54 research outputs found
A Sketch of the Life of Elizabeth T. Stone, and of Her Persecution, with an Appendix of Her Treatment and Sufferings While in the Charleston McLean Asylum Where She was Confined Under the Pretense of Insanity
No full texthttps://kent-islandora.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/node/10566/10896-thumbnail.jpgPrinted for the Author, Boston: The Autho
Visit to an internment camp: Japanese are well treated at Missoula, Montana
No full textArticle in an issue of "Zion's herald" about the treatment of Japanese at Fort Missoula.The Japanese American Relocation Collection is composed of ephemera related to the relocation program during World War II. Items include the official government report of Manzanar Relocation Center, a photo album, post-war activism materials related to preserving and remembering the camps, various clippings, and documents. The strength of this collection is found in its many perspectives on the controversial relocation program and how it has been presented since World War II
Letter from unidentified author, Boston, Massachusetts, to Anne Whitney, 1911 May 2
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Uncertainty and dispersion of opinions
No full textOther (The paper is a revised version of a paper, "The Distorting Incentives of Relative Performance Evaluationfor Equity Analysts." We thank Ricardo Alonso, Wayne Ferson, Javier Gil-Bazo (the discussant), Christopher Jones, Anthony Marino, Kevin Murphy, Oguzhan Ozbas, Selale Tuzel, Mark WesterÖeld, and the participants at the Second Brazilian Workshop of the Game Theory Society in honor of John Nash on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of Nash Equilibrium, the second CNMV International Conference on Securities Market, and the seminars at the University of Southern California and McMaster University, for their helpful comments. Min S. Kim, Boston University, Department of Finance (email: [email protected], homepage: https://sites.google.com/view/minskim/home. Fernando Zapatero, Corresponding author; Boston University, Department of Finance (email: [email protected]; homepage: https://www.bu.edu/questrom/proÖle/fernando-zapatero/
Schwinger boson spin-liquid states on square lattice
No full textWe study possible spin liquids on square lattice that respect all lattice symmetries and time-reversal symmetry within the framework of Schwinger boson (mean-field) theory. Such spin liquids have spin gap and emergent Z(2) gauge field excitations. We classify them by the projective symmetry group method, and find six spin-liquid states that are potentially relevant to the J(1)-J(2) Heisenberg model. The properties of these states are studied under mean-field approximation. Interestingly we find a spin-liquid state that can go through continuous phase transitions to either the Neel magnetic order or magnetic orders of the wave vector at the Brillouin zone edge center. We also discuss the connection between our results and the Abrikosov fermion spin liquids.National Key Basic Research Program of China [2014CB920902]; National Natural Science Foundation of China [11374018]SCI(E)ARTICLE39
Replication Data for: Group 2 | BARI (Harvard, Northeastern): Expanding Administrative Urban Knowledge with R and Big Data: “Boston Property Assessments FY2018”
No full textI. INTRODUCTION, AND IMPACT OF FINDINGS FOR FUTURE IMPLEMENTATION
Outcome: A quantitative ""data-story"" can be fully expressed in qualitative form as a means of expressing the interconnected nature of variables that contribute to a networked understanding to map the constantly evolving modern Urban Landscape.
Enhanced allocative, fiscal, political, and social decision making lead to almost immediate positive externalities in terms of the connected urban landscape. Constant constraints of many different forms force decision-makers to make impulsive, rushed, and consequently uninformed decisions that are based merely on presuppositions. Constant construction of pathways between seamlessly unrelated sets of information derived from the existing, historic, and quantifiable data types will bring urban decision makers solution-based and preventative vs. reactive competitive advantage . These *NEW* ""Measures"" that we have calculated and defined only be achieved through the expansion of PUBLIC access to unit-level, which is one of the purposes of publishing reproducible findings for this dataset.II. PURPOSE AND GOAL IN TERMS OF THE CONTRIBUTION TO UNCOVER INSIGHTS THAT HIGHLIGHT THE HOLISTIC FUNCTIONS OF THE CITY AND IMPROVE KNOWLEDGE
* Incorporate big data into the study and management of the City of Boston to develop new contextually rich value-added variables through integration of additional administrative records, GIS/geographic data (shape-file/JSON), demographic data etc.
* Statistically analyze and explore output generated from the integrated data to uncover correlations that will provide increased confidence levels, understandability, and interpretability in relation to the economy, direct human behavior, government policies/decision making, and the environment.
* Use Practical Aggregate Measures to accelerate assimilation of, and to leverage all facets of corresponding applicable data
* Finally, meticulously record, interpolate, hypothesize, and upload findings for a continuation of development.--
Replication of Citation Metadata for "Group 2":
Dataset Persistent ID: doi:10.7910/DVN/PZCZSF
Title: Group 2
Author:
Boston Area Research Initiative, BARI (Northeastern University / Harvard University)
Charan Konanki, Sai (Northeastern University)
Shah, Chaitya (Northeastern University)
Jonah, Domenic (Northeastern University) - ORCID: 0000-0002-0212-158
Replication Data for: Group 2 | BARI (Harvard, Northeastern): Expanding Administrative Urban Knowledge with R and Big Data: “Boston Property Assessments FY2018”
No full textI. INTRODUCTION, AND IMPACT OF FINDINGS FOR FUTURE IMPLEMENTATION
Outcome: A quantitative ""data-story"" can be fully expressed in qualitative form as a means of expressing the interconnected nature of variables that contribute to a networked understanding to map the constantly evolving modern Urban Landscape.
Enhanced allocative, fiscal, political, and social decision making lead to almost immediate positive externalities in terms of the connected urban landscape. Constant constraints of many different forms force decision-makers to make impulsive, rushed, and consequently uninformed decisions that are based merely on presuppositions. Constant construction of pathways between seamlessly unrelated sets of information derived from the existing, historic, and quantifiable data types will bring urban decision makers solution-based and preventative vs. reactive competitive advantage . These *NEW* ""Measures"" that we have calculated and defined only be achieved through the expansion of PUBLIC access to unit-level, which is one of the purposes of publishing reproducible findings for this dataset.II. PURPOSE AND GOAL IN TERMS OF THE CONTRIBUTION TO UNCOVER INSIGHTS THAT HIGHLIGHT THE HOLISTIC FUNCTIONS OF THE CITY AND IMPROVE KNOWLEDGE
* Incorporate big data into the study and management of the City of Boston to develop new contextually rich value-added variables through integration of additional administrative records, GIS/geographic data (shape-file/JSON), demographic data etc.
* Statistically analyze and explore output generated from the integrated data to uncover correlations that will provide increased confidence levels, understandability, and interpretability in relation to the economy, direct human behavior, government policies/decision making, and the environment.
* Use Practical Aggregate Measures to accelerate assimilation of, and to leverage all facets of corresponding applicable data
* Finally, meticulously record, interpolate, hypothesize, and upload findings for a continuation of development.--
Replication of Citation Metadata for "Group 2":
Dataset Persistent ID: doi:10.7910/DVN/PZCZSF
Title: Group 2
Author:
Boston Area Research Initiative, BARI (Northeastern University / Harvard University)
Charan Konanki, Sai (Northeastern University)
Shah, Chaitya (Northeastern University)
Jonah, Domenic (Northeastern University) - ORCID: 0000-0002-0212-158
Evaluation of MODIS LAI/FPAR Product Collection 6. Part 1: Consistency and Improvements
No full textAs the latest version of Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) Leaf Area Index (LAI) and Fraction of Photosynthetically Active Radiation (FPAR) products, Collection 6 (C6) has been distributed since August 2015. This collection is evaluated in this two-part series with the goal of assessing product accuracy, uncertainty and consistency with the previous version. In this first paper, we compare C6 (MOD15A2H) with Collection 5 (C5) to check for consistency and discuss the scale effects associated with changing spatial resolution between the two collections and benefits from improvements to algorithm inputs. Compared with C5, C6 benefits from two improved inputs: (1) L2G–lite surface reflectance at 500 m resolution in place of reflectance at 1 km resolution; and (2) new multi-year land-cover product at 500 m resolution in place of the 1 km static land-cover product. Global and seasonal comparison between C5 and C6 indicates good continuity and consistency for all biome types. Moreover, inter-annual LAI anomalies at the regional scale from C5 and C6 agree well. The proportion of main radiative transfer algorithm retrievals in C6 increased slightly in most biome types, notably including a 17% improvement in evergreen broadleaf forests. With same biome input, the mean RMSE of LAI and FPAR between C5 and C6 at global scale are 0.29 and 0.091, respectively, but biome type disagreement worsens the consistency (LAI: 0.39, FPAR: 0.102). By quantifying the impact of input changes, we find that the improvements of both land-cover and reflectance products improve LAI/FPAR products. Moreover, we find that spatial scale effects due to a resolution change from 1 km to 500 m do not cause any significant differences
De-mystifying the Muslimah: Exploring Different Perceptions of Selected Young Muslim Women in Britain
No full textIn this research I argue that although Islam as a faith is inherently emancipatory, Muslim
women are doubly marginalised: by patriarchal interpretations of their faith within Muslim
communities and by pluralist society that often does not understand the faith-based values
and practices of Muslim women. The empowerment of Muslim women is crucial not just for
the women themselves but also for socio-political dynamics within the Muslim community
and its relationships in pluralist society. It is from this context, and acknowledging the paucity
of academic literature written by Muslim women, that I set out to give voice to them, so that
their opinions may be heard in discourses that they think are relevant to their lives. By
encouraging Muslim women to take voice and by facilitating mechanisms for these voices to
be heard, this research presents alternate narratives of Muslim women that challenge
dominant media imagery of the oppressed and subjugated Muslim woman. These narratives,
which are by and for Muslim women, portray instead the inherent diversity in the category
'Muslim woman' and thus add more facets to the category 'woman'.
I used an ethnographic methodology that involved participants as contributors in the creation
of new knowledge. Semi-structured interviews with 45 young university-educated Muslim
women and 7 group discussions were used as initial data-gathering tools. The penultimate
ethnographic stage involved Muslim women creating 3-minute long self-representational
digital stories (DSTs), which consist of an autobiographical narrative accompanied by still
pictures. This was a process of self-reflection for the women and an opportunity to take voice
and to be heard. The subsequent screening of these DSTs to audiences who were not
Muslim resulted in discussion and active debate about the reasons for prevalent
(mis)understandings of Muslim women and stereotypes were challenged. In its initiation of
more balanced representations of Muslim women this research empowers Muslim women,
and by contributing to dialogue and cohesion it also empowers pluralist society as a whole.
This research clarifies the overlapping priorities and identities of young British Muslim
women and initiates new discourses, as narrated by the women, on subjects including
religious interpretation and practice, feminism, media representation and social cohesion. In
the research findings I propose an evolving British-Muslim identity among Muslim youth (in
this case young women) which is distinct from that of their parents; a theological articulation
of a 'feminist' struggle for women's rights; and the need to engage with the media and others
to create positive representations of Muslim women. Experiences with DSTs indicate the
potential of personal narratives and interaction for the purposes of inter-community dialogue
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Local phonon mode in thermoelectric Bi2Te2Se from charge neutral antisites
No full textLocal modes caused by defects play a significant role in the thermal transport properties of thermoelectrics. Of particular interest are charge-neutral defects that suppress thermal conductivity, without significantly reducing electrical transport. Here, we report a temperature dependent Raman study that identifies such a mode in a standard thermoelectric material, Bi2Te2Se. One of the modes observed, whose origin has been debated for decades, was shown most likely to be an antisite defect induced local mode. The anomalous temperature independent broadening of the local mode is ascribed to the random arrangement of Se atoms. The temperature renormalization of all modes is well explained by an anharmonic model-Klemens's model. (C) 2016 AIP Publishing LLC.NSERC; CFI; NSF [DMR-1420541]; National Science Foundation [DMR-1410846]SCI(E)[email protected]
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