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How the Unemployment Rate in Spain affects University Enrollment
This thesis studies the subsequent labor market outcomes of college graduates during an economic recession in Spain over the years 2000-2012. I use data on undergraduate enrollment, unemployment, national income, and educational spend from the Spanish National Institute of Statistics, the CIA World Fact Book, Spainâs Ministry of Education, and World Bank to run regression analyses and the Granger Causality Test. I find that university enrollment and unemployment rate are positively correlated. Regression results show that for every one percent increase in unemployment, enrollment increases by approximately 7,429 students
Religious Authority beyond Domination and Discipline: Epistemic Authority and Its Vernacular Uses in the Shiâi Diaspora
âReligious authorityâ remains a ubiquitous but controversial term of comparative analysis. In Islamic studies, authority is generally personified in the form of the ulama and most often viewed through Weberâs lens of charismatic, legal-rational, and traditional types of legitimate domination. Our particular interest, Twelver Shiâi Islam, seems a paradigmatic case, where the relationship between âthe Ayatollahsâ and state power has dominated academic discussion since Khomeini. Through ethnography of a Shiâi diaspora community in the UK, we argue for a radical shift in perspective: away from forms of clerical power and towards non-specialist uses of clerical authority as expert opinion. Far from such âepistemicâ authority being opposed to ordinary agency, here they are inextricably linked. Inspirational work in the anthropology of Islam has understood ordinary Muslim experiences of authority in non-liberal ways, as (Foucauldian) ethical discipline and self-care. We maintain the need to transcend not only domination but discipline too, refocusing the comparison between (Shiâi) Islamic legal and liberal thought, in the form of Razâs classic âservice conceptionâ of authority. Both stress the rationality of following authoritative opinion and its role as reason and justification for individual action. Our ethnography of ordinary practice then shows the sheer diversity of ways that such epistemic authority can be taken up, including, but not limited to, projects of personal piety and adversarial community politics. In our context, as surely also in others, domination and discipline should thus be seen as potential uses of âreligiousâ epistemic authority, rather than as its privileged form
Cartographical Imaginations: Spatiality, Adult Education and Lifelong Learning
This symposium explores the significance of space and spatiality for research in adult education and lifelong learning. Drawing on recent theorising in the social sciences, we examine empirically and theoretically questions of space, place and power in adult education
Stability of Curvature Measures
We address the problem of curvature estimation from sampled compact sets. The
main contribution is a stability result: we show that the gaussian, mean or
anisotropic curvature measures of the offset of a compact set K with positive
-reach can be estimated by the same curvature measures of the offset of a
compact set K' close to K in the Hausdorff sense. We show how these curvature
measures can be computed for finite unions of balls. The curvature measures of
the offset of a compact set with positive -reach can thus be approximated
by the curvature measures of the offset of a point-cloud sample. These results
can also be interpreted as a framework for an effective and robust notion of
curvature
Naked singularity resolution in cylindrical collapse
In this paper, we study the gravitational collapse of null dust in the
cylindrically symmetric spacetime. The naked singularity necessarily forms at
the symmetry axis. We consider the situation in which null dust is emitted
again from the naked singularity formed by the collapsed null dust and
investigate the back-reaction by this emission for the naked singularity. We
show a very peculiar but physically important case in which the same amount of
null dust as that of the collapsed one is emitted from the naked singularity as
soon as the ingoing null dust hits the symmetry axis and forms the naked
singularity. In this case, although this naked singularity satisfies the strong
curvature condition by Kr\'{o}lak (limiting focusing condition), geodesics
which hit the singularity can be extended uniquely across the singularity.
Therefore we may say that the collapsing null dust passes through the
singularity formed by itself and then leaves for infinity. Finally the
singularity completely disappears and the flat spacetime remains.Comment: 17 pages, no figur
Temperature and ac Effects on Charge Transport in Metallic Arrays of Dots
We investigate the effects of finite temperature, dc pulse, and ac drives on
the charge transport in metallic arrays using numerical simulations. For finite
temperatures there is a finite conduction threshold which decreases linearly
with temperature. Additionally we find a quadratic scaling of the
current-voltage curves which is independent of temperature for finite
thresholds. These results are in excellent agreement with recent experiments on
2D metallic dot arrays. We have also investigated the effects of an ac drive as
well as a suddenly applied dc drive. With an ac drive the conduction threshold
decreases for fixed frequency and increasing amplitude and saturates for fixed
amplitude and increasing frequency. For sudden applied dc drives below
threshold we observe a long time power law conduction decay.Comment: 6 pages, 7 postscript figure
3D UK? 3D History and the Absent British Pioneers
The recent television ârediscoveryâ of a small cohort of 1950s British 3D films (and the producers who made them) has offered a new route into considering how the historical stories told about 3D film have focused almost exclusively on the American experience, eliding other national contexts. This article challenges both the partiality of existing academic histories of 3D, and the specific popular media narratives that have been constructed around the British 3D pioneers. Offering a rebuttal of those narratives and an expansion of them based around primary archival research, the article considers how the British 3D company Stereo Techniques created a different business and production model based around non-fiction short 3D films that stand in contrast to the accepted view of 3D as an American feature film novelty. Through an exploration of the depiction (and absence) of these 3D pioneers from existing media histories, the article argues for a revision to both 3D studies and British cinema history
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