cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Denaturing Nature
Creators: name: Peppard, Christiana Z.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Religion
subject: Spirituality
subject: Philosophy
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: Theology

description: Nature is a ubiquitous and powerful word that has been significant for understanding and endorsing forms of being and relationship throughout Western history. However, nature’s meanings—especially the social-relational significations that it carries—have varied over time, according to a range of contexts and "controlling images." Nature is decidedly historical. Its myriad interpreted forms have increasingly become a topic of analysis. Since nature is neither self-evident nor monolithic, recently scholars in the humanities and sciences have labored to describe what nature is, and how its significance does—or should—manifest in the proceedings of human affairs. The result is a matrix of versatile, wiggly interpretations. The meanings of nature and their consequences are informed by variations historical, methodological, and conceptual. A contemporary molecular biologist’s conception of nature, for example, will not necessarily align with—and may even contradict—the notion of nature as explicated in the thirteenth century by Thomas Aquinas. Such embedded diversity suggests that we must continually discern not only what historical circumstances and conceptual frameworks have shaped our understanding, but also how the concept of nature continues to be deployed in the present day—and with what consequences for our thinking, acting, and social existence.
Head directionality in Old Slavic
Creators: name: Migdalski, Krzysztof
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: directionality parameter
clitics
participle movement
Old Chuch Slavonic
Old Bulgarian

description: This paper investigates the issue of head directionality in Old Slavic. This issue has

played an important role in diachronic studies on Germanic, in which a switch

in head directionality was assumed to have triggered word order changes in the

history of these languages. Within Slavic, Old Bulgarian and Old Church Slavonic

have been claimed to partly feature head-final grammars by Pancheva (2005; 2008)

and Dimitrova-Vulchanova & Vulchanov (2008), in contrast to contemporary Slavic

languages, which are head-initial. This paper shows that there is little evidence for

head-finality in Old Slavic.
Hadron spectra, flow and correlations in PbPb collisions at the LHC: interplay between soft and hard physics
Creators: name: Lokhtin, I. P.
name: Belyaev, A. V.
name: Malinina, L. V.
name: Petrushanko, S. V.
name: Rogochaya, E. P.
name: Snigirev, A. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The started LHC heavy ion program makes it possible to probe new frontiers of the high temperature Quantum Chromodynamics. It is expected that the role of hard and semi-hard particle production processes may be significant at ultra-high energies even for bulk properties of the created matter. In this paper, the LHC data on multiplicity, hadron spectra, elliptic flow and femtoscopic correlations from PbPb collisions at center-of-mass energy 2.76 TeV per nucleon pair are analyzed in the framework of the HYDJET++ model. The influence of the jet production mechanism on these observables is discussed.
description: 10 pages including 7 figures as EPS-files; prepared using LaTeX package for publication in the European Physical Journal C
Analyzing Twitter Data for Emergency Management
Creators: name: Marbouti, Mahshid
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Situational Awareness
subject: Social Media
subject: Machine Learning
subject: User Study
subject: Software Design
subject: Social Media Monitoring Tools
subject: Human Computer Interaction
subject: Information Science
subject: Computer Science
subject: Engineering

description: Social media is an important part of our lives. It is hard to ignore the role of social media in our everyday lives and during disastrous events. During emergencies, emergency personnel need to make strategic decisions in a short amount of time, coordinate actions and prioritize tasks. Social media can be a powerful source of information that comes directly from the public; it can reflect public sentiment, needs, and questions. In this research, I performed an interview study to find the use cases and challenges that emergency-related organizations encounter when dealing with social media. The findings reveal the needs of practitioners for designing social media monitoring tools to help them find the information they need. One of the main challenges for practitioners is that commercial tools are not designed for emergency response, and academic approaches do not consider their requirements. This dissertation brings insight into the design of expert-informed machine learning solutions for identifying relevant information from social media by following a human-centered design approach. By actively being involved with emergency practitioners throughout three years, I designed, developed, and evaluated a social media monitoring tool for emergency response. The evaluation results show the effectiveness of bringing analysts into the classification loop to train and get feedback to machine learning classifiers. It also shows that analysts would like to combine the training tasks with their response tasks. Another aspect of this research is exploring the significance of various categories of features and machine learning algorithms and automatically identifying situational awareness information in different emergency event datasets. Results show that significant features vary across different events which indicates that training should happen during the event.
Market-Based Approaches for Environmental Governance: Exploring the Implementation Gap in Alberta
Creators: name: Kerr, Gillian Loring
Publisher: name: Environmental Design
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Education--Social Sciences
subject: Economics
subject: Political Science
subject: FOS: Political science
subject: Environmental Sciences
subject: Engineering--Environmental

description: This research addresses how governments consider and implement policy in Canada. Specifically, it assesses what factors influence policy success by exploring the market-based instrument (MBI) implementation gap in environmental management in Alberta. Due to the increased complexity of environmental issues and increased expectations that non-state actors will have a role in environmental management, the Government of Alberta made many commitments to use MBIs. However, of the 57 MBI commitments made by the Alberta Ministry of Environment (MoE) during the study period, 2000 to 2015, only 13 were implemented and only 7 are uniquely new. Results reveal that the values, beliefs, and behaviours of policy actors, both internal in the MoE and external stakeholders, influence their social acceptance and the institutional fit of MBIs. However, these factors are not reflected in policy design and implementation processes. Observations and interviews with local knowledge experts revealed issues of accountability and legitimacy contribute to the MBI gap. Further, a Q methodology study revealed prevalent social discourses on water management issues and suggested directions for local solutions. Five distinct discourses were identified around water management issues and four distinct discourses on the use of MBIs as solutions. A number of MBI researchers and designers have made assumptions about how people behave based on traditional economics. This study shows that many such design criteria and objectives do not represent how policies are implemented in real-life scenarios, building on economic principles and taking an interdisciplinary approach to understand how and why policy actors behave the way they do. This research suggests a broadening of policy processes to include social acceptability and informal institutional measures to capture important factors that can influence environmental policy success.
Quantum folded string in S^5 and the Konishi multiplet at strong coupling
Creators: name: Beccaria, Matteo
name: Macorini, Guido
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Konishi superconformal multiplet is an important theoretical laboratory where one can test AdS/CFT methods to compute strong coupling corrections to the spectrum of superstrings in AdS_5 x S^5. In particular, one can exploit integrability for finite charge states/operators. The multiplet ground state is a singlet operator with two simple descendants in the rank-1 sectors sl(2) and su(2) of N=4 super Yang-Mills theory. Recently, the next-to-leading quantum correction to the sl(2) state has been computed. Here, we use the algebraic curve approach to determine the correction to the other state recovering universality of the correction inside the multiplet.
description: 17 pages, 5 eps figures
Breaking the Chains of Chattel Teamwork: The Future of Black Liberation Theology
Creators: name: Barbour, Amy
name: Wickware, Marvin E.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Religion
subject: Spirituality
subject: Philosophy
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: Theology

description: "No one built this country on their own. This Nation is great because we built it together. This Nation is great because we worked as a team. This Nation is great because we get each other’s backs. And if we hold fast to that truth, in this moment of trial, there is no challenge too great; no mission too hard." —President Barack Obama, 2012 State of the Union Address President Barack Obama closed his address with "God bless America," thereby giving divine sanction to the myth of U.S. American exceptionalism, that the people of the United States compose "the one indispensable nation in world affairs." Before you write off this explicit mention of God’s blessing as stock presidential rhetoric, note that Obama offers this affirmation in the context of his citation of the prevalent "cynical" mood among the U.S. American public. He attributes this cynicism to lagging faith in U.S. American economic and political institutions. Obama characterizes the people of the United States as struggling to find meaning in a country that is disappointing their hopes and falling short of their values. These issues of faith and meaning warrant theological reflection. The President seems unable to grasp the religious question hiding behind these issues. President Obama’s characterization of U.S. American history as an extended exercise in teamwork required a blatant whitewashing of history. To offer solace to the wayward people of the United States, Obama recast more than three hundred years of chattel slavery, Reconstruction, and Jim Crow segregation into the mold of chattel teamwork.
Spectral cutoffs in indirect dark matter searches
Creators: name: Weniger, Christoph
name: Bringmann, Torsten
name: Calore, Francesca
name: Vertongen, Gilles
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Indirect searches for dark matter annihilation or decay products in the cosmic-ray spectrum are plagued by the question of how to disentangle a dark matter signal from the omnipresent astrophysical background. One of the practically background-free smoking-gun signatures for dark matter would be the observation of a sharp cutoff or a pronounced bump in the gamma-ray energy spectrum. Such features are generically produced in many dark matter models by internal Bremsstrahlung, and they can be treated in a similar manner as the traditionally looked-for gamma-ray lines. Here, we discuss prospects for seeing such features with present and future Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures, 1 table; conference proceedings for TAUP 2011, Munich 5-9 Sep
Perception of Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian sibilants: Heritage U.S. vs. homeland speakers. A pilot study
Creators: name: Mihajlović, Kristina
name: Małgorzata Ćavar
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: heritage language
phonology
language change
merger
affricates
Bosnian/Serbian/Croatian

description: Many dialectal varieties of Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian (BCS) show some level of merger of standard BCS alveolo-palatal and hard post-alveolar affricate series. This paper reports the results of a pilot study of the perception of BCS sibilants by heritage speakers in the United States. Twenty speakers were given a forced identification task. Results indicate that second generation heritage speakers are worse in performance than first generation heritage speakers. Additionally, heritage Croatian and Bosnian speakers across generations perform worse than heritage Serbian speakers.
Finite element analysis and cost/risk assessment of the flex cover system
Creators: name: Fridriksson, Johann
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: The flex cover system has two main components, the flex cover which is a flexible cover for coal transportation railcars, and a handling machine. The flex cover system is currently being developed by Empire Dynamic Structures. The research presented in this thesis revolves around the flex cover itself and not the cover handling machine although the entire concept is introduced in some detail. The flex cover is described in detail and extensive analysis was performed to determine the behaviour of the cover under static and dynamic loading. Additionally a cost/risk analysis was performed to break down and analyse the cover by components and determine the economical impacts involved with fabrication of the cover. The finite element analysis was performed by conventional methods using the software ANSYS. The cost/risk analysis was done by creating a decision tree and using expected monetary value in the software DecisionPro. The finite element analyses showed that the original design of the cover holds up in the conditions imposed on it when it is undamaged but some types of damage can quickly impair on the performance. Due to a lack of solid data the cost/risk analysis did not yield useful results as most of the input values had to be made up. The model was still constructed and is ready for future use when better data has been acquired.
New Approaches for Secure Distance- Bounding
Creators: name: Ahmadi Fatlaki, Ahmad
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Information Security
subject: Authentication
subject: Distance-Bounding
subject: Public-Key Authentication
subject: Anonymous Authentication
subject: Timeliness
subject: Synchronicity
subject: Identification
subject: Computer Science

description: In this thesis we design and implement three aspects of secure distance-bounding (DB) schemes as a type of authentication scheme that considers distance as an extra verification parameter. By adding this new parameter to authentication schemes, we can prevent certain attacks that are related to distance, such as relay attack. In fact, the attacking scenarios can be much more complex than the simple relay attack, in addition to the classic authentication scheme attacks. In this thesis we consider the most advanced distance-bounding attack scenarios in a variety of authentication models. We consider three authentication models in order to add the distance as an extra authentication factor: public-key and anonymous DB are the main fields of this thesis that consider strong adversary with access to directional antenna, and we consider One-Shot DB as a one-message authentication scheme. Each of these fields make a chapter of this thesis. Public-Key Distance-Bounding. In a public-key DB scheme, a prover who owns a key pair and is located within a distance bound to a verifier, who has access to the public-key of the prover, tries to convince the verifier that it is authentic and located within the distance bound. We provide a formal model and two protocols with security proofs. Anonymous Distance-Bounding. In an anonymous DB scheme, a prover who owns a registration certificate and is located within a distance bound to a verifier, who only has access to the public parameters of the system, tries to convince the verifier that it is authentic and located within the distance bound without revealing its identity. We provide a formal model and two secure protocols. One-Shot Distance-Bounding. In an one-shot DB scheme, a prover who owns a secret key and is located within a distance bound to a verifier, who has access to the corresponding key of the prover, tries to convince the verifier that it is authentic and located within the distance bound without receiving any message from the verifier. We provide a formal model and a secure protocol.
Seasonal and Temporal Variations of Chloride Level in Riverine Environment
Creators: name: Situ, Qianru
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Engineering--Civil
subject: Engineering--Environmental

description: Chloride is one of essential elements for the health of all organisms, humans included; however at the elevated level, chloride has detrimental impacts on ecosystem. Chloride originates from both natural sources and anthropogenic sources (e.g., municipal treated wastewater and emission from industries), which suggests that chloride level in natural water bodies (e.g., rivers) is affected by both natural factors (e.g., hydro-meteorological variables) and anthropogenic activities. Among various anthropogenic activities, the application of road salts, which is a common practice to improve the driving condition of roads in winters across Canada, has been shown to attribute to the elevation of chloride level. The impact of the use of road salts on riverine chloride level can be seasonal (during snow-melt season) and over a prolonged period. Furthermore, river flow primarily drives the seasonal variation of riverine chloride. Therefore this thesis aimed to investigate the intra-annual/seasonal variation and the inter-annual/temporal change of chloride in rivers/streams and to assess the impact of the application of roads salts on chloride across Canada through statistically analyzing available data including chloride concentration, the use of road salts, and flow datasets. The seasonal variation of chloride was detected and chloride was negatively correlated with river flow in general. However, the seasonal variation pattern of chloride and its dependency on flow appeared to be different between large and small rivers in a certain degree. The temporal change (especially increasing trend) in chloride was found at many stations. It was identified that either flow, anthropogenic activities, or their combination is ascribed to cause the temporal change of chloride. The increasing riverine chloride concentration at many stations was qualitatively linked to the increase of the application of road salts, while more elaborated research is recommended for quantitative investigation. In addition, the Code of Practice for the Environmental Management of Road Salts, which was published in 2004 by Environment and Climate Change Canada (former name, Environment Canada) to better manage the use of road salts in order to mitigate its impact on chloride, appeared to help in reducing the increasing trend of chloride level.
Can Theatre be a Project of Liberation Theology?: Explorations in the Case of a Collaboration in Tanzania
Creators: name: Gillespie, Charles A.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Religion
subject: Spirituality
subject: Philosophy
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: Theology

description: In the summer of 2011, a contingent of graduate students and faculty sourced from Yale University’s Divinity School, School of Drama, and Institute of Sacred Music partnered with the Parapanda Theatre Arts Lab in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Building on the work of Augusto Boal, Parapanda has pioneered using participatory theatre as a means for social change. Their process creates provocative, non-traditional drama that attempts to give voice to instances of social injustice. Yale students joined Parapanda artists for an unprecedented international exchange exploring this unique possibility of theatre-making. An essential component of the Yale/Parapanda experiment tried to bring theatre for social change into conversation with liberation theology. Traditional coursework in Christian and Islamic liberation theologies intermingled with rehearsals and performances, but neither the final performances nor inter-company conversation extensively engaged religious questions. The failure to launch productive religious discourse as a part of the Yale/Parapanda experiment seems to name any theoretical connection "merely cosmetic."
title: Cook Inlet Drilling - Furie
titleType: AlternativeTitle
title: Endangered Species Act (ESA) Section 7(a)(2) Biological Opinion Furie Cook Inlet Towing and Drilling
Creators: name: United States. National Marine Fisheries Service. Alaska Regional Office
Publisher: name: United States. National Marine Fisheries Service. Alaska Regional Office
Year: 2024

description: AKRO-2023-03569
A note on the Jacobian Conjecture
Creators: name: Yan, Dan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this note, we show that, if the Druzkowski mappings $F(X)=X+(AX)^{*3}$, i.e. $F(X)=(x_1+(a_{11}x_1+...+a_{1n}x_n)^3,...,x_n+(a_{n1}x_1+...+a_{nn}x_n)^3)$, satisfies $TrJ((AX)^{*3})=0$, then $rank(A)\leq 1/2(n+δ)$ where $δ$ is the number of diagonal elements of A which are equal to zero. Furthermore, we show the Jacobian Conjecture is true for the Druzkowski mappings in dimension $\leq 9$ in the case $\prod_{i=1}^{n}a_{ii}\neq0$.
description: 5 pages
All for One or One for All? Liberation Theology and the Quest for Self- Determination in Latin America, Israel, Palestine, and the United States
Creators: name: Hesselmans, Marthe
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Religion
subject: Spirituality
subject: Philosophy
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: Theology

description: At the onset of the apartheid regime halfway into the twentieth century, many Afrikaners believed they engaged in a righteous God ordained struggle of liberation. After decades of British suppression they would now be free to fulfill their Christian mission and preside over South Africa. Later that century anti-apartheid activists would similarly invoke the Scriptures, this time to urge the liberation of blacks from Afrikaner oppression. In both cases people claimed the right to self-determination partly on the basis of their faith. In the first case theological notions of liberation and election helped bolster a profoundly exclusivist ideology and systematic racism. Within the anti-apartheid movement theologians, on the contrary, sought to develop an inclusive theology that advocated freedom for all of humanity.
Doing Design Thinking: An Ethnography of the Digital Graphic Design Studio
Creators: name: Dorland, AnneMarie Rose Ennis
Publisher: name: Arts
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Design
subject: Ethnography
subject: Practice theory
subject: Cultural Production
subject: Design thinking
subject: Design and Decorative Arts
subject: Sociology--Organizational
subject: Sociology--Theory and Methods

description: How do designers do design thinking? The design studio is often held as an epicentre of a new way of thinking about complex problems: design thinking. As such, the studio itself it is frequently appropriated as a model for generating creativity and innovation quickly and reliably. In this research, I describe how the discourse of design thinking is re-shaping the practice of design work from which it takes its name. By examining the effects of the design thinking discourse on the work of a design team, I provide a rich view into the day-to-day workings of communication designers engaged in negotiating the discourse of design thinking in their practice. Drawing on ethnographic observations of client pitches, team brainstorms and daily work in the studio itself, I argue the discourse around design thinking is made visible in the ways that designers engage with clients, with their teams, and in their individual practice. At the studio level, I investigate the ways in which auditing practices and client facing work are shaped by this evolving discourse, and how the discourse of design thinking is mobilized as both a translation device and catalyst for change. At the team level, I demonstrate the challenges introduced by this discourse to teams attempting to reconcile the performative aspects of their work with the mundane but essential labour of cultural production, and how they develop new understandings of what it means to be a designer who makes thoughts, not things. And at the practice level, I examine the surprising role of ambiguity within the daily work of individual members of this community of practice. By examining the development of graphic communications, and the effect of a discourse on a unique social practice of cultural production, I paint a picture of the interplay of routine and adaptation in the work of producing communication design. I conclude by proposing a model of a holistic design mindset: one that incorporates designed thinking, design doing, and design culture with the attitudes, aptitudes and approaches of this occupational culture.
A novel acylated quercetin glycoside and compounds of inhibitory effects on α-glucosidase from Panax ginseng flower buds
Creators: name: Li, Keke
name: Li, Shasha
name: Xu, Fei
name: Cao, Guiyun
name: Gong, Xiaojie
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Virology

description: A novel acylated quercetin glycoside, floralpanasenoside A (1) and five known flavonoid glycosides, panasenoside (2), quercetin 3-O-(2''-β-D-glucopyranosyl)-β-D- galactopyranoside (3), trifolin (4) kaempferol 7-O-α-L-rhamnoside (5), and afzelin (6) were isolated from the flower buds of Panax ginseng. Their structures were established by spectroscopic data and comparison with the literature values. Four of the six isolated compounds including 1 (IC50 = 62.4) exhibited α-glucosidase inhibitory activity with IC50 values lower than acarbose (385.2 μM). The molecular docking study indicated that 1 bound to the active site of α-glucosidase with numerous hydrogen bond interactions.
Sensitivity of entangled photon holes to loss and amplification
Creators: name: Franson, J. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Energy-time entangled photon holes are shown to be relatively insensitive to photon loss due to absorption by atoms whose coherence times are longer than the time delays typically employed in nonlocal interferometry (a fraction of a nanosecond). Roughly speaking, the excited atoms do not retain any significant "which-path" information regarding the time at which a photon was absorbed. High-intensity entangled photon holes can also be amplified under similar conditions. Decoherence does occur from losses at beam splitters, and these results show that photon loss cannot always be adequately modeled using a sequence of beam splitters. These properties of entangled photon holes may be useful in quantum communications systems where the range of the system is limited by photon loss.
description: 10 pages, 6 figures
Renormalization Group Evolution of the Non-Unitary operator
Creators: name: Khan, Subrata
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Integrating out a heavy field gives rise to effective Lagrangian containing higher dimensional operators. In the context of Type-I seesaw mechanism, integrating out the heavy right handed neutrino field leads to unique dimension five operator which gives the tree level neutrino mass term. Apart from these there are dimension six operators that can have important implications. A linear combination of two such operators gives rise to the non-unitarity in the lepton mixing matrix, $U_{\text{PMNS}}$. In this paper, we discuss the origin of non-unitarity at the high scale and its evolution through renormalization group running.
description: 14 pages, Typos corrected
Apophasis and the Trinity: On the Enduring Significance of Revelation for Theology
Creators: name: Morgan, Gabriel
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Religion
subject: Spirituality
subject: Philosophy
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: Theology

description: Plato understood that describing God is impossible. However, according to Gregory of Nazianzus, to know God is even less possible. Gregory radicalizes apophaticism in this way as a critique of Eunomius and his claim to know the divine nature by definition as that which is without origin. However, one can take apophaticism in at least two very different directions. One direction might argue that because God is unknowable and ineffable, therefore, in the words of Sallie McFague, "all language about God is human construction and as such perforce ‘misses the mark'." Accordingly, one might argue that very few or even no religious or theological claims are any more inherently valid than another, and that such claims are to be evaluated by strictly moral or pragmatic considerations; theology should likewise progress from dogmatics to the methods of the general study of religion. However, another way of taking such radical apophaticism is precisely to recognize the enduring significance of revelation for theology. Rather than the final word, God’s ineffability and transcendence presupposes God’s condescension and revelation in the Trinitarian economy.
Approaching Calvin Today in “The Spirit of the Explorer”
Creators: name: Morse, Christopher
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Religion
subject: Spirituality
subject: Philosophy
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: Theology

description: A century ago at Union Seminary where I teach in Manhattan a public celebration was held in honor of the four hundredth anniversary of John Calvin’s birth. The speaker on that occasion in 1909, a distinguished theologian of the day, began his address by apologizing for the difficulty of saying anything original or new about Calvin. "There are," he remarked, "certain great thinkers whose systems it is possible to approach in the spirit of the explorer, conscious as one turns each page of the chance of some new discovery; but with Calvin it is not so." I am happy to have this opportunity to be with you today because I have found this judgment not to be true. For some years it has been my privilege to offer a seminar on Calvin’s theology for graduate students. Most, but not all, are Presbyterians or members of the Reformed Church in America, and they enroll in the course not because they especially want to, but because they are trying to meet ordination requirements. They often begin the course with a sense of apprehension, sometimes even dread, because of the negative associations that have come to surround the mention of Calvin.
Trajectories of Kidney Function in Children with Reduced Kidney Function
Creators: name: Kahlon, Bhavneet Kaur
Publisher: name: Cumming School of Medicine
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Health Sciences

description: Little is known about the progression of chronic kidney disease (CKD) during the emerging adulthood period in patients with pediatric onset CKD cared for in primary care. We performed a retrospective cohort study using administrative data from The Health Improvement Network Database to determine the natural history of CKD, the impact of the emerging adulthood period, and the effects of comorbidities including mental health disorders, substance use, and pregnancy on CKD progression. We identified 15,679 patients who met cohort inclusion criteria. We found that kidney function measured using the estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) increased with increasing age. Emerging adulthood was associated with an attenuation in this increase in eGFR. Finally, the presence of mental health disorders, substance use, and pregnancy modified the relationship between age and eGFR resulting in a small, but statistically significant acceleration in the eGFR increase over age, but were associated with lower baseline eGFR.
General-factual perfectives: On an asymmetry in aspect choice between western and eastern Slavic languages
Creators: name: Mueller-Reichau, Olav
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: microvariation
perfective
general-factual
target state
uniqueness
VP

description: The paper addresses the issue of microvariation within Slavic aspect. Specifically,

it investigates perfective general-factuals, which appear in Czech and Polish but

not in Russian. It is shown that perfective aspect is used in Czech and Polish when

the semantics of the VP of the sentence is such that reference is limited to unique

events, or when reference to a unique event is contextually determined. Assuming

that semantic aspects operate over VP-meanings, it is then argued that the seman-

tics of perfective aspect in Polish and Czech includes a completedness condition

and a uniqueness condition whereas the semantics of the Russian perfective, more

strongly, encodes target state validity. This difference categorically bans perfective

aspect from general-factual contexts in Russian, but not in Czech and Polish.
Book Review: Chaos and Grace: Discovering the Liberating Work of the Holy Spirit by Mark Galli
Creators: name: Everett, Stewart James
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Religion
subject: Spirituality
subject: Philosophy
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: Theology

description: Identifying the ways in which God’s Spirit maneuvers and works in the world has never been a task undertaken with ease by the committed faithful. Yet, this is exactly what author Mark Galli, current Senior Managing Editor at Christianity Today, attempts to do in his latest publication, Chaos and Grace: Discovering the Liberating Work of the Holy Spirit. With a foreword written by Will Willimon, former chapel dean at Duke Divinity School, this book completes the third and final volume in Galli’s series on the Trinity. The former two works in this Trinitarian trilogy address, first, Jesus Christ in Jesus Mean and Wild: The Unexpected Love of An Untamable God (Baker, 2008) and second, the nature of God, in A Great and Terrible Love: A Spiritual Journey Into the Attributes of God (Baker, 2009). While surely informed by these two previous publications, Chaos and Grace stands on its own as Galli seeks to demonstrate the potentially disruptive and untamed nature of the Holy Spirit—what he terms "holy chaos"—whose power can ultimately transform human lives dominated by a need for constant control and obsessive ordering over their circumstances in all domains of life, including religious life. This "holy chaos" of disorder spawned by movements of the Spirit, which Galli interprets as "gift," serves as a means by which God chooses to both liberate persons from the duties of religion—worship, prayer, scripture reading—and also to relieve persons from their "addiction" to living such overly managed and restrictive lives (18). For Galli, abandoning this detrimental control and appreciating God as the "instigator" of dismantling chaos puts the Christian on the way to living "the life of freedom" which may become a "real possibility" (18-19).
Implications of Implementing an Efficient Residential Transmission and Distribution Tariff and an Efficient Reimbursement Price for Excess Rooftop Solar Production in Alberta
Creators: name: Renborg, Lars Georg
Publisher: name: Arts
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Rooftop solar
subject: residential tariff design
subject: Economics--Theory

description: Rooftop solar is forecast to grow in Alberta to 5878 MW of installed capacity by 2030. The efficient level of rooftop solar installed by 2030 is 3634 MW. The additional 2244 MW of solar by 2030 is caused by incorrect residential transmission tariffs and incorrect reimbursement prices for excess solar production. The efficient level of rooftop solar (3634 MW by 2030) minimizes electricity costs for Albertans. The additional MW of solar will cost Albertans between 214 and 230 million dollars (2017 Canadian dollars) over the next thirteen years in additional electricity costs compared to if the same electricity had been produced from the grid. Updating the transmission tariff and the reimbursement price for excess solar production will save Albertans between 214 and 230 million dollars in electricity costs over the next thirteen years.
Asteroseismology of the solar analogs 16 Cyg A & B from Kepler observations
Creators: name: Metcalfe, T. S.
name: Chaplin, W. J.
name: Appourchaux, T.
name: Garcia, R. A.
name: Basu, S.
name: Brandao, I.
name: Creevey, O. L.
name: Deheuvels, S.
name: Dogan, G.
name: Eggenberger, P.
name: Karoff, C.
name: Miglio, A.
name: Stello, D.
name: Yildiz, M.
name: Celik, Z.
name: Antia, H. M.
name: Benomar, O.
name: Howe, R.
name: Regulo, C.
name: Salabert, D.
name: Stahn, T.
name: Bedding, T. R.
name: Davies, G. R.
name: Elsworth, Y.
name: Gizon, L.
name: Hekker, S.
name: Mathur, S.
name: Mosser, B.
name: Bryson, S. T.
name: Still, M. D.
name: Christensen-Dalsgaard, J.
name: Gilliland, R. L.
name: Kawaler, S. D.
name: Kjeldsen, H.
name: Ibrahim, K. A.
name: Klaus, T. C.
name: Li, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The evolved solar-type stars 16 Cyg A & B have long been studied as solar analogs, yielding a glimpse into the future of our own Sun. The orbital period of the binary system is too long to provide meaningful dynamical constraints on the stellar properties, but asteroseismology can help because the stars are among the brightest in the Kepler field. We present an analysis of three months of nearly uninterrupted photometry of 16 Cyg A & B from the Kepler space telescope. We extract a total of 46 and 41 oscillation frequencies for the two components respectively, including a clear detection of octupole (l=3) modes in both stars. We derive the properties of each star independently using the Asteroseismic Modeling Portal, fitting the individual oscillation frequencies and other observational constraints simultaneously. We evaluate the systematic uncertainties from an ensemble of results generated by a variety of stellar evolution codes and fitting methods. The optimal models derived by fitting each component individually yield a common age (t=6.8+/-0.4 Gyr) and initial composition (Z_i=0.024+/-0.002, Y_i=0.25+/-0.01) within the uncertainties, as expected for the components of a binary system, bolstering our confidence in the reliability of asteroseismic techniques. The longer data sets that will ultimately become available will allow future studies of differential rotation, convection zone depths, and long-term changes due to stellar activity cycles.
description: 6 pages, 2 figures, 2 tables, ApJ Letters (accepted)
The LAUE project for broadband gamma-ray focusing lenses
Creators: name: Virgilli, E.
name: Frontera, F.
name: Valsan, V.
name: Liccardo, V.
name: Caroli, E.
name: Stephen, J. B.
name: Cassese, F.
name: Recanatesi, L.
name: Pecora, M.
name: Mottini, S.
name: Attiná, P.
name: Negri, B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the LAUE project devoted to develop an advanced technology for building a high focal length Laue lens for soft gamma--ray astronomy (80-600 keV). The final goal is to develop a focusing optics that can improve the current sensitivity in the above energy band by 2 orders of magnitude.
description: 7 pages, 6 figures, presented at the SPIE conference on "Optics for EUV, X-ray, and Gamma-ray Astronomy". To be published in the Proceedings of SPIE, vol.8147, 2011
Nitrogen removal from wastewater through partial nitrification/ Anammox process
Creators: name: Kosari, Fatemeh
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: Nitrogen removal from wastewater through partial nitrification/Anammox was investigated. The objectives of the research were divided to three distinctive and related areas: Partial Nitrification (PN) process, Anammox reaction and green house gases emission from partial nitrification and Anammox reactor. In the PN process, research objectives were to determine: 1) the effect Dissolved Oxygen concentration, alkalinity on the PN reaction 2) evaluation of continuous moving bed biofilm reactor (MBBR) and sequencing batch reactor (SBR) for partial nitrification process. The main goals of the Anammox process study was to investigate: 1) parameters, which affect the Anammox process 2) evaluation of continuous moving bed biofilm reactor, hybrid reactor and up-flow fixed-bed reactor for the Anammox process. In the last stage, N₂O and NO emissions from both partial nitrification and Anammox reactor under various operating conditions were determined. Partial nitrification in the sequencing batch reactor was more efficient, compared to continuous moving bed biofilm reactor. Alkalinity was investigated as a limiting factor for oxidizing more ammonium to nitrite in the PN reactor. The effluent of the MBBR contained 59.7% ammonium, 31.7 % nitrite and 8.5 % nitrate and gaseous products, such as nitrous oxide and nitrogen as initial nitrogen load. Whereas, the SBR could convert more than 45% of the ammonium to nitrite; in fact, the effluent of the SBR reactor contained 45.1% ammonium, 45.1% nitrite and 1.9% nitrate, as initial nitrogen load. Subsequent Anammox treatment, after the MBBR, resulted in 38.8% additional ammonium removal and nitrite removal of 83.1 %. As a result, total ammonia removal in the combined system reached 79.1% and total nitrogen removal was 56.8 %. The Hybrid Anammox reactor removed an average of 55.8% of NH₄-N, versus 48.3% NH₄-N removal in the up-flow fixed-bed reactor. Nitrite removal in the hybrid and up-flow fixed-bed Anammox reactor was 80.8% and 62.5%, respectively. This research indicates that nitrous oxide and nitric oxide emission from partial nitrification at DO being controlled at 2 mg/L were 2.6±0.2% and 0.6±0.3% as nitrogen load, respectively. Relatively low N₂O of 0.15±0.02% was observed from the Anammox reactor, compared to partial nitrification and NO emissions was none detected.
Estimating the Impact of Weather Variables on Cycling Infrastructure Usage
Creators: name: Shahriari, Siroos
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Engineering--Civil

description: Cycling has gained increased attention among both researchers and public city planners in the last two decades as a sustainable means of transportation. Compared to users of other modes of transportation, cyclists are more exposed to weather conditions. As a result, cycling infrastructure usage changes throughout the year because of highly variable weather conditions. The objective of this study is to evaluate the impact of weather variables on cycling infrastructure usage. The study develops a model that estimates changes in cycling infrastructure usage for different months of the year using weather variables namely, temperature, precipitation, snow on the ground, wind and sunlight. Cycling infrastructure usage data from the city of Calgary was modeled using generalized estimating equations (GEE) to suite unbalanced and correlated data. The model that was developed can help municipalities for cycling network planning such as decision making on investments, maintenance and modifications to the cycling infrastructure.
A Clouded View: How Language Shapes Moral Perception
Creators: name: Cox, Kathryn Lilla
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Religion
subject: Spirituality
subject: Philosophy
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: Theology

description: Flannery O’Connor writes in her novel Wise Blood, "The black sky was underpinned with long silver streaks that looked like scaffolding and depth on depth behind it were thousands of stars that all seemed to be moving very slowly as if they were about some vast construction work that involved the whole order of the universe and would take all time to complete. No one was paying any attention to the sky." The images in this passage are striking for a number of reasons. First, there is the sense that finding solutions or building new images, structures, and ways of being might not be completed during one’s lifetime. The discipline of patience and long term planning with the sacrifice involved are qualities frequently hard to fathom in an age of almost instantaneous communication. Second, this passage highlights what many of us already know, that the ethical life is complex and actions and decisions build upon each other. Third, we can be forgetful and inattentive to our surroundings, only seeing a fraction of our landscape. Finally, when we do look up at the sky, if we have learned particular constellations, we may find it hard to perceive new patterns or see the stars behind those most visibly present.
Gender encoding on hybrid nouns in Bosnian\slash Croatian\slash Serbian:Experimental evidence from ellipsis
Creators: name: Murphy, Andrew
name: Puškar, Zorica
name: Naranjo, Matías Guzmán
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: gender features
ellipsis
agreement
mismatches

description: In this paper, we report the results of an experimental study on the possibility of

gender mismatches with ellipsis of a particular type of hybrid nouns in Bosnian /

Croatian / Serbian (henceforth: BCS). Using agreement mismatches under NP ellip-

sis as a diagnostic for gender feature specification of hybrid nouns, we show that

these nouns disallow agreement mismatches under NP ellipsis if natural gender

(and a presupposition that it introduces) is present either in the antecedent or the

ellipsis site. We argue that natural gender feature (masculine in our study) can op-

tionally be present on the hybrid noun, and that its inclusion in ellipsis contexts

leads to a violation of the standard identity requirement between the antecedent

and the ellipsis site, namely Merchant’s (2001) e-givenness.