cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Localizing Global Environmental Norms: Agency and Structure in the Republic of Korea
Creators: name: Lee, Goueun
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 4199
subject: Other environmental sciences
classificationCode: 4407
subject: Policy and administration

description: The emergence of global environmental norms (GENs) in the international community has influenced states’ efforts toward governing its environmental problems. The application of the GENs to the domestic context is up to each country, and for developing countries whose attention to the environment came relatively later looked to the international experience to create its own response to the issue. Early norm diffusion literature has often portrayed developing, non-Western states to be passive in this process. However, developing countries can be active norm-takers, and further, norm-makers as exemplified by the case of the Republic of Korea. Against this background, this project asks what domestic factors led Korea to shift from initial resistance to actively localizing GENs. By utilizing an adapted localization framework, focusing on local actors and domestic political structure, the project process-traces the diffusion of two comprehensive norms of environmental protection and sustainable development, and three specific norms of polluter-pays principle, precautionary principle, and public participation into Korea from the 1960s to current. This project’s main findings are: 1) cognitive prior and congruence building processes by the local actors are key to explaining Korea’s localization of sustainable development into green growth, through notably President Lee, Myung-bak’s modification of the external norm to fit the domestic value given to economic growth. This locally constructed idea of green growth was further exported back to the international level; 2) regime type, from authoritarian to democratic, shifted domestic conditions to one that is more conducive for localization; and 3) comprehensive GEN of sustainable development involved hard-localization in which the content of the external norm was modified, and specific GENs involved soft-localization in which the institutional measures to implement the norms were created, selected and advanced to fit the domestic context.
Spectral, entropy and bifurcation analysis of the dynamics of a reverse-flow system
Creators: name: Berezowski, Marek
name: Kozioł, Natalia
name: Lawnik, Marcin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The work concerns the spectral, entropy and bifurcation analysis of the dynamics of a reverse-flow system. The existence of chaotic oscillations was demonstrated in a wide range of changes in the parameters of the model. The model of such a system can be compared to a periodically stimulated pendulum. The periodic apparatus here is a tubular reactor, which can generate its own oscillations. Reverse flow is cyclical stimulation. As a result, both of these devices can start to oscillate chaotically, and they actually do. The purpose of using reverse flow is to increase the conversion degree. This is because after reverse, the cold stream of raw material falls into the heated reactor inlet.
description: 20 pages, 9 figures, published in Catalysts, 2022
Spectrally reconfigurable quantum emitters enabled by optimized fast modulation
Creators: name: Lukin, Daniil M.
name: White, Alexander D.
name: Trivedi, Rahul
name: Guidry, Melissa A.
name: Morioka, Naoya
name: Babin, Charles
name: Soykal, Öney O.
name: Hassan, Jawad Ul
name: Son, Nguyen Tien
name: Ohshima, Takeshi
name: Vasireddy, Praful K.
name: Nasr, Mamdouh H.
name: Sun, Shuo
name: MacLean, Jean-Phillipe W.
name: Dory, Constantin
name: Nanni, Emilio A.
name: Wrachtrup, Jörg
name: Kaiser, Florian
name: Vučković, Jelena
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The ability to shape photon emission facilitates strong photon-mediated interactions between disparate physical systems, thereby enabling applications in quantum information processing, simulation and communication. Spectral control in solid state platforms such as color centers, rare earth ions, and quantum dots is particularly attractive for realizing such applications on-chip. Here we propose the use of frequency-modulated optical transitions for spectral engineering of single photon emission. Using a scattering-matrix formalism, we find that a two-level system, when modulated faster than its optical lifetime, can be treated as a single-photon source with a widely reconfigurable photon spectrum that is amenable to standard numerical optimization techniques. To enable the experimental demonstration of this spectral control scheme, we investigate the Stark tuning properties of the silicon vacancy in silicon carbide, a color center with promise for optical quantum information processing technologies. We find that the silicon vacancy possesses excellent spectral stability and tuning characteristics, allowing us to probe its fast modulation regime, observe the theoretically-predicted two-photon correlations, and demonstrate spectral engineering. Our results suggest that frequency modulation is a powerful technique for the generation of new light states with unprecedented control over the spectral and temporal properties of single photons.
description: 9 pages, 6 figures; Supplementary Information
Invariant Einstein metrics on SU(N) and complex Stiefel manifolds
Creators: name: Arvanitoyeorgos, Andreas
name: Sakane, Yusuke
name: Statha, Marina
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 53C25, 53C30, 13P10, 65H10, 68W30

description: We study existence of invariant Einstein metrics on complex Stiefel manifolds $G/K = \SU(\ell+m+n)/\SU(n) $ and the special unitary groups $G = \SU(\ell+m+n)$. We decompose the Lie algebra $\frak g$ of $G$ and the tangent space $\frak p$ of $G/K$, by using the generalized flag manifolds $G/H = \SU(\ell+m+n)/\s(\U(\ell)\times\U(m)\times\U(n))$. We parametrize scalar products on the 2-dimensional center of the Lie algebra of $H$, and we consider $G$-invariant and left invariant metrics determined by $\Ad(\s(\U(\ell)\times\U(m)\times\U(n))$-invariant scalar products on $\frak g$ and $\frak p$ respectively. Then we compute their Ricci tensor for such metrics. We prove existence of $\Ad(\s(\U(1)\times\U(2)\times\U(2))$-invariant Einstein metrics on $V_3\bb{C}^{5}=\SU(5)/\SU(2)$, $\Ad(\s(\U(2)\times\U(2)\times\U(2))$-invariant Einstein metrics on $V_4\bb{C}^{6}=\SU(6)/\SU(2)$, and $\Ad(\s(\U(m)\times\U(m)\times\U(n))$-invariant Einstein metrics on $V_{2m}\bb{C}^{2m+n}=\SU(2m+n)/\SU(n)$. We also prove existence of $\Ad(\s(\U(1)\times\U(2)\times\U(2))$-invariant Einstein metrics on the compact Lie group $\SU(5)$, which are not naturally reductive. The Lie group $\SU(5)$ is the special unitary group of smallest rank known for the moment, admitting non naturally reductive Einstein metrics. Finally, we show that the compact Lie group $\SU(4+n)$ admits two non naturally reductive $\Ad(\s(\U(2)\times\U(2)\times\U(n)))$-invariant Einstein metrics for $ 2 \leq n \leq 25$, and four non naturally reductive Einstein metrics for $n\ge 26$. This extends previous results of K.~ Mori about non naturally reductive Einstein metrics on $\SU(4+n)$ ($n \geq 2$).
description: 50 pages
Additional file 8 of Antimicrobial peptide and sequence variation along a latitudinal gradient in two anurans
Creators: name: Cortázar-Chinarro, Maria
name: Meyer-Lucht, Yvonne
name: Valk, Tom Van Der
name: Richter-Boix, Alex
name: Laurila, Anssi
name: Höglund, Jacob
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology

description: Additional file 8: Figure 6. Colour scheme for the amino-acid frequency pie charts represented in Additional file 9: Figure 7.
Three-dimensional dust radiative-transfer models: The Pinwheel Nebula of WR104
Creators: name: Harries, Tim J
name: Monnier, John D
name: Symington, Neil H
name: Kurosawa, Ryuichi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present radiative-transfer modelling of the dusty spiral Pinwheel Nebula observed around the Wolf-Rayet/OB-star binary WR104. The models are based on the three-dimensional radiative-transfer code TORUS, modified to include an adaptive mesh that allows us to adequately resolve both the inner spiral turns (sub-AU scales) and the outer regions of the nebula (distances of 10^4 AU from the central source). The spiral model provides a good fit to both the spectral energy distribution and Keck aperture masking interferometry, reproducing both the maximum entropy recovered images and the visibility curves. We deduce a dust creation rate of 8+-1 x 10^{-7} solar masses per year, corresponding to approximately 2% by mass of the carbon produced by the Wolf-Rayet star. Simultaneous modelling of the imaging and spectral data enables us to constrain both the opening-angle of the wind-wind collision interface and the dust grain size. We conclude that the dust grains in the inner part of the Pinwheel nebula are small (~100A), in agreement with theoretical predictions, although we cannot rule out the presence of larger grains (~1 micron) further from the central binary. The opening angle of the wind-wind collision interface appears to be about 40 degrees, in broad agreement with the wind parameters estimated for the central binary. We discuss the success and deficiencies of the model, and the likely benefits of applying similar techniques to the more the more complex nebulae observed around other WR/O star binaries.
description: 10 pages, accepted by MNRAS
Localizing Global Environmental Norms: Agency and Structure in the Republic of Korea
Creators: name: Lee, Goueun
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: The emergence of global environmental norms (GENs) in the international community has influenced states’ efforts toward governing its environmental problems. The application of the GENs to the domestic context is up to each country, and for developing countries whose attention to the environment came relatively later looked to the international experience to create its own response to the issue. Early norm diffusion literature has often portrayed developing, non-Western states to be passive in this process. However, developing countries can be active norm-takers, and further, norm-makers as exemplified by the case of the Republic of Korea. Against this background, this project asks what domestic factors led Korea to shift from initial resistance to actively localizing GENs. By utilizing an adapted localization framework, focusing on local actors and domestic political structure, the project process-traces the diffusion of two comprehensive norms of environmental protection and sustainable development, and three specific norms of polluter-pays principle, precautionary principle, and public participation into Korea from the 1960s to current. This project’s main findings are: 1) cognitive prior and congruence building processes by the local actors are key to explaining Korea’s localization of sustainable development into green growth, through notably President Lee, Myung-bak’s modification of the external norm to fit the domestic value given to economic growth. This locally constructed idea of green growth was further exported back to the international level; 2) regime type, from authoritarian to democratic, shifted domestic conditions to one that is more conducive for localization; and 3) comprehensive GEN of sustainable development involved hard-localization in which the content of the external norm was modified, and specific GENs involved soft-localization in which the institutional measures to implement the norms were created, selected and advanced to fit the domestic context.
Inclusive electromagnetic decays of the heavy quarkonium at next to leading log accuracy
Creators: name: Pineda, Antonio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that perturbation theory may give reasonable numbers for the decays of the bottomonium and charmonium ground states to $e^+e^-$ and to $γγ$. To reach this conclusion it is important to perform the resummation of logs. In particular, we obtain the value $Γ(η_b (1S) \to γγ)=0.35 \pm 0.1 ({\rm th.}) \pm 0.05 (\lQ)$ KeV.
description: 10 pages, 6 figures, Invited talk at the XXVII International Conference of Theoretical Physics, Ustron, Poland, 15-21 September 2003
Altihoratosphaga nomima MNB
Creators: name: Hemp, Claudia
name: Voje, Kjetil Lysne
name: Heller, Klaus-Gerhard
name: Warchałowska-Śliwa, Elżbieta
name: Hemp, Andreas
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Orthoptera
Phaneropteridae
Altihoratosphaga
Altihoratosphaga nomima

description: ALTIHORATOSPHAGA NOMIMA (KARSCH, 1896)COMB. NOV.
 Peronura nomima Karsch, 1896: 327. One male syntype, Tanganyika, Mpwapwa, 5 June 1890 (Stuhlmann); two female syntypes, Tanganyika, Mpwapwa, 7 June 1890 (Stuhlmann); MNB.
 Additional material examined: One male and one female, Tanganyika Territory, Mroke 30 August 21 (Swynnerton); one male one female, Tanganyika, Ruaha National Park, 15 March 1966 (FitzGerald); NHML.
 Diagnosis: Differs from all other Altihoratosphaga species in a rather smooth pronotum with few very shallow rugosities only on the pronotal disc, and in the lack of black spots on the tegmina. In respect of body size it is the largest Altihoratosphaga species. Differentiating characters of all Altihoratosphaga species are listed in Table 3.
 Discussion: The Mpwapwa plateau, a mountainous area north of the small town Mpwapwa, reaches elevations of up to 1500 m a.s.l. It is suggested that A. nomima occupies a similar habitat (i.e. herbaceous vegetation in clearings and along forest edges of the submontane–montane zone) as the other Altihoratosphaga species. As A. nomima specimens are also recorded from further south, from the Ruaha National Park, where this species was collected from riverine vegetation, this species is presumed to occur on the mountainous areas in between, such as further east in the Ukaguru Mountains, which reach elevations of over 1500 m a.s.l., or the Rubeho Mountains, with elevations of over 1800 m a.s.l. However, the male from Ruaha and the holotype male from Mpwapwa differ slightly in some characters. The male cerci in the holotype of A. nomima (Fig. 8H) are more acute than those of the male from Ruaha National Park (Fig. 9D). Also, the venation of the tegmina differs slightly, and the Mpwapwa male has more rugosities on the pronotal disc than the Ruaha specimen. More material from this region of Tanzania is necessary, as well as data on habitat and ecology (song), to decide whether specimens from these two localities belong to the same species.
description: Published as part of Hemp, Claudia, Voje, Kjetil Lysne, Heller, Klaus-Gerhard, Warchałowska-Śliwa, Elżbieta & Hemp, Andreas, 2010, A new genus of African Acrometopini (Tettigoniidae: Phaneropterinae) based on morphology, chromosomes, acoustics, distribution, and molecular data, and the description of a new species, pp. 66-82 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 158 (1) on page 74, DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2009.00542.x, http://zenodo.org/record/4720080
$Λ(1520)$ and $Σ(1385)$ in the nuclear medium
Creators: name: Kaskulov, M.
name: Oset, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent studies of the $Λ(1520)$ resonance within chiral unitary theory with coupled channels find the resonance as a dynamically generated state from the interaction of the decuplet of baryons and the octet of mesons, essentially a quasibound state of $πΣ^*(1385)$ in this case, although the coupling of the $Λ(1520)$ to the $\bar{K}N$ and $πΣ$ makes this picture only approximate. The $πΣ^*(1385)$ decay channel of the $Λ(1520)$ is forbidden in free space for the nominal mass of the $Σ^*(1385)$, but the coupling of the $π$ to $ph$ components in the nuclear medium opens new decay channels of the $Λ(1520)$ in the nucleus and produces a much larger width. Together with medium modifications of the $\bar{K}N$ and $πΣ$ decay channels, the final width of the $Λ(1520)$ at nuclear matter density is more than five times bigger than the free one. We perform the calculations by dressing simultaneously the $Λ(1520)$ and the $Σ^*(1385)$ resonances, finding moderate changes in the mass but substantial ones in the width of both resonances.
description: 20 pages, 6 figures; comparison made to data, new references and new (small) decay channel included
Testing Scenario Library Generation for Connected and Automated Vehicles: An Adaptive Framework
Creators: name: Feng, Shuo
name: Feng, Yiheng
name: Sun, Haowei
name: Zhang, Yi
name: Liu, Henry X.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: How to generate testing scenario libraries for connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) is a major challenge faced by the industry. In previous studies, to evaluate maneuver challenge of a scenario, surrogate models (SMs) are often used without explicit knowledge of the CAV under test. However, performance dissimilarities between the SM and the CAV under test usually exist, and it can lead to the generation of suboptimal scenario libraries. In this paper, an adaptive testing scenario library generation (ATSLG) method is proposed to solve this problem. A customized testing scenario library for a specific CAV model is generated through an adaptive process. To compensate the performance dissimilarities and leverage each test of the CAV, Bayesian optimization techniques are applied with classification-based Gaussian Process Regression and a new-designed acquisition function. Comparing with a pre-determined library, a CAV can be tested and evaluated in a more efficient manner with the customized library. To validate the proposed method, a cut-in case study was performed and the results demonstrate that the proposed method can further accelerate the evaluation process by a few orders of magnitude.
description: 10 pages, 10 figures
Collaborative Water Governance in the Context of Climate Change: Facilitating Agreement and Compliance in Peruvian River Basin Councils
Creators: name: Lindsay, Abby
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Scholars stress the value of collaborative governance in natural resource management, whereby public agencies engage non-governmental stakeholders in consensus-oriented, deliberative decision-making. Collaboration is especially important for water management, given the need to adapt to and prepare for climate change-related variability and uncertainty. However, collaborative governance scholarship has paid inadequate attention to the effect of actors’ differing belief systems and the socio-spatial relations in which collaborative efforts are embedded. Peru provides a good test case because the national Water Resources Law calls for establishment of river basin councils; however, similar councils varied in their ability to reach and subsequently implement agreements. This work examines how belief systems and socio-spatial relations complicate collaborative governance regimes through analyzing the extent to which, and by what pathways, they affect agreement and implementation within river basin councils in Peru. With evidence gathered from 234 stakeholder interviews across Peru, it employs within-case process tracing and between-case comparison. This dissertation finds that incongruent belief systems and socio-spatial relations from beyond the councils can present challenges to reaching agreements with which stakeholders will voluntarily implement. However, in the cases studied that reached and implemented agreements, stakeholders overcame those challenges by bridging belief systems and aligning stakeholder motivations. Through these insights, this dissertation argues that not addressing incongruent belief systems and socio-spatial relations within water management could cause Peru to miss opportunities to increase adaptive capacity and ensure sustainability of water supplies. These cases highlight several pragmatic strategies to help basin councils reach agreements that will increase the flexibility, sustainability, and fairness of water management. Further, they highlight how these critical factors can deepen collaborative governance theory’s understanding of when stakeholders voluntarily reach and implement agreements.
Electric Multipole Fields of Higher-Dimensional Massive Bodies
Creators: name: Fox, Matthew S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It was shown in a recent paper [J. Math. Phys. 60, 102502 (2019)] that slowly lowering an electric charge into a Schwarzschild-Tangherlini (ST) black hole endows the final state with electric multipole fields, which implies the final state geometry is not Reissner-Nordström-Tangherlini in nature. This conclusion departs from the four-dimensional case in which the no-hair theorem (NHT) requires the final state to be a Reissner-Nordström black hole. To better understand this discrepancy clearly requires a deeper understanding of the origin of the multipole hair in the higher-dimensional case. In this paper, we advance the conjecture that charged, static, and asymptotically-flat higher-dimensional black holes can acquire electric multipole hair only after they form. This supposition derives from studying the asymptotic behavior of the field of a multipole charge onto which a massive and hyperspherical shell with an exterior ST geometry is collapsing. In the mathematical limit as the shell approaches its ST radius, we find that the multipole fields (except the monopole) vanish. This implies that the only information of an arbitrary (but finite) charge distribution inside the collapsing shell that is available to an asymptotic observer is the total electric charge. Our results yield considerable insight into how higher-dimensional black holes acquire electric multipole hair, and also imply that, in four dimensions, the fadeaway of multipole moments during gravitational collapse is not strictly because of the NHT.
description: 11 pages; updated references; accepted to PRD
Collaborative Water Governance in the Context of Climate Change: Facilitating Agreement and Compliance in Peruvian River Basin Councils
Creators: name: Lindsay, Abby
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 41
subject: Environmental sciences

description: Scholars stress the value of collaborative governance in natural resource management, whereby public agencies engage non-governmental stakeholders in consensus-oriented, deliberative decision-making. Collaboration is especially important for water management, given the need to adapt to and prepare for climate change-related variability and uncertainty. However, collaborative governance scholarship has paid inadequate attention to the effect of actors’ differing belief systems and the socio-spatial relations in which collaborative efforts are embedded. Peru provides a good test case because the national Water Resources Law calls for establishment of river basin councils; however, similar councils varied in their ability to reach and subsequently implement agreements. This work examines how belief systems and socio-spatial relations complicate collaborative governance regimes through analyzing the extent to which, and by what pathways, they affect agreement and implementation within river basin councils in Peru. With evidence gathered from 234 stakeholder interviews across Peru, it employs within-case process tracing and between-case comparison. This dissertation finds that incongruent belief systems and socio-spatial relations from beyond the councils can present challenges to reaching agreements with which stakeholders will voluntarily implement. However, in the cases studied that reached and implemented agreements, stakeholders overcame those challenges by bridging belief systems and aligning stakeholder motivations. Through these insights, this dissertation argues that not addressing incongruent belief systems and socio-spatial relations within water management could cause Peru to miss opportunities to increase adaptive capacity and ensure sustainability of water supplies. These cases highlight several pragmatic strategies to help basin councils reach agreements that will increase the flexibility, sustainability, and fairness of water management. Further, they highlight how these critical factors can deepen collaborative governance theory’s understanding of when stakeholders voluntarily reach and implement agreements.
A wearable sensor vest for social humanoid robots with GPGPU, IoT, and modular software architecture
Creators: name: Jafarzadeh, Mohsen
name: Brooks, Stephen
name: Yu, Shimeng
name: Prabhakaran, Balakrishnan
name: Tadesse, Yonas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: I.2.9
subject: 68T40

description: Currently, most social robots interact with their surroundings and humans through sensors that are integral parts of the robots, which limits the usability of the sensors, human-robot interaction, and interchangeability. A wearable sensor garment that fits many robots is needed in many applications. This article presents an affordable wearable sensor vest, and an open-source software architecture with the Internet of Things (IoT) for social humanoid robots. The vest consists of touch, temperature, gesture, distance, vision sensors, and a wireless communication module. The IoT feature allows the robot to interact with humans locally and over the Internet. The designed architecture works for any social robot that has a general-purpose graphics processing unit (GPGPU), I2C/SPI buses, Internet connection, and the Robotics Operating System (ROS). The modular design of this architecture enables developers to easily add/remove/update complex behaviors. The proposed software architecture provides IoT technology, GPGPU nodes, I2C and SPI bus mangers, audio-visual interaction nodes (speech to text, text to speech, and image understanding), and isolation between behavior nodes and other nodes. The proposed IoT solution consists of related nodes in the robot, a RESTful web service, and user interfaces. We used the HTTP protocol as a means of two-way communication with the social robot over the Internet. Developers can easily edit or add nodes in C, C++, and Python programming languages. Our architecture can be used for designing more sophisticated behaviors for social humanoid robots.
description: This is the preprint version. The final version is published in Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Volume 139, 2021, Page 103536, ISSN 0921-8890, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.robot.2020.103536
Life cycle assessment of the Civil and Mechanical Engineering Building
Creators: name: Van Hemmen, Cayley
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: This report contains an in-depth Life Cycle Analysis of the Civil and Mechanical Engineering (CEME) Building at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, British Columbia. The life cycle analysis scope includes the envelope and structure of CEME from cradle to gate, that is, from the building’s product manufacturing to end of construction stage. The methods used to achieve a detailed analysis included contributions from two authors. The first author included a thorough on screen takeoff of CEME’s level three elements including foundations, walls/floors above and below grade, roof structure and interior partition walls. The second contributor then assessed the quality of the initial study and made improvements to the accuracy of that study. An impact assessment was then performed on each element to determine its contribution by impact category to overall impacts for CEME as a whole. The results of the impact assessment were then compared to 22 other institutional buildings at UBC to determine how CEME equated. It was determined that CEME’s had less of an environmental impact than the majority of other buildings at UBC as it’s impact category values were lower than the benchmark’s value. Furthermore, CEME’s level three element “A23 Upper Floor Construction” contributed the most in all seven impact categories included in the Athena Impact Estimator. Finally, it was discovered that the product stage had a larger impact that the construction stage for all level three elements, it was approximately 80-90% larger in all cases. This report also includes interpretations of the results such as recommendations for LCA use to be put in practice and an author’s reflection of the project and CIVL 498C as a whole. Disclaimer: “UBC SEEDS provides students with the opportunity to share the findings of their studies, as well as their opinions, conclusions and recommendations with the UBC community. The reader should bear in mind that this is a student project/report and is not an official document of UBC. Furthermore readers should bear in mind that these reports may not reflect the current status of activities at UBC. We urge you to contact the research persons mentioned in a report or the SEEDS Coordinator about the current status of the subject matter of a project/report.”
Osmunda japonica Houtt.
Creators: name: Wijnands, Dirk Onno
name: Heniger, Johannes
name: Veldkamp, Jan Frederik
name: Fumeaux, Nicolas
name: Callmander, Martin W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Polypodiopsida
Osmundales
Osmundaceae
Osmunda
Osmunda japonica

description: 76. Osmunda japonica Houtt.,
Nat. Hist. II(14): Aanwyz. Plaat. [1], 57, tab. 95, fig. 1. 1783 [non O. japonica Thunb.].
≡ Osmunda lancea Thunb. in Murr., Syst. Veg. ed. 14: 928. 1784; Fl. Jap.: 330. 1784.
Lectotypus (designated by Nakaike in KATSUYAMA et al., 2013: 44): JAPAN: Thunberg s.n. (UPS-THUNB n° 25201 image seen; iso-: G-PREL [G00818129]!).
Notes. – Osmunda japonica Houtt. is a later homonym of O. japonica Thunb. As Houttuyn cited O. lancea the name is also superfluous.
description: Published as part of Wijnands, Dirk Onno, Heniger, Johannes, Veldkamp, Jan Frederik, Fumeaux, Nicolas & Callmander, Martin W., 2017, The botanical legacy of Martinus Houttuyn (1720 - 1798) in Geneva, pp. 155-198 in Candollea 72 (1) on page 182, DOI: 10.15553/c2017v721a11, http://zenodo.org/record/5721887
Unidirectional Pumping of Phonons by Magnetization Dynamics
Creators: name: Zhang, Xiang
name: Bauer, Gerrit E. W.
name: Yu, Tao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a method to control surface phonon transport by weak magnetic fields based on the pumping of surface acoustic waves (SAWs) by magnetostriction. We predict that the magnetization dynamics of a nanowire on top of a dielectric films injects SAWs with opposite angular momenta into opposite directions. Two parallel nanowires form a phononic cavity that at magnetic resonances pump a unidirectional SAW current into half of the substrate.
description: PRL accepted version, 6 pages, 3 figures
SCAPEGOATING AS A PRACTICE OF RULE AND ACTOR (DE-)LEGITIMIZATION: CAPITALISM, RACE, AND GENDER IN UGANDA’S FISH AND LAND GOVERNANCE
Creators: name: Kantel, Anne Julia
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 4199
subject: Other environmental sciences
classificationCode: 4407
subject: Policy and administration

description: This dissertation seeks to address the question of when and why people come to perceive rules governing fish and land resources in Uganda as illegitimate or legitimate. The question of legitimacy is an important one for scholarship on natural resources and conflict in Uganda, particularly, and Sub-Saharan Africa more generally, as research has shown that whether people comply with state policies on natural resources depends to a significant extent on whether they perceive these policies to be legitimate. Based on seven months of critical ethnographic field research and drawing from an interdisciplinary body of literature in political ecology, political geography, development studies, cultural anthropology, feminist scholarship, and postcolonial studies, I develop a theoretical framework that identifies ‘scapegoating’ as an example of a process of (de-)legitimizing rules and actors. Scapegoating is an everyday practice that shifts blame by diversion and is enabled by two conditions. First, Uganda’s fragmented political and administrative landscape – resulting from decades of British indirect colonial rule and subsequent (neoliberal) decentralization and privatization reforms – provides fertile ground for the practice of scapegoating to emerge. Second, the practice derives meaning from three situated historical narratives that I define as narratives of capitalism, racialized hierarchies, and gender relations. These narratives are deeply rooted in the country’s history of colonialism and work through a logic of othering. By taking an in-depth look at everyday lived experiences around rules in Uganda’s fisheries and land governance sectors, this dissertation explores how scapegoating exploits the fragmented institutional landscape and draws meaning from these three intersecting historical narratives, and how this – in turn – shapes people’s perceptions of the (il)legitimacy of rules and actors.
Bath's law Derived from the Gutenberg-Richter law and from Aftershock Properties
Creators: name: Helmstetter, Agnes
name: Sornette, Didier
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Geophysics (physics.geo-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The empirical Bath's law states that the average difference in magnitude between a mainshock and its largest aftershock is 1.2, regardless of the mainshock magnitude. Following Vere-Jones [1969] and Console et al. [2003], we show that the origin of Bath's law is to be found in the selection procedure used to define mainshocks and aftershocks rather than in any difference in the mechanisms controlling the magnitude of the mainshock and of the aftershocks. We use the ETAS model of seismicity, which provides a more realistic model of aftershocks, based on (i) a universal Gutenberg-Richter (GR) law for all earthquakes, and on (ii) the increase of the number of aftershocks with the mainshock magnitude. Using numerical simulations of the ETAS model, we show that this model is in good agreement with Bath's law in a certain range of the model parameters.
description: major revisions, in press in Geophys. Res. Lett
Additional file 7 of Antimicrobial peptide and sequence variation along a latitudinal gradient in two anurans
Creators: name: Cortázar-Chinarro, Maria
name: Meyer-Lucht, Yvonne
name: Valk, Tom Van Der
name: Richter-Boix, Alex
name: Laurila, Anssi
name: Höglund, Jacob
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology

description: Additional file 7: Figure 5. Molecular phylogram of nucleotide sequences of ranid antimicrobial peptides reconstructed with neighbor joining method for: a) Temporin, b) Brevinin and c) Palustrin. Bootstrap values from 1000 replicates greater than 50% are indicated on branches. Alleles that belong to the same group are included in the same colored square. Alleles shared by both R. arvalis and R. temporaria are shown in bold. Valid alleles were named following the nomenclature by Klein (1975) for MHC loci: a four-digit abbreviation of the species name followed by species_gene*numeration, e.g. Raar_Brev*01.
Dynamical excitation of maxon and roton modes in a Rydberg-Dressed Bose-Einstein Condensate
Creators: name: McCormack, Gary
name: Nath, Rejish
name: Li, Weibin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the dynamics of a three-dimensional Bose-Einstein condensate of ultracold atomic gases with a soft-core shape long-range interaction, which is induced by laser dressing the atoms to a highly excited Rydberg state. For a homogeneous condensate, the long-range interaction drastically alters the dispersion relation of the excitation, supporting both roton and maxon modes. Rotons are typically responsible for the creation of supersolids, while maxons are normally dynamically unstable in BECs with dipolar interactions. We show that maxon modes in the Rydberg-dressed condensate, on the contrary, are dynamically stable. We find that the maxon modes can be excited through an interaction quench, i.e. turning on the soft-core interaction instantaneously. The emergence of the maxon modes is accompanied by oscillations at high frequencies in the quantum depletion, while rotons lead to much slower oscillations. The dynamically stable excitation of the roton and maxon modes leads to persistent oscillations in the quantum depletion. Through a self-consistent Bogoliubov approach, we identify the dependence of the maxon mode on the soft-core interaction. Our study shows that maxon and roton modes can be excited dynamically and simultaneously by quenching Rydberg-dressed long-range interactions. This is relevant to current studies in creating and probing exotic states of matter with ultracold atomic gases.
description: 10 pages, 8 figures
Asia-pacific Journal of Taxation.pdf
Creators: name: P.V. THAYYIB
name: Khan, Mohd Asif
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 150305 Human Resources Management
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This paper aims to explorethe major internal enablers that contribute to workforce agility in tax consulting services. The study isbased on a self-administered questionnaire survey of 435 tax professionals presently employed by Big-Four subsidiaries in India. The SEM results indicate that all of the identified enablers significantly andpositively contribute to workforce agility in tax units. Organisational learning turns out to be the mostcrucial variable contributing to an agile workforce. Data analytics and automation, workforce upskilling,and collaboration are also significantly associated with workforce agility and help to promote agilityamong tax professionals. The results suggest that workforce agility in tax consulting services requires anorganisational learning culture that supports new tax data analytics infrastructure and tax automationinitiatives, the development of up-skilling programs, and a collaborative workplace for idea sharing andsocialized learning. All of these enablers support professionals to act in all decision-making situationsto accomplish organisational goals faster.
SCAPEGOATING AS A PRACTICE OF RULE AND ACTOR (DE-)LEGITIMIZATION: CAPITALISM, RACE, AND GENDER IN UGANDA’S FISH AND LAND GOVERNANCE
Creators: name: Kantel, Anne Julia
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This dissertation seeks to address the question of when and why people come to perceive rules governing fish and land resources in Uganda as illegitimate or legitimate. The question of legitimacy is an important one for scholarship on natural resources and conflict in Uganda, particularly, and Sub-Saharan Africa more generally, as research has shown that whether people comply with state policies on natural resources depends to a significant extent on whether they perceive these policies to be legitimate. Based on seven months of critical ethnographic field research and drawing from an interdisciplinary body of literature in political ecology, political geography, development studies, cultural anthropology, feminist scholarship, and postcolonial studies, I develop a theoretical framework that identifies ‘scapegoating’ as an example of a process of (de-)legitimizing rules and actors. Scapegoating is an everyday practice that shifts blame by diversion and is enabled by two conditions. First, Uganda’s fragmented political and administrative landscape – resulting from decades of British indirect colonial rule and subsequent (neoliberal) decentralization and privatization reforms – provides fertile ground for the practice of scapegoating to emerge. Second, the practice derives meaning from three situated historical narratives that I define as narratives of capitalism, racialized hierarchies, and gender relations. These narratives are deeply rooted in the country’s history of colonialism and work through a logic of othering. By taking an in-depth look at everyday lived experiences around rules in Uganda’s fisheries and land governance sectors, this dissertation explores how scapegoating exploits the fragmented institutional landscape and draws meaning from these three intersecting historical narratives, and how this – in turn – shapes people’s perceptions of the (il)legitimacy of rules and actors.
Additional file 5 of Antimicrobial peptide and sequence variation along a latitudinal gradient in two anurans
Creators: name: Cortázar-Chinarro, Maria
name: Meyer-Lucht, Yvonne
name: Valk, Tom Van Der
name: Richter-Boix, Alex
name: Laurila, Anssi
name: Höglund, Jacob
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology

description: Additional file 5: Figure 3. Colour scheme for the allele frequency pie charts for nucleotide sequences represented in Additional file 4: Figure 2.
ECONOMIC DETERMINANTS OF PEACE IN POST-CONFLICT BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA
Creators: name: Gibson, Ryan
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Bosnia has undergone a prolonged and complex post-conflict recovery process. Peacebuilding literature in this context has accounted for political dynamics, while all too often omitting economic factors. Consequently, analysis of peacebuilding and development in Bosnia has been siloed since the country suspended post-war reconstruction activities in the early 2000s. In order to fill an analytic gap in the literature of peacebuilding in Bosnia, this study will examine the economic determinants of conflict risks post-Dayton. Quantitative and qualitative research methods have been applied to evaluate the ways in which economic factors influence post-war conflict risks in the country. We argue that within the national context, economic motivations have informed bargaining relationships that have produced conflictual discourse. Within the local context, economic conditions appeared to both reinforce and mitigate structural violence. Vertical and horizontal conflict have thus become institutionalized throughout Bosnia, creating a turbulent environment for potential reforms, policies, and interventions. Education reform and tax reform emerge as two examples of piecemeal interventions that could incrementally improve economic conditions while mitigating conflict risks.
Additional file 8 of Comprehensive genome-wide identification of angiosperm upstream ORFs with peptide sequences conserved in various taxonomic ranges using a novel pipeline, ESUCA
Creators: name: Takahashi, Hiro
name: Noriya Hayashi
name: Hiragori, Yuta
name: Sasaki, Shun
name: Taichiro Motomura
name: Yamashita, Yui
name: Naito, Satoshi
name: Takahashi, Anna
name: Fuse, Kazuyuki
name: Satou, Kenji
name: Endo, Toshinori
name: Kojima, Shoko
name: Onouchi, Hitoshi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 8 : Supplementary Figure S2. 5 ́-UTR nucleotide and deduced amino acid sequences of the poplar CPuORFs analyzed in the transient expression study.
ECONOMIC DETERMINANTS OF PEACE IN POST-CONFLICT BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA
Creators: name: Gibson, Ryan
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society

description: Bosnia has undergone a prolonged and complex post-conflict recovery process. Peacebuilding literature in this context has accounted for political dynamics, while all too often omitting economic factors. Consequently, analysis of peacebuilding and development in Bosnia has been siloed since the country suspended post-war reconstruction activities in the early 2000s. In order to fill an analytic gap in the literature of peacebuilding in Bosnia, this study will examine the economic determinants of conflict risks post-Dayton. Quantitative and qualitative research methods have been applied to evaluate the ways in which economic factors influence post-war conflict risks in the country. We argue that within the national context, economic motivations have informed bargaining relationships that have produced conflictual discourse. Within the local context, economic conditions appeared to both reinforce and mitigate structural violence. Vertical and horizontal conflict have thus become institutionalized throughout Bosnia, creating a turbulent environment for potential reforms, policies, and interventions. Education reform and tax reform emerge as two examples of piecemeal interventions that could incrementally improve economic conditions while mitigating conflict risks.
Multidimensional Analysis of Excitonic Spectra of Monolayers of Tungsten Disulphide: Towards Computer Aided Identification of Structural and Environmental Perturbations of 2D Materials
Creators: name: Kolesnichenko, Pavel V.
name: Zhang, Qianhui
name: Zheng, Changxi
name: Fuhrer, Michael S.
name: Davis, Jeffrey A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Despite 2D materials holding great promise for a broad range of applications, the proliferation of devices and their fulfillment of real-life demands are still far from being realized. Experimentally obtainable samples commonly experience a wide range of perturbations (ripples and wrinkles, point and line defects, grain boundaries, strain field, doping, water intercalation, oxidation, edge reconstructions) significantly deviating the properties from idealistic models. These perturbations, in general, can be entangled or occur in groups with each group forming a complex perturbation making the interpretations of observable physical properties and the disentanglement of simultaneously acting effects a highly non-trivial task even for an experienced researcher. Here we generalise statistical correlation analysis of excitonic spectra of monolayer WS2, acquired by hyperspectral absorption and photoluminescence imaging, to a multidimensional case, and examine multidimensional correlations via unsupervised machine learning algorithms. Using principle component analysis we are able to identify 4 dominant components that are correlated with tensile strain, disorder induced by adsorption or intercalation of environmental molecules, multi-layer regions and charge doping, respectively. This approach has the potential to determine the local environment of WS2 monolayers or other 2D materials from simple optical measurements, and paves the way towards advanced, machine-aided, characterisation of monolayer matter.
description: 12 pages, 4 figures, supplementary materials