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In dieser Arbeit adressieren wir die Schwierigkeit, Präzisionsvorhersagen mit dem kompletten Satz theoretischer Unsicherheiten in der perturbativen Quantenchromodynamik im Rahmen von Monte-Carlo-Simulationen zu treffen, angesichts der zunehmenden Komplexität der dazu nötigen Berechnungen. Die Anforderungen an die Rechenleistung können so groß sein, dass nicht in jeder Anwendung die bestmögliche Präzision erzielt wird. Wir präsentieren eine Reweighting-Methode für den Monte-Carlo-Ereignisgenerator SHERPA. Diese erstellt Variationen der nominellen Vorhersage mit vergleichsweise geringem zusätzlichen Zeitaufwand. Die Methode ist kompatibel mit aktuellen Multijet-Berechnungen nächsthöherer Ordnung, die mit Korrekturen von allen Ordnungen durch einen Partonschauer versehen sind. Zusätzlich diskutieren wir neue Entwicklungen für einen weiteren Reweighting-Ansatz, der auf QCD-Interpolationsgittern beruht. Diese ermöglichen noch schnellere Variationen für Berechnungen fester Ordnung. Solche Gitter können für Monte-Carlo-Simulationen automatisiert erstellt werden mithilfe von Interfaces wie MCgrid. Unsere Verbesserungen für MCgrid ermöglichen die Erstellung vielseitigerer Gitter, die eine größere Klasse von Berechnungen, Gitter-Implementierungen und Skalenvariationen unterstützen. Darüber hinaus diskutieren wir, auf welche Weise solche Gitter für die Unterstützung von Resummationseffekten erweitert werden müssten. Neben dem Reweighting studieren wir noch die Verwendung von Extrapolationsmethoden für die Vorhersage von Jet-Raten hoher Multiplizitäten, welche an zukünftigen Hochenergiebeschleunigern allgegenwärtig sein werden. Diese Methoden basieren auf dem Skalierungsverhalten der Jet-Raten. Eingebettet ist diese Studie in eine allgemeinere Diskussion der zu erwartenden Jet-Aktivität an einem Proton-Proton-Beschleuniger mit einer Schwerpunktsenergie von 100 TeV.

La région de haute montagne népalaise de l’Everest (Khumbu) est devenue un lieu emblématique de la diffusion des discours scientifiques et médiatiques sur le changement climatique en Himalaya. Les images de fonte des glaciers y alimentent une rhétorique alarmiste sur l’avenir de la ressource en eau et de sa disponibilité pour les populations himalayennes, cependant de nombreuses incertitudes demeurent. L’interprétation des modèles climatiques se heurte au manque de fiabilité des données et aux échelles appréhendées. Dans cette thèse, en interrogeant les habitants sur leurs pratiques impliquant la ressource en eau et sur leur perception du climat, nous apportons un éclairage susceptible de compléter ces modèles. Les variations du climat et leurs conséquences sur les usages et la gestion de l’eau sont étudiés en combinant les échelles et les disciplines, en confrontant des données relevant de l’hydrologie comme de la géographie, et en les replaçant dans un contexte où les changements sont aussi d’ordre social, économique et culturel. Les Sherpa ne se réduisent plus seulement à l’image de bouddhistes et de guides de haute montagne, ils constituent aujourd’hui une société fortement interconnectée depuis le virage touristique du Khumbu engagé dans les années 1950. L’étude de la gestion de l’eau révèle des logiques d’organisation et de restructuration d’un espace touristique fortement orienté vers l’international. Et il apparaît que les changements d’usages de l’eau au cours des dernières décennies sont davantage associés à l’insertion des habitants dans cette économie touristique qu’à des réponses au changement climatique. Les variations climatiques semblent donc être des préoccupations minimes à l’échelle locale tandis qu’elles alimentent les inquiétudes à une échelle mondiale. Ce décalage et les déformations discursives qui s'opèrent contribuent à alimenter un climat de tension dans la région où se pressent chercheurs, journalistes et experts internationaux. / The region of the Everest high mountains in Nepal (Khumbu) became an emblematic place of the broadcast of science and media narratives about climate change in the Himalayas. The pictures of the glaciers melting feed an alarmist rhetoric on the future of water resources and its availability for the population of the Himalayas. However there are many uncertainties. The interpretation of climate models faces the lack of reliability of the data and at the featured scales. In this thesis, by questioning the population about their habits on water resource and their perception of climate, we bring a highlight prone to fill these models. The climate change and its consequences on water use and management are studied by combining the scales and disciplines, by comparing some data from hydrology as well as geography and by replacing them in a context where the changes are also of social, economic and cultural order. The Sherpas are not only seen as Buddhists and high mountains guides but are nowadays a highly interconnected society since the touristic turn that happened in Khumbu in the 1950’s. The study of water management reveals some organisational and restructuring logics of a touristic space highly headed for the international. It appears that the changes of water use during the last decades are rather lied to the insertion of inhabitants in this touristic economy than a response to the climate change. The climate variations seem to be minor concerns at the local scale whereas they feed worries at the global scale. This discrepancy and the ongoing narratives’ distortions contribute to create a climate of tensions in this region where researchers, journalists and international experts are rushing.

Charles C. Sherrod Library was tasked with inputting faculty works in the open access institutional repository, Digital Commons@East Tennessee State University (https://dc.etsu.edu). In order for this project to remain sustainable with limited staffing and funding, they created a workflow around the integration of Zotero and SHERPA/RoMEO to input data and check copyright in addition to Unpaywall to locate open access documents. This presentation will detail the technical aspects and workflow of using these freely available products so that attendees can replicate all or relevant parts of this project. After a year of using the products, Sherrod Library completed a quantitative study on the quality records available in Zotero based on disciplines and document types. The study discovered that the education and arts/humanities fields were poorly represented in contrast to the social/behavioral sciences and medicine/health sciences fields. Furthermore, journal articles, books, and book contributions were better represented in Zotero than newsletters and magazine articles, conference proceedings, and music albums. Consequently, Sherrod Library continues to use the products primarily for journal articles, books, and book contributions by STEM faculty. The outcomes of this study can inform content providers on how to best sustain open data through their websites’ structures and metadata practices.

The celebrated Sherpas of Himalayan mountaineering, who lived in the rugged high-altitude environment of the Everest area of Nepal, lacked Western style medical services and so iconic New Zealander, Sir Edmund Hillary, 'hero' of Everest, built them a small hospital in 1966. He administered Khunde Hospital through the Himalayan Trust, but with substantial support, since the late-1970s, from the Sir Edmund Hillary Foundation in Canada. Overseas medical volunteers assisted by local staff provided a range of outpatient and inpatient, curative and preventive services. The history of Khunde Hospital, therefore, provides a case study for the introduction of modern medicine, as Sherpas referred to Western or biomedicine, and for the implementation of an overseas aid project. In my analysis I have moved away from a binary, oppositional examination of a cross-cultural encounter and have situated Khunde Hospital in a conceptual device of 'worlds'. I argue that the hospital existed and operated simultaneously within multiple separate yet interconnected worlds, but do not privilege one discourse over another. These worlds work beyond culture, encompassing institutions, political structures and knowledge communities and were physical, social and intellectual spaces within which there were rules and norms of behaviour that structured action. In order to explore the histories of Khunde Hospital I set it within four distinct but overlapping worlds: that of Sir Edmund Hillary, the Sherpa, Western medicine and international aid. These are worlds that I have identified as being important for the questions I am looking at. My central discussion is the ongoing encounter between Sherpa beliefs and practices about sickness and modern medicine, particularly looking at the individual patient�s use and non-use of the hospital and how staff there responded. The response was neither a one-way diffusion of Western medical practice, nor a collision between the spirit-suffused system of the Sherpa and scientific biomedicine. People used the hospital for some things but not others, based on their perception as to whether the hospital was the effective, appropriate option to take. Over the years, the hospital and community became used to each other in a relationship that was in practice a coexistence of difference. Each acknowledged and could incorporate aspects of the other�s beliefs and practices when dealing with a person�s sickness, but remained separate. Using the conceptual device of worlds, however, suggests the need for this example of the introduction and spread of Western medicine to be grounded in a consideration of Hillary�s particular form of aid, the shifting discourse of international medical aid between the 1960s and the 1990s and the unique world of the Sherpa of Khumbu. All of these worlds influenced the provision of health care at and from Khunde Hospital in different ways, sometimes separately but often simultaneously, and at some times and for some issues more than others. People, place and relationships often had as much influence as - and sometimes more than - the medicine. If the key to understanding Khunde Hospital is the relationship between Sherpas and Hillary and the respect that began in a partnership on the mountains in the 1950s, then the multiple worlds of Khunde Hospital underscore the complexities of implementing Sherpa requests to build a hospital in their rugged home near the world�s highest mountain.