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University of Canterbury
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About: University of Canterbury is a education organization based out in Christchurch, New Zealand. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Large Hadron Collider. The organization has 11100 authors who have published 29846 publications receiving 893232 citations. The organization is also known as: Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha & Canterbury College.
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TL;DR: A global attainment analysis of the feasibility of attaining SDG targets on the basis of past trends and a estimates of health-related SDG index values in countries assessed at the subnational level varied substantially, particularly in China and India, although scores in Japan and the UK were more homogeneous.
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17 Jan 2014
TL;DR: In this article, a search for the standard model Higgs boson decaying to a W-boson pair at the LHC is reported, and an excess of events above background is observed.
Abstract: A search for the standard model Higgs boson decaying to a W-boson pair at the LHC is reported. The event sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 4.9 fb−1 and 19.4 fb−1 collected with the CMS detector in pp collisions at s√ = 7 and 8 TeV, respectively. The Higgs boson candidates are selected in events with two or three charged leptons. An excess of events above background is observed, consistent with the expectation from the standard model Higgs boson with a mass of around 125 GeV. The probability to observe an excess equal or larger than the one seen, under the background-only hypothesis, corresponds to a significance of 4.3 standard deviations for m H = 125.6 GeV. The observed signal cross section times the branching fraction to WW for m H = 125.6 GeV is 0.72+0.20−0.18 times the standard model expectation. The spin-parity J P = 0+ hypothesis is favored against a narrow resonance with J P = 2+ or J P = 0− that decays to a W-boson pair. This result provides strong evidence for a Higgs-like boson decaying to a W-boson pair.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored the viability of the community-based tourism model to support socio-economic development and poverty alleviation via a Nicaraguan case study, based on an impact assessment and lifecycle analysis of the CBT Nicaraguan Network.
Abstract: Since the development of community-based tourism (CBT) governments, development agencies and NGOs have placed considerable emphasis on this development model. However, CBT has been strongly criticized with respect to low economic impact in terms of jobs and income, the result of small-scale interventions, its low life expectancy after external funding ends, the monopolisation of benefits by local elites, or the lack of business skills to make it operational. This article explores the viability of the CBT model to support socio-economic development and poverty alleviation via a Nicaraguan case study. The characteristics and effects of different modes of organising community tourism were examined, based on an impact assessment and lifecycle analysis of the CBT Nicaraguan Network. The results showed how traditional top-down CBT, created and fully funded by external organisations, reflected the general criticisms of the approach, while bottom-up CBT, borne as a result of a local initiative, demonstrated longe...
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TL;DR: How mtDNA mutations might affect the viability of natural populations is reviewed and factors that increase or decrease the strength of the effect of mt DNA mutations on population viability are considered and what mechanisms exist to mitigate deleterious mtDNA effects are discussed.
Abstract: The mitochondrial genome is considered generally to be an innocent bystander in adaptive evolution; however, there is increasing evidence that mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) is an important contributor to viability and fecundity. Some of this evidence is now well documented, with mtDNA mutations having been shown to play a causal role in degenerative diseases, ageing, and cancer. However, most research on mtDNA has ignored the possibility that other instances exist where mtDNA mutations could have profound fitness consequences. Recent work in humans and other species now indicates that mtDNA mutations play an important role in sperm function, male fertility, and male fitness. Ironically, deleterious mtDNA mutations that affect only males, such as those that impair sperm function, will not be subject to natural selection because mitochondria are generally maternally inherited and could reach high frequencies in populations if the mutations are not disadvantageous in females. Here, we review how such mtDNA mutations might affect the viability of natural populations. We consider factors that increase or decrease the strength of the effect of mtDNA mutations on population viability and discuss what mechanisms exist to mitigate deleterious mtDNA effects.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the amount of energy required to construct buildings and the resulting carbon dioxide emissions to the atmosphere from the fossil fuel components of that energy and compared them with typical commercial, industrial and residential buildings, using New Zealand as an example.
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Name | H-index | Papers | Citations |
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Carlo Rovelli | 146 | 1502 | 103550 |
Kenneth A. Dodge | 138 | 468 | 79640 |
John D. Potter | 137 | 795 | 75310 |
David A. Jackson | 136 | 1095 | 68352 |
Wajid Ali Khan | 128 | 1272 | 79308 |
David Krofcheck | 128 | 1043 | 77143 |
Hafeez R Hoorani | 128 | 1208 | 80646 |
Muhammad Ahmad | 128 | 1187 | 79758 |
David M. Fergusson | 127 | 474 | 55992 |
Philip H Butler | 125 | 970 | 71999 |
Paul Lujan | 123 | 1255 | 76799 |
W. Dominik | 122 | 669 | 64410 |
A. J. Bell | 119 | 498 | 55643 |
Cynthia M. Bulik | 107 | 714 | 41562 |
David A. Boas | 106 | 631 | 38003 |