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Kyrgyzstan's 'manas' epos millennium celebrations : post-colonial resurgence of Turkic culture and the strategic marketing of cultural tourism
The paper addresses the symbolic nature of the Manas epos and its influence on both the unification of Kyrgyzstan and the enhancement of the country's national and Turkic identity. The case of the Manas epos millennium celebrations event is then used to illustrate the relationship between the uses of the Manas 'legend' in the construction of a national identity and in the positioning of the cultural tourism product. The paper subsequently assess the potential usefulness of the Manas epos in the creation of a destination image for Kyrgyzstan and in the positioning of Kyrgyzstan in the global tourism marketplace
Field Theory of Many-Body Lindbladian Dynamics
We review and further develop the Keldysh functional integral technique for
the study of Lindbladian evolution of many-body driven-dissipative quantum
systems. A systematic and pedagogical account of the dynamics of generic
bosonic and fermionic Lindbladians is presented. Our particular emphasis is on
unique properties of the stationary distribution function, determined by the
Lyapunov equation. This framework is applied to study examples of Lindbladian
dynamics in the context of band theory, disorder, collisionless collective
modes, and mean-field theory
Surface roughness interpretation of 730 kg days CRESST-II results
The analysis presented in the recent publication of the CRESST-II results
finds a statistically significant excess of registered events over known
background contributions in the acceptance region and attributes the excess to
a possible Dark Matter signal, caused by scattering of relatively light WIMPs.
We propose a mechanism which explains the excess events with ion sputtering
caused by 206Pb recoils and alpha particles from 210Po decay, combined with
realistic surface roughness effects.Comment: 15 pages, 6 figures. v2: corrected quenching factor discussion. v3:
corrected references. v4: added reference
A Legal Update on Environmental Justice in Virginia: Where are We Now?
Environmental justice (âEJâ) is rapidly evolving in Virginia while people
are still trying to understand what EJ actually means. As a result, regulators
are unsure of how to incorporate environmental justice in their decisionmaking
process while the regulated are uncertain of how to proceed in the
ever-changing political, social, and regulatory landscape. This article gives
an overview of EJâs evolution in Virginia, synthesizing notable environmental
justice legal decisions; providing supplementary research on environmental
justice studies, workgroups, and reports; and offering several predictions
on EJâs fate in the Commonwealth
Screening and surveillance CT abdomen/pelvis for metastases in patients with soft-tissue sarcoma of the extremity
Objectives The clinical utility of routine cross sectional imaging of the abdomen and pelvis in the screening and surveillance of patients with primary soft-tissue sarcoma of the extremities for metastatic disease is controversial, based on its questionable yield paired with concerns regarding the risks of radiation exposure, cost, and morbidity resulting from false positive findings. Methods Through retrospective review of 140 patients of all ages (mean 53 years; 2 to 88) diagnosed with soft-tissue sarcoma of the extremity with a mean follow-up of 33 months (0 to 291), we sought to determine the overall incidence of isolated abdominopelvic metastases, their temporal relationship to chest involvement, the rate of false positives, and to identify disparate rates of metastases based on sarcoma subtype. Results A total of four patients (2.9%) exhibited isolated abdominopelvic metastatic disease during the surveillance period. In all cases of concomitant chest and abdominopelvic disease, chest involvement preceded abominopelvic involvement. There was a significant false positive rate requiring invasive workup. Conclusions In the setting of a relative paucity of evidence concerning a rare disease process and in difference to recently published investigations, we add a clinical cohort not supportive of routine cross sectional imaging of the abdomen and pelvis
An exploration of some aspects of mystery
This thesis project consists of twenty-four paintings, drawings and lithographs dealing with three sub-themes of the larger subject of mystery: the mystery of existence; the mystery of religion; the mystery of the unknown. These themes are explored through manipulations of light, color, compositional arrangement and painting and drawing techniques
Noise-induced flow in quasigeostrophic turbulence with bottom friction
Randomly-forced fluid flow in the presence of scale-unselective dissipation
develops mean currents following topographic contours. Known mechanisms based
on the scale-selective action of damping processes are not at work in this
situation. Coarse-graining reveals that the phenomenon is a kind of
noise-rectification mechanism, in which lack of detailed balance and the
symmetry-breaking provided by topography play an important role.Comment: 8 pages Revtex, no figures. Related material at
http://www.imedea.uib.es
Massive Quiescent Cores in Orion: Dynamical State Revealed by High-Resolution Ammonia Maps
We present combined VLA and Green Bank Telescope images of \ammonia\
inversion transitions (1,1) and (2,2) toward OMC2 and OMC3. We focus on the
relatively quiescent Orion cores, which are away from the Trapezium cluster and
have no sign of massive protostars nor evolved star formation, such as IRAS
source, water maser, and methanol maser. The 5\arcsec\ angular resolution and
velocity resolution of these data enable us to study the
thermal and dynamic state of these cores at scales,
comparable to or smaller than those of the current dust continuum surveys. We
measure temperatures for a total of 30 cores, with average masses of 11\,\Ms,
radii of , virial mass ratio = 3.9, and critical
mass ratio = 1.5. Twelve sources contain \textit{Spitzer}
protostars. The thus defined starless and protostellar subsamples have similar
temperature, line width, but different masses, with an average of 7.3\,\Ms
for the former and 16\,\Ms for the latter. Compared to others Gould Belt
dense cores, mores Orion cores have a high gravitational-to kinetic energy
ratio and more cores have a larger thant unity critical mass ratio. Orion dense
cores have velocity dispersion similar to those of cores in low-mass
star-forming regions but larger masses for fiven size. Some cores appear to
have truly supercritical gravitational-to-kinetic energy ratios, even when
considering significant observational uncertainties: thermal and non-thermal
gas mothins alone cannot prevent collapse.Comment: Accepted by ApJ, ApJ2013...768...L
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