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Wealth reallocation and sustainability under climate change
No full textClimate change is often described as the greatest environmental challenge of our time. In addition, a changing climate can reallocate natural capital, change the value of all forms of capital and lead to mass redistribution of wealth. Here we explain how the inclusive wealth framework provides a means to measure shifts in the amounts and distribution of wealth induced by climate change. Biophysical effects on prices, pre-existing institutions and socio-ecological changes related to shifts in climate cause wealth to change in ways not correlated with biophysical changes. This implies that sustainable development in the face of climate change requires a coherent approach that integrates biophysical and social measurement. Inclusive wealth provides a measure that indicates sustainability and has the added benefit of providing an organizational framework for integrating the multiple disciplines studying global change.Peer reviewe
Does Reassessment of Risk Improve Predictions? A Framework and Examination of the SAVRY and YLS/CMI
No full textAuthor NoteJodi L. Viljoen, Andrew L. Gray, Catherine Shaffer, Aisha Bhanwer, Donna Tafreshi, and Kevin S. Douglas, Department of Psychology, Simon Fraser University.This research was supported by a grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and a Career Investigator Award for the first author from the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research.Correspondence concerning this article should be address to Jodi Viljoen, Department of Psychology, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6. Contact: [email protected]
Children and Disasters: A tribute to Professor Kevin Ronan
No full text(c) The Author/sIn 1997, Professor Kevin Ronan published a paper in the first ever edition of the Australasian Journal of Disaster and Trauma Studies, titled “The Effects of a “Benign” Disaster: Symptoms of Post-traumatic Stress in Children Following a Series of Volcanic Eruptions”. Over the next 23 years, Kevin and his many colleagues pursued aspects of children and disasters to both improve practice and advance scholarship in this area. In March 2020 we were saddened by the untimely passing of Kevin. As a tribute to Professor Ronan this special issue of the Australasian Journal of Disaster and Trauma Studies brings together accounts of current research and practice initiatives inspired by, building upon, and directly influenced by Professor Ronan’s work
A Guide to Kevin Poelking's By the Hands That Reach Us
No full textThis thesis is written to accompany the full score of Kevin Poelking's By the Hands That Reach Us for wind symphony. The first chapter includes studies and expert opinions that attempt to define quality music. It begins with a brief synopsis of the recent (post World War II) increase of wind band repertoire and the difficulties that conductors encounter as a result. Quotations from conductors and composers throughout history are included in an attempt to shed light on the topic. The second chapter is a detailed biography of composer Kevin Poelking. It discusses personal, professional, and musical experiences that have shaped his compositional voice. There are also specific music examples given with explanations as to how they affected Poelking in his development as a composer. The final chapter is a detailed summary of Poelking's compositional process when writing By the Hands That Reach Us. The chapter includes original sketches, score excerpts, and specific compositional techniques that were used throughout the work
Continuous metadata flows for distributed multimedia
No full textThe practical use of temporal multimedia has increased markedly in recent years as enabling technologies for the distribution and streaming of media have become available. As a part of this trend, hypermedia systems and models have adapted accordingly to incorporate such distributed multimedia for presentation. Structured interpretation of information has long been a fundamental feature of both open hypermedia systems and knowledge systems. Metadata, in its many forms, has become the cornerstone for providing this structured knowledge above and beyond basic data and information. This thesis presents the rationale and requirements for continuous metadata, which supports the metadata accompanying distributed multimedia throughout the lifecycle of streamed media, from generation, through distribution, to presentation. Throughout this process it is the temporal and continuous nature of the metadata which is paramount. A conceptual framework for continuous metadata is proposed to encapsulate these principles and ideas. Continuous metadata and the associated framework enable the development, in particular, of real-time, collaborative, semantically enriched distributed multimedia applications. Experience building one such system using continuous metadata is evaluated within the framework. An ontology is developed for the system to enable the collation, distribution, and presentation of structure aiding navigation of multimedia, and it is shown how continuous metadata utilising the ontology can be distributed using multicas
Are Adolescent Risk Assessment Tools Sensitive to Change? A Framework and Examination of the SAVRY and the YLS/CMI
No full textJodi L. Viljoen, Catherine S. Shaffer, Andrew L. Gray, and Kevin S. Douglas, Department of Psychology, Simon Fraser University.This research was supported by a grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and a Career Investigator Award for the first author from the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research. The authors would like to thank the youth who participated in this study as well as the many research assistants who assisted with this project.Correspondence concerning this article should be address to Jodi Viljoen, Department of Psychology, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6. Contact: [email protected]
Criteria Of Certainty: Truth and Judgment in the English Enlightenment
No full textBritish writers of the Restoration and eighteenth century initiated a critique of human knowledge unrivaled in both its scope and its enthusiasm. Author Kevin L. Cope now attempts to provide a coherent, evocative account of explanatory rhetoric in early modern Britain.
Critics and historians, Cope argues, have done an admirable job of describing the details of the intellectual movements of this period but they have failed to examine the intellectual, social, and psychological implications of explanation itself. Criteria of Certainty makes up for this shortcoming by treating explanation as a composite literary and philosophical mode, as a kind of master genre governing the development of a variety of genres, from pithy maxims and lyric poems to lengthy treatises and epics of explanation.
Cope\u27s probing and inventive analyses of seven writers—Rochester, Halifax, Dryden, Locke, Swift, Pope, and Smith—shed new light on many major issues in both eighteenth-century studies and critical theory. Discussing the gradual enlargement of the claims of explanatory discourse, Cope explores the problematic psychological relation between philosophizing authors and their expansionist, systematizing discourse.
By applying the methods of recent literary criticism to philosophical texts, Cope reexamines the possibility of a philosophical reading of literary texts, opens the possibility of characterizing an age, and sets a variety of genres on a common intellectual foundation. Drawing on both canonical and overlooked authors, he also shows how the writers of the Restoration and eighteenth century may help us to understand the immensity, vitality, and irresistibility of explanatory rhetoric in our own age.
Kevin L. Cope is associate professor of English at Louisiana State University.
Unfolds his argument with clarity, ease, and coherence. —South Atlantic Review
An important book which will challenge the reader. —Rocky Mountain Reviewhttps://uknowledge.uky.edu/upk_english_language_and_literature_british_isles/1081/thumbnail.jp
Article on localism, describing the author\u27s attempt to shop locally, purchase l
No full textArticle on localism, describing the author\u27s attempt to shop locally, purchase local products, and go without her car for one week. Kevin Donoghue, a Portland City Councilor and advocate of the Buy Local movement, hasn\u27t owned a car in the four years he has lived in Portland. With comments by localists Alex Landry and Jamie Parker
Differences in size, pigmentation, and fluctuating asymmetry in stressed and nonstressed northern leopard frogs (Rana pipiens)
No full textWe compared a range of anatomical features of northern leopard frogs (Rana pipiens Schreber) collected from areas where deformity rates were low (-2% in nonstressed regions) and high (-40% in the stressed region) to determine if one or more of these characters might be useful in detecting developmental stress, Deformed individuals from the stressed region were significantly lighter than normal frogs both from the same region and from nonstressed regions. Body length. head width. femur length. and forelimb length were also significantly shorter in deformed and normal individuals from the stressed region than in individuals front nonstressed regions, Despite being smaller. deformed individuals had significantly larger pigment spots. Fluctuating asymmetry in femur length. femur spot area, femur Spot number. and tibio-fibula length was significantly greater in deformed frogs than in normal frogs front the stressed population and the nonstressed group. Of these characters. however, only femur spot number provided a data set suitable for fluctuating asymmetry analysis (R - L values have a normal distribution, no directional asymmetry, no size-dependent asymmetry), There were no significant differences found among the three groups for fluctuating asymmetry in forelimb length, eyespot area. lateral spot number, and lateral spot area.PT: J; CR: AMES LJ, 1979, T AM FISH SOC, V108, P489 ANKLEY GT, 1998, ENVIRON TOXICOL CHEM, V17, P2530 BADER RS, 1965, GROWTH, V29, P291 BAGNARA JT, 1982, J EXP ZOOL, V224, P283 BONIN J, 1997, AMPHIBIANS DECLINE C, V1, P246 CAREY C, 1995, ENVIRON HEALTH PERSP, V103, P13 CAREY C, 1999, DEV COMP IMMUNOL, V23, P459 CLARKE GM, 1993, ENVIRON POLLUT, V82, P207 COOK FA, 1967, B NATL MUSEUM CANADA, V212, P1 COOKE AS, 1981, ENVIRON POLLUT A, V25, P123 DAVISON JA, 1961, J HERED, V52, P301 FEDER ME, 1992, ENV PHYSL AMPHIBIANS GOSNER KL, 1960, HERPETOLOGICA, V16, P183 GREENE DL, 1984, AM J PHYS ANTHROPOL, V65, P283 HELM B, 2000, ANIM BEHAV 6, V60, P899 HEYER WR, 1994, MEASURING MONITORING JOLICOEUR P, 1963, REV CAN BIOL, V22, P409 JUNG RE, 1995, CAN J ZOOL, V73, P2171 LEAMY L, 1984, AM NAT, V123, P579 LEARY RF, 1985, EVOLUTION, V39, P308 MAHANEY PA, 1994, ENVIRON TOXICOL CHEM, V13, P259 MOLLER AP, 1997, OXFORD SERIES ECOLOG NEWMAN RA, 1994, ECOLOGY, V75, P1085 OUELLET M, 1997, J WILDLIFE DIS, V33, P95 PALMER AR, 1986, ANNU REV ECOL SYST, V17, P391 PALMER AR, 1992, ACTA ZOOL FENN, V191, P57 PALMER RA, 1994, DEV INSTABILITY ITS, P335 SMITHGILL SJ, 1974, DEV BIOL, V37, P153 SWAIN DP, 1987, AM NAT, V129, P761 TEATHER K, 1996, J AVIAN BIOL, V27, P302 WILBUR HM, 1980, ANNU REV ECOL SYST, V11, P67; NR: 31; TC: 3; J9: ECOSCIENCE; PG: 7; GA: 505RQSource type: Electronic(1
Author Correction: Environmental variability supports chimpanzee behavioural diversity
No full textThe original version of the Supplementary Information associated with this Article included an incorrect Supplementary Data 1 file, in which three columns (L, M and P) had slightly different variable names from those written in the code. The HTML has been updated to include a corrected version of Supplementary Data 1; the correct version of Supplementary Data 1 can be found as Supplementary Information associated with this Correction.Additional co-authors: Mattia Bessone, Gregory Brazzola, Valentine Ebua Buh, Rebecca Chancellor, Heather Cohen, Charlotte Coupland, Bryan Curran, Emmanuel Danquah, Tobias Deschner, Dervla Dowd, Manasseh Eno-Nku, J. Michael Fay, Annemarie Goedmakers, Anne-Céline Granjon, Josephine Head, Daniela Hedwig, Veerle Hermans, Sorrel Jones, Jessica Junker, Parag Kadam, Mohamed Kambi, Ivonne Kienast, Deo Kujirakwinja, Kevin E. Langergraber, Juan Lapuente, Bradley Larson, Kevin C. Lee, Vera Leinert, Manuel Llana, Sergio Marrocoli, Amelia C. Meier, David Morgan, Emily Neil, Sonia Nicholl, Emmanuelle Normand, Lucy Jayne Ormsby, Liliana Pacheco, Alex Piel, Jodie Preece, Martha M. Robbins, Aaron Rundus, Crickette Sanz, Volker Sommer, Fiona Stewart, Nikki Tagg, Claudio Tennie, Virginie Vergnes, Adam Welsh, Erin G. Wessling, Jacob Willie, Roman M. Wittig, Yisa Ginath Yuh, Klaus Zuberbühler & Hjalmar S. Küh
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