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Dams, Cows, and Vulnerable People: Anthropological Contributions to Sustainable Development
It is with considerable trepidation that I agreed to address so distinguished a gathering of development economists, theoreticians, and practitioners. I was enormously honoured when Professor Naqvi invited me to make this presentation, and at the same time impressed with my own temerity at having accepted. I am not an economist; at best, I contribute to the emerging discipline of economic anthropology, that subfield of anthropology that some have baptised as the “dismal science of the 20th century.” I locate my research within a subfield of that subfield, in a specifically development anthropology, making the claim that is still received in some quarters with only partial tolerance, that anthropologists–those curious people identified in the popular mind with the recovery and study of isolated people, bones, and potsherds–have also something useful to add to both the theory and praxis of development. As a self-conscious field of inquiry, development anthropology dates only from the last 20-25 years, though its roots can be found in the late 19th century, when scientists working for the United States Bureau of American Ethnology tried to understand the Ghost Dance, a great messianic movement that spread rapidly among subjugated Native Americans who were forced on to reservations by the government and in very large part deprived of the means of social and economic reproduction.
Thermodynamic Reversibility in Feedback Processes
The sum of the average work dissipated plus the information gained during a
thermodynamic process with discrete feedback must exceed zero. We demonstrate
that the minimum value of zero is attained only by feedback-reversible
processes that are indistinguishable from their time-reversal, thereby
extending the notion of thermodynamic reversibility to feedback processes. In
addition, we prove that in every realization of a feedback-reversible process
the sum of the work dissipated and change in uncertainty is zero.Comment: 6 pages, 4, figures, accepted in EPL, expanded discussion of
thermodynamic reversibilit
Activation of human NK cells by Plasmodium-infected red blood cells.
This chapter describes a protocol to assess activation of human NK cells following in vitro stimulation with malaria-infected red blood cells. Activation is assessed by flow cytometry, staining for cell surface expression of CD69 and accumulation of intracellular IFN-Îł. Procedures are described for in vitro propagation and purification of Plasmodium falciparum parasites, separation of peripheral blood mononuclear cells from heparinized blood by density centrifugation, in vitro culture of PBMC and for staining and analysis of PBMC by flow cytometry. Some examples of typical FACS plots are shown
Testing AdS/CFT Deviations from pQCD Heavy Quark Energy Loss with Pb+Pb at LHC
Heavy quark jet quenching in nuclear collisions at LHC is predicted and
compared using the classical gravity AdS/CFT correspondence and Standard Model
perturbative QCD. The momentum independence and inverse quark mass dependence
of the drag coefficient in AdS/CFT differs substantially from the
characteristic log(pT/M)/pT variation of the drag in QCD. We propose that the
measurement of the momentum dependence of the double ratio of the nuclear
modification factors of charm and bottom jets is a robust observable that can
be used to search for strong coupling deviations from perturbative QCD
predictions.Comment: 4 pages, 2 figure
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