Resistance or resignation to welfare reform? The activist politics for and against social citizenship

Since 2008, mature welfare states have, to varying degrees, pursued a strategy of welfare reform that has reconfigured the dominant praxis of social citizenship. Drawing on qualitative data from two studies, this paper explores what bearing this has had on the political subjectivity of welfare claimants in the New Zealand context. The findings suggest welfare claimants engage in diverse political struggles for and against social citizenship to resist, reconfigure and resign themselves to the prevailing socio-political settlement. In light of this, conclusions are drawn about the insurgent politics of low-income social security claimants as political agents in the citizenship-making process

Molecular astronomy of cool stars and sub-stellar objects

The optical and infrared spectra of a wide variety of `cool' astronomical objects including the Sun, sunspots, K-, M- and S-type stars, carbon stars, brown dwarfs and extrasolar planets are reviewed. The review provides the necessary astronomical background for chemical physicists to understand and appreciate the unique molecular environments found in astronomy. The calculation of molecular opacities needed to simulate the observed spectral energy distributions is discussed

Evaluation of White Clover Breeding Lines in the Australasian Region

The accuracy of predicting breeding line performance across target environments is a significant criterion in the development of cultivars with broad or specific adaptation. This paper characterises the type and magnitude of genotype-by-environment (GE) interactions estimated from a multi-site white clover (Trifolium repens L.) breeding line evaluation trial conducted across sites in New Zealand and Australia

Scanning probe recognition microscopy investigation of tissue scaffold properties

Scanning probe recognition microscopy is a new scanning probe microscopy technique which enables selective scanning along individual nanofibers within a tissue scaffold. Statistically significant data for multiple properties can be collected by repetitively fine-scanning an identical region of interest. The results of a scanning probe recognition microscopy investigation of the surface roughness and elasticity of a series of tissue scaffolds are presented. Deconvolution and statistical methods were developed and used for data accuracy along curved nanofiber surfaces. Nanofiber features were also independently analyzed using transmission electron microscopy, with results that supported the scanning probe recognition microscopy-based analysis

Animal Defenses against Infectious Agents: Is Damage Control More Important Than Pathogen Control?

The ability of hosts to withstand a given number of pathogens is a critical component of health. Now playing catch-up with plant biologists, animal biologists are starting to formally separate this form of defense from classical resistance

Influence of seasonality on ovulatory follicular wave dynamic in long protocols in Santa Inês sheep in the tropics.

Edição dos proceedings da Annual Conference or the International Embryo Transfer Society, Orlando, Florida, 2011

ArgoNeuT and the Neutrino-Argon Charged Current Quasi-Elastic Cross Section

ArgoNeuT, a Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber in the NuMI beamline at Fermilab, has recently collected thousands of neutrino and anti-neutrino events between 0.1 and 10 GeV. The experiment will, among other things, measure the cross section of the neutrino and anti-neutrino Charged Current Quasi-Elastic interaction and analyze the vertex activity associated with such events. These topics are discussed along with ArgoNeuT's automated reconstruction software, currently capable of fully reconstructing the muon and finding the event vertex in neutrino interactions.Comment: 6 pages, 4 figures, presented at the International Nuclear Physics Conference, Vancouver, Canada, July 4-9, 2010, to be published in Journal of Physics: Conference Series (JPCS

Relação do tempo de uso de anticoncepcionais hormonais orais e tempo para conceber

A total of 565 women was partioned in four groups: the control group with 155 women, who started the sexual life without any contraceptive control; group I, with 162 women who had been taking oral contraceptive during a period of one year, starting at the beginning of their sexual lifes; group II, with 127 women who had "been taking the same oral contraceptive during a period of 2 years starting at the beginning of their sexual lifes; group III, with 121 women who repeated the same procedure during a period of 3 years. All the 565 women had the same social economic status and the same health conditions; were between 19 and 25 years old and used the contraceptive in a same way. The frequency distributions of time required for conception showed a clear difference between groups control and I as compared to groups II and III. The analysis of variance confirmed the difference. Based on these results, it is concluded that oral hormonal contraceptive after the second year of continous use interfer with the reproductive system, this determining a larger time required for conception.Observou-se um total de 565 mulheres pareadas segundo idade, nível sócio-econômico e estado de saúde, divididas em quatro grupos. Um grupo controle com 155 mulheres e três grupos de estudo sendo: grupo I com 162 mulheres que tomaram anticoncepcional hormonal oral durante um ano; grupo II com 127 mulheres que tomaram o mesmo anticoncepcional por dois anos e o grupo III, com 121 mulheres, repetiu as mesmas condições por três anos. Todas tomaram o mesmo anticoncepcional sob a mesma forma. Feitas as curvas de freqüência relacionando tempo de uso com tempo para conceber, verificou-se uma significativa diferença entre as curvas dos grupos controle e I em relação aos grupos II e III. O material foi submetido à análise de variância que confirmou os resultados das curvas. Conclui-se que o uso de anticoncepcionais hormonais orais, a partir do segundo ano, interfere com o sistema reprodutor determinando um aumento de prazo para conceber em relação aos grupos controle e de um ano de uso