cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Improving Urban Habitat Connectivity for Native Birds: Using Least Cost Path Analyses to Design Urban Green Infrastructure Networks
Creators: name: MacKinnon, Maggie
name: Zari, Maibritt Pedersen
name: Brown, Daniel
Publisher: name: Open Access Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 50299
subject: Environmental Science and Management not elsewhere classified

description: Least-cost path analyses are commonly used in ecology to identify and protect wildlife corridors and stepping-stone habitats that minimise the difficulty and risk for species dispersing across human-modified landscapes. However, they are rarely considered or used in the design of urban green infrastructure networks, particularly those that include building-integrated vegetation, such as green walls and green roofs. This study uses Linkage Mapper, an ArcGIS toolbox, to identify the least-cost paths for four native keystone birds (kererū, tūī, korimako, and hihi) in cen-tral Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand. The least-cost paths are then used to design a network of green roof corridors that makes the city easier for native birds to traverse. The results identified 27 least-cost paths across the central city connecting existing native forest habitats. Creating 0.7 km2 of green roof corridors along these least-cost paths reduced cost-weighted distances by 8.5-9.3% for the kererū, tūī, and korimako but there was only a 4.3% reduction for the hihi (a small forest bird). In urban areas with little ground-level space for green infrastructure, this study demonstrates how least-cost path analyses can inform the design of building-integrated vegetation networks and quantify their impacts on corridor quality for target species in cities.
Lyapunov spectrum of Markov and Euclid trees
Creators: name: Spalding, K.
name: Veselov, A. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 11J06, 34D08

description: We study the Lyapunov exponents $Λ(x)$ for Markov dynamics as a function of path determined by $x\in \mathbb RP^1$ on a binary planar tree, describing the Markov triples and their "tropical" version - Euclid triples. We show that the corresponding Lyapunov spectrum is $[0, \ln φ]$, where $φ$ is the golden ratio, and prove that on the Markov-Hurwitz set $\mathbb{X}$ of the most irrational numbers the corresponding function $Λ_\mathbb{X}$ is monotonically increasing and in the Farey parametrization is convex.
description: A comment on the Hausdorff dimension of the support of $\Lambda(x)$ and reference to Jarnik's work are added
Neglected and non-consented care during childbirth in public health facilities in Central Tigray, Ethiopia
Creators: name: Gesesew, Hailay
name: Ward, Paul
Publisher: name: Torrens University Australia
Year: 2023
Subjects: Injury prevention

description: The present study aimed to assess the magnitude and factors associated with neglected and non-consented care during childbirth in public health facilities in Central Tigray, Ethiopia. Methods: A health facility-based cross-sectional survey supplemented by a qualitative study was conducted from April to May 2020 among women giving birth. We included 415 participants and recruited via a systematic random sampling technique. To collect the data, a pre-tested, face-to-face exit interview using an interviewer-administered structured questionnaire was used. Neglected and non-consented care and its outcomes (yes and no) were the dependent variables, and Socio-demographic data such as (age, educational level, region, and income), and other variables associated with compassionate and respective maternity care were the independent variables. We applied bivariate and multivariate logistic regression to determine predictors for non-consented and non-confidential care components of disrespect or abuse. The in-depth interviews were analyzed using content analysis. Results: Among the participants, 82.4% and 78.6% had neglected care and non-consented care among women giving birth respectively. No formal education level (AOR: 0.37, 95%, CI (0.18–0.78)) and primary education level (AOR: 0.18, 95%, CI (0.05–0.57))., mode of delivery (AOR 3.79, 95% CI 1.42–10.09), sex of skilled healthcare providers (AOR: 0.56, 95%, CI (0.34–0.93)), number of deliveries in a health Centre (AOR: 1.89, 95% CI (1.03–3.47)) predicted non-consented care, and history ANC (AOR: 8.10, 95% CI (1.33–49.51)), and federal government employee (AOR: 0.24, 95% CI (0.07–0.78)) predicted neglected care during childbirth. In-depth interview result shows the mode of delivery and sex of healthcare providers were factor associated with non-consented care and women's stay at health facilities were factor associated with neglected care. Conclusion: The level of neglected and non-consented care during delivery was high reflecting substantial mistreatment. Educational level, mode of delivery, sex of skilled healthcare providers, and the number of deliveries in a health Centre were associated with non-consented care, and history ANC and Federal Government employees were associated with neglected care during childbirth. These findings imply the urgent needs or intervention including strengthening of awareness of both patients and healthcare providers on patients' rights and responsibilities and training service providers in patient-centered care and interpersonal communication and relationships to minimize mistreatment.
Mal'tsev objects, $R_1$-spaces and ultrametric spaces
Creators: name: Weighill, Thomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Category Theory (math.CT)
subject: General Topology (math.GN)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 18A05, 18A32, 18B30, 54D10, 54E35

description: In this paper we introduce a notion of Mal'tsev object, and the dual notion of co-Mal'tsev object, in a general category. In particular, a category $\mathbb{C}$ is a Mal'tsev category if and only if every object in $\mathbb{C}$ is a Mal'tsev object. We show that for a well-powered regular category $\mathbb{C}$ which admits coproducts, the full subcategory of Mal'tsev objects is coreflective in $\mathbb{C}$. We show that the co-Mal'tsev objects in the category of topological spaces and continuous maps are precisely the $R_1$-spaces, and that the co-Mal'tsev objects in the category of metric spaces and short maps are precisely the ultrametric spaces.
description: Final version accepted to Theory and Applications of Categories
Revolutionary Climatology: Rings of Saturn, Ringed by Red Lightning
Creators: name: Stanley, Sarah K.
Publisher: name: FOOTPRINT
Year: 2016

description: Walter Benjamin’s concept of historical materialism is considered as a practice of media archaeology invented through literary montage and photo philosophy. The Arcades Project that facilitated this new research methodology involving a mobile archive. The main case involving architectural theory considers how Benjamin redeployed Sigfried Giedion and Laszlo Moholy-Nagy’s Building in France as a media environment, drawing upon its layout design, photo illustrations and textual systems. In terms of his urban writing, a reading of ‘A Berlin Chronicle’ considers how the diagram contributes to Benjamin’s archaeological methods, as a theory to generate site writing. Benjamin’s mode of media archaeology is then employed to map the arcades architecture onto the train stations and libraries in Berlin and Paris, sites that informed The Arcades Project. The final section assembles a set of citations as ‘Revolutionary Climatology’, thought-images as flashes of red lightning.
description: FOOTPRINT, Issue # 18 | Spring / Summer 2016 | Constellation of Awakening: Benjamin and Architecture
Without Pictorial Detour: Benjamin, Mies and the Architectural Image
Creators: name: Robbers, Lutz
Publisher: name: FOOTPRINT
Year: 2016

description: It can be argued that architectural knowledge was of crucial importance to Walter Benjamin for elaborating his version of an anthropological historical materialism. Between 1929 and 1931 he encounters two publications on architectural history which had a decisive impact on his ensuing works: Sigfried Giedion’s Bauen in Frankreich, Bauen in Eisen, Bauen in Eisenbeton (1928) and Carl Linfert’s Die Grundlagen der Architekturzeichnung (1931). It can be argued that both works played a role in affirming, if not developing his historical method of awakening the dreaming collective into a ‘now of recognisability,’ a method which one can argue is based on a specific image-based epistemology. Especially the architectural image, whether in the form of a printed drawing, photographic illustration, or an actual built object, appears to have been crucial for placing the history of media technologies (architecture being one of these media) in a constellation with the ‘archaic symbol-worlds of mythologies.’ If architecture is, as Benjamin claims in his initial notes for The Arcades Project, ‘the most important testimony to latent “mythology,”’ the architectural image might very well be the agent that causes the moment of awakening, the instance when a constellation between technology and ancient symbol worlds is formed. In the second part of this essay, I will attempt to elaborate such a designation for the specificity of the architectural image by analysing a number of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s drawings and collages from the 1920s as architectural images in the Benjaminian sense.
description: FOOTPRINT, Issue # 18 | Spring / Summer 2016 | Constellation of Awakening: Benjamin and Architecture
Negative Raising in Mandarin
Creators: name: Ma, Yina
Publisher: name: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Graduate School
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Linguistics
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: Negative Raising (NR) refers to a construction in which the negation of a main clause predicate is semantically ambiguous between negating that predicate and negating a predicate of a subordinate clause. Two approaches to this construction have been pursued in the literature. One approach is syntactic. From this perspective, the negative in the matrix clause may originate in the main clause, or it may originate in the embedded clause and then moves (or ‘raises’) syntactically into the matrix clause. (Fillmore, 1963; Lakoff, 1969; Seuren, 1974; Collins & Postal, 2014). The semantic/pragmatic approach, on the other hand, argues that NR results from the Excluded Middle property of main predicates (Jackendoff, 1970; Bartsch, 1973; Horn, 1982, 1989, 2014; Tovena, 2000; Gajewski, 2005, 2007; Bošković, 2008). NR has been widely studied in numerous languages including English; however, few studies have investigated NR in Mandarin Chinese. Most of these studies have favored the semantic/pragmatic approach (Shen, 1989; Bošković, 2008; Liu, 2011; Zhang & Liu, 2011; Xiang, 2013, 2014). This may be because Li (1992) claimed that there is no positive evidence for a syntactic operation of NR in Mandarin. The semantic study of Bošković (2008) argues against NR in the context of a typology of nominal phrases cross-linguistically. As a result, it is still controversial whether NR exists in Mandarin. The existing literature contains no evidence that argues for NR in Mandarin, and there is also no syntactic analysis that argues explicitly that NR must be a syntactic movement in Mandarin. This study aims to fill these two gaps. It disposes of the putative evidence provided by Bošković (2008) against NR, and offers two new empirical arguments that suggest that NR exists in Mandarin. These arguments are based on the pattern of Negative Polarity Items in the language. Building on the recent syntactic analysis of English NR in Collins & Postal (2014), it argues that Mandarin NR is subject to general syntactic constraints such as the C-Command Condition, the Complex NP Constraint, wh-islands, and clause-internal clefts. In addition, the few differences between NR in English and Mandarin are attributed to parametric differences in the Subjacency Principle of Chomsky (1973). Mandarin NR is compared with other syntactic movements and it is argued that Mandarin NR shares fundamental characteristics with overt movements.
Pre-GMBI-v2
Creators: name: Lepa, Steffen
name: Steffens, Jochen
name: Schönrock, Andreas
name: Herzog, Martin
name: Egermann, Hauke
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Berlin
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 152 Sinneswahrnehmung, Bewegung, Emotionen, Triebe
subject: 304 Das Sozialverhalten beeinflussende Faktoren
subject: audio branding
subject: General Music Branding Inventory
subject: music branding

description: The General Music Branding Inventory (GMBI) is a new psychometric instrument for assessing the music-induced association of attributes, which are frequently and reliably used in the field of music branding. The pre-GMBI version 2 consists of 36 attributes which have been used for music perception ratings during the second large scale online listening experiment in ABC_DJ. The aim of ABC_DJ project (http://abcdj.eu/) is to predict brand attributes and emotional expressions (such as ‘rebellious’, ‘reliable’, ‘sentimental’ or ‘confident’) based on a variety of lower and higher order acoustic features from musical content.
Magnitude and predictors of HIV-Drug resistance in Africa: A protocol for systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Ward, Paul
name: Gesesew, Hailay
Publisher: name: Torrens University Australia
Year: 2023
Subjects: Social determinants of health

description: Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) is continued to be a major public health problem in low-income countries and more importantly in Africa. For the last decade, access to Antiretroviral Therapy (ART) and its impact in improving quality of life and reducing HIV-related morbidity and mortality has significantly been improved in Africa. Nevertheless, the emergency of HIV drug resistance (HIVDR) has posed challenges in achieving optimal ART treatment outcomes and is alarmingly increasing globally in general and in Africa in particular. Comprehensive epidemiological data on the magnitude of HIVDR and HIVDR mutations, and predictors of HIVDR are, however, limited in Africa. Objective The main objective of this systematic review will be to estimate the pooled proportion of HIVDR and HIVDR mutations, and identify factors associated with HIVDR among people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWH) in Africa. Method Published Literature from 2000 until 30 October 2021 will be searched in PubMed/Medline Ovid, HINARI, SCOPUS, EMBASE, CINAHL, Web of Sciences, and Cochrane electronic databases. Initially, the literature will be screened based on title/abstract and followed by full-text appraisal for methodological quality using JBI critical appraisal tools. Data will be extracted from eligible articles after the full-text appraisal. Heterogeneity will be qualitatively assessed by a visual Funnel plot and quantitatively measured by an index of heterogeneity (I2 statistics). Random-effects model will be fitted to estimate the proportion of HIVDR and each HIVDR mutations. Sub-group and sensitivity analyses will be conducted to reduce heterogeneity. Meta-regression will be done by median year of sampling per study to observe the pattern of changes over time. Publication bias will be assessed by egger’s statistics. In case of publication bias, Trim and Fill analysis will be conducted to overcome small-study effect. Data analysis will be performed using Stata version 14.
Extensions of vector-valued functions with preservation of derivatives
Creators: name: Koc, Martin
name: Kolář, Jan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 26B05, 26B35, 54C20, 26B12

description: Let $X$ and $Y$ be Banach or normed linear spaces and $F\subset X$ a closed set. We apply our recent extension theorem for vector-valued Baire one functions arXiv:1512.03717 to obtain an extension theorem for vector-valued functions $f\colon F\to Y$ with pre-assigned derivatives, with preservation of differentiability (at every point where the pre-assigned derivative is actually a derivative), preservation of continuity, preservation of (pointwise) Lipschitz property and (for finite dimensional domain $X$) preservation of strict differentiability and global (eventually local) Lipschitz continuity.
description: 21 pages, 2 figures. Depends on arXiv:1512.03717
Bankside Urban Forest: Walter Benjamin and City Making
Creators: name: Witherford, Stephen Michael
Publisher: name: FOOTPRINT
Year: 2016

description: Walter Benjamin’s metaphor of his experiences of the city, specifically Paris, as a forest informs this review article in considering what conditions within the contemporary metropolis of London might reflect such an experience. Benjamin describes ‘losing oneself’ in the city as a skill that the wanderer can develop as opposed to simply getting lost. Through the direct experience of the studio, Witherford Watson Mann Architect’s proposals for the Bankside Urban Forest in south London is used as a means to explore the themes Benjamin opens up. Bankside’s ‘urban interior’ was a place we lost ourselves in the way Benjamin describes, becoming alert to a series of particular conditions that grow out of the area’s deep structure. By starting with what we encountered we developed a counter-intuitive framework for re-imagining the district’s public spaces and the life these could support. This raises the question of how we should intervene in city making within such districts. Benjamin’s metaphor challenges the conventional commercial models for developing our cities and suggests that other models need to be created.
description: FOOTPRINT, Issue # 18 | Spring / Summer 2016 | Constellation of Awakening: Benjamin and Architecture
Triangle diagram in heavy-baryon chiral perturbation theory
Creators: name: Lyu, Songlin
name: Long, Bingwei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The pion-baryon triangle diagram is inspected for a special kinematic region where the squared momentum transfer $t$ is close to $4m_π^2$: $|t - 4m_π^2| \lesssim m_π^4/m_N^2$. Instead of arguing on the ground of anomalous threshold, we investigate possible impacts on power counting. The pion can have very small energies, as opposed to $\sim m_π$ in the physical region, which allows all three propagators to be extremely near their mass shell and contributes significantly to the loop integral. We find that in this narrow kinematic window the static-limit approximation for the baryon propagator is invalid and the resummation of the kinetic energy is necessary. Interestingly, in contrast to low-energy two-baryon processes, this resummation of baryon recoils does not lead to overall enhancement of power counting of the diagram.
description: Fixed errors in power counting argument, and conclusion partially changed. Baryon recoil term is still found to be crucial, but its resummation does not enhance the diagram
title: FOOTPRINT, Issue # 19 | Autumn / Winter 2016 | Spaces of Conflict
title: Issue # 19 | Autumn / Winter 2016 | Spaces of Conflict
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: FOOTPRINT
Publisher: name: FOOTPRINT
Year: 2017

description: Footprint 19 focuses on the more recent roles of architecture in the contemporary spaces of conflict. Departing from a spatial understanding of geopolitical, climatological and economical conflicts, the various contributions highlight the large scale and phenomenal transitions in the physical world and in society by extrapolating, through examples, the abundance of relations that can be traced between conflict, territory and architecture. Conflict areas often prove to be fertile grounds for innovation and for the emergence of new spatial forms. The issue reports on the state of perpetual global unrest in architecture through a series of articles and case studies that highlight the consequences of conflicts in the places and spaces that we inhabit. In the introduction, these are discussed as an interlinked global reality rather than as isolated incidents. In doing so, the contemporary spaces of conflict are positioned in the context of emerging global trends, conditions, and discourses in the attempt to address their indicative symptoms while reflecting on their underlying causes. Issue's editors: Marc Schoonderbeek and Malkit Shoshan
description: Conflict, Space and Architecture...1-12 Urban Terrorism: St. Peter’s Square, Vatican City...149-150 Reclaiming Political Urbanism in Peace Building Processes: The Hands-on Famagusta project, Cyprus...157-162 From Refugee Camp to Resilient City: Zaatari Refugee Camp, Jordan...145-148 Urban in-betweenness: Rotterdam / Mexico City...163-168 The Interface: Peace Walls, Belfast, Northern Ireland...137-144 Indigenous Perspectives: the Post-Conflict Landscapes of Rwanda...151-156 Militarised Safety: Politics of Exclusion...95-114 Stasis, Charging the Space of Change...79-94 Envisioning a Post-Conflict Tripoli: The Inclusive Urban Strategy and Action Plan for Bab Al-Tabbaneh and Jebel Mohsen...57-78 West Bank Settlement and the Transformation of Zionist Housing Ethos from Shelter to Act of Violence...13-36 On the Spaces of Guerre Moderne: The French Army in Northern Algeria (1954–1962)...37-56 Anxious Architecture: Sleep, Identity, and Death in the US-Mexico Borderlands...115-136
Knowledge of breast cancer and breast self-examination practices and its barriers among university female students in Bangladesh: Findings from a cross-sectional study
Creators: name: Ward, Paul
name: Gesesew, Hailay
Publisher: name: Torrens University Australia
Year: 2023
Subjects: Social determinants of health

description: Early diagnosis of breast cancer is the best approach towards its control that may result in alleviating related mortality and morbidity. This study aimed to evaluate knowledge about breast cancer and both practices and perceived barriers to breast self-examination among female university students in Bangladesh. A cross-sectional study was carried out with 400 female students of Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh. Participants were sampled from female dormitories at the university from January to April 2020. Proportionate stratified random sampling was conducted to calculate the study sample from each dormitory. A validated semi-structured self-reported questionnaire was employed to collect data from participants during the survey periods. The questionnaire consisted of demographic variables, items about knowledge about breast cancer, breast self-examination practices and its barriers. We applied descriptive and inferential statistics and data were analyzed using the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS). Participants were aged between 18-26 years and comprised university students of first year (20%), second year (24%), third year (22%), fourth year (21%) and Master's (14%). 18% of them reported positive family history (mother, aunt, sister/cousin, grandmother) of breast cancer. The overall mean score of total knowledge items was 15 (SD = 3) out of 43, with an overall correct rate of 34%. The mean score of total knowledge items was significantly higher (p
The role of family characteristics in shaping educational mobility: mediators or moderators of class and race?
Creators: name: Hardie, Jessica
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2006

description: This study examines the relationship between ascribed characteristics such as socioeconomic status and race, family practices, and educational mobility. I analyze data from the National Longitudinal Study of Youth (NLSY79) to investigate the relationship between cultural and human capital, parent-child interaction styles, family togetherness, and the educational attainment of youth whose parents never attended college. Prior research suggests that family structure and certain key family practices are positively related to college attendance. I include a broader set of family practices to investigate whether they mitigate the relative influence of socioeconomic status and race on college attendance or whether they interact with socioeconomic status and race to produce differential effects. I show that family practices and socioeconomic status are related to college enrollment and selectivity of postsecondary institution. Additionally, I find that family context moderates the relative power of social and cultural capital in providing access to upward educational mobility.
Anxious Architecture: Sleep, Identity, and Death in the US-Mexico Borderlands
Creators: name: Grabowska, Sam
Publisher: name: FOOTPRINT
Year: 2017

description: The Mexico-US borderlands have been militarised by the technology, weaponry, and policies of both the American Border Patrol agency and Mexican cartels. Upon this contested ground, border-crossers interrupt their taxing journey to build small informal works of architecture. These structures – most commonly fashioned from whatever materials are at hand like thorny mesquite branches, rocks, and grasses – become a locus of crises. Like the migrants, drug mules, or guides who build it, border-crosser architecture has overlapping and competing agendas and motivations. Drawing on the analysis of architectural form, artifacts of material culture, and interviews gathered from fieldwork in the United States and Mexico, I identify three ways architecture acts ‘anxiously’ as a spatial relationship to conflict: 1) sleep (insomnia), 2) identity (anonymity), and 3) death (haunting). In these modes, an architecture born in the borderlands both embodies and emotes anxiety as an adaptive spatial tactic to respond to conflict and trauma.
description: FOOTPRINT, Issue # 19 | Autumn / Winter 2016 | Spaces of Conflict
On the Spaces of Guerre Moderne: The French Army in Northern Algeria (1954–1962)
Creators: name: Henni, Samia
Publisher: name: FOOTPRINT
Year: 2017

description: The French Colonial War of Anti-Algerian Independence (1954–1962) is widely regarded as the precursor of civil-military counterinsurgency operations, and thereby of the rhetorical Global War on Terror of today. Its theories, known as the guerre moderne, were secretly transferred to North and South America in the sixties. Since the invasion of Iraq in 2003, however, the United States and other Western powers have overtly expressed their interest in French military practices in Algeria, but seldom in the fields of architecture and territorial planning. This article examines the intrinsic relationships between the doctrines of the guerre moderne, the resultant built environments, and the socio-economic consequences of the two over the course of the French war in Algeria. It considers two major timeframes: first, the years between 1954 and 1958, which were characterised by the extraordinary fusion of civil and military authorities, and the construction of camps called centres de regroupement. Second, the period between 1958 and 1962, which brought General Charles de Gaulle back to power, divided military from civil powers, and transformed the camps into ‘rural settlements’. The two phases shared a common attitude, however, which considered the entire Algerian population as potential suspects, and that Algerians should thus be strategically and continuously overseen.
description: FOOTPRINT, Issue # 19 | Autumn / Winter 2016 | Spaces of Conflict
West Bank Settlement and the Transformation of Zionist Housing Ethos from Shelter to Act of Violence
Creators: name: Allweil, Yael
Publisher: name: FOOTPRINT
Year: 2017

description: This paper identifies a transformation in Israel's housing ethos from civilian shelter to national and neoliberal violence. Housing, once materializing the State of Israel’s raison d’etre as shelter from Jewish persecution has transformed to offense and retaliation in struggle over the West Bank, as declared by Prime Minister Netanyahu's noted 'they kill- we build' statement. Conducting close analysis of housing and settlement history since 1967 I challenge accepted historiography of the settlement movement and identify the pivotal moment of change by which the settlement project transformed its housing ethos from civilian shelter to 'civilian occupation' to Kudumim outpost in the early 1990s. This transformation parallels the neoliberalization of the housing market in Israel-proper since the 1990s, protested as neoliberal violence by the 2011 housing protest movement. This paper contributes to our understanding of spatial violence by identifying housing as the object of agonistic violence, invoking Chantalle Mouffe's concept of the object of agonism and pointing to housing as the object of contemporary negotiations over the very terms and values of the Israeli polity.
description: FOOTPRINT, Issue # 19 | Autumn / Winter 2016 | Spaces of Conflict
Nonlinear Dirac equations, Monotonicity Formulas and Liouville Theorems
Creators: name: Branding, Volker
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 53C27, 35J61

description: We study the qualitative behavior of nonlinear Dirac equations arising in quantum field theory on complete Riemannian manifolds. In particular, we derive monotonicity formulas and Liouville theorems for solutions of these equations. Finally, we extend our analysis to Dirac-harmonic maps with curvature term.
Benjamin’s Dialectical Image and the Textuality of the Built Landscape
Creators: name: Lipton, Ross
Publisher: name: FOOTPRINT
Year: 2016

description: In The Arcades Project, Walter Benjamin describes the architectural expression of nineteenth century Paris as a dialectical manifestation of backwards-looking historicism and the dawn of modern industrial production (in the form of cast iron and mass produced plate glass). Yet in the same text, Benjamin refers to the dialectical image as occurring within the medium of written language. In this paper, I will first discuss the textuality of the dialectical image as it emerges from Benjamin’s discussion of allegorical and symbolic images in his Trauerspiel study and the ‘wish symbol’ in The Arcades Project. I will then discuss the ‘textual reductionism’ implicit in Benjamin’s theory of the dialectical image, in which the dense pluralities of urban space are reduced to a finite script to be pieced together through Benjamin’s constructivist method of historical observation. The textuality of the dialectical image will be elaborated on by discussing it in relation to the practice of translation. This discussion will be further contextualised by discussing a cadre of German/Austrian planners and architects who attempted to translate architectural idioms between cultural identities in Kemalist Era Turkey. The article concludes with a short recapitulation on the dialectical image as both an object of scrutiny and a method of observation, one which also takes into consideration the specific historicity of the observer.
description: FOOTPRINT, Issue # 18 | Spring / Summer 2016 | Constellation of Awakening: Benjamin and Architecture
The Architecture of a Lifetime: Structures of Remembrance and Invention in Walter Benjamin and Aldo Rossi
Creators: name: Paeleman, Jolien
Publisher: name: FOOTPRINT
Year: 2016

description: This article presents the result of research on the influence of Walter Benjamin’s thinking in the work of Italian architect Aldo Rossi (1931–1997). In present-day architectural criticism, Aldo Rossi’s oeuvre still constitutes a rich subject for discussion because of its resistance to easy pinpointing, even if Rossi himself explained his theories and methods of design on numerous occasions. In his writings, among these A Scientific Autobiography, Rossi quotes from a collection of Benjamin’s memoirs: Berlin Childhood around 1900. The architect believes that these short prose pieces express better than anything else what he himself had not been able to explain in his writing. In this paper I intend to show the poignancy of the words Rossi referred to and the implications they had on his architecture by offering close comparisons of Benjamin’s and Rossi’s autobiographical writings. In addition, this study examines how one of Rossi’s most famous architectural artefacts, the ossuary of San Cataldo cemetery at Modena, can be viewed as a coalescence of a Benjaminian thought-image, thereby fortifying the philosopher’s presence in modern architecture.
description: FOOTPRINT, Issue # 18 | Spring / Summer 2016 | Constellation of Awakening: Benjamin and Architecture
Complete Lorentz transformation of a charge-current density
Creators: name: Franklin, Jerrold
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: General Physics (physics.gen-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is generally assumed in the literature that a Lorentz transformation on a neutral current loop results in a moving current loop with a nonvanishing charge distribution and an electric dipole moment. We show in this paper that this is not, in fact, correct. The derivation that leads to the charge distribution was based on an incomplete Lorentz transformation, which transforms the charge-current four-vector $j^μ=[ρ({\bf r},t),{\bf j(r},t)]$, but not the space-time four-vector $x^μ=(t,{\bf r})$. We show that completing the Lorentz transformation by using the variable $t'$ in the moving frame, rather than keeping the rest frame time variable $t$, results in there being no induced charge density and no resulting electric dipole moment.
description: This version has added some new discussion, and included a new reference. This version has been published in International Journal of Modern Physics A Vol. 35,2050061 (2020)
The Memory Works: Between Monuments and Ruins, The Case of Contemporary Budapest
Creators: name: Rieiro Díaz, Rodrigo
Publisher: name: FOOTPRINT
Year: 2016

description: This review article argues that Benjamin’s project to construct a political explanation of the surrounding cultural world in developed capitalist societies, raised to a source of knowledge about the historical truth, finds an unmatched case of study in the contemporary ruinous urban nature of Budapest. Departing from the park of statues Memento Park, some urban features of the city are examined in the light of Benjamin’s semantics of the fragment to try to answer whether these thoughts apply to the discarded material world of our time. Could the already-there in Budapest provide a motivational basis for a reconstruction of the surrounding material world from the fragments of the past? The local phenomenon of romkocsma is addressed to wonder whether re-use of ruins could house this emancipatory potential or serve the interests of the hegemonic groups and the contemporary dominant discourse.
description: FOOTPRINT, Issue # 18 | Spring / Summer 2016 | Constellation of Awakening: Benjamin and Architecture
Rural Zoning and Your County
Creators: name: Bureau Of Agricultural Economics
name: Bureau Of Agricultural Economics
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1939
Subjects: Community/Rural/Urban Development
Land Economics/Use
Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: Excerpt from the report: All through the country farmers are discussing how to manage their acres to better advantage, how to conserve their resources of soil, water, grass, and timber, and how to adjust their use of the land to the limitations and opportunities that Nature provides. While the people of rural communities follow with interest the Federal programs for better land use, they are also working out local programs of their own. For example, they are giving increased attention to a new technique for preventing the waste of land — rural zoning. They have watched it spread from its first proving ground in Wisconsin, and naturally want to know more about this method of guiding land use into constructive channels. What does it aim to accomplish? How practical has it turned out to be? This publication is designed to present the A B C of rural zoning in nontechnical terms as an aid to the further discussion and understanding of this important land use measure.
Paris and Berlin: On City Streets and Loggias
Creators: name: Symons, Stéphane
Publisher: name: FOOTPRINT
Year: 2016

description: This review article probes a conceptual duality that can be recognized as central to two of Benjamin’s essays on cities: his essay ‘Paris, the Capital of the Nineteenth Century (Exposé of 1935),’ and his autobiographical text Berlin Childhood around 1900. On the one hand, Benjamin renders numerous analyses and descriptions of buildings and experiences that present themselves as absolute and internally unified, giving the impression of being autonomous and immutable. On the other hand, Benjamin interrogates objects and perceptions that present themselves as transient and in flux and are therefore experienced as contingent and incomplete. These latter objects and perceptions derive their significance from something that is inevitably external.
description: FOOTPRINT, Issue # 18 | Spring / Summer 2016 | Constellation of Awakening: Benjamin and Architecture
New claims in human rights: the political situation of gays and lesbians in the European Union
Creators: name: Ramírez, Camilo Mauricio
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2007

description: International human rights norms are, in general, silent on issues of sexuality. Domestic laws are essential in overcoming limitations in international human rights law as it has traditionally applied to gay and lesbian communities. In recent years, the European Union has made progressive steps in protecting the rights of gay and lesbian citizens. Superficially, Europe appears far more advanced than the United States in legislating equality for sexual minorities. However, a philosophical problem remains unresolved at the supranational level of EU politics: What exactly constitutes discrimination based on sexual orientation? Three countries, the Netherlands, Belgium and Spain offer full protection and benefits under the law. For most of western Europe, life is tolerable for gay and lesbian citizens, offering civil unions and partner benefits. However, hostile conditions remain in some European countries, such as Poland, making life very difficult for gay and lesbian communities.
Benjamin and Koolhaas: History's Afterlife
Creators: name: Hsu, Frances
Publisher: name: FOOTPRINT
Year: 2016

description: Dialectical images are at the core of the methods suggested by two books written four decades apart yet published around the same time. The Arcades Project (first published as Das Passagen-Werk in 1981) and Delirious New York (1978) use images to critique established modes of historical interpretation. Each proposes a methodology of historical speculation based on the interpretation of fragmentary visual phenomena. Both construct alternative historical narratives about the impact of technology, mass culture and economy on the city. This essay contrasts and compares the similarities and differences between the respective authors’ treatments of the nineteenth century arcade and the Manhattan skyscraper to examine how the strategies and definitions suggested by Benjamin and Koolhaas address the function of images as tools for critical architectural analysis and knowledge.
description: FOOTPRINT, Issue # 18 | Spring / Summer 2016 | Constellation of Awakening: Benjamin and Architecture
Publications on Planning for Soil, Water, and Wildlife Conservation, Flood Control, and Land Utilization: A Partially Annotated List
Creators: name: Rogers, Etta G.
name: McIlvain, Zelma E.
name: Rogers, Etta G.
name: McIlvain, Zelma E.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1939
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries
Land Economics/Use
Livestock Production/Industries
Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession

description: Excerpts from the Foreword: This list was originally prepared by the Publications Unit of the Section of Information in September 1937 for use by the staff of the Soil Conservation Service. It has been revised and supplemented to include later reports and information pertinent to the land utilization, farm forestry, water facilities and other programs established in or transferred to the Soil Conservation Service since that date. The regions of the Soil Conservation Service have been used for the geographic arrangement. While the list does not purport to be all-inclusive, every effort has been made to include all publications pertinent to the Soil Conservation Service programs. Only reports and publications issued in either printed or processed form, have been listed.
Architecture in Everyday Life
Creators: name: Agarez, Ricardo
name: Mota, Nelson
Publisher: name: FOOTPRINT
Year: 2015

description: For most architects, architecture is not only art, craft, passion and engagement; it is their ‘bread-and-butter’, too, and has been so since long. Architecture, consciously or unconsciously, is also the ‘bread-and-butter’ of communities across the world: successfully or unsuccessfully it is part of the daily lives of ordinary women and men. Yet practitioners, theoreticians and historians of architecture often disregard the more quotidian side of the discipline, a neglect that is inversely proportional to its importance in the production of the built environment. John Summerson’s writings – particularly his wartime ‘Bread & Butter and Architecture’ essay, a call to arms for effective salaried architects – are the motto and the guiding thread for our exploration of the position of everyday practices in twentieth-century architecture. In this introduction we look at the ‘bread-and-butter’ side of the architecture profession and at how it has modulated throughout time, highlighting the ways in which the exceptional set of articles that make up this issue of Footprint substantially extend the scope and reach of our ‘bread-and-butter’ activities.
description: FOOTPRINT, Issue # 17 | Autumn / Winter 2015 | The ‘Bread & Butter’ of Architecture
Headgear does not improve neurocogntivie function and balance performance following acute bouts of soccer heading
Creators: name: Askey, Lauren M.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2010

description: Our purpose was to investigate the effects of the Full90TM protective headband on the Sport Concussion Assessment Tool2 (SCAT2), Balance Error Scoring System (BESS), Simple Reaction Time (SRT), and Sensory Organization Test (SOT) scores following two bouts of heading using active, healthy college-aged soccer players. The study utilized a repeated measures design involving baseline testing followed by two subsequent sessions, including a heading intervention, performed with and without the Full90TM headgear. Totally within repeated measure ANCOVAs were computed with neck musculature strength and headgear satisfaction serving as covariates. Detriments were not observed in the SCAT2, BESS, SRT, or composite SOT scores following heading sessions. Wearing soccer headgear during the heading activity did not influence any of the scores. Results suggest that acute bouts of heading do not lead to impairments on clinical concussion measures and wearing headgear provides no further protection in this regard.
Benchmarking QM theory for drug-like molecules to train force fields
Creators: name: Behara, Pavan Kumar
name: Jang, Hyesu
name: Horton, Joshua
name: Dotson, David
name: Boothroyd, Simon
name: Cavender, Chapin
name: Gapsys, Vytautas
name: Gokey, Trevor
name: Hahn, David
name: Maat, Jessica
name: Madin, Owen
name: Pulido, Ivan
name: Thompson, Matthew
name: Wagner, Jeffrey
name: Wang, Lily
name: Chodera, John
name: Cole, Daniel
name: Gilson, Michael
name: Shirts, Michael
name: Bayly, Christopher
name: Wang, Lee-Ping
name: Mobley, David
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: Poster presented at CUP XXI, March 08, 2022 - March 10, 2022, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA.

 Abstract: A wide range of density functional methods and a large number of basis sets are available to derive the electronic structure and properties of molecules. Estimating the accuracy of theory level for desired properties, and choosing a method with a low computational cost, need a comprehensive evaluation of the methods on a test set of representative molecules. This study shows benchmark on torsiondrives of small molecules with respect to CCSD(T)/CBS//MP2/heavy-aug-cc-pvtz level of reference.
The dynamic trans-Atlantic partnership at the beginning of the Obama administration
Creators: name: Lubenkov, Ashley Anne
Publisher: name: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Year: 2010

description: This paper analyzes Robert Kagan's theory that discord is a continual part of the trans-Atlantic relationship given that the United States, as the dominant power, is willing to exert force in the world and that Europeans, with smaller militaries and a concentrated focus on peace, will be reluctant to exert influence. The aftermath of the George W. Bush administration and the beginning of the Obama Presidency provide an opportunity to assess the trans-Atlantic relationship at the conclusion of a decade filled with many points of discord. To test Kagan's hypothesis, this paper will analyze the American, U.K., and French media of varying ideologies, covering the first European trip of President Obama to Europe. These sources are analyzed for signs of convergence or divergence on US-European relations. While national differences are not negligible, it would appear that partisan ideologyhas the greatest impact on perceptions of the trans-Atlantic relationship
Wildlife and Land Use Patterns
Creators: name: Holt, Ernest G.
name: Van Dersal, William R.
name: Holt, Ernest G.
name: Van Dersal, William R.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1942
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries
Land Economics/Use
Livestock Production/Industries
Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: Excerpts from the report Conclusion: The three centuries that have passed while the American frontier moved westward have brought us finally to the necessity of a profound readjustment in our earlier national thinking. During those three hundred years it seemed as though the resources of this vast country were limitless, that expansion of the frontier would always serve to furnish us with new and virgin land. Today we no longer live in a territorially or agriculturally expanding nation. We now realize that our future security depends upon our ability to conserve, to use wisely, that which we may not already have squandered. The numerous complex problems involved in the conservation of our land resources can never be solved independently. The old piecemeal solutions, tried so often, have signally failed. These are problems so closely related and interdependent that a final solution of one is impossible without a thorough understanding of all. To many, the problems of wildlife conservation have seemed to require particular solution separate and apart from other conservation problems. But wildlife conservation is coming to be understood as only one aspect of the larger question of land use, depending for its successful accomplishment upon the proper use of other land resources. Where agriculture is out of balance, planning for wildlife will not be fruitful. But where measures for the conservation of wildlife are properly integrated with successful land management, wildlife will thrive.