Dynamics from elastic neutron-scattering via direct measurement of the running time-integral of the van Hove distribution function

We present a new neutron-scattering approach to access the van Hove distribution function directly in the time domain, I(t), which reflects the system dynamics. Currently, I(t) is essentially determined from neutron energy-exchange. Our method consists of the straightforward measurement of the running time-integral of I(t), by computing the portion of scattered neutrons corresponding to species at rest within a time t, (conceptually elastic scattering). Previous attempts failed to recognise this connection. Starting from a theoretical standpoint, a practical realisation is assessed via numerical methods and an instrument simulation.Comment: 11 pages, 5 figures, new results, supplementary material (14 pages, 5 figures, 21 main equations, new results

The “Biographical Narrative in Film and Television” Postgraduate Seminar Series, University of Southampton, May and June 2010

This seminar series considered the screen genre commonly known as the “biopic”, which at its most basic level can be defined as a film or television programme with a narrative that focuses on the life of a historical person or persons. Its intention was to provoke discussion within this largely neglected area of academic film and television studies which, despite its status as one of the most commercially and critically successful film and television forms of the twenty-first century, the biopic, and its recent resurgence, has received relatively little scholarly attention. Carolyn Anderson and John Lupo, in the introduction to the Journal of Popular Film and Television’s special issue on biopics, describe the form as an “overlooked, underappreciated genre whose ... manifestations deserve new and rigorous scrutiny” (Anderson and Lupo 51). The “Biographical Narratives Postgraduate Seminar Series” aimed to address this call for a reconsideration of the biopic, inviting postgraduate students from across the UK and Ireland to present short papers on this theme and engage in a discussion of the genre with a focus primarily on contemporary manifestations of this form

Agglomeration or aggregation? Assessing the success of networking strategies within the cultural industries sector

This thesis investigates the development of territorially defined networks of innovative small and medium sized enterprises within the cultural industry sector (CIS). It considers whether these networks provide the basis for enhanced local economic competitiveness, whether they improve the innovative capacity of a locality and whether they stimulate local job creation. Promoted by the local authority under the assumption that a dense clustering of cultural industries are linked together through complex networking patterns, this thesis examines the locational and organisational characteristics of Sheffield's CIS. Theoretically this investigation is set within the context of three inter-related academic debates, drawn upon either implicitly or explicitly within Sheffield's cultural industry policy. Firstly, neo-Schumpeterian theorists propose that driving economic growth are those industries that are the most innovative in their technological and organisational dimensions. Secondly, the notion of flexible specialisation is deployed to illustrate how small firms frequently offer the most adaptable responses to specialised patterns of production and consumption. Thirdly, the concept of new industrial districts is evoked to characterise how innovative and flexible enterprises frequently aggregate in distinct spatial clusters (Piore and Sabel, 1984). Proponents of the new industrial district thesis proclaim that sustaining such industrial clusters is a set of complex organisational networks between inter-related firms. Firms utilise their close spatial proximity to one another to reduce transaction costs, to exchange information and to share common support structures. This thesis analyses whether strategic interventions in Sheffield's CIS have been correct to draw upon the theoretically grounded assumption that the creation of a cluster of associated industries will lead to inter-firm networking. It asks whether the networking hypothesis actually applies to the cultural industries or whether the attraction of cultural industries has merely produced an aggregation of relatively unconnected businesses, or businesses that are connected to quite different networks. While the former outcome suggests that networking strategies offer a realistic approach of encouraging local economic development, the latter outcome suggests that business activity in the cultural industries is more of a chaotic concept than proponents of networked production have proposed. I conclude that although networking patterns in Sheffield's CIS are pronounced these networks operate only at the lower level of the industrial system and are rarely used to enhance the innovative capacity of individual firms

Balancing: Between Perfect Order and Chaos (A Reflection Provoked by the Reading of Mrozek’s \u3cem\u3eTango)\u3c/em\u3e

Even though assimilation is a characteristic feature of life, the life we live in community ought not to be evaluated primarily by the criterion of how much it can assimilate. Assimilation is not an end in itself, but is a process whereby a living thing incorporates nutrients into its own organic integrity. Incorporation of healthy nutrients leads to a flourishing that is proper to a particular kind of living thing. A carrot will assimilate minerals that will enable it to become a flourishing carrot. A community, a most complex form of life, also needs its nutrients; and its nutrients are primarily meanings. A meaning is the way a thing stands out in the world and exerts its relationships to other things. A thing\u27s meaning is found by giving attention to the status of that thing in the world. To say what something means, we have to give attention to the way it stands out in its environment in relation to those other things that surround it. Meaning, understood in this light, is not dissociated from truth. To say what a thing means is equivalent to declaring the most significant truths about it

The 1978 Constitution of the People\u27s Republic of China

The authors analyze the latest Constitution of the People\u27s Republic of China placing considerable emphasis on the shifts in economic and social policy wrought by recent changes in the political theater of the People\u27s Republic of China. This most recent version is compared to and contrasted with the preceeding Constitutions of 1975 and 1954