cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The Hidden Curriculum of an English for Academic Purposes Reform in Chinese Universities
Creators: name: Li, Yulong
Publisher: name: Critical Education
Year: 2020

description: The fundamental challenge in China’s higher education is its bureaucratic governance system; however, it remains untouched after several reforms. The recent Shanghai EAP policy does nothing to challenge the system, but rather, it blames the general English curriculum for failing to prepare students academically. By critically reflect on data from some previous studies, this study discovered that the new EAP curriculum and the policy proposed to replace the general English curriculum harbored a hidden curriculum that tightened the control of knowledge, legitimizing the existing higher education system, and reproducing future academic subalterns. This Shanghai EAP policy is the result of the policymakers’ social mobility struggle as members of a new middle class, together with their accomplices: neoliberalism and neoconservatives. However, resistance and conflict exist in every working context, including the context of Shanghai EAP as justified in the study, despite some of the students’ and the teacher’s resistance being counter-productive.
description: Critical Education, Vol 11 No 11 (2020)
Unveiling Orbital Chaos: The Wild Heart of Fuzzy Dark Matter Structures
Creators: name: Alvarez-Rios, Ivan
name: Guzman, Francisco S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we study the behavior of test particles on top of a galactic-type of Fuzzy Dark Matter (FDM) structure, characterized by the core-halo density profile found in simulations. Our workhorse structure is an anisotropic, time-dependent, virialized core-tail FDM clump resulting from a multicore merger. For our analysis we allow this structure to keep evolving, which implies that the core oscillates and accretes matter from the halo, while the halo dynamics is dominated by its characteristic high kinetic energy. On top of this time-dependent structure that in turn has a time-dependent gravitational potential, we solve the motion equations of test particles with initial conditions associated to circular orbits at different radii. Our results indicate that: 1) no trajectory remains circular, 2) the trajectories are sensitive to initial conditions and 3) the departure of initially near trajectories has always a positive Lyapunov exponent. A qualitative result is that the motion of test particles is more erratic with a bigger Lyapunov exponent within and near the core than in the halo region, which can be understood in terms of the random motion of the core within the core-halo structure. We expect these results warn on the importance of the anisotropic and time-dependent nature of FDM clumps when studying the motion of test particles.
description: 10 pages, 9 figures. Submitted to Classical and Quantum Gravity
Excentricoris pictipes
Creators: name: Vinokurov, Nikolay N.
name: Rudoi, Valentin V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Miridae
Excentricoris
Excentricoris pictipes

description: Excentricoris pictipes (Reuter, 1878)
 Material. Kurai steppe, 50°15′ N, 87°54′ E, H = 1600–1650 m, 8.08.2019, 1 ♀.
 Distribution. Dauro-Mongolian steppe. Recorded from Altai Republic (Vinokurov & Golub 2007).
description: Published as part of Vinokurov, Nikolay N. & Rudoi, Valentin V., 2020, New materials on heteropterans from Kurai steppe (south-west of Russian Altai), pp. 25-35 in Ecologica Montenegrina 38 on page 29, DOI: 10.37828/em.2020.38.5, http://zenodo.org/record/13231892
title: The pattern in The social logic of space (1984) and in A pattern language (1977)
Creators: name: Nascimento, Adriana
name: Faria, Ana Cristina
Publisher: name: University of Strathclyde Publishing
Year: 2022

description: This theoretical essay has in the pattern its anchorage. What we highlight here is the debate over pattern in the works of Hillier and Hanson and Alexander, Ishikawa and Silverstein. By pointing out the understandings and differences about the role of the pattern in both works, we seek to contribute to the debates about languages, logic and abstraction both in cognitive processes, also called epistemological, and in the processes of legitimization of certain spatial-social knowledge in different contexts. What stands out from the two works is the way they are defined and the standard treatment. Although the first deals with syntax and the second with language, both are undoubtedly spatial readings of certain levels and dimensions of what guides and structures urban space. Although in a different way, use the pattern as a theoretical tool for analytical practice and for design purposes. The differences between the approaches are mentioned in the preface to The Social Logic of Space. Here we explore some evidence of the relationship between the two, in view of the challenges of dealing with the complexity of the contemporary socio-spatial issue in terms of and incorporating sustainable urban, and economic social issues – in global North and South, and in decolonial terms. What is proposed here is a critical analysis of the roles of the spatial pattern of both works, given the frameworks referenced in the works studied and in other references that deal with and advance on the theme and that have been part of our field and objects of study.
title: Built form and cultural identity : exploring spatial information to understand different spatial cultures
Creators: name: Netto, Vinicius
name: Brigatti, Edgardo
name: Cacholas, Caio
Publisher: name: University of Strathclyde Publishing
Year: 2022

description: The idea that urban form embodies idiosyncrasies that express cultural identities seems to be a frequent assumption in urban studies. It has to do with the contextual role of custom and institutional settings, from regional idiosyncrasies assimilated to traditional ways of building to the dichotomies of planned and unplanned cities, shaped through topdown agencies or as chance-grown arrangements. However, can local cultures leave traces in urban space? Despite its persistence in the urban imagination, the problem of how built environments might embody specific cultural identities seems yet to be fully addressed in urban morphology. In this sense, historically- and culturally-informed quantitative methods are essential for uncovering forms and patterns resulting from city organisation processes. In this paper, we look closely into that assumption and address the question of whether cities find distinct regional characteristics or take on physically specific forms under certain cultural conditions. This problem implies examining the existence of contextualised ways of shaping cities – and features that might transcend context. We do so approaching the built environment's spatial configurations as a proxy of urban culture, looking into urban form's very constituents. Unlike emphases on street networks, our approach focuses on the elementary components shaping cities' tangible spaces: buildings and how they are aggregated in cellular complexes of built form. Exploring Shannon's information theory, we introduce a measure of information and entropy to analyse the probability distribution of cellular arrangements in built form systems. We apply it to 45 cities from different regions of the world as a similarity measure to compare and cluster cities potentially consistent with specific spatial cultures. Findings suggest a classification scheme that sheds further light on what we call "the cultural hypothesis": the possibility that different cultures and regions find different ways of ordering space.
Predicting the Néel temperatures in general helimagnetic materials: a comparison between mean field theory, random phase approximation, renormalized spin wave theory and classical Monte Carlo simulations
Creators: name: Pavizhakumari, Varun Rajeev
name: Olsen, Thomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The critical temperature for magnetic order comprises a crucial property of any magnetic material and ranges from a few Kelvin in certain antiferromagnets to 1400 K in ferromagnetic Co. However, the prediction of critical temperatures based on, for example, a spin wave dispersion is in general non-trivial. For ferromagnets and simple collinear antiferromagnets, estimates may be obtained from the Heisenberg model using either renormalized spin wave theory or the Green's function random phase approximation (RPA), but a systematic assessment of the accuracy of such approaches seems to be lacking in the literature. In this work, we propose generalizations of both renormalized spin wave theory and RPA to calculate the critical temperatures of single-$Q$ helimagnetic ground states, which include ferromagnets and antiferromagnets as special cases. We compare the methods to classical Monte Carlo simulations and Mean field theory, using experimental exchange parameters for a wide range of materials; MnO and NiO (single site Néel ground states), MnF$_2$ (altermagnet), Cr$_2$O$_3$ and Fe$_2$O$_3$ (two site Néel states) and Ba$_3$NbFe$_3$Si$_2$O$_{14}$ (incommensurate helimagnet). In all cases, we observe that predictions from RPA are in excellent agreement with experimental values and RPA thus constitutes a rather reliable all-purpose method for calculating critical temperatures.
description: 17 pages, 8 figures. Clarified RPA-HP relation
title: RPL Cluster 6 : Buildings & support facilities, in cities, streets and neighbourhoods
Creators: name: Neis, Hajo
name: Chaiwat, Pamanee
Publisher: name: University of Strathclyde Publishing
Year: 2022

description: This paper is part of a larger project, the ‘Refugee Pattern Language.’ In chapter 6 we present patterns of buildings that help refugees to survive and give shelter, start a new life. Buildings of various kinds are critical for migrants and refugees lives and help in their different functions and uses but they also limit life in the dialectics of control and freedom. (see TOC as appendix) Research is based on field work, literature, and PL methods.
title: Urban morphology and the sustainable development of cultural heritage in Serbia – between wishful thinking and reality
Creators: name: Niković, Ana
name: Manić, Božidar
Publisher: name: University of Strathclyde Publishing
Year: 2022

description: The formal planning system in Serbia has recently been upgraded with the introduction of new strategic documents. One of them is the Sustainable Urban Development Strategy of the Republic of Serbia until 2030 (2019) developed in accordance with the EU policies and UN Sustainable Development Goal 11. Multisectoral and territorial approaches have been proposed to improve the planning methodology. Several key topics were considered in the Strategy, where special attention was paid to cultural heritage. The resulting SWOT analysis showed great cultural potential of Serbia which relates to regional, European and world heritage. This potential has already been affirmed through Serbia's participation in international projects and programs, as well as through the proclamation of Novi Sad for the European Capital of Culture for 2021. However, the SWOT analysis also showed that at the national and local levels cultural potential has still not been adequately supported by current legislative which do not recognizes specific typologies of heritage (proposed by ICOMOS) such as urban and rural settlements, historic towns and villages. This leads to decline of these types of urban forms which are important landmarks of Serbia's cultural and historical past – especially smaller ones in underdeveloped areas. Furthemore, it leads to decline of valuable types of vernacular architecture and spatial entities. There are huge pressures for inadequate development even in the surroundings of the cultural assets. The approach proposed in the Strategy sought to bridge the gap between the regulatory framework of the cultural heritage protection in Serbia, which still supports a sectoral and object-oriented approach and modern conservation approaches that advocate a contextual and integrative approach. In these efforts, an active relationship between urban conservation and urban designing and planning is required where urban morphology can pave the way for making a common scientific and professional platform.
The Effect of Engagement in Everyday Occupations, Role Overload and Social Support on Health and Life Satisfaction among Mothers
Creators: name: Bar, Michal Avrech
name: Jarus, Tal
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2019

description: One of the founding assumptions underlying the health professions is the belief that there is a strong relationship between engagement in occupations, health, and wellbeing. The ability to perform everyday occupations (occupational performance) has a positive effect on health and wellbeing. However, there is also conflicting evidence indicating that participation in multiple roles or in certain occupations may lead to poorer health. Therefore, there is a need to better understand this relationship. The purpose of the present study was to examine three possible theoretical models to explain mothers’ health and life satisfaction from the perspective of their occupational performance, their role load, and their social support. 150 married mothers, ages of 25–45, who had at least one child between the ages of one to ten years, participated in the study. Data were collected by using seven self-report questionnaires. The models were analyzed using Structural Equation Modeling. The results show that social support has a direct effect on mothers’ physical health and life satisfaction and an indirect effect, mediated through the occupational performance variables, on mothers’ mental health and life satisfaction. Role overload does not affect mothers’ health and life satisfaction. These results suggest that mothers could benefit from health programs that help them manage their occupational routines. Such programs should focus on improving the mother’s occupational performance and adapting her social environment to fit her occupational needs.
title: Ageing and urban form in Aix-Marseille-Provence metropolis
Creators: name: Perez, Joan
name: Araldi, Alessandro
name: Bridier, Sébastien
name: Decoupigny, Fabrice
name: Fusco, Giovanni
name: Laperrière, Vincent
name: Risi, Florian
name: Trémélo, Marie-Laure
Publisher: name: University of Strathclyde Publishing
Year: 2022

description: The world population is ageing. In France, this phenomenon is particularly pronounced with 19.6% of the population being over 65-year-old in 2018. While it has been recognized that urban form plays an important role in ensuring a sustainable future for urban areas, ageing dynamics are challenging the core concept of urban sustainability. Maintaining or improving the quality of life of an ageing population through urban built form will become as much important, and as much recognized, as ensuring urban environmental sustainability in the future. Today, the well-being of the elderly is still reduced to the economic aspects of the silver economy or to ergonomic aspects in building design. While socio-demographic micro-data on the elderly are available, a comprehensive metropolitan-wide and fine-scale description of the urban forms where seniors live must rely on the latest developments of urban morphometrics. From historic city centres to suburban residential areas, passing through modernist apartment blocks, none of these typical forms seems particularly suited to the needs posed by ageing, which must accommodate accessibility to housing itself and to local shops, health care and services in general. The question of the role of different urban forms over the spatial distribution of the seniors thus arises, as well as the capacity of spatial arrangements to suit the needs and specificities of an ageing population. The case study is a metropolitan area that offers a great heterogeneity of urban forms: Aix- Marseille-Provence, in Southern France. Some areas show over or under-representation of seniors, while others are better at ensuring a generational mix. In most cases, the spatial distribution of the seniors can be linked to specific building hull forms. The spatial distribution of these hull types, and their close relationships to ageing and accessibility are presented in this paper.
Shadows aspect of rotating black holes in the Einstein-AdS SU(N)-nonlinear sigma model
Creators: name: Fathi, Mohsen
name: Sekhmani, Yassine
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent observations of the supermassive black holes M87* and Sgr A* by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) have opened new avenues for testing gravity theories through black hole shadow observables. These observations offer a means to distinguish between general relativity and modified gravity theories while providing insights into the astrophysical properties of the observed black holes. In this work, we investigate photon orbits and shadow characteristics of rotating black holes within the Einstein-$\mathrm{SU}(N)$ nonlinear sigma model. We first analyze the static, spherically symmetric black hole solution, focusing on its asymptotically Anti-de Sitter behavior and causal structure. The Modified Newman-Janis Algorithm is then applied to obtain the rotating counterpart, followed by an examination of its geometric properties, ergoregions, and causal structure. Utilizing the Lagrangian formalism, we derive the equations of motion for photons and study the resulting black hole shadow on the celestial plane. We explore the dependence of the shadow's size and shape on the black hole parameters $K$ and $N$, imposing constraints using EHT observational data for M87* and Sgr A*. Finally, we analyze the black hole's evaporation rate under different scenarios.
description: 26 pages, 17 figures
title: Evolution of the block morphology : comparative case study of the block scale between Chinese megablock and other area
Creators: name: Peng, Yixuan
name: Nel, Darren
name: Bruyns, Gerhard
name: Wang, Ping
name: Qu, Lei
name: Chen, Chen
Publisher: name: University of Strathclyde Publishing
Year: 2022

description: There is no denying the significance of understanding "scale" in urban studies in China. In either daily life or theoretical analysis, the 'mega' scale has become part and parcel of the Chinese context, intuitively observed by researchers, citizens or even outsiders as a key and foundational role in all dimensions and formats of urban issues. However, scale, at the same time, is often overly underestimated in many studies of Chinese urbanization. When examining the form of Chinese urbanism and its spatial organization, one should understand both the meaning and roles of scale and its mechanization in any type of urban development. This brings in its wake of other questions that pertain to whether the elements of scale can be fully conceptualized and theorized to act as the basic conceptual framework and analytical tools for analysing the Chinese urban form as well as future trajectories of Chinese urbanisms and their evolution processes. The research focus is on the analysis of block scale and more specifically, a mega-scale block typology, which has been widely discussed within the literature of Chinese urban morphology. However, there is little clarity on how big is the Chinese urban block when compared to urban blocks of other forms of urbanism? Within this framing, we also begin to question how big is the "megablock"? This study compares the Chinese megablock with other representative type of urbanism. As part of the comparison, a quantitative analysis of 100 cases from across the world are assessed through a morphological and statistical lens: to classify and rank their value, proportion, and distribution, in order to objectively discuss the evolution of block scale. In addition, to quantitatively describe the unique characteristics of Chinese megablock that worth to be further investigated.
title: Street morphology analysis citywide : a bi-dimensional approach
Creators: name: Palominos, Nicolas
Publisher: name: University of Strathclyde Publishing
Year: 2022

description: The configurational analysis of urban form is most commonly based on linear representations of streets. The space or right-of-way of streets, however, is subdivided into clearly demarcated and measurable space for pedestrians and vehicles which entails a much more complex spatial organisation than lines can represent. Because of the endurance of street layouts, the reallocation of streetspace becomes a key design operation for street adaptation to new types of movement technologies and for promoting active travel. The research introduces a new methodology for quantifying streetspace allocation of all streets in a large system using a geocomputational approach that both allows decoding high-resolution topographic data over a large geographic extent and can be replicated across multiple cities. I use GIS to produce a series of maps that describe the visual structure of the pedestrian-vehicular streetspace relation. The programmatic application of the street cross-section technique enables the comprehensive analysis of streetspace citywide at a high-spatial resolution offering new data to expand street morphology studies in informative ways with the potential for interrogating current street designs. From the analysis of the streetspace allocation of all streets in London, it is possible to argue that studying pedestrian and vehicular space allocation is not only important for understanding the reciprocal relationships between the design and strategic scales of streets but also valuable for supporting urban design and transport policies towards more people-oriented streets.
Spiral folding of a flexible chain of chiral active particles
Creators: name: Anand, Shalabh K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate a flexible polymer chain made up of chiral active Brownian particles in two dimensions using computer simulations. In the presence of chiral active Brownian forces, the radius of gyration of the chain reduces significantly. We further identify the formation of spirals using the tangent-tangent correlation to characterize the internal structure of the chain. The polymer chain forms a pair of spirals with opposite spiral turns on both ends of the polymer. We compute the number of turns of both spirals, and find that the total number of turns increases with angular frequency as well as P{é}clet number. However, the spirals become weak and the number of turns decreases at a very high P{é}clet number. We draw a phase diagram using the turn number. The end-to-end correlation displays oscillatory behavior, which signifies the rotational dynamics of the chain. We quantify the rotation frequency from the end-to-end vector, which follows a power law behavior with exponent $3/2$. We also provide a scaling relation between the radius of gyration and the chain length, and the exponent decreases significantly in the presence of chiral active forces.
description: 10 pages
title: The influence of urban design practice in the transformation of the built environment of Montreal : the contribution of three recent projects associated with sustainable development
Creators: name: Racine, François
Publisher: name: University of Strathclyde Publishing
Year: 2022

description: This article deals with the relationship between the field of urban morphology and the practice of urban design. The research develops a morphological method to analyze the basic cognitive operations required to design built environments and to reveal their relationship patterns in connection with existing urban form. The three building-centric urban design projects studied here in Montreal (Canada), aimed at defining more sustainable forms, are intended to make cities and human settlements more inclusive and resilient. In this context, our research question is at what level the projects developed by the teams of urban designers address the concepts of sustainability.
Impact of Nitrogen Fertilization on Forest Carbon Sequestration and Water Loss in a Chronosequence of Three Douglas-Fir Stands in the Pacific Northwest
Creators: name: Dou, Xianming
name: Chen, Baozhang
name: Black, T. Andrew
name: Jassal, Rachhpal S.
name: Che, Mingliang
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2019

description: To examine the effect of nitrogen (N) fertilization on forest carbon (C) sequestration and water loss, we used an artiﬁcial neural network model to estimate C fluxes and evapotranspiration (ET) in response to N fertilization during four post-fertilization years in a Pacific Northwest chronosequence of three Douglas-fir stands aged 61, 22 and 10 years old in 2010 (DF49, HDF88 and HDF00, respectively). Results showed that N fertilization increased gross primary productivity (GPP) for all three sites in all four years with the largest absolute increase at HDF00 followed by HDF88. Ecosystem respiration increased in all four years at HDF00, but decreased over the last three years at HDF88 and over all four years at DF49. As a result, fertilization increased the net ecosystem productivity of all three stands with the largest increase at HDF88, followed by DF49. Fertilization had no discernible effect on ET in any of the stands. Consequently, fertilization increased water use efficiency (WUE) in all four post-fertilization years at all three sites and also increased light use efficiency (LUE) of all the stands, especially HDF00. Our results suggest that the effects of fertilization on forest C sequestration and water loss may be associated with stand age and fertilization; the two younger stands appeared to be more efficient than the older stand with respect to GPP, WUE and LUE.
title: The effect of urban form on functional organization of space : a critical perspective on the role of configuration in urban planning by comparing three districts in Ankara, Turkey
Creators: name: Sevik, Ebru
name: Efeoglu, Hulusi Eren
Publisher: name: University of Strathclyde Publishing
Year: 2022

description: The configurational studies illustrate that there is a determinant relationship between human mobility and the built environment. For decades, the behavioral sciences have thoroughly elaborated on the effect of the built environment on human behavior based on the perceptual dimensions. An innovative approach to this relationship has opened another perspective in the last decades with the development of Space Syntax Theory (SST), which considers the topological structure of the street network as the primary conditioner of human movement. The research based on SST also suggests a strong correlation between the urban land uses and the configurational structure of the city. On the other hand, many inconsistencies are addressed by scholars criticizing the reductionist approach of the theory from planning and design perspectives. In this sense, this study focuses on the association between functional patterns and configurational structure of space in three different urban contexts in Ankara, which vary in terms of planning and development processes: Ulus District, Bahcelievler Neighborhood and Eryaman District. Within each case study, the topographical integration patterns are revealed by using space-syntax analysis and compared with the existing land-use patterns, observed pedestrian intensities, and main focal points. The potential central areas conditioned by the topological structure in all three areas are then evaluated, and a critical perspective is developed in terms of the role of configurational analysis in urban planning and design processes.
title: Thinking places : towards application of place-based GIS in urban morphology
Creators: name: Slivinskaya, Liudmila
Publisher: name: University of Strathclyde Publishing
Year: 2022

description: This article sketches out a tentative direction towards potentials that might be opened by the formalization of place through place-based GIS for the study of urban form. In particular, models of place based on function and affordances are touched upon to explore their relevance within the domain of urban morphology under contemporary urban conditions. Established morphological relations and hierarchies of elements of urban form become more and more fragmented as new complex hybrid typologies emerge and proliferate. Such new types of spaces, being highly flexible, multi-layered, ever increasing in complexity, entangling built forms and open spaces, merging inside and outside, featuring stacks of green spaces in sophisticated vertical programming, call for an equally complex and multidimensional vision of urban form, its generative and operational principles. There is thus a need to search for new ways and approaches to take the conceptualization of urban form further, beyond its mere geometrical properties. Functional imperatives inter alia drive formation and transformation of urban form. Could then a place, understood through its functions or affordances, offer deeper insights into formation, emergence, and operation of urban form today? Could such formalization, embedded into GIS, allow for richer data flows to be analysed, opening up new experiential and operational facets of urban form? Could it lead towards better integration of a human-centred perspective allowing us to see ‘lived’ or ‘experienced’ urban form not only through phenomenological, subjective, individual accounts or narratives, but also as it is embedded in abstract blank space? Such are the questions touched upon by the article.
title: Of form and feeling : correlating urban form and feelings of insecurity in Porto, Portugal
Creators: name: Saraiva, Miguel
name: Amante, Ana
Publisher: name: University of Strathclyde Publishing
Year: 2022

description: Environmental criminology is built on the principle that criminal behaviour is conditioned by the (built) environment it occurs in, and that the introduction/removal of design and built features may reduce insecurity and criminal occurrences. Hence, local-based strategies have proven that "place matters" in crime-prevention, and have established the need for interdisciplinary research where urban morphology plays a central role, due to the influence of different spatial elements in feelings and behaviours. Although environmental criminology exists since the 1970s, it has recently been the object of new interest due to the increased success of strategies related to the criminology of places. This paper pretends to contribute to this debate by making an early exploration of how different components of place (built environment) and safety (perceptions of insecurity) correlate, using the city of Porto as case study. Based on a population survey carried out in 2020, feelings of unsafety towards places and their environmental features were determined, and compared with morphological variables at local level, derived from official data sources. A sample of about 500 respondents was analysed, and the results were compared spatially. It is expected that the resulting research contributes to draw locally based prevention strategies based on the articulation between urban morphological elements, planning policies and the different realms of prevention.
title: Civil society participation in building resilient cities : Ipiranga neighbourhood, city of São Paulo, Brazil
Creators: name: Santos, Thiago Luiz Salvadeo
name: Degreas, Helena Napoleon
Publisher: name: University of Strathclyde Publishing
Year: 2022

description: This article describes the actions of civil society to face the consequences associated with torrential rains and floods that occur in Ipiranga neighbourhood, the city of São Paulo, Brazil. These are constituted by processes of waterproofing surfaces, degradation and extinction of natural resources and insufficient housing policies to serve the low-income population who are forced to occupy flooded areas or slopes, Brazilian cities have low resilience capacity or, are unable to resist, to absorb, to adapt and to recover efficiently after extreme events. Despite adhering to the 2030 Agenda goals and providing for Strategic Master Plan (Act No. 16.050/2014) guidelines for the development of public policies for the preservation of environmental heritage, its performance without facing the risk to life and the loss of material goods of the population caused by the floods is slow. Anticipating the solution of problems not addressed by the local government, a local community, the participative counsellor of Municipal Council for the Environment, Sustainable Development and Culture of Peace and Subprefecture Ipiranga create a pilot project for rain gardens with the objective of containing floods in the region. It is a redefinition of the form taken by the road system through the inclusion of permeable areas over residual areas existing on streets and sidewalks. The study takes place at Garcia Velho Square located in Vila São José and is an example of community participation in dealing with sustainable practices. The research is carried out through the reading and analysis of the legislation and urban regulation, visits and participationin the place with the actions of the population besides the confrontation of the theoretical questions that support the method and the instruments that are subsidizing this stage of work.
Psallus betuleti
Creators: name: Vinokurov, Nikolay N.
name: Rudoi, Valentin V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Miridae
Psallus
Psallus betuleti

description: Psallus betuleti (Fallén, 1807)
 Material. Kurai Mts, Teranjik and Right Kubadru Rivers, 50°21′ N, 87°55′ E, H = 2200–2600 m, 29.07– 02.08.2019, 1 ♀.
 Distribution. Holarctic. First record from Altai Republic.
description: Published as part of Vinokurov, Nikolay N. & Rudoi, Valentin V., 2020, New materials on heteropterans from Kurai steppe (south-west of Russian Altai), pp. 25-35 in Ecologica Montenegrina 38 on page 29, DOI: 10.37828/em.2020.38.5, http://zenodo.org/record/13231892
Quantum Electrodynamics from Quantum Cellular Automata, and the Tension Between Symmetry, Locality and Positive Energy
Creators: name: Brun, Todd A.
name: Mlodinow, Leonard
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that free QED is equivalent to the continuous-space-and-time limit of Fermi and Bose lattice quantum cellular automata theories derived from quantum random walks satisfying simple symmetry and unitarity conditions. In doing so we define the Fermi and Bose theories in a unified manner using the usual fermion internal space but a boson internal space that is six-dimensional. We show that the reduction to a two-dimensional boson internal space (two helicity states arising from spin-1 plus the photon transversality condition) comes from restricting the quantum cellular automaton theory to positive energies. We briefly examine common symmetries of quantum cellular automata, and how time-reversal symmetry demands the existence of negative-energy solutions. These solutions produce a tension in coupling the Fermi and Bose theories, in which the strong locality of quantum cellular automata seems to require a nonzero amplitude to produce negative-energy states, leading to an unphysical cascade of negative-energy particles. However, we show in a 1D model that by extending interactions over a larger (but finite) range it is possible to exponentially suppress the production of negative-energy particles to the point where they can be neglected.
description: 27 pages, 4 figures, published in Entropy special issue "Recent Advances and Challenges in Quantum Cellular Automata"
O USO DE PLACAS PIEZOELÉTRICAS EM LOCAIS DE ALTO FLUXO DE PESSOAS
Creators: name: Gabriel Leonel de Oliveira, Silas
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Ao longo de muitos anos, o desenvolvimento da humanidade garantiu conforto e longevidade em virtude dos avanços na medicina, na agricultura, na tecnologia, dentre outros. Devido a isso, a população no planeta vem crescendo e, com isso, aumenta a procura por fontes energéticas, elevando assim, os impactos ambientais. Nesse sentido, o padrão dominante na produção de energia, ou seja, aquele que produz a partir da utilização de insumos não renováveis, lidera dentre outras razões, por apresentar baixo custo de produção. Não obstante, diante da possibilidade de esgotamento desses recursos e principalmente diante da pressão de órgãos ambientais, fez-se necessário modificar a situação atual em prol de melhorias nos níveis de sustentabilidade (FREITAS e DATHEIN, 2013).

No geral, é previsto que, com o crescimento populacional já projetado, a demanda por energia aumente em todo o mundo. Assim, é necessário investir em pesquisas futuras que tentem encontrar novas formas de armazenar e produzir energia que não afetem a natureza como ocorre atualmente. (BRITO et al, 2017)

Recentemente, fala-se muito sobre a busca por formas de geração de energias que tragam sustentabilidade e causem o mínimo de impactos ambientais. As pesquisas, estudos de casos e experimentos sobre a piezoeletricidade foram escritos e publicados relacionados a forma de geração de energia limpa (CALHEIROS, 2016).
"Silent Is Not Actually Silent": An Investigation of Toxicity on Bug Report Discussion
Creators: name: Imran, Mia Mohammad
name: Sarker, Jaydeb
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Toxicity in bug report discussions poses significant challenges to the collaborative dynamics of open-source software development. Bug reports are crucial for identifying and resolving defects, yet their inherently problem-focused nature and emotionally charged context make them susceptible to toxic interactions. This study explores toxicity in GitHub bug reports through a qualitative analysis of 203 bug threads, including 81 toxic ones. Our findings reveal that toxicity frequently arises from misaligned perceptions of bug severity and priority, unresolved frustrations with tools, and lapses in professional communication. These toxic interactions not only derail productive discussions but also reduce the likelihood of actionable outcomes, such as linking issues with pull requests. Our preliminary findings offer actionable recommendations to improve bug resolution by mitigating toxicity.
Supplementary Information 2 from Inversions and parallel evolution
Creators: name: Westram, Anja M.
name: Faria, Rui
name: Johannesson, Kerstin
name: Butlin, Roger
name: Barton, Nick
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 60408 Genomics

description: Theory, pdf version
title: An Evaluation of Ad Valorem Equivalent Tariffs: Evidence from a Partial Equilibrium Model
Creators: name: Phillips, Paul
Publisher: name: United States International Trade Commission
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/05hsggr76
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: Economists often replace specific tariffs with their ad valorem equivalents, or AVEs, when calibrating models. However, the computation of AVEs under a counterfactual tariff schedule is impossible without assuming that unit prices do not change, and this assumption results in misleading estimates if unit prices do
change. In this paper, I set up a partial equilibrium trade model that is able to include both specific and ad
valorem tariffs; I then compute counterfactual equilibria both with specific rates from the data and the AVEs
of those rates, and the difference between these estimates provides an indicator of AVEs’ reliability as a
measure. I perform this analysis under two counterfactual scenarios: one in with all specific tariffs increase
by ten percent and one in which twenty percent of imports become subject to column 2 tariffs instead of
the lower permanent normal trade relations (PNTR) tariffs. Results indicate very little difference between
import quantity estimates computed with specific rates and estimates computed with AVEs, suggesting
that AVEs are a reliable substitute for specific tariff rates when doing economic modeling.
Mechanical resonant sensing of spin texture dynamics in a two-dimensional antiferromagnet
Creators: name: Yousuf, S M Enamul Hoque
name: Wang, Yunong
name: Ramachandran, Shreyas
name: Koptur-Palenchar, John
name: Tarantini, Chiara
name: Xiang, Li
name: McGill, Stephen
name: Smirnov, Dmitry
name: Santos, Elton J. G.
name: Feng, Philip X. -L.
name: Zhang, Xiao-Xiao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The coupling between the spin degrees of freedom and macroscopic mechanical motions, including striction, shearing, and rotation, has attracted wide interest with applications in actuation, transduction, and information processing. Experiments so far have established the mechanical responses to the long-range ordered or isolated single spin states. However, it remains elusive whether mechanical motions can couple to a different type of magnetic structure, the non-collinear spin textures, which exhibit nanoscale spatial variations of spin (domain walls, skyrmions, etc.) and are promising candidates to realize high-speed computing devices. Here, we report the detection of collective spin texture dynamics with nanoelectromechanical resonators made of two-dimensional antiferromagnetic (AFM) MnPS3 with $10^{-9}$ strain sensitivity. By examining radio frequency mechanical oscillations under magnetic fields, new magnetic transitions were identified with sharp dips in resonant frequency. They are attributed to the collective AFM domain wall motions as supported by the analytical modeling of magnetostriction and large-scale spin-dynamics simulations. Additionally, an abnormally large modulation in the mechanical nonlinearity at the transition field infers a fluid-like response due to the ultrafast domain motion. Our work establishes a strong coupling between spin texture and mechanical dynamics, laying the foundation for electromechanical manipulation of spin texture and developing quantum hybrid devices.
Supplementary Information 1 from Inversions and parallel evolution
Creators: name: Westram, Anja M.
name: Faria, Rui
name: Johannesson, Kerstin
name: Butlin, Roger
name: Barton, Nick
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 60408 Genomics

description: Simulation methods
title: The dialogical genesis of city forms
Creators: name: Thornberg, Josep Muntañola
name: Carulla, Magda Saura
name: García, Regina
name: Martínez, Nathan
name: Beltrán, Julia
Publisher: name: University of Strathclyde Publishing
Year: 2022

description: City forms are at the origin of historical cultural human living processes and without them our memory could not be developed neither at a personal nor at a social level. With the computer, as happened with the writing text invention or the printing methods, history and memory enter in a new era with deep changes in the human urban life. This paper will start with the recent work by Luis Umbelino (2017) about the ontology of placeness and it will also analyze the elusive reflexive interactive social cognition defined by David Kirsh (2019). Then it will analyze how the emergence of city forms relay upon dialogical transparences between the physical, the social and the symbolic dimensions of the cities. When cities lose these transparencies, not only visual, but they also start to be pathological. The paper will follow the extraordinary work by Bill Hillier and his frustrations in relation to the way this transparency can be forecasted or improved with digital tools. The paper will analyze some examples of city forms emergences to uncover when this transparency is lost and, simultaneously, how the reflexive interactive social cognition of designers, architects and urban planners disappears with it. The new concepts to analyze this transparency, are the urban indicators of quality, as is the case of the urban indicators by the network of Child Friendly Cities in UNICEF (February 2010). These chronotopic indicators can point out the way the genesis of city forms can be inhabited by children in a healthy way. Paradoxically this strategy has been used for the business standard of a city and for the standard quality of life of each city form, but the indicators should be used in research now from quite different points of view.
title: The influence of rainwater drainage related to legislation in the configuration of the urban landscape in Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Creators: name: Teixeira, Maria Cristina
name: Costa, Stäel
name: Andrade, Elisabete
name: Lopes, Giovanna
name: Ferreira, Rogério
name: Teixeira, Henrique
name: Costa, Aline
name: Maciel, Laiza
Publisher: name: University of Strathclyde Publishing
Year: 2022

description: Master plans and land use, occupation and subdivision laws are some of the main instruments responsible for shaping and directing urban development. In relation to this, legislation has a fundamental role in consolidating effective rainwater drainage strategies, such as the establishment of minimum permeability rates, environmental protection zones and tax incentives over the installation of compensatory storage and drainage systems. In the city of Belo Horizonte, Brazil, the expansion of urban occupation has taken place inappropriately with regards to the existing hydric resources, with little consideration for natural water courses and reflecting developmentalist and unsustainable thinking, which has resulted in the occupation of the river sides and the rectification of water courses in a counterproductive manner. In addition, the city has been late in addressing the issues and legislation regarding rainwater management. This has led to a series of problems in dealing with urban drainage, resulting in recurring and damaging floods throughout the periods of high rainfall over the hydrographic basin of the River Arrudas, and at the expense of extensive social, economic and structural damage to the city. This paper seeks, through a critical review and analysis of the evolution of the municipal urban drainage laws from 1930 to the present, to evaluate the applicability of urban planning instruments adopted in the central area of the city and their effectiveness as mechanisms of landscape transformation and environmental improvement.