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Fuelling the panic: The societal reaction to boy racers
This article is part of the Moral Panic Studies Working Paper Series, edited by Amanda Rohloff of Brunel University. The series disseminates the work of a network of international researchers on all areas of moral panic studies.Fuelled by media coverage of reckless, irresponsible and anti-social driving, young
(male) motorists are an area of concern for politicians, police and citizens more
generally. In media and popular discourses the symbol of the boy racer has come to
represent deviance, anti-social behaviour, criminality and risk on the roads. This
paper focuses on a local moral panic concerning boy racers in the city of Aberdeen, Scotland. Five elements, which characterise a moral panic, are identified and include: concern, hostility, consensus, disproportion and volatility (Goode and Ben-
Yehuda 2009[1994]). Urban regeneration played a key part in this particular moral
panic in terms of class, cultural and intergenerational clashes between racers and
outside groups. The moral panic was further institutionalised through the use of
measures such as anti-social behaviour legislation. Moreover, it was symptomatic of
wider societal concern regarding the regulation of young (male) motorists and the
related governance of urban space and incivilities. The discussion draws on data
collected via participant observation with the drivers, semi-structured interviews with
members of the outside groups and content analysis of media reports which focus on
the culture
Sync or sink? Interpersonal synchrony impacts self-esteem
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Emerging from the Shadow of Death: The Relief Efforts and Consolidating Identity of the Irish Middle Classes During the Great Famine, 1845-1851
This project argued that the leadership of the Irish middle classes was essential in providing relief to the destitute during the Great Irish Potato Famine, 1845-1851. It further argued that middle class leadership in the Famine period translated into a greater class consciousness and subsequent political leadership. Records from the transactions of relief projects from the Society of Friends, pamphlets written by contemporary British and Irish men of the middle and upper classes, and workhouse records illuminated the role of the middle classes in relief efforts. This project joins that primary research to secondary scholarship on the growing political role of the middle classes in the two decades following the end of the Famine.
The evidence showed that the middle classes stepped into a void of leadership created by landlord absenteeism and provided crucial local structures for effective organization distribution of relief. Further the middle classes gained a sense of identity forged in the shared experience of leadership in the Famine. With this common history, the middle classes were able to imagine themselves as a class with similar political interests and goals which they expressed through increasingly powerful national lobbying organizations
Rhythms of moving in and between digital media: a study on video diaries of young people with physical disabilities
This article develops a new framework for analysing digital media use and access by drawing on the concepts of ârhythmâ and âwayfaring.â It unravels how young people with physical disabilities move in and between digital media devices, online sites and activities in an embodied and rhythmic way that happens at a fast or slow pace. The framework is used to analyse the video diaries of three male secondary school students with physical disabilities on their use of digital media at home. We propose methodological advances in studying digital media use as dynamic movement and provide alternative insights on digital inequalities
Coordination Matters : Interpersonal Synchrony Influences Collaborative Problem-Solving
The authors thank Martha von Werthern and Caitlin Taylor for their assistance with data collection, Cathy Macpherson for her assistance with the preparation of the manuscript, and Mike Richardson, Alex Paxton, and Rick Dale for providing MATLAB code to assist with data analysis. The research was funded by the British Academy (SG131613).Peer reviewedPublisher PD
Inelastic neutron scattering study on the resonance mode in an optimally doped superconductor LaFeAsOF
An optimally doped iron-based superconductor LaFeAsOF with
K has been studied by inelastic powder neutron scattering. The
magnetic excitation at \AA is enhanced below , leading to
a peak at meV as the resonance mode, in addition to the
formation of a gap at low energy below the crossover energy . The peak energy at \AA corresponds to in
good agreement with the other values of resonance mode observed in the various
iron-based superconductors, even in the high- cuprates. Although the
phonon density of states has a peak at the same energy as the resonance mode in
the present superconductor, the -dependence is consistent with the resonance
being of predominately magnetic origin.Comment: 4 pages, 5 Postscript figure
Near-infrared integral field spectroscopy of Massive Young Stellar Objects
We present medium resolution () -band integral field
spectroscopy of six MYSOs. The targets are selected from the RMS survey, and we
used the NIFS on the Gemini North telescope. The data show various spectral
line features including Br, CO, H, and \mbox{He\,{\sc i}}. The
Br line is detected in emission in all objects with
-- 200 kms. V645 Cyg shows a high-velocity
P-Cygni profile between -800 kms and -300 kms. We performed
three-dimensional spectroastrometry to diagnose the circumstellar environment
in the vicinity of the central stars using the Br line. We measured the
centroids of the velocity components with sub-mas precision. The centroids
allow us to discriminate the blueshifted and redshifted components in a roughly
east--west direction in both IRAS 18151--1208 and S106 in Br. This lies
almost perpendicular to observed larger scale outflows. We conclude, given the
widths of the lines and the orientation of the spectroastrometric signature,
that our results trace a disc wind in both IRAS 18151--1208 and S106. The CO
absorption lines at low transitions are detected in IRAS
18151--1208 and AFGL 2136. We analysed the velocity structure of the neutral
gas discs. In IRAS 18151--1208, the absorption centroids of the blueshifted and
redshifted components are separated in a direction of north-east to south-west,
nearly perpendicular to that of the larger scale jet. The
position-velocity relations of these objects can be reproduced with central
masses of 30 M_{\sun} for IRAS 18151--1208 and 20 M_{\sun} for AFGL 2136.
We also detect CO bandhead emission in IRAS 18151--1208, S106 and
V645 Cyg. The results can be fitted reasonably with a Keplerian rotation model,
with masses of 15, 20 and 20 M_{\sun} respectively.Comment: 17 pages, 10 figures, accepted by MNRA
Crossover from commensurate to incommensurate antiferromagnetism in stoichiometric NaFeAs revealed by single-crystal 23Na,75As-NMR experiments
We report results of 23Na and 75As nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR)
experiments on a self-flux grown high-quality single crystal of stoichiometric
NaFeAs. The NMR spectra revealed a tetragonal to twinned-orthorhombic
structural phase transition at T_O = 57 K and an antiferromagnetic (AF)
transition at T_AF = 45 K. The divergent behavior of nuclear relaxation rate
near T_AF shows significant anisotropy, indicating that the critical slowing
down of stripe-type AF fluctuations are strongly anisotropic in spin space. The
NMR spectra at low enough temperatures consist of sharp peaks showing a
commensurate stripe AF order with a small moment \sim 0.3 muB. However, the
spectra just below T_AF exhibits highly asymmetric broadening pointing to an
incommensurate modulation. The commensurate-incommensurate crossover in NaFeAs
shows a certain similarity to the behavior of SrFe2As2 under high pressure.Comment: 5 pages, 5 figures, revised version to appear in J. Phys. Soc. Jp
Neutron and X-ray Scattering Studies of the Lightly-Doped Spin-Peierls System Cu(1-x)Cd(x)GeO3
Single crystals of the lightly-doped spin-Peierls system Cu(1-x)Cd(x)GeO3
have been studied using bulk susceptibility, x-ray diffraction, and inelastic
neutron scattering techniques. We investigate the triplet gap in the magnetic
excitation spectrum of this quasi-one dimensional quantum antiferromagnet, and
its relation to the spin-Peierls dimerisation order parameter. We employ two
different theoretical forms to model the inelastic neutron scattering cross
section and chi''(Q,omega), and show the sensitivity of the gap energy to the
choice of chi''(Q,omega). We find that a finite gap exists at the spin-Peierls
phase transition.Comment: 15 Pages, 7 Figures, Submitted to J. Phys. :Condensed Matte
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