Dark matter signals in deflected mirage mediation

We investigate the parameter space of a specific class of model within the deflected mirage mediation (DMM) scenario. We look at neutralino properties and compute the thermal relic density as well as interaction rates with xenon direct detection experiments. We find that there are portions of the parameter space which are in line with the current WMAP constraints. Further we find that none of the investigated parameter space is in conflict with current bounds from the Xenon10 experiment and that future large-scale liquid xenon experiments will probe a large portion of the model space.Comment: 4 pages, contribution to proceedings for SUSY0

‘You don’t need influence … all you need is your first opportunity!’: The Early Broadcast Talent Show and the BBC

Popular histories of the reality talent show often position programmes like Opportunity Knocks as key generic precursors to the popular formats of today. But the visibility of such shows in such popular histories - and in popular memory - disguises the fact that the genre has been almost totally neglected in both television historiography and celebrity studies. In drawing upon archival documentation, this article looks at early examples of the broadcast talent show in Britain, with a particular focus on radio’s Opportunity Knocks, and examines the institutional and cultural discourses which surrounded them

English in the high school curriculum.

Thesis (M.A.)--Boston University Includes bibliography

‘That perfect girl is gone’:Pro-ana, Anorexia and Frozen (2013) as an ‘Eating Disorder’ Film

The study of pro-anorexia (pro-ana) sites occupies a significant place in critical feminist work on eating disorders. But pro-ana sites have been studied as particular subcultural spaces which function to produce communities, identity positions and modes of subversive/ conformist femininities. Although anorexia might often be experienced as all-encompassing, people who are anorexic/ pro-anorexic don’t just ‘do’ anorexia. They also participate in everyday activities like engaging with media and as with ‘normal’ audiences, such encounters provide important resources for identity construction. In drawing on the feminist bid to challenge the conception of anorexic voices as pathological and ‘sick’, existing only ‘outside of the true’ (Saukko 2008, 77), this article explores a sample of pro-ana responses to Frozen, undertaking an analysis of the ways in which Frozen has been understood as an ‘eating disorder’ film and used in relation to pro-anorexic/ anorexic identities

J.R.R. Tolkien: Romanticist and Poet (2017) by Julian Eilmann

Book review , by John R. Holmes, of J.R.R. Tolkien: Romanticist and Poet (2017) by Julian Eilman

Ruler for making navigational computations

An extensive ruler used as a computer in navigation to calculate travel time between map points or to calculate ground speed is described. The ruler has a time scale that can be adjusted at length to equal map distances travelled at a designated speed in a time period such as sixty minutes. A means for fixing the length of the ruler is also provided