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Second-chance punitivism and the contractual governance of crime and incivility: New Labour, old Hobbes
The growing application of mechanisms of contractual governance to behaviour that breaches social norms, rather than the criminal law, appears to represent an ethopolitical concern with delinquent self-reform through the activation of technologies of the self. In fact, there is little empirical evidence that the contractual governance of incivility leads to such self-reform. Beneath the ideology of contractual agreement to observe social norms lies what this paper calls a ‘second-chance punitivism’ which operates to crystallise behavioural elements of the Hobbesian social contract, after breach, into a more specific form. The responsibilising and individualising properties of this form of contractual governance set the moral-ideological platform for a retributive punitivism, when the rational agents it creates fail to live up to their image, and are taken to have wasted their ‘second chance’
Evolution of the Australian lithosphere
The evolution of the Australian plate can be interpreted in a plate-tectonic paradigm in which lithospheric growth occurred via vertical and horizontal accretion. The lithospheric roots of Archaean lithosphere developed contemporaneously with the overlying crust. Vertical accretion of the Archaean lithosphere is probably related to the arrival of large plumes, although horizontal lithospheric accretion was also important to crustal growth. The Proterozoic was an era of major crustal growth in which the components of the North Australian, West Australian and South Australian cratons were formed and amalgamated during a series of accretionary events and continent-continent collisions, interspersed with periods of lithospheric extension. During Phanerozoic accretionary tectonism, approximately 30% of the Australian crust was added to the eastern margin of the continent in a predominantly suprasubduction environment. Widespread plume-driven rifting during the breakup of Gondwana may have contributed to the destruction of Archaean lithospheric roots (as a result of lithospheric stretching). However, lithospheric growth occurred at the same time due to mafic underplating along the eastern margin of the plate. Northward drift of Australia during the Tertiary led to the development of a complex accretionary margin at the leading edge of the plate (Papua New Guinea)
An Extended Radio Counterpart of TeV J2032+4130?
We carried out a 5-pointing mosaic observation of TeV J2032+4130 at 1.4 and
4.8 GHz with the VLA in April of 2003. The analysis of the 4.8GHz data indicate
weak wispy shell-like radio structure(s) which are at least partially
non-thermal. The radio data is compatible with one or more young supernova
remnants or perhaps the signature of large scale cluster shocks in this region
induced by the violent action of the many massive stars in Cyg OB2.Comment: Proc. 1st GLAST Symp. Feb 5-8, 2007, Stanford C
The Two Fluid Drop Snap-off Problem: Experiments and Theory
We address the dynamics of a drop with viscosity breaking up
inside another fluid of viscosity . For , a scaling theory
predicts the time evolution of the drop shape near the point of snap-off which
is in excellent agreement with experiment and previous simulations of Lister
and Stone. We also investigate the dependence of the shape and
breaking rate.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figure
Formation of a Nematic Fluid at High Fields in Sr3Ru2O7
In principle, a complex assembly of strongly interacting electrons can
self-organise into a wide variety of collective states, but relatively few such
states have been identified in practice. We report that, in the close vicinity
of a metamagnetic quantum critical point, high purity Sr3Ru2O7 possesses a
large magnetoresistive anisotropy, consistent with the existence of an
electronic nematic fluid. We discuss a striking phenomenological similarity
between our observations and those made in high purity two-dimensional electron
fluids in GaAs devices.Comment: 14 pages, 3 figures, 11 extra pages of supplementary informatio
The Point of Origin of the Radio Radiation from the Unresolved Cores of Radio-Loud Quasars
Locating the exact point of origin of the core radiation in active galactic
nuclei (AGN) would represent important progress in our understanding of
physical processes in the central engine of these objects. However, due to our
inability to resolve the region containing both the central compact object and
the jet base, this has so far been difficult. Here, using an analysis in which
the lack of resolution does not play a significant role, we demonstrate that it
may be impossible even in most radio loud sources for more than a small
percentage of the core radiation at radio wavelengths to come from the jet
base. We find for 3C279 that percent of the core flux at 15 GHz must
come from a separate, reasonably stable, region that is not part of the jet
base, and that then likely radiates at least quasi-isotropically and is
centered on the black hole. The long-term stability of this component also
suggests that it may originate in a region that extends over many Schwarzschild
radii.Comment: 7 pages with 3 figures, accepted for publication in Astrophysics and
Space Scienc
SuperWASP: Wide Angle Search for Planets
SuperWASP is a fully robotic, ultra-wide angle survey for planetary transits.
Currently under construction, it will consist of 5 cameras, each monitoring a
9.5 x 9.5 deg field of view. The Torus mount and enclosure will be fully
automated and linked to a built-in weather station. We aim to begin
observations at the beginning of 2003.Comment: 4 pages, 1 figure, to be published in proceedings of "Scientific
Frontiers in Research on Extrasolar Planets
Electromagnetic transition from the 4 to 2 resonance in Be measured via the radiative capture in He+He
An earlier measurement on the 4 to 2 radiative transition in Be
provided the first electromagnetic signature of its dumbbell-like shape.
However, the large uncertainty in the measured cross section does not allow a
stringent test of nuclear structure models. The present paper reports a more
elaborate and precise measurement for this transition, via the radiative
capture in the He+He reaction, improving the accuracy by about a factor
of three. The {\it ab initio} calculations of the radiative transition strength
with improved three-nucleon forces are also presented. The experimental results
are compared with the predictions of the alpha cluster model and {\it ab
initio} calculations.Comment: 5 pages and 7 figures, Submitted to Physical Review Letter
WASP-29b: A Saturn-sized transiting exoplanet
We report the discovery of a Saturn-sized planet transiting a V = 11.3, K4
dwarf star every 3.9 d. WASP-29b has a mass of 0.24+/-0.02 M_Jup and a radius
of 0.79+/-0.05 R_Jup, making it the smallest planet so far discovered by the
WASP survey, and the exoplanet most similar in mass and radius to Saturn. The
host star WASP-29 has an above-Solar metallicity and fits a possible
correlation for Saturn-mass planets such that planets with higher-metallicity
host stars have higher core masses and thus smaller radii.Comment: 6 pages, submitted to ApJ
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