It's not easy being green: The evolution of galaxy colour in the EAGLE simulation

We examine the evolution of intrinsic u-r colours of galaxies in the EAGLE cosmological hydrodynamical simulations, which has been shown to reproduce the observed redshift z=0.1 colour-magnitude distribution well. The median u-r of star-forming ('blue cloud') galaxies reddens by 1 mag from z=2 to 0 at fixed stellar mass, as their specific star formation rates decrease with time. A red sequence starts to build-up around z=1, due to the quenching of low-mass satellite galaxies at the faint end, and due to the quenching of more massive central galaxies by their active galactic nuclei (AGN) at the bright end. This leaves a dearth of intermediate-mass red sequence galaxies at z=1, which is mostly filled in by z=0. We quantify the time-scales of colour transition due to satellite and AGN quenching, finding that most galaxies spend less than 2 Gyr in the 'green valley'. On examining the trajectories of galaxies in a colour-stellar mass diagram, we identify three characteristic tracks that galaxies follow (quiescently star-forming, quenching and rejuvenating galaxies) and quantify the fraction of galaxies that follow each track

It's Not Easy Being Green: The Failure of Abstract Art in Gottfried Keller's Der grüne Heinrich

This article revisits the art and artists of Gottfried Keller’s Der grüne Heinrich, a novel concluding with a conservative stance against artistic innovation, in order to explore how pre–twentieth-century literary fiction advanced the development of unconventional modes of artistic expression such as abstract art. Through comparative analysis of two fictional artworks described in the novel, I argue that Keller’s nineteenth-century bildungsroman preconditions radical twentieth-century art forms by establishing the self-awareness of the artist as necessary for the creation of unorthodox artworks. This investigation of cross-medial exchange emphasizes the cultural work performed by literature in furthering and fostering innovative visual media

It's not easy being green: veto players, climate policy adoption, and outcomes in OECD states

How do political institutions shape the adoption of climate policy? Related to the policies themselves, does their cost structure and degree to which they depart from the status quo affect adoption? Finally, how effective are these policies at meeting the goals of reducing the emissions of greenhouse gasses (GhGs)? These questions apply to advanced democracies most responsible for contributing to the changes in climate as a result of the release of GhGs. As they have contributed the most toward the problem, these states have taken the most policy action on the issue. Studies of climate policy have overlooked many policy actions on the issue and my compilation of a novel dataset is used to examine these policies in a comprehensive manner. Looking at the institutional makeup of a state, I find that when a state has more institutions, they tend to reduce the adoption of major and overall climate policy. Because these institutions reduce the amount of climate policy adoption, they intervene between the policies adopted and outcomes produced. Upon examining the effectiveness of these policies, I confirm my expectations that more major policy adoption and overall climate policy reduces emissions, particularly carbon dioxide. This indicates to policy advocates and lawmakers that efforts to adopt policy addressing climate change produce some positive results. Furthermore, institutions are obstacles to adoption, but could be overcome with deeper institutional penetration in states with more political institutions

It's not easy being green : people, potatoes, and pesticides on Prince Edward Island

Agricultural pesticides are used in increasing quantities and frequency on potato crops on PEI. In 1995, many Island residents began asking questions about the impacts of these chemicals on their human and environmental health. However, what soon became apparent to Island residents, was that speaking out and presenting counter-perspectives about agricultural practices and the Island's agroeconomy resulted in social and economic marginalisation. Through the application of two complementary theoretical frameworks, discourse analysis and historical materialism, I reveal how and why pesticides continue to be used in increasing quantities on PEI, despite scientific evidence pointing to their detrimental human and environmental health effects. The methodology pursued--Internet based research--is an attempt to stretch the place setting of anthropological inquiry and to demonstrate that by using the Internet, anthropologists can perform holistic research and make significant contributions to the discipline

It's not easy being green: stress and invalidation in identity formation of culturally-complex or mixed-race individuals

This is an exploratory study to examine a population which has not been widely researched, mixed-race or "culturally-complex" individuals and identification. In the interest of this study, "culturally-complex" refers to individuals who report parents being from two or more different races/ethnicities; i.e. Black, White, Latino/Hispanic, Asian, Native-American, etc. Current literature reveals through quantitative methods that mixed-race adolescents often report more stress and are at greater health risks than most mono-racial adolescents. However, past studies have not thoroughly investigated why and how this stress exists and at times is inconsistent, which points to the need for qualitative inquiry. Although most of the previous literature focuses on mixed-race adolescents, this study focused on an adult population. Study participants were recruited through snowball sampling for in-depth, open-ended interviews. The data was analyzed by searching for common themes that illustrate the possible causes for stress in culturally-complex individuals. Though this study cannot be representational of all culturally-complex individuals it did provide for noteworthy findings. Race and ethnicity, and particularly being culturally-complex are topics that are often not spoken about in the family or between siblings. In general, culturally-complex individuals are not provided with space for dialogue and so thus, having a place to voice ideas, experiences, and opinions was appreciated by all participants. In all interviews, frustration and confusion was expressed towards box-checking. Though stress and invalidation was inconsistent in past literature surrounding mixed-race and culturally-complex individuals, only some participants in this study reported stress and invalidation, while other participants did not report having ever experienced stress or invalidation. While literature had posed that often culturally-complex individuals would identify with the ethnicity of the father, in this study most of those who identified as one culture over another had identified as the ethnicity of the mother. Participants additionally had ―hierarchies of identities‖ where being culturally-complex was not always their most important role. Future research should examine populations from different socioeconomic groups and other demographics

It's Not Easy Being Green: Access to Sustainable Urban Infrastructure and Distributive Justice in Low-Income and Minority-Concentrated Communities

In urban environments, low-income and minority-concentrated neighborhoods are more likely to be exposed to risk and vulnerability associated with environmental exposure, depending on the unique riskscape of a geographic region. Often, the positive externalities of sustainable urban infrastructure are disproportionately consumed by predominately non-Hispanic white neighborhoods with moderate to high median incomes. This project is an analysis of the access that residents in The Research Triangle region have to public sustainable urban infrastructure and amenities across various measures of race and class, including proportion of Black residents, proportion of Hispanic residents, median household income, educational attainment, and the proportion of households receiving public assistance income. Quantitative analyses were conducted at the census block group level, and it was hypothesized that block groups with a higher proportion of Black residents, a higher proportion of Hispanic residents, lower median household income, a lower proportion of residents that have received post-secondary education, and a higher proportion of residents receiving public assistance income are likely to have a greater average distance from the block group centroid to the 10 closest amenities. A multiple regression analysis revealed that in a given block group a higher proportion of Black residents, a higher proportion of Hispanic residents, and a lower proportion of residents having received a post-secondary education were predictive of a higher average distance to sustainable amenities at a statistically significant level.Bachelor of Art

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