pinecone/core-2020-05-10-deduplication huggingface dataset:
Making a case for social impact assessment in urban development : social impacts and legal disputes in Queensland, Australia

Urban land use planning and policy decisions are often contested, with the multiple stakeholders (business, developers, residents, policymakers and the wider community) frequently holding opposing viewpoints about the issues and best solution. In recent years, however, the participatory process of social impact assessment (SIA) has received significant attention as a way to mitigate conflict, facilitating negotiation and conflict resolution. This paper examines how social impacts have informed development appeals in Australia, focussing on ten cases from the Queensland Planning and Environment Court (QPEC). Half are appeals from community members (typically neighbours) wanting to oppose approvals and half from organisations appealing against City Councils’ decisions to deny their development applications. While legal challenges do not necessarily reflect attitudes and practices, they provide a means to begin to assess how social impacts (although not often explicitly defined as such) inform development related disputes. Based on the nature and outcomes of 10 QPEC cases, we argue that many legal cases could have been avoided if SIA had been undertaken appropriately. First, the issues in each case are clearly social, incorporating impacts on amenity, the character of an area, the needs of different social groups, perceptions of risk and a range of other social issues.  Second, the outcomes and recommendations from each case, such as negotiating agreements, modifying plans and accommodating community concerns would have been equally served thorough SIA. Our argument is that engagement at an early stage, utilising SIA, could have likely achieved the same result in a less adversarial and much less expensive and time-consuming environment than a legal case
A search for excited neutrinos in e−pe−p collisions at HERA

A search for first generation excited neutrinos is performed using the full e−p data sample collected by the H1 experiment at HERA at a centre-of-mass energy of 319 GeV, corresponding to a total luminosity of 184 pb−1. The electroweak decays of excited neutrinos ν*→νγ, ν*→νZ and ν*→eW with subsequent hadronic or leptonic decays of the W and Z bosons are considered. No evidence for excited neutrino production is found. Mass dependent exclusion limits on ν* production cross sections and on the ratio of the coupling to the compositeness scale f/Λ are derived within gauge mediated models. A limit on f/Λ, independent of the relative couplings to the SU(2) and U(1) gauge bosons, is also determined. These limits extend the excluded region to higher masses than has been possible in previous excited neutrino searches
Geometrical tests of cosmological models. I. Probing dark energy using the kinematics of high redshift galaxies

We suggest to use the observationally measured and theoretically justified correlation between size and rotational velocity of galactic discs as a viable method to select a set of high redshift standard rods which may be used to explore the dark energy content of the universe via the classical angular-diameter test. Here we explore a new strategy for an optimal implementation of this test.We propose to use the rotation speed of high redshift galaxies as a standard size indicator and show how high resolution multi-object spectroscopy and ACS/HST high quality spatial images, may be combined to measure the amplitude of the dark energy density parameter ΩQ, or to constrain the cosmic equation of state parameter for a smooth dark energy component (w = p/ρ, −1 ≤ w < −1/3). Nearly 1300 standard rods with high velocity rotation in the bin V = 200 ± 20 km s−1 are expected in a field of 1 sq. degree and over the\ud
redshift baseline 0 < z < 1.4. This sample is sufficient to constrain the cosmic equation of state parameter w at a level of 20% (without priors in the [Ωm,ΩQ] plane) even when the [OII]λ3727 Å linewidth-diameter relationship is calibrated with a scatter of ∼40%. We evaluate how systematics may affect the proposed tests, and find that a linear standard rod evolution, causing galaxy dimensions\ud
to be up to 30% smaller at z = 1.5, can be uniquely diagnosed, and will minimally bias the confidence level contours in the [ΩQ, w] plane. Finally, we show how to derive, without a priori knowing the specific functional form of disc evolution, a cosmologyevolution diagram with which it is possible to establish a mapping between different cosmological models and the amount of galaxy\ud
disc/luminosity evolution expected at a given redshift
Electroweak corrections to hadronic event shapes and jet production in e+e− annihilation

We present a complete calculation of the electroweak O(α3α) corrections to three-jet production and related event-shape observables at electron-positron colliders. The Z-boson resonance is described within the complex-mass scheme, rendering the calculation valid both in the resonance and off-shell regions. Higher-order initial-state radiation is included in the leading-logarithmic approximation. We properly account for the corrections to the total hadronic cross section and for the experimental photon isolation criteria. To this end we implement contributions of the quark-to-photon fragmentation function both in the slicing and subtraction formalism. The effects of the electroweak corrections on various event-shape distributions and on the three-jet rate are studied. They are typically at the few-percent level, and remnants of the radiative return are found even after inclusion of appropriate cuts.\ud
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Electroweak corrections to hadronic event shapes and jet production in e+e‑ annihilation\ud
Authors:	\ud
Denner, Ansgar; Dittmaier, Stefan; Gehrmann, Thomas; Kurz, Christian\ud
Affiliation:	\ud
AA(Paul Scherrer Institut, CH-5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland), AB(Physikalisches Institut, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, D-79104 Freiburg, Germany), AC(Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Zürich, CH-8057 Zürich, Switzerland), AD(Paul Scherrer Institut, CH-5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland; Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Zürich, CH-8057 Zürich, Switzerland
Social choice with approximate interpersonal comparisons of well-being

Some social choice models assume that precise interpersonal comparisons of utility (either ordinal or cardinal) are possible, allowing a rich theory of distributive justice.  Other models assume that absolutely no interpersonal comparisons are possible, or even meaningful; hence all Pareto-efficient outcomes are equally socially desirable.  We compromise between these two extremes, by developing a model of `approximate' interpersonal comparisons of well-being, in terms of an incomplete preorder on the space of psychophysical states.  We then define and characterize `approximate' versions of the classical egalitarian and utilitarian social welfare orderings.  We show that even very weak assumptions about interpersonal comparability can yield preorders on the space of social alternatives which, while incomplete, are far more complete than the Pareto preorder (e.g. they select relatively small subsets of the Pareto frontier as being `socially optimal').  We also develop a variant of Harsanyi's Social Aggregation Theorem.
Social identity, group composition and public good provision: an experimental study

Social fragmentation has been identified as a potential cause for the under-provision of public goods in developing nations, as well as in urban communities in developed countries such as the U.S. We study the effect of social fragmentation on public good provision using laboratory experiments. We create two artificial social groups in the lab and we assign subjects belonging to both groups to a public good game. The treatment variable is the relative size of each social group, which is a proxy for social fragmentation. We find that while higher social fragmentation leads to lower public good provision, this effect is short-lived. Furthermore, social homogeneity does not lead to higher levels of contributions.
How the amyloid-?? peptide and membranes affect each other :
                    An extensive simulation study

Copyright ?? 2012. Published by Elsevier B.V.The etiology of Alzheimer's disease is thought to be linked to interactions between amyloid-?? (A??) and neural cell membranes, causing membrane disruption and increased ion conductance. The effects of A?? on lipid behavior have been characterized experimentally, but structural and causal details are lacking. We used atomistic molecular dynamics simulations totaling over 6??s in simulation time to investigate the behavior of A??(42) in zwitterionic and anionic lipid bilayers. We simulated transmembrane ??-sheets (monomer and tetramer) resulting from a global optimization study and a helical structure obtained from an NMR study. In all simulations A??(42) remained embedded in the bilayer. It was found that the surface charge and the lipid tail type are determinants for transmembrane stability of A??(42) with zwitterionic surfaces and unsaturated lipids promoting stability. From the considered structures, the ??-sheet tetramer is most stable as a result of interpeptide interactions. We performed an in-depth analysis of the translocation of water in the A??(42)-bilayer systems. We observed that this process is generally fast (within a few nanoseconds) yet generally slower than in the peptide-free bilayers. It is mainly governed by the lipid type, simulation temperature and A??(42) conformation. The rate limiting step is the permeation through the hydrophobic core, where interactions between A??(42) and permeating H(2)Omolecules slow the translocation process. The ??-sheet tetramer allows more water molecules to pass through the bilayer compared to monomeric A??, allowing us to conclude that the experimentally observed permeabilization of membranes must be due to membrane-bound A?? oligomers, and not monomers
Hybridized Plasmons in 2D Nano-slits: From Graphene to Anisotropic 2D  Materials

Plasmon coupling and hybridization in complex nanostructures constitutes a
fertile playground for controlling light at the nanoscale. Here, we present a
semi-analytical model to describe the emergence of hybrid plasmon modes guided
along 2D nano-slits. In particular, we find two new coupled plasmonic
resonances arising from symmetric and antisymmetric hybridizations of the edge
plasmons of the constituent half-sheets. These give rise to an antibonding and
a bonding mode, lying above and below the energy of the bare edge plasmon. Our
treatment is notably generic, being able to account for slits of arbitrary
width, and remains valid irrespective of the 2D conductive material (e.g.,
doped graphene, 2D transition metal dichalcogenides, or phosphorene). We derive
the dispersion relation of the hybrid modes of a 2D nano-slit along with the
corresponding induced potential and electric field distributions. We also
discuss the plasmonic spectrum of a 2D slit together with the one from its
complementarity structure, that is, a ribbon. Finally, the case of a nano-slit
made from an anisotropic 2D material is considered. Focusing on black
phosphorus (which is highly anisotropic), we investigate the features of its
plasmonic spectrum along the two main crystal axes. Our results offer insights
into the interaction of plasmons in complex 2D nanostructures, thereby
expanding the current toolkit of plasmonic resonances in 2D materials, and
paving the way for the emergence of future compact devices based on atomically
thin plasmonics.Danish National Research Foundation (Project
DNRF103), through the Center for Nanostructured Graphene.  N.A.M. is a VILLUM Inves-
tigator supported by the VILLUM FONDEN (grant No.  16498).  N.M.R.P. acknowledges
financial support from the European Commission (696656), and the Fundação Portuguesa para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (UID/FIS/04650/2013)info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersio
Flexible integration of visual cues in adolescents with autism spectrum disorder

Although children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) show atypical sensory processing, evidence for impaired integration of multisensory information has been mixed. In this study, we took a Bayesian model-based approach to assess within-modality integration of congruent and incongruent texture and disparity cues to judge slant in typical and autistic adolescents. Human adults optimally combine multiple sources of sensory information to reduce perceptual variance but in typical development this ability to integrate cues does not develop until late childhood. While adults cannot help but integrate cues, even when they are incongruent, young children's ability to keep cues separate gives them an advantage in discriminating incongruent stimuli. Given that mature cue integration emerges in later childhood, we hypothesized that typical adolescents would show adult-like integration, combining both congruent and incongruent cues. For the ASD group there were three possible predictions (1) "no fusion": no integration of congruent or incongruent cues, like 6-year-old typical children; (2) "mandatory fusion": integration of congruent and incongruent cues, like typical adults; (3) "selective fusion": cues are combined when congruent but not incongruent, consistent with predictions of Enhanced Perceptual Functioning (EPF) theory. As hypothesized, typical adolescents showed significant integration of both congruent and incongruent cues. The ASD group showed results consistent with "selective fusion," integrating congruent but not incongruent cues. This allowed adolescents with ASD to make perceptual judgments which typical adolescents could not. In line with EPF, results suggest that perception in ASD may be more flexible and less governed by mandatory top-down feedback. Autism Res 2015. © 2015 The Authors Autism Research published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. on behalf of International Society for Autism Research
Search for high-mass diphoton resonances in proton–proton collisions at 13 TeV and combination with 8 TeV search

A search for the resonant production of high-mass photon pairs is presented. The search focuses on spin-0 and spin-2 resonances with masses between 0.5 and 4.5 TeV, and with widths, relative to the mass, between $1.4$ x $10^{-4}$ and $5.6$ x $10^{-2}$. The data sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of $12.9fb^{-1}$ of proton–proton collisions collected with the CMS detector in 2016 at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV. No significant excess is observed relative to the standard model expectation. The results of the search are combined statistically with those previously obtained in 2012 and 2015 at $\sqrt{s} = 8$and 13 TeV, respectively, corresponding to integrated luminosities of 19.7 and $3.3fb^{-1}$ , to derive exclusion limits on scalar resonances produced through gluon–gluon fusion, and on Randall–Sundrum gravitons. The lower mass limits for Randall–Sundrum gravitons range from 1.95 to 4.45 TeV for coupling parameters between 0.01 and 0.2. These are the most stringent limits on Randall–Sundrum graviton production to date
Search for TeV-scale gravity signatures in final states with leptons and jets with the ATLAS detector at root s=7 TeV

The production of events with multiple high transverse momentum particles including charged leptons and jets is measured, using 1.04 fb−1 of proton–proton collision data recorded by the ATLAS detector during the first half of 2011 at View the MathML sources=7 TeV. No excess beyond Standard Model expectations is observed, and upper limits on the fiducial cross sections for non-Standard Model production of these final states are set. Using models for string ball and black hole production and decay, exclusion contours are determined as a function of mass threshold and the fundamental gravity scale.We acknowledge the support of ANPCyT, Argentina; YerPhl, Armenia; ARC, Australia; BMWF, Austria; ANAS, Azerbaijan; SSTC, Belarus; CNPq and FAPESP, Brazil; NSERC, NRC and CFI, Canada; CERN; CONICYT, Chile; CAS, MOST and NSFC, China; COLCIENCIAS, Colombia; MSMT CR, MPO CR and VSC CR, Czech Republic; DNRF, DNSRC and Lundbeck Foundation, Denmark; EPLANET and ERC, European Union; IN2P3-CNRS, CEA-DSM/IRFU, France; GNAS, Georgia; BMBF, DFG, HGF, MPG and AvH Foundation, Germany; GSRT, Greece; ISF, MINERVA, GIF, DIP and Benoziyo Center, Israel; INFN, Italy; MEXT and JSPS, Japan; CNRST, Morocco; FOM and NWO, Netherlands; RCN, Norway; MNiSW, Poland; GRICES and FCT, Portugal; MERYS (MECTS), Romania; MES of Russia and ROSATOM, Russian Federation; JINR; MSTD, Serbia; MSSR, Slovakia; ARRS and MVZT, Slovenia; DST/NRF, South Africa; MICINN, Spain; SRC and Wallenberg Foundation, Sweden; SER, SNSF and Cantons of Bern and Geneva, Switzerland; NSC, Taiwan; TAEK, Turkey; STFC, the Royal Society and Leverhulme Trust, United Kingdom; DOE and NSF, United States of America.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio
Scientific rationale and international obligations for protection of active hydrothermal vent ecosystems from deep-sea mining.

There is increasing interest in mining minerals on the seabed, including seafloor massive sulfide deposits that form at hydrothermal vents. The International Seabed Authority is currently drafting a Mining Code, including environmental regulations, for polymetallic sulfides and other mineral exploitation on the seabed in the area beyond national jurisdictions. This paper summarizes 1) the ecological vulnerability of active vent ecosystems and aspects of this vulnerability that remain subject to conjecture, 2) evidence for limited mineral resource opportunity at active vents, 3) non-extractive values of active vent ecosystems, 4) precedents and international obligations for protection of hydrothermal vents, and 5) obligations of the International Seabed Authority under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea for protection of the marine environment from the impacts of mining. Heterogeneity of active vent ecosystems makes it extremely challenging to identify “representative” systems for any regional, area-based management approach to conservation. Protection of active vent ecosystems from mining impacts (direct and indirect) would set aside only a small fraction of the international seabed and its mineral resources, would contribute to international obligations for marine conservation, would have non-extractive benefits, and would be a precautionary approach
Chestnut and lemon balm based ingredients as natural preserving agents of the nutritional profile in matured “Serra da Estrela” cheese

Chestnut flowers, lemon balm plants and their decoctions were incorporated into "Serra da Estrela" cheese, to assess their potential to preserve its nutritional properties and provide new foodstuffs. The analyses were carried out after the normal ripening period of 1month and after 6months of storage. The most abundant nutrients were proteins and fats. The most abundant minerals were Ca and Na, while C16:0 and C18:1 were the main fatty acids. Saturated fatty acids were the most abundant, followed by the monounsaturated. Moisture seemed to be lower in the samples with the plants incorporated. The dried plants, when incorporated, seemed to be more efficient as preservers then the decoctions, although these better preserved the proteins. These plants can be regarded as promising natural preservers in foodstuffs cheese, given the preservation of key parameters and the slight impact on the nutritional value.The authors are grateful to Queijos Casa Matias, Lda and Mais Ervas, Lda. For providing the cheese and M. officinalis samples, respectively. The authors also acknowledge PRODER project No. 46577-PlantLact, the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT, Portugal) for financial support to the CIMO research centre (Pest-OE/AGR/UI0690/2014) and ALIMNOVA research group (UCM-951505/2012), J.C.M. Barreira acknowledges the FCT for his post-doctoral grant (BPD/72802/2010)
Reduced endothelial dependent vasodilation in vessels from TLR4 mice is associated with increased superoxide generation

Toll like receptor (TLR)4 is a pattern recognition receptor expressed in endothelial and other cells, responsible for the sensing of endotoxin and host derived ligands. Our group has shown previously that the absence of TLR4 is associated with reduced endothelial dependent vasodilator responses and left heart hypertrophy in animal models. However, the mechanism behind reduced endothelial cell function in TLR4(-/-) mice is not known. We have used en face confocal imaging of mesenteric arteries from mice deficient in the TLR4 receptor stained with dihydroethidium (DHE) to measure superoxide production. Using the isometric wire myograph, mesenteric artery vasodilator responses to acetylcholine and MnCl(2) (a superoxide dismutase mimetic) were measured. Mesenteric arteries from TLR4(-/-) mice had a reduced endothelial dependent relaxant response and increased superoxide levels when stimulated with acetylcholine. Increased levels of superoxide, as detected by DHE staining, were seen in vessels from TLR4(-/-) mice, which were reduced to control levels in the presence of MnCl(2). Our observations suggest that loss of TLR4 increases superoxide generation which reduces the biological activity of endothelial derived nitric oxide and thereby explains the endothelial dysfunction and associated cardiovascular phenotype in TLR4(-/-) mice. These data implicate a novel cardio-protective role for TLR4 in vascular homeostasis
Measurement of CP asymmetry in $D^0 \to K^- K^+$ decays

A measurement of the time-integrated CP asymmetry in the Cabibbo-suppressed decay $D^0 \to K^- K^+$ is performed using ppcollision data, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 3 $fb^{−1}$, collected with the LHCb detector at centre-of-mass energies of 7 and 8TeV. The flavour of the charm meson at production is determined from the charge of the pion in $D^{∗+} \to D^0\pi^+ and D^{∗−} \to \overline{D}^0\pi^-$ decays. The time-integrated CP asymmetry $A_{CP}(K^- K^+)$ is obtained assuming negligible CP violation in charm mixing and in Cabibbo-favoured $D^0 \to K^−\pi^+, D^+ \to K^-\pi^+\pi^+$ and $D^+ \to \overline{K}^0\pi^+$ decays used as calibration channels. It is found to be\ud
$A_{CP}(K^- K^+) = (0.14 \pm 0.15 (stat) \pm 0.10 (syst))$%.\ud
A combination of this result with previous LHCb measurements yields\ud
$A_{CP}(K^- K^+) = (0.04 \pm 0.12 (stat) \pm 0.10 (syst)$)%,\ud
$A_{CP}(\pi^-\pi^+) = (0.07 \pm 0.14 (stat) \pm 0.11 (syst))$%.\ud
These are the most precise measurements from a single experiment. The result for $A_{CP}(K^- K^+)$ is the most precise determination of a time-integrated CP asymmetry in the charm sector to date, and neither measurement shows evidence of CP asymmetry