Introduction: Finding ‘the Field’: the Problem of Locality in a Mobile World

Place is usually considered the backdrop for motion—the ‘where’ that people move to or from. Yet contemporary processes of migration and circulation produce increasingly porous and even mobile places. Mobility offers us new ways to perceive distance—in time, space, society and culture—through what Trouillot calls a ‘fragmented globality’. How can anthropologists theorise this fragmented globality without taking static forms of place as the necessary basis for mobility? The presumed stability of place and locale has long been the ground of anthropological research. Intensified mobility is throwing ‘into disarray pre-existing anthropological assumptions about culture, ethnicity, and territoriality, in particular, the notion of a stable relationship between people and place’ (Ward, in The Australian Journal of Anthropology, vol. 14, no. 1, 2003 Ward, S. 2003. ‘On shifting ground: changing formulations of place in anthropology’. The Australian Journal of Anthropology, 14(1): 80–96, p. 80). Locality has itself become a problem for fieldworkers, as social fields and networks widen and fragment and anthropologists have simultaneously found their concepts of place and locality troubled by theorisations emerging from other disciplines and, more recently, from within anthropology itself

Ghosts of Futures Present: Photographs in the Filipino Migrant Archive

This article explores the role of photographs in shaping the social selves of Filipino temporary labor migrants. Examining the production of photographic self-images by Filipino migrants in Hong Kong and their reception in the Philippines, I show how people deploy photography as a technology to bring into being their desired future selves. By making present ghosts of the future, photographs of the self shape distinctive translocal subjectivities

Natural orifice specimen extraction: the past, present and future

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Rethinking Indigenous Place: Igorot Identity and Locality in the Philippines

Spanish and American colonisers ascribed the identity ‘Igorot’ to the peoples of the northern Philippine mountains, positioning them in the ‘tribal slot’, somewhere between ordinary peasants and ‘backward’ primitives. From this marginal position, contemporary Igorot communities have been comparatively successful in formalising their entitlements to land and resources in their dealings with the Philippine State. This success depends on a discourse tying indigenous or ‘tribal’ culture to particular places. Colonial and, now, local anthropology has been recruited to this process through the mapping of community boundaries. This has allowed groups to secure official status as ‘cultural communities' and gain legal recognition of their ancestral domains. Ironically, even as ancestral domains are recognised, the municipalities that hold such domains have ceased to be bounded containers for Igorot localities, if they ever were. Participation in global indigenous networks, circular migration, and ongoing relations with emigrants overseas blur the spatial, temporal, and social boundaries of Igorot communities. Transnational flows of people, information, and value are recruited to support the essentialised versions of indigenous identity necessary for negotiations with the state. Here, I show how the specific history of the Igorot ‘tribal slot’ enables communities to perform essentialised indigeneity and simultaneously enact highly translocal modes of cultural reproduction

Are we getting better at preventing anastomotic leak?

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Optional elements and variant structures in the productions of bei2 to give dative constructions in Cantonese-speaking adults and three-year-old children

To express object transfer, Cantonese-speakers use a ditransitive ([V-R-T] or [V-T-R] where V=Verb, T=Theme, R=Recipient), or a more complex prepositional/serial-verb (P/SV) construction. Clausal elements in Cantonese datives can be optional (resulting in full versus non-full forms) or appear in variant orders (full non-canonical and full canonical). We report on usage of dative constructions with the word bei2 to give in 86 parents and 53 three-year-old children during conversations. The parents used more P/SV than ditransitive bei2-datives, and vice versa for the children. Both groups showed a similar usage pattern of optional elements and variant structures in their ditransitive and P/SV bei2-datives. The roles of multiple construction types, optional elements and variant structures in children's learning of bei2-dative constructions are described. Copyright © 2009 Cambridge University Press.published_or_final_versio

A single-axis low-cost accelerometer fabricated using printed-circuit-board techniques

This letter presents a new single-axis low-cost printed-circuit-board (PCB)-based accelerometer. Motivated by the need to develop low-cost human-sensing accelerometer, a capacitive PCB-based microelectromechanical- system (MEMS) accelerometer is developed, and the experimental results of the prototype have demonstrated that the objective is feasible. The PCB-based MEMS accelerometer is fabricated with a metal film adhered to a PCB, which forms the two electrodes of the sensing capacitor of the accelerometer. This signal is compared with the output signal of a commercially available accelerometer, ADXL330, by Analog Devices. The prototypes are designed to have a dynamic range of ±5 g and a bandwidth from 0 to 20 Hz, which covers the range of accelerations for human limbs. The result shows that the new low-cost accelerometer can fulfill the requirement of human motion sensing. © 2009 IEEE.published_or_final_versio

Evolution of Spin, Orbital, and Superorbital Modulations of 4U 0114+650

We report a systematic analysis of the spin, orbital, and superorbital modulations of 4U 0114+650, a high-mass X-ray binary that consists of one of the slowest spinning neutron stars. Using the dynamic power spectrum, we found that the spin period varied dramatically and is anticorrelated with the long-term X-ray flux variation that can be observed using the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer ASM, Swift BAT, and the Monitor of All-sky X-ray Image. The spin-up rate over the entire data set is consistent with previously reported values; however, the local spin-up rate is considerably higher. The corresponding local spin-up timescale is comparable to the local spin-up rate of OAO 1657−415, indicating that 4U 0114+650 could also have a transient disk. Moreover, the spin period evolution shows two ∼1000-day spin-down/random-walk epochs that appeared together with depressions of the superorbital modulation amplitude. This implies that the superorbital modulation was closely related to the presence of the accretion disk, which is not favored in the spin-down/random-walk epochs because the accretion is dominated by the direct wind accretion. The orbital period is stable during the entire time span; however, the orbital profile significantly changes with time. We found that the depth of the dip near the inferior conjunction of the companion is highly variable, which disfavors the eclipsing scenario. Moreover, the dip was less obvious during the spin-down/random-walk epochs, indicating its correlation with the accretion disk. Further monitoring in both X-ray and optical bands could reveal the establishment of the accretion disk in this system.postprin

Ambulatory intraocular pressure fluctuation recording with a novel wireless smart silicone contact lens sensor

The Conference program's website is located at http://apacrs2014.org/free_papers.htmlSession - FP1: General: no. FP1-03INTRODUCTION: Monitoring of treatment response in the management of glaucomatous optic neuropathy relies on single intraocular pressure (IOP) measurements during regular clinic hours at regular intervals. However IOP is a dynamic parameter with circadian rhythms as well as posture and exercise related fluctuations. The introduction of continuous 24 hour IOP monitoring technology has created a paradigm shift in glaucoma management. Our wireless smart contact lens sensor was previously validated in-vivo and ex-vivo in animal models. Here we describe the performance of the sensor in ...postprin

Mode Change of a Gamma-Ray Pulsar, PSR J2021+4026

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