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Inquiring into activist publics in chronic environmental issues: Use of the mutual-gains approach for breaking a deadlock
© 2015 John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. This study aims to understand different publics' communicative behaviors for problem solving surrounding an oil spill issue in Korea. Specifically, it explores the differences between chronic activists and other types of publics who were affected by this chronic environmental issue. A total of 24 interviews were conducted, from which five different types of publics were identified. The findings suggest that the majority of activists who are currently working on the issue are closed-chronic activists, which are slightly different from Ni and Kim's findings on chronic activists' communicative behaviors. Interviews were also conducted with five communication experts to propose viable conflict resolution strategies for the issue. The mutual-gains approach is recommended as a viable organization-public conflict resolution strategy
An Automated WSDL Generation and Enhanced SOAP Message Processing System for Mobile Web Services
Web services are key applications in business-to-business, business-to-customer, and enterprise applications integration solutions. As the mobile Internet becomes one of the main methods for information delivery, mobile Web Services are regarded as a critical aspect of e-business architecture. In this paper, we proposed a mobile Web Services middleware that converts conventional Internet services into mobile Web services. We implemented a WSDL (Web Service Description Language) builder that converts HTML/XML into WSDL and a SAOP (Simple Object Access Protocol) message processor. The former minimizes the overhead cost of rebuilding mobile Web Services and enables seamless services between wired and wireless Internet services. The latter enhances SOAP processing performance by eliminating the Servlet container (Tomcat), a required component of typical Web services implementation. Our system can completely support standard Web Services protocol, minimizing communication overhead, message processing time, and server overload. Finally we compare our empirical results with those of typical Web Service
Momentum relaxation from the fluid/gravity correspondence
We provide a hydrodynamical description of a holographic theory with broken
translation invariance. We use the fluid/gravity correspondence to
systematically obtain both the constitutive relations for the currents and the
Ward identity for momentum relaxation in a derivative expansion. Beyond leading
order in the strength of momentum relaxation, our results differ from a model
previously proposed by Hartnoll et al. As an application of these techniques we
consider charge and heat transport in the boundary theory. We derive the low
frequency thermoelectric transport coefficients of the holographic theory from
the linearised hydrodynamics.Comment: 19 pages + appendix, v2: references added, typos corrected, v3:
version published in JHE
Bosonic Fractionalisation Transitions
At finite density, charge in holographic systems can be sourced either by
explicit matter sources in the bulk or by bulk horizons. In this paper we find
bosonic solutions of both types, breaking a global U(1) symmetry in the former
case and leaving it unbroken in the latter. Using a minimal bottom-up model we
exhibit phase transitions between the two cases, under the influence of a
relevant operator in the dual field theory. We also embed solutions and
transitions of this type in M-theory, where, holding the theory at constant
chemical potential, the cohesive phase is connected to a neutral phase of
Schr\"odinger type via a z=2 QCP.Comment: references added. minor changes. version published in JHE
The Rich Structure of Gauss-Bonnet Holographic Superconductors
We study fully backreacting, Gauss-Bonnet (GB) holographic superconductors in
5 bulk spacetime dimensions. We explore the system's dependence on the scalar
mass for both positive and negative GB coupling, . We find that when
the mass approaches the Breitenlohner-Freedman (BF) bound and
the effect of backreaction is to increase the
critical temperature, , of the system: the opposite of its effect in the
rest of parameter space. We also find that reducing below zero
increases and that the effect of backreaction is diminished. We study the
zero temperature limit, proving that this system does not permit regular
solutions for a non-trivial, tachyonic scalar field and constrain possible
solutions for fields with positive masses. We investigate singular, zero
temperature solutions in the Einstein limit but find them to be incompatible
with the concept of GB gravity being a perturbative expansion of Einstein
gravity. We study the conductivity of the system, finding that the inclusion of
backreaction hinders the development of poles in the conductivity that are
associated with quasi-normal modes approaching the real axis from elsewhere in
the complex plane.Comment: 26 pages, 11 figures, V3, Added discussion of non-tachyonic scalars,
alterations to figures and tex
Lifshitz/Schr\"odinger D-p-branes and dynamical exponents
We extend our earlier study of special double limits of `boosted'
black hole solutions to include all black D-branes of type II strings. We
find that Lifshitz solutions can be obtained in generality, with varied
dynamical exponents, by employing these limits. We then study such double
limits for `boosted' D-brane bubble solutions and find that the resulting
non-relativistic solutions instead describe Schr\"odinger like spacetimes,
having varied dynamical exponents. We get a simple map between these Lifshitz &
Schr\"odinger solutions and a relationship between two types of dynamical
exponents. We also discuss about the singularities of the Lifshitz solutions
and an intriguing thermodynamic duality.Comment: 20 pages; 3 figures; v3: similar to JHE
Measurement error in a multi-level analysis of air pollution and health: a simulation study.
BACKGROUND: Spatio-temporal models are increasingly being used to predict exposure to ambient outdoor air pollution at high spatial resolution for inclusion in epidemiological analyses of air pollution and health. Measurement error in these predictions can nevertheless have impacts on health effect estimation. Using statistical simulation we aim to investigate the effects of such error within a multi-level model analysis of long and short-term pollutant exposure and health. METHODS: Our study was based on a theoretical sample of 1000 geographical sites within Greater London. Simulations of "true" site-specific daily mean and 5-year mean NO2 and PM10 concentrations, incorporating both temporal variation and spatial covariance, were informed by an analysis of daily measurements over the period 2009-2013 from fixed location urban background monitors in the London area. In the context of a multi-level single-pollutant Poisson regression analysis of mortality, we investigated scenarios in which we specified: the Pearson correlation between modelled and "true" data and the ratio of their variances (model versus "true") and assumed these parameters were the same spatially and temporally. RESULTS: In general, health effect estimates associated with both long and short-term exposure were biased towards the null with the level of bias increasing to over 60% as the correlation coefficient decreased from 0.9 to 0.5 and the variance ratio increased from 0.5 to 2. However, for a combination of high correlation (0.9) and small variance ratio (0.5) non-trivial bias (> 25%) away from the null was observed. Standard errors of health effect estimates, though unaffected by changes in the correlation coefficient, appeared to be attenuated for variance ratios > 1 but inflated for variance ratios < 1. CONCLUSION: While our findings suggest that in most cases modelling errors result in attenuation of the effect estimate towards the null, in some situations a non-trivial bias away from the null may occur. The magnitude and direction of bias appears to depend on the relationship between modelled and "true" data in terms of their correlation and the ratio of their variances. These factors should be taken into account when assessing the validity of modelled air pollution predictions for use in complex epidemiological models
Quantum critical lines in holographic phases with (un)broken symmetry
All possible scaling IR asymptotics in homogeneous, translation invariant
holographic phases preserving or breaking a U(1) symmetry in the IR are
classified. Scale invariant geometries where the scalar extremizes its
effective potential are distinguished from hyperscaling violating geometries
where the scalar runs logarithmically. It is shown that the general critical
saddle-point solutions are characterized by three critical exponents (). Both exact solutions as well as leading behaviors are exhibited.
Using them, neutral or charged geometries realizing both fractionalized or
cohesive phases are found. The generic global IR picture emerging is that of
quantum critical lines, separated by quantum critical points which correspond
to the scale invariant solutions with a constant scalar.Comment: v3: 32+29 pages, 2 figures. Matches version published in JHEP.
Important addition of an exponent characterizing the IR scaling of the
electric potentia
Nanoscale atomic waveguides with suspended carbon nanotubes
We propose an experimentally viable setup for the realization of
one-dimensional ultracold atom gases in a nanoscale magnetic waveguide formed
by single doubly-clamped suspended carbon nanotubes. We show that all common
decoherence and atom loss mechanisms are small guaranteeing a stable operation
of the trap. Since the extremely large current densities in carbon nanotubes
are spatially homogeneous, our proposed architecture allows to overcome the
problem of fragmentation of the atom cloud. Adding a second nanowire allows to
create a double-well potential with a moderate tunneling barrier which is
desired for tunneling and interference experiments with the advantage of
tunneling distances being in the nanometer regime.Comment: Replaced with the published version, 7 pages, 3 figure
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