UC Riverside Research Articles

The Politics of Impartial Activism: Humanitarianism and Human Rights

Humanitarian and human rights movements have gained influence as impartial ethical responses to injustice and suffering, yet their claims to impartiality are commonly dismissed as misleading, naive, or counterproductive. To date, little attention has been paid to the very different ways human rights and humanitarian movements have conceptualized impartiality in relation to distinct and conflicting activist goals.Bronwyn Leebaw is Assistant Professor of Political Science, UC Riverside (Bronwyn.leebaw@ucr.edu). The author is grateful to Hanna Pitkin, Lisa Disch, John Cioffi, Mark Reinhardt, Jennifer Hochschild, and three insightful anonymous reviewers for helpful comments on earlier drafts of this article. In developing ideas for this article, she also benefited from conversations with Helen Kinsella, Mark Drumbl, Chandra Sriram, Eric Stover, Harvey Weinstein, Lon Troyer, Kateri Carmola, David Pion-Berlin, Chris Laursen, John Medearis, Juliann Allison, Victor Peskin, Ruti Teitel, Targol Mesbah, Helen Lennon, Tom Reifer, Dean Mathiowetz, and the graduate students at UC Riverside.

AES Centennial 100: UC Riverside marks a century of agricultural innovation — still thriving in an urban empire

AES Centennial 100: UC Riverside marks a century of agricultural innovation — still thriving in an urban empire

A NEW ASYMPTOTIC THEORY FOR HETEROSKEDASTICITY-AUTOCORRELATION ROBUST TESTS

A new first-order asymptotic theory for heteroskedasticity-autocorrelation (HAC) robust tests based on nonparametric covariance matrix estimators is developed. The bandwidth of the covariance matrix estimator is modeled as a fixed proportion of the sample size. This leads to a distribution theory for HAC robust tests that explicitly captures the choice of bandwidth and kernel. This contrasts with the traditional asymptotics (where the bandwidth increases more slowly than the sample size) where the asymptotic distributions of HAC robust tests do not depend on the bandwidth or kernel. Finite-sample simulations show that the new approach is more accurate than the traditional asymptotics. The impact of bandwidth and kernel choice on size and power of t-tests is analyzed. Smaller bandwidths lead to tests with higher power but greater size distortions, and large bandwidths lead to tests with lower power but smaller size distortions. Size distortions across bandwidths increase as the serial correlation in the data becomes stronger. Overall, the results clearly indicate that for bandwidth and kernel choice there is a trade-off between size distortions and power. Finite-sample performance using the new asymptotics is comparable to the bootstrap, which suggests that the asymptotic theory in this paper could be useful in understanding the theoretical properties of the bootstrap when applied to HAC robust tests.We thank an editor and a referee for constructive comments on a previous version of the paper. Helpful comments provided by Cliff Hurvich, Andy Levin, Jeff Simonoff, and seminar participants at NYU (Statistics), U. Texas Austin, Yale, U. Montreal, UCSD, UC Riverside, UC Berkeley, U. of Pittsburgh, SUNY Albany, U. Aarhus, Brown U., NBER/NSF Time Series Conference, and 2003 Winter Meetings of the Econometrics Society are gratefully acknowledged. We gratefully acknowledge financial support from the National Science Foundation through grant SES-0095211. We thank the Center for Analytic Economics at Cornell University.

STATIONARITY TESTING WITH COVARIATES

Two new stationarity tests are proposed. Both tests can be viewed as generalizations of existing stationarity tests and dominate these in terms of local asymptotic power. Improvements are achieved by accommodating stationary covariates. A Monte Carlo investigation of the small sample properties of the tests is conducted, and an empirical illustration from international finance is provided.This paper has benefited from the comments of Pentti Saikkonen (the co-editor), two anonymous referees, and seminar participants at University of Aarhus, Indiana University, Purdue University, Stanford University, UC Riverside, the 2001 Nordic Econometric Meeting, and the 2001 NBER Summer Institute. A MATLAB program that implements the tests proposed in this paper is available at http://elsa.Berkeley.EDU/users/mjansson.

A 3D Open–Framework Indium Telluride and Its Selenide and Sulfide Analogues We thank UC Riverside, UC Energy Institute, and the donors of The Petroleum Research Fund (administered by the ACS) for funding.

A 3D Open–Framework Indium Telluride and Its Selenide and Sulfide Analogues We thank UC Riverside, UC Energy Institute, and the donors of The Petroleum Research Fund (administered by the ACS) for funding.

A 3D Open–Framework Indium Telluride and Its Selenide and Sulfide Analogues We thank UC Riverside, UC Energy Institute, and the donors of The Petroleum Research Fund (administered by the ACS) for funding.

通讯作者地址: Feng, PY (通讯作者), Univ Calif Riverside, Dept Chem, Riverside, CA 92521 USA 地址: 1. Univ Calif Riverside, Dept Chem, Riverside, CA 92521 USA 2. Univ Calif Santa Barbara, Dept Chem, Santa Barbara, CA 93106 USA

VIVE LA CHIMIE IN CALIFORNIA

ON THE LUSH AND GREEN CAMPUS of the University of California, Riverside (UCR), lies what chemistry professor Christopher A. Reed refers to as an aphrodisiac. It's a spanking new, $14 million chemistry building with state-of-the-art labs that's helped seduce several high-profile chemists, including Reed, to the historic agricultural town southeast of Los Angeles. The university's recent substantial investments in its chemistry department also persuaded noted French chemist Guy Bertrand to emigrate from the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)—France's enormous national research agency—to UC Riverside. Although eager for new experiences in California, Bertrand—an expert in main-group and phosphorus chemistry—didn't want to sever his ties with CNRS, where he'd most recently been director of the Laboratory of Fundamental & Applied Heteroatom Chemistry. And so with the help of Bertrand and UC Riverside and CNRS faculty and officials, the two institutions have devised an unusual partnership: Chem...

Intelligent Transportation System Technology in a Shared Electric Vehicle Program

To be successful, shared vehicle systems must be responsive, convenient, and easy to manage. By applying a variety of intelligent transportation system (ITS) technologies (e.g., vehicle location and identification, dispatching, smart cards), these attributes can be achieved. Further, intelligent transportation technology is useful for collecting data on user behavior and vehicle usage. These data add to the understanding of shared vehicle systems and of how to design systems for the future. The University of California-Riverside (UC Riverside) and Honda Motor Company have implemented a shared electric vehicle system test bed named UCR IntelliShare, which consists of 15 shared electric vehicles, moving among three stations on and near the UC Riverside campus. The system, described here, uses highly developed ITS technology, including smart cards, touch-screen registration kiosks, vehicle monitoring and tracking hardware, and sophisticated management software. The system has operated since April 1999, and abundant data are collected every day. Preliminary results are provided, describing user behavior, vehicle operation, and many shared vehicle trip characteristics. These data are being used to study shared vehicle systems and to refine shared vehicle system simulation modeling tools. These tools can assist in designing other shared vehicle systems, greatly reducing the implementation risks and liabilities that may be associated with future, full-scale shared vehicle system implementations.

Design A Generic Simulation Platform for DRS Experimentation and Development

The high cost of acquiring and operating a collection of advanced autonomous mobile robots for distributed robotic system (DRS) experiments stimulates the interest of developing a generic, real-time, virtual reality based simulation platform. The specification and design principles for such a system is presented. New concepts introduced in the paper include levels of users for the simulation platform, abstract sensors/actuators; the bandwidth of sensing/actuating devices, the bandwidth of a robot and that for the simulation platform; integrating hard systems with computer simulation; and simulated concurrency. A multiprocessor based DRS simulation platform, currently being developed at the Robotics Laboratory, UC Riverside is used as an example.

The Nucleus - A Report From The General Chairman Of the 1996 NSS/MIC

The 1996 Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference was held between November 3 through November 9, 1996 in Anaheim, California. The conference followed in the footsteps of its predecessors in its success. The meeting, which convened at the Marriott Hotel in Anaheim in sunny Southern California, included technical sessions on a variety of topics on nuclear science, medical imaging, and nuclear power and a series of interesting shon courses. Seven hundred sixty six attendees from around the world listened to two hundred eleven oral presentations and reviewed three hundred twenty eight posters covering the fuU range of symposium topics. The short course program which featured six short courses was attended by one hundred and two students. The conference also enjoyed two workshops, one on FASTCAMAC organized by Satisb Dhawan, Yale University and another on the Applications and Methods of Compton Scattering organized by Tumay Turner, UC Riverside. The conference was further enriched by the participation of thirty five commercial exhibitors whQ presented various products relevant and vital to the attendees.

The Nucleus - A Report From The General Chairman Of The 1996 NSS/MIC

The 1996 Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference was held between November 3 through November 9, 1996 in Anaheim, California. The conference followed in the footsteps of its predecessors in its success. The meeting, which convened at the Marriott Hotel in Anaheim in sunny Southern California, included technical sessions on a variety of topics on nuclear science, medical imaging, and nuclear power and a series of interesting short courses. Seven hundred sixty six attendees from around the world listened to two hundred eleven oral presentations and reviewed three hundred twenty eight posters covering the full range of symposium topics. The short course program which featured six short courses was attended by one hundred and two students. The conference also enjoyed two workshops, one on FASTCAMAC organized by Satish Dhawan, Yale University and another on the Applications and Methods of Compton Scattering organized by Tumay Turner, UC Riverside. The conference was further enriched by the participation of thirty five commercial exhibitors who presented various products relevant and vital to the attendees.

Q & A: George Zentmyer, Plant Pathologist

George Zentmyer, professor emeritus of plant pathology at UC Riverside, received his Ph.D. in plant pathology from UC Berkeley in 1938 and joined UC's Citrus Experiment Station in 1944 as a plant pathologist. Zentmyer, a member of the prestigious National Academy of Sciences, is a leading authority on plant diseases caused by the fungus Phytophthora, particularly Phytophthora cinnamomi, which causes severe root rot of avocado trees. His work has focused on root diseases, soil fungicides, biological control of soil pathogens and diseases of avocado trees and other subtropical and tropical crops. The studies have provided a multifaceted approach to control plant diseases that threaten the multimillion dollar avocado industry.

Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Studies Minor Approved at UC Riverside

Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Studies Minor Approved at UC Riverside

GENETIC DIVERSITY IN PUMMELO (CITRUS MAXIMA [BURM.] MERRILL), CITRON (C. MEDICA L.), AND TRIFOLIATE ORANGE (PONCIRUS TRIFOLIATA [L.] RAF) EVALUATED USING RFLPS

To assess genetic diversity in the UC Riverside Citrus Variety Collection, all accessions of pummelo (59), citron (24), and trifoliate orange (48) were studied for RFLP variation using 11-18 cDNA probes that had previously been shown to reveal polymorphism in a broad range of citrus germplasm. Inheritance studies have shown that these probes hybridize to at least 20 loci. The taxa studied are believed to represent biological species rather than hybrids. Citrons were nearly monomorphic and most appeared homozygous at all of the loci studied. Pummelos were very polymorphic and highly heterozygous. Trifoliate orange, an important source of disease resistance in rootstock breeding, was nearly monomorphic but moderately heterozygous (17% of loci). Most accessions of trifoliate orange have evidently differentiated only by mutation. One multilocus probe separated trifoliate orange accessions into 3 groups. Two new trifoliate orange accessions had novel alleles at some loci. The use of genetic markers to recognize hybrid accessions classified as members of species will be discussed.

Book Reviews

Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Gustav Holst. The Man and His Music. Michael Short. Oxford: Oxford Univerisity Press, 530 pages. Byron Adams Byron Adams UC Riverside Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Musical Quarterly, Volume 76, Issue 4, Winter 1992, Pages 584–591, https://doi.org/10.1093/mq/76.4.584 Published: 01 December 1992

Keystone collection to go to UC Riverside

Keystone collection to go to UC Riverside