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Planning the territory of São Paulo state, Brazil, in the Democratic Period: Carvalho Pinto’s Action Plan (1959 – 1963)
Creators: name: Alves, André Augusto De Almeida
Publisher: name: International Planning History Society Proceedings
Year: 2016

description: The postwar is marked, in Brazil, by initiatives of state planning and modern architecture that reach their apex in President Juscelino Kubitschek's Targets Plan (1956-1961) and its “synthesis-target”, Brasilia. Contemporary of these achievements is the Action Plan promoted by the governor of São Paulo state, Carvalho Pinto (1959-1963). Sharing the developmentist character that marks Brazilian state planning experience at the time, the Action Plan contains extensive physical targets aiming at the integration of the territory in the production process; relying on the broad participation of planners connected to the Économie et Humanisme Movement of the Dominican Father Louis-Joseph Lebret, the plan incorporates cojunctural analyses, methodologies and public policies that combine such investments in infrastructure and agricultural and industrial expansion with investments envisaging the "improvement of man's conditions". This paper focuses on this Paulista episode of state planning, considering the social scene of the period, providing an overview of its contents and evaluating its results. It makes notes on the economic and technological changes that occurred in the postwar period, and on the process of Brazilian industrialization in the 1950s and 1960s; it attends the conjunctural analyses of the Brazilian and Paulista economy made by the plan's authors, which reveal their perception of the economic and social process and inform their planning activity. It describes the planning process since its organization and constitution of its technical staff, to the strategies used in its elaboration. It provides a framework of the Action Plan that considers integrally: budget management techniques, funding sources, physical targets, public policies. It points out the political content of the plan, exploring its possibilities and limits, notably those related to the urban question and the housing question. It covers the political conditions that made planning almost an unanimity in those years, and the reasons that lead to non-institutionalization of the practice and to the discontinuation of the initiative, after the defeat in Carvalho Pinto's successor race and the subsequent outbreak of the civil-military coup (1964-1985). Thus, being considered in its broader dimensions, Carvalho Pinto’s Action Plan reveals the deep marks left by it in the São Paulo state territory.
description: International Planning History Society Proceedings, Vol. 17 No. 4 (2016): HISTORY URBANISM RESILIENCE: Planning and Heritage
Hearing the signals of dark sectors with gravitational wave detectors
Creators: name: Jaeckel, Joerg
name: Khoze, Valentin V.
name: Spannowsky, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Motivated by aLIGO's recent discovery of gravitational waves we discuss signatures of new physics that could be seen at ground and space-based interferometers. We show that a first order phase transition in a dark sector would lead to a detectable gravitational wave signal at future experiments, if the phase transition has occurred at temperatures few orders of magnitude higher than the electroweak scale. The source of gravitational waves in this case is associated with the dynamics of expanding and colliding bubbles in the early universe. At the same time we point out that topological defects, such as dark sector domain walls, may generate a detectable signal already at aLIGO. Both -- bubble and domain wall -- scenarios are sourced by semi-classical configurations of a dark new physics sector. In the first case the gravitational wave signal originates from bubble wall collisions and subsequent turbulence in hot plasma in the early universe, while the second case corresponds to domain walls passing through the interferometer at present and is not related to gravitational waves. We find that aLIGO at its current sensitivity can detect smoking-gun signatures from domain wall interactions, while future proposed experiments including the fifth phase of aLIGO at design sensitivity can probe dark sector phase transitions.
description: 12 pages, 10 figures; v2: extended discussion and references added; v3: improved calculation of bubble formation beyond the thin wall limit
Recurrent Warscape in Beirut public spaces: forty years later (1975-2015)
Creators: name: Hindi, Nadine
Publisher: name: International Planning History Society Proceedings
Year: 2016

description: In the context of a tormented Middle East geopolitics and the ongoing Arabo-Israeli conflict, a civil war erupted in Lebanon in 1975 and went uninterrupted for fifteen long years. As early as the first two-years-round of civil war in 1975-77, violent armed conflict manifested itself in an urban nature and contextualized in the capital Beirut. Back then, the civil war targeted systematically the public spaces and achieved purposefully the dual objective of mutating social practice and mutilating their urban form into a geography of fear. Intriguingly, during the unreconciled civil war aftermath, the display of instability and conflict kept on marking sporadically the same public spaces at different incidents. Three decades following the eruption of urban violence in 1975, intermittent events of social and political nature took place between 2005 and 2015, triggered by the assassination of the prime minister. This paper will tackle the two case studies of public spaces which are the pivots of the recurrent warscape: Place des Martyrs and the seaside hotels’ area, both symbols of social and geographic contestations at simultaneous times of peace and war. Based on an interdisciplinary literature, the socio political manifestations will be highlighted by unfolding them across time and space. Signs of discontentment and instability are manifested under different facets and patterns varying from passive intangible representations to active outbursts. The perpetuation of events hitherto occurring in the same urban spaces will be studied from the perspective of the social and political realities. In the absence of a mono-causal factor for warscape recurrence, mapping conflict in the urban space is a suggested tool to approach the perpetuation issue from a context-specific perspective. It is as well an opportunity to raise the question on the relation between the socio-political claims and their reverberation in the same urban spaces.
description: International Planning History Society Proceedings, Vol. 17 No. 4 (2016): HISTORY URBANISM RESILIENCE: Planning and Heritage
A research on the improvement of small and medium-sized city in early modern China (1895—1927) -- Taking Southern Jiangsu as an example
Creators: name: Xiaoqiang, Fu
name: Baihao, Li
Publisher: name: International Planning History Society Proceedings
Year: 2016

description: In 1895, the failure of Sino-Japanese prompted the trend of comprehensive and systematic study of western pattern in China. In urban planning and construction, urban reform movement sprang up slowly, which aimed at renovating and reconstructing the traditional cities into modern cities similar to the concessions. During the movement, Chinese traditional city initiated a process of modern urban planning for its modernization. Meanwhile, the traditional planning morphology and system started to disintegrate, on the contrary, western form and technology had become the paradigm. Therefore, the improvement of existing cities had become the prototype of urban planning of early modern China. Currently, researches of the movement mainly concentrate on large cities, concessions, railway hub cities and some special cities resembling those. However, the systematic research about the large number of traditional small and medium-sized cities is still blank, up to now. This paper takes the improvement constructions of small and medium-sized cities in Southern region of Jiangsu Province as the research object. First of all, the criteria of small and medium-sized cities are based on the administrative levels of general office and cities at the county level. Secondly, the suitability of taking the Southern Jiangsu as the research object. The southern area of Jiangsu province called Southern Jiangsu for short, was the most economically developed region in Jiangsu, and also one of the most economically developed and the highest urbanization regions in China. As the most developed agricultural areas in ancient China, Southern Jiangsu formed a large number of traditional small and medium-sized cities. In early modern times, with the help of the Shanghai economic radiation, geographical advantage and powerful economic foundation, Southern Jiangsu became an important birthplace of Chinese national industry. Furthermore, the strong business atmosphere promoted the widespread urban improvement practices, which were incomparable of other regions. Meanwhile, the demonstration of Shanghai, Zhenjiang, Suzhou and other port cities became the improvement pattern of small and medium-sized city in Southern Jiangsu. This paper analyzes the reform movement of the small and medium-sized cities in Southern Jiangsu (1895-1927), including the subjects, objects, laws, technologies and the influence factors of politic and society ,etc. At last, this paper reveals the formation mechanism and characteristics of urban improvement movement in early modern China. According to the paper, the improvement of small-medium city was a kind of gestation of the local city planning culture in early modern China，with a fusion of introduction and endophytism.
description: International Planning History Society Proceedings, Vol. 17 No. 4 (2016): HISTORY URBANISM RESILIENCE: Planning and Heritage
Robust Temporal Logic Model Predictive Control
Creators: name: Sadraddini, Sadra
name: Belta, Calin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Control synthesis from temporal logic specifications has gained popularity in recent years. In this paper, we use a model predictive approach to control discrete time linear systems with additive bounded disturbances subject to constraints given as formulas of signal temporal logic (STL). We introduce a (conservative) computationally efficient framework to synthesize control strategies based on mixed integer programs. The designed controllers satisfy the temporal logic requirements, are robust to all possible realizations of the disturbances, and optimal with respect to a cost function. In case the temporal logic constraint is infeasible, the controller satisfies a relaxed, minimally violating constraint. An illustrative case study is included.
description: This work has been accepted to appear in the proceedings of 53rd Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control and Computing, Urbana-Champaign, IL (2015)
Fluctuations of the total number of critical points of random spherical harmonics
Creators: name: Cammarota, Valentina
name: Wigman, Igor
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We determine the asymptotic law for the fluctuations of the total number of critical points of random Gaussian spherical harmonics in the high degree limit. Our results have implications on the sophistication degree of an appropriate percolation process for modelling nodal domains of eigenfunctions on generic compact surfaces or billiards.
From ‘City’s Rebuilding’ to ‘Revitalisation’: The Possibility of Renovating Some Old Buildings into Aged Care Facilities during Old Towns’ Renewal
Creators: name: Du, Haoyuan
name: Wang, Zhu
name: Lu, Ji
Publisher: name: International Planning History Society Proceedings
Year: 2016

description: Nowadays China is faced with the problem of aging and urbanization. The demand of low and middle income elderly people are ignored, while the old towns in cities are at risk of hollowing because of human and industry migration. Take the actual conditions of China into consideration, the research might predict that renovating some old buildings into aged care facilities can ease aging pressure, stimulate old towns’ transition and make it resile from aging problem and migration. Through case study in Hangzhou, we notice that aging and urbanization in China have their own historical context. The squeeze effect caused by old towns’ debility and the siphonic effect result from new towns’ urbanization lead old towns to aging communities. Meanwhile the process that new towns are transformed into the old ones would spread quickly over the whole city. By using interview method in Hangzhou, we find out that old people are inclined to live around their original blocks. Government can develop these old towns by preserving traditional lifestyle and attracting tourists to experience and go sightseeing. In conclusion, renovating some old buildings into aged care facilities exerts positive effect on preservation and development of old towns.
description: International Planning History Society Proceedings, Vol. 17 No. 4 (2016): HISTORY URBANISM RESILIENCE: Planning and Heritage
The case study of Chácara das Rosas in Cambuquira, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Creators: name: Lima, Fabio
name: Portes, Raquel Von Randow
Publisher: name: International Planning History Society Proceedings
Year: 2016

description: The paper discusses the issues present in the process of restoration of the old mansion named “Chácara das Rosas” in the city of Cambuquira, on the South of the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil. The project is linked to the urban rehabilitation in the proposal of master plan of the city. The comprehension is that the restoration project must be included in the general urban rehabilitation. As a reference of cultural heritage the procedures to be adopted for the restoration take into account theoretical and technical criteria for their reintegration and reuse as a public build. The work is in progress with regard to the elaboration of the restoration project linked to the master plan. Participatory process is another difficulty included considering the methodologies to develop the ideas in view of criteria of restoration. The implicit discussion allows to rethink the challenges faced in the context of small cities, particularly in Brazil, to comprehend the need for conservation as a way to preserve the local identity against the globalization process at stake. The project of restoration has been set with the proposal to a new use of the “Chácara das Rosas” in the city of Cambuquira.
description: International Planning History Society Proceedings, Vol. 17 No. 4 (2016): HISTORY URBANISM RESILIENCE: Planning and Heritage
Heritage-led regeneration in the UK. Preserving historic values or masking commodification? A reflection on the case of King’s Cross, London
Creators: name: Chatzi Rodopoulou, Theodora
Publisher: name: International Planning History Society Proceedings
Year: 2016

description: The rise and fall of industrialisation brought major upheavals on the social, spatial and economic fabric of historic cities, leaving many of them in the late 1970’s in a state of despair. Since the early 1990’s heritage-led regeneration has progressively become an important tool for the revitalisation of urban areas.This revitalisation though, especially when carried out by commercial developers, albeit its positive economic outcome, is not without side effects. This paper aspires to explore how heritage led-regeneration fits in the current 21st century plans for physical, social and economic restructuring of post-industrial historic megacities, like London. Drawing from King’s Cross paradigm, one of the most recent and massive cases of heritage-led regeneration realised in the UK, we will attempt to reflect on the gains and losses of the process, in terms of preservation and resilience of historic, spatial and social values of the area. This reflection will contribute to the evolving discourse on the changing role of heritage in the 21st century prevailing socio-economic system. Focus is cast on the case of King’s Cross, an epitome of industrialisation ‘s life-death and resurrection circle. Once a vibrant transport hub and commercial centre the heart of the first industrial nation’s capital, the area deteriorated, becoming in the 1980’s home of prostitutes and drug dealers. After several proposals, in 2006 an ambitious heritage-led redevelopment project has started which promises the total makeover of the deprived site. In 2011 the first phase of the project was completed. On the first part of the paper, by means of literature review we will present the historic evolution of King’s Cross area from the 19th century to the early 2000’s, highlighting its core historic, spatial and social values. On the second part, we will present the current state of the project and the vision for its future, enriching the literature review methodology by adding material collected from field research. On the second part, using the same method as well as material collected from field research, we will present the current state of the project and the vision for its future. The third part presents the reflection of several stakeholders involved with the scheme, including its developer, architect and users. This is a product of the qualitative research on the subject conducted by the author in July 2015. On the fourth part we will reflect on the outcome of the project, discussing the resilience of King’s Cross industrial heritage after its redevelopment. The paper will conclude with highlighting the underlying implications of heritage led regeneration in the social, spatial and economic fabric of today’s historic city.
description: International Planning History Society Proceedings, Vol. 17 No. 4 (2016): HISTORY URBANISM RESILIENCE: Planning and Heritage
Shelah's eventual categoricity conjecture in universal classes. Part II
Creators: name: Vasey, Sebastien
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Logic (math.LO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 03C48 (Primary), 03C45, 03C52, 03C55 (Secondary)

description: We prove that a universal class categorical in a high-enough cardinal is categorical on a tail of cardinals. As opposed to other results in the literature, we work in ZFC, do not require the categoricity cardinal to be a successor, do not assume amalgamation, and do not use large cardinals. Moreover we give an explicit bound on the "high-enough" threshold: $\mathbf{Theorem}$ Let $ψ$ be a universal $\mathbb{L}_{ω_1, ω}$ sentence. If $ψ$ is categorical in some $λ\ge \beth_{\beth_{ω_1}}$, then $ψ$ is categorical in all $λ' \ge \beth_{\beth_{ω_1}}$. As a byproduct of the proof, we show that a conjecture of Grossberg holds in universal classes: $\mathbf{Corollary}$ Let $ψ$ be a universal $\mathbb{L}_{ω_1, ω}$ sentence that is categorical in some $λ\ge \beth_{\beth_{ω_1}}$, then the class of models of $ψ$ has the amalgamation property for models of size at least $\beth_{\beth_{ω_1}}$. We also establish generalizations of these two results to uncountable languages. As part of the argument, we develop machinery to transfer model-theoretic properties between two different classes satisfying a compatibility condition. This is used as a bridge between Shelah's milestone study of universal classes (which we use extensively) and a categoricity transfer theorem of the author for abstract elementary classes that have amalgamation, are tame, and have primes over sets of the form $M \cup \{a\}$.
description: 49 pages
BOSHLANG'ICH SINF O'QUVCHILARINING IJTIMOIY VA PSIXOLOGIK MOSLASHUV DETERMENATLARI
Creators: name: Boymurodova Mahliyo Orif qizi SHarof Rashidov nomidagi Samarqand Davlat unversitite Psixologiya va ijtimoiy-siyosiy fanlar fakulteti 4-kurs talabasi
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Mazkur maqolada boshlang‘ich sinf o‘quvchilarining ijtimoiy va psixologik moslashuv jarayoni, unga ta’sir etuvchi omillar (determinantlar) va moslashuvni yengillashtirish usullari ilmiy nuqtayi nazardan tahlil qilingan. Tadqiqot natijalariga ko‘ra, boshlang‘ich ta’limda o‘quvchilarning moslashuv jarayoniga ijtimoiy-muhit omillari, oilaviy qo‘llab-quvvatlash, pedagogik yondashuv va psixologik xizmatlar katta ta’sir ko‘rsatadi.

 

Kalit so'zlar: Bolalar psixologiyasi ,ijtimoiy va psixologik moslashuv, ijtimoiy-psixologik yondashish, yondashuv sotsializatsiyasi, shaxslararo munosabatlar
Changes and continuities in two urban plans for the Historic Centre of Salvador: the Epucs (1943-50) and the Public Transport Plan (1982)
Creators: name: Vieira De Andrade Junior, Nivaldo
Publisher: name: International Planning History Society Proceedings
Year: 2016

description: The paper will analyze the proposals for the historic centre of Salvador presented in two urban plans designed with an interval of almost 40 years. The first is the plan conceived in the 1940s by Epucs (Office of the Urban Plan for the City of Salvador), installed in 1943 and responsible for the first modern planning experience of the city. The second is the public transport plan designed in 1982 for the central area of Salvador, founded by the Portuguese in 1549 as the first capital of Brazil. Although the territorial scope of the Epucs plan was not limited to the central area of Salvador, many of his propositions had this area as its focus, and it is interesting to note the concern for preserving the most important monuments and certain landscape values of the old colonial city, like the green slope that separates the Upper and Lower Towns (Cidade Alta and Cidade Baixa). Nevertheless, the Epucs plan proposed the modernization of the central area of the Upper City, including the opening of wide and rectilinear avenues for cars and trams, which would break the urban fabric characterized by narrow and winding roads and promote a significant transformation of urban morphology. Coordinated by the sanitary engineer Mario Leal Ferreira until his death in 1947, the Epucs then becomes coordinated by Diogenes Rebouças, a young agronomist engineer (and self-taught architect) who was until then the coordinator of the landscape sector of the plan. The same Rebouças will be the author, in 1982, of the public transport plan for the centre of Salvador. In the 35 years since he assumed the coordination of Epucs, Rebouças had become Salvador’s most important architect and urban planner. Although updated in terms of modal and technology, the public transport plan that Rebouças elaborates in 1982 maintains, in many ways, the same approach regarding the cultural values of the historic centre of Salvador: it preserves monumental buildings and certain landscape values at the same time that promotes the demolition of entire blocks formed by eclectic buildings. The 1982 plan, however, favors pedestrians and users of public transport and its solutions are usually gentler on the relationship between the past, present and future. We intend to analyze how those two plans, conceived by Rebouças and partners in a range of almost four decades, solve the challenge of meeting the demands of the present (and the alleged demands of the future) while preserving the inherited cultural values. On the other hand, we also intend to identify the continuities and changes in the approach adopted by Rebouças and partners while intervening in a historic site that, in 1959, was listed as national heritage and, in 1985, was inscribed in Unesco’s World Heritage List.
description: International Planning History Society Proceedings, Vol. 17 No. 4 (2016): HISTORY URBANISM RESILIENCE: Planning and Heritage
Coarse-graining two-dimensional turbulence via dynamical optimization
Creators: name: Turkington, Bruce
name: Chen, Qian-Yong
name: Thalabard, Simon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A model reduction technique based on an optimization principle is employed to coarse-grain inviscid, incompressible fluid dynamics in two dimensions. In this reduction the spectrally-truncated vorticity equation defines the microdynamics, while the macroscopic state space consists of quasi-equilibrium trial probability densities on the microscopic phase space, which are parameterized by the means and variances of the low modes of the vorticity. A macroscopic path therefore represents a coarse-grained approximation to the evolution of a nonequilibrium ensemble of microscopic solutions. Closure in terms of the vector of resolved variables, namely, the means and variances of the low modes, is achieved by minimizing over all feasible paths the time integral of their mean-squared residual with respect to the Liouville equation. The equations governing the optimal path are deduced from Hamilton-Jacobi theory. The coarse-grained dynamics derived by this optimization technique contains a scale-dependent eddy viscosity, modified nonlinear interactions between the low mode means, and a nonlinear coupling between the mean and variance of each low mode. The predictive skill of this optimal closure is validated quantitatively by comparing it against direct numerical simulations. These tests show that good agreement is achieved without adjusting any closure parameters.
A large deviations approach to limit theory for heavy-tailed time series
Creators: name: Mikosch, T.
name: Wintenberger, O.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this paper we propagate a large deviations approach for proving limit theory for (generally) multivariate time series with heavy tails. We make this notion precise by introducing regularly varying time series. We provide general large deviation results for functionals acting on a sample path and vanishing in some neighborhood of the origin. We study a variety of such functionals, including large deviations of random walks, their suprema, the ruin functional, and further derive weak limit theory for maxima, point processes, cluster functionals and the tail empirical process. One of the main results of this paper concerns bounds for the ruin probability in various heavy-tailed models including GARCH, stochastic volatility models and solutions to stochastic recurrence equations. 1. Preliminaries and basic motivation In the last decades, a lot of efforts has been put into the understanding of limit theory for dependent sequences, including Markov chains (Meyn and Tweedie [42]), weakly dependent sequences (Dedecker et al. [21]), long-range dependent sequences (Doukhan et al. [23], Samorodnitsky [54]), empirical processes (Dehling et al. [22]) and more general structures (Eberlein and Taqqu [25]), to name a few references. A smaller part of the theory was devoted to limit theory under extremal dependence for point processes, maxima, partial sums, tail empirical processes. Resnick [49, 50] started a systematic study of the relations between the convergence of point processes, sums and maxima, see also Resnick [51] for a recent account. He advocated the use of multivariate regular variation as a flexible tool to describe heavy-tail phenomena combined with advanced continuous mapping techniques. For example, maxima and sums are understood as functionals acting on an underlying point process, if the point process converges these functionals converge as well and their limits are described in terms of the points of the limiting point process. Davis and Hsing [13] recognized the power of this approach for limit theory of point processes, maxima, sums, and large deviations for dependent regularly varying processes, i.e., stationary sequences whose finite-dimensional distributions are regularly varying with the same index. Before [13], limit theory for particular regularly varying stationary sequences was studied for the sample mean, maxima, sample autocovariance and autocorrelation functions of linear and bilinear processes with iid regularly varying noise and extreme value theory was considered for regularly varying ARCH processes and solutions to stochastic recurrence equation, see Rootzén [53], Davis and 1991 Mathematics Subject Classification. Primary 60F10, 60G70, secondary 60F05. Key words and phrases. Large deviation principle, regularly varying processes, central limit theorem, ruin probabilities, GARCH.
Correlation Functions of Coulomb Branch Operators
Creators: name: Gerchkovitz, Efrat
name: Gomis, Jaume
name: Ishtiaque, Nafiz
name: Karasik, Avner
name: Komargodski, Zohar
name: Pufu, Silviu S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the correlation functions of Coulomb branch operators in four-dimensional N=2 Superconformal Field Theories (SCFTs) involving exactly one anti-chiral operator. These extremal correlators are the "minimal" non-holomorphic local observables in the theory. We show that they can be expressed in terms of certain determinants of derivatives of the four-sphere partition function of an appropriate deformation of the SCFT. This relation between the extremal correlators and the deformed four-sphere partition function is non-trivial due to the presence of conformal anomalies, which lead to operator mixing on the sphere. Evaluating the deformed four-sphere partition function using supersymmetric localization, we compute the extremal correlators explicitly in many interesting examples. Additionally, the representation of the extremal correlators mentioned above leads to a system of integrable differential equations. We compare our exact results with previous perturbative computations and with the four-dimensional tt^* equations. We also use our results to study some of the asymptotic properties of the perturbative series expansions we obtain in N=2 SQCD.
description: 47 pages, 6 figures. v2: typos corrected and references added
Beyond Degree Choosability
Creators: name: Cranston, Daniel W.
name: Rabern, Landon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 05C15

description: Let $G$ be a connected graph with maximum degree $Δ$. Brooks' theorem states that $G$ has a $Δ$-coloring unless $G$ is a complete graph or an odd cycle. A graph $G$ is \emph{degree-choosable} if $G$ can be properly colored from its lists whenever each vertex $v$ gets a list of $d(v)$ colors. In the context of list coloring, Brooks' theorem can be strengthened to the following. Every connected graph $G$ is degree-choosable unless each block of $G$ is a complete graph or an odd cycle; such a graph $G$ is a \emph{Gallai tree}. This degree-choosability result was further strengthened to Alon--Tarsi orientations; these are orientations of $G$ in which the number of spanning Eulerian subgraphs with an even number of edges differs from the number with an odd number of edges. A graph $G$ is \emph{degree-AT} if $G$ has an Alon--Tarsi orientation in which each vertex has indegree at least 1. Alon and Tarsi showed that if $G$ is degree-AT, then $G$ is also degree-choosable. Hladky, Kral, and Schauz showed that a connected graph is degree-AT if and only if it is not a Gallai tree. In this paper, we consider pairs $(G,x)$ where $G$ is a connected graph and $x$ is some specified vertex in $V(G)$. We characterize pairs such that $G$ has no Alon--Tarsi orientation in which each vertex has indegree at least 1 and $x$ has indegree at least 2. When $G$ is 2-connected, the characterization is simple to state.
description: 14 pages, 4 figures
Huddie Ledbetter, the Lomaxes, and Negro Folk Songs As Sung by Lead Belly
Creators: name: Kadel, Magdalen
Publisher: name: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Graduate School
Year: 2014
Subjects: Music
Folklore
African Americans--Study and teaching

description: Negro Folk Songs As Sung by Lead Belly is a multi-author work, the result of a collaboration between Alan Lomax, John A. Lomax, Huddie Ledbetter, and George Herzog. Each man had a distinct combination of privilege and disprivilege, and, as a result, his own effect on Ledbetter’s representation within Negro Folk Songs. The representation of Ledbetter in Negro Folk Songs aligns strongly with pre-existing cultural stereotypes about African American men. Based on extensive research of the working papers to Negro Folk Songs at the Library of Congress, in this thesis I argue that the Lomaxes shift Ledbetter’s representation from his initial interviews through erasure, addition, censorship, and framing, and that Ledbetter resists this representation by Signifyin(g).
La gestion du risque cyber à l'OTAN
Creators: name: Bernard, Britanie
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2017

description: L’omniprésence des nouvelles technologies de l’information et de la communication (NTIC), dont la plus emblématique est sûrement Internet, est la caractéristique majeure de ce que Myriam Dunn Cavelty qualifie d’ « âge de l’information ». Si les innovations sont très largement pensées et développées au sein d’entreprises privées, les gouvernements et les organismes publics ne sont toutefois pas désintéressés et l’on a assisté à une sécurisation du cyber, notamment par les États-Unis et l’OTAN. Cette recherche se veut être une contribution critique à la littérature sur la cyberdéfense de l’OTAN. Elle cherche à montrer que l’adaptation de l’OTAN au contexte stratégique post-guerre froide est passée par une mutation vers la gestion de risque comme mode de gouvernement. À travers l’étude de la doctrine de l’OTAN en matière de cyber défense, cette recherche se veut être l’occasion de réfléchir au rapport que l’OTAN entretien avec le concept de risque. Nous soutenons l’idée que cette doctrine est héritière de la gestion du risque terroriste conçue par l’Administration Bush au lendemain des attaques du 11 septembre 2001, mais également que l’OTAN semble avoir des difficultés à sortir de la logique de dissuasion. Grâce aux travaux du sociologue Ulrich Beck mais également des poststructuralistes en relations internationales, nous cherchons à montrer que la stratégie préemptive en place se caractérise entre autres par une perception disproportionnée des risques, ce qui a comme conséquence la création de plus de risques et l'aggravation du sentiment d’insécurité. Il est donc attendu que l’un des objectifs que nous poursuivons dans cette recherche est le décryptage de pratiques sécuritaires qui engendrent des dérives et qui sont néfastes à la création, à la mise en place et à l’exécution de solutions efficaces de cyber défense.
Promoting Access to Post-Secondary Education among Youth from Low-Income Families: An Outcome Evaluation of the Youth Futures Program
Creators: name: Rae, Jennifer
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2017
Subjects: Access to Education
Outcome Evaluation
Post-Secondary Education

description: Youth Futures is a community-based intervention intended to improve post-secondary education (PSE) access rates among high school youth from low-income families, who tend to be under-represented in higher education (Berger, Motte, & Parkin, 2009; Norrie & Zhao, 2011). The bilingual (French and English) program spans seven months and consists of mentoring by university students, leadership training, workplace training and skill development activities, paid summer employment, and exposure to college and university settings. This thesis examined the outcomes of the Youth Futures program through three distinct studies. First, a quasi-experimental study was conducted to investigate short-term outcomes among program participants (N = 44, mean age of 16 years old at baseline) in comparison to a group of their peers (N = 40, mean age of 16 years old at baseline). Second, a qualitative study was conducted with a purposeful sample of program participants (N = 20, mean age of 17 years old) to explore their first-hand experiences through semi-structured, open-ended interviews. Third, program alumni (N = 79, mean age of 19 years old) were briefly interviewed via telephone to investigate longer-term outcomes, including employment experience and enrolment and persistence in PSE. Overall, no evidence was found to suggest that exposure to the Youth Futures program contributed to increased access to PSE among participants. Some characteristics of the Youth Futures sample recruited in the three studies raised questions about whether participants were at risk of not accessing PSE in the absence of the intervention (Berger et al., 2009; Childs, Finnie, & Mueller, 2015; Finnie, Childs, & Wismer, 2011). Findings indicated several program improvement strategies that may be useful in modifying the Youth Futures program to ensure that students in need of the intervention receive tailored programming and that the timing of the intervention is effective. Experts have called for a stronger evidence base in this area to facilitate sound decision-making about which potential program models to establish or expand and how to match students to the programs that best address their particular needs (Barnett et al., 2012; Brock, 2010; Le, Mariano, & Faxon-Mills, 2016; Shultz & Mueller 2006; Tierney & Hagedorn, 2007).
Dispersive deformations of the Hamiltonian structure of Euler's equations
Creators: name: Casati, Matteo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 37K05 (primary), 76M60, 17B80 (secondary)

description: Euler's equations for a two-dimensional system can be written in Hamiltonian form, where the Poisson bracket is the Lie-Poisson bracket associated to the Lie algebra of divergence free vector fields. We show how to derive the Poisson brackets of 2d hydrodynamics of ideal fluids as a reduction from the one associated to the full algebra of vector fields. Motivated by some recent results about the deformations of Lie-Poisson brackets of vector fields, we study the dispersive deformations of the Poisson brackets of Euler's equation and show that, up to the second order, they are trivial.
description: 11 pages
Nutrition Care Practices of Family Physicians and Nurse Practitioners in Primary Health Care Settings in Ontario – A Qualitative Study
Creators: name: Aboueid, Stephanie
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2017
Subjects: Obesity Management and Prevention
Nutrition Care Practices
Multidisciplinary
Primary Care
Primary Care Providers
Health Systems Approach

description: At the author’s request, the abstract has been removed due to the confidential nature of the thesis. It will be added once the embargo period has passed.
Acute Effects of Whole Body Vibration on Dynamic Postural Control in Subjects with Functional Ankle Instability
Creators: name: Adelman, Daniel Lindorff
Publisher: name: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Year: 2013

description: Ankle sprains are highly common in recreationally active individuals and can lead to functional ankle instability (FAI), characterized by repeated ankle sprains and functional deficits. Whole-body vibration (WBV) is a novel modality that influences neuromuscular function, and may be effective for rehabilitation of FAI. However, no study has investigated the effects of WBV on neuromuscular deficits associated with FAI. The objective of this study was to evaluate the acute effects of WBV on dynamic postural stability and muscle activity in individuals with FAI. We quantified dynamic postural stability as the time to stabilization (TTS) and measured preparatory and loading phase EMG of the gluteus medius, peroneus longus, rectus femoris, and tibialis anterior muscles of the involved leg. However, there were no significant effects of WBV on these measures. These findings suggest that acute WBV exposure may not be an effective method for rehabilitation for FAI.
title: Анархия и коммунизм. Теория и жизнь
title: Монография
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Болоцких В.Н.
Publisher: name: Новосибирский государственный архитектурно-строительный университет (Сибстрин)
Year: 2008

description: В монографии рассматриваются вопросы происхождения и становления государства, его роль в истории человечества с точки зрения теоретиков анархизма и коммунизма Бакунина, Маркса, Энгельса и Ленина, их представления об идеальном анархическом и коммунистическом обществе, обсуждаются проблемы достижимости анархического и коммунистического общества и возможные последствия попыток реализации на практике их идей.
description: The monograph discusses the origin and formation of the state, its role in the history of mankind from the point of view of the theoreticians of anarchism and communism, Bakunin, Marx, Engels and Lenin, their idea of the perfect anarchist and Communist society, discusses the problems of reachability anarchist and a Communist society and the possible consequences of implementing their ideas.
From Urbanism to Planning to Urban Project. The pursuit of 'urbanity' in Spanish plans and projects
Creators: name: Monclús Fraga, Javier
name: Díez Medina, Carmen
Publisher: name: International Planning History Society Proceedings
Year: 2016

description: Spanish urbanismo evolved from the late rise of the discipline, at the beginning of the 20th century, to the consolidation of planning in the1950s and 1960s. In its origins, it payed special attention to urban forms, but in the years of exceptional economic development – 1950s-1970s – planning became more abstract, because of the dissociation between the scales of the comprehensive plan and the more specific definition of layouts and architecture, which remained in the background. Since the end of the 1970s, the functionalist urbanism gave way to a renovated ‘architectural urbanism’, again more concerned with architectural quality of urban forms. The aim of this paper is to illustrate the recurrent, complex and sometimes contradictory ways of recovering and updating that early Spanish urbanismo which produced some of the most interesting urban tissues. We refer especially to some plans and projects corresponding to three time periods with different levels of integration among them, focusing on three Spanish cities, which can be understood as paradigmatic exemplars: Madrid, Barcelona, and Zaragoza. Of course, this doesn’t mean that the forms and tools of the, in the words of Peter Hall, ‘lost art of urbanism’, have been recovered literally. Rather, we identify in this philosophy of integrating architecture and planning an important principle of a true high quality urbanism.
description: International Planning History Society Proceedings, Vol. 17 No. 4 (2016): HISTORY URBANISM RESILIENCE: Planning and Heritage
A remark on fullness of some group measure space von Neumann algebras
Creators: name: Ozawa, Narutaka
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Operator Algebras (math.OA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 46L36, 46L10, 43A07

description: Recently C. Houdayer and Y. Isono have proved among other things that every biexact group $Γ$ has the property that for any non-singular strongly ergodic action $Γ\curvearrowright (X,μ)$ on a standard measure space the group measure space von Neumann algebra $Γ\ltimes L^\infty(X)$ is full. In this note, we prove the same property for a wider class of groups, notably including $\mathrm{SL}(3,{\mathbb Z})$. We also prove that for any connected simple Lie group $G$ with finite center, any lattice $Γ\le G$, and any closed non-amenable subgroup $H\le G$, the non-singular action $Γ\curvearrowright G/H$ is strongly ergodic and the von Neumann factor $Γ\ltimes L^\infty(G/H)$ is full.
description: 8 pages; minor corrections (v2); more corrections (v3); Compos. Math., to appear
The renaissance of post-war metropolitan planning in Melbourne, Australia 1949-1954
Creators: name: Freestone, Robert
name: Amati, Marco
name: Mills, Peter
Publisher: name: International Planning History Society Proceedings
Year: 2016

description: This paper examines Melbourne’s first statutory metropolitan planning scheme in 1954 in terms of its origins, production, promotion and reception. While a cautious trend-tidying template, it represented a landmark in Melbourne’s planning history and established permanently a metropolitan planning apparatus at the state government level. Metropolitan planning initiatives in Australia before World War Two were few and far between. The scale of thinking, resourcing and implementation was beyond most state governments with a notable exception being the 1929 report of the Melbourne Metropolitan Town Planning Commission. This was shelved during the depression years but by the 1940s an active planning movement in Melbourne and development by major infrastructure agencies highlighted the need to revisit a coordinative metropolitan strategy and ensure it did not sit on the shelf. The agency officially charged with devising, promoting and implementing a new regional-scale planning scheme in 1949 was the Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works (MMBW), a legacy public utility from the 1890s. The paper examines the grafting of planning functions onto the MMBW and in particular the appointment of E.F. Borrie as Chief Planner. Two intertwined themes thread through the development and eventual marketing of the plan to the wider community and key stakeholders including local authorities and developers. One was an early retreat from visionary planning towards a more politically-pragmatic and business-like incrementalism. The second was the endeavour to secure broad citizen acceptance of the proposals through selling them as necessary common-sense solutions to emerging issues such as employment distribution, transport congestion, and open space provision. Key agents of the MMBW’s propaganda campaign were a series of public exhibitions held in 1953-54 along with other public relations initiatives including endorsements from leading planners from overseas. The paper revisits these and other key events in the narrative to establish metropolitan planning oversight on a secure footing in Melbourne. The campaign proved successful. The MMBW was confirmed as Melbourne’s regional planning authority in December 1954 and hence became part of the bureaucratic machinery of state government. From that point, planning debate shifted decisively from the general case of for and against to even more challenging and controversial issues of implementation.
description: International Planning History Society Proceedings, Vol. 17 No. 1 (2016): HISTORY URBANISM RESILIENCE: Ideas on the Move and Modernisation
A strong multiplicity one theorem for SL(2)
Creators: name: Chai, Jingsong
name: Zhang, Qing
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: It is known that multiplicity one property holds for SL(2), while the strong multiplicity one property fails. However, in this paper, we show that if we require further that a pair of cuspidal representations $π$ and $π'$ of SL(2) have the same local components at archimedean places and the places above 2, and they are generic with respect to the same additive character, then they also satisfy the strong multiplicity one property. The proof is based on a local converse theorem for SL(2).
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