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This article draws on phenomenological perspectives to present a case against resisting the objectification of cultures of protest and dissent. The generative, self-organizing properties of protest cultures, especially as mobilized through social media, are frequently argued to elude both authoritarian political structures and academic discourse, leading to new political subjectivities or ‘imaginaries’. Stemming from a normative commitment not to over-determine such nascent subjectivities, this view has taken on a heightened resonance in relation to the recent popular uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa. The article argues that this view is based on an invalid assumption that authentic political subjectivities and cultures naturally emerge from an absence of constraint, whether political, journalistic or academic. The valorisation of amorphousness in protest cultures and social media enables affective and political projection, but overlooks politics in its institutional, professional and procedural forms

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We demonstrate a mechanochemical strategy that allowed the first successful mechanosynthesis of IRMOFs based on an oxo-centred secondary building unit (SBU). The presented study indicates that controlling the acid-base relationship between reagents is key to mechanochemical synthesis of IRMOFs, revealing a pre-assembled oxo-zinc amidate cluster as an efficient precursor for IRMOF mechanosynthesis.The authors would like to acknowledge the project operated within the Foundation for Polish Science Team Programme co-financed by the EU ‘‘European Regional Development Fund’’ TEAM/2011–7/8, and the European Union in the framework of Regional Development Fund through the Joint UW and WUT International PhD Program of Foundation for Polish Science – “Towards Advanced Functional Materials and Novel Devices” (MPD/2010/4) (D.P.) for financial support.This is the accepted manuscript. The final version was published in Chemical Communications and is available at http://pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/ArticleLanding/2015/CC/c4cc09917f#!divAbstract

Automatyzacja pracy nadawczych i odbiorczych urządzeń antenowych. Przegląd Zagadnień Łączności, 1965, nr 12 (51)

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