Residents’ urbanized landscape preferences in rural areas reveal the importance of naturalness-livability contrast

Naturalness and the Landscape

In this paper I review some arguments of Douglas and myself concerning the concept of naturalness in string theory. I explain why the usual argument for low energy supersymmetry do not apply in this context. An incorrect argument in [7] is corrected. The statistical properties of the Landscape of vacua are strongly biased against low energy supersymmetry.

Supersymmetry, Naturalness and the Landscape *

We argue that the study of the statistics of the landscape of string vacua provides the first potentially predictive – and also falsifiable – framework for string theory. The question of whether the theory does or does not predict low energy supersym-metry breaking may well be the most accessible to analysis. We argue that low energy – possibly very low energy – supersymmetry breaking is likely...

The Landscape, Supersymmetry and Naturalness

Chronic Conditions and Receipt of Treatment among Urbanized Rural Residents in China

While undergoing the unprecedented urbanization process in the past few decades, China has also experienced a major epidemiological shift from predominantly infectious diseases to chronic conditions. Using data from a national survey of 1,288 respondents in urban China, this study examines the prevalence of chronic conditions and receipt of treatment among urbanized rural residents who have exp...

Amphibian Breeding Distribution in an Urbanized Landscape

Amphibians commonly use wetlands for breeding habitat, and given the concern about their ongoing global declines, the effects of urbanization on the breeding distribution of amphibians need to be quantified. Thus, we conducted a survey of the larval amphibian community in central Pennsylvania (U.S.A.) wetlands along an urbanization gradient. Wetlands in urban areas had less surrounding forest a...