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    The Dream of the Bull

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    In the Blue Shadows

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    Margaret and the Wanderer

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    Grounded: characterising the market exit of European low cost airlines

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    The aim of this paper is to undertake a comprehensive study of LCC market entry and exit in Europe between 1992 and 2012. In the 20 year period between 1992 and 2012, 43 low cost carriers (LCCs) have taken advantage of the progressive liberalisation of the European aviation market and commenced scheduled flight operations within the continent. Of these 43, only 10 remain operational, a failure rate of 77%. This paper contributes to extant literature on LCCs by examining the market entry, business practices, operating longevity and fate of failed operators to characterise European LCC market exit. Drawing on the findings of a detailed continental-wide study, the paper identifies that an airline’s start-up date, the nature and size of its operation and the size and composition of its aircraft fleet are key factors which influence LCC success and failure. The implications for both European and emerging LCC markets are discussed

    The importance of confronting a colonial, patriarchal and racist past in addressing post-apartheid sexual violence

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    This commentary uses Judge Willem van der Merwe’s rescripting of Rudyard Kipling’s ‘If’ poem during the Jacob Zuma rape trial as a starting point to argue for the importance of understanding the ways in which spectres of a colonial, masculinist and racist past continue to haunt the present in South Africa. While Zuma invoked Zulu culture and his duties as a Zulu patriarch in his defence in the trial, this very idea of ‘Zuluness’ is a product of the same patriarchal racialism disseminated by Kipling and British colonialism. In order to address high levels of sexual violence in contemporary South Africa, the state needs to acknowledge the ways in which a colonial, white supremacist and patriarchal past has shaped responses to sexual violence. It also needs to redress problems of social and economic inequality that exist in South Africa as hangovers from this country’s colonial and apartheid-era past.Department of HE and Training approved lis

    Coronal winds powered by radiative driving

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    A two-component phenomenological model developed originally for zeta Puppis is revised in order to model the outflows of late-type O dwarfs that exhibit the weak-wind phenomenon. With the theory's standard parameters for a generic weak-wind star, the ambient gas is heated to coronal temperatures ~ 3 x 10^{6}K at radii > 1.4 R, with cool radiativly-driven gas being then confined to dense clumps with filling factor ~ 0.02. Radiative driving ceases at radius ~ 2.1R when the clumps are finally destroyed by heat conduction from the coronal gas. Thereafter, the outflow is a pure coronal wind, which cools and decelerates reaching infinity with terminal velocity ~ 980$ km/ s.Comment: 10 pages, 4 figure

    Further education activity in Northern Ireland: 2009/10 to 2013/14

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    Unintended trajectories: liberalization and the geographies of private business flight

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    The global commercial aviation industry has undergone significant regulatory reform during the last 30 years. This paper explores something of the relationship between air transport liberalization and the growth of private business aviation and suggests that the sector’s development is largely an unintended consequence of the increasingly deregulated operating environment in that it has developed to overcome some of liberalization’s negative impacts, including delays, congestion, and perceptions of poor customer service. We argue that liberalization has created innovative market opportunities for private business aviation and illustrate how the sector’s operating models are facilitating new, as yet largely undocumented, forms of aerial mobility. The paper examines: the advantages of private business aviation over scheduled services; business strategies in the sector, especially the idea of fractional jets; the impact of new technologies, particularly the Very Light Jet (VLJ); and, finally, employs Europe as an example of the spatialities of private business aviation
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