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HOW MAINSTREAMING AND MULTILEVEL GOVERNANCE STRUCTURES EMPOWER PLACE-BASED APPROACHES TO REFUGEE INTEGRATION: THE CASE OF ALTENA, GERMANY
This thesis explores the importance of strong place-based techniques for refugee integration. The integration of refugees, when understood as a two-way process between the host community and refugees, is vital in moving away from dehumanized, national level representations, towards a more realistic view of refugees as individuals who are attempting to live and belong in their new communities. The German system mainstreams integration efforts at the national level by formulating policies of education, health care, and employment for the population as a whole (rather than specifically for refugees as a group). This system empowers towns and municipalities to apply more targeted, effective approaches to integration that fit the specific needs of their communities. Multilevel governance structures also aid in the ability of local level governments to apply targeted integration approaches, as they prevent potentially ill-fitting top-down initiatives from disrupting place-based measures. This thesis examines Altena, a German town known for its progressive integration techniques, through secondary sources and interviews with the mayor and integration team. Their efforts include valuing practicality over formality; emphasizing communication between civil society, the local government, and refugees; creating open, accessible social spaces; and conducting integration initiatives with the spirit of moral responsibility. Ultimately, this thesis examines how processes of multilevel governance and mainstreaming empower the local level to create policies and programs that promote more targeted forms of integration. From Altena, we learn just how valuable this relative autonomy is for the local level.Master of Art
Thermal fluctuation field for current-induced domain wall motion
Current-induced domain wall motion in magnetic nanowires is affected by
thermal fluctuation. In order to account for this effect, the
Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation includes a thermal fluctuation field and
literature often utilizes the fluctuation-dissipation theorem to characterize
statistical properties of the thermal fluctuation field. However, the theorem
is not applicable to the system under finite current since it is not in
equilibrium. To examine the effect of finite current on the thermal
fluctuation, we adopt the influence functional formalism developed by Feynman
and Vernon, which is known to be a useful tool to analyze effects of
dissipation and thermal fluctuation. For this purpose, we construct a quantum
mechanical effective Hamiltonian describing current-induced domain wall motion
by generalizing the Caldeira-Leggett description of quantum dissipation. We
find that even for the current-induced domain wall motion, the statistical
properties of the thermal noise is still described by the
fluctuation-dissipation theorem if the current density is sufficiently lower
than the intrinsic critical current density and thus the domain wall tilting
angle is sufficiently lower than pi/4. The relation between our result and a
recent result, which also addresses the thermal fluctuation, is discussed. We
also find interesting physical meanings of the Gilbert damping alpha and the
nonadiabaticy parameter beta; while alpha characterizes the coupling strength
between the magnetization dynamics (the domain wall motion in this paper) and
the thermal reservoir (or environment), beta characterizes the coupling
strength between the spin current and the thermal reservoir.Comment: 16 page, no figur
More than a Pretty Face: How Turkish Women's Magazines Function as Social Spaces
Beating on the banks of the Bosphorus is the cultural heart of Turkey - the hustling and bustling
city of Istanbul. Looking over one shoulder you will see high-rises and mega malls sprawling to the
furthest edges, and over the other shoulder will rise the domes and spires of grand mosques puncturing
the skyline. The diverse geography of this historic city is a physical, architectural reflection of the political,
social, religious, and economic shifts Turkey has endured throughout centuries of change in government
and society. These changes not only manifest in physical spaces, but also produce numerous social spaces
that are just as varied as the landscapes in which they are formed.
This thesis utilizes visual analysis as a method for exploring how patterns of social, political,
economic, and religious change in Turkey lead to the formation of new products and identities, and in
turn, how these changes spur people to claim certain social spaces. As the public image of Turkish women
has historically served as an indicator of change and modernity in Turkish society, this thesis examines
images in Turkish women’s magazines in order to gain an idea about particular realities that may inform
the creation of new Turkish social spaces, especially for women.Bachelor of Art
Water Demand Management in England and Wales: constructions of the domestic water-user
YesMeasures to manage demand include implicit and explicit messages about domestic water-users which have important potential impacts on their perceptions and practices. Drawing on recent literature, this paper identifies three different ¿dimensions¿ along which demand management measures¿ constructions of the water-user may vary: these relate to whether the water user is passive or active, whether they are motivated by individual or common needs, and whether they perceive water as a right or a commodity. Demand management measures currently used in England and Wales are then discussed and analysed. The paper concludes by highlighting the importance of communications associated with demand management, and in particular, notes the need to consider the cumulative impact of messages and their interactions with people¿s existing understandings
A simplicial gauge theory
We provide an action for gauge theories discretized on simplicial meshes,
inspired by finite element methods. The action is discretely gauge invariant
and we give a proof of consistency. A discrete Noether's theorem that can be
applied to our setting, is also proved.Comment: 24 pages. v2: New version includes a longer introduction and a
discrete Noether's theorem. v3: Section 4 on Noether's theorem has been
expanded with Proposition 8, section 2 has been expanded with a paragraph on
standard LGT. v4: Thorough revision with new introduction and more background
materia
Upstream-binding factor is sequestered into herpes simplex virus type 1 replication compartments
Previous reports have shown that adenovirus recruits nucleolar protein upstream-binding factor (UBF) into adenovirus DNA replication centres. Here, we report that despite having a different mode of viral DNA replication, herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) also recruits UBF into viral DNA replication centres. Moreover, as with adenovirus, enhanced green fluorescent protein-tagged fusion proteins of UBF inhibit viral DNA replication. We propose that UBF is recruited to the replication compartments to aid replication of HSV-1 DNA. In addition, this is a further example of the role of nucleolar components in viral life cycle
Properties of continuous Fourier extension of the discrete cosine transform and its multidimensional generalization
A versatile method is described for the practical computation of the discrete
Fourier transforms (DFT) of a continuous function given by its values
at the points of a uniform grid generated by conjugacy classes
of elements of finite adjoint order in the fundamental region of
compact semisimple Lie groups. The present implementation of the method is for
the groups SU(2), when is reduced to a one-dimensional segment, and for
in multidimensional cases. This simplest case
turns out to result in a transform known as discrete cosine transform (DCT),
which is often considered to be simply a specific type of the standard DFT.
Here we show that the DCT is very different from the standard DFT when the
properties of the continuous extensions of these two discrete transforms from
the discrete grid points to all points are
considered. (A) Unlike the continuous extension of the DFT, the continuous
extension of (the inverse) DCT, called CEDCT, closely approximates
between the grid points . (B) For increasing , the derivative of CEDCT
converges to the derivative of . And (C), for CEDCT the principle of
locality is valid. Finally, we use the continuous extension of 2-dimensional
DCT to illustrate its potential for interpolation, as well as for the data
compression of 2D images.Comment: submitted to JMP on April 3, 2003; still waiting for the referee's
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