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Eating powerful transgressions: (re)assessing the spaces and ethics of organic food in the UK
Pairing transition of nuclei at finite temperature
Pairing transition at finite temperature was investigated by the shell model
and BCS calculations. The definitive signature of pairing transition is
identified by a "transition temperature" estimated from a "thermal"
odd-even mass difference, while there is no sharp phase transition because of
the finiteness of nucleus. It is found that is in good agreement with
predictions of critical temperature in the BCS approximation, and the
pairing correlations almost vanish at two points of the transition temperature
. The BCS calculations show that the critical temperature
increases with increasing deformation.Comment: 12 pages, 6 figures, accepted for publication in Nuclear Physics
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A new regime of carbon counting: the practices and politics of accounting for everyday carbon through C02e
Inspired by the commercial desires of global brands and retailers to access the lucrative green consumer market, carbon is increasingly being counted and made knowable at the mundane sites of everyday production and consumption, from the carbon footprint of a plastic kitchen fork to that of an online bank account. Despite the challenges of counting and making commensurable the global warming impact of a myriad of biophysical and societal activities, this desire to communicate a product or service's carbon footprint has sparked complicated carbon calculative practices and enrolled actors at literally every node of multi-scaled and vastly complex global supply chains. Against this landscape, this paper critically analyzes the counting practices that create the ‘e’ in ‘CO2e’. It is shown that, central to these practices are a series of tools, models and databases which, in building upon previous work (Eden, 2012 and Star and Griesemer, 1989) we conceptualize here as ‘boundary objects’. By enrolling everyday actors from farmers to consumers, these objects abstract and stabilize greenhouse gas emissions from their messy material and social contexts into units of CO2e which can then be translated along a product's supply chain, thereby establishing a new currency of ‘everyday supply chain carbon’. However, in making all greenhouse gas-related practices commensurable and in enrolling and stabilizing the transfer of information between multiple actors these objects oversee a process of simplification reliant upon, and subject to, a multiplicity of approximations, assumptions, errors, discrepancies and/or omissions. Further the outcomes of these tools are subject to the politicized and commercial agendas of the worlds they attempt to link, with each boundary actor inscribing different meanings to a product's carbon footprint in accordance with their specific subjectivities, commercial desires and epistemic framings. It is therefore shown that how a boundary object transforms greenhouse gas emissions into units of CO2e, is the outcome of distinct ideologies regarding ‘what’ a product's carbon footprint is and how it should be made legible. These politicized decisions, in turn, inform specific reduction activities and ultimately advance distinct, specific and increasingly durable transition pathways to a low carbon society
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Science (and policy) friction: how mass media shapes North American climate discourses
Experimental assessment of presumed filtered density function models
Measured filtered density functions (FDFs) as well as assumed beta distribution model of mixture fraction and “subgrid” scale (SGS) scalar variance, used typically in large eddy simulations, were studied by analysing experimental data, obtained from two-dimensional planar, laser induced fluorescence measurements in isothermal swirling turbulent flows at a constant Reynolds number of 29 000 for different swirl numbers (0.3, 0.58, and 1.07)
Texture Classification Using Information Theory
Visual texture is one of the most fundamental properties of a visible surface. It participates as one of the major modalities which help us in the understanding of our visual environment. The different textures in an image are usually very apparent to a human observer, but automatic description of these patterns has proved to be complex
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Peopling the practices of sustainable consumption: eco-chic and the limits to the spaces of intention
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