOBURN EXPERIMENTAL FARM, 1969-77...............................47
RESULTS FROM THE WOBURN REFERENCE EXPERIMENT II. YIELDS OF THE CROPS AND RECOVERIES OF N, P, K AND Mg FROM MANURES AND SOIL, 1970-74..67
YIELDS OF, AND P, K, Ca, Mg UPTAKES BY, CROPS GROWN IN AN EXPERIMENT TESTING THE EFFECTS OF ADDING PEAT TO A SANDY LOAM SOIL AT WOBURN, 1963-77..83
RESULTS FROM AN EXPERIMENT ON ALL-GRASS AND GRASS-CLOVER LEYS AT SAXMUNDHAM, 1969-76, AND CHANGES IN SOIL pH, NITROGEN, PHOSPHORUS AND POTASSIUM DUE TO CROPPING AND MANURING..99
THE ROTHAMSTED RHIZOBIUM CULTURE COLLECTION AND INOCULANT USE IN THE UK ...........................119
USE OF FERTILISERS IN ENGLAND AND WALES, 1978.......................................................131
ROTHAMSTED INSECT SURVEY TENTH ANNUAL SUMMARY with a comment on the Neuroptera by J.BOWDEN..........137
SUBJECT INDEX.......................................................................................175
CONVERSION FACTORS / TABLES.........................................................................177
Maps of Rothamsted , Woburn and Saxmundham Farms....................................................179
Touching Watelet: L'Art de peindre and the Performance of Philosophical Materialism
Creators: name: Calvin, Katherine
Publisher: name: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Graduate School
Year: 2015
Subjects: Art
History

description: Writing on Claude-Henri Watelet's 1760 L'Art de peindre, Denis Diderot noted sneeringly: "If the poem belonged to me, I would cut out the vignettes, put them under glass, and throw the rest in the fire." Diderot imagines a violent dismemberment, touching Watelet's book with fingers, scissors, and fire. I too break apart L'Art de peindre. But rather than relegating it to blade and flame, I reassemble the whole and reframe its parts through the sense of touch. I analyze its engravings, poems, and related portrait by Jean-Baptiste Greuze each in relation to eighteenth-century conceptions of the artist's touch and philosophies of materialism. By using touch to tackle L'Art de peindre historically and theoretically, I argue Watelet's book performs Étienne Bonnot de Condillac's theories of combinatory imagination and sensorial knowledge--particularly, the "double experience" of touch--through its representation of both self and external world, Watelet and the art of painting.
Thermal mock-up studies of the DEPFET pixel vertex detector for Belle II
Creators: name: Ye, H.
name: Neibuhr, C.
name: Stever, R.
name: Gadow, K.
name: Camien, C.
Publisher: name: Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DESY, Hamburg
Year: 2016
Subjects: semiconductor detector: pixel
vertex detector
BELLE
performance
thermal
heat engineering
carbon: oxygen

description: The Belle II experiment currently under construction at the $e^+e^-$-collider SuperKEKB in Japan is designed to explore new physics beyond the standard model with an approximately 50 times larger data sample compared to its predecessor. The vertex detector (VXD), comprising a two layer DEPFET pixel detector (PXD) surrounded by four layers of double sided silicon strip detector (SVD), is indispensable for the accurate determination of the decay point of $B$ or $D$ meson as well as track reconstruction of low momentum particles. The DEPFET sensors in Belle II are thinned down to 75 $\mu$m with low power consumption and low intrinsic noise. In the DEPFET concept, the front-end electronics is placed outside of the sensitive area, and thus no cooling components are necessary inside the physics acceptance of the detector. Evaporative two-phase CO$_2$ cooling in combination with forced air flow has been chosen as the scheme for the PXD cooling. To guarantee the DEPFET detector operation condition and verify the cooling concept, a PXD mockup is constructed at DESY. Studies of the thermal and mechanical performance are presented in this paper.
Mining Planet Search Data for Binary Stars: The $ψ^1$ Draconis system
Creators: name: Gullikson, Kevin
name: Endl, Michael
name: Cochran, William D.
name: MacQueen, Phillip J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Several planet-search groups have acquired a great deal of data in the form of time-series spectra of several hundred nearby stars with time baselines of over a decade. While binary star detections are generally not the goal of these long-term monitoring efforts, the binary stars hiding in existing planet search data are precisely the type that are too close to the primary star to detect with imaging or interferometry techniques. We use a cross-correlation analysis to detect the spectral lines of a new low-mass companion to $ψ^1$ Draconis A, which has a known roughly equal-mass companion at ${\sim}680$ AU. We measure the mass of $ψ^1$ Draconis C as $M_2 = 0.70 \pm 0.07 M_{\odot}$, with an orbital period of ${\sim}20$ years. This technique could be used to characterize binary companions to many stars that show large-amplitude modulation or linear trends in radial velocity data.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures, 2 tables. To appear in the Astrophysical Journal. Supplementary material and python code used available at https://github.com/kgullikson88/Companion-Finder
Conclusions
Creators: name: Nillesen, Anne Loes
Publisher: name: A+BE | Architecture and the Built Environment
Year: 2018

description: Is it possible to define an integrated method for strategic flood risk management and spatial quality enhancement, in which spatial quality is a decisive ex-ante criterion, and what would be the key elements and steps in such a method? This constitutes the primary research question. The publications that together form this dissertation describe such a method and thus provide a positive answer to the primary research question. A key principle in the approach is the inclusion of multiple interchangeable (effective) flood risk reduction interventions at varying locations, so that the criteria of spatial quality can become decisive in flood risk management strategy development. The ability to assess the impact of different interventions on spatial quality is essential. In order to do so, an assessment framework was developed; it combines the approach of a spatial quality criteria checklist with expert judgement. The checklist supports expert judgement in that it keeps a wide, open perspective while assessing the spatial quality of a conceptual intervention, and thus allows verifiable and reproducible assessments. The method developed employs research-by-design to systematically test different interventions at different locations. It includes the following steps: An inventory of current and potential flood risk protection strategies An inventory of a region’s spatial characteristics, challenges, and potentials A qualitative assessment of existing situations and a spatial impact assessment of reference flood risk strategies, if any exist Systematic research on how flood risk management interventions at different scales can shift the location of a flood risk intervention; this includes qualitative assessments of interventions at various locations Systematic research on how flood risk management interventions in different flood risk layers can shift the location of a flood risk assignment; this includes qualitative assessments of interventions at various locations Selection of a combination of interventions that are preferred from a spatial quality objective
description: A+BE | Architecture and the Built Environment, No. 1 (2019): Spatial Quality as a decisive criterion in flood risk strategies
Discussion & Recommendations
Creators: name: Nillesen, Anne Loes
Publisher: name: A+BE | Architecture and the Built Environment
Year: 2018

description: The proposed methodology creates opportunities for designers to actively participate in debates concerning the location, layer, and scale of flood risk management interventions, resulting in a more integrated design approach. The systematic approach and the strong connection to variables and data sets provides a framework that makes it easier to communicate designers’ propositions from a spatial point of view to engineers and facilitates interdisciplinary cooperation. The developed sub-method for evaluating interventions at different flood risk levels, to shift flood risk management interventions to the most suitable locations, offers a framework for developing a combined probability and consequence reduction strategy. This method can become a valuable tool for strategy development and decision making in so-called multi-layered flood risk management approaches, in which interventions regarding the probability and the consequential damage of a flood are combined. Multi-layered safety approaches have often been referred to in flood risk management debates in the Netherlands, but so far, consistent methods for achieving a balanced probability and consequence reduction strategy have not been put in place.
description: A+BE | Architecture and the Built Environment, No. 1 (2019): Spatial Quality as a decisive criterion in flood risk strategies
Rotterdam
Creators: name: Meyer, Han
name: Nillesen, Anne Loes
name: Zonneveld, Wil
Publisher: name: A+BE | Architecture and the Built Environment
Year: 2018

description: This paper can be seen as the overall introduction in which the Rotterdam Rijnmond case study region and its spatial and flood risk challenge are introduced. It describes the strong historical relation between flood risk management interventions and the spatial development of the region. The region is protected against floods by an extensive system of (sea)barriers and dike-rings. Positioned on the edge of the Rhine-Meuse delta, the region developed as a port area and is part of the so-called Randstad area: the most densified area of the Netherlands. Due to climate change, increasing sea levels and peak river discharges are expected in the future, resulting in an increased flood risk. In order to address this future flood risk challenge, the second Delta Committee was established - the first Delta Committee was established after the 1953 flood that flooded part of the Netherlands. This Delta Committee develops regional strategies for flood risk reduction for the long-term period, up to 2100. As part of the strategy development process, four conceptual regional flood risk reduction strategies are developed, which can be perceived as cornerstones of the playing field of possible flood risk reduction strategies for the region. Those cornerstone strategies vary from the complete damming of the delta (thus lowering the extreme water levels behind the barrier) to opening up the delta and dealing with the expectedly high water levels by elevating the region’s dike-rings. The different cornerstones offer different potentials and threats for the spatial development of the region. In addition, at a local scale, the different cornerstones impact the spatial quality of the dike zones and flood plains in different ways. This strong relation between the flood risk management interventions and spatial composition and quality of the region supports the urgency of approaching the future flood risk reduction task in a comprehensive way.
description: A+BE | Architecture and the Built Environment, No. 1 (2019): Spatial Quality as a decisive criterion in flood risk strategies
The Synergy Between Flood Risk Reduction and Spatial Quality in Coastal Cities
Creators: name: Nillesen, Anne Loes
Publisher: name: A+BE | Architecture and the Built Environment
Year: 2018

description: This paper describes the application of a research-by-design approach that aims for a combined approach for spatial quality enhancementand flood risk reduction, with spatial quality as a decisive exante criterion. In order to achieve this, as in the ‘Room for the River’ programme, a dual flood risk and spatial quality objective is set. This research was performed as part of the ‘Atelier for Coastal Quality’, in which The Hague’s seaside area of ‘Scheveningen’ was selected as a case study location.Here, the future reinforcement of the sea barrier could be combined with addressing the challenges of improving spatial quality, among which are: identity, vitality, attractiveness, and connectivity. A research-by-design approach was deployed in which a single parameter was systematically varied (the flood risk intervention) while fixing other parameters (such as the context and the objectives from a spatial and flood risk perspective). After exploring and defining both the flood risk and spatial objectives for the area, three alternative flood risk reduction strategies (based on three alternative interventions: a boulevard, dunes, and a perpendicular dam) for Scheveningen were developed. In order to facilitate the integrated design process, ‘Delta Ateliers’, in which multidisciplinary experts and stakeholders interactively worked together, were successfully deployed. As a result, it became apparent that the inclusion of a prominent spatial objective is not the main key to including spatial quality as an ex-ante decisive criterion in defining flood risk strategies. The three proposed flood risk reduction interventions had all been successfully embedded with regard to meeting the prescribed spatial criteria, thereby disqualifying the spatial aspects as selection criteria for the flood risk intervention. However, as part of the study, a supporting research-by-design exercise was performed in which three different locations for the positioning of the perpendicular dam, were explored from a spatial perspective. Here, it seemed that providing interchangeable (similarly effective) interventions at different locations did result in very different potentials for spatial quality, thus allowing spatial quality to become a decisive selection criterion. The ‘Room for the River’ principle, which appeared essential in order to include spatial quality as a decisive ex-ante criterion, is the creation of alternative exchangeable options for the flood risk reduction interventions at different locations. Based on these findings, the research-by-design approach deployed is extended to not only systematically test different interventions, but to also systematically vary the location of the intervention. The ‘Delta Atelier’ multidisciplinary workshop approach is continued within the remaining research.
description: A+BE | Architecture and the Built Environment, No. 1 (2019): Spatial Quality as a decisive criterion in flood risk strategies
Quantum Quenches in Free Field Theory: Universal Scaling at Any Rate
Creators: name: Das, Sumit R.
name: Galante, Damian A.
name: Myers, Robert C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum quenches display universal scaling in several regimes. For quenches which start from a gapped phase and cross a critical point, with a rate slow compared to the initial gap, many systems obey Kibble-Zurek scaling. More recently, a different scaling behaviour has been shown to occur when the quench rate is fast compared to all other physical scales, but still slow compared to the UV cutoff. We investigate the passage from fast to slow quenches in scalar and fermionic free field theories with time dependent masses for which the dynamics can be solved exactly for all quench rates. We find that renormalized one point functions smoothly cross over between the regimes.
description: 40 pages; v2: a bit late, but it includes minor modifications to match published version
Spectral Shaping of Cascade Emissions from Multiplexed Cold Atomic Ensembles
Creators: name: Jen, H. H.
name: Chen, Y. -C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the spectral properties of the biphoton state from the cascade emissions of cold atomic ensembles, which composes of a telecommunication photon (signal) followed by an infrared one (idler) via four-wave mixing.\ With adiabatic conditions for Gaussian driving pulses of width $τ$, the spectrum of the biphoton state has the form of a Gaussian that conserves signal and idler photon energies within $\hbar/τ$ modulated by a Lorentzian with a superradiant linewidth.\ Multiplexing the atomic ensembles with frequency-shifted cascade emissions, we may manipulate and shape the spectrum of the biphoton state.\ The entropy of entanglement is derived from Schmidt decomposition, which can be larger if we multiplex the atomic ensembles in a way that conserves signal and idler photon central energies.\ The eigenvalues in Schmidt bases are degenerate in pairs for symmetric spectral shaping in which the mode probability densities show interference patterns.\ We also demonstrate the excess entropy of entanglement that comes from continuous frequency space, which scales up the total entropy.\ The scheme of multiplexed cascade-emitted biphoton state provides multimode structures that are useful in long-distance quantum communication and multimode quantum information processing.
description: six figures including a supplemental material
Water Safety Strategies and Local-scale Spatial Quality
Creators: name: Nillesen, Anne Loes
Publisher: name: A+BE | Architecture and the Built Environment
Year: 2018

description: In this paper, the development of a method to assess the impact of a flood risk intervention on spatial quality is described. In order to make spatial quality a decisive criterion for the selection of flood risk management interventions, the assessment of the impact of an intervention on spatial quality should be assessed in a verifiable and reproducible way. As described in the first publication, the Delta Programme defined four alternative system strategies for the reduction of flood risk in the Rijnmond Drechtsteden area. In this research, the developed method is deployed to assess the impact of those alternative system scale interventions on local scale spatial quality. The developed method is based on the ‘Room for the River’ assessment framework for spatial quality, which is based on a combination of a criteria checklist and expert judgement. The Room for the River method is developed to test elaborate design proposals in a rural setting. In this research, the framework is adjusted and extended to test more conceptual interventions, and criteria are altered to fit the more urban setting of the Rijnmond Drechtsteden area. In the research, the criteria on the checklist (which are based on the perception of spatial quality of a combination of utility, attractiveness, and robustness) are only considered when deemed relevant by the experts. The checklist supports the expert judgement in two valuable ways: firstly, as a tool to during consecutive assessments provide the experts with a coherent and wide view of criteria, and secondly, to make the assessment verifiable and open to discussion. The method contains the following steps: Adapt the spatial assessment framework to specific conditions for a case study area. Visualise the various (local-scale) locations that need to be evaluated in a consistent and neutral fashion. Assess the current situation as a reference, using an expert team and relevant criteria from the framework Assess the new situation related to the flood risk protection strategy, using an expert team and relevant criteria from the framework. Though time-consuming, the assessment framework works well in achieving verifiable assessments regarding the impact of regional and local flood risk management interventions on spatial quality at a local scale, in this particular case study, by allowing the local scale spatial quality to function as a selection criterion for selecting a regional flood risk management strategy. In this dissertation research, spatial quality is aimed to be a criterion in strategy development and not just in selecting already composed strategies. In order to achieve this, in an earlier research stage, different measures will have to be assessed, and, based on the assessment, be selected or omitted as components of a regional flood risk management strategy.
description: A+BE | Architecture and the Built Environment, No. 1 (2019): Spatial Quality as a decisive criterion in flood risk strategies
The Impact of Robot Co-location on Student Learning Experiences when Reasoning About Geometry Conjectures
Creators: name: Grosso, Veronica
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2023

description: The application of social robots in education is an emerging field that has the potential to transform the way we teach and learn. In this work, we compare the effects of a physically co-located social robot and a virtual social robot on learning experiences, as students reason about geometry conjectures. Our results show that the co-located robot was treated much more socially than the virtual robot in this context, and improved overall student learning experiences. Specifically, it increased the perceived effectiveness of the interaction to lower anxiety, provide companionship, and support reasoning and comprehension. These results support the use of co-located, physically present robots to complement learning environments in scenarios where the learning task is improved through social interaction, including verbal reasoning and use of gestures. This research contributes to the growing body of literature on the use of social robots in education and highlights the potential for further research on this subject.
Improving the Allocation of Flood risk management interventions From a Spatial Quality Perspective
Creators: name: Nillesen, Anne Loes
Publisher: name: A+BE | Architecture and the Built Environment
Year: 2018

description: In this publication, the developed integrated method for including spatial quality as an ex-ante criterion in flood risk management strategy development is presented in detail and tested. Based on the results of the earlier research-by-design exercise, as described in the third publication, it is concluded that the key to making spatial quality an ex-ante criterion is to make sure sufficient interchangeable flood risk management interventions, with varying locations, are available, since having multiple effective measures from a flood risk perspective makes selection based on other criteria, such as spatial quality, possible. In this paper, the ways in which a range of interchangeable measures can be included by considering flood risk management interventions at different scale levels (varying from system scale to local scale interventions) and at different flood risk layers (including both flood risk reduction and consequence reduction measures) is described. As a base reference situation, the impact on spatial quality of the ‘business as usual’ flood risk management strategy for this region is assessed. Subsequently, the ways that the flood risk management interventions can be shifted away from the locations in which they have a negative effect on spatial quality, by considering alternatives with a better (preferably neutral or positive) impact on spatial quality is tested. This is done by systematically deploying interventions at different scale levels and safety layers, while assessing their impact on spatial quality. Based on this assessment, the combinations of measures that result in an optimal impact on spatial quality, can be selected for the regional flood risk management strategy. This case study research demonstrates that the developed method, compared to the business as usual reference strategy, allows for spatial quality to become an ex-ante criterion, resulting in the formulation of a flood risk management strategy with an improved impact on spatial quality. The approach includes the following steps: An inventory of the current and potential flood risk protection strategies An inventory of the spatial characteristics, ambition, and potentials of the region A qualitative assessment of the existing situation and (if available) of a reference flood risk management strategy Systematic research-by-design on how flood risk management interventions at different scales can shift the local flood risk management interventions (and a qualitative assessment of this shift) Systematic research-by-design on how interventions in different flood risk intervention layers can shift the flood risk intervention (and a qualitative assessment of this shift)
description: A+BE | Architecture and the Built Environment, No. 1 (2019): Spatial Quality as a decisive criterion in flood risk strategies
An Integrated Approach to Flood Risk Management Management and Spatial Quality Enhancement for a Netherlands’ River Polder Area
Creators: name: Nillesen, Anne Loes
name: Kok, Matthijs
Publisher: name: A+BE | Architecture and the Built Environment
Year: 2018

description: In the previous paper, the aspect of including interventions from different flood risk safety layers is explained quite concisely. In this publication, an extended approach for the inclusion of interventions from different flood risk layers are described in more detail. The paper demonstrates how the Netherlands’ policy shift from a probability-based flood risk target to a risk-based flood risk target increased the range of interchangeable measures for flood risk protection. Though applying a risk-based mindset, the Netherlands’ flood risk reduction targets were, until recently, defined as probability-based safety standards. This resulted in a uniform dike-ring approach in which different dike-rings have different safety standards, based on, amongst others, the perceived economic value of the area, which are applied uniformly to the whole dike-ring. Within this probability reduction based system it is possible to define interchangeable flood risk management interventions at different locations, for instance, by proposing interventions of different scales, as demonstrated in the previous publication. The ‘Room for the River’ project is an example of providing alternative probability reduction measures, since both dike elevation and load reduction reduce the probability of a flood. However, applying risk-based flood risk targets conceptually considerably extends the amount of interchangeable flood risk measures. Not only does it, next to probability reduction measures, allow for the inclusion of consequence reduction measures (such as flood proofing buildings, elevating areas, and improving evacuation), but compared to the uniform dike-ring approach, it also allows for differentiations in probability standards per dike segment. This conceptually more fine-meshed perspective of the dike-ring extends the amount of variable locations for flood risk management interventions. In the research-by-design study described in this paper, the examined method for the aspect of ‘changing the layer of the flood risk intervention’ is applied to the Albasserwaard case study area. The paper demonstrates how the Netherlands’ recent shift from a probability standard target towards a risk-based target, by increasing the amount of interchangeable flood risk management interventions for the case study area, strengthens the possibility of deploying the developed method and the use of spatial quality as an ex-ante criterion.
description: A+BE | Architecture and the Built Environment, No. 1 (2019): Spatial Quality as a decisive criterion in flood risk strategies
Integrated Design for Flood Risk and Spatial Quality Enhancement
Creators: name: Nillesen, Anne Loes
Publisher: name: A+BE | Architecture and the Built Environment
Year: 2018

description: The assessment of the impact of a potential flood risk intervention on spatial quality at the local scale is an essential element in the research-by-design methodology developed in this thesis (and demonstrated in the previous chapters). Examples of how to explore this impact of the potential flood risk intervention on spatial quality at the local scale are shown in Chapters 5 and 6. In these research-by-design studies, applied to the Rijnmond and Alblasserwaard-Vijfheerenlanden case study areas, a conceptual representation of several business-as-usual flood risk management interventions is spatially projected on to a cross section of the location. It is mentioned in these chapters that design optimisation can mitigate the potential negative effect of a flood risk intervention on the local scale spatial quality (and thereby influence the assessment). In Chapter 6, some basic examples are shown, however, this topic is not elaborated further. The Scheveningen case described in Chapter 4 elaborately shows a design study in which three different flood risk management interventions are optimally embedded spatially. This study also shows an elaborate analysis of the spatial characteristics, challenges, and ambitions of the area. However, this approach is too elaborate and time consuming to apply as part the research-by-design method in which the impact on the local scale spatial quality of a wide range of potential flood risk management interventions is tested. This last publication shows an overview of some research-by-design studies, performed during this PhD research, that apply different approaches to test the impact of potential flood risk interventions on the local scale spatial quality. They vary from elaborate embedment studies (Scheveningen) to a more condensed research-by-design approach that could be included in the developed method (Sliedrecht & Houston). In the design studies, the following method is applied to a greater or lesser extent: Creation of an inventory of the spatial-economic ambitions and challenges of the location Creation of an overview of possible (and viable) technical options for dike reinforcements Performing a design study for the spatial implementation of each intervention Reflecting on the pros and cons of the applications The spatial ambition map developed for the Alblasserwaard-Vijfheerenlanden case study, which is included in this chapter, is a valuable example of how to inventory the spatial-economic ambitions and challenges of the location.
description: A+BE | Architecture and the Built Environment, No. 1 (2019): Spatial Quality as a decisive criterion in flood risk strategies
Metamorphosis of SN 2014C: Delayed Interaction Between a Hydrogen Poor Core-collapse Supernova and a Nearby Circumstellar Shell
Creators: name: Milisavljevic, D.
name: Margutti, R.
name: Kamble, A.
name: Patnaude, D.
name: Raymond, J.
name: Eldridge, J.
name: Fong, W.
name: Bietenholz, M.
name: Challis, P.
name: Chornock, R.
name: Drout, M.
name: Fransson, C.
name: Fesen, R.
name: Grindlay, J.
name: Kirshner, R.
name: Lunnan, R.
name: Mackey, J.
name: Miller, G.
name: Parrent, J.
name: Sanders, N.
name: Soderberg, A.
name: Zauderer, B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present optical observations of supernova SN 2014C, which underwent an unprecedented slow metamorphosis from H-poor type Ib to H-rich type IIn over the course of one year. The observed spectroscopic evolution is consistent with the supernova having exploded in a cavity before encountering a massive shell of the progenitor star's stripped hydrogen envelope. Possible origins for the circumstellar shell include a brief Wolf-Rayet fast wind phase that overtook a slower red supergiant wind, eruptive ejection, or confinement of circumstellar material by external influences of neighboring stars. An extended high velocity Halpha absorption feature seen in near-maximum light spectra implies that the progenitor star was not completely stripped of hydrogen at the time of core collapse. Archival pre-explosion Subaru Telescope Suprime-Cam and Hubble Space Telescope Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 images of the region obtained in 2009 show a coincident source that is most likely a compact massive star cluster in NGC 7331 that hosted the progenitor system. By comparing the emission properties of the source with stellar population models that incorporate interacting binary stars we estimate the age of the host cluster to be 30 - 300 Myr, and favor ages closer to 30 Myr in light of relatively strong Halpha emission. SN 2014C is the best-observed member of a class of core-collapse supernovae that fill the gap between events that interact strongly with dense, nearby environments immediately after explosion and those that never show signs of interaction. Better understanding of the frequency and nature of this intermediate population can contribute valuable information about the poorly understood final stages of stellar evolution.
description: 13 pages, 7 figures, accepted to ApJ
Explaining Individual Attitudes Toward Immigration  Using Socioeconomic and Cultural Theoretical Modeling
Creators: name: Koch, Dale
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2018

description: Two substantial and growing bodies of literature address variations in individual attitudes toward immigration from a socioeconomic and a cultural perspective, respectively. Fewer studies, however, seek to reconcile these theoretical perspectives through a more holistic approach. With that in mind, this paper is conceived with an appreciation for explaining immigration attitude formation as a complex web of deeply interconnected factors which vary widely in importance among individuals. I argue that, in addition to socioeconomic factors, cultural elements play an even stronger role in the formation of public opinion toward immigration on an individual level. In particular, I use quantitative analysis of European Social Survey (2014) data to separate the effects of prejudicial views from the effects of cultural fears which are responsible for a substantial amount of opposition to immigration in Europe.
Spatial Quality as a decisive criterion in flood risk strategies
Creators: name: Nillesen, Anne Loes
Publisher: name: A+BE | Architecture and the Built Environment
Year: 2019

description: The role of the designer in flood risk management strategy development is currently often restricted to the important but limited task of optimally embedding technical interventions, which are themselves derivatives of system level flood risk strategies that are developed at an earlier stage, in their local surroundings. During this thesis research, an integrated approach is developed in which spatial quality can already be included in the regional flood risk management strategy development and thus can become a decisive ‘ex-ante’ aspect of flood risk management strategy development. The key principle to this approach is the inclusion of a range of interchangeable (effective) flood risk reduction interventions at varying locations so that the criterion of spatial quality can become decisive in flood risk management strategy development. As part of the methodology development, an assessment framework is developed, allowing for the assessment of the impact of the different interventions on spatial quality; research-by-design is employed to systematically evaluate different interventions at different locations. The Rijnmond-Drechtsteden area in The Netherlands is used as a case study area for this research.
description: A+BE | Architecture and the Built Environment, No. 1 (2019): Spatial Quality as a decisive criterion in flood risk strategies
Electronic correlation assisted ferroelectric metallic state in LiOsO$_3$
Creators: name: Vecchio, I. Lo
name: Giovannetti, G.
name: Autore, M.
name: Di Pietro, P.
name: Perucchi, A.
name: He, J.
name: Yamaura, K.
name: Capone, M.
name: Lupi, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: LiOsO$_3$ has been recently identified as the first unambiguous "ferroelectric metal", experimentally realizing a prediction from 1965 by Anderson and Blount. In this work, we investigate the metallic state in LiOsO$_3$ by means of infrared spectroscopy supplemented by Density Functional Theory and Dynamical Mean Field Theory calculations. Our measurements and theoretical calculations clearly show that LiOsO$_3$ is a very bad metal with a small quasiparticle weight, close to a Mott-Hubbard localization transition. The agreement between experiments and theory allows us to ascribe all the relevant features in the optical conductivity to strong electron-electron correlations within the $t_{2g}$ manifold of the osmium atoms.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures
Fungible Simple Slopes in Moderated Regression
Creators: name: Blanton, Zane
Publisher: name: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Year: 2012

description: This thesis concerns an application of fungible weights methodology to the question of moderation in least squares (LS) regression. Fungible weights are weights that produce predictions correlated to a given degree with the LS predictions and scaled so that they produce minimal sum of squared errors. Waller (2008) proposes that fungible weights be used to determine if LS weights should be interpreted as representing relative contributions of predictors or only as a composite effect. In this project, data were simulated from regression models with a variety of structures and fungible weights were generated for each dataset. For each set of fungible weights, corresponding simple slopes were computed. The variability of fungible weights and simple slopes across samples was examined, as well as the conditions under which fungible solutions suggest a qualitatively different regression model. Factors that were varied include the coefficient of determination of the model, the correlation of the predictors, the relative weights of predictors, the presence of the interaction, and the sample size. Tentative recommendations of conditions for which sample fungible solutions give good approximations of population fungible solutions are made, and a simple bootstrapping method for generating confidence sets around fungible weights is proposed.
Introduction
Creators: name: Nillesen, Anne Loes
Publisher: name: A+BE | Architecture and the Built Environment
Year: 2018

description: This thesis report is paper based, and as such contains a series of 7 journal and book chapter publications published as part of my PhD research. Each paper has its own problem statement, research question, theoretical framework, and methods section, which are not repeated in this introduction. Due to the paper-based setup of the dissertation, this introductory section is of a different nature than the traditional introduction found in many thesis books at the Faculty of Architecture. The goal of this introduction is not to give a comprehensive introduction to aspects of the research, but to explain the relation between the different publications, which are subsequently included as chapters.
description: A+BE | Architecture and the Built Environment, No. 1 (2019): Spatial Quality as a decisive criterion in flood risk strategies
Flood Risk and Spatial Quality
Creators: name: Nillesen, Anne Loes
Publisher: name: A+BE | Architecture and the Built Environment
Year: 2018

description: This book chapter describes the current practice with regard to combined approaches for flood risk management and spatial quality enhancement in the Netherlands. Currently, there is a requirement to extend the current flood risk system because of increased flood risk (caused by climate change and increased investments in the protected area) and new insights with regard to acceptable risks. Flood risk measures nowadays need to be implemented in a context in which local stakeholders emphasise aspects such as spatial quality and ecology. In this contemporary context, we see interesting developments with regard to combined approaches for flood risk protection, such as, for instance, the experimental flood proof building programme, the ‘building with nature’ concept (in which natural principles are employed for flood risk protection), the atelier for coastal quality (that as part of the Delta Programme developed integrated designs for coastal protection and quality) and the ‘Room for the River’ project (in which, as an alternative to dike reinforcement, the water load is reduced by creating extra space for the river to expand). For this research, the ‘Room for the River’ project is an important reference. Within the project, which aims to address more extreme river discharges, spatial quality is an important secondary objective. Next to the availability of extra budgets, a ‘Quality Team’ was established to supervise the inclusion of spatial quality objectives. The project addressed the growing resistance against the elevation of traditionallybuilt levees, by offering an alternative option of lowering the water levels by improving the flow capacity of the river (for example, by creating a bypass to widen the river). Within the development of the combined method for flood risk and spatial quality, different aspects have been inspired or based on the ‘Room for the River’ approach. Among such aspects are the dual flood risk and spatial quality objective, the principle of providing alternative options for flood risk management interventions, and the inclusion of a spatial quality assessment.
description: A+BE | Architecture and the Built Environment, No. 1 (2019): Spatial Quality as a decisive criterion in flood risk strategies