53 research outputs found
Reading the geographies of post-war British film culture through the reception of French film
This paper examines the ways in which British specialist film culture anticipated and received the resumed supply of French films at the end of the Second World War. It finds that in serious film journalism and within the rapidly expanding film society movement, new French cinema was the focus of at least as much British attention as Italian neo-realism – the European cinema more famously associated with the era. The paper posits that a number of factors, including anti-Americanism, combined to position the delayed wartime and immediate post-war French releases as a site of impossible expectations and subsequent interpretative difficulty for British cinephiles. In particular, through a case study of the local mediation of French cinema in the English city of Nottingham, this paper considers the role of published criticism for setting the local viewing frame within the provincial film society movement. By tracing the tensions surrounding the circulation of film prints, information, and opinion relating to these prestigious cultural imports, it becomes possible to gain greater insight into both the range of nationally specific meanings attributed to the imported films and the geographic and cultural inequalities at work within the film culture of the country of reception
On BPS preons, generalized holonomies and D=11 supergravities
We develop the BPS preon conjecture to analyze the supersymmetric solutions
of D=11 supergravity. By relating the notions of Killing spinors and BPS
preons, we develop a moving G-frame method (G=GL(32,R), SL(32,R) or Sp(32,R))
to analyze their associated generalized holonomies. As a first application we
derive here the equations determining the generalized holonomies of k/32
supersymmetric solutions and, in particular, those solving the necessary
conditions for the existence of BPS preonic (31/32) solutions of the standard
D=11 supergravity. We also show that there exist elementary preonic solutions,
i.e. solutions preserving 31 out of 32 supersymmetries in a Chern--Simons type
supergravity. We present as well a family of worldvolume actions describing the
motion of pointlike and extended BPS preons in the background of a D'Auria-Fre
type OSp(1|32)-related supergravity model. We discuss the possible implications
for M-theory.Comment: 11 pages, RevTeX Typos corrected, a short note and references adde
Supersymmetric string model with 30 kappa--symmetries in an extended D=11 superspace and 30/ 32 BPS states
A supersymmetric string model in the D=11 superspace maximally extended by
antisymmetric tensor bosonic coordinates, , is proposed. It
possesses 30 -symmetries and 32 target space supersymmetries. The usual
preserved supersymmetry--symmetry correspondence suggests that it
describes the excitations of a BPS state preserving all but two
supersymmetries. The model can also be formulated in any superspace, n=32 corresponding to D=11. It may also be treated as a
`higher--spin generalization' of the usual Green--Schwarz superstring. Although
the global symmetry of the model is a generalization of the super--Poincar\'e
group, , it may be
formulated in terms of constrained OSp(2n|1) orthosymplectic supertwistors. We
work out this supertwistor realization and its Hamiltonian dynamics.
We also give the supersymmetric p-brane generalization of the model. In
particular, the supersymmetric membrane model describes
excitations of a 30/32 BPS state, as the supersymmetric
string does, while the supersymmetric 3-brane and 5-brane correspond,
respectively, to 28/32 and 24/32 BPS states.Comment: 23 pages, RevTex4. V2: minor corrections in title and terminology,
some references and comments adde
'Drowning in here in his bloody sea' : exploring TV cop drama's representations of the impact of stress in modern policing
The Criminal Justice System is a part of society that is both familiar and hidden. It is familiar in that a large part of daily news and television drama is devoted to it (Carrabine, 2008; Jewkes, 2011). It is hidden in the sense that the majority of the population have little, if any, direct contact with the Criminal Justice System, meaning that the media may be a major force in shaping their views on crime and policing (Carrabine, 2008). As Reiner (2000) notes, the debate about the relationship between the media, policing, and crime has been a key feature of wider societal concerns about crime since the establishment of the modern police force. He outlines the recurring themes in post-war debates in this field. For Conservatives there has been an ongoing concern that the media is criminongenic, as it serves to undermine traditional institutions, including the police. From the viewpoint of radical criminology, the impact of the media is two-fold: it exaggerates legitimate concerns about crime and emphasises the bureaucratic and other restrictions under which the police operate (Reiner, 2000). This is seen as undermining due process and legitimatising what can be termed a ‘maverick’ approach to policing. An early example of this can be seen in Clint Eastwood’s Dirty Harry movies (Siegel, 1971) where Harry Callaghan acts as a one-man law enforcement system outside of the formal legal process, a process portrayed as corrupt, inefficient, and concerned with offenders’ rights rather than protecting victims. From a policing perspective, Reiner (2000) argues that film and TV drama creates a simplistic narrative of crime solving that is almost completely divorced from the reality of modern police work, a finding consistent with more recent work by Cummins et al., (2014)
A somatotrofina bovina recombinante sobre a ovulação, condição corporal e níveis séricos de colesterol e glicose em ovinos
The present and future of QCD
This White Paper presents an overview of the current status and future perspective of QCD research, based on the community inputs and scientific conclusions from the 2022 Hot and Cold QCD Town Meeting. We present the progress made in the last decade toward a deep understanding of both the fundamental structure of the sub-atomic matter of nucleon and nucleus in cold QCD, and the hot QCD matter in heavy ion collisions. We identify key questions of QCD research and plausible paths to obtaining answers to those questions in the near future, hence defining priorities of our research over the coming decades
The present and future of QCD
This White Paper presents an overview of the current status and future perspective of QCD research, based on the community inputs and scientific conclusions from the 2022 Hot and Cold QCD Town Meeting. We present the progress made in the last decade toward a deep understanding of both the fundamental structure of the sub-atomic matter of nucleon and nucleus in cold QCD, and the hot QCD matter in heavy ion collisions. We identify key questions of QCD research and plausible paths to obtaining answers to those questions in the near future, hence defining priorities of our research over the coming decades
Relationships between root morphology and nitrogen availability in a recent theoretical model describing nitrogen uptake from soil.
Nitrite reduction in barley-root plastids: Dependence on NADPH coupled with glucose-6-phosphate and 6-phosphogluconate dehydrogenases, and possible involvement of an electron carrier and a diaphorase
Properties of mitochondria from Penicillium cyclopium and their response to calcium and other divalent cations
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