Partition complexes, duality and integral tree representations

We show that the poset of non-trivial partitions of 1,2,...,n has a fundamental homology class with coefficients in a Lie superalgebra. Homological duality then rapidly yields a range of known results concerning the integral representations of the symmetric groups S_n and S_{n+1} on the homology and cohomology of this partially-ordered set.Comment: Published by Algebraic and Geometric Topology at http://www.maths.warwick.ac.uk/agt/AGTVol4/agt-4-41.abs.htm

A UE Campaign Against Disinvestment

[Excerpt] The UE International had previously emphasized to the local the need to launch a campaign to avert any type of plant closing. Local research did not paint a pretty picture of Stewart-Warner\u27s future in Chicago. Many of the early warning earmarks of a possible plant closure were evident. While the outside walls of the main plant were repainted quite frequently, inside examination told another story. No amount of paint could replace the out-of-date equipment, freight elevators that didn\u27t operate, and employees using their own ingenious and primitive methods to produce for the company

Stable and Unstable Operations in mod p Cohomology Theories

We consider operations between two multiplicative, complex orientable cohomology theories. Under suitable hypotheses, we construct a map from unstable to stable operations, left-inverse to the usual map from stable to unstable operations. In the main example, where the target theory is one of the Morava K-theories, this provides a simple and explicit description of a splitting arising from the Bousfield-Kuhn functorComment: 28 pages; corrected proof of proposition 3.2, other minor improvement

Knowledge is power? : the role of experiential knowledge in genetically 'risky' reproductive decisions

Knowledge of the condition being tested for is increasingly acknowledged as an important factor in prenatal testing and screening decisions. An analysis of the way in which family members living with an inheritable condition use and value this knowledge has much to add to debates around whether and how this type of knowledge could be made available to prospective parents facing screening decisions. This paper reports on in-depth interviews with sixty-one people (conducted 2007-9), with a genetic condition in their family, Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA). Many participants described their intimate familial knowledge of SMA as offering them valuable insights with which they could imagine future lives. Other participants, however, found themselves trapped between their experiential knowledge of SMA and their (often) competing responsibility to maintain the wellbeing of their family. Still others established a ‘hierarchy’ of knowledge to rank the authenticity of different family member’s accounts of SMA in order to discredit, or justify, their decisions. This paper highlights the way in which experiential knowledge of the condition being tested for cannot be unproblematically assumed to be a useful resource in the context of prenatal testing and screening decisions, and may actually constrain reproductive decisions

Experiential knowledge of disability, impairment and illness : the reproductive decisions of families genetically at risk

As the capacities of Reproductive Genetic Technologies expand, would-be parents face an increasing number of reproductive decisions regarding testing and screening for different conditions. Several studies have acknowledged the role that ‘experiential knowledge of disability’ plays in arriving at decisions around the use of these technologies; however, there is a lack of clarity within this literature as to what constitutes ‘experiential knowledge of disability’ and an over-reliance on medical diagnoses as a shorthand to describe different types of experience. Drawing on both social model of disability theory and the literature on chronic illness, this article presents an analysis of data from an in-depth qualitative interview study with 64 people with an inheritable condition in their family, Spinal Muscular Atrophy, and reports their views around reproduction and Reproductive Genetic Technologies. An experiential typology is presented which demonstrates the way in which experiences of ‘disability’, ‘embodied experiences of impairment’ or ‘embodied experiences of illness, death and bereavement’ are strategically privileged in accounts of reproductive decisions, in order to validate reproductive decisions taken, and, specifically, justify use (or non-use) of Reproductive Genetic Technologies. By highlighting the experiential categories within which participants embedded their reproductive decisions, this article draws attention to the porous and collapsible nature of diagnostic categories in the context of reproductive decision-making and genetic risk, and suggests new ways of researching ‘experiential knowledge of disability’ within these contexts which are able to account for the various contours of the embodied lived reality of life with ‘disability’

Journal of Oliver Boardman of Middletown: 1777 Burgoyne\u27s Surrender

Covers the period from September 2, 1777 to the surrender of the British army under General John Burgoyne at Saratoga on October 19, 1777. It includes the terms of surrender