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From Gettysburg to Townsville, Australia and Back
I studied abroad in Townsville, AU in the Fall 2014 and had the semester of my life. I am biology major, who has always wanted to pursue a career with animals and I got to run hands on experiments at James Cook University. I collected research on wild rock wallabies, I got Open Water Padi Dive certified and dove throughout Australia and Bali, Indonesia. I got up close with wild sharks, eels, jellyfish, and a variety of tropical fish. I joined the co-ed soccer and disc team. Most importantly, I became friends with amazing people from all over the world
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The Climate Imperative and Innovative Behavior: Encouraging Greater Advances in the Production of Energy-Efficient Technologies and Services
This white paper examines why a larger array of innovative institutions, behaviors, technologies, and servicesis needed – specifically in the context of what we call “the climate imperative.” We explore possible mechanisms that can encourage the more robust development of innovative programs and policies within the State of California, with special attention to the activities of the California Public Utilities Commission
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Pursuing Energy-Efficient Behavior in a Regulatory Environment: Motivating Policymakers, Program Administrators, and Program Implementers
This white paper examines how policymakers, program administrators, and program implementers can be motivated to pursue behavioral change in a regulatory environment. For the purposes of this report, behavior change is defined rather broadly, encompassing both behaviors associated with the purchase and installation of energy efficiency technologies as well as behaviors, decisions, and actions that might be thought of as more independent of technology. These include energy use habits, lifestyle choices, and consumption patterns. The insights and lessons discussed in this paper are drawn from a wide variety of sources including interviews with representatives from the energy and utility communities, and program documentation for energy-related programs and projects
Arc Fault Protection System in Low-Voltage Installations for Protecting Installations and Persons
Overcurrent protective devices are often not sufficient to protect installations and persons from the ef-fects of arc faults. Fast active protective devices, which limit the arc duration to some milliseconds, pro-vide significantly increased protection. This article deals with the design of and requirements on such an active protection system, which consists of an arc detection device and a short-circuiter. Both fixed in-stallation and a mobile arrangement of the system will be presented
On the rise and fall of networked societies
We review recent results on the dynamics of social networks which suggest
that the interplay between the network formation process and volatility may
lead to the occurrence of discontinuous phase transitions and phase coexistence
in a large class of models. We then investigate the effects of negative links
-- links inhibiting local growth of the network -- and of a geographical
distribution of the agents in such models. We show, by extensive numerical
simulations, that both effects enhance this phenomenology, i.e. it increases
the size of the coexistence region.Comment: 6 pages, 4 figures, Proceedings of Granada Workshop 200
Asymptotics of block Toeplitz determinants and the classical dimer model
We compute the asymptotics of a block Toeplitz determinant which arises in
the classical dimer model for the triangular lattice when considering the
monomer-monomer correlation function. The model depends on a parameter
interpolating between the square lattice () and the triangular lattice
(), and we obtain the asymptotics for . For we apply the
Szeg\"o Limit Theorem for block Toeplitz determinants. The main difficulty is
to evaluate the constant term in the asymptotics, which is generally given only
in a rather abstract form
Development of RODOS, a comprehensive real-time on-line decision support system for nuclear emergency management in Europe. Final report for contract FI3P-CT92-0036
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