Using “Fortin operators” we give a new proof of stability for Stenberg’s family of BDMS elements in linear elasticity. Our approach yields the inf-sup condition with respect to the standard norms, which is indispensable for a posteriori error analysis. Furthermore our technique allows the construction of another family of finite elements strongly related to the classical PEERS element. The give...

This essay examines the applicability of international human rights instruments as legal basis to protect indigenous land, territories, and natural resources non-ratification countries Convention on peoples’ rights, especially Indonesian context. In last few decades, United Nations has developed recognized peoples, including their ancestral lands, resources. These have been stipulated in severa...

Swedes uphold progressive attitudes regarding family, sexuality, and gender norms. At the same time, Sweden has had generous immigration policies for decades. This leads to challenges children of immigrants, who must navigate between expectations from their family surrounding society. Therefore, this study asks whether immigrants’ relating sexuality roles adapt approach those Swedish-background...

The EDA model (Epistemic-Deontic-Axiological) is an agent model based on the social psychology theoretical classification of norms and corresponding attitudes: Ontological, Epistemic, Deontic and Axiological. EDA agents are situated in normative information fields, and are described in terms of the basic attitudes aforementioned. Information fields are used as the basis for coordinating an orga...

Individual behavior change is a necessary condition for making a positive societal transition to a resourceconstrained future. Because we live on a planet with finite resources, behavior change interventions need to move beyond creating “green consumers” and instead foster and support “green citizens.” Green consumerism has proven largely ineffective in curbing collective rates of consumption; ...

Thepot ential (and probably increasing) relevance of social psychology for the social sciences may lie in the fact that in the social sciences, there is an increasing need for theories on individual behavior and interaction that help explain how collective phenomena come about. By collective phenomena, I mean phenomena such as many people doing similar things (like committing crime or divorcing...

We quantitatively analyze superradiance (collective emission) in a three-dimensional array of qubits without imposing any restrictions on the size of the sample. We show that even when the spacing between the qubits become arbitrarily large, superradiance produces an error rate on each qubit that scales with the total number of qubits. This is because the sum of the norms of the effective Hamil...

There are many kinds of collective and joint activities, as we all know. We can jointly write a paper, carry a table, sing a duet, and perform a toast to somebody. We can collectively conserve energy, vote in elections, love or fear supernatural beings, follow norms, create and uphold social institutions. Furthermore, crowds and organized groups can behave in meaningful ways e.g. a crowd can tr...

OBJECTIVE This study examined (1) the prevalence of misperceptions of college student drinking norms across campuses nationwide, (2) the importance of perceived norms in predicting high-risk drinking, (3) the association of exposure to alcohol education information with students' perceptions of campus drinking norms and (4) the differences in high-risk drinking rates between schools where expos...