Reframing Disability through an Ecocritical Perspective in Sara Mesa\u27a \u3cem\u3eCara de pan\u3c/em\u3e

This article establishes a dialogue between disability studies and ecocriticism to analyze Sara Mesa’s novel Cara de pan (2018), which narrates the relationship between a thirteen-year-old girl bullied at school and a fifty-four-year-old man with an atypical appearance who fixates on limited topics. The analysis examines the hegemony of normativity and dominant social narratives about disability, gender, and sexuality. Grounded in the idea that people with disabilities actively intervene in their environment, the essay argues that the characters’ environmental empathy supports the need for a diversity of experiences and perspectives, positively resituating disability and autism

Unorthodox Theories and Beings: Science, Technology, and Women in the Narratives of Rosa Montero

This essay analyzes Montero\u27s representation of female figures connected to science and technology in the narratives Instrucciones para salvar el mundo (2008; Instructions to save the world), Lágrimas en la lluvia (2011; Tears in Rain, 2012), La ridícula idea de no volver a verte (2013; The ridiculous idea of never seeing you again), and El peso del corazón (2015; Weight of the Heart, 2016)

Bell inequality violation by entangled single photon states generated from a laser, a LED or a Halogen lamp

In single-particle or intraparticle entanglement, two degrees of freedom of a single particle, e.g., momentum and polarization of a single photon, are entangled. Single-particle entanglement (SPE) provides a source of non classical correlations which can be exploited both in quantum communication protocols and in experimental tests of noncontextuality based on the Kochen-Specker theorem. Furthermore, SPE is robust under decoherence phenomena. Here, we show that single-particle entangled states of single photons can be produced from attenuated sources of light, even classical ones. To experimentally certify the entanglement, we perform a Bell test, observing a violation of the Clauser, Horne, Shimony and Holt (CHSH) inequality. On the one hand, we show that this entanglement can be achieved even in a classical light beam, provided that first-order coherence is maintained between the degrees of freedom involved in the entanglement. On the other hand, we prove that filtered and attenuated light sources provide a flux of independent SPE photons that, from a statistical point of view, are indistinguishable from those generated by a single photon source. This has important consequences, since it demonstrates that cheap, compact, and low power entangled photon sources can be used for a range of quantum technology applications

REPRESENTATIONS OF STRANGER AND NON-STRANGER HOMICIDE: A QUALITATIVE CONTENT ANALYSIS OF CANADIAN NEWS MEDIA

The news media play a significant role in shaping public narratives about homicide by the particular incidents that journalists choose to report – or not report – on. Newspapers, in particular, lack the benefit of constant imagery, special effects, and live-action reporting that T.V. news reports have, and, as a result, forces newspapers to construct sensational and newsworthy homicide stories in order to be competitive and gain readership. To achieve this, newspapers often disproportionately report on bizarre and atypical homicide incidents, which most frequently involve a stranger or unknown assailant. While there is substantive literature surrounding the newsworthiness of homicide incidents in the United States and elsewhere, an accurate and comprehensive understanding of how the news media portray incidents of stranger homicide compared to non-stranger homicide in Canadian newspapers is lacking. In this research project, I address this gap by coding 359 Canadian newspaper articles on reported homicide incidents and analyzing this data to identify key themes, which will be used to contextualize larger systemic issues in society, and provide suggestions for future research. This research project used media constructions of crime to inform its analysis of the three major themes: the demonization of offenders, gendered blame of female victims and offenders, and the intersection between culture, class, and crime. The results of this data collection and my subsequent analysis of the themes revealed three unique findings which contribute to the literature. First, an analysis of the demonization of offenders revealed the ‘devaluing of rehabilitation’ as a prominent theme surrounding the construction of stranger offenders. This was an interesting and unique finding that was not previously found in the literature. This suggests that additional research needs to be conducted to reveal the implications of news media’s framing of violent crime and the ensuing punishment and punitive attitudes towards crime from the public. In addition, many of the articles analyzed in this study used gendered discourse to construct the female victims and offenders in homicide cases. Most research on media constructions of female victims and offenders discuss the imbalance between portrayals of women and men in news media discourse and highlight the obscuring of men’s violence towards women while simultaneously blaming females for their own victimization. This research confirms this notion and also introduces the responsibilization of women other than the primary victim or offender as a distinct finding. Lastly, I present and discuss the intersection between social class and crime in the news media. Analysis of the data collected in this study illustrated that the news media construct crime as emerging from ‘deviant’ cultures as opposed to rooting crime in the social conditions from which they manifest. This results in further marginalization of particular individuals and groups in society who are already discriminated against (e.g., racial minorities, the lower-class, etc.). Overall, the present study attempts to expand general knowledge and understanding of news media constructions of stranger homicide compared to non-stranger homicide, and the impact such framing could potentially have on public discourse surrounding certain marginalized individuals and groups in society, particularly visible minorities and victims of domestic violence

Borderland identities and contemporary Spanish fiction

Ph.D. University of Kansas, Spanish and Portuguese 2003During the post-Franco period, national borders have constituted a subject of great debate in Spain. The country's reorganization into a state of autonomies in 1978 officially recognized distinct national entities within Spain while contentious negotiation over the extension and the limits of sovereignty has ensued until the present. Spain's membership in the European Union in 1986, emblematic of its newly established democracy and participation in the global marketplace, further transformed the nation's boundaries. Tensions mark the centripetal-centrifugal battle of globalization, as local or national concerns vie for advantage and supra-national alliances promote their interests. Although in theory the EU and globalization open up national borders to unrestricted movement of goods, capital, and people, in practice certain migrations are highly regulated and restricted. This is certainly the case for non-EU members and, particularly, for people from less developed nations. Nonetheless, Spain has seen a dramatic increase in immigration from areas with economic and political strife. These various border realignments and crossings have a profound impact on constructions of national and local community, ethnicity, and individual identity. My dissertation examines border crossings and borderlands created by these diverse political and social phenomena as imagined in contemporary Spanish fiction. Viewing literature as cultural practice, I read narratives, from the 1980s, 1990s, and the present decade, of Carme Riera (“Letra de ángel” and “Mon semblable, mon frère,” Contra el amor en compañía y otros relatos), Suso de Toro ( Calzados Lola and No Vuelvas), Cristina Fernández Cubas (El año de Gracia and “La flor de España,” El ángulo del horror), and Lourdes Ortiz (“Fátima de los naufragios” and “La piel de Marcelinda,” Fátima de los naufragios) as engaging in critical dialogues with dominant political policies. I take a cultural studies approach, drawing on anthropological, sociological, and historical sources and contemporary theory to illuminate my analyses of these fictional texts. Notions of postcolonial identity, borderland situations, and hybridity inform my work. I give unique application to these ideas, usually discussed in the context of former colonized nations, as I ground my writing in the particularity of borderlands and narratives of post-totalitarian Spain, a former colonizer

cFFR as an alternative to FFR: please do not contrast simplicity!

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Detection of Contact Binaries Using Sparse High Phase Angle Lightcurves

We show that candidate contact binary asteroids can be efficiently identified from sparsely sampled photometry taken at phase angles >60deg. At high phase angle, close/contact binary systems produce distinctive lightcurves that spend most of the time at maximum or minimum (typically >1mag apart) brightness with relatively fast transitions between the two. This means that a few (~5) sparse observations will suffice to measure the large range of variation and identify candidate contact binary systems. This finding can be used in the context of all-sky surveys to constrain the fraction of contact binary near-Earth objects. High phase angle lightcurve data can also reveal the absolute sense of the spin.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figures, 1 table. Accepted for publication in ApJ

PHYLOGENETIC RELATIONSHIPS OF THE SILURIAN AFRO-SOUTH AMERICAN BRACHIOPODS ANABAIA, HARRINGTONINA AND CLARKEIA: NEW INSIGHTS FROM THEIR ONTOGENY

Hundreds of specimens of the rhynchonellide brachiopod Clarkeia antisiensis (d’Orbigny) recovered from the stratotype of the Tarabuco Formation of Bolivia form a complete series of growth stages providing a good opportunity for reconstructing its ontogenetic development. The fact that juvenile specimens of C. antisiensis are nearly indistinguishable from adult individuals of Harringtonina australis Boucot strongly suggests that Clarkeia evolved from Harringtonina by the heterochronic process of peramorphosis. On the other hand, adult specimens of both the Brazilian Anabaia paraia Clarke and the Precordilleran specimrens of Anabaia never exceed the youngest ontogenetic stage of Harringtonina australis, to which share small hinge plates supported by a septalium-like structure and absence of cardinal process. The overlap of adult morphology of Anabaia with the juvenile morphology of Harringtonina australis allows interpreting this succession as an evolutionary lineage showing increasingly more peramorphic characters. This hypothesis is supported by the correlation between the stratigraphic record of taxa and the inferred developmental sequence being Anabaia the oldest member (Early Silurian), Harringtonina australis the intermediate form (Wenlock-Ludlow), and Clarkeia antisiensis the youngest (Pridoli). This interpretation raises a systematic problem because the leptocoeliids Anabaia and Harringtonina are currently classified within the superfamily Uncinuloidea whereas Clarkeia is placed among the Rhynchotrematoidea. If the hypothesis is proven, these superfamilies, as presently constituted, would be polyphyletic groups