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Our side of the mirror : the (re)-construction of 1970s’ masculinity in David Peace’s Red Riding
David Peace and the late Gordon Burn are two British novelists who have used a mixture of fact and fiction in
their works to explore the nature of fame, celebrity and the media representations of individuals caught up in events,
including investigations into notorious murders. Both Peace and Burn have analysed the case of Peter Sutcliffe, who
was found guilty in 1981 of the brutal murders of thirteen women in the North of England. Peace’s novels filmed as the
Red Riding Trilogy are an excoriating portrayal of the failings of misogynist and corrupt police officers, which allowed
Sutcliffe to escape arrest. Burn’s somebody’s Husband Somebody’ Son is a detailed factual portrait of the community
where Sutcliffe spent his life. Peace’s technique combines reportage, stream of consciousness and changing points
of views including the police and the victims to produce an episodic non linear narrative. The result has been termed
Yorkshire noir. The overall effect is to render the paranoia and fear these crimes created against a backdrop of the
late 1970s and early 1980s. Peace has termed his novels as “fictions of the facts”.
This paper will examine the way that Peace uses his account of Sutcliffe’s crimes and the huge police manhunt
to catch the killer to explore the society that produced the perpetrator, victims and the police. The police officers
represent a form of “hegemonic masculinity” but one that is challenged by the extreme misogyny, brutality, misery
and degradation that surround them. This deconstruction of the 1970s male police officer is contrasted with the
enormously popular figure of Gene Hunt from the BBC TV series Life on Mars
Coupled-channel continuum eigenchannel basis
The goal of this paper is to calculate bound, resonant and scattering states
in the coupled-channel formalism without relying on the boundary conditions at
large distances. The coupled-channel solution is expanded in eigenchannel bases
i.e. in eigenfunctions of diagonal Hamiltonians. Each eigenchannel basis may
include discrete and discretized continuum (real or complex energy) single
particle states. The coupled-channel solutions are computed through
diagonalization in these bases. The method is applied to a few two-channels
problems. The exact bound spectrum of the Poeschl-Teller potential is well
described by using a basis of real energy continuum states. For deuteron
described by Reid potential, the experimental energy and the S and D contents
of the wave function are reproduced in the asymptotic limit of the cutoff
energy. For the Noro-Taylor potential resonant state energy is well reproduced
by using the complex energy Berggren basis. It is found that the expansion of
the coupled-channel wave function in these eigenchannel bases require less
computational efforts than the use of any other basis. The solutions are stable
and converge as the cutoff energy increases.Comment: Accepted to be published in Physics Letters
The ambivalent shadow of the pre-Wilsonian rise of international law
The generation of American international lawyers who founded the American Society of International Law in 1906 and nurtured the soil for what has been retrospectively called a “moralistic legalistic approach to international relations” remains little studied. A survey of the rise of international legal literature in the U.S. from the mid-19th century to the eve of the Great War serves as a backdrop to the examination of the boosting effect on international law of the Spanish American War in 1898. An examination of the Insular Cases before the US Supreme Court is then accompanied by the analysis of a number of influential factors behind the pre-war rise of international law in the U.S. The work concludes with an examination of the rise of natural law doctrines in international law during the interwar period and the critiques addressed.by the realist founders of the field of “international relations” to the “moralistic legalistic approach to international relation
Perturbative method for generalized spectral decompositions
Imposing analytic properties to states and observables we construct a
perturbative method to obtain a generalized biorthogonal system of eigenvalues
and eigenvectors for quantum unstable systems. A decay process can be described
using this generalized spectral decomposition, and the final generalized state
is obtained.Comment: 21 Page
Shadow poles in a coupled-channel problem calculated with Berggren basis
In coupled-channel models the poles of the scattering S-matrix are located on
different Riemann sheets. Physical observables are affected mainly by poles
closest to the physical region but sometimes shadow poles have considerable
effect, too. The purpose of this paper is to show that in coupled-channel
problem all poles of the S-matrix can be calculated with properly constructed
complex-energy basis. The Berggren basis is used for expanding the
coupled-channel solutions. The location of the poles of the S-matrix were
calculated and compared with an exactly solvable coupled-channel problem: the
one with the Cox potential. We show that with appropriately chosen Berggren
basis poles of the S-matrix including the shadow ones can be determined.Comment: 11 pages, 4 figures, 59 reference
Description of the proton and neutron radiative capture reactions in the Gamow shell model
We formulate the Gamow shell model (GSM) in coupled-channel (CC)
representation for the description of proton/neutron radiative capture
reactions and present the first application of this new formalism for the
calculation of cross-sections in mirror reactions 7Be(p,gamma)8B and
7Li(n,gamma)8Li. The GSM-CC formalism is applied to a translationally-invariant
Hamiltonian with an effective finite-range two-body interaction. Reactions
channels are built by GSM wave functions for the ground state 3/2- and the
first excited state 1/2- of 7Be/7Li and the proton/neutron wave function
expanded in different partial waves
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