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Understanding the Impacts of Festivals on Resident Attendees Before and During COVID-19: A First Look at the Vancouver Queer Film Festival
Although festivals and events have been identified as a growth segment within tourism, smaller cultural festivals have received much less attention. These smaller cultural festivals aim to bring cultural contributions and increased well-being to attendees and the host community in addition to their economic value. More specifically, queer film festivals have increased in number and size within the last decade and have an important history and purpose within the LGBT2Q+ community. As such, the current study investigated the attendees of the 2019 & 2020 Vancouver Queer Film Festival (VQFF), Western Canadaâs largest queer film festival. The survey instrument asked attendees questions about subjective well-being, cultural/educational impacts, community benefits, future programming, and demographics. Preliminary results comparing demographic, behavioural, perceived benefit, and outcome characteristics between the 2019 in-person version and the 2020 virtual pandemic version of VQFF are discussed. Industry and academic implications and areas for future study are also considered
Optical Spectroscopic Survey of High-latitude WISE-selected Sources
We report on the results of an optical spectroscopic survey at high Galactic latitude (|b| â„ 30°) of a sample of WISE-selected targets, grouped by WISE W1 (λ_eff = 3.4 ÎŒm) flux, which we use to characterize the sources WISE detected. We observed 762 targets in 10 disjoint fields centered on ultraluminous infrared galaxy candidates using DEIMOS on Keck II. We find 0.30 ± 0.02 galaxies arcminâ2 with a median redshift of z = 0.33 ± 0.01 for the sample with W1 â„ 120 ÎŒJy. The foreground stellar densities in our survey range from 0.23 ± 0.07 arcminâ2 to 1.1 ± 0.1 arcminâ2 for the same sample. We obtained spectra that produced science grade redshifts for â„90% of our targets for sources with W1 flux â„120 ÎŒJy that also had an i-band flux gsim 18 ÎŒJy. We used this for targeting very preliminary data reductions available to the team in 2010 August. Our results therefore present a conservative estimate of what is possible to achieve using WISE's Preliminary Data Release for the study of field galaxies
Discovery of Highly Obscured Galaxies in the Zone of Avoidance
We report the discovery of twenty-five previously unknown galaxies in the
Zone of Avoidance. Our systematic search for extended extra-galactic sources in
the GLIMPSE and MIPSGAL mid-infrared surveys of the Galactic plane has revealed
two overdensities of these sources, located around l ~ 47 and 55 degrees and
|b| less than 1 degree in the Sagitta-Aquila region. These overdensities are
consistent with the local large-scale structure found at similar Galactic
longitude and extending from |b| ~ 4 to 40 degrees. We show that the infrared
spectral energy distribution of these sources is indeed consistent with those
of normal galaxies. Photometric estimates of their redshift indicate that the
majority of these galaxies are found in the redshift range z = 0.01 - 0.05,
with one source located at z = 0.07. Comparison with known sources in the local
Universe reveals that these galaxies are located at similar overdensities in
redshift space. These new galaxies are the first evidence of a bridge linking
the large-scale structure between both sides of the Galactic plane at very low
Galactic latitude and clearly demonstrate the feasibility of detecting galaxies
in the Zone of Avoidance using mid-to-far infrared surveys.Comment: Accepted for publication in the Astronomical Journal, 28 pages, 5
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Understanding Millennial Interest in Participating in Wine Tourism - A Case Study on the Kamloops Wine Trail, British Columbia, Canada
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Comparing Millennial Visitors to Wineries and Breweries in British Columbia: An Examination of Social Involvement, Social Return, and Self-Image Congruency
Not throwing out the baby with the bathwater: Bell's condition of local causality mathematically 'sharp and clean'
The starting point of the present paper is Bell's notion of local causality
and his own sharpening of it so as to provide for mathematical formalisation.
Starting with Norsen's (2007, 2009) analysis of this formalisation, it is
subjected to a critique that reveals two crucial aspects that have so far not
been properly taken into account. These are (i) the correct understanding of
the notions of sufficiency, completeness and redundancy involved; and (ii) the
fact that the apparatus settings and measurement outcomes have very different
theoretical roles in the candidate theories under study. Both aspects are not
adequately incorporated in the standard formalisation, and we will therefore do
so. The upshot of our analysis is a more detailed, sharp and clean mathematical
expression of the condition of local causality. A preliminary analysis of the
repercussions of our proposal shows that it is able to locate exactly where and
how the notions of locality and causality are involved in formalising Bell's
condition of local causality.Comment: 14 pages. To be published in PSE volume "Explanation, Prediction, and
Confirmation", edited by Dieks, et a
Paramagnetic Resonance Absorption in Some Organic Biradicals
Four compounds of the form 4,4âČâpolymethylenebistriphenylmethyl, one compound of the form (1,4âphenylene)bisdiarylmethyl, three compounds of the form (4,4âČâbiphenylene)bisdiarylmethyl, and one compound, 4,4âČâoxybistriphenylmethyl have been shown to possess unpaired electrons by paramagnetic resonance absorption. The resonance spectra of 0.01 M solutions of these compounds in benzene exhibit a hyperfine structure arising from a spherically symmetrical contribution of the magnetic dipole interaction between the unpaired electron and the nuclear magnetic moments of the hydrogen atoms. The gâfactors for the compounds investigated in the first three classes were found to be 2.0025±0.0004 and 2.0031±0.0004 for the last compound. Such a close approach of the gâfactor to the free electron value plus the sharpness of the hyperfine structure lines indicates that the anisotropic contributions of the spinâorbit interaction, which would normally lift the degeneracy of the triplet state, are averaged out by the tumbling of the molecules.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/70965/2/JCPSA6-25-4-697-1.pd
Using elicitation interview within a phenomenographic framework: developing the breadth of research designs associated with game based approaches.
This paper describes how elicitation interview technique was used within a phenomenographic research design to explore physical education teachersâ experiences of teaching games using a Game Based Approach (GBA). Participants taught in one of two different international contexts, Australia or England, and all had some experience of using a GBA to teach games. The focus of the paper is the presentation and discussion of the unique research design used to generate understanding about GBA teaching experiences as well as extending the examination of GBAs from different philosophical viewpoints. Authorsâ reflections on the utilised research design are presented with concluding discussion identifying further research opportunities relating to GBAs in teaching and coaching contexts
Radio galaxies and their magnetic fields out to z <= 3
We present polarisation properties at GHz of two separate
extragalactic source populations: passive quiescent galaxies and luminous
quasar-like galaxies. We use data from the {\it Wide-Field Infrared Survey
Explorer} data to determine the host galaxy population of the polarised
extragalactic radio sources. The quiescent galaxies have higher percentage
polarisation, smaller radio linear size, and GHz luminosity of
W Hz, while the quasar-like
galaxies have smaller percentage polarisation, larger radio linear size at
radio wavelengths, and a GHz luminosity of W Hz, suggesting that the environment of the
quasar-like galaxies is responsible for the lower percentage polarisation. Our
results confirm previous studies that found an inverse correlation between
percentage polarisation and total flux density at GHz. We suggest that
the population change between the polarised extragalactic radio sources is the
origin of this inverse correlation and suggest a cosmic evolution of the space
density of quiescent galaxies. Finally, we find that the extragalactic
contributions to the rotation measures (RMs) of the nearby passive galaxies and
the distant quasar-like galaxies are different. After accounting for the RM
contributions by cosmological large-scale structure and intervening Mg\,{II}
absorbers we show that the distribution of intrinsic RMs of the distant
quasar-like sources is at most four times as wide as the RM distribution of the
nearby quiescent galaxies, if the distribution of intrinsic RMs of the
WISE-Star sources itself is at least several rad m wide.Comment: 12 pages, 8 figures, accepted for publication into MNRA
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