cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Family Language Policy: Parental Discourse Strategies and Child Responses
Creators: name: Brooksbank, Joselyn
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2017
Subjects: Parental Discourse Strategies
Minority Language Maintenance
Bilingualism
Family Language Policy

description: Using transcribed data from six Spanish-English bilingual children (1;8 to 3;3) from the Perez corpus in the CHILDES database, this thesis examines Parental Discourse Strategies (PDS) used to influence child language use in a minority language context (Spanish in the United States). PDS (Lanza, 1992; 1997) are situated within a language socialization framework (Ochs & Schieffelin, 2011) and can be viewed as part of the emerging field of family language policy (King & Fogle, 2013; Schwartz, 2010). This study looked at the overall language use, including the frequency and complexity, of English, Spanish, and mixed utterances by each parent and child in the corpus. The presence and rate of use of the PDS was calculated, as well as their successfulness in encouraging the children to use the minority language, as measured by the language of response to each PDS found. These strategies have been placed on a monolingual to bilingual continuum (Lanza, 1992) based on their expected success in influencing a child to use the language preferred by their parent. Results from a descriptive quantitative analysis of the data at the group and individual levels generally support the Parental Discourse Hypothesis, that is, the claim that certain strategies are more effective than others. Interestingly, it was found that the more successful strategies were used less frequently by the parents, while the less successful ones were more common. This apparent contradiction can be explained by conflicting pressure on parents to promote minority language use while also keeping fluid communication and preserving family harmony. This is discussed and further supported by some qualitative observations of child responses within discourse samples, highlighting children’s role as agents capable of negotiating their own linguistic socialization.
Computing with quasiseparable matrices
Creators: name: Pernet, Clement
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Symbolic Computation (cs.SC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The class of quasiseparable matrices is defined by a pair of bounds, called the quasiseparable orders, on the ranks of the maximal sub-matrices entirely located in their strictly lower and upper triangular parts. These arise naturally in applications, as e.g. the inverse of band matrices, and are widely used for they admit structured representations allowing to compute with them in time linear in the dimension and quadratic with the quasiseparable order. We show, in this paper, the connection between the notion of quasisepa-rability and the rank profile matrix invariant, presented in [Dumas \& al. ISSAC'15]. This allows us to propose an algorithm computing the quasiseparable orders (rL, rU) in time O(n^2 s^($ω$--2)) where s = max(rL, rU) and $ω$ the exponent of matrix multiplication. We then present two new structured representations, a binary tree of PLUQ decompositions, and the Bruhat generator, using respectively O(ns log n/s) and O(ns) field elements instead of O(ns^2) for the previously known generators. We present algorithms computing these representations in time O(n^2 s^($ω$--2)). These representations allow a matrix-vector product in time linear in the size of their representation. Lastly we show how to multiply two such structured matrices in time O(n^2 s^($ω$--2)).
description: International Symposium on Symbolic and Algebraic Computation (ISSAC'16), Jul 2016, Waterloo, France
Characterization of the Riesz Exponential Family on homogeneous cones
Creators: name: Ishi, Hideyuki
name: Kołodziejek, Bartosz
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Primary 60B11, secondary 62E10

description: In the paper we present a characterization theorem of the Riesz measure and a Wishart exponential family on homogeneous cones through the invariance property of a natural exponential family under the action of the triangular group.
description: 10 pages
Rarefaction Waves of the Korteweg-de Vries Equation via Nonlinear Steepest Descent
Creators: name: Andreiev, Kyrylo
name: Egorova, Iryna
name: Lange, Till Luc
name: Teschl, Gerald
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Primary 37K40, 35Q53, Secondary 37K45, 35Q15

description: We apply the method of nonlinear steepest descent to compute the long-time asymptotics of the Korteweg-de Vries equation with steplike initial data leading to a rarefaction wave. In addition to the leading asymptotic we also compute the next term in the asymptotic expansion of the rarefaction wave, which was not known before.
description: 34 pages
Trans-architecture
Creators: name: Gough, Tim
Publisher: name: FOOTPRINT
Year: 2017

description: Starting from the intense experience of the gay club, this paper asks whether that experience or event can be acknowledged by architectural theory. Via a reading of Judith Butler’s Gender Trouble and Jacques Derrida’s Before the Law, it posits that the transing of gender can be a clue as to the transing of architecture away from essentialising ontologies. It then uses Deleuze and Guattari’s idea of an assemblage to show how this can be done, making reference to the assemblage of the gay seduction scene in Proust’s Remembrance of Things Past and the image of the interplay of orchid and wasp that is inspired by it. The paper concludes by showing how this ontology relates to a specific instance of transing architecture in the gay and SM clubs of Vauxhall, South London.
description: FOOTPRINT, Issue # 21 | Autumn / Winter 2017 | Trans-Bodies / Queering Spaces
Ricci de Turck flow on singular manifolds
Creators: name: Vertman, Boris
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: Spectral Theory (math.SP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 53C44, 58J35, 35K08

description: In this paper we prove local existence of a Ricci de Turck flow starting at a space with incomplete edge singularities and flowing for a short time within a class of incomplete edge manifolds. We derive regularity properties for the corresponding family of Riemannian metrics and discuss boundedness of the Ricci curvature along the flow. For Riemannian metrics that are sufficiently close to a flat incomplete edge metric, we prove long time existence of the Ricci de Turck flow. Under certain conditions, our results yield existence of Ricci flow on spaces with incomplete edge singularities. The proof works by a careful analysis of the Lichnerowicz Laplacian and the Ricci de Turck flow equation.
description: 50 pages, 2 figures
Novel Organic Transformations Arising from Gold(I) Chemistry
Creators: name: Morin, Mathieu André
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2017
Subjects: Gold
Photochemistry
Polynuclear
Synthesis
Organic
Chemistry

description: The use of gold in organic chemistry is a relatively recent occurrence. In addition to being previously considered too expensive, it was also believed to be chemically inert. Soon after the early reports indicating its rich reactivity, the number of reports on chemical transformations involving gold sky rocketed. One such report by Toste and coworkers demonstrated the intramolecular addition of silyl enol ether onto Au(I) activated alkynes, resulting in a 5-exo dig cyclization. The first part (Chapter 1) of this thesis discusses the development of a Au(I) catalyzed polycyclization reaction inspired by this transformation. The reaction demonstrated the ability of Au(I) to successfully catalyze the formation of multiple C-C bonds and resulted in the synthesis of benzothiophenes, benzofurans, carbazoles and hydrindene. With the current resurgence of photochemical transformations being reported in literature, various opportunities for the use of Au(I) complexes arose. The substantial relativistic effect observed in gold which make it a good soft Lewis acid also has a significant influence on the redox potential of this metal. Chapter 3 of this thesis discusses the development of a Au(I) photocatalyzed process which benefits from having both a strong oxidation and reduction potential for the reduction of carbon-halide bonds. Radical reductions and cyclizations were accessed with the use of polynuclear Au(I) photocatalysts. In depth analysis of catalytically active Au(I) complexes helped elucidate the mechanism by which this photochemical reaction occurs. This part (Chapter 4) also covers serendipitously discovered uncatalyzed photochemical transformations derived from our work with gold. The halogenation reaction of primary alcohols was successfully achieved and a combination of our developed methods resulted in an efficient dehydroxylation protocol.
Louis H. Sullivan: that Object He Became
Creators: name: Snyder, Dan
Publisher: name: FOOTPRINT
Year: 2017

description: Louis H. Sullivan constructed a world view based on a hierarchy of powers. Over this hierarchy he placed the emotion of sympathy. Characterising it as another power he described sympathy as a way of being in communion with the world that manifests in a fusion of identities. Through a close reading of his writings with particular attention paid to his often-encrypted references to Walt Whitman, together with a close reading of selected sources from his library, this essay interrogates his understanding. Sensitive to the question of ‘queering’, it focuses on his conception of fused identities and its effects on gender and sexuality. It excavates an understanding that suggests that Sullivan deliberately constructed an alternative epistemology that overcame a whole host of bipolar oppositions to include male and female. He opted instead for an emotive and fluid ontology where the fixed category of being dissolves in vital consubstantiation – and it was eroticised. Suggesting a uniquely queer stance, Sullivan insists that without a clear vision of it, one may never understand architecture.
description: FOOTPRINT, Issue # 21 | Autumn / Winter 2017 | Trans-Bodies / Queering Spaces
Me as a Building
Creators: name: Angelidakis, Andreas
Publisher: name: FOOTPRINT
Year: 2017

description: Andreas Angelidakis works between the various fields of curating, theory, architecture and the arts. In his position text the author reflects on the way he develops new narrative and design methods as part of a personal project of a challenging self-reflexive and psychological nature. States of being become inherently fluid as illustrated by the project Troll, which Angelidakis suggests is an autobiographical project, in which a building wants to leave the city to become a mountain: human bodies transition into nature into architecture, and back again. Describing his work and growing up in his hometown Athens Angelidakis discusses architecture and queer identities in terms of being ‘unauthorised’.
description: FOOTPRINT, Issue # 21 | Autumn / Winter 2017 | Trans-Bodies / Queering Spaces
Strategies for Living in Houses
Creators: name: Ripley, Colin
Publisher: name: FOOTPRINT
Year: 2017

description: The problem of queer housing can never go away because it is a central component of queerness. Queer housing is a contradiction in terms: not even a queer architect can design a queer house. But where does this leave us, as queer people living in a straight hegemony? Where does it leave us as humans with bodies, craving shelter and safety and a place to live that is in accordance with our experience of self and of living in the world? In this article the author proposes eight architectural strategies for re-occupying the Levittown Cape Cod house from 1947 for queer bodies, minds and hearts. These strategies offer modes by which the key programmatic formal and material components of the Cape Cod House can be attacked, made invalid, or détourned for queer uses, to make of the Cape Cod House a site for our pain, our longing, our anger.
description: FOOTPRINT, Issue # 21 | Autumn / Winter 2017 | Trans-Bodies / Queering Spaces
Stalled!: Transforming Public Restrooms
Creators: name: Sanders, Joel
Publisher: name: FOOTPRINT
Year: 2017

description: Joel Sanders interrogates the intersections of architecture, public space, gender and sexuality with his project for public restrooms Stalled!. Stalled! involves an interdisciplinary design research project in which Sanders collaborates together with gender studies professor Susan Stryker, and law professor Terry Kogan. Stalled! proposes to regard access to public restrooms as a social justice issue with design consequences that can be solved with innovative architectural solutions. The project aims to create restrooms that not only meet the needs of the trans community, but encompass the needs of all embodied subjects of different ages, genders and abilities.
description: FOOTPRINT, Issue # 21 | Autumn / Winter 2017 | Trans-Bodies / Queering Spaces
The Persistence of Buildings and the Context Problem
Creators: name: Bacchini, Fabio
Publisher: name: FOOTPRINT
Year: 2017

description: Raising the persistence question about architectural entities consists in asking what is necessary and sufficient for a past or future architectural entity, like a building, to exist now. In this paper I investigate how the persistence question about buildings is affected by their spatial relocation. Why do we normally doubt that Notre Dame can survive its meticulous stone-by-stone transfer to Las Vegas? I argue that, since architectural plans are not capable of specifying all the constitutive properties of a building, the source of differentiation among constitutive and non-constitutive properties for buildings lies in a property’s being eligible or not eligible to be aesthetically relevant in the aesthetic judgements about them. As a matter of fact, our aesthetic judgements about buildings often concern, and are grounded on, extrinsic contextual properties. This explains why buildings can usually not survive relocation: because normally there is no basis for ruling out any extrinsic contextual feature of the building as inessential. I also try to explain why the change from thirteenth century Paris to contemporary Paris proved not to be lethal to Notre Dame’s persistence, in spite of its being more significant than other imaginary context changes that we would easily count as fatal.
description: FOOTPRINT, Issue # 20 | Spring / Summer 2017 | Analytic Philosophy and Architecture: Approaching Things from the Other Side
Reflections on Pragmatism as a Philosophy of Architecture
Creators: name: Macarthur, David
Publisher: name: FOOTPRINT
Year: 2017

description: Two recent collections on architectural theory and practice invoke the name of pragmatism as marking the hope of a new more intimate alignment of theory and practice after a period of what I call ‘philosophical vampirism’. This paper examines what role the philosophical tradition of pragmatism might play in relation to architecture. I argue that pragmatism is best understood as a method of overcoming intellectualist and metaphysical obstacles to clear thinking as opposed to a philosophical ideology of some kind. Against Rem Koolhaas’s argument for post-criticality I show that we are always already critical. Pragmatism’s task is to make criticism better. I end by invoking the craft ethos as articulated by Richard Sennett in his book The Craftsman (2008), as perhaps the best model of what a pragmatist architecture might look like.
description: FOOTPRINT, Issue # 20 | Spring / Summer 2017 | Analytic Philosophy and Architecture: Approaching Things from the Other Side
Architecture Thinking in a ‘Post-truth Era’: Recalibrations through analytic philosophy
Creators: name: August, Karan
name: Schrijver, Lara
Publisher: name: FOOTPRINT
Year: 2017

description: This issue of Footprint explores the potential role of analytic philosophy in the context of architecture’s typical affinity with continental philosophy over the past three decades. In the last decades of the twentieth century, philosophy became an almost necessary springboard from which to define a work of architecture. Analytic philosophy took a notable backseat to continental philosophy. With this history in mind, this issue of Footprint sought to open the discussion on what might be offered by the less familiar branches of epistemology and logic that are more prevalent and developed in the analytic tradition. The papers brought together here are situated in the context of a discipline in transformation that seeks a fundamental approach to its own tools, logic and approaches. In this realm, the approaches of logic and epistemology help to define an alternate means of criticality not subjected to personalities or the specialist knowledge of individual philosophies. Rather the various articles attempt to demonstrate that such difference of background assumptions is a common human habit and that some of the techniques of analytic philosophy may help to leap these chasms. The hope is that this is a start of a larger conversation in architecture theory that has as of yet not begun.
description: FOOTPRINT, Issue # 20 | Spring / Summer 2017 | Analytic Philosophy and Architecture: Approaching Things from the Other Side
title: FOOTPRINT, Issue # 21 | Autumn / Winter 2017 | Trans-Bodies / Queering Spaces
title: Issue # 21 | Autumn / Winter 2017 | Trans-Bodies / Queering Spaces
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: FOOTPRINT
Publisher: name: FOOTPRINT
Year: 2017

description: This issue of Footprint looks into the latest developments in queer theory and the related, newly emerging field of trans studies, and how they might inform and even reconceptualise architecture. Even though the introduction of queer theory into architecture dates back to the 1990s, there is still fairly little literature available specific to architecture. Most contemporary research into queer and trans theory happens in the fields of cultural studies, literature and the arts and social geography, whereas a cross-disciplinary connection between architecture, urban design and queer theory seems only logical from the point of view that architecture and urban design are instrumental in the formation of social and political identities. Additionally, queer and trans theory offers the possibility of opening up the disciplinary straightjacket of architecture: it engenders a radical reconceptualisation of the architectural discipline and its institutions in that queer and trans theory unsettles any conception of architecture as an embodiment of essentialist categories, be it identities, forms and types, just as it disturbs the mythologies of authorship and autonomy. Concerned with radical inclusiveness, this issue proposes to use ‘queering’ and ‘transing’ as lenses to more generally critique ‘exclusive’ conceptions of architecture, as well as mutually exclusive container concepts of spaces and bodies. What could architecture do, if we would leave behind essentialist approaches? Would it be possible to ‘undo’ the body of architecture and architecture theory and to allow for new figurations of knowledge, to ‘queer’ our understanding of architecture as a field engaged in consistent transformation, the material interface of processes of becoming? Issue's editors: Robert Gorny and Dirk van den Heuvel
description: Between Delft and Stockholm...119-128 Stalled!: Transforming Public Restrooms...109-118 Strategies for Living in Houses...95-108 Me as a Building...87-94 Louis H. Sullivan: that Object He Became...67-86 Trans-architecture...51-66 A Surgery Issue: Cutting through the Architectural Fabric...25-50 Opening up Bodyspace: Perspectives from Posthuman and Feminist Theory...11-24 New Figurations in Architecture Theory: From Queer Performance to Becoming Trans...1-10
New Figurations in Architecture Theory: From Queer Performance to Becoming Trans
Creators: name: Gorny, Robert Alexander
name: Heuvel, Dirk Van Den
Publisher: name: FOOTPRINT
Year: 2017

description: The editorial introduction to this Footprint issue maps some of the latest developments in the field of queer studies and the realm of architecture and urban design. The aim is for a productive exhange between the fields since queer theory can be instrumental in moving beyond the heteronormative dominance in architectural thinking, which is characterized by an essentialist approach based on binary notions, rather than an understanding of architecture as an interface in material processes of becoming and producing differences. After a brief discussion of the history of exchanges between queer studies and architectural history and theory, the authors propose to complement the notion of queering with the new developments in the field of trans studies, which propose to rethink architecture in terms of a materialist understanding of buildings as bodies which are in a constant flux of change and becoming instead of fixed and stable objects or identities.
description: FOOTPRINT, Issue # 21 | Autumn / Winter 2017 | Trans-Bodies / Queering Spaces
Opening up Bodyspace: Perspectives from Posthuman and Feminist Theory
Creators: name: Kokoula, Xenia
Publisher: name: FOOTPRINT
Year: 2017

description: A rethinking of space, a rethinking of the body and a rethinking of a design processes involving both are long overdue within space-related disciplines. Over the last decades, architectural discourse has been invigorated by opening up container conceptions of space, by exploring a new dynamic understanding of space and focusing on its production processes. But a systematic, theoretically-informed understanding of the body along the same terms has yet to be achieved. Such a search for new visions and concepts of corporealities can start at different places. This essay attempts a cross-disciplinary, speculative foray into the terrain of posthuman, nonhuman and feminist theory. From this diverse body of scholarship it is possible to develop theses for open, permeable and inextricably entangled bodies inhabiting an equally dynamic space. These theses are examined not only within their own disciplinary discourses but also as aesthetic categories and spatial organisation principles aimed at tentatively exploring the implications for space-related disciplines including architecture and design.
description: FOOTPRINT, Issue # 21 | Autumn / Winter 2017 | Trans-Bodies / Queering Spaces
A Surgery Issue: Cutting through the Architectural Fabric
Creators: name: Angelopoulou, Athina
Publisher: name: FOOTPRINT
Year: 2017

description: This essay examines the material ontologies of surgical trans-modifications. Focusing on incisions and subsequent scars, the essay argues for the queering of architecture and design as an act of cutting through structures and processes. I start by rereading a topological body plan, used by surgeons as a guide for performing incisions. I suggest that this plan constitutes a variation within topological representations. It is thus reconceptualised as an internally contradictory representation, calling for dis/continuous cutting acts upon the represented body; that is an amphi-topological representation. The notion of the cut is further approached from the point of view of queer theory and ‘agential realism’. This perspective offers affirmative ways of discussing about acts of cutting. When performed into self-organizing fabrics, cuts appear to act as ‘agents of dis/continuity’. Then, the discussion passes through the genealogy of the architectural section and the building cuts of Gordon Matta Clark, so as to show that the production of buildings by ‘cutting through them to come to matter’ is deep-rooted in the architectural discipline. Next, the philosophical origins of the idea of cutting through the material fabric of the world are sought. It is argued that the latter, beginning as a gnosiological tool, was transformed into a fabricating tool and then into a tool of smoothing the striated. The essay concludes with the presentation of SCARchiCAD; a computational design tool which takes the skin’s wound healing process as a model, offering an interpretation of what the ‘cutting through a virtual form’ could suggest for the design of architectural bodies and the queering of architecture.
description: FOOTPRINT, Issue # 21 | Autumn / Winter 2017 | Trans-Bodies / Queering Spaces
Fedosov dg manifolds associated with Lie pairs
Creators: name: Stiénon, Mathieu
name: Xu, Ping
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Given any pair $(L,A)$ of Lie algebroids, we construct a differential graded manifold $(L[1]\oplus L/A,Q)$, which we call Fedosov dg manifold. We prove that the cohomological vector field $Q$ constructed on $L[1]\oplus L/A$ by the Fedosov iteration method arises as a byproduct of the Poincaré--Birkhoff--Witt map established in arXiv:1408.2903. Finally, using the homological perturbation lemma, we establish a quasi-isomorphism of Dolgushev--Fedosov type: the differential graded algebras of functions on the dg manifolds $(A[1],d_A)$ and $(L[1]\oplus L/A,Q)$ are homotopy equivalent.
description: paper restructured significantly
title: FOOTPRINT, Issue # 20 | Spring / Summer 2017 | Analytic Philosophy and Architecture: Approaching Things from the Other Side
title: Issue # 20 | Spring / Summer 2017 | Analytic Philosophy and Architecture: Approaching Things from the Other Side
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: FOOTPRINT
Publisher: name: FOOTPRINT
Year: 2017

description: This issue of Footprint explores the potential role of analytic philosophy in the context of architecture’s typical affinity with continental philosophy over the past three decades. In the last decades of the twentieth century, philosophy became an almost necessary springboard from which to define a work of architecture. Analytic philosophy took a notable backseat to continental philosophy. With this history in mind, this issue of Footprint sought to open the discussion on what might be offered by the less familiar branches of epistemology and logic that are more prevalent and developed in the analytic tradition. The papers brought together here are situated in the context of a discipline in transformation that seeks a fundamental approach to its own tools, logic and approaches. In this realm, the approaches of logic and epistemology help to define an alternate means of criticality not subjected to personalities or the specialist knowledge of individual philosophies. Rather the various articles attempt to demonstrate that such difference of background assumptions is a common human habit and that some of the techniques of analytic philosophy may help to leap these chasms. The hope is that this is a start of a larger conversation in architecture theory that has as of yet not begun. Issue's editors: Karan August and Lara Schrijver
description: Architecture Thinking in a ‘Post-truth Era’: Recalibrations through analytic philosophy...1-10 Reflections on Pragmatism as a Philosophy of Architecture...105-120 The Persistence of Buildings and the Context Problem...85-104 The Triumph of Function over Form The Role of Analytic Philosophy in Planning and Analysing Modern Architecture...37-52 Possibilia: Possible Worlds and the Limitless in Architecture...71-84 G.E. Moore’s Principia Ethica and the complex of architecture...11-22 The Pyramid and the Mosaic. Otto Neurath’s encyclopedism as a critical model...53-70 What difference could Pragmatism have made? From architectural effects to architecture’s consequences...23-36
A Rewriting System for the Assessment of XACML Policies Relationship
Creators: name: Mejri, M.
name: Yahyaoui, H.
name: Mourad, A.
name: Chehab, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We propose in this paper a new approach to assess the relationship between XACML policies. Our approach spans over three steps. In the first one, the XACML policies are mapped to terms of a boolean ring while taking into account XACML policy and rule combining algorithms. In the second step, the relationship problem between XACML policies is transformed into a validity problem in a boolean ring. In the third step, the validity problem is resolved using a dedicated rewriting system. The convergence of the rewriting system is proved in this paper. Moreover, the approach is implemented and its performance is evaluated. The results show that our approach enjoys better performance and memory cost than the best so far published SMT based approach.
Emergence of correlated optics in one-dimensional waveguides for classical and quantum atomic gases
Creators: name: Ruostekoski, Janne
name: Javanainen, Juha
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze the emergence of correlated optical phenomena in the transmission of light through a waveguide that confines classical or ultracold quantum degenerate atomic ensembles. The conditions of the correlated collective response are identified in terms of atom density, thermal broadening, and photon losses by using stochastic Monte-Carlo simulations and transfer matrix methods of transport theory. We also calculate the "cooperative Lamb shift" for the waveguide transmission resonance, and discuss line shifts that are specific to effectively one-dimensional waveguide systems.
What difference could Pragmatism have made? From architectural effects to architecture’s consequences
Creators: name: Lefebvre, Pauline
Publisher: name: FOOTPRINT
Year: 2017

description: By the late 1990s, the once fruitful alliance between architecture and continental philosophy was perceived as being responsible for the apparent schism between architectural theory and practice. In that context, some saw Pragmatism as a potential alternative for reviving the architectural discourse. This paper first considers how this enterprise was actually more of a continuity than rupture with former philosophical affinities. The introduction of Pragmatism in architecture was discussed in the same breath as previous developments based on Deleuze and Foucault, mostly around the ‘diagram’. Architectural thinkers were then following the recent revival of Pragmatism in American philosophy, carried out by figures like Rorty, and based on a reconciliation between American Pragmatism and Continental philosophies. This might explain why they favoured Pragmatism at the expense of contemporary analytic philosophy. This also explains why their initiative was not as successful as they expected: the alternative did not appear as offering enough of a contrast. In the second part of the paper, I take this non-fulfilment as an opportunity to explore – to speculate – what Pragmatism could have contributed to the ‘post-critical’ scene that followed in the early 2000s. The main post-critical move is a shift away from ‘meaning’ towards the material, sensuous ‘effects’ of architecture. Pragmatism appeared relevant, as its main gesture is to consider effects rather than causes and to dismiss all discussions that have no practical bearings. But Pragmatism has more to offer than just a refocus on practice. My hypothesis is that Pragmatism expands the obligations of architecture. It doesn’t just bring to the fore concrete, seductive ‘effects’ of buildings; it also insists on considering their broader ‘consequences’ on the environment – physical as well as social and cultural – and on inventing ways of dealing with them.
description: FOOTPRINT, Issue # 20 | Spring / Summer 2017 | Analytic Philosophy and Architecture: Approaching Things from the Other Side
The Outlook for Land Utilization in the United States
Creators: name: Baker, O. E.
name: Baker, O. E.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1931
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries
Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
International Relations/Trade
Labor and Human Capital
Land Economics/Use
Livestock Production/Industries
Productivity Analysis
Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: Excerpt: The outlook for the utilization of agricultural land in the United States is affected primarily by four groups of factors: I. Extent of the land resources and rate of depletion; II. Technical progress in utilization of these resources and trends in agricultural production; III. Population trends, changes in diet, exports, and other factors that affect the consumption of farm products; IV. Land resources of foreign countries and competition by agricultural products from these countries, both in the United States and abroad. Each of these four groups of factors is worthy of many days' discussion, and to give the essential facts in an hour's talk requires that the statements be brief and broad, and some may seem bold.
description: Addresses presented at State leaders' conference, Fifth National Farm Boys' and Girls' 4-E Club Camp, Washington, D. C., June 17, 18, 19, and 20, 1931.
Jesus Is an Anarchist
Creators: name: Redford, James
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2015
Subjects: Religious studies not elsewhere classified

description: James Redford, "Jesus Is an Anarchist", Social Science Research Network (SSRN), Dec. 4, 2011 (orig. pub. Dec. 19, 2001), 60 pp., doi:10.2139/ssrn.1337761. ABSTRACT: The teachings and actions of Jesus Christ (Yeshua Ha'Mashiach) and the apostles recorded in the New Testament are analyzed in regard to their ethical and political philosophy, with analysis of context vis-à-vis the Old Testament (Tanakh, or Hebrew Bible) being given. From this analysis, it is shown that Jesus is a libertarian anarchist, i.e., a consistent voluntaryist. The implications this has for the world are profound, and the ramifications of Jesus's anarchism to Christians' attitudes toward government (the state) and its actions are explicated.
The Pyramid and the Mosaic. Otto Neurath’s encyclopedism as a critical model
Creators: name: Dutto, Andrea Alberto
Publisher: name: FOOTPRINT
Year: 2017

description: Otto Neurath, one of the founding members of the Vienna Circle, took up a firm opposition in relation to his colleagues. Instead of searching for an ideal language, he asserted the possibility of a ‘universal empiricist slang’, including both everyday and scientific language. Particularly, Neurath conceives of a comprehensive theory of a unified science that postulates the necessity of orchestration within the discursive procedures in science, inspired by the model of encyclopedism. In the field of architecture, a similar encyclopedic endeavor was undertaken in Italy by Mario Ridolfi who, together with other leading exponents of architectural culture, conceived the Manuale dell’Architetto at the end of World War II. This construction handbook provided support to engineers during the intense period of post-war reconstruction. Unlike any previous attempt to document building culture, this collective work aspired to create a shared language able to cross the boundaries among the various fields of building science. Finally, encyclopedism is considered as a possible ‘foundation’ for building design as a shared practice, with a specific focus on Ridolfi’s late research on the relation between traditional construction methods and housing design, in the countryside around Umbria.
description: FOOTPRINT, Issue # 20 | Spring / Summer 2017 | Analytic Philosophy and Architecture: Approaching Things from the Other Side
Correlation Measure Equivalence in Dynamic Causal Structures of Quantum Gravity
Creators: name: Gyongyosi, Laszlo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We prove an equivalence transformation between the correlation measure functions of the causally-unbiased quantum gravity space and the causally-biased standard space. The theory of quantum gravity fuses the dynamic (nonfixed) causal structure of general relativity and the quantum uncertainty of quantum mechanics. In a quantum gravity space, the events are causally nonseparable and all time bias vanishes, which makes it no possible to use the standard causally-biased entropy and the correlation measure functions. Since a corrected causally-unbiased entropy function leads to an undefined, obscure mathematical structure, in our approach the correction is made in the data representation of the causally-unbiased space. Here we prove that the standard causally-biased entropy function with a data correction can be used to identify correlations in dynamic causal structures. As a corollary, all mathematical properties of the causally-biased correlation measure functions are preserved in the causally-unbiased space. The equivalence transformation allows us to measure correlations in a quantum gravity space with the stable, well-defined mathematical background and apparatus of the causally-biased functions of quantum Shannon theory.
G.E. Moore’s Principia Ethica and the complex of architecture
Creators: name: Gough, Tim
Publisher: name: FOOTPRINT
Year: 2017

description: G.E. Moore’s Principia Ethica of 1903 is generally regarded as a starting point of analytical philosophy. It’s concern with analytical propositions, the pushing of analysis to an end point, its rigorous style, the clarity of its arguments and the precise demolition of the less-than-rigorous work of preceding philosophers provided a template for how twentieth century Anglo-Saxon thought might forge its own path. This paper argues that Moore’s notion of the “organic whole”, together with his concern for the goodness of human intercourse, are inherently architectural thoughts with implications for a non-formalist theory or ontology of architecture. Moore’s emphasis on the intermixture of the work and the subject, his interest in the material quality of things, his championing of the possibilities of valuing the apparently mundane if seen within a broader context, his doubts about representational art compared to environmental beauty, and his valuing of the sociability of human intercourse all point to a rich concept of what architecture can be. The paper will critique Moore’s central idea and will show that what he calls an organic whole is in fact misnamed.
description: FOOTPRINT, Issue # 20 | Spring / Summer 2017 | Analytic Philosophy and Architecture: Approaching Things from the Other Side
Libertarian Anarchism Is Apodictically Correct
Creators: name: Redford, James
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2015
Subjects: Other law and legal studies not elsewhere classified

description: James Redford, "Libertarian Anarchism Is Apodictically Correct", Social Science Research Network (SSRN), Dec. 15, 2011, 9 pp., doi:10.2139/ssrn.1972733. ABSTRACT: It is shown that libertarian anarchism (i.e., consistent liberalism) is unavoidably true.
Splitting theorem for $\mathbb{Z}_2^n$-supermanifolds
Creators: name: Covolo, Tiffany
name: Grabowski, Janusz
name: Poncin, Norbert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 17A70, 58A50, 13F25, 16L30

description: Smooth $\mathbb{Z}_2^n$-supermanifolds have been introduced and studied recently. The corresponding sign rule is given by the "scalar product" of the involved $\mathbb{Z}_2^n$-degrees. It exhibits interesting changes in comparison with the sign rule using the parity of the total degree. With the new rule, nonzero degree even coordinates are not nilpotent, and even (resp., odd) coordinates do not necessarily commute (resp., anticommute) pairwise. The classical Batchelor-Gawcedzki theorem says that any smooth supermanifold is diffeomorphic to the "superization" $ΠE$ of a vector bundle $E$. It is also known that this result fails in the complex analytic category. Hence, it is natural to ask whether an analogous statement goes through in the category of $\mathbb{Z}_2^n$-supermanifolds with its local model made of formal power series. We give a positive answer to this question.
description: 12 pages, substantial text overlap with arXiv:1408.2939, minor corrections and some explanations addedd; to appear in J. Geom. Phys
The Inuit Food System: Ecological, Economic, and Environmental Dimensions of the Nutrition Transition
Creators: name: Kenny, Tiffannie
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2017
Subjects: Food security
Inuit
Indigenous
Country foods
Traditional food
Arctic
Food System
Caribou
Wild food
Human nutrition

description: From the Arctic to the South Pacific, Indigenous Peoples have experienced a rapid nutrition transition involving the decline of traditional/subsistence-based ways of life and the adoption of a “Western” diet that is high in saturated fats, sugar, and processed foods. This dietary shift has been paralleled by an increased prevalence of obesity, diabetes, and, other diet-related chronic diseases. In the Arctic, rapidly changing biophysical conditions, globalization, and integration into market economies are collectively challenging access to both country foods and nutritious market foods. Food security and nutrient adequacy thus remain elusive for Inuit communities of northern Canada. Premised upon the view that human well-being is predicated upon complex and dynamic interactions between ecosystems, economies, and societies, this dissertation integrates multiple lines of inquiry and scales of engagement (community, regional, and national) to further understanding of the nutrition transition among Inuit in Canada. The thesis is comprised of two sections. Section 1 bridges the often disparate fields of human nutrition and wildlife conservation by addressing key questions about the status and management of Arctic species, and the implications for Inuit food security and health. For example, caribou (Rangifer tarandus) populations across the circumpolar north are currently experiencing dramatic declines in abundance and restrictions on Inuit subsistence harvest are currently implemented for several caribou populations. Caribou, however, is the primary source of protein and several micronutrients involved in the prevention of anemia (e.g. iron zinc, copper, riboflavin, and vitamin B12) in the contemporary diet of Inuit adults. Caribou consumption is also positively associated with hemoglobin levels in Inuit adults. Section 2 considers elements of the market food system in Inuit communities. We found that the most popular market foods consumed by Inuit (e.g. sweetened beverages, added sugar, and bread) contribute significantly to total diet energy while contributing minimally to most micronutrients. Using optimization models, we have demonstrated that a nutritious diet (one meeting Health Canada dietary reference intake values) is theoretically feasible based on a mix of country food and market food, and at relatively little additional cost from current diets. However, significant deviations in patterns of food expenditure away from sweetened beverages, towards dairy, and whole fruits and vegetables would be required. Taken collectively, this thesis provides important information, as well as new tools, and approaches, for communities, wildlife conservation and public health professionals to jointly promote ecosystem and human health in a rapidly changing environment.
Post-Migration Stressors and Mental Health for African Migrants in South Australia: A Qualitative Study: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
Creators: name: Mwanri, Lillian
name: Gesesew, Hailay
name: Ward, Paul
name: Fauk, Nelsensius
Publisher: name: Torrens University Australia
Year: 2023
Subjects: Social determinants of health

description: We conducted a qualitative study involving African migrants (n = 20) and service providers (n = 10) in South Australia to explore mental health stressors, access to mental health services and how to improve mental health services for African migrant populations. This paper presents the views and experiences of African migrants about the post-migration stressors they faced in resettlement that pose mental health challenges. The participants were recruited using the snowball sampling technique. To align with the COVID-19 pandemic protocol, the data collection was conducted using one-on-one online interviews through Zoom or WhatsApp video calls. Data analysis was guided by the framework analysis. The post-migration stressors, including separation from family members and significant others, especially spouses, imposed significant difficulties on care provision and in managing children’s attitudes and behavior-related troubles at school. African cultural practices involving the community, especially elders in care provision and disciplining children, were not consistent with Australian norms, compounding the mental health stressors for all involved. The African cultural norms, that do not allow young unmarried people to live together, also contributed to child–parent conflicts, enhancing parental mental stressors. Additionally, poor economic conditions and employment-related difficulties were post-migration stressors that the participants faced. The findings indicate the need for policy and intervention programs that address the above challenges. The provision of interventions, including social support such as subsidized or free childcare services, could help leverage their time and scheduled paid employment, creating time for effective parenting and improving their mental health and wellbeing. Future studies exploring what needs to be achieved by government and non-governmental institutions to support enhanced access to social and employment opportunities for the African migrant population are also recommended. © 2022 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.
The Physics of God and the Quantum Gravity Theory of Everything
Creators: name: Redford, James
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2015
Subjects: Cosmology and extragalactic astronomy

description: James Redford, "The Physics of God and the Quantum Gravity Theory of Everything", Social Science Research Network (SSRN), Sept. 10, 2012 (orig. pub. Dec. 19, 2011), 186 pp., doi:10.2139/ssrn.1974708. ABSTRACT: Analysis is given of the Omega Point cosmology, an extensively peer-reviewed proof (i.e., mathematical theorem) published in leading physics journals by professor of physics and mathematics Frank J. Tipler, which demonstrates that in order for the known laws of physics to be mutually consistent, the universe must diverge to infinite computational power as it collapses into a final cosmological singularity, termed the Omega Point. The theorem is an intrinsic component of the Feynman-DeWitt-Weinberg quantum gravity/Standard Model Theory of Everything (TOE) describing and unifying all the forces in physics, of which itself is also required by the known physical laws. With infinite computational resources, the dead can be resurrected--never to die again--via perfect computer emulation of the multiverse from its start at the Big Bang. Miracles are also physically allowed via electroweak quantum tunneling controlled by the Omega Point cosmological singularity. The Omega Point is a different aspect of the Big Bang cosmological singularity--the first cause--and the Omega Point has all the haecceities claimed for God in the traditional religions. From this analysis, conclusions are drawn regarding the social, ethical, economic and political implications of the Omega Point cosmology.