Acknowledgements Foundations of success would like to thank the many individuals and organizations who have contributed to our work on this synthesis. In particular, we would like to thank the following individuals for generously sharing their knowledge of monitoring and evaluation in the conservation field and/or for reviewing and providing helpful feedback on earlier drafts of this work: (Wil...

We study global dynamics for the focusing nonlinear Klein-Gordon equation with the energy-critical nonlinearity in two or higher dimensions when the energy equals the threshold given by the ground state of a mass-shifted equation, and prove that the solutions are divided into scattering and blowup. In short, the Kenig-Merle scattering/blowup dichotomy [10, 11] extends to the threshold energy in...

In this draft version we prove inhomogeneous Strichartz estimates with spherical symmetry in the abstract setting via duality arguments. Then we derive some new explicit estimates in the context of the wave equation. This allows us to prove global existence of spherically symmetric solutions to the Dirac-Klein-Gordon (DKG) system in two space dimensions.

[1] The existence of a new route that draws relatively cold waters from the Pacific Ocean to the North Atlantic via the Tasman outflow is presented. The new route materialises with comparable magnitude and characteristics in three independent numerical realisations of the global ocean circulation. Its realism is supported by hydrographic data interpolated via an inverse model. The ‘‘Tasman leak...

Gordon Appl. Opt. 42, 542 2003 argues that use of external rather than internal mixing when aerosol optical properties are computed will not seriously affect atmospheric correction of ocean color imagery, in spite of the fact that top of the atmosphere reflectances computed with the two approaches differ significantly as shown by Yan et al. Appl. Opt. 41, 412 2002 . We apply an algorithm for si...

To my parents, Chongding Zhao and Fulan Yin, and my wife, Dawei. iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS This thesis is dedicated to my parents, Chongdoing Zhao and Fulan Yin, and my dear wife, Dawei, for their patience and love through all these years. My parents did their best since my childhood to provide me the best educational opportunities. They have been a source of incessant support and encouragement in m...

The dynamics of the random-phase sine-Gordon model, which describes 2D vortex-glass arrays and crystalline surfaces on disordered substrates, is investigated using the self-consistent Hartree approximation. The fluctuation-dissipation theorem is violated below the critical temperature T c for large time t > t * where t * diverges in the thermodynamic limit. While above T c the averaged autocorr...

ASA member Craig M. Story is an associate professor of biology at Gordon College in Wenham, Massachusetts. He received his BS in biology from Gordon in 1989, and his Ph.D. from Brandeis University. He was a post-doc at MIT and Harvard Medical School in the laboratory of immunologist Hidde L. Ploegh, who is now at the Whitehead Institute in Cambridge, MA. Craig enjoys fishing, reading, and talki...

a r t i c l e i n f o This paper analyses the multidimensional child poverty status and its dynamic changes in China from 1989 to 2009 using the China Health and Nutrition survey data. Built on the Alkire–Foster methodology, the adjusted child poverty headcount ratio is calculated which measures not only the traditional headcount ratio of child poverty but also the average deprivation intensity...

The past academic literature on tax policy has focused almost entirely on the analysis of tax structures in the richest countries, particularly the U.S. Overall the optimal tax models explain reasonably well the observed tax policies in these countries. As summarized in Gordon (2000), for example, past theoretical work suggests that taxes on consumption or labor income should dominate use of ca...