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Public geographies II: being organic
This second report on âpublic geographies' considers the diverse, emergent and shifting spaces of engaging with and in public/s. Taking as its focus the more âorganicâ rather than âtraditionalâ approach to doing public geography, as discussed in the first report, it explores the multiple and unorthodox ways in which engagements across academic-public spheres play out, and what such engagements may mean for geography/ers. The report first explores the role of the internet in âenabling conversations', generating a range of opportunities for public geography through websites, wikis, blogs, file-sharing sites, discussion forums and more, thinking critically about how technologies may enable/disable certain kinds of publically engaged activities. It then considers issues of process and praxis: how collaborations with groups/communities/organizations beyond academia are often unplanned, serendipitous encounters that evolve organically into research/learning/teaching endeavours; but also that personal politics/positionality bring an agency to bear upon whether we, as academics, follow the leads we may stumble upon. The report concludes with a provocative question â given that many non-academics appear to be doing some amazing and inspiring projects and activities, thoughtful, critical and (arguably) examples of organic public geographies, what then is academiaâs role
The semantic effects of verb raising and its consequences in second language grammars
This article considers whether highly proficient second language speakers of English can distinguish meaning contrasts associated with constructions where there is a raising be, and constructions where there is a non-raising thematic verb, as illustrated in the difference between (1a) and (1b): 1a. Kim is reading a novel (`event-in-progress/existential ? interpretation
Do CARs need a driver's license? Adoptive cell therapy with chimeric antigen receptor-redirected T cells caused serious adverse events
Adoptive transfer of genetically retargeted T cells provides promise in the therapy of malignant diseases; two severe adverse events, however, due to "on-targeted" activation of modified T cells occurred in recent trials. We here discuss the challenge to balance targeted anti-tumor responses whilst avoiding destruction of healthy tissues and the need of continued and carefully designed pre-clinical and clinical evaluations
Broadcasting graphic war violence: the moral face of Channel 4
Drawing on empirical data from Channel 4 (C4) regarding the broadcasting of violent war imagery, and positioned within Goffmanâs notion of the interaction ritual (1959, 1967), this article investigates how C4 negotiate potentially competing commercial, regulatory and moral requirements through processes of discretionary decision-making. Throughout, the article considers the extent to which these negotiations are presented through a series of âimaginingsâ â of C4 and its audience â which serve to simultaneously guide and legitimate the decisions made. This manifestation of imaginings moves us beyond more blanket explanations of âbrandingâ and instead allows us to see the final programmes as the end product of a series of complex negotiations and interactions between C4 and those multiple external parties significant to the workings of their organization. The insights gleaned from this case study are important beyond the workings of C4 because they help elucidate how all institutions and organizations may view, organize and justify their practices (to both themselves and others) within the perceived constraints in which they operate
Poincaré on the Foundation of Geometry in the Understanding
This paper is about PoincarĂ©âs view of the foundations of geometry. According to the established view, which has been inherited from the logical positivists, PoincarĂ©, like Hilbert, held that axioms in geometry are schemata that provide implicit definitions of geometric terms, a view he expresses by stating that the axioms of geometry are âdefinitions in disguise.â I argue that this view does not accord well with PoincarĂ©âs core commitment in the philosophy of geometry: the view that geometry is the study of groups of operations. In place of the established view I offer a revised view, according to which PoincarĂ© held that axioms in geometry are in fact assertions about invariants of groups. Groups, as forms of the understanding, are prior in conception to the objects of geometry and afford the proper definition of those objects, according to PoincarĂ©. PoincarĂ©âs view therefore contrasts sharply with Kantâs foundation of geometry in a unique form of sensibility. According to my interpretation, axioms are not definitions in disguise because they themselves implicitly define their terms, but rather because they disguise the definitions which imply them
Setting expectations for the ecological condition of running waters: the concept of reference condition
Regularization of 2d supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory via non commutative geometry
The non commutative geometry is a possible framework to regularize Quantum
Field Theory in a nonperturbative way. This idea is an extension of the lattice
approximation by non commutativity that allows to preserve symmetries. The
supersymmetric version is also studied and more precisely in the case of the
Schwinger model on supersphere [14]. This paper is a generalization of this
latter work to more general gauge groups
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