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Rapporteurās comments on four sessions about āFood Mattersā
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Workshop Proceedings - Connected communities āMini charretteā for arts, culture and heritage in Milton Keynes
This workshop report documents a mini charrette run at Bradwell Abbey in Milton Keynes as part of the New Towns and Garden Cities Heritage research project for which Dr Parham is a co-investigato
Spatial and temporal variation in degradation of dissolved organic carbon on the main stem of the Lamprey River
Degradation of dissolved organic carbon by microbial and photolytic processes was examined along the main stem of the Lamprey River Watershed located in southeastern New Hampshire. Eight sites were chosen and sampled biweekly throughout the seasonal hydrograph. Lab incubations were employed to assess microbial degradation of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) where one set of samples was exposed to natural sunlight for a day to assess photolytic degradation. Mean biodegradable dissolved organic carbon (BDOC) throughout the study period was 5.8% with no significant variation observed between sites. Temporal variation was found to be a much stronger driver of DOC composition with summer showing the highest degradation of 8.6% and winter the lowest. Initial DOC concentration was found to be the only significant positive predictor of BDOC on both an annual and seasonal scale. Photolysis had no significant effect on DOC degradation or availability of DOC to the microbial pool. Findings suggest that temporal variation is a significant driver of DOC composition via DOC sources that change throughout the season
āāFor you, pollutionā: The Victorian Novel and a Human Ecology. Disraeliās Sibyl and Gaskellās Mary Bartonā
Catherine Gallagher, in The Body Economic: Life, Death, and Sensation in Political Economy and the Victorian Novel locates the interest of Victorian literature in its deconstruction of boundaries. Her notion of a ādialectical synthesisā, in the novel, between Victorian political economy and āthe unique, nonfungible properties of thingsā and ānoninstrumental nature of peopleā (2006: 1) might, in turn, inform a less dichotomous ecological theory that would substitute (broadly) romantic, deep ecology with a more dialectical understanding in which the now recognised complexity of ecological systems would extend to encompass the human realm including, ultimately, issues around environmental injustice
āDickens in the City: Science, Technology, Ecology in the Novels of Charles Dickensā
This article addresses the obscuring of Dickensās interest in contemporary science. It argues that Dickens was acquainted with those scientific developments ā evolutionary biology and energy physics ā that would converge, in the nineteenth century, to form ecological science. Arguing that Dickens then applied his interest in science, and his own conception of a āpoetic scienceā towards an analysis of society, the paper considers his examination of industry, technology, and the physical shape that these bequeathed to the Victorian city in the light of contemporary social ecology. The article ends by arguing that Dickensās double-edged understanding of technology and the city allows us to understand his writing as an example of what John Clark has called a āsocial ecology of the imaginationā and, more generally, of a reconstructive quality shared with social ecology
The Benefit of Encoder Cooperation in the Presence of State Information
In many communication networks, the availability of channel state information
at various nodes provides an opportunity for network nodes to work together, or
"cooperate." This work studies the benefit of cooperation in the multiple
access channel with a cooperation facilitator, distributed state information at
the encoders, and full state information available at the decoder. Under
various causality constraints, sufficient conditions are obtained such that
encoder cooperation through the facilitator results in a gain in sum-capacity
that has infinite slope in the information rate shared with the encoders. This
result extends the prior work of the authors on cooperation in networks where
none of the nodes have access to state information.Comment: Extended version of paper presented at ISIT 2017 in Aachen. 20 pages,
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The Multivariate Covering Lemma and its Converse
The multivariate covering lemma states that given a collection of
codebooks, each of sufficiently large cardinality and independently generated
according to one of the marginals of a joint distribution, one can always
choose one codeword from each codebook such that the resulting -tuple of
codewords is jointly typical with respect to the joint distribution. We give a
proof of this lemma for weakly typical sets. This allows achievability proofs
that rely on the covering lemma to go through for continuous channels (e.g.,
Gaussian) without the need for quantization. The covering lemma and its
converse are widely used in information theory, including in rate-distortion
theory and in achievability results for multi-user channels.Comment: 10 page
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