cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Star Streams in Triaxial Isochrone Potentials with Sub-Halos
Creators: name: Carlberg, Raymond G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The velocity, position, and action variable evolution of a tidal stream drawn out of a star cluster in a triaxial isochrone potential containing a sub-halo population reproduces many of the orbital effects of more general cosmological halos but allows easy calculation of orbital actions. We employ a spherical shell code which we show accurately reproduces the results of a tree gravity code for a collisionless star cluster. Streams from clusters on high eccentricity orbits, $e\gtrsim 0.6$, can spread out so much that the amount of material at high enough surface density to stand out on the sky may be only a few percent of the stream's total mass. Low eccentricity streams remain more spatially coherent, but sub-halos both broaden the stream and displace the centerline with details depending on the orbits allowed within the potential. Overall, the majority of stream particles have changes in their total actions of only 1-2\%, leaving the mean stream relatively undisturbed. A halo with 1\% of the mass in sub-halos typically spreads the velocity distribution about a factor of two wider than would be expected for a smooth halo. Strong density variations, "gaps", along with mean velocity offsets, are clearly detected in low eccentricity streams for even a 0.2\% sub-halo mass fraction. Around one hundred velocity measurements per kiloparsec of stream will enable tests for the presence of a local sub-halo density as small as 0.2-0.5\% of the local mass density, with about 1\% predicted for 30 kiloparsec orbital radii streams.
description: ApJ submitted after revisions in response to referee
Atti della Tavola rotonda su «Le conseguenze della pedonalizzazione nei centri urbani: aspetti economico-estimativi, tecnici, urbanistici e sociali»: Intervent0
Creators: name: Fusco Girard, Luigi
Publisher: name: Aestimum
Year: 2009

description: Aestimum, Aestimum 23/24 (1990)
Relating protein pharmacology by ligand chemistry
Creators: name: Roth, Bryan
name: Armbruster, Blaine N.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2007

description: The identification of protein function based on biological information is an area of intense research. Here we consider a complementary technique that quantitatively groups and relates proteins based on the chemical similarity of their ligands. We began with 65,000 ligands annotated into sets for hundreds of drug targets. The similarity score between each set was calculated using ligand topology. A statistical model was developed to rank the significance of the resulting similarity scores, which are expressed as a minimum spanning tree to map the sets together. Although these maps are connected solely by chemical similarity, biologically sensible clusters nevertheless emerged. Links among unexpected targets also emerged, among them that methadone, emetine and loperamide (Imodium) may antagonize muscarinic M3, α2 adrenergic and neurokinin NK2 receptors, respectively. These predictions were subsequently confirmed experimentally. Relating receptors by ligand chemistry organizes biology to reveal unexpected relationships that may be assayed using the ligands themselves.
Supplementary document for Perfect Talbot self-imaging effect of aperiodic gratings - 6504085.pdf
Creators: name: Yao, Yizheng
name: Sun, Xuhui
name: Ma, Yibing
name: Wang, Tong
name: Wu, Gan
name: Chen, Huan
name: Gao, Bing
name: Wang, Chenglong
name: Wu, Hao
name: Zhang, Chao
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2023
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental document
Control, learning and memory processes in the ISPC effect
Creators: name: Gallego, David
name: Jimenez, Luis
Publisher: name: OSF Registries
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Experimental Analysis of Behavior
subject: Cognitive Psychology
subject: Cognition and Perception
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: ISPC
subject: cognitive control
subject: contingency
subject: episodic retrieval
subject: stroop

description: Data and materials for the paper "Contingency learning and episodic contributions to the Item-Specific Proportion Congruent Effect", submitted to QJEP on July 2023
Electromagnetic Energy Sink
Creators: name: Valagiannopoulos, Constantinos A.
name: Vehmas, Joni
name: Simovski, Constantin R.
name: Tretyakov, Sergei A.
name: Maslovski, Stanislav I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The ideal black body fully absorbs all incident rays, that is, all propagating waves created by arbitrary sources. The known idealized realization of a black body is the perfectly matched layer (PML), widely used in numerical electromagnetics. However, ideal black bodies and PMLs do not interact with evanescent fields existing near any finite-size source, and the energy stored in these fields cannot be harvested. Here we introduce the concept of the ideal conjugate matched layer (CML), which fully absorbs energy of both propagating and evanescent fields of sources acting as an ideal sink for electromagnetic energy. Conjugate matched absorbers have exciting application potentials, as resonant attractors of electromagnetic energy into the absorber volume. We derive the conditions on the constitutive parameters of media which can serve as CML materials, numerically study the performance of planar and cylindrical CML and discuss possible realizations of such materials as metal-dielectric composites.
description: 17 pages, 15 figures
Atti della Tavola rotonda su «Le conseguenze della pedonalizzazione nei centri urbani: aspetti economico-estimativi, tecnici, urbanistici e sociali»: Proposta per ridurre l'eccessiva e spesso inconsulta circolazione automobilistica
Creators: name: Crescentini-Anderlini, Gustavo
Publisher: name: Aestimum
Year: 2009

description: Aestimum, Aestimum 23/24 (1990)
Clustering Fossil from Primordial Gravitational Waves in Anisotropic Inflation
Creators: name: Emami, Razieh
name: Firouzjahi, Hassan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Inflationary models can correlate small-scale density perturbations with the long-wavelength gravitational waves (GW) in the form of the Tensor-Scalar-Scalar (TSS) bispectrum. This correlation affects the mass-distribution in the Universe and leads to the off-diagonal correlations of the density field modes in the form of the quadrupole anisotropy. Interestingly, this effect survives even after the tensor mode decays when it re-enters the horizon, known as the fossil effect. As a result, the off-diagonal correlation function between different Fourier modes of the density fluctuations can be thought as a way to probe the large-scale GW and the mechanism of inflation behind the fossil effect. Models of single field slow roll inflation generically predict a very small quadrupole anisotropy in TSS while in models of multiple fields inflation this effect can be observable. Therefore this large scale quadrupole anisotropy can be thought as a spectroscopy for different inflationary models. In addition, in models of anisotropic inflation there exists quadrupole anisotropy in curvature perturbation power spectrum. Here we consider TSS in models of anisotropic inflation and show that the shape of quadrupole anisotropy is different than in single field models. In addition in these models the quadrupole anisotropy is projected into the preferred direction and its amplitude is proportional to $g_* N_e$ where $N_e$ is the number of e-folds and $g_*$ is the amplitude of quadrupole anisotropy in curvature perturbation power spectrum. We use this correlation function to estimate the large scale GW as well as the preferred direction and discuss the detectability of the signal in the galaxy surveys like Euclid and 21 cm surveys.
description: 24 pages, 2 figures
Putting the money where the plan is: Financial tools for downtown renewal in America
Creators: name: Ferrigan, Jason
Publisher: name: Vancouver Island University - Royal Roads University
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Urban renewal
subject: Urban renewal--Finance
subject: Cities and towns

description: In the past twenty years many American cities have turned their collective attention back to their downtowns and waterfronts by creating strategies to attract and guide new public and private investment and reverse years of decline.
description: Part of "City soul/L'âme de la ville" section of issue.
description: https://viurrspace.ca/bitstream/handle/10613/5511/Article007.pdf?sequence=3
Alkoxysilane Derivatives of N-Acyl Amino Acids, N-Acyldipeptides, and N-Acyl Tripetides
Creators: name: Arkles, Barry C
name: Hollenberg, Jane C
name: Pan, Youlin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Amino Acids
Alkoxysilane
Surface Treatment
Cosmetic Chemistry
Peptides
Silicon Compounds
Peptidomimetic

description: Hydrophilic N-acylamino acid, N-acyl dipeptide, and N-acyl tripeptide substituted silanes are prepared which can be utilized as reactive surface treatments for particles of pigments, minerals, and fillers. These treated particles form stable dispersions in the aqueous phase of oil-in-water mixtures that are suitable for cosmetic applications. The treated particles may also be used in pressed powder and color cosmetic formulations.
Multiple shooting-Local Linearization method for the identification of dynamical systems
Creators: name: Carbonell, F.
name: Iturria-Medina, Y.
name: Jimenez, J. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 37M10

description: The combination of the multiple shooting strategy with the generalized Gauss-Newton algorithm turns out in a recognized method for estimating parameters in ordinary differential equations (ODEs) from noisy discrete observations. A key issue for an efficient implementation of this method is the accurate integration of the ODE and the evaluation of the derivatives involved in the optimization algorithm. In this paper, we study the feasibility of the Local Linearization (LL) approach for the simultaneous numerical integration of the ODE and the evaluation of such derivatives. This integration approach results in a stable method for the accurate approximation of the derivatives with no more computational cost than the that involved in the integration of the ODE. The numerical simulations show that the proposed Multiple Shooting-Local Linearization method recovers the true parameters value under different scenarios of noisy data.
Critical Race Theory in the LIS Curriculum
Creators: name: Hughes Hassell, Sandra
name: Gibson, Amelia
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2018

description: CRT and its related concepts provide a structural framework for preparing LIS students and graduates to recognize and address racism, to understand “how power and privilege shape LIS institutions and professional practice” (Cooke, Sweeney, & Noble, 2016, p. 107), and to embrace social justice as an LIS value. Incorporating CRT into existing courses is the first step in pushing the profession in this direction.
General Geometric Fluctuation Modeling for Device Variability Analysis
Creators: name: Fu, Bo
name: Jin, Seonghoon
name: Choi, Woosung
name: Lee, Keun-Ho
name: Park, Young-Kwan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The authors propose a new modeling approach based on the impedance field method (IFM) to analyze the general geometric variations in device simulations. Compared with the direct modeling of multiple variational devices, the proposed geometric variation (GV) model shows a better efficiency thanks to its IFM based nature. Compared with the existing random geometric fluctuation (RGF) model where the noise sources are limited to the interfaces, the present GV model provides better accuracy and wider application areas as it transforms the geometric variation into global mesh deformation and computes the noise sources induced by the geometric variation in the whole simulation domain. GV model also provides great insights into the device by providing the effective noise sources, equation-wise contributions, and sensitivity maps that are useful for device characterization and optimization.
Supplementary document for Neural Network Architectures for Optical Channel Nonlinear Compensation in Digital Subcarrier Multiplexing Systems - 6391210.pdf
Creators: name: Bakhshali, Ali
name: Najafi, Hossein
name: Hamgini, Behnam Behinaein
name: Zhang, Zhuhong
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2023
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Additional graphs omitted from the paper
Technology and planning in the North: Past, present and future
Creators: name: Johnson, Ken R.
Publisher: name: Vancouver Island University - Royal Roads University
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Canada, Northern
subject: Aerial photography in regional planning--Canada, Northern
subject: Communication in regional planning--Canada, Northern
subject: City planning--Canada, Northern

description: Before the Second World War, the northern territories of Canada were a sparsely populated frontier of aboriginal peoples, fur traders, miners and adventurers. Many ideas about the North were based on the Klondike Gold Rush and the stories of nineteenth-century polar explorers. Outsiders typically viewed the entire region as a land of ice and snow, occupied by subsistence hunters and gatherers. This perception was largely true.
description: Part of "New media and economic transitions/Nouveaux média et transitions économiques" section of issue.
description: https://viurrspace.ca/bitstream/handle/10613/5512/Article006.pdf?sequence=3
Delay induced Turing-like waves for one species reaction-diffusion model on a network
Creators: name: Petit, Julien
name: Carletti, Timoteo
name: Asslani, Mabor
name: Fanelli, Duccio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A one species time-delay reaction-diffusion system defined on a complex networks is studied. Travelling waves are predicted to occur as follows a symmetry breaking instability of an homogenous stationary stable solution, subject to an external non homogenous perturbation. These are generalized Turing-like waves that materialize in a single species populations dynamics model, as the unexpected byproduct of the imposed delay in the diffusion part. Sufficient conditions for the onset of the instability are mathematically provided by performing a linear stability analysis adapted to time delayed differential equation. The method here developed exploits the properties of the Lambert W-function. The prediction of the theory are confirmed by direct numerical simulation carried out for a modified version of the classical Fisher model, defined on a Watts-Strogatz networks and with the inclusion of the delay.
Nanophotonic coherent light-matter interfaces based on rare-earth-doped crystals
Creators: name: Zhong, Tian
name: Kindem, Jonathan M.
name: Miyazono, Evan
name: Faraon, Andrei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum light-matter interfaces (QLMIs) connecting stationary qubits to photons will enable optical networks for quantum communications, precise global time keeping, photon switching, and studies of fundamental physics. Rare-earth-ion (REI) doped crystals are state-of-the-art materials for optical quantum memories and quantum transducers between optical photons, microwave photons and spin waves. Here we demonstrate coupling of an ensemble of neodymium REIs to photonic nano-cavities fabricated in the yttrium orthosilicate host crystal. Cavity quantum electrodynamics effects including Purcell enhancement (F=42) and dipole-induced transparency are observed on the highly coherent 4I9/2-4F3/2 optical transition. Fluctuations in the cavity transmission due to statistical fine structure of the atomic density are measured, indicating operation at the quantum level. Coherent optical control of cavity-coupled REIs is performed via photon echoes. Long optical coherence times (T2~100 microseconds) and small inhomogeneous broadening are measured for the cavity-coupled REIs, thus demonstrating their potential for on-chip scalable QLMIs.
Eco-cities: technological showcases or public spaces?
Creators: name: Cowley, Robert
Publisher: name: University of Westminster
Year: 2016

description: A growing body of critical literature seeks to identify conceptual and practical problems accompanying the realisation of mainstream ‘eco-city’ initiatives around the world. However, little attention has been paid to the status of the ‘city’ itself within the broader discourse. If eco-cities are to be more than experimental ‘technological showcases’, and aim to transform urban life more generally, the question of what types of ‘cityness’ will ensue is of considerable importance. To effect a more significant sustainability transition, eco-city plans and policies may need somehow to encompass a more nuanced conceptualisation of cities as complex, unpredictable, and emergent spaces. The incompatibility of such a conceptualisation with liberal-modernist modes of planning means that radically innovative new approaches to eco-city development may need to be found. This thesis considers whether the eco-city, theorised as a multiple process of real-world experimentation, may shed some light on how ‘cityness’ might better be planned for in future. To do so, it conceptualises cityness through the lens of ‘publicness’. It makes an original contribution to knowledge by developing a new theoretical model of publicness as an ‘assemblage’ of space and behaviour, with an ‘emergent’ and ‘civic’ modality. It thereby extends recent debates over the idea of ‘urban assemblage’, and makes innovative links between theories of planning and of the public. This model informs the analysis of original empirical research, investigating the conceptualisation of the public in an international sample of official eco-city documents, and exploring the publicness of two implemented initiatives, in Portland, Oregon (US) and newly built Sejong City (South Korea). The research finds that publicness tends to be poorly articulated in mainstream eco-city plans and policies, with potentially negative implications for sustainability in the ‘urban age’. However, it also argues that state institution-led planning – even when experimental ‘governance’ approaches are adopted – may inevitably be limited in its ability to encompass the emergent public life of the city. The thesis concludes by considering the prospects for overcoming or more productively acknowledging these limits in future.
Nocebo Effects on Informed Consent within Medical and Psychological Settings: A Scoping Review Protocol
Creators: name: Stirling, Nadine
name: Takarangi, Melanie
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Cognitive Psychology
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: A scoping review protocol, prepared in accordance with the JBI Scoping Review guidelines, examining nocebo effects within the context of informed consent in medical and psychological settings.
Supplementary document for On-chip lateral Si:Te PIN photodiodes for room-temperature detection in the telecom optical wavelength bands - 6466389.pdf
Creators: name: Shaikh, Mohd Saif
name: wen, shuyu
name: Catuneanu, Mircea
name: Wang, Mao
name: Erbe, Artur
name: Prucnal, Slawomir
name: Rebohle, Larss
name: Zhou, Shengqiang
name: Jamshidi, Kambiz
name: Helm, Manfred
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2023
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental document
Making waves, making connections, making change
Creators: name: Nothstein, Raymond
name: Hudema, Blake
Publisher: name: Vancouver Island University - Royal Roads University
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Congresses and conventions--British Columbia--Burnaby
subject: Planning--Congresses
subject: Planners--Canada
subject: Canadian Institute of Planners (CIP)
subject: Planning Institute of British Columbia (PIBC)

description: Funny things can happen after an evening of cocktails and socializing: the next day you may realize that you've volunteered to organize and run a major planning conference. This is what happened to us three years ago, and now that we've emerged from a process that seemed like a blur, we're ecstatic to report that the "2002: Making Waves" conference was a success on all fronts.
description: From the conference co-chairs
description: https://viurrspace.ca/bitstream/handle/10613/5518/Article001.pdf?sequence=3
Supplementary document for On-chip lateral Si:Te PIN photodiodes for room-temperature detection in the telecom optical wavelength bands - 6483393.pdf
Creators: name: Shaikh, Mohd Saif
name: wen, shuyu
name: Catuneanu, Mircea
name: Wang, Mao
name: Erbe, Artur
name: Prucnal, Slawomir
name: Rebohle, Larss
name: Zhou, Shengqiang
name: Jamshidi, Kambiz
name: Helm, Manfred
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2023
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Visualization
DT BG Climate Scenarios Expansion Report
Creators: name: Davies, Jack
name: Schultz, Wendy
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 441006
subject: Sociological methodology and research methods
classificationCode: 441099
subject: Sociology not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 441004
subject: Social change
classificationCode: 440404
subject: Political economy and social change
classificationCode: 440499
subject: Development studies not elsewhere classified

description: This document provides an overview of the goals, methods, output, and applications of the Deep Transitions-Baillie Gifford Climate Scenarios Expansion Project.
Vertical-Cavity In-plane Heterostructures: Physics and Applications
Creators: name: Taghizadeh, Alireza
name: Mørk, Jesper
name: Chung, Il-Sug
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that the in-plane heterostructures realized in vertical cavities with high contrast grating(HCG) reflector enables exotic configurations of heterostructure and photonic wells. In photonic crystal heterostructures forming a photonic well, the property of a confined mode is determined by the well width and barrier height. We show that in vertical-cavity in-plane heterostructures, anisotropic dispersion curvatures plays a key role as well, leading to exotic effects such as a photonic well with conduction band like well and a valence band like barrier. We investigate three examples to discuss the rich potential of this heterostructure as a platform for various physics studies and propose a system of two laterally coupled cavities which shows the breaking of parity-time symmetry as an example.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures
The view from '56: Thoughts on the short-term future of transportation planning
Creators: name: Price, Gordon
Publisher: name: Vancouver Island University - Royal Roads University
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Transportation--Planning
subject: Transportation--Social aspects

description: A few years ago, the Ford Expedition assembling plant in Wayne, Mich., made more money in after-tax profits than the combined budgets of all municipalities in British Columbia. The number of SUVs sold in North America has roughly doubled since 1996, now totaling about four million a year. These vehicles are classified as light trucks (in order to drive through various legislative loopholes), and their percentage of the market approaches that of passenger cars. If you want to know the future of transportation in North America, start here. This is where most of the money has gone, and where people's expectations reside-in big cars on big roads. The future, apparently, is like 1956, only more so.
description: https://viurrspace.ca/bitstream/handle/10613/5513/Article005.pdf?sequence=3
Modified atomic decay rate near absorptive scatterers at finite temperature
Creators: name: Suttorp, L. G.
name: van Wonderen, A. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The change in the decay rate of an excited atom that is brought about by extinction and thermal-radiation effects in a nearby dielectric medium is determined from a quantummechanical model. The medium is a collection of randomly distributed thermally-excited spherical scatterers with absorptive properties. The modification of the decay rate is described by a set of correction functions for which analytical expressions are obtained as sums over contributions from the multipole moments of the scatterers. The results for the modified decay rate as a function of the distance between the excited atom and the dielectric medium show the influence of absorption, scattering and thermal-radiation processes. Some of these processes are found to be mutually counteractive. The changes in the decay rate are compared to those following from an effective-medium theory in which the discrete scatterers are replaced by a continuum.
Innovazione quotidiana: un computer per ogni scolaro
Creators: name: Limone, Paola
Publisher: name: Form@re - Open Journal per la formazione in rete
Year: 2013

description: Avere a disposizione un pc nella didattica quotidiana cambia dinamiche relazionali e metodologiche e si ripercuote sugli apprendimenti: un fare scuola da costruire insieme ai bambini.
description: Form@re - Open Journal per la formazione in rete, Vol. 10 No. 68 (2010)
Empowering development: capabilities and Latin American critical traditions
Creators: name: Carballo, Ana
Publisher: name: University of Westminster
Year: 2016

description: This thesis theoretically and critically examines the move towards people-centred approaches to development. It offers a critical examination of the work of Amartya Sen using theoretical resources emerging from Latin American traditions. Amartya Sen’s calls to understand Development as Freedom (1999) have significantly influenced mainstream development thinking and practice, constituting the clearest example of people-centred approaches to development today. Overcoming the limitations of previous state-centred notions of development articulated around ideas of economic growth, in Sen’s Capability Approach (CA) development is seen as a process of expanding the real freedoms that people enjoy. In this understanding, the agency of development shifts from the state to individuals and the analytic focus moves from economic growth to individual capabilities. In this manner, this framework is structured towards the central goal of empowerment, wherein the expansion of capabilities is seen both as the means and end of development. Since its inception, the widespread support for the CA has allowed for the expansion of ethical considerations within mainstream development thinking. Even while the remarkable advances offered by Sen’s work should be praised, this thesis argues that these have come with new limitations. These limitations stem from, what is termed here, a “Paradox of Empowerment” that effectively encloses Sen’s approach within Western notions of development. While Sen’s approach is poised to provide a theoretical framework that is built on the expansion of freedom and individual agency, there is little agency here to move beyond the ideas of development fundamentally linked to liberal democracies and market economies. This thesis engages with several critical traditions from Latin America, recovering their often undervalued insights for development thinking. Crucially, this engagement provides the critical framework to illustrate the aforementioned paradox and explore multiple dimensions of empowerment central for contemporary development thinking and practice. In this, the thesis engages Sen’s work with the Liberation Theology of Gustavo Gutierrez, with Paulo Freire’s Critical Pedagogy and with the contemporary discussions of ‘Buen Vivir’ associated with Indigenous philosophies of the Andean region. Throughout its chapters,it uncovers the conceptual baggage within the Paradox of Empowerment in Sen’s work and examines the ethical challenges and boundaries of this approach in relation to the collective dimension of development processes, the possibilities for structural transformation and concerns for sustainability. Progressively engaging the different dimensions of this paradox, this thesis advances the recovery of the transformative potential of the ideas of empowerment for development.
Thermal creep assisted dust lifting on Mars: Wind tunnel experiments for the entrainment threshold velocity
Creators: name: Küpper, Markus
name: Wurm, Gerhard
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work we present laboratory measurements on the reduction of the threshold friction velocity necessary for lifting dust if the dust bed is illuminated. Insolation of a porous soil establishes a temperature gradient. At low ambient pressure this gradient leads to thermal creep gas flow within the soil. This flow leads to a sub-surface overpressure which supports lift imposed by wind. The wind tunnel was run with Mojave Mars Simulant and air at 3, 6 and 9 mbar, to cover most of the pressure range at martian surface levels. Our first measurements imply that the insolation of the martian surface can reduce the entrainment threshold velocity between 4 % and 19 % for the conditions sampled with our experiments. An insolation activated soil might therefore provide additional support for aeolian particle transport at low wind speeds.
description: accepted by JGR:Planets, 12 pages, 7 figures, 3 tables
Protecting urban greenspace: Policies, programs and partnerships
Creators: name: Chisholm, Stewart
Publisher: name: Vancouver Island University - Royal Roads University
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Urban parks
subject: Public spaces
subject: City planning--Citizen participation
subject: Land use--Planning--Citizen participation

description: Community-based approaches to naturalizing urban landscapes represent a rapidly growing movement in Canada and around the world. In cities large and small, community groups are seizing opportunities to restore their local environment. And it's not just occurring in parks: Spaces such as rooftops, alleyways, utility corridors and even street planters are sites of creative urban greening projects.
description: https://viurrspace.ca/bitstream/handle/10613/5514/Article004.pdf?sequence=3
Cosmological and Particle Physics Constraints on a New Non-Abelian SU(3) Gauge Model for Ordinary/Dark Matter Interaction
Creators: name: Oliveira, O.
name: Bertulani, C. A.
name: Hussein, M. S.
name: de Paula, W.
name: Frederico, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a mirror model for ordinary and dark matter that assumes a new SU(3) gauge group of transformations, as a natural extension of the Standard Model (SM). A close study of big bang nucleosynthesis, baryon asymmetries, cosmic microwave background bounds, galaxy dynamics, together with the Standard Model assumptions, help us to set a limit on the mass and width of the new gauge boson. The cross section for the elastic scattering of a dark proton by an ordinary proton is estimated and compare to the WIMP--nucleon experimental upper bounds. It is observed that all experimental bounds for the various cross sections can be accommodated consistently within the gauge model. We also suggest a way for direct detection of the new gauge boson via one example of a SM forbidden process: $e^+ + p \rightarrow μ^+ + X$, where $X = Λ$ or $Λ_c$.
description: 11 pages, four figures, This paper supercedes arXiv:1108.2723
Natural Gardener's demise a troubling sign
Creators: name: Alexander, Don
Publisher: name: Vancouver Island University - Royal Roads University
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Specialty stores--British Columbia--Vancouver
subject: Small business--British Columbia--Vancouver
subject: Stores, Retail--British Columbia--Vancouver

description: Vancouver is graced with many unique retail stores that help give a neighbourhood - be it Grandview-Woodlands, Main Street, or Point Grey - a distinctive flavour. But they are facing threat, and an alarming number have closed down in recent years. One of the latest casualties is the Natural Gardener at 4376 West 10th.
description: This article was originally published as: Alexander, D. (2015, April 24). Natural Gardener’s demise a troubling sign. The Vancouver Courier, p. A13.
description: https://viurrspace.ca/bitstream/handle/10613/5515/Alexander.VC.pdf?sequence=3
Gauge and Gravity Amplitude Relations
Creators: name: Carrasco, John Joseph M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In these lectures I talk about simplifications and universalities found in scattering amplitudes for gauge and gravity theories. In contrast to Ward identities, which are understood to arise from familiar symmetries of the classical action, these structures are currently only understood in terms of graphical organizational principles, such as the gauge-theoretic color-kinematics duality and the gravitational double-copy structure, for local representations of multi-loop S-matrix elements. These graphical principles make manifest new relationships in and between gauge and gravity scattering amplitudes. My lectures will focus on arriving at such graphical organizations for generic theories with examples presented from maximal supersymmetry, and their use in unitarity-based multi-loop integrand construction.
description: Presented at the Theoretical Advanced Study Institute (TASI 2014), Boulder, CO, June 2-27, 2014
Oltre la “funzione”: come l’estetica può influenzare la prestazione degli utenti sui siti web
Creators: name: Boscarol, Maurizio
Publisher: name: Form@re - Open Journal per la formazione in rete
Year: 2013

description: La diatriba fra forma e funzione ha a lungo influenzato il modo in cui si vedeva il tema dell’estetica nell’HCI, contrapponendola a presunti attributi prestazionali e di usabilità, giudicati più importanti. Ma molti studi sui siti web hanno ormai evidenziato come la stessa percezione di usabilità sia fortemente influenzata dagli attributi estetici, mentre l’oggettiva facilità d’uso non ha un ruolo equivalente nel determinare la percezione estetica. L’estetica è importante anche per la motivazione nell’esplorazione di un sito e per la credibilità dell’ente che rappresenta. Il giudizio estetico, a sua volta, è influenzato da diversi fattori, in parte da chiarire e da mettere in relazione. Vi gioca un ruolo il contesto d’uso di un sito, il tipo di compito, ma anche il sesso degli utenti, la loro età. È dunque importante non trascurare l’aspetto estetico nella progettazione di prodotti interattivi online, pena il rischio di fallimento nonostante le risorse impegnate su contenuti e funzionalità. L’emergente disciplina della User eXperience tenta in maniera ancora non accademica di tener conto di tutti questi fattori. Una sfida lanciata anche al mondo della ricerca.
description: Form@re - Open Journal per la formazione in rete, Vol. 12 No. 80 (2012)
The resurgence of Canadian cities
Creators: name: Axworthy, Lloyd
Publisher: name: Vancouver Island University - Royal Roads University
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Cities and towns--Canada
subject: Urban policy--Canada
subject: City planning--Canada

description: We all like comeback stories about aging athletes, forgotten matinee idols, even retired politicians. There is something inspiring about taking a second chance. This seemed like a good theme for addressing a group of Canadian planners. I want to ask planners what happened to the Canadian city: Who did it in? What kind of work and thinking is necessary to bring it back to life?
description: Kenote address from the 2002 CIP/PIBC conference in Burnaby, B.C.
description: https://viurrspace.ca/bitstream/handle/10613/5517/Article002.pdf?sequence=3
Community Health Needs Assessment in Wake County, North Carolina: Partnership of public health, hospitals, academia, and other stakeholders
Creators: name: Ledford, Sue Lynn
name: Horney, Jennifer A.
name: Alfano-Sobsey, Edie
name: Decosimo, Kasey
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: Hospitals and other health care agencies are required to conduct a community health needs assessment (CHNA) every 3 years to obtain information about the health needs and concerns of the population. In 2013, to avoid duplication of efforts and to achieve a more comprehensive CHNA, Wake County Human Services, WakeMed Health and Hospitals, Duke Raleigh Hospital, Rex Healthcare, Wake Health Services, United Way of the Greater Triangle, and the North Carolina Institute for Public Health partnered to conduct a joint assessment for Wake County.
Modeling of Breaching Due to Overtopping Flow and Waves Based on Coupled Flow and Sediment Transport
Creators: name: He, Zhiguo
name: Hu, Peng
name: Zhao, Liang
name: Wu, Ganfeng
name: Pähtz, Thomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: Geophysics (physics.geo-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Breaching of earthen or sandy dams/dunes by overtopping flow and waves is a complicated process with strong, unsteady flow, high sediment transport, and rapid bed changes in which the interactions between flow and morphology should not be ignored. This study presents a depth-averaged two-dimensional (2D) coupled flow and sediment transport model to investigate the flow and breaching processes with and without waves. Bed change and variable flow density are included in the flow continuity and momentum equations to consider the impacts of sediment transport. The model adopts the non-equilibrium approach for total-load sediment transport and specifies different repose angles to handle non-cohesive embankment slope avalanching. The equations are solved using an explicit finite volume method on a rectangular grid with the improved Godunov-type central upwind scheme and the nonnegative reconstruction of the water depth method to handle mixed-regime flows near the breach. The model has been tested against two sets of experimental data which show that it well simulates the flow characteristics, bed changes, and sediment transport. It is then applied to analyze flow and morphologic changes by overtopping flow with and without waves. The simulated bed change and breach cross-section shape show a significant difference if waves are considered. Erosion by flow without waves mainly occurs at the breach and is dominated by vertical erosion at the initial stage followed by the lateral erosion. With waves, the flow overtops the entire length of the dune to cause faster erosion along the entire length. Erosion mainly takes place at the upper layer at the initial stage and gradually accelerates as the height of the dune reduces and flow discharge increases, which indicates the simulated results with waves shall be further verified by physical experimental evidence.
title: Making waves in 2002
title: On fait des vagues en 2002
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Sholberg, Chris
Publisher: name: Vancouver Island University - Royal Roads University
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Congresses and conventions--British Columbia--Burnaby
subject: Planning--Congresses
subject: Planners--Canada
subject: Canadian Institute of Planners (CIP)
subject: Planning Institute of British Columbia (PIBC)
subject: Urbanistes--Canada
subject: Congrès et conventions--Colombie britannique--Burnaby
subject: Aménagement de la ville--Canada
subject: Institut canadien des Urbanistes (ICU)

description: It is my pleasure to present this issue of Plan Canada, as a sampling of the "2002: Making Waves" conference held May 26-29 in Burnaby, B.C. by the Canadian Institute of Planners and the Planning Institute of British Columbia.
description: J'ai le plaisir de vous présenter ce numéro de Plan Canada, qui offre un aperçu du <> congrès qui a eu lieu du 26 au 29 mai à Burnaby, en Colombie-Britannique par l'Institut canadien des urbanistes et le PIBC.
description: From the senior editor
description: Le mot du rédacteur principal
description: Text in English and French
description: https://viurrspace.ca/bitstream/handle/10613/5519/01-SnrEd.pdf?sequence=3
On the Riemann-Hilbert factorization problem for positive definite functions
Creators: name: Kucerovsky, Dan
name: Najafabadi, Amir T. P.
name: Sarraf, Aydin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We give several general theorems concerning positive definite solutions of Riemann-Hilbert problems on the real line. Furthermore, as an example, we apply our theory to the characteristic function of a class of Lévy processes and we find the distribution of their extrema at a given stopping time.
title:  Prudenza. Per un’autentica comprensione dell’umano
Creators: name: Bello  , Angela Ales
Publisher: name: Roma TrE-Press
Year: 2021

description: L’esperienza della pandemia che stiamo vivendo in modo immediato e diretto ci pone di fronte al senso della vita. Questa si presenta come una minaccia di morte e l’essere umano non vuole sentir parlare della morte, normalmente e spontaneamente, ha paura della morte. Ma che cosa è la paura o la codardia come la chiama Shakespeare con linguaggio raffinato? Attraverso un’analisi fenomenologica della paura è possibile vedere come questa possa essere trasformata in “preoccupazione” che, orientata in modo positivo, porta ad assumere atteggiamenti prudenti. La prudenza in questi casi si dimostra veramente una virtù, in quanto implica il mettere fra parentesi la paura, per cercare il più realisticamente possibile di valutare gli effettivi pericoli al fine di evitarli, per il bene proprio e degli altri. La prudenza ci indica infatti la via dell’equilibrio e ci consente di vivere con responsabilità nei confronti di noi stessi e degli altri.

The experience of the pandemic that we are experiencing in an immediate and direct way challenges us to the meaning of life. It appears as a threat of death and human being does not want to hearing about death, normally and spontaneously, he is afraid of death. But what is fear or cowardice as Shakespeare calls it in refined language? Through a phenomenological analysis of fear, it is possible to see how it can be transformed into “concern” which, positively oriented, leads to prudent attitudes. Prudence in these cases truly proves to be a virtue, since it implies putting fear in brackets, in order to try as realistically as possible to assess actual dangers in order to avoid them, for our own good and that of others. Prudence shows us the way to balance and allows us to live responsibly towards ourselves and others.
description: B@belonline vol. speciale 2021 Il nuovo atlante di Sophia/ Sophia’s New Atlas
Nonlocal and quasi-local field theories
Creators: name: Tomboulis, E. T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate nonlocal field theories, a subject that has attracted some renewed interest in connection with nonlocal gravity models. We study, in particular, scalar theories of interacting delocalized fields, the delocalization being specified by nonlocal integral kernels. We distinguish between strictly nonlocal and quasi-local (compact support) kernels and impose conditions on them to insure UV finiteness and unitarity of amplitudes. We study the classical initial value problem for the partial integro-differential equations of motion in detail. We give rigorous proofs of the existence but accompanying loss of uniqueness of solutions due to the presence of future, as well as past, "delays," a manifestation of acausality. In the quantum theory we derive a generalization of the Bogoliubov causality condition equation for amplitudes, which explicitly exhibits the corrections due to nonlocality. One finds that, remarkably, for quasi-local kernels all acausal effects are confined within the compact support regions. We briefly discuss the extension to other types of fields and prospects of such theories.
description: 28 pages, 6 figures, LaTeX
La ristrutturazione viticola toscana in applicazione al reg. (CE) 1493/99
Creators: name: Bongini, Alessio
name: Polidori, Roberto
name: Polidori, Roberto
name: Barzagli, Stefano
name: Barzagli, Stefano
Publisher: name: Aestimum
Year: 2009

description: Viticulture is experiencing a phase of great transformations; the sector is changing according to the evolution of the market as well as to the preferences and the income of the consumers. Indeed, consumers are tending to reduce their consumptions of wine as food stuff, while increasing their consumptions of wine as luxury stuff. The research work wants to assess the effects of the EC Regulation 1493/99 (II heading) on the structure of the wine sector in the more significant wine areas of Tuscany. Particular attention has been paid to the impact of the restructuring and reconversion regime on grape production costs and on wine quality.
description: Aestimum, Aestimum 50 (2007)
title: Identisploitation: Playing with the Politics of Representation
Creators: name: Zarders, Sophia
Publisher: name: Emily Carr University of Art and Design
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Women, Black
subject: Feminism
subject: Identity
subject: African American feminists
subject: Black people--Race identity

description: Identisploitation explores charged representations of identity in pop culture through painted paper figures, video art, and garments. The complicated public images of historical figures, including the iconic Black performer, Josephine Baker, are investigated, pulled apart, and recontextualized as exaggerated, lifesize paper dolls. Grotesque embodiments of evangelical, conservative American femininity are satirized through character performance in video. Historical costumes and unattainable beauty standards are stretched and sewn into unwearable garments. Identisploitation is influenced by the transgressive work of Vaginal Davis, Grace Jones, Bobby Conn and other fearless artists who inhabit the outskirts of the mainstream art world. The concepts of disidentification, the oppositional gaze, camp, and satire provide a critical and (pop) cultural framework, primarily through the texts of bell hooks and José Estéban Muñoz. Identisploitation asks these questions: What do pop cultural representations look like recontextualized through a Black feminist lens? How does a garment critique the cultural establishment? This thesis project explores historical representations of race, gender, and sexuality, and their lasting significance into contemporary visual language and pop culture through my particular point of view as a Black femme visual artist.