Challenging the discursive positioning of young British Muslims through the multilingual performance of devotional song and poetry

This article presents data which challenge current hegemonic discourses in public and media spaces which reductively position young British Muslims as linguistically problematic. Framing these data are public space statements which argue for an overly simple linguistic basis to so-called extremist behaviour based on the presence or absence of the English language. Through an analysis of a questionnaire and interviews carried out with young performers, singers and reciters of devotional song and poetry in a range of language varieties, this article shows how such performance practices lead to the deployment of complex and mobile language resources which help negotiate and fashion rich linguistic repertoires and fluid identities for these young British Muslims. The article argues that these are (a) more representative of the wider British Muslim youth community, (b) unmarked, and thus generally invisible within public discourses and (c) a far cry from the prevailing discursive attempts to frame young Muslims as posing a linguistic problem

Challenging the discursive positioning of young British Muslims through the multilingual performance of devotional song and poetry

This article presents data which challenge current hegemonic discourses in public and media spaces which reductively position young British Muslims as linguistically problematic. Framing these data are public space statements which argue for an overly simple linguistic basis to so-called extremist behaviour based on the presence or absence of the English language. Through an analysis of a questionnaire and interviews carried out with young performers, singers and reciters of devotional song and poetry in a range of language varieties, this article shows how such performance practices lead to the deployment of complex and mobile language resources which help negotiate and fashion rich linguistic repertoires and fluid identities for these young British Muslims. The article argues that these are (a) more representative of the wider British Muslim youth community, (b) unmarked, and thus generally invisible within public discourses and (c) a far cry from the prevailing discursive attempts to frame young Muslims as posing a linguistic problem

Seek: research magazine for Kansas State University. [Introductory matter] Spring 2022

Introductory material for the Spring 2022 issue of Seek, including the table of contents and a letter from Vice President for Research David Rosowsky

Seek: research magazine for Kansas State University. [Introductory matter] Fall 2021

Introductory material for the Fall 2021 issue of Seek, including the table of contents and a letter from Vice President for Research David Rosowsky

Reliability of Wood Systems Subjected to Stochastic Live Loads

Multiple-member wood structural systems are designed using the current National Design Specification with an increase in allowable bending stress of 15% to account for load sharing and partially composite action. Efforts are underway to develop Load and Resistance Factor Design (LRFD) procedures for engineered wood construction to enable design of wood structures to be performed in a similar fashion as design of steel or reinforced concrete structures. The proposed LRFD methodology includes a system factor derived by probabilistic analysis to account explicitly for load sharing among members in a wood structural system. Available statistical data on mechanical properties of individual pieces of lumber along with structural system and stochastic damage accumulation models can be utilized to evaluate system reliability and to develop LRFD design criteria that are consistent with a desired reliability

Intense Source of Slow Positrons

We describe a novel design for an intense source of slow positrons based on pair production with a beam of electrons from a 10 MeV accelerator hitting a thin target at a low incidence angle. The positrons are collected with a set of coils adapted to the large production angle. The collection system is designed to inject the positrons in a Greaves-Surko trap [1]. Such a source could be the basis for a series of experiments in fundamental and applied research and would also be a prototype source for industrial applications which concern the field of defect characterization in the nanometer scale.Comment: submitted to N.I.M.

Reliability-Based System Factor for Serviceability Design of Wood Floors

A structural analysis model for parallel-member wood joist floors is developed that includes the effect of component creep. Viscoelastic material models are calibrated using the data from a recently completed experimental program conducted as part of this overall study. Using this system model, deflection serviceability reliability analyses of parallel-member wood systems, including the effects of creep deformation, are conducted. Stochastic load models are used to simulate the time-varying nature of applied loads. Multiple limit state definitions for deflection serviceability of parallel-member wood floors are considered. Monte Carlo simulation is used to evaluate limit state probabilities. Reliability indices for current serviceability design provisions are also evaluated, and a serviceability system factor for Load and Resistance Factor Design (LRFD) is recommended

Structural analysis of a holoenzyme complex of mouse dihydrofolate reductase with NADPH and a ternary complex with the potent and selective inhibitor 2,4-diamino-6-(2′-hydroxydibenz[b,f]azepin-5-yl)methylpteridine

The structures of mouse DHFR holo enzyme and a ternary complex with NADPH and a potent inhibitor are described