6 research outputs found
Relativistic Description of Exclusive Deuteron Breakup Reactions
The exclusive deuteron break-up reaction is analyzed within a covariant
approach based on the Bethe-Salpeter equation with realistic meson-exchange
interaction. Relativistic effects in the cross section, tensor analyzing power
and polarization transfer are investigated in explicit form. Results of
numerical calculations are presented for kinematical conditions in forthcoming
p + D reactions at COSY.Comment: 10 LaTeX pages, 4 eps-figure
Requests and counters in Russian traffic police officer-citizen encounters: face and identity implications
This paper analyses video recorded interactions between police officers and drivers in traffic stops in Russia. The interactions were recorded via cameras installed on the drivers’ car dashboards, and subsequently uploaded to YouTube; a practice to which over one million Russian motorists have resorted to counterbalance perceived high levels of bribery and corruption (Griaznova 2007). The analysis focuses on responses to opening requests for identification in five different encounters. These show that the drivers repeatedly engage in potentially interpersonally sensitive activities in which the vulnerability of face, especially that of the police officer, is interactionally manifested by launching counter requests in return. The organisation of the request - counter request sequences highlights how face and identity related concerns are interwoven in the participants’ attempts to contest each other’s authority