The politics of in/visibility: carving out queer space in Ul'yanovsk

<p>In spite of a growing interest within sexualities studies in the concept of queer space (Oswin 2008), existing literature focuses almost exclusively on its most visible and territorialised forms, such as the gay scene, thus privileging Western metropolitan areas as hubs of queer consumer culture (Binnie 2004). While the literature has emphasised the political significance of queer space as a site of resistance to hegemonic gender and sexual norms, it has again predominantly focused on overt claims to public space embodied in Pride events, neglecting other less open forms of resistance.</p><p> This article contributes new insights to current debates about the construction and meaning of queer space by considering how city space is appropriated by an informal queer network in Ul’ianovsk. The group routinely occupied very public locations meeting and socialising on the street or in mainstream cafés in central Ul’ianovsk, although claims to these spaces as queer were mostly contingent, precarious or invisible to outsiders. The article considers how provincial location affects tactics used to carve out communal space, foregrounding the importance of local context and collective agency in shaping specific forms of resistance, and questioning ethnocentric assumptions about the empowering potential of visibility.</p&gt

Derivational Morphology to the rescue: How It Can Help Resolve Unfound

Machine Translation (MT) systems that process unrestricted text should be able to deal with words that are not found in the MT lexicon. Without some kind of recognition, the parse may be incomplete, there is no transfer for the unfound word, and tests for transfers for surrounding words will often fail, resulting in poor translation. Interestingly, not much has been published on unfoundword guessing in the context of MT although such work has been going on for other applications. In our work on the IBM MT system, we implemented a far-reaching strategy for recognizing unfound words based on rules of word formation and for generating transfers. What distinguishes our approach from others is the use of semantic and syntactic features for both analysis and transfer, a scoring system to assign levels of confidence to possible word structures, and the creation of transfers in the transformation component. We also successfully applied rules of derivational morphological analysis to non-derived unfound words

Synthesis, crystal structure, magnetic and luminescence investigations of new 2Ln3+-Sr2+ heteronuclear polymers with 2-furoic acid.

New first examples of complexes with the general formula {[Ln(2)Sr(C4H3OCOO)(8)(H2O)(4)]}(n), where Ln = La3+ (1), Pr3+ (2), Nd3+ (3), Sm3+ (4), Eu3+ (5), Gd3+ (6), Tb3+ (7), Ho3+ (8), Yb3+ (9) and Er3+ (10) have been prepared and investigated by photoluminescence spectroscopy and magnetic susceptibility measurements. The X-ray crystal structure has been determined for the {[Er2Sr(C4H3OCOO)(8)- (H2O)(4)]}(n) (10) complex, indicating that this complex is built from two crystallographic independent coordination polymers {[Er2Sr(C4H3OCOO)(8)(H2O)(4)]}(n) in the triclinic crystal system and P-1 space group. The X-ray diffraction (XRD) pattern of the samples shows that all lanthanide compounds are isostructural to 10. The luminescence spectrum of a microcrystalline sample of "2Eu-Sr" compound displays the characteristic Eu3+ (D-5(0) -> F-7(J) (J = 0-4)) metal centred transitions; also "2Nd-Sr" proved to be luminescent in the near IR. Measurements of the magnetic susceptibility for 2, 3, 5 and 10 were described using Crystal Field approac

231Pa and 230Th in the Arctic Ocean: Implications for boundary scavenging and 231Pa-230Th fractionation in the Eurasian Basin

231Pa, 230Th and 232Th were analyzed in filtered seawater (n=70) and suspended particles (n=39) collected along a shelf-basin transect from the Barents shelf to the Makarov Basin in the Arctic Ocean during GEOTRACE Ssection GN04 in 2015. The distribution of dissolved 231Pa and 230Th in the Arctic Ocean deviates from the linear increase expected from reversible scavenging. Higher 232Th concentrations were observed at the shelf, slope and in surface waters in the deep basin, pointing at lithogenic sources. Fractionation factors (FTh/Pa) observed at the Nansen margin were higher compared to FTh/Pa in the central Nansen Basin, possibly due to the residual occurrence of hydrothermal particles in the deep central Nansen Basin. Application of a boundary scavenging model quantitatively accounts for the dissolved and particulate 230Th distributions in the Nansen Basin. Modelled dissolved 231Pa distributions were largely overestimated, which was attributed to the absence of incorporation of water exchange with the Atlantic Ocean in the model. 231Pa/230Th ratios of the suspended particles of the Nansen Basin were below the 231Pa/230Th production ratio, but top-core sediments of the Nansen margin and slope have high 231Pa/230Th-ratios, suggesting that scavenging along the Nansen margin partly actsas a sink for the missing Arctic 231Pa