Safe spaces for dykes in danger? Refugee law's production of the vulnerable lesbian subject

Book synopsis: The question of how to conceptualize the relationships between governments and the everyday lives of women has long been the focus of attention among feminists. Feminist scholarship critiques women?s lives, experiences and gender inequality in a variety of contexts. In this age of increased internationalism, we are witness to government actor?s attempts to use women?s alleged `vulnerability? to justify its humanitarian interventions. Regulating the International Movement of Women interrogates western government?s uses of discourses of human vulnerability as a tool to regulate non-western women?s migration. In this collection of provocatively argued essays, the contributors wish to reclaim the concept of racialised and gendered vulnerability, from its under theorized, and thus, ambiguous location in feminist?s theory, in a variety of methodological and geographical contexts. The book addresses the human geographer, the socio-legal and critical scholar, the sociologist, the cultural, postcolonial and political theorists and practitioners. This unique text will be of value to academics, postgraduate and research students of any of the above disciplines, as well as practitioners interested in theoretical and empirical discussions of the state, normativity and the regulation of women `s cross-border mobility

Bringing the outside(r) in: Law’s appropriation of subversive identities

This article explores some of the ways in which law appropriates subversive identities. Drawing on work from geographical, feminist and critical race approaches to property, I put forward an understanding of property as a relation of belonging ‘held up’ by space. Building on this understanding, I argue that identity can operate as property in the same way that land and material objects can, and that law appropriates subversive identities by bringing them into its hegemonic space of recognition and regulation. Law’s appropriations have a range of effects on both the individual subjects directly involved in legal proceedings and the broader spaces in and through which those subjects forge their identities. Specifically this article explores the appropriation of gay and lesbian identities in the context of immigration law, and of aboriginal identities in the context of Australia’s Northern Territory National Emergency Response Act 2007 (Cth) (NTNERA)

‘Identity Politics’ and property in the Trump/Brexit era

This comment piece in the Feminist Perspectives on Brexit series argues that the Trump and Brexit campaigns need to be understood by reference to the interconnections between identity - specifically white identity - and property in the national spaces of the US and the UK. It was originally given as a paper to the Feminists @ Law: Revisiting Identity Symposium, UTS, Sydney, 2-3 November 2017

Length, Weight, and Yield in Channel Catfish, Lake Diane, MI

Background: Channel catfish (Ictalurus punctatus) are important to both commercial aquaculture and recreational fisheries. Little published data is available on length-weight relationships of channel catfish in Michigan. Though there is no record of public or private stocking, channel catfish appeared in Lake Diane between 1984 and 1995 and it has developed into an excellent fishery. 
Materials and Methods: Sport angling provided 38 samples which were weighed and measured (fork length). Fillets were also weighed. The best fit estimates of parameters a and b in the model, W(L) = aLb, were obtained by both linear least-squares (LLS) regression (log(W) = log(a) + b log(L)) and non-linear least-squares (NLLS) regression. Best-fit parameters of an improved model, W(L) = (L/L1)^b, were also determined by NLLS regression; the parameter L1 is the typical length of a fish weighing 1 kg. The resulting best-fit parameters, parameter standard errors, and covariances are compared between the two models. The average relative weight for this sample of channel catfish is also determined, along with the typical meat yield obtained by filleting. 
Results: NLLS regression yields parameter estimates of b = 3.2293 and a = 0.00522. The improved model yields the same estimate for the exponent, b, and a length estimate (parameter L1) of 45.23 cm. Estimates of uncertainty and covariance are smaller for the improved model, but the correlation coefficient is r = 0.995 in both cases. LLS regression produced different parameter values, a = 0.01356 and b = 2.9726, and a smaller correlation coefficient, r = 0.980. On average, catfish in the sample weighed 106.0% of the standard weight, (Brown et al.) and the linear regression (no slope) of fillet yield vs. total weight suggests a typical fillet yield of 28.1% with r = 0.989.
Conclusion: Most of the fish in the sample were above the standard weight, heavier than the 75th percentile for their length. Channel catfish are doing well in Lake Diane and the population is well matched to the food supply. Management should attempt to maintain current population levels. In this case, the improved length-weight model, W(L) = (L/L1)^b, provided lower uncertainties in parameter estimates and smaller covariance than the traditional model.
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Gastrointestinal microbial diversity and diagenetic alteration of bone from the American alligator (\u3ci\u3eAlligator mississippiensis\u3c/i\u3e)

One of the most challenging questions in paleobiology is how bone transforms from a living tissue into a fossil. In life, the gastrointestinal tract microbiome of an animal promotes host health. But, in death, these microbial communities, as well as soil communities, begin to degrade tissue, including bones. Using the American alligator from coastal wetland habitats as a model system, the gastrointestinal tract microbiome was found to contain microbial communities consisting of Fusobacteria, Proteobacteria, Bacteroidetes, and Firmicutes, with variations based on tissue type along the length of the digestive tract. The overall dominance of Fusobacteria is distinct from any other tetrapod studied to date and is suggestive of a retained ancestral condition that may be controlled by conservative host morphology, behavior, and niche occupation. Alligators are crown archosaurs that have occupied similar wetland habitats since their divergence in the Late Triassic, with an accompanying crocodylian fossil record that is replete with bones preserved in wetland environments. Following alligator death, structural and chemical changes to alligator bone, including transformations into more thermodynamically stable mineral phases, occur within days to weeks when bone is exposed to indigenous soil and water microbial communities, as well as from abiotic processes controlled by habitat geochemistry. Direct exposure to indigenous microbial communities slows alteration, which may be critical for stability of bone over geologic time. Despite different compositional chemistries, experimentally treated and fossil bones of varying ages converge on a common mineral lattice arrangement at the atomic-level that may facilitate bone preservation