Buffalo Arts and Culture Organizations

Open Buffalo and Partnership for the Public Good collaboratively compiled a directory of organizations that promote social justice through locally based arts and cultural programmatic efforts. This directory has contact information, as well as the mission and social justice commitment of the various organizations

Country Snapshot Serbia

A brief summary of the history and current status of religion in Serbia

Country Snapshot Montenegro

A brief summary of the history and current status of religion in Montenegro

Gossip in a Smartphone Peer-to-Peer Network

In this paper, we study the fundamental problem of gossip in the mobile telephone model: a recently introduced variation of the classical telephone model modified to better describe the local peer-to-peer communication services implemented in many popular smartphone operating systems. In more detail, the mobile telephone model differs from the classical telephone model in three ways: (1) each device can participate in at most one connection per round; (2) the network topology can undergo a parameterized rate of change; and (3) devices can advertise a parameterized number of bits about their state to their neighbors in each round before connection attempts are initiated. We begin by describing and analyzing new randomized gossip algorithms in this model under the harsh assumption of a network topology that can change completely in every round. We prove a significant time complexity gap between the case where nodes can advertise $0$ bits to their neighbors in each round, and the case where nodes can advertise $1$ bit. For the latter assumption, we present two solutions: the first depends on a shared randomness source, while the second eliminates this assumption using a pseudorandomness generator we prove to exist with a novel generalization of a classical result from the study of two-party communication complexity. We then turn our attention to the easier case where the topology graph is stable, and describe and analyze a new gossip algorithm that provides a substantial performance improvement for many parameters. We conclude by studying a relaxed version of gossip in which it is only necessary for nodes to each learn a specified fraction of the messages in the system.Comment: Extended Abstract to Appear in the Proceedings of the ACM Conference on the Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC 2017

Local Government Website Updated Report Card

In 2017, the Buffalo Niagara Coalition for Open Government evaluated the websites of sixteen municipalities in Erie and Niagara County

Local Government Authority in Erie and Niagara County Website Report Card

In February of 2018, the Buffalo Niagara Coalition for Open Government evaluated the websites of fourteen local government Authorities in Erie and Niagara Count

Colloidal Synthesis of Gold Semishells

This work describes a novel and scalable colloid chemistry strategy to fabricate gold semishells based on the selective growth of gold on Janus silica particles (500 nm in diameter) partly functionalized with amino groups. The modulation of the geometry of the Janus silica particles allows us to tune the final morphology of the gold semishells. This method also provides a route to fabricating hollow gold semishells through etching of the silica cores with hydrofluoric acid. The optical properties were characterized by visible near-infrared (vis-NIR) spectroscopy and compared with simulations performed using the boundary element method (BEM). These revealed that the main optical features are located beyond the NIR region because of the large core size

Dual enzyme-triggered controlled release on capped nanometric silica mesoporous supports

We thank the Spanish Government (project MAT2009-14564-C04 and CTQ2007-64735-AR07) the Generalitat Valencia (project PROMETEO/2009/016) for support. A.A. and L.M. thank the Generalitat Valenciana for their Santiago Grisolia Fellowship and VALI+D postdoctoral contract, respectively. We thank the confocal microscopy service from CIPF for technical support.Agostini, A.; Mondragón Martínez, L.; Coll Merino, MC.; Aznar Gimeno, E.; Marcos Martínez, MD.; Martínez Mañez, R.; Sancenón Galarza, F.... (2012). Dual enzyme-triggered controlled release on capped nanometric silica mesoporous supports. ChemistryOpen. 1:17-20. https://doi.org/10.1002/open.201200003S17201Saha, S., Leung, K. C.-F., Nguyen, T. D., Stoddart, J. F., & Zink, J. I. (2007). Nanovalves. Advanced Functional Materials, 17(5), 685-693. doi:10.1002/adfm.200600989Trewyn, B. G., Slowing, I. I., Giri, S., Chen, H.-T., & Lin, V. S.-Y. (2007). 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Angewandte Chemie, 116(24), 3164-3166. doi:10.1002/ange.200301751Kickelbick, G. (2004). Hybrid Inorganic–Organic Mesoporous Materials. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 43(24), 3102-3104. doi:10.1002/anie.200301751Mal, N. K., Fujiwara, M., & Tanaka, Y. (2003). Photocontrolled reversible release of guest molecules from coumarin-modified mesoporous silica. Nature, 421(6921), 350-353. doi:10.1038/nature01362Mal, N. K., Fujiwara, M., Tanaka, Y., Taguchi, T., & Matsukata, M. (2003). Photo-Switched Storage and Release of Guest Molecules in the Pore Void of Coumarin-Modified MCM-41. Chemistry of Materials, 15(17), 3385-3394. doi:10.1021/cm0343296Zhu, Y., & Fujiwara, M. (2007). Installing Dynamic Molecular Photomechanics in Mesopores: A Multifunctional Controlled-Release Nanosystem. Angewandte Chemie, 119(13), 2291-2294. doi:10.1002/ange.200604850Zhu, Y., & Fujiwara, M. (2007). Installing Dynamic Molecular Photomechanics in Mesopores: A Multifunctional Controlled-Release Nanosystem. 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Chemical Communications, 47(10), 2817. doi:10.1039/c0cc04424eTrewyn, B. G., Giri, S., Slowing, I. I., & Lin, V. S.-Y. (2007). Mesoporous silica nanoparticle based controlled release, drug delivery, and biosensor systems. Chemical Communications, (31), 3236. doi:10.1039/b701744hTorney, F., Trewyn, B. G., Lin, V. S.-Y., & Wang, K. (2007). Mesoporous silica nanoparticles deliver DNA and chemicals into plants. Nature Nanotechnology, 2(5), 295-300. doi:10.1038/nnano.2007.108Radu, D. R., Lai, C.-Y., Jeftinija, K., Rowe, E. W., Jeftinija, S., & Lin, V. S.-Y. (2004). A Polyamidoamine Dendrimer-Capped Mesoporous Silica Nanosphere-Based Gene Transfection Reagent. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 126(41), 13216-13217. doi:10.1021/ja046275mGiri, S., Trewyn, B. G., Stellmaker, M. P., & Lin, V. S.-Y. (2005). Stimuli-Responsive Controlled-Release Delivery System Based on Mesoporous Silica Nanorods Capped with Magnetic Nanoparticles. Angewandte Chemie, 117(32), 5166-5172. doi:10.1002/ange.200501819Giri, S., Trewyn, B. G., Stellmaker, M. P., & Lin, V. S.-Y. (2005). Stimuli-Responsive Controlled-Release Delivery System Based on Mesoporous Silica Nanorods Capped with Magnetic Nanoparticles. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 44(32), 5038-5044. doi:10.1002/anie.200501819Fujiwara, M., Terashima, S., Endo, Y., Shiokawa, K., & Ohue, H. (2006). Switching catalytic reaction conducted in pore void of mesoporous material by redox gate control. Chemical Communications, (44), 4635. doi:10.1039/b610444dLiu, R., Zhao, X., Wu, T., & Feng, P. (2008). Tunable Redox-Responsive Hybrid Nanogated Ensembles. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 130(44), 14418-14419. doi:10.1021/ja8060886Nguyen, T. D., Liu, Y., Saha, S., Leung, K. C.-F., Stoddart, J. F., & Zink, J. I. (2007). Design and Optimization of Molecular Nanovalves Based on Redox-Switchable Bistable Rotaxanes. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 129(3), 626-634. doi:10.1021/ja065485rCasasús, R., Marcos, M. D., Martínez-Máñez, R., Ros-Lis, J. V., Soto, J., Villaescusa, L. A., … Latorre, J. (2004). Toward the Development of Ionically Controlled Nanoscopic Molecular Gates. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 126(28), 8612-8613. doi:10.1021/ja048095iCasasús, R., Climent, E., Marcos, M. D., Martínez-Máñez, R., Sancenón, F., Soto, J., … Ruiz, E. (2008). Dual Aperture Control on pH- and Anion-Driven Supramolecular Nanoscopic Hybrid Gate-like Ensembles. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 130(6), 1903-1917. doi:10.1021/ja0756772Aznar, E., Marcos, M. D., Martínez-Máñez, R., Sancenón, F., Soto, J., Amorós, P., & Guillem, C. (2009). pH- and Photo-Switched Release of Guest Molecules from Mesoporous Silica Supports. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 131(19), 6833-6843. doi:10.1021/ja810011pAngelos, S., Yang, Y.-W., Khashab, N. M., Stoddart, J. F., & Zink, J. I. (2009). Dual-Controlled Nanoparticles Exhibiting AND Logic. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 131(32), 11344-11346. doi:10.1021/ja9042752Angelos, S., Yang, Y.-W., Patel, K., Stoddart, J. F., & Zink, J. I. (2008). pH-Responsive Supramolecular Nanovalves Based on Cucurbit[6]uril Pseudorotaxanes. Angewandte Chemie, 120(12), 2254-2258. doi:10.1002/ange.200705211Angelos, S., Yang, Y.-W., Patel, K., Stoddart, J. F., & Zink, J. I. (2008). pH-Responsive Supramolecular Nanovalves Based on Cucurbit[6]uril Pseudorotaxanes. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 47(12), 2222-2226. doi:10.1002/anie.200705211Angelos, S., Khashab, N. M., Yang, Y.-W., Trabolsi, A., Khatib, H. A., Stoddart, J. F., & Zink, J. I. (2009). pH Clock-Operated Mechanized Nanoparticles. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 131(36), 12912-12914. doi:10.1021/ja9010157Du, L., Liao, S., Khatib, H. A., Stoddart, J. F., & Zink, J. I. (2009). Controlled-Access Hollow Mechanized Silica Nanocontainers. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 131(42), 15136-15142. doi:10.1021/ja904982jYang, Q., Wang, S., Fan, P., Wang, L., Di, Y., Lin, K., & Xiao, F.-S. (2005). pH-Responsive Carrier System Based on Carboxylic Acid Modified Mesoporous Silica and Polyelectrolyte for Drug Delivery. Chemistry of Materials, 17(24), 5999-6003. doi:10.1021/cm051198vPark, C., Oh, K., Lee, S. C., & Kim, C. (2007). Controlled Release of Guest Molecules from Mesoporous Silica Particles Based on a pH-Responsive Polypseudorotaxane Motif. Angewandte Chemie, 119(9), 1477-1479. doi:10.1002/ange.200603404Park, C., Oh, K., Lee, S. C., & Kim, C. (2007). Controlled Release of Guest Molecules from Mesoporous Silica Particles Based on a pH-Responsive Polypseudorotaxane Motif. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 46(9), 1455-1457. doi:10.1002/anie.200603404Chen, L., Di, J., Cao, C., Zhao, Y., Ma, Y., Luo, J., … Jiang, L. (2011). A pH-driven DNA nanoswitch for responsive controlled release. 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State Capacity and Non-state Service Provision in Fragile and Conflict-affected States

How can governments effectively engage with non-state providers (NSPs) of basic services where capacity is weak? This paper examines whether and how fragile and conflict affected states can co-ordinate, finance, and set and apply standards for the provision of basic services by NSPs. It explores ways of incrementally engaging the state, beginning with activities that are least likely to do harm to non-state provision. Through the ‘indirect’ roles of setting the policy environment and engaging in policy dialogue, regulating and facilitating, contracting, and entering into mutual and informal agreements with NSPs, the state can in principle assume responsibility for the provision of basic services without necessarily being involved in direct provision. But government capacity to perform these roles is constrained by the state’s weak legitimacy, coverage and competence, lack of basic information about the non-state sector, and lack of basic organisational capacity to form and maintain relationships with NSPs. The experience of the exercise of the indirect roles in fragile settings suggests: * Governments may be more willing to engage with NSPs where there is recognition that government cannot alone deliver all services, where public and private services are not in competition, and where there is evidence that successful collaboration is possible (demonstrated through small-scale pilots). * The extent to which engagements are ‘pro-service’may be influenced by government motives for engagement and the extent to which the providers that are most important to poor people are engaged. * Formal policy dialogue between government and NSPs may be imperfect, unrepresentative and at times unhelpful in fragile settings. Informal dialogue - at the operational level - could more likely be where synergies can be found. * Regulation is more likely to be ‘pro-service’ where it offers incentives for compliance, and where it focuses on standards in terms of outputs and outcomes rather than inputs and entry controls. * Wide scale, performance-based contracting has been successful in delivering services in some cases, but the sustainability of this approach is often questioned. Some successful contractual agreements have a strong informal, relational element and grow out of earlier informal connections. * Informal and mutual agreements can avoid the capacity problems and tensions implicit in formal contracting but may present problems of non-transparency and exclusion of competition. Paradoxically, the need for large-scale approaches and quick co-ordination of services in fragile and conflict-affected settings may require ‘prematurely high’ levels of state-NSP engagement, before the development of the underlying institutional structures that would support them. When considering strategies to support the capacity of government to engagement with NSPs, donors should: * Recognise non-state service provision and adopt the ‘do no harm’ principle: It would be wrong to set the ambition of 'managing ‘ non-state provision in its entirety, and it can be very harmful for low-capacity states to seek to regulate all NSP or to draw it into clumsy contracts. * Beware of generalisation: Non-state provision takes many forms in response to different histories and to political and economic change. The possibilities and case for state engagement have to be assessed not assumed. The particular identities of NGOs and enterprises should be considered. * Recognise that state building can occur through any of the types of engagement with NSPs: Types of engagement should therefore be selected on the basis of their likely effectiveness in improving service delivery. * Begin with less risky/small scale forms of engagement where possible: State interventions that imply a direct controlling role for the state and which impose obligations on NSPs (i.e. contracting and regulation) require greater capacity (on both sides) and present greater risk of harm if performed badly than the roles of policy dialogue and entering into mutual agreements. * Adopt mixed approaches: The choice between forms of engagement does not have to be absolute. Rather than adopting a uniform plan of engagement in a particular country, it may be better to try different approaches in different regions or sectors

Directed Molecular Stacking for Engineered Fluorescent Three-Dimensional Reduced Graphene Oxide and Coronene Frameworks

[EN] Three‐dimensional fluorescent graphene frameworks with controlled porous morphologies are of significant importance for practical applications reliant on controlled structural and electronic properties, such as organic electronics and photochemistry. Here we report a synthetically accessible approach concerning directed aromatic stacking interactions to give rise to new fluorogenic 3D frameworks with tuneable porosities achieved through molecular variations. The binding interactions between the graphene‐like domains present in the in situ‐formed reduced graphene oxide (rGO) with functional porphyrin molecules lead to new hybrids via an unprecedented solvothermal reaction. Functional free‐base porphyrins featuring perfluorinated aryl groups or hexyl chains at their meso‐ and β‐positions were employed in turn to act as directing entities for the assembly of new graphene‐based and foam‐like frameworks and of their corresponding coronene‐based hybrids. Investigations in the dispersed phase and in thin‐film by XPS, SEM and FLIM shed light onto the nature of the aromatic stacking within functional rGO frameworks (denoted rGOFs) which was then modelled semi‐empirically and by DFT calculations. The pore sizes of the new emerging reduced graphene oxide hybrids are tuneable at the molecular level and mediated by the bonding forces with the functional porphyrins acting as the “molecular glue”. Single crystal X‐ray crystallography described the stacking of a perfluorinated porphyrin with coronene, which can be employed as a molecular model for understanding the local aromatic stacking order and charge transfer interactions within these rGOFs for the first time. This opens up a new route to controllable 3D framework morphologies and pore size from the Ångstrom to the micrometre scale. Theoretical modelling showed that the porosity of these materials is mainly due to the controlled inter‐planar distance between the rGO, coronene or graphene sheets. The host‐guest chemistry involves the porphyrins acting as guests held through π‐π stacking, as demonstrated by XPS. The objective of this study is also to shed light into the fundamental localised electronic and energy transfer properties in these new molecularly engineered porous and fluorogenic architectures, aiming in turn to understand how functional porphyrins may exert stacking control over the notoriously disordered local structure present in porous reduced graphene oxide fragments. By tuning the porosity and the distance between the graphene sheets using aromatic stacking with porphyrins, it is also possible to tune the electronic structure of the final nanohybrid material, as indicated by FLIM experiments on thin films. Such nanohybrids with highly controlled pores dimensions and morphologies open the way to new design and assembly of storage devices and applications incorporating π‐conjugated molecules and materials and their π‐stacks may be relevant towards selective separation membranes, water purification and biosensing applications.S.I.P. and S.W.B. thank The Royal Society and STFC for funding. B.Y.M. thanks the University of Bath for a studentship (ORS). D.G.C. thanks the Fundación General CSIC for funding (ComFuturo Program). Dr. Jose A. Ribeiro Martins, Professors Jeremy K. M. Sanders and Paul Raithby are acknowledged for training, helpful discussions and porphyrin supramolecular chemistry. The S.I.P. group thanks the EPSRC for funding to the Centre of Graphene Science (EP/K017160/1) and to the Centre for Doctoral Training in Sustainable Chemical Technologies (EP/L016354/1). The authors thank EPSRC National Service for Mass Spectrometry at Swansea and EPSRC National Service for Crystallography at Southampton for data collection. The authors also acknowledge the ERC for the Consolidator Grant O2SENSE (617107, 2014–2019)