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'Alive after five' : constructing the neoliberal night in Newcastle upon Tyne.
The development of the ‘night-time economy’ in the UK through the 1990s has been associated with neoliberal urban governance. Academics have, however, begun to question the use and the scope of the concept ‘neoliberalism’. In this paper, I identify two common approaches to studying neoliberalism, one exploring neoliberalism as a series of policy networks, the other exploring neoliberalism as the governance of subjectivities. I argue that to understand the urban night, we need to explore both these senses of ‘neoliberalism’.
As a case study, I take the ‘Alive After Five’ project, organised by the Business Improvement District in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, which sought to extend shopping hours in order to encourage more people to use the city at night. Drawing from Actor-Network-Theory, I explore the planning, the translation, and the practice of this new project. In doing so, I explore the on-going nature and influence of neoliberal policy on the urban night in the UK
Combatting electoral traces: the Dutch tempest discussion and beyond
In the Dutch e-voting debate, the crucial issue leading to the abandonment of all electronic voting machines was compromising radiation, or tempest. Other countries, however, do not seem to be bothered by this risk. In this paper, we use actor-network theory to analyse the socio-technical origins of the Dutch tempest issue in e-voting, and its consequences for e-voting beyond the Netherlands. We introduce the term electoral traces to denote any physical, digital or social evidence of a voter's choices in an election. From this perspective, we provide guidelines for risk analysis as well as an overview of countermeasures
Use of pop-up satellite archival tag technology to study postrelease survival of and habitat use by estuarine and coastal fishes: an application to striped bass (Morone saxatilis)
Pop-up satellite archival tags (PSATs) have been used to
study movements, habitat use, and postrelease survival of large pelagic vertebrates, but the size of these tags has historically precluded their use on smaller coastal species. To evaluate a new generation of smaller PSATs for the study of postrelease survival and habitat use of coastal species, we attached Microwave Telemetry, Inc.,
X-tags to ten striped bass (Morone saxatilis) 94–112 cm total length (TL) caught on J hooks and circle hooks during the winter recreational fishery in Virginia. Tags collected temperature and depth information every five minutes and detached from the fish after 30 days. Nine of the ten tags
released on schedule and eight transmitted 30% to 96% (mean 78.6%) of the archived data. Three tags were physically recovered during or after the transmission period, allowing
retrieval of all archived data. All eight striped bass whose tags transmitted data survived for 30 days after
release, including two fish that were hooked deeply with J hooks. The eight fish spent more than 90% of their time at depths less than 10 m and in temperatures of 6–9°C, demonstrated no significant diel differences in depth
or temperature utilization (P>0.05), and exhibited weak periodicities in vertical movements consistent with daily and tidal cycles
Improved determination of the atmospheric parameters of the pulsating sdB star Feige 48
As part of a multifaceted effort to exploit better the asteroseismological
potential of the pulsating sdB star Feige 48, we present an improved
spectroscopic analysis of that star based on new grids of NLTE, fully
line-blanketed model atmospheres. To that end, we gathered four high S/N
time-averaged optical spectra of varying spectral resolution from 1.0 \AA\ to
8.7 \AA, and we made use of the results of four independent studies to fix the
abundances of the most important metals in the atmosphere of Feige 48. The mean
atmospheric parameters we obtained from our four spectra of Feige 48 are :
Teff= 29,850 60 K, log = 5.46 0.01, and log N(He)/N(H) =
2.88 0.02. We also modeled for the first time the He II line at 1640
\AA\ from the STIS archive spectrum of the star and we found with this line an
effective temperature and a surface gravity that match well the values obtained
with the optical data. With some fine tuning of the abundances of the metals
visible in the optical domain we were able to achieve a very good agreement
between our best available spectrum and our best-fitting synthetic one. Our
derived atmospheric parameters for Feige 48 are in rather good agreement with
previous estimates based on less sophisticated models. This underlines the
relatively small effects of the NLTE approach combined with line blanketing in
the atmosphere of this particular star, implying that the current estimates of
the atmospheric parameters of Feige 48 are reliable and secure.Comment: Accepted for publication in ApJ, April 201
STS in management education: connecting theory and practice
This paper explores the value of science and technology studies (STS) to management education. The work draws on an ethnographic study of second year management undergraduates studying decision making. The nature and delivery of the decision making module is outlined and the value of STS is demonstrated in terms of both teaching method and module content. Three particular STS contributions are identified and described: the social construction of technological systems; actor network theory; and ontological politics. Affordances and sensibilities are identified for each contribution and a discussion is developed that illustrates how these versions of STS are put to use in management education. It is concluded that STS has a pivotal role to play in critical management (education) and in the process offers opportunities for new forms of managin
Nineteenth-Century Popular Science Magazines, Narrative, and the Problem of Historical Materiality
In his Some Reminiscences of a Lecturer, Andrew Wilson emphasizes the importance of narrative to popular science lecturing. Although Wilson promotes the teaching of science as useful knowledge in its own right, he also recognizes that the way science is taught can encourage audiences to take the subject up and read further on their own. Form, according to Wilson, should not be divorced from scientific content and lecturers should ensure that not only is their science accurate, but that it is presented in a way that will provoke curiosity and stimulate interest. This paper discusses the influence of narrative in structuring scientific objects and phenomena, and considers the consequences of such presentations for historical research. As scientific journalism necessarily weaves both its intended audience and the objects under discussion into its accounts, these texts demand that we recognize their nature as social relationships inscribed in historical objects
Intramedullary rod for fracture fixation of femoral shaft independent of ipsilateral femoral neck fracture fixation
A femoral intramedullary rod has a thin or reduced proximal segment so as to provide room for the use of femoral hip screws. Use of the rod for femoral shaft fixation permits subsequent independent treatment of an ipsilateral femoral hip fracture as an isolated injury, regardless of whether initially detected. Different rod embodiments are formed by the omission of different proximal portions of the rod. It is in such portions that the femoral screws may be placed to set hip fractures. The rod is cannulated for installation over a guide wire. Internal rod threads, below the thin proximal segment in some embodiments, are used for initial installation of the rod with a driving member screwed into such threads. Without driving forces on the thin proximal segment, such segment can be made even thinner. Once the rod is seated, hip screws may be installed if there is a detected hip fracture. Subsequent to healing, the femoral screws and interlocking screws (if any) may be removed. A hollow reamer sized for clearance over the intramedullary rod may be placed down over the top of the rod to cut away any bony tissue ingrown into the proximal end. Thereafter, the rod is extracted with a suitable extraction device
How and When Advertising Can Influence Memory for Consumer Experience
Recent paradigm shifting research in consumer behavior dealing with reconstructive memory processes suggests that advertising can exert a powerful retroactive effect on how consumers remember their past experiences with a product. Building on this stream of research, we have executed three studies that incorporate the use of false cues with the aim of shedding new light on how post-experience advertising exerts influence on recollection. Our first experiment investigates an important but yet unexplored issue to advertisers who are perhaps reticent about embracing this paradigm: Does the false cue fundamentally change how consumers process information? After finding that when the false information goes undetected it is processed in a similar manner as more truthful cues, we use this paradigm to shed light on the pictorial versus verbal information debate in advertising. We discuss the implications of our findings for those interested in managing consumer experience and for advertising researchers seeking indirect measures of the influence of advertising
Discovery of a second pulsating intermediate helium-enriched sdOB star
We present the discovery of long-period, low-amplitude, g-mode pulsations in
the intermediate He-rich hot subdwarf (sdOB) star Feige 46. Up until now only
one other He-enriched sdOB star (LS IV -14116) was known to exhibit such
pulsations. From our ground-based light curves of Feige 46, we extracted five
independent periodicities ranging from 2294 s to 3400 s. We fitted our
low-resolution, high signal-to-noise optical spectrum of the star with our grid
of non-LTE model atmospheres and derived the following atmospheric parameters:
Teff = 36120 230 K, log g = 5.93 0.04 and log N(He)/N(H) = -0.32
0.03 (formal fitting errors only). These parameters are very similar to
those of LS IV -14116 and place Feige 46 well outside of the instability strip
where the hydrogen-rich g-mode sdB pulsators are found. We used the Gaia
parallax and proper motion of Feige 46 to perform a kinematic analysis of this
star and found that it likely belongs to the Galactic halo population. This is
most certainly an intriguing and interesting result given that LS IV -14116 is
also a halo object. The mechanism responsible for the pulsations in these two
peculiar objects remains unclear but a possible scenario involves the
-mechanism. Although they are the only two members in their class of
variable stars, these pulsators appear to have more in common than just their
pulsation properties.Comment: Accepted for publication in A&
Intramedullary Rod for Fracture Fixation of Femoral Shaft Independent of Ipsilateral Femoral Neck Fracture Fixation
A femoral intramedullary rod has a thin or reduced proximal segment so as to provide room for the use of femoral hip screws. Use of the rod for femoral shaft fixation permits subsequent independent treatment of an ipsilateral femoral hip fracture as an isolated injury, regardless of whether initially detected. Different rod embodiments are formed by the omission of different proximal portions of the rod. It is in such portions that the femoral screws may be placed to set hip fractures. The rod is cannulated for installation over a guide wire. Internal rod threads, below the thin proximal segment in some embodiments, are used for initial installation of the rod with a driving member screwed into such threads. Without driving forces on the thin proximal segment, such segment can be made even thinner. Once the rod is seated, hip screws may be installed if there is a detected hip fracture. Subsequent to healing, the femoral screws and interlocking screws (if any) may be removed. A hollow reamer sized for clearance over the intramedullary rod may be placed down over the top of the rod to cut away any bony tissue ingrown into the proximal end. Thereafter, the rod is extracted with a suitable extraction device
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