L’économie politique de l’« aide boomerang » dans la Région autonome du Tibet

Cet article explique comment la contestation de la domination chinoise au Tibet est exacerbée par la croissance rapide que les régions tibétaines de Chine occidentale connaissent depuis le milieu des années 1990. Dans un contexte général où les populations tibétaines continuent à ne pas avoir accès au pouvoir politique, les stratégies de développement récentes ont abouti à faire affluer une quantité massive de subventions et d’investissements subventionnés par le canal du gouvernement lui-même ou celui d’entreprises chinoises dont le siège se trouve hors des régions tibétaines. Ces stratégies accentuent une tendance déjà très fortement marquée à une externalisation de l’économie locale. L’analyse de ces processus offre un éclairage essentiel sur les récentes explosions de tension dans les régions occupées

The Political Economy of Boomerang Aid in China’s Tibet

This article examines how rapid growth in the Tibetan areas of West China since the mid-1990s has been a key factor exacerbating the unresolved contestations of Chinese rule in these areas. Amidst the continued political disempowerment of Tibetan locals, Beijing has used recent development strategies to channel massive amounts of subsidies through the government itself or through Chinese corporations based outside the Tibetan areas, thereby accentuating the already highly-externalised orientation of the local economy. These processes offer important insight into the recent explosion of tensions

The Political Economy of Boomerang Aid in China’s Tibet

This article examines how rapid growth in the Tibetan areas of West China since the mid-1990s has been a key factor exacerbating the unresolved contestations of Chinese rule in these areas. Amidst the continued political disempowerment of Tibetan locals, Beijing has used recent development strategies to channel massive amounts of subsidies through the government itself or through Chinese corporations based outside the Tibetan areas, thereby accentuating the already highly-externalised orientation of the local economy. These processes offer important insight into the recent explosion of tensions

L’économie politique de l’« aide boomerang » dans la Région autonome du Tibet

Cet article explique comment la contestation de la domination chinoise au Tibet est exacerbée par la croissance rapide que les régions tibétaines de Chine occidentale connaissent depuis le milieu des années 1990. Dans un contexte général où les populations tibétaines continuent à ne pas avoir accès au pouvoir politique, les stratégies de développement récentes ont abouti à faire affluer une quantité massive de subventions et d’investissements subventionnés par le canal du gouvernement lui-même ou celui d’entreprises chinoises dont le siège se trouve hors des régions tibétaines. Ces stratégies accentuent une tendance déjà très fortement marquée à une externalisation de l’économie locale. L’analyse de ces processus offre un éclairage essentiel sur les récentes explosions de tension dans les régions occupées

Опыт интегрированного содержания обучения в рамках НПО и СПО (сфера декоративно-прикладного искусства)

В статье рассказывается об опыте интегрированного содержания обучения в рамках НПО и СПО (сфера декоративно-прикладного искусства

Listening to limericks: a pupillometry investigation of perceivers’ expectancy

What features of a poem make it captivating, and which cognitive mechanisms are sensitive to these features? We addressed these questions experimentally by measuring pupillary responses of 40 participants who listened to a series of Limericks. The Limericks ended with either a semantic, syntactic, rhyme or metric violation. Compared to a control condition without violations, only the rhyme violation condition induced a reliable pupillary response. An anomaly-rating study on the same stimuli showed that all violations were reliably detectable relative to the control condition, but the anomaly induced by rhyme violations was perceived as most severe. Together, our data suggest that rhyme violations in Limericks may induce an emotional response beyond mere anomaly detection

An outflow in the Seyfert ESO 362-G18 revealed by Gemini-GMOS/IFU Observations

We present two-dimensional stellar and gaseous kinematics of the inner 0.7 $\times$ 1.2 kpc$^{2}$ of the Seyfert galaxy ESO 362-G18, derived from optical spectra obtained with the GMOS/IFU on the Gemini South telescope at a spatial resolution of $\approx$170 pc and spectral resolution of 36 km s$^{-1}$. ESO 362-G18 is a strongly perturbed galaxy of morphological type Sa or S0/a, with a minor merger approaching along the NE direction. Previous studies have shown that the [OIII] emission shows a fan-shaped extension of $\approx$ 10\arcsec\ to the SE. We detect the [OIII] doublet, [NII] and H${\alpha}$ emission lines throughout our field of view. The stellar kinematics is dominated by circular motions in the galaxy plane, with a kinematic position angle of $\approx$137$^{\circ}$. The gas kinematics is also dominated by rotation, with kinematic position angles ranging from 122$^{\circ}$ to 139$^{\circ}$. A double-Gaussian fit to the [OIII]$\lambda$5007 and H${\alpha}$ lines, which have the highest signal to noise ratios of the emission lines, reveal two kinematic components: (1) a component at lower radial velocities which we interpret as gas rotating in the galactic disk; and (2) a component with line of sight velocities 100-250 km s$^{-1}$ higher than the systemic velocity, interpreted as originating in the outflowing gas within the AGN ionization cone. We estimate a mass outflow rate of 7.4 $\times$ 10$^{-2}$ M$_{\odot}$ yr$^{-1}$ in the SE ionization cone (this rate doubles if we assume a biconical configuration), and a mass accretion rate on the supermassive black hole (SMBH) of 2.2 $\times$ 10$^{-2}$ M$_{\odot}$ yr$^{-1}$. The total ionized gas mass within $\sim$84 pc of the nucleus is 3.3 $\times$ 10$^{5}$ M$_{\odot}$; infall velocities of $\sim$34 km s$^{-1}$ in this gas would be required to feed both the outflow and SMBH accretion.Comment: 18 pages, 14 figure

HATS-4b: A dense hot Jupiter transiting a super metal-rich G star

We report the discovery by the HATSouth survey of HATS-4b, an extrasolar planet transiting a V = 13.46 mag G star. HATS-4b has a period of P ≈ 2.5167 days, mass of Mp ≈ 1.32 MJup, radius of Rp ≈ 1.02 RJup, and density of ρp = 1.55 ± 0.16 g cm−3 ≈ 1.24 ρJup. The host star has a mass of 1.00 M , a radius of 0.92 R , and a very high metallicity [Fe/H]= 0.43 ± 0.08. HATS-4b is among the densest known planets with masses between 1 and 2 MJ and is thus likely to have a significant content of heavy elements of the order of 75 M⊕. In this paper we present the data reduction, radial velocity measurements, and stellar classification techniques adopted by the HATSouth survey for the CORALIE spectrograph. We also detail a technique for simultaneously estimating v sin i and macroturbulence using high resolution spectra.Development of the HATSouth project was funded by NSFMRI grant NSF/AST-0723074, operations have been supported by NASA grants NNX09AB29G and NNX12AH91H, and followup observations receive partial support from grant NSF/AST- 1108686. A.J. acknowledges support from FONDECYT project 1130857, BASAL CATA PFB-06, and projects IC120009 “Millennium Institute of Astrophysics (MAS)” and P10-022-F of the Millennium Science Initiative, Chilean Ministry of Economy. R.B. and N.E. are supported by CONICYT-PCHA/Doctorado Nacional. R.B. acknowledges additional support from Nucleus P10-022-F of the Millennium Science Initiative, Chilean Ministry of Economy. V.S. acknowledges support form BASAL CATA PFB-06. M.R. acknowledges support from FONDECYT postdoctoral fellowship 3120097. Australian access to the Magellan Telescopeswas supported through the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy of the Australian Federal Government. Work at the Australian National University is supported by ARC Laureate Fellowship Grant FL0992131. We acknowledge the use of the AAVSO Photometric All-Sky Survey (APASS), funded by the RobertMartin Ayers Sciences Fund, NASA’s Astrophysics Data System Bibliographic Services, and the SIMBADdatabase, operated at CDS, Strasbourg, France. Operations at the MPG/ESO 2.2 m Telescope are jointly performed by the Max Planck Gesellschaft and the European Southern Observatory