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Heaven is a Place: The politics and poetics of LGBT location in a community dance film
The film, Heaven is a Place, received funding from The Culture Programme of the European Union, and The Humanities, Music and Performing Arts Research Centre (HuMPA) at University of Plymouth; with additional grant funding from The ICCI Support Fund, Innovation for the Creative and Cultural IndustriesThrough a discussion of a local, movement-based performance for and through digital video, this chapter draws upon a range of scholarly dis- ciplines (including performance studies, film studies, somatics, queer studies, urban studies and human geography) from the perspective of practitioner-researchers to re ect upon the implications and potentials of a community lmmaking practice that is simultaneously aesthetic, political, spatial and social. In particular, it considers how the process-driven triangulation of thinking bodies, sexual subjectivities and emplacement within such a practice might enable us to acknowledge, consolidate and reimagine a community that had been either erased or marginalised in dominant accounts of its city. Heaven Is a Place is a short dance film, made in 2014 by the authors of this chapter in collaboration with members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans (LGBT) community in Plymouth in South West England. Filmed in some of Plymouth’s most visually spectacular, evocative and liminal waterside locations – its docksides, marinas, look-out points, cruising spots, clubs and bathing areas – it explores becoming, melan- choly and the erotics of place through the human geography of an ‘ocean city’. In addition to choreography arising from site-responsive physical vocabularies, the film features scenarios and movement scores that reflect personal memories and queer histories of the city, developed in the first instance through a series of movement workshops that were co-organised with the LGBT advocacy organisation, Pride in Plymouth
Band-to-band transitions, selection rules, effective mass and exciton binding energy parameters in monoclinic \beta-Ga2O3
We employ an eigen polarization model including the description of direction
dependent excitonic effects for rendering critical point structures within the
dielectric function tensor of monoclinic \beta-Ga2O3 yielding a comprehensive
analysis of generalized ellipsometry data obtained from 0.75 eV--9 eV. The
eigen polarization model permits complete description of the dielectric
response, and we obtain single-electron and excitonic band-to-band transition
anisotropic critical point structure model parameters including their
polarization eigenvectors within the monoclinic lattice. We compare our
experimental analysis with results from density functional theory calculations
performed using a recently proposed Gaussian-attenuation-Perdue-Burke-Ernzerhof
hybrid density functional, and we present and discuss the order of the
fundamental direct band-to-band transitions and their polarization selection
rules, the electron and hole effective mass parameters for the three lowest
band-to-band transitions, and their exciton binding energy parameters, in
excellent agreement with our experimental results. We find that the effective
masses for holes are highly anisotropic and correlate with the selection rules
for the fundamental band-to-band transitions, where the observed transitions
are polarized closely in the direction of the lowest hole effective mass for
the valence band participating in the transition
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Data, Metrics and Monitoring in CGIAR - a strategic study
This document contains the final report of the Panel together with the ISPC commentary. The Panel Report presents an analysis of the current activities within CGIAR concerning data, metrics and indicators, and offers a series of recommendations to address the key issues and challenges identified
Role of material properties and mesostructure on dynamic deformation and shear instability in Al-W granular composites
Dynamic experiments with Al-W granular/porous composites revealed
qualitatively different behavior with respect to shear localization depending
on bonding between Al particles. Two-dimensional numerical modeling was used to
explore the mesomechanics of the large strain dynamic deformation in Al-W
granular/porous composites and explain the experimentally observed differences
in shear localization between composites with various mesostructures.
Specifically, the bonding between the Al particles, the porosity, the roles of
the relative particle sizes of Al and W, the arrangements of the W particles,
and the material properties of Al were investigated using numerical
calculations. It was demonstrated in simulations that the bonding between the
"soft" Al particles facilitated shear localization as seen in the experiments.
Numerical calculations and experiments revealed that the mechanism of the shear
localization in granular composites is mainly due to the local high strain flow
of "soft" Al around the "rigid" W particles causing localized damage
accumulation and subsequent growth of the meso/macro shear bands/cracks. The
"rigid" W particles were the major geometrical factor determining the
initiation and propagation of "kinked" shear bands in the matrix of "soft" Al
particles, leaving some areas free of extensive plastic deformation as observed
in experiments and numerical calculations.Comment: 10 pages, 14 figures, submitted to Journal of Applied Physic
Measurements of Intensity and Scale of Wind-Tunnel Turbulence and Their Relation to the Critical Reynolds Number of Spheres
The investigation of wind-tunnel turbulence, conducted at the National Bureau of Standards with the cooperation of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, has been extended to include a new variable, namely, the scale of the turbulence. This report presents the results of a study of this new variable together with the intensity of the turbulence, and the effect of both on the critical Reynolds number of spheres
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