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Navigating New Trade Routes: The rise of Value chains, and the Challenges for Canadian Trade Policy
In the new paradigm of international trade, Canada needs a trade policy that recognizes both the increasing importance of global value chains and the critical role of Canada-US commercial and regulatory integration in gaining full benefit from their exploitation.border papers, international policy
Mapping grid points onto a square forces an arbitrarily large Lipschitz constant
We prove that the regular square grid of points in the integer
lattice cannot be recovered from an arbitrary -element
subset of via a mapping with prescribed Lipschitz constant
(independent of ). This answers negatively a question of Feige from 2002.
Our resolution of Feige's question takes place largely in a continuous setting
and is based on some new results for Lipschitz mappings falling into two broad
areas of interest, which we study independently. Firstly the present work
contains a detailed investigation of Lipschitz regular mappings on Euclidean
spaces, with emphasis on their bilipschitz decomposability in a sense
comparable to that of the well known result of Jones. Secondly, we build on
work of Burago and Kleiner and McMullen on non-realisable densities. We verify
the existence, and further prevalence, of strongly non-realisable densities
inside spaces of continuous functions.Comment: 60 pages (43 pages of the main part, 13 pages of appendices), 10
figures. This is a revised version according to referees' comments. Our
version of the proof of the theorem about bilipschitz decomposition of
Lipschitz regular mappings was greatly simplified. To appear in GAF
Evaluation of Continuous Monitoring as a Tool for Municipal Stormwater Management Programs
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the uncertainty attributable to inadequate temporal sampling of stormwater discharge and water quality, and understand its implications for meeting monitoring objectives relevant to municipal separate storm sewer systems (MS4s). A methodology is presented to evaluate uncertainty attributable to inadequate temporal sampling of continuous stormflow and water quality, and a case study demonstrates the application of the methodology to six small urban watersheds (0.8-6.8 km2) and six large rural watersheds (30-16,192 km2) in Virginia. Results indicate the necessity of high-frequency continuous monitoring for accurately capturing multiple monitoring objectives, including illicit discharges, acute toxicity events, and stormflow pollutant concentrations and loads, as compared to traditional methods of sampling. For example, 1-h sampling in small urban watersheds and daily sampling in large rural watersheds would introduce uncertainty in capturing pollutant loads of 3–46% and 10–28%, respectively. Overall, the outcomes from this study highlight how MS4s can leverage continuous monitoring to meet multiple objectives under current and future regulatory environments
Rethinking Resurrection: Choosing Interdisciplinary Dialogue Over Dualism
Christianity is plagued by two dualistic concepts: first, an ontological dualism that divides the human person into body and soul, and second, an epistemological dualism that claims science and theology are incompatible. However, these polarized (and polarizing) theological frameworks are no longer sufficient, especially as scientific research provides new understanding about the brain and human identity. The existence of the nonphysical soul has long been called into question, thereby creating a theological crisis at the very core of Christian belief: the resurrection. This thesis will examine the crisis as it manifests itself in contemporary Christian society, pointing to the perpetuation of dualistic philosophies as the source of a theological impasse. Finally, it will propose an interdisciplinary solution, revisiting resurrection theology in dialogue with modern science, and providing a way forward for those who seek a way both to participate in the resurrected life, and to proclaim the promise of general resurrection without dismissing scientific research
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