33 research outputs found
So you want to get published? It’s all about theory, context and data
This paper offers guidance on writing for publication in peer-reviewed business and management journals. The approach outlined and illustrated within is the amalgamated result of many years of experience in academic writing, editing, and getting published. The paper is primarily aimed at doctoral students, tutors, and early career researchers, who will have plenty to gain from publication, but may be lacking in the relevant experience of submission and resubmission. The authors assert the importance of creating dedicated planning documents, subject to continual revision, with particular emphasis placed on articulating and addressing gaps in theory, method, context, and management practice.Keywords: Theory, context, data, publishing, ga
Seeing Experimental Imperialism in the Nuclear Pacific
Those looking to judge the historical wrongs of American nuclear testing often discover an overwhelming surplus of images that amount to a series of incoherent visual fragments, leaving us with an abundant historical record and barriers to interpreting that record. This essay meets this challenge through discerning a new role for photography in the bombing of the Marshall Islands. In revisiting the function of the camera in the staging of these nuclear experiments, we find a model for the United States’ larger relationship to the post-WWII Pacific. Through a process we call “experimental imperialism,” U.S. nuclear tests utilized both cameras and international law to render living beings and the spaces they inhabited as lab-like specimens
Puppets of necessity? Celebritisation in structured reality television
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Marketing Management on 8 December 2014, available online: http://wwww.tandfonline.com/ 10.1080/0267257X.2014.988282This
conceptual
paper
uses
field
theory,
and
a
production
of
culture
perspective
to
explore
the
celebritisation
process
in
structured
reality
television.
This
relatively
new
genre,
typified
by
The
Only
Way
Is
Essex,
blends
fiction
with
fact,
and
constitutes
a
new,
playful
and
interactive
iteration
of
the
broader
category
of
reality
television.
We
identify
three
culturally
productive
models
that
create
new
celebrity
discourses
and
establish
a
theoretical
underpinning
for
the
role
of
structured
reality
in
the
celebritisation
process;
tournaments
of
value,
spectacle
and
transformative
performances.
Whilst
not
exclusive
to
structured
reality
television,
these
models
are
particularly
effective
at
explaining
how
celebrities
are
interactively
understood
in
an
increasingly
mediatised
marketplace.
We
contribute
a
model
which
proposes
that
celebritisation
in
structured
reality
is
a
homologising
process
through
which
celebrity
meaning
is
legitimised
Extrasolar Planet Transits Observed at Kitt Peak National Observatory
We obtained J-, H- and JH-band photometry of known extrasolar planet
transiting systems at the 2.1-m Kitt Peak National Observatory Telescope using
the FLAMINGOS infrared camera between October 2008 and October 2011. From the
derived lightcurves we have extracted the mid-transit times, transit depths and
transit durations for these events. The precise mid-transit times obtained help
improve the orbital periods and also constrain transit-time variations of the
systems. For most cases the published system parameters successfully accounted
for our observed lightcurves, but in some instances we derive improved
planetary radii and orbital periods. We complemented our 2.1-m infrared
observations using CCD z'-band and B-band photometry (plus two Hydrogen Alpha
filter observations) obtained with the Kitt Peak Visitor's Center telescope,
and with four H-band transits observed in October 2007 with the NSO's 1.6-m
McMath-Pierce Solar Telescope. The principal highlights of our results are: 1)
our ensemble of J-band planetary radii agree with optical radii, with the
best-fit relation being: (Rp/R*)J = 0.0017 + 0.979 (Rp/R*)optical, 2) We
observe star spot crossings during the transit of WASP-11/HAT-P-10, 3) we
detect star spot crossings by HAT-P-11b (Kepler-3b), thus confirming that the
magnetic evolution of the stellar active regions can be monitored even after
the Kepler mission has ended, and 4) we confirm a grazing transit for
HAT-P-27/WASP-40. In total we present 57 individual transits of 32 known
exoplanet systems.Comment: 33 pages, 6 figures, accepted in Publications of the Astronomical
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Travelling for Umrah:destination attributes, destination image, and post-travel intentions
This paper examines the links between cosmopolitanism, self-identity, and a desire for social interaction perceived destination image and behavioural intentions. A model tested using a sample of 538 Iranian visitors to Mecca for the purpose of Umrah. The result from the structural model suggests that destination attributes influence perceived destination image. Further, such tourists are likely to revisit or recommend Islamic destinations if their experience matches their perceived image of the destination. This implies that, while the religious characteristics of the destination remain important, destination managers cannot disregard the tangential, non-religious attributes of a destination which are crucial in order to satisfy more conventional tourist desires. As such, this study suggests that those managing religious travel destinations should endeavour to foster a welcoming image, where experience, interaction and tolerance are at the forefront of the destination’s offering
A re-appraisal of the reliability of the 20 m multi-stage shuttle run test
This is the author's PDF version of an article published in European journal of applied physiology in 2007. The original publication is available at www.springerlink.co
OpenFermion: The Electronic Structure Package for Quantum Computers
Quantum simulation of chemistry and materials is predicted to be an important
application for both near-term and fault-tolerant quantum devices. However, at
present, developing and studying algorithms for these problems can be difficult
due to the prohibitive amount of domain knowledge required in both the area of
chemistry and quantum algorithms. To help bridge this gap and open the field to
more researchers, we have developed the OpenFermion software package
(www.openfermion.org). OpenFermion is an open-source software library written
largely in Python under an Apache 2.0 license, aimed at enabling the simulation
of fermionic models and quantum chemistry problems on quantum hardware.
Beginning with an interface to common electronic structure packages, it
simplifies the translation between a molecular specification and a quantum
circuit for solving or studying the electronic structure problem on a quantum
computer, minimizing the amount of domain expertise required to enter the
field. The package is designed to be extensible and robust, maintaining high
software standards in documentation and testing. This release paper outlines
the key motivations behind design choices in OpenFermion and discusses some
basic OpenFermion functionality which we believe will aid the community in the
development of better quantum algorithms and tools for this exciting area of
research.Comment: 22 page
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Challenges in quantifying changes in the global water cycle
Human influences have likely already impacted the large-scale water cycle but natural variability and observational uncertainty are substantial. It is essential to maintain and improve observational capabilities to better characterize changes. Understanding observed changes to the global water cycle is key to predicting future climate changes and their impacts. While many datasets document crucial variables such as precipitation, ocean salinity, runoff, and humidity, most are uncertain for determining long-term changes. In situ networks provide long time-series over land but are sparse in many regions, particularly the tropics. Satellite and reanalysis datasets provide global coverage, but their long-term stability is lacking. However, comparisons of changes among related variables can give insights into the robustness of observed changes. For example, ocean salinity, interpreted with an understanding of ocean processes, can help cross-validate precipitation. Observational evidence for human influences on the water cycle is emerging, but uncertainties resulting from internal variability and observational errors are too large to determine whether the observed and simulated changes are consistent. Improvements to the in situ and satellite observing networks that monitor the changing water cycle are required, yet continued data coverage is threatened by funding reductions. Uncertainty both in the role of anthropogenic aerosols, and due to large climate variability presently limits confidence in attribution of observed changes
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The roles of static stability and tropical – extratropical interactions in the summer interannual variability of the North Atlantic sector
Summer seasonal forecast skill in the North Atlantic sector is lower than winter skill. To identify potential controls on predictability, the sensitivity of North Atlantic baroclinicity to atmospheric drivers is quantified. Using ERA-INTERIM reanalysis data, North Atlantic storm-track baroclinicity is shown to be less sensitive to meridional temperature-gradient variability in summer. Static stability shapes the sector’s interannual variability by modulating the sensitivity of baroclinicity to variations in meridional temperature gradients and tropopause height and by modifying the baroclinicity itself. High static stability anomalies at upper levels result in more zonal extratropical cyclone tracks and higher eddy kinetic energy over the British Isles in the summertime. These static stability anomalies are not strongly related to the summer NAO; but they are correlated with the suppression of convection over the tropical Atlantic and with a poleward-shifted subtropical jet. These results suggest a non-local driver of North Atlantic variability. Furthermore, they imply that improved representations of convection over the south-eastern part of North America and the tropical Atlantic might improve summer seasonal forecast skill
Atmospheric circulation of tidally locked exoplanets: II. Dual-band radiative transfer and convective adjustment
Improving upon our purely dynamical work, we present three-dimensional
simulations of the atmospheric circulation on Earth-like (exo)planets and hot
Jupiters using the GFDL-Princeton Flexible Modeling System (FMS). As the first
steps away from the dynamical benchmarks of Heng, Menou & Phillipps (2011), we
add dual-band radiative transfer and dry convective adjustment schemes to our
computational setup. Our treatment of radiative transfer assumes stellar
irradiation to peak at a wavelength shorter than and distinct from that at
which the exoplanet re-emits radiation ("shortwave" versus "longwave"), and
also uses a two-stream approximation. Convection is mimicked by adjusting
unstable lapse rates to the dry adiabat. The bottom of the atmosphere is
bounded by a uniform slab with a finite thermal inertia. For our models of hot
Jupiters, we include an analytical formalism for calculating
temperature-pressure profiles, in radiative equilibrium, which accounts for the
effect of collision-induced absorption via a single parameter. We discuss our
results within the context of: the predicted temperature-pressure profiles and
the absence/presence of a temperature inversion; the possible maintenance, via
atmospheric circulation, of the putative high-altitude, shortwave absorber
expected to produce these inversions; the angular/temporal offset of the hot
spot from the substellar point, its robustness to our ignorance of
hyperviscosity and hence its utility in distinguishing between different hot
Jovian atmospheres; and various zonal-mean flow quantities. Our work bridges
the gap between three-dimensional simulations which are purely dynamical and
those which incorporate multi-band radiative transfer, thus contributing to the
construction of a required hierarchy of three-dimensional theoretical models.Comment: Accepted by MNRAS. 28 pages, 19 figures. No changes to last version
except for title (to adhere to MNRAS guidelines