No, Not There : The Literary Precarity and Profundity of Queer Spatiality

Love, broadly defined, needs space to grow. For love to materialize and sustain itself (in both literature and society), it must find hospitable geosocial, institutional, and psychic terrain. This is especially true for queer intimacies beyond heteronormative relationality, for the prospect of love’s radical––or reactionary––possibilities is contingent upon the more general sociality in which it develops. Yet love is often a worldmaking and, sometimes, historic mechanism unto itself. Love and its concomitant sexualities must therefore be understood within and without normative structures of hegemony; the workings of (neo)colonialism and capitalism––as well as patriarchy, white supremacy, and heterosexism––dictate to love, and love, at its fiercest, dictates back, or, less ideally, carves out a space for itself within hegemonic social delineations. Accordingly, this thesis examines homoerotic love’s dizzying relation to colonial, capitalist, and heteronormative worlds through the queer relationships at the heart of E. M. Forster’s A Passage to India (1924) and James Baldwin’s Giovanni’s Room (1956). I propose that the novels’ landscapes of queer love––A Passage to India’s Marabar Caves and Giovanni’s Room’s eponymous apartment––offer a historicizing spatiality, articulating queerness’s social exclusion and restive generativity. Such spatiality narrativizes not-yet-reachable geographies beyond the colonial, capitalist, and heteronormative regimes of twentieth-century literature and culture. In doing so, the intimate spaces at the heart of A Passage to India and Giovanni’s Room give us reason to yearn and, occasionally, reason to hope

Laser Atherectomy for Complex CAD in Ischemic Heart Failure: A Systematic Review of Revascularization Outcomes

This review evaluates how laser atherectomy compares to angioplasty and stenting for revascularization in patients with heart failure and complex coronary artery disease (CAD). The review explored whether laser atherectomy could improve procedural success and reduce the risk of restenosis, major cardiovascular events (MACE), and other complications. A search across multiple medical databases yielded six studies directly comparing these treatment methods. Findings showed that procedural success rates were similar between laser atherectomy (ranging from 80% to 95%) and angioplasty/stenting (85% to 98%). Restenosis rates at six and twelve months were also generally equivalent, although laser atherectomy showed potential advantages in treating heavily calcified arteries. The rate of MACE was comparable across both approaches. However, laser atherectomy was associated with a slightly increased risk of complications such as vessel perforation (around 3% vs 1%) and arterial dissection (around 4% vs 2%). Overall, the evidence suggests that laser atherectomy offers outcomes similar to conventional angioplasty and stenting, with particular promise in patients with calcified or complex lesions—especially those with ischemic heart failure. Since severe calcification is common in this patient population, laser atherectomy may be a valuable tool to improve PCI outcomes. However, the conclusions are limited by the small number of studies and the variability in their design and outcomes, highlighting the need for further research with larger sample sizes and standardized outcomes

Effect of atomization gas properties on droplet atomization in an "air-assist" atomizer

Air, nitrogen, argon and carbon dioxide were used as the atomizing gas in an 'air-assist' spray nozzle to determine the effect of these gases on mean droplet size, number density, velocity and their distributions in kerosene fuel spays and spray flames using a two dimensional phase Doppler interferometer. Data have been obtained with these atomizing gases using a base, air assisted case as a reference, since this is the most commonly used atomizing fluid in almost all applications. Comparisons were made between the gases on a mass and momentum flux basis. Both burning and nonburning sprays were investigated. The results show significant differences in atomization characteristics from the atomizer with different gases and under conditions of constant mass and momentum flux of the gas. The results also show that the presence of oxygen in the air atomized sprays assists in the combustion process, since it produces smaller and faster moving droplets, especially at locations near to the nozzle exit. In nonburning sprays, droplets had similar size and velocity. Lighter gases such as nitrogen more effectively atomized the fuel in comparison to the denser gases. Argon and carbon dioxide produced larger, slower moving droplets than air and nitrogen assisted cases in both the burning and nonburning sprays. Flame photographs revealed the argon and carbon dioxide atomized flames to have greater luminosity than air or nitrogen atomized flames.Master of Scienc

The “Web of pros” in the 1990s: The professional acclimation of the World Wide Web in France

peer reviewedThis article, focusing on France, explores the notion of a “Web of professionals” and seeks to establish its factual, epistemological, and methodological implications for the history of the World Wide Web in the 1990s. This research reflects on the promises of the New Economy and the roles of the various controversies, cultures, imaginaries, and forms of mediation affecting the business world in its appropriation of the Web. It also aims to reappraise the individual and collective stakeholders whose active part has been somehow underestimated or obscured by the image of the mass Internet user. The professionalization of Web activities, the development of a new generation of entrepreneurs and the conversion of business models to online practices are all significant parts of the emergent Web culture in France, as well as factors contributing to this emergence.Web9