216 research outputs found
Mediating a Global Capitalist, Speciesist Moral Vacuum: How Two Escaped Pigs disrupted Dyson Appliances’ State of Nature
In 1998, two Tamworth Ginger pigs escaped on-route to slaughter, remaining fugitive for over a week on Dyson Appliances’ land in Malmesbury, Wiltshire, England, the United Kingdom. Dyson factory workers helped search for them, and media interest was global. National UK newspaper The Daily Mail bought the animals, preventing their slaughter. Whilst two pigs dubbed “Butch” and “Sundance” were publicly “saved,” slaughter continued in private, justified as “natural.” Dyson Appliance’s subsequent decision to sack all 800 Malmesbury vacuum-cleaner production staff was likewise reported as an inevitable, natural consequence of the market. The Press Gazette voted The Daily Mail’s coverage of the Tamworth two the greatest British media scoop of all time. Adopting a Critical Animal Media Studies lens, we explore the contradictions and connections between moral identification in UK media framing of Malmesbury’s animal escape story, moral invisibility of animal-slaughter in general, and reporting of the factory’s closure as a global capitalist state of nature’s “inevitable” and “natural” consequence
From an experimental paper to a playful screen : How the essence of materiality modulates the process of creation
The article seeks to develop a better understanding of the contribution of materiality in a discourse between a creator (content producer) and an interface, dealing with analogue and digital artefacts. Focus is in the materiality of the two different art-creation learning processes, acrylic painting and digital painting. The objective of this paper is to consider especially the affect and meaning of these two different content creation modalities and intra-action within that. Through reflective autoethnographic consideration, the purpose is to consider the essences of materials manifesting and modulating the processes of content creation as a posthumanist phenomenon. It will be shown that the creation processes with paper are more experimental whereas the processes with digital screen are more playful. There is a growing need to deeper understand the cultural change of material cultures and the people's intra-action with the materials also enabling arts creation. This paper will widen our limited understanding and deepen our theoretical perspectives of the essence of materials which then avails confronting analogue and digital when developing teaching and learning in the posthuman era especially in early education. Practitioner Notes What is already known about this topic There is a growing interest in the new materialism and posthuman thinking amongst educational technology research and development. Reading analogue versus digital is well-documented. What this paper adds New materialist thinking offers a useful perspective in education for looking at the essence of analogue and digital materiality modulating content creation. Characterising the nuances in analogue and digital production can help in evaluating their educational potential. Implications for practice and/or policy As practitioners we should critically question the political vision of education digitalisation especially concerning early childhood education. There is a need to move beyond debates about analogue versus digital to look at more specific examples of their advantages (and disadvantages) in developing posthumanist education and intra-active pedagogy especially for young children.Peer reviewe
Report of the Working Group on Animal Distress in the Laboratory
Finding ways to minimize pain and distress in research animals is a continuing goal in the laboratory animal research field. Pain and distress, however, are not synonymous, and often measures that alleviate one do not affect the other. Here, the authors provide a summary of a meeting held in February 2004 that focused on distress in laboratory animals. They discuss the difficulties associated with defining ‘distress,’ propose methods to aid in recognizing and alleviating distressful conditions, and provide recommendations for animal research conduct and oversight that would minimize distress experienced by laboratory animals
The Most Metal-Poor Stars. II. Chemical Abundances of 190 Metal-Poor Stars Including 10 New Stars With [Fe/H] < -3.5
We present a homogeneous chemical abundance analysis of 16 elements in 190
metal-poor Galactic halo stars (38 program and 152 literature objects). The
sample includes 171 stars with [Fe/H] < -2.5, of which 86 are extremely metal
poor, [Fe/H] < -3.0. Our program stars include ten new objects with [Fe/H] <
-3.5. We identify a sample of "normal" metal-poor stars and measure the trends
between [X/Fe] and [Fe/H], as well as the dispersion about the mean trend for
this sample. Using this mean trend, we identify objects that are chemically
peculiar relative to "normal" stars at the same metallicity. These chemically
unusual stars include CEMP-no objects, one star with high [Si/Fe], another with
high [Ba/Sr], and one with unusually low [X/Fe] for all elements heavier than
Na. The Sr and Ba abundances indicate that there may be two nucleosynthetic
processes at lowest metallicity that are distinct from the main r-process.
Finally, for many elements, we find a significant trend between [X/Fe] versus
Teff which likely reflects non-LTE and/or 3D effects. Such trends demonstrate
that care must be exercised when using abundance measurements in metal-poor
stars to constrain chemical evolution and/or nucleosynthesis predictions.Comment: Accepted for publication in Ap
On the Origin of the Outgoing Black Hole Modes
The question of how to account for the outgoing black hole modes without
drawing upon a transplanckian reservoir at the horizon is addressed. It is
argued that the outgoing modes must arise via conversion from ingoing modes. It
is further argued that the back-reaction must be included to avoid the
conclusion that particle creation cannot occur in a strictly stationary
background. The process of ``mode conversion" is known in plasma physics by
this name and in condensed matter physics as ``Andreev reflection" or ``branch
conversion". It is illustrated here in a linear Lorentz non-invariant model
introduced by Unruh. The role of interactions and a physical short distance
cutoff is then examined in the sonic black hole formed with Helium-II.Comment: 12 pages, plain latex, 2 figures included using psfig; Analogy to
``Andreev reflection" in superfluid systems noted, references and
acknowledgment added, format changed to shorten tex
Bayesian fitting of Taurus brown dwarf spectral energy distributions
We present derived stellar and disc parameters for a sample of Taurus brown
dwarfs both with and without evidence of an associated disc. These parameters
have been derived using an online fitting tool
(http://bd-server.astro.ex.ac.uk/), which includes a statistically robust
derivation of uncertainties, an indication of pa- rameter degeneracies, and a
complete treatment of the input photometric and spectroscopic observations. The
observations of the Taurus members with indications of disc presence have been
fitted using a grid of theoretical models including detailed treatments of
physical processes accepted for higher mass stars, such as dust sublimation,
and a simple treatment of the accretion flux. This grid of models has been
designed to test the validity of the adopted physical mechanisms, but we have
also constructed models using parameterisation, for example semi-empirical dust
sublimation radii, for users solely interested in parameter derivation and the
quality of the fit. The parameters derived for the naked and disc brown dwarf
systems are largely consistent with literature observations. However, our inner
disc edge locations are consistently closer to the star than previous results
and we also derive elevated accretion rates over non-SED based accretion rate
derivations. For inner edge locations we attribute these differences to the
detailed modelling we have performed of the disc structure, particularly at the
crucial inner edge where departures in geometry from the often adopted vertical
wall due to dust sublimation (and therefore accretion flux) can compensate for
temperature (and therefore distance) changes to the inner edge of the dust
disc. In the case of the elevated derived accretion rates, in some cases, this
may be caused by the intrinsic stellar luminosities of the targets exceeding
that predicted by the isochrones we have adopted.Comment: The paper contains 35 pages with 15 figures and 17 tables. Accepted
for publication in MNRA
Measurement of the Boson Mass
A measurement of the mass of the boson is presented based on a sample of
5982 decays observed in collisions at
= 1.8~TeV with the D\O\ detector during the 1992--1993 run. From a
fit to the transverse mass spectrum, combined with measurements of the
boson mass, the boson mass is measured to be .Comment: 12 pages, LaTex, style Revtex, including 3 postscript figures
(submitted to PRL
Search for Top Squark Pair Production in the Dielectron Channel
This report describes the first search for top squark pair production in the
channel stop_1 stopbar_1 -> b bbar chargino_1 chargino_1 -> ee+jets+MEt using
74.9 +- 8.9 pb^-1 of data collected using the D0 detector. A 95% confidence
level upper limit on sigma*B is presented. The limit is above the theoretical
expectation for sigma*B for this process, but does show the sensitivity of the
current D0 data set to a particular topology for new physics.Comment: Five pages, including three figures, submitted to PRD Brief Report
The Azimuthal Decorrelation of Jets Widely Separated in Rapidity
This study reports the first measurement of the azimuthal decorrelation
between jets with pseudorapidity separation up to five units. The data were
accumulated using the D{\O}detector during the 1992--1993 collider run of the
Fermilab Tevatron at 1.8 TeV. These results are compared to
next--to--leading order (NLO) QCD predictions and to two leading--log
approximations (LLA) where the leading--log terms are resummed to all orders in
. The final state jets as predicted by NLO QCD
show less azimuthal decorrelation than the data. The parton showering LLA Monte
Carlo {\small HERWIG} describes the data well; an analytical LLA prediction
based on BFKL resummation shows more decorrelation than the data.Comment: 6 pages with 4 figures, all uuencoded and gzippe
Search for Production via Trilepton Final States in collisions at TeV
We have searched for associated production of the lightest chargino,
, and next-to-lightest neutralino, , of the
Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model in collisions at
\mbox{ = 1.8 TeV} using the \D0 detector at the Fermilab Tevatron
collider. Data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 12.5 \ipb
were examined for events containing three isolated leptons. No evidence for
pair production was found. Limits on
BrBr are
presented.Comment: 17 pages (13 + 1 page table + 3 pages figures). 3 PostScript figures
will follow in a UUEncoded, gzip'd, tar file. Text in LaTex format. Submitted
to Physical Review Letters. Replace comments - Had to resumbmit version with
EPSF directive
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