GENDERED EMOTIONALITY: ASPECTS OF POWER, GENDER AND EMOTION AS IN RICH LIKE US AND WILD SWANS

Despite the extensive research on Emotion and Emotional Intelligence, little is known about the social perspective of gendered emotionality. Though plenty of research has been conducted, which studies the emotional differences between men and women, the role of emotional regulation of the genders in societal integrity is hardly studied. Thus, fore-grounded in the emotion and gender theories, this paper derives an overall image from the literature that discusses the possibility of rational gender emotions in acquiring an integrated individual self. Rediscovering some of the stereotyped perspective of emotionexpressions with respect to gender, the paper is further an examination of the analysis and critique of the characters from the novels ‘Rich Like Us’ by Nayantara Sahgal and ‘Wild Swans’ by Jung Chang. As the stories add nuance to our understanding of an experience during a political crisis, the violence at the nations’ yields to the complicated self of the public and their social relationships. To illustrate their emotional function, the paper studies six characters from the novels in specific, analysing the stronger gender emotions. The unconscious dimensions of felt emotional experience thereby determine if the ‘weaker sex’ is weak or strong in establishing an integrated self and society

Long-Term Persistence of Spike Antibody and Predictive Modeling of Antibody Dynamics Following Infection with SARS-CoV-2

BACKGROUND: Antibodies to Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) have been shown to neutralize the virus in-vitro and prevent disease in animal challenge models upon re-exposure. However, current understanding of SARS-CoV-2 humoral dynamics and longevity is conflicting. METHODS: The Co-Stars study prospectively enrolled 3679 healthcare workers to comprehensively characterize the kinetics of SARS-CoV-2 spike (S), receptor-binding-domain (RBD) and nucleoprotein (N) antibodies in parallel. Participants screening seropositive had serial monthly serological testing for a maximum of 7 months with the Mesoscale Discovery Assay. Survival analysis determined the proportion of sero-reversion while two hierarchical Gamma models predicted the upper- and lower-bounds of long-term antibody trajectory. RESULTS: A total of 1163 monthly samples were provided from 349 seropositive participants. At 200 days post-symptoms, >95% of participants had detectable S-antibodies compared to 75% with detectable N-antibodies. S-antibody was predicted to remain detectable in 95% of participants until 465 days [95%CI 370-575] using a 'continuous-decay' model and indefinitely using a 'decay-to-plateau' model to account for antibody secretion by long-lived plasma cells. S-antibody titers correlated strongly with surrogate neutralization in-vitro (R 2=0.72). N-antibodies, however, decayed rapidly with a half-life of 60 days [95%CI 52-68]. CONCLUSIONS: The Co-STAR's study data presented here provides evidence for long-term persistence of neutralizing S-antibodies. This has important implications for the duration of functional immunity following SARS-CoV-2 infection. In contrast, the rapid decay of N-antibodies must be considered in future seroprevalence studies and public health decision-making. This is the first study to establish a mathematical framework capable of predicting long-term humoral dynamics following SARS-CoV-2 infection

Target of Opportunity Observations of Gravitational Wave Events with LSST

The discovery of the electromagnetic counterparts to the binary neutron star merger GW170817 has opened the era of GW+EM multi-messenger astronomy. Exploiting this breakthrough requires increasing samples to explore the diversity of kilonova behaviour and provide more stringent constraints on the Hubble constant, and tests of fundamental physics. LSST can play a key role in this field in the 2020s, when the gravitational wave detector network is expected to detect higher rates of merger events involving neutron stars ($\sim$10s per year) out to distances of several hundred Mpc. Here we propose comprehensive target-of-opportunity (ToOs) strategies for follow-up of gravitational-wave sources that will make LSST the premiere machine for discovery and early characterization for neutron star mergers and other gravitational-wave sources.Comment: White paper for LSST cadence optimization- ToO

MONS and high-amplitude

The important role of high-amplitude ffi Scuti stars (HADS) in asteroseismological tests of model structure and excitation/damping mechanisms of ffi Scuti variables is emphasized. It is suggested that one or two well--studied HADS, e.g. AI Vel and SX Phe as representatives of pop. I and II respectively, should be included in the MONS target list. 1. Introduction The purpose of MONS is to discover oscillations of extremely low amplitude in stars, in particular in solar type stars and ffi Sct variables. Therefore, it can be seen as a paradox that I suggest that we should include high-amplitude ffi Scuti stars (HADS) in the MONS target list. Of course, the purpose of including HADS is not to study the high-amplitude modes with extreme accuracy. The purpose is to discover new low-amplitude modes --- hopefully a considerable number of new modes --- and to use all available modes for asteroseismological studies of these stars. It is known that modes of amplitude 2-10 mmag are present is som..

Hipparcos Parallaxes And Distances Of High--Amplitude

. Hipparcos parallaxes of high--amplitude ffi Scuti stars are used to derive a period-- luminosity relation defining a new distance scale which is independent from those of the primary distance indicators, the classical Cepheids and RR Lyrae stars. Thus application of the Hipparcos P--L relation may provide new tests of distances e.g. to globular clusters or the galactic bulge. Comparisons of the Hipparcos P--L relation with several P--L relations based on photometric calibrations to absolute luminosities from the literature, show saticfactory agreement. Data published by the OGLE group for SX Phe variables in ! Centauri are used to derive new independent distances to this globular cluster. 1. Introduction Hipparcos parallaxes (ESA 1997) give accurate distances to a few high--amplitude (amplitude A V 0:3 mag) ffi Scuti stars (HADS in the following). We use these distances to derive a new period--luminosity relation for HADS, which is independent from earlier P--L relations and from ..

Hipparcos Parallaxes and Period--Luminosity Relations of High--Amplitude

. Hipparcos parallaxes of high-amplitude ffi Scuti stars are used to derive a period-luminosity relation with a scatter of about \Sigma0.1 mag, which is independent from photometric calibrations to absolute luminosities. Comparisons with several P--L relations from the literature show satisfactory agreement, and all deviations from the Hipparcos mean relation can be explained by uncertainties in the data available before Hipparcos. Hipparcos data for a few stars of relatively small and uncertain parallaxes indicate that they may have systematically very low luminosity. However, briefly discussing Lutz--Kelker corrections and considering the full sample of high--amplitude ffi Scuti stars, it is concluded that this sample is homogeneous and has similar basic physical properties as the "normal" low--amplitude ffi Scuti stars. It is emphasized that the Hipparcos P--L relation defines a new distance scale which is independent from those of the classical Cepheids and RR Lyrae stars. Theref..