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Accounting for human rights : doxic health and safety practices - the accounting lessons from ICL
This paper is concerned with a specific human right - the right to work in a safe environment. It sets out a case for developing a new form of account of health and safety in any organisational setting. It draws upon the theoretical insights of Pierre Bourdieu taking inspiration from his assertion that in order to understand the 'logic' of the worlds we live in we need to immerse ourselves into the particularity of an empirical reality. In this case the paper, analyses a preventable industrial disaster which occurred in Glasgow, Scotland which killed nine people and injured 33 others. From this special case of what is possible, the paper unearths the underlying structures of symbolic violence of the UK State, the Health and Safety Executive and capital with respect to health and safety at work. While dealing with one specific country (Scotland), the analysis can be used to question health and safety regimes and other forms of symbolic violence across the globe
New VLBA Identifications of Compact Symmetric Objects
The class of radio sources known as Compact Symmetric Objects (CSOs) is of
particular interest in the study of the evolution of radio galaxies. CSOs are
thought to be young (probably ~10^4 years), and a very high fraction of them
exhibit HI absorption toward the central parsecs. The HI, which is thought to
be part of a circumnuclear torus of accreting gas, can be observed using the
VLBA with high enough angular resolution to map the velocity field of the gas.
This velocity field provides new information on the accretion process in the
central engines of these young sources.
We have identified 9 new CSOs from radio continuum observations for the VLBA
Calibrator Survey, increasing the number of known CSOs by almost 50%.Comment: 5 pages, 2 figures, for "Lifecycles of Radio Galaxies", eds. J.
Biretta et al., New Astronomy Review
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Les fourmis (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) de lâenclos dâacclimatation de KatanĂ© de la rĂ©serve de faune du Ferlo nord (SĂ©nĂ©gal)
Les fourmis (Hymenoptera, Formicidae), de par leur biomasse, et leur diversitĂ© spĂ©cifique, jouent un rĂŽle fondamental dans les Ă©cosystĂšmes terrestres tropicaux. NĂ©anmoins, elles sont trĂšs peu Ă©tudiĂ©es et mal connues au SĂ©nĂ©gal. Pour contribuer Ă combler cette lacune nous avons Ă©tudiĂ© le peuplement des fourmis de lâenclos dâacclimatation de KatanĂ©, un site se trouvant dans la RĂ©serve de Faune du Ferlo Nord en zone de savane sahĂ©lienne (rĂ©gion de Matam, SĂ©nĂ©gal). Les fourmis ont Ă©tĂ© Ă©chantillonnĂ©es Ă lâaide de piĂšges Ă fosse et par la chasse Ă vue. La richesse spĂ©cifique (S) est de 21 espĂšces. Les espĂšces les plus remarquables par leur abondance et leur distribution sont Crematogaster senegalensis, Monomorium areniphilum, Trichomyrmex abyssinicus, Monomorium bicolor, Pheidole andrieui, Brachyponera sennaarensis, Tetramorium angulinode papyri et Tetramorium sericeiventre. Elles appartiennent toutes Ă la sous-famille des Myrmicinae sauf B. sennaarensis qui est de la sous-famille des Ponerinae. Lâindice de fourragement (9,79), lâindice de Shannon (0,95), lâindice dâĂ©quitabilitĂ© de PiĂ©lou (0,77), lâindice de Simpson (0,14) et lâindice de diversitĂ© de Simpson (0,86) peuvent ĂȘtre utilisĂ©s comme rĂ©fĂ©rentiels pour le suivi de lâĂ©volution des habitats de lâenclos et pour les Ă©tudes de lâĂ©tat de dĂ©gradation des habitats dans le Ferlo en gĂ©nĂ©ral.© 2016 International Formulae Group. All rights reserved.Mots clĂ©s: Fourmis, Ă©cosystĂšmes, diversitĂ©, abondance, Ferlo nord, SĂ©nĂ©galEnglish Title: Ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of the acclimatization enclosure of Katane in the north Ferlo wildlife reserve (Senegal)English AbstractAnts (Hymenoptera, Formicidae), by their biomass and species diversity, play a fundamental role in the terrestrial ecosystems of the tropical area. Nevertheless, they are very little studied and poorly known in Senegal. To fill this gap we have chosen to study them in the acclimatization enclosure of Katane in the north Ferlo Reserve Wildlife situated in the Sahel savanna in Matam region (Senegal). They were sampled using pitfall traps and hand collecting. Species richness (S) is 21 species. The most remarkable for their abundances and distributions are Crematogaster senegalensis, Monomorium areniphilum, Trichomyrmex abyssinicus, Monomorium bicolor, Pheidole andrieui, Brachyponera sennaarensis, Tetramorium angulinode papyri and Tetramorium sericeiventre. They all belong to the subfamily Myrmicinae except B. sennaarensis which belongs to the subfamily Ponerinae. The foraging index (9.79), the Shannon index (0.95), the index of Pielou equitability (0.77), the Simpson index (0.14) and the Simpson's index diversity (0.86) can be used as reference for monitoring the biotopes evolution in the enclosure of KatanĂ© and for the studies of land degradation in the Ferlo in general.© 2016 International Formulae Group. All rights reserved.Keywords: Ants, ecosystems, diversity, abundance, northern Ferlo, Senega
Disks, Tori, and Cocoons: Emission and Absorption Diagnostics of AGN Environments
One of the most important problems in the study of active galaxies is
understanding the detailed geometry, physics, and evolution of the central
engines and their environments. The leading models involve an accretion disk
and torus structure around a central dense object, thought to be a supermassive
black hole. Gas found in the environment of AGN is associated with different
structures: molecular accretion disks, larger scale atomic tori, ionized and
neutral "cocoons" in which the nuclear regions can be embedded. All of them can
be studied at radio wavelengths by various means. Here, we summarize the work
that has been done to date in the radio band to characterize these structures.
Much has been learned about the central few parsecs of AGN in the last few
decades with contemporary instruments but the picture remains incomplete. In
order to be able to define a more accurate model of this region, significant
advances in sensitivity, spectral and angular resolution, and bandpass
stability are required. The necessary advances will only be provided by the
Square Kilometer Array and we discuss the possibilities that these dramatic
improvements will open for the study of the gas in the central region of AGN.Comment: To appear in "Science with the Square Kilometer Array," eds. C.
Carilli and S. Rawlings, New Astronomy Reviews (Elsevier: Amsterdam); 17
pages, 7 figures (four of them in separate gif/tif files) The full paper with
high resolution images can be downloaded from
http://www.astron.nl/~morganti/Papers/AGNenvironment.ps.g
Law, politics and the governance of English and Scottish joint-stock companies 1600-1850
This article examines the impact of law on corporate governance by means of a case study of joint-stock enterprise in England and Scotland before 1850. Based on a dataset of over 450 company constitutions together with qualitative information on governance practice, it finds little evidence to support the hypothesis that common-law regimes such as England were more supportive of economic growth than civil-law jurisdictions such as Scotland: indeed, levels of shareholder protection were slightly stronger in the civil-law zone. Other factors, such as local political institutions, played a bigger role in shaping organisational forms and business practice
Fermionic Ghosts in Moyal String Field Theory
We complete the construction of the Moyal star formulation of bosonic open
string field theory (MSFT) by providing a detailed study of the fermionic ghost
sector. In particular, as in the case of the matter sector, (1) we construct a
map from Witten's star product to the Moyal product, (2) we propose a
regularization scheme which is consistent with the matter sector and (3) as a
check of the formalism, we derive the ghost Neumann coefficients algebraically
directly from the Moyal product. The latter satisfy the Gross-Jevicki nonlinear
relations even in the presence of the regulator, and when the regulator is
removed they coincide numerically with the expression derived from conformal
field theory. After this basic construction, we derive a regularized action of
string field theory in the Siegel gauge and define the Feynman rules. We give
explicitly the analytic expression of the off-shell four point function for
tachyons, including the ghost contribution. Some of the results in this paper
have already been used in our previous publications. This paper provides the
technical details of the computations which were omitted there.Comment: 65 pages, typos correcte
Dietary low-phytate mutant-M 955 barley grain alters phytate degradation and mineral digestion in sheep fed high-grain diets
Greater production demands for ruminants require increased dietary inclusion of high-energy feeds. Grains and oil seeds are most commonly used to enhance diet energy density. However, use of such feeds proportionally increases the amount of dietary phytate phosphorus (P), which the ruminant may not be able to fully utilise. Our objectives for this study were to determine the extent of phytate degradation and mineral digestion in wethers fed high-grain diets consisting of either a non-mutant or low-phytate mutant barley grain. In two separate experiments, mature Columbia wethers (n = 7) fitted with rumen and duodenal cannulas and Columbia Ă Polypay wether lambs (n = 8) were individually fed one of two finishing diets formulated with either non-mutant Harrington (HARR) variety or low-phytate mutant-M 955 (M955) barley grains. Total-P intake was similar (P=0.46â0.70) between the M955 and HARR treatments for mature (5756 and 5550 mg/day, respectively) and lamb (5207 and 4894 mg/day, respectively) wethers. Dietary water-soluble P was 3.6 times greater in M955 versus HARR diets and phytate P was 11 times greater in HARR versus M955 treatment diets. Apparent total-P digestion was similar between M955 and HARR treatments (P=0.52â0.69). More monoester P was identified in the duodenal chyme of mature wethers fed HARR treatment diet, presumably due to incomplete hydrolysis of phytate P in the rumen. Feeding M955, compared to HARR, treatment diet resulted in greater (P<0.05) apparent partial-tract digestion of calcium (Ca) and total-tract digestion of iron (Fe), magnesium (Mg), and zinc in mature wethers and apparent total-tract digestion of Mg and Fe and retention of Ca, Fe, and Mg in wether lambs. These results indicate that phytate in diets formulated with Harrington variety barley grain may not be fully digested in the rumen. Subsequent passage of partially digested phytate from the rumen may interfere with mineral digestion in wethers fed high-grain diets
Bosonic D-brane Effective Action in Linear Dilaton Background
In this paper we will study tachyon effective action for Dp-brane in bosonic
string theory in the linear dilaton background. We obtain the tachyon effective
Lagrangian from boundary state coeficient of Dp-brane in the linear dilaton
background and compare it with tachyon effective Lagrangians that were proposed
in previous papers.Comment: 16 pages, Typos correcte
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