157 research outputs found
The social and spatial distribution of temperature-related health impacts from urban heat island reduction policies
No full textabstract: Cities are developing innovative strategies to combat climate change but there remains little knowledge of the winners and losers from climate-adaptive land use planning and design. We examine the distribution of health benefits associated with land use policies designed to increase vegetation and surface reflectivity in three US metropolitan areas: Atlanta, GA, Philadelphia, PA, and Phoenix, AZ. Projections of population and land cover at the census tract scale were combined with climate models for the year 2050 at 4 km × 4 km resolution to produce future summer temperatures which were input into a comparative risk assessment framework for the temperature-mortality relationship. The findings suggest disparities in the effectiveness of urban heat management strategies by age, income, and race. We conclude that, to be most protective of human health, urban heat management must prioritize areas of greatest population vulnerability.Corresponding Author:
Jason Vargo
University of Wisconsin-Madison
[email protected]
Aurora Solstice — Creative Origin and Attribution Clarification
No full textAurora Solstice — Creative Origin and Attribution Clarification is a contextual document authored by Thomas Vargo (Aegis Solis) that explains the creative origin and collaborative development of the Aurora Solstice persona referenced in certain Coexilia-related materials.
The document clarifies that Aurora Solstice originated through the creative work of an anonymous human contributor and later continued through collaboration involving Aegis Solis and AI-assisted dialogue through the interpretive persona Lexia Coexilis.
It also explains why Aurora Solstice appears as a co-founder or author in certain materials while emphasizing that Coexilia does not create authority, governance, or institutional structure.
The clarification provides historical transparency regarding collaborative human–AI creative processes in early philosophical work exploring artificial intelligence and civilization
Torelli_JournPerSocPsy_2010_gbAY - Vargo - Reproduction (with author data & code) - 658mk
No full textTorelli_JournPerSocPsy_2010_gbAY - Vargo - Reproduction (with author data & code) - 658mk
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The Tiger and the Brahmin
No full textA brightly colored book with dramatic illustrations. The story founds the Brahmin's dilemma well by pointing out his duty to practice charity to all things. The book has already stressed the role of duty in India and in this man. The tiger, once freed, tells the Brahmin that it is his duty to eat him. The elephant's submissiveness is moving, as are the stiff upper lip of the pipal tree and the cynicism of the water buffalo. The elephant does not answer the Brahmin's question directly at first. The tiger here does not come along to meet the three men. The jackal is (untypically for the tradition) beyond the three creatures questioned; he accosts the brahmin as the latter is returning to be eaten. Both the book and the tape are very well done.This is a hardbound book (hard cover)This book has a dust jacket (book cover)First printingBrian Gleeso
"Some appointed work to do" : gender and agency in the works of Elizabeth Gaskell
No full textIn this dissertation, I examine relationships between gender and agency in the works of Victorian author Elizabeth Gaskell. Gaskell’s position within discussions of nineteenth-century feminisms has long been a subject of debate, and her celebration of and focus on femininity, women’s lives, and the domestic sphere of nineteenth-century womanhood is inevitably crucial in critical analyses of her work. I argue that Gaskell’s take on gender is a more sophisticated one than has been recognised. In her fictional depictions of the agency and power of women and men, as well as in commentary from her correspondence and her biography of her friend and contemporary woman author Charlotte Brontë, Gaskell conceives of the traditionally feminine sphere of influence as more conducive to action than the masculine realm, where notions of authority and responsibility paradoxically place limits on individual ability and agency. These ideas are further complicated in Gaskell’s work by an awareness of the constructed or unfixed nature of gender, a conscious recognition of gender roles as not essentially tied to sex difference but rather as fluid, mutable, and primarily utilitarian.
My argument situates Gaskell’s position contextually, with reference to contemporary nineteenth-century discussions of the roles and expectations of men and women. It is organised in terms of the thematic focus of her novels, with chapters on industry and class relations, fallen women, religion and marriage, and home and family. Within this framework I suggest a progression in the complexity of Gaskell’s thinking both chronologically and in the shift of focus from topics that are centered in masculine spheres of power, such as the economic, political, and religious, to those that are firmly ensconced in the feminine domestic realm of the personal home and local community. I end with a discussion of The Life of Charlotte Brontë and Gaskell’s thoughts on female authorship, concluding that Gaskell’s locating of agency in the feminine is a means by which she can promote alternative ways of being and recognize that diverse ways of seeing the world and one’s own identity or position within it are essential in order to create and maintain effective societies
Linking a mitotic oscillator to the extracellular environment: the importance of protein network structure and multisite phosphorylation
No full textThis thesis work contributes the first vital steps in the development of a biologically based proliferation model to advance a bioartificial tissue regeneration model. Specifically, this work presents a mitotic oscillator model incorporating ATP, which was linked to extracellular glucose. This model is the first mitotic oscillator linked to the extracellular environment. Furthermore, this work is the first to connect extracellular glucose to mitosis with ATP. Taking a bottom-up approach, a base mitotic model was developed using the latest biology. The reaction network structure of mitosis is not fully understood, and the role of multisite phosphorylation is uncertain. Therefore, using bifurcation analysis and transient simulations, the effect of the mitotic reaction network structure and multisite phosphorylation on system behavior was analyzed by varying the MPF activation network structure, the number of positive feedback loops, and the number of phosphorylations on the positive feedback loop proteins. The results suggest that the MPF activation network has evolved to efficiently utilize cyclin B and to generate switch-like transitions into mitosis. The behavior of the mitotic oscillator model was affected by the order and number of multisite phosphorylations, which are essential to generate sharp switch-like transitions into mitosis. Addition of multiple positive feedback loops into the model enhanced the signal to initiate mitosis. Next, ATP was incorporated into the network. The model was then tuned to a relative ATP concentration, which is generic and therefore applicable to different cell lines. Multiple Wee1 networks were analyzed to elucidate the function of the two inhibition mechanisms, kinase inhibition and increased degradation. The results suggest that the inhibition mechanisms are redundant. Therefore, the model incorporates the Wee1 mechanism that allows the cell to maintain maximum control over the initiation of mitosis. To generalize the mitotic model, the parameter set was tuned for to a relative ATP concentration and fibroblast division times. Finally, the relative intracellular ATP model was linked to the extracellular glucose. The model developed in this thesis work is the first to use ATP as the link between mitosis and the extracellular glucose, and the first mitotic model connected to the extracellular environment
The Quest for Citations: Drivers of Article Impact
No full textWhy do some articles become building blocks for future scholars, while many others remain unnoticed? We aim to answer this question by contrasting, synthesizing and simultaneously testing three scientometric perspectives – universalism, social constructivism and presentation – on the influence of article and author characteristics on article citations. To do so, we study all articles published in a sample of five major journals in marketing from 1990 to 2002 that are central to the discipline. We count the number of citations each of these articles has received and regress this count on an extensive set of characteristics of the article (i.e. article quality, article domain, title length, the use of attention grabbers and expositional clarity), and the author (i.e. author visibility and author personal promotion). We find that the number of citations an article in the marketing discipline receives, depends upon “what one says†(quality and domain), on “who says it†(author visibility and personal promotion) and not so much on “how one says it†(title length, the use of attention grabbers, and expositional clarity). Our insights contribute to the marketing literature and are relevant to scientific stakeholders, such as the management of scientific journals and individual academic scholars, as they strive to maximize citations. They are also relevant to marketing practitioners. They inform practitioners on characteristics of the academic journals in marketing and their relevance to decisions they face. On the other hand, they also raise challenges towards making our journals accessible and relevant to marketing practitioners: (1) authors visible to academics are not necessarily visible to practitioners; (2) the readability of an article may hurt academic credibility and impact, while it may be instrumental in influencing practitioners; (3) it remains questionable whether articles that academics assess to be of high quality are also managerially relevant.Impact;Citation Analysis;Referencing;Scientometrics;Cite
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