eHillerman: The Tony Hillerman Portal

The Tony Hillerman Portal will be most comprehensive online resource about the life and works of New Mexico author Tony Hillerman (1922-2006). The portal will make the complete Tony Hillerman collection at the Center for Southwest Research available for integrated and interactive online research. Synthesizing Hillermans photographs, literary manuscripts, associated correspondence, research and teaching materials, and incorporating additional materials such as transcripts and videos of interviews and an extensive Hillerman bibliography, the portal will move beyond the realm of online archival finding aids into the world of complete and interactive archival access...by anyone at anytime. The completed online portal will enable researchers to examine Hillerman\u27s manuscript pages and mine the text within and among his novels for specific words and textual patterns. Other features will include hypertext functions, integrating synchronous access to and research support from the portal\u27s integrated Hillerman bibliography. Finally, DVDs of the digitized archive will be available to support interested distance communities who have limited access to distance technologies. Access to an offline version of the portal will ensure that remote or rural scholars can benefit from an exploration of the breadth of Hillerman\u27s work and its effects on, in, and around the Southwest.\u2

Using Drupal as an Information Resource Platform: The Celebrating New Mexico Statehood Project

The Celebrating New Mexico Statehood website was developed to provide an interactive, cultural resources portal for the 2012 centennial of New Mexican statehood. The Drupal content management system was selected for the site because of its wide adoption and maturity, with enhanced functionality provided through the use of available modules and integrated search features

How to Publish Your Journal in Open Access Venues

Part 2 of a presentation by Kevin Comerford and Jonathan Eldredge at Open Source / Open Access Day

Creating a pipeline to engineering for women through an interdisciplinary data-driven and cyber-infrastructure enabled course

Academics have become increasingly interdisciplinary while at the same time, the sciences, engineering and research in general are increasingly data driven. Most higher education curricula, especially in Engineering are, however, still rooted in more traditional, discipline bound curricula and make little use of the vast amounts of data available. We describe an experimental course that address this and aims to include women from non-engineering fields. The interdisciplinary course took a data driven approach to the intersection of womens issues, water rights, and workers\u27 rights, taught by faculty from Civil Engineering, History, American Studies, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Geography, and Informatics. We provide an analysis of how students adapted to this novel approach and what impact it may have on female students\u27 career choices, especially in engineering. The course familiarized students with the use of cyber-based tools (e.g., shared databases, internet portals, monitoring devices/sensors, visualization, data collection and analysis tools) to gather, depict, compare and/or reuse data.\u2

Investigating the potential for an offshore wind supply chain in Northern Ireland

The Department for the Economy funded the Fraser of AIlander Institute (FAI) at the University of Strathclyde to undertake independent research to investigate the potential for an offshore wind supply chain in Northern Ireland. This followed the receipt of a research proposal from FAI in December 2022 as part of the department’s 10X Economy Open Call for research proposals. This report summarises the work undertaken, including the methodology, detailed results and conclusions

Incorporating natural capital into a computable general equilibrium model for Scotland

Research Question: Natural capital encompasses those assets which are provided by nature and which are valued by economic actors. As such, there is a clear analogy between natural and other assets, such as labour and capital, which are routinely included in models of national economies. However, the valuation of natural assets, to the extent that they are included in such models, is typically wrapped up in physical capital along with land values or not valued at all. This could be simply a measurement problem – natural capital might be difficult to appropriately disaggregate from other capital – or because they provide non-market goods which are not included within traditional measures of economic output. The purpose of this paper is to set out – both conceptually and practically – how natural capital can be added to a computable general equilibrium model. Method/Data: We focus on the conceptual differences that should reflect such an extension and we explore the empirical implementation of our approach through the addition of an agriculture biomass ecosystem services flow to a CGE model of the Scottish economy. This paper specifies the CGE model development as well as including some illustrative simulations. Novelty: The natural capital extended CGE model allows us to track the impact of disturbances, including policy changes, on the economy and environment and therefore on sustainable development. In the longer term comprehensive coverage of natural capital stocks and ecosystem services will allow us to track the impact of disturbances, including policy interventions, on Green GDP and Genuine Savings, as well as on aggregate and sectoral economic activity

Toward an Evidence-Based Definition and Classification of Carbohydrate Food Quality: An Expert Panel Report.

(Article Abstract) Carbohydrate-containing crops provide the bulk of dietary energy worldwide. In addition to their various carbohydrate forms (sugars, starches, fibers) and ratios, these foods may also contain varying amounts and combinations of proteins, fats, vitamins, minerals, phytochemicals, prebiotics, and anti-nutritional factors that may impact diet quality and health. Currently, there is no standardized or unified way to assess the quality of carbohydrate foods for the overall purpose of improving diet quality and health outcomes, creating an urgent need for the development of metrics and tools to better define and classify high-quality carbohydrate foods. The present report is based on a series of expert panel meetings and a scoping review of the literature focused on carbohydrate quality indicators and metrics produced over the last 10 years. The report outlines various approaches to assessing food quality, and proposes next steps and principles for developing improved metrics for assessing carbohydrate food quality. The expert panel concluded that a composite metric based on nutrient profiling methods featuring inputs such as carbohydrate–fiber–sugar ratios, micronutrients, and/or food group classification could provide useful and informative measures for guiding researchers, policymakers, industry, and consumers towards a better understanding of carbohydrate food quality and overall healthier diets. The identification of higher quality carbohydrate foods could improve evidence-based public health policies and programming—such as the 2025–2030 Dietary Guidelines for Americans

Chandra Observations of Galaxy Zoo Mergers: Frequency of Binary Active Nuclei in Massive Mergers

We present the results from a Chandra pilot study of 12 massive galaxy mergers selected from Galaxy Zoo. The sample includes major mergers down to a host galaxy mass of 10$^{11}$ $M_\odot$ that already have optical AGN signatures in at least one of the progenitors. We find that the coincidences of optically selected active nuclei with mildly obscured ($N_H \lesssim 1.1 \times 10^{22}$ cm$^{-2}$) X-ray nuclei are relatively common (8/12), but the detections are too faint ($< 40$ counts per nucleus; $f_{2-10 keV} \lesssim 1.2 \times 10^{-13}$ erg s$^{-1}$ cm$^{-2}$) to reliably separate starburst and nuclear activity as the origin of the X-ray emission. Only one merger is found to have confirmed binary X-ray nuclei, though the X-ray emission from its southern nucleus could be due solely to star formation. Thus, the occurrences of binary AGN in these mergers are rare (0-8%), unless most merger-induced active nuclei are very heavily obscured or Compton thick.Comment: 8 pages, including 5 figures and 1 table. Accepted by Ap

The economic and environmental impacts of UK offshore wind development : the importance of local content

We explore, through simulation of a purpose-built Input-Output model of the UK, the economic and emissions impacts of the likely future development of the UK's offshore wind sector, with a particular emphasis on the importance of local content. We explore six scenarios, including two illustrative simulations of the potential impact of Brexit on local content. We find that future offshore wind development does indeed generate a policy “double dividend” in the form of simultaneous and substantial reductions in cumulative emissions, which in each case exceed a year of the UK's total emissions, and improvements in economic activity (of nearly £30 billion cumulative increase in value-added when the 60% target for local content is achieved). It is also the case that, as anticipated, the scale of the economic stimulus arising from offshore wind development is directly and strongly related to the extent of local content. Future work could extend the modelling to relax the supply side assumptions of input-output modelling, disaggregate the analysis by regions and households to allow assessment of the impacts on the distribution of both economic activity across regions and income among household quintiles