Abstract: This paper tells a story of a practitioner’s experience in a First Nations library and how it shaped a doctoral research project on knowledge organization. It connects the landscape on the edge of a pacific forest to considerations of the impacts of the erasures of Indigenous knowledges by dominant knowledge organization systems and practices. The LIS literature on cultural bias in knowledge organization is reviewed and some ameliorative initiatives described. A theoretical lens is created by conjoining the new sociology of education with analyses by Indigenous governance organizations. The potential of LIS research to contribute to the naming and reclaiming of Indigenous knowledges is highlighted and a proposed research plan to contribute to methodologies for Indigenous knowledge organization is outlined.

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We present the locally supersymmetric formulation of unimodular gravity theory in D (1 ≤ D ≤ 11) dimensions, namely supergravity theory with the metric tensor whose determinant is constrained to be unity. In such a formulation, the usual finetuning of cosmological constant is no longer needed, but its value is understood as an initial condition. Moreover, the zero-ness of the cosmological constant is concluded as the most probable configuration, based on the effective vacuum functional. We also show that the closure of supersymmetry gauge algebra is consistent with the unimodular condition on the metric.

We present calculations of the leading and O(1/N) terms in a large-N expansion of the β-functions for various supersymmetric theories: a Wess-Zumino model, supersymmetric QED and a non-abelian supersymmetric gauge theory. In all cases N is the number of a class of the chiral superfields in the theory. Feb 1996Coupling constant perturbation theory has constituted the main approach to quantum field theories since their introduction, but it has its limitations. Therefore any approach which reaches beyond it is worthy of attention: one such is large-N expansions, where N denotes the number of fields (or some subset thereof). Simple theories such as O(N)symmetric φ4 have been much studied [1] as has QCD at both large Nc[2] and Nf[3] [4]. In this paper we calculate the β-functions for a Wess-Zumino model, and also for various supersymmetric gauge theories – supersymmetric QED in the limit of large Nf, i.e. for a large number of chiral superfields, together with an abelian gauged Wess-Zumino model and a more general non-abelian theory. In all cases the leading contribution is a simple one-loop calculation, and things become interesting at O(1/N), when bubble sums are involved. It turns out that the supersymmetric D-algebra part of the calculation is

1 Synthesis of [2]Rotaxane SSR•4PF6 and its Precursor Dumbbell-Shaped Compound SSD. The routes employed to synthesize the [2]rotaxane SSR•4PF6 and its respective dumbbell-shaped compound SSD, are outlined in Schemes S1–S2. The aldehyde 3 (Scheme S1) was obtained in 81 % yield by reacting 4-hydroxy-3,5-diisopropyl-benzaldehyde[1] (1) with 2-(2-chloroethoxy)ethanol (2) under alkylation conditions (K2CO3/KI/DMF) at 100 ˚C. Treating 3 with TsCl in the presence of Et3N and DMAP in CH2Cl2 solution gave the tosylate 4 which was then reacted, without purification, with NaBH4 in MeOH, to afford the benzyl alcohol 5 in an overall yield of 67%. Alkylation (K2CO3/LiBr/18C6/MeCN) of 1-acetoxy-5-hydroxy-naphthalene[2] (6) with 5 produced the intermediate ester 7, which was subjected to saponification (KOH/MeOH) to yield the diol 8 (overall 72%). Preparation of the [2]rotaxane SSR•4PF6 (Scheme S2) was completed by alkylating 8 with the tosylate[4] 9 in MeCN in the presence of K2CO3, LiBr, and 18C6 to afford the alcohol 10 in 68 % yield. This alcohol was converted to the dumbbell-shaped compound SSD by reacting it with thioctic acid (11) under esterification conditions (DCC/DMAP/CH2Cl2). The template-directed synthesis of the [2]rotaxane SSR•4PF6 was accomplished by reacting SSD, the dicationic

Recently, certain higher dimensional complex manifolds were obtained in [1] by associating a higher dimensional uniformisation to the generalised Teichmüller spaces of Hitchin. The extra dimensions are provided by the “times” of the generalised KdV hierarchy. In this paper, we complete the proof that these manifolds provide the analog of superspace for W-gravity and that W-symmetry linearises on these spaces. This is done by explicitly constructing the relationship between the Beltrami differentials which naturally occur in the higher dimensional manifolds and the Beltrami differentials which occur in W-gravity. This also resolves an old puzzle regarding the relationship between KdV flows and W-diffeomorphisms. Dedicated to the memory of Claude Itzykson 1

Through the present paper, the code gamgamZZ is presented, which may be used to calculate all possible observables related to the process γγ → ZZ, in either the Standard Model (SM), or the minimal sypersymmetric standard model (MSSM) with real parameters. Work co-funded by the European Union- European Social fund and the National fund PYTHAGO-

Major environmental factors in the durability of exterior walls are temperature and moisture. Temperature is the factor examined in this study. Thermal movements can lead to induced stresses that may be high enough to cause cracking. Temperature cycling about the freezing point may lead to frost damage in wet walls. This paper examines the temperature measurements on an exterior wall of a nine-storey apartment building in the Ottawa-Carleton region. Measurements were taken over a period of two years at one location with a S-W orientation on the 8th storey. The exterior wall consists of a clay brick veneer, an air gap, a loadbearing concrete blockwork parged on the inside face, building paper, thermal insulation between steel studs, a vapour barrier and a drywall interior finish.

The Expert Panel’s recommendations concerning the equalization of natural resource revenues are the most interesting, complex, and controversial in the report. In this short paper, I review the panel’s proposals, I offer a critical assessment of the arguments from