Go home? the politics of immigration controversies

"The 2013 Go Home vans marked a turning point in government-sponsored communication designed to demonstrate control and toughness on immigration. In this study, the authors explore the effects of this toughness: on policy, public debate, pro-migrant and anti-racist activism, and on the everyday lives of people in Britain. Bringing together an authorial team of eight respected social researchers, alongside the voices of community organisations, policy makers, migrants and citizens, and with an afterword by journalist Kiri Kankhwende, this is an important intervention in one of the most heated social issues of our time.

Methods for determining the homogeneity of aortic wall calcifications

Cardiovascular diseases in Ukraine amount to 65.8% of deaths. The part of their prevalence and incidence in the structure of diseases among the population is 31.5% and 7.4%, but it reaches 52.1% and 20% among people of retirement age. Cardiovascular diseases include myocardial infarction, stroke, and aneurysm of vessels. Calcified plaques on artery walls that prevent normal blood supply of the myocardium and brain are the most common causes of heart attack and stroke. Calcification of vessels may cause their aneurism. In particular, the presence of abdominal aortic aneurism during a year can be a cause of a sudden death. That‘s why the study of the research methods of calcifications, their composition and the process of depositing in the wall of blood vessels are topical

Стрес і його роль у виснаженні резервно-компенсаторних можливостей організму хворих на гіпертонічну хворобу

Захворювання серцево-судинної системи серед причин смертності в Україні продовжують займати провідну роль, становлячи до 68 % смертності. За даними прогнозу на найближче десятиліття, гіпертонічна хвороба (ГХ) та порушення психічного здоров’я будуть основними причинами втрати потенціалу життя населення світу

RaD-X: Complementary measurements of dose rates at aviation altitudes

The RaD-X stratospheric balloon flight organized by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration was launched from Fort Sumner on 25 September 2015 and carried several instruments to measure the radiation field in the upper atmosphere at the average vertical cutoff rigidity Rc of 4.1 GV. The German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt) in cooperation with Lufthansa German Airlines supported this campaign with an independent measuring flight at the altitudes of civil aviation on a round trip from Germany to Japan. The goal was to measure dose rates under similar space weather conditions over an area on the Northern Hemisphere opposite to the RaD-X flight. Dose rates were measured in the target areas, i.e., around vertical cutoff rigidity Rc of 4.1 GV, at two flight altitudes for about 1 h at each position with acceptable counting statistics. The analysis of the space weather situation during the flights shows that measuring data were acquired under stable and moderate space weather conditions with a virtually undisturbed magnetosphere. The measured rates of absorbed dose in silicon and ambient dose equivalent complement the data recorded during the balloon flight. The combined measurements provide a set of experimental data suitable for validating and improving numerical models for the calculation of radiation exposure at aviation altitudes

'Always a European': Edward Clark’s Musical Work

Edward Clark (1888–1962), conductor, impresario, BBC programme planner, writer and broadcaster, is one of the most important but least known figures spearheading musical modernism in early-twentieth century Britain. His aim was to ensure musical Britain represented a part of musical Europe, rather than to win British music a space in a prestigious and exclusive canon. This goal he thought only achievable through promoting contemporary European music as a means of combating the strong isolationist trends in musical Britain. This article addresses central aspects of Clark's elusive and sometimes janus-faced character and musical life, such as his training with Arnold Schoenberg in Berlin, his work for the BBC and the later years at the helm of the International Society for Contemporary Music. While Clark stubbornly followed his European agenda, he was not afraid of ruffling feathers or investing his fortune into new music, only to be forgotten by British music history

IST Austria Thesis

This thesis is based on three main topics: In the first part, we study convergence of discrete gradient flow structures associated with regular finite-volume discretisations of Fokker-Planck equations. We show evolutionary I convergence of the discrete gradient flows to the L2-Wasserstein gradient flow corresponding to the solution of a Fokker-Planck equation in arbitrary dimension d >= 1. Along the argument, we prove Mosco- and I-convergence results for discrete energy functionals, which are of independent interest for convergence of equivalent gradient flow structures in Hilbert spaces. The second part investigates L2-Wasserstein flows on metric graph. The starting point is a Benamou-Brenier formula for the L2-Wasserstein distance, which is proved via a regularisation scheme for solutions of the continuity equation, adapted to the peculiar geometric structure of metric graphs. Based on those results, we show that the L2-Wasserstein space over a metric graph admits a gradient flow which may be identified as a solution of a Fokker-Planck equation. In the third part, we focus again on the discrete gradient flows, already encountered in the first part. We propose a variational structure which extends the gradient flow structure to Markov chains violating the detailed-balance conditions. Using this structure, we characterise contraction estimates for the discrete heat flow in terms of convexity of corresponding path-dependent energy functionals. In addition, we use this approach to derive several functional inequalities for said functionals

The SPECFIND V2.0 catalogue of radio cross-identifications and spectra. SPECFIND meets the Virtual Observatory

The new release of the SPECFIND radio cross-identification catalogue, SPECFIND V2.0, is presented. It contains 107488 cross-identified objects with at least three radio sources observed at three independent frequencies. Compared to the previous release the number of entry radio catalogues is increased from 20 to 97 containing 115 tables. This large increase was only made possible by the development of four tools at CDS which use the standards and infrastructure of the Virtual Observatory (VO). This was done in the framework of the VO-TECH European Design Study of the Sixth Framework Program. We give an overview of the different classes of radio sources that a user can encounter. Due to the increase of frequency coverage of the input radio catalogues, this release demonstrates that the SPECFIND algorithm is able to detect spectral breaks around a frequency of ~1 GHz.Comment: 11 pages, 10 figures, accepted for publication in A&

Unwaged posts in UK Universities: Controversies and campaigns

The article examines unwaged posts at UK universities, using recent examples of advertised posts. While unpaid work is common in the UK higher education system, unwaged posts are not. The posts under scrutiny in this article differed from traditional honorary titles as their target was early career academics, unlikely to have a paid position elsewhere, rather than established scholars. The article contextualises the appearance of these posts in a climate of increasing marketisation of Higher Education, entrenching managerialism in Higher Education institutions and casualisation of academic work. We discuss the resistance that ensued to the advertisement of such posts. We argue that the current controversy surrounding unpaid internships in the creative industries created a receptive environment for resisting these unwaged posts in academia. It is in this context that we analyse the campaigns that were fought against the advertisement of the posts, mostly through social media and the University and Colleges Union (UCU). We explore the tactics used and discuss the advantages and limitations of the use of social media, as well as the role of trade unions in the campaigns against these posts and we reflect on what future campaigns can learn from these experiences. We do so by thematically analysing social media, activist communications, blogs and media articles, as well as personal communications with key players in the campaigns. We conclude that the utilisation of social media is useful for sparking interest, creating momentum and allow activists to capitalise on public outrage and respond swiftly. However, social media as a key campaign strategy can be of limited use in the long term

The study of morfological properties of the abdominal aorta calcificates by the means of scanning raster microscopy

Introduction. In normal condition calcium hydroxyapatite is present in the body as a component of bones. Metabolic disorders cause its deposition in the walls of vessels. Numerous studies confirm that calcification of the parts of cardiovascular system is actively regulated process that has much in common with the evolution and metabolism of bone tissue. However, significant differences in the conditions and mechanisms of formation of ectopic deposits make the task of its consistent study complex and ambiguous