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Craft, design and nostalgia in modern Japan: the case of sushi
"This edited book focuses on the organization and meaning of craft work in contemporary society. It considers the relationship between craft and place and how this enables the construction of a meaningful relationship with objects of production and consumption. The book explores the significance of raw materials, the relationship between the body, the crafted object and the mind, and the importance of skill, knowledge and learning in the making process. Through this, it raises important questions about the role of craft in facing future challenges by challenging the logic of globalized production and consumption.
The Organization of Craft Work encompasses international analyses from the United States, France, Italy, Australia, Canada, the UK and Japan involving a diverse range of sectors, including brewing, food and wine production, clothing and shoe making, and perfumery. The book will be of interest to students and academic researchers in organization studies, marketing and consumer behaviour, business ethics, entrepreneurship, sociology of work, human resource management, cultural studies, geography, and fashion and design. In addition, the book will be of interest to practitioners and organizations with an interest in the development and promotion of craft work.
Bayesian modeling of the nuclear equation of state for neutron star tidal deformabilities and GW170817
We present predictions for neutron star tidal deformabilities obtained from a
Bayesian analysis of the nuclear equation of state, assuming a minimal model at
high-density that neglects the possibility of phase transitions. The Bayesian
posterior probability distribution is constructed from priors obtained from
microscopic many-body theory based on realistic two- and three-body nuclear
forces, while the likelihood functions incorporate empirical information about
the equation of state from nuclear experiments. The neutron star crust equation
of state is constructed from the liquid drop model, and the core-crust
transition density is found by comparing the energy per baryon in inhomogeneous
matter and uniform nuclear matter. From the cold -equilibrated neutron
star equation of state, we then compute neutron star tidal deformabilities as
well as the mass-radius relationship. Finally, we investigate correlations
between the neutron star tidal deformability and properties of finite nuclei.Comment: 15 pages, 17 figures. Invited contribution to the EPJA Topical Issue
"First joint gravitational wave and electromagnetic observations:
Implications for nuclear and particle physics
Systematic review of brucellosis in the Middle East: disease frequency in ruminants and humans and risk factors for human infection
This paper considers the problem of finding global states incoming to a specified global state in a Boolean network, which may be useful for pre-processing of finding a sequence of control actions for a Boolean network and for identifying the basin of attraction for a given attractor, We show that this problem is NP-hard in general along with related theoretical results, On the other hand, we present algorithms that are much faster than the naive exhaustive search-based algorithm. ©2007 IEEE.link_to_subscribed_fulltex
A comparison of non-fi nancial strategy disclosure in the annual reports of South African and Indian listed companies
This study focuses on non-fi nancial strategy disclosure in the annual reports of listed companies in South Africa and India. South Africa and India are both developing nations that face similar socioeconomic conditions, including the threats presented by the HIV/AIDS pandemic and affi rmative action policies and regulations. The fact that integrated reporting is fast becoming a necessity for emerging markets to gain entrance to developed economies validates the contribution of this research. This study, which replicated the studies of Santema and Van de Rijt (2001) and Padia and Yasseen (2011), compared the top 40 listed companies in South Africa with the top 40 listed companies in India based on market capitalisation for the year 2012. The results were statistically analysed using principal component analysis and Hotelling’s t-square tests. The fi ndings concluded that South African companies divulge more information in terms of their non-financial strategy disclosure than their Indian counterparts. In addition, the Hotelling’s t-square test found that there were no signifi cant differences in terms of four of the variables when comparing South African companies with Indian companies. Overall, however, there are vast differences in the levels of non-fi nancial strategy disclosure in both countries, which is attributed to stock exchange regulation in the respective countries.Key words: affirmative action, annual reports, HIV/AIDS, India, integrated reporting, nonfinancial disclosure, South Africa, strateg
Characteristics of Magnetoplasmas Semiannual Status Report No. 12, May 1 - Oct. 31, 1965
Magnetoplasma characteristics - anomalous diffusion across magnetic field, heat conduction in plasma, cesium plasma generator, and electron velocity distribution function in magnetoplasma
Image of Veselago lens based upon two-dimensional photonic crystal with triangular lattice
The construction of the multi-focal Veselago lens predicted earlier is
proposed on the basis of a uniaxial photonic crystal consisting of cylindrical
air holes in silicon that make a triangular lattice in a plane perpendicular to
the axis of the crystal. The object and image are in air. The period of the
crystal should be to work at the wavelength .
The lens does not provide superlensing but the half-width of the image is
. The lens is shown to have wave guiding properties depending on
the substrate material.Comment: 15 pages, 10 figure
Neutron elastic scattering on calcium isotopes from chiral nuclear optical potentials
We formulate microscopic neutron-nucleus optical potentials from many-body
perturbation theory based on chiral two- and three-body forces. The neutron
self energy is first calculated in homogeneous matter to second order in
perturbation theory, which gives the central real and imaginary terms of the
optical potential. The real spin-orbit term is calculated separately from the
density matrix expansion using the same chiral interaction as in the self
energy. Finally, the full neutron-nucleus optical potential is derived within
the improved local density approximation utilizing mean field models consistent
with the chiral nuclear force employed. We compare the results of the
microscopic calculations to phenomenological models and experimental data up to
projectile energies of MeV. Experimental elastic differential
scattering cross sections and vector analyzing powers are generally well
reproduced by the chiral optical potential, but we find that total cross
sections are overestimated at high energies
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