Distinct Place Research Articles

Light dark sectors through the Fermion portal

Pairs of Standard Model fermions form dimension-3 singlet operators that can couple to new dark sector states. This “fermion portal” is to be contrasted with the lower-dimensional Higgs, vector and neutrino singlet portals. We characterise its distinct phenomenology and place effective field theory bounds on this framework, focusing on the case of fermion portals to a pair of light dark sector fermions. We obtain current and projected limits on the dimension-6 effective operator scale from a variety of meson decay experiments, missing energy and long-lived particle searches at colliders, as well as astrophysical and cosmological bounds. The DarkEFT public code is made available for recasting these limits, which we illustrate with various examples including an integrated- out heavy dark photon.

Further results regarding super edge-magic graphs and solution to an open problem

Graph labeling admits a distinct place in Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics. In 1998, Hikoe Enomoto et al. brought out the idea of super edge-magic (SEMC) labelling of graphs. In this article, we shall provide a complete solution to an open problem, regarding double stars St, t , proposed by W. D. Wallis & A. M. Marr [9], by exhibiting a super edge-magic labeling of St, t , for all possible values of t and t. We will also provide a SEMC labelling of union of cycles Cr being disjoint and various trees and exhibit super edge-magicness of some cases of Usmanian Ladders and planar graphs involving chains of C 5.

The Proposed EU-UK Partnership Agreement as a Canada Style Agreement

This paper looks into the question of differentiation in EU foreign policy. Does the Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA) reached between the EU and the UK in December 2020 fall within a familiar differentiation track? In particular, is it a ‘Canada style’ agreement rather than, say, a ‘Norway style’ agreement? To what extent is it an attempt by the EU to nudge the UK into conformity with EU regulation? Does the agreement show that ‘geography matters’? We shall see that it is most of all a new generation deep trade agreement, like the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) between the EU and Canada. In a typology of international agreements, deep trade agreements have their distinct place. Their features allow parties to build a meaningful partnership while keeping a fair amount of control. This paper points to parallels between the EU-UK TCA and such an agreement. It gives the UK the opportunity to ‘take back control’, leaving it much more freedom than under a Norway style agreement. Its main feature is ‘freedom to legislate’, subject to the maintenance of a level playing field, and human rights protection. At no instance, there is a hard obligation for the UK to accept stricter environmental or sanitary standards on its territory than hitherto (the unique alignment of Northern Ireland having been laid down earlier in the 2019 Withdrawal Agreement). Importantly, the sophisticated dispute settlement provisions of the TCA have a unique feature, namely, that of facilitating divergence between the EU and the UK. The TCA allows the parties to inflict tariffs or to suspend (parts of) the agreement only under specific circumstances. Arguably, these circumstances are uniquely applicable to the TCA.

Hydrogen extraction from a new integrated trigeneration system working with zeotropic mixture, using waste heat of a marine diesel engine

Hydrogen can be used for various applications in ships, but two distinctive places are the combustion processes of the marine diesel engine (MDE) or aircrafts fuelled by aircraft carriers (especially, for long-range transportations applications). For this aim, an integrated trigeneration system working with waste heat of the MDE for mainly hydrogen extraction is proposed here. In addition to hydrogen, the devised trigeneration system can produce surplus electricity and cooling at two different temperature levels. Different zeotropic mixtures are used as working fluid and their performance metrics were compared with each other. It is worthy to say that the simulated basic cooling/electricity system is new and is accounted for as another novelty of the present work. A comprehensive modeling of the proposed trigeneration system is achieved from thermodynamics laws viewpoint and results are elaborated in detail. Based upon the results, the maximum refrigeration load and trigeneration energy efficiency are calculated 166.36 kW and 42.46%, respectively, when R142b/Pentane (0.51/0.49) was used. However, to achieve lower overall exergy destruction, Butene/Isopentane (0.35/0.65) was recommended. Also, the highest trigeneration exergy efficiency is associated with Butene/Isopentane (0.35/0.65) by 18.71%, followed by Isobutene/Isopentane (0.34/0.66) by 18.53%. It is found that the auxiliary vapor generator has the highest exergy destruction by 61.5 kW, followed by ejector by 19.5 kW. At last, an intensive parametric study is also presented to propose some solution for performance enhancement of the system based on the thermodynamics parameters.

Exploring the front fricative contrast in Greek: A study of acoustic variability based on cepstral coefficients

In the current study, we explore the factors underlying the well-known difficulty in acoustic classification of front nonsibilant fricatives (Maniwa, Jongman & Wade 2009, McMurray & Jongman 2011) by applying a novel classification method to the production of Greek speakers. The Greek fricative inventory [f v θ ð s z ç ʝ x ɣ] includes voiced and voiceless segments from five distinct places of articulation. Our corpus contains all of the Greek fricatives produced by 29 monolingual speakers, but our focus is on the distinction between the front nonsibilant fricatives [f v θ ð]. For comparison, we also discuss the other places of articulation where relevant. We apply a relatively novel classification method based on cepstral coefficients, previously successful in categorizing English obstruent bursts (Bunnell, Polikoff & McNicholas 2004), English vowels (Ferragne & Pellegrino 2010), Romanian fricatives (Spinu & Lilley 2016), and Russian fricatives (Spinu, Kochetov & Lilley 2018). For this study, fricative boundaries were automatically aligned using Hidden Markov Models (HMMs) and then manually checked. Six Bark-frequency cepstral coefficients (c0–c5) were extracted from 20-millisecond Hann windows. HMMs were used to divide the fricatives and adjacent vowels into three regions of internally minimized variance. A multinomial logistic regression analysis then used the mean cepstral coefficients from each region as predictors for classification by consonant identity. Our method yields highly successful classification rates, exceeding the performance of previous methods. We discuss these results in light of the differences of the phonemic distributions of fricatives between English and Greek.

Views of an Iberian identity in the post-war world: Cultural heritage and politics as seen by Portuguese artists

Portugal and Spain never shared such a distinctive place in recent European history than in the post-war period. Despite the end of the Second World War and the Nazi-fascist defeat, the Iberian dictators, Salazar in Portugal and Franco in Spain, managed to retain their power. This article analyses the creative and theoretical responses of Portuguese artists to the political situation in the Iberian Peninsula taking into particular consideration their approaches to an Iberian identity. It argues that Paula Rego, Barto dos Santos and Ana Hatherly carried out a reinterpretation of cultural and artistic heritage, iconographic memories and historical narratives and, as a result, formulated alternative views of the past and the present that opposed the Iberian dictatorships’ discourses of a glorious, imperialistic legacy that legitimated their ruling. By proposing to look at the references to Spain in Portuguese artists’ work, this article evidences how Portuguese artists sympathized with the political troubles also endured by the Spanish people and singles out a perception of shared cultural traditions between Spain and Portugal. Finally, this article also emphasizes experimental practices and a deliberate eclectic appropriation and reconfiguration of contemporary or historical references that ultimately shaped attitudes of political resistance.

On the Bonding and Electrochemical Performance of Sputter Deposited WO3 Thin Films

Tungsten oxide (WO3) thin films have attained a distinct and special place in the field of electrochromism. Therefore, any sort of study towards this material will invariably has lot of importance and technological significance. The films of WO3 were deposited by reactive magnetron sputtering at various partial pressures and annealed at 475°C. There is a tremendous change in the bonding characteristics, which eventually shows significant change in the optical and electrochemical behavior. The bandgap of WO3 films is found to be increasing with different oxygen partial pressure. A systematic study of cyclic voltammetry has been done to analyze the electrochemical behavior of WO3 films. Oxidation and reduction peak currents have shown an increasing trend with the oxygen partial pressure. Raman spectroscopy has revealed the improvement in the atomic ordering in WO3 films.

Public Health Is Essential: COVID-19's Learnable Moment for Medical Education.

The COVID-19 pandemic, an unprecedented challenge for this generation of physicians and for the health care system, has reawakened calls to strengthen the United States’ public health systems. This global event is also a “learnable moment” for medical education—an opportunity to decisively incorporate public health, including public health systems, through the continuum of medical education. Although medical educators have made progress in integrating public health content into medical curricula, “public health” is not a phrase that is consistently used in curricular standards, and public health colleagues are not identified as unique and essential partners to improve and protect health. The COVID-19 crisis has demonstrated how a strong public health system is necessary to support the health of patients and populations, as well as the practice of medicine. Partnerships between medical and public health communities, through individual- and population-based interventions, can also more effectively combat more common threats to health, such as chronic diseases, health inequities, and substance abuse.To achieve a more effective medicine–public health relationship in practice, curricula across the continuum of medical education must include explanations of public health systems, the responsibilities of physicians to their local and state governmental public health agencies, and opportunities for collaboration. Medical education should also prepare physicians to advocate for public health policies, programs, and funding in order to improve and protect the health of their patients and communities. Pandemic COVID-19 demonstrates with laser focus that all physicians are part of public health systems and that public health content has a distinct and critical place across the continuum of medical education to prepare physicians to participate in, collaborate with, and advocate for public health systems.

Doctors that \u201cdoctor\u201d sickness certificates: cunning intelligence as an ability and possibly a virtue among Swedish GPs

The relations of power between healthcare-related institutions and the professionals that interact with them are changing. Generally, the institutions are gaining the upper hand. Consequently, the intellectual abilities necessary for professionals to pursue the internal goods of healthcare are changing as well. A concrete case is the struggle over sickness benefits in Sweden, in which the Swedish Social Insurance Agency (SSIA) and physicians are important stakeholders. The SSIA has recently consolidated its power over the sickness certificates that doctors issue for their patients. The result has been a stricter gatekeeping of sickness benefits. In order to combat the inroads made by state institutions into sickness certification, and into the sphere of medical practice, some doctors have developed cunning “techniques” to maximize the chance to have their sickness certificates accepted by the SSIA. This article attempts to demonstrate that cunning intelligence—the ability of the weak to “outsmart” a stronger adversary—plays an important role in the practice of medicine. Cunning intelligence is not merely a defective form of prudence (phronesis), nor is it simply an instance of instrumental reason (techne), but rather an ability that occupies a distinct place among the intellectual abilities generally ascribed to professionals.

Future Internet for Service Oriented Applications

As with growing internet, the objects in the system need to implant with the external environment. Every object is resided in distinct place and works in an interoperable way. This process of Smart living which involves various smart devices – Smart phones, Sensors, Actuators, Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags, etc., evolving in this modern era is coined as Future Internet or Internet of Things (IOT). This IOT associated with distinguished services and visions through which it can be identified among various domains. A distributed intelligence needs to be employed to the application specific machine in order to serve the human perception for the sake of smart forensics. This paper explores and interprets the next generation internet, its components, standards and services along with their applications in diversified fields. Authors provide a systematic exploration of existing IoT products in the marketplace and highlights several possibly meaningful research objectives and drifts.

Social norm nudges in shopping trolleys to promote vegetable purchases: A quasi-experimental study in a supermarket in a deprived urban area in the Netherlands

BackgroundSupermarkets are a key point of purchase for groceries and can therefore have a considerable influence on eating behaviours. Evidence suggests that descriptive social norm nudges in shopping trolleys can be effective in stimulating vegetable purchases in supermarkets. ObjectiveWe investigated the effect of a combination of two nudging strategies in shopping trolleys – a social norm about vegetable purchases and a designated place to put vegetables – on the amount of vegetables purchased in a supermarket in a deprived urban area in the Netherlands. DesignA quasi-experimental study was conducted with two conditions: 1) intervention days on which the shopping trolleys in the supermarket had a green nudge inlay indicating a place for vegetables and a social norm message and 2) control days on which the regular shopping trolleys (no inlay or social norm) were used in the supermarket. During both the intervention and control days, vegetable purchases were measured by means of the cash receipts collected from customers at the checkouts. In addition, individual and purchase characteristics were assessed by means of short surveys. ResultsIn total, 244 customers participated in the study. Ordinal logistic regression analyses showed that customers on the intervention days (n = 123) were in a higher tertile for grams of vegetables purchased compared to the customers on the control days (OR: 1.66, 95% CI: 1.03–2.69, p = 0.03), especially those who bought groceries for less than three days (OR: 3.24, 95% CI: 1.43–7.35, p = 0.003). Sensitivity analyses also showed that intervention customers who noticed the green inlay were even more likely to purchase more vegetables (OR: 1.86, 95% CI: 1.06–3.25, p = 0.02). ConclusionsThis quasi-experimental study showed that a nudge inlay in shopping trolleys communicating a social norm on vegetable purchases and indicating a distinct place to put vegetables in the trolley increased vegetable purchases among supermarket customers.

Geopolítica de las tierras raras: un recurso natural estratégico para la seguridad multidimensional del Estado

El grupo de las tierras raras incluye los 15 lantánidos junto con el itrio y el escandio. Aunque no son tan raros, se encuentran en distintos tipos de depósitos y en lugares muy específicos. Por sus excepcionales propiedades magnéticas y conductoras, para las tecnologías y el sector militar son cada vez más importantes. Esto los convierte en un recurso natural estratégico de relevancia geopolítica, que puede afectar la seguridad multidimensional de los Estados. Este artículo analiza, desde la historia del descubrimiento y el uso de estos elementos, cuáles son los factores estratégicos en el proceso de extracción y procesamiento, la posición geopolítica dominante de China en el sector, así como la explotación ilegal en Colombia. Así, este artículo muestra la importancia del tema en los estudios sobre seguridad.

The American Workingmen's Parties, Universal Suffrage, and Marx's Democratic Communism

The American Workingmen's Parties in the 1828–32 period occupy a distinctive place within the history of socialism: they were the first to embrace a strategy of organizing a working-class political party and seizing the democratic state for their collective self-liberation. With universal suffrage, a working-class majority could take political power electorally and expropriate the rich. Karl Marx read about these workers’ parties through works by Thomas Hamilton and Thomas Cooper in the period of his early political development. Like the American workers, he was stringently in favor of robust political rights and conceived of socialism as a democratic mass movement. Unlike the antipolitical socialists predominant in his day, Marx saw the northern United States as uniquely situated for socialism precisely because it had already solved the basic political problem facing Europe: the workers could vote.

IVAN KUKULJEVIĆ SAKCINSKI U SLOVENSKOJ PRIJEVODNOJ KNJIŽEVNOJ KULTURI SREDINOM 19. STOLJEĆA: JURAN I SOFIJA ILI TURCI KOD SISKA I OBLIKOVANJE SLOVENSKOGA NACIONALNOG IDENTITETA

IVAN KUKULJEVIĆ SAKCINSKI IN THE CULTURE OF MIDNINETEENTH-CENTURY SLOVENE LITERARY TRANSLATION: JURAN AND SOFIA, OR THE TURKS AT SISAK AND THE FORMATION OF THE SLOVENE NATIONAL IDENTITY In 1850, Ivan Kukuljević Sakcinski’s Illyrian-Croatian plays Juran i Sofija ili Turci kod Siska (Juran and Sofija, or the Turks at Sisak, 1839) and Stjepko Šubić ili Bela IV. u Horvatskoj (Štepan Šubic, or Bela IV in Croatia, 1841) were published in Slovene translation in the book Dve igri za slovensko glediše (Two Plays for the Slovene Theatre). First, the paper considers the plays in a wider context of contemporary Slovene-language drama of the same period, and then in a somewhat narrower context of dramatic works in the Slovene language in (South) Slavic literature, wherein the discussion takes into account the position of these two plays in the developing system of genres of translated drama, since these two works occupy a distinctive place because they representing model heroic plays. Special emphasis is placed on the first play, which is not only Kukuljević’s most well-known work, but was, generally speaking, better received in the Slovene context. This can be explained in a number of ways: 1) due to to specific socio-political conditions (the translation into Slovene is from the period of Bach’s s absolutism marked by increased German pressure on the Slovene and Croatian territory); 2) due to obvious social relevance of the Turkish topic (in the Battle at Sisak the Slovenes and Croatians behave heroically, independently and cooperatively); and 3) due to the play’s specific features, in particular its dramatic personae, setting, and Slavic character (in the play, Toma Erdödy, Juran and Andrej Turjaški act in accordance with Slavic reciprocity, and the setting of the play is Slavic). These features, in turn, enabled identification with the characters and promoted national emancipation. The genre of the heroic play filled the gap in the Slovene literature, which Fran Levstik anticipated in his 1858 Slovene literary programme, which is also the first Slovene programme of this type. Keywords: translation, adaptation, Slovene-Croatian relations, Turk

Institutions for Collective Gardening: A Comparative Analysis of 51 Urban Community Gardens in Anglophone and German-Speaking Countries

Groups of urban gardeners collectively grow vegetables, fruits and flowers in an increasing number of community gardens all over the world. Despite a growing body of literature on community gardens, there is a particular gap for a transcontinental bigger N-study on the organisation of community gardening, which we want to fill with a comparative document analysis of 51 urban community gardens in six anglophone and German-speaking countries. Specifically, we want to understand how community gardens are organised as spaces for long-term collective action. We systematically collected and analysed documents such as membership rules, handouts to new members, formal statutes, or blog entries. A cluster analysis helped to identify three types of community garden organisations, which vary in terms of organisational form, membership and exclusion rules, individual versus collective cultivation of the garden area, and the degree of regulation, fees, and waiting lists. Our findings show that there is no single blueprint for a long-term community garden organisation, but that self-organisation or nested forms of organisation and more or less open social boundaries result in distinct places of collective gardening. Comparing organisational types across geographical contexts, the European gardens analysed showed bigger organisational diversity, more open social boundaries and more collectively used areas compared to North American gardens.

Experiências de imigrantes africanas na cidade de Fortaleza-CE (2010-2017)

O artigo analisa experiências de vidas de mulheres africanas imigrantes e residentes na cidade de Fortaleza-CE, Brasil, em um contexto de migração transnacional. As mulheres apresentam discursos marcantes com relação à raça, religião, gênero, sexualidade e pertencimento étnico. A partir da observação etnográfica, entrevistas abertas e conversas informais, comparei as experiências migratórias de três mulheres de nacionalidades cabo-verdiana e bissau-guineense, verificando seus distintos lugares enquanto africanas, negras e estrangeiras interseccionando com diversos marcadores sociais. Após o deslocamento de África para o Brasil, as jovens passam a apresentar pertencimentos diferentes daqueles que assumiam nos seus países de origem, ressignificando identificações de raça, orientação sexual, religião e trabalho.

Foregrounding Philippine Englishes in fostering linguistic equality

ABSTRACT This article supports the standpoint of Philippine Englishes (PhEs) and discusses the sociolinguistic hierarchy in the Philippines. Using the lens of unequal Englishes, the article examines the linguistic demarcations in basic education, the domain where PhE started to evolve. It presents glimpses of unequal PhEs through illustrations from a study on how English language teaching is conducted in the context of the Mother Tongue-Based Multilingual Education Policy in six public elementary schools in the Visayas and Mindanao and an analysis of the current K to 12 Curriculum in English. The findings suggest that learners have uneven access to PhEs. Amonolingual paradigm privileging Inner Circle PhEs is reflected in certain teaching practices and some elements of the English program. It is time to give PhEs a distinct place in the cradle and the apex of learning to promote linguistic equality in the country and enjoin all other sectors of society to acknowledge them.

Sensate regimes of war: Smell, tracing and violence

This article explores the fabrication of ‘sensate regimes of war’, concentrating on the typically under-analysed sense of smell. Smell is a sensory mode capable of apprehending potential threat and enmity in ways that are orthogonal to other ways of sensing. Accordingly, the organization and interpretation of olfactory sensation occupies a distinctive place in war. The article details a particular genealogy of martial olfaction, exploring the olfactory capacities of soldiers and their augmentation through various non-human and technological means in specific milieus of combat. It notes how the distinctive affordances of smell have underpinned numerous wartime practices, from tracing improvised explosive devices to militarized manhunting. These developments supplement and trouble ocularcentric accounts of martial sensation and power that concentrate on the increasingly abstracted co-production of vision and violence in wartime. They highlight rather the significance of an alternative ontology of the signature or trace of enmity, and emphasize how in particular warscapes to smell is to kill. The article concludes by arguing that critical inquiry into war would benefit from a broader theorization of all its sensate regimes right across a sensorium that is itself being continuously transformed through war.

Rome in the historical imagination of G. K. Chesterton’s Everlasting Man

Roman civilization is at the heart of G.K. Chesterton’s historical imagination. Nowhere is this more evident than in his 1925 book The Everlasting Man, which challenged a materialist, evolutionary perspective on history and highlighted the distinctive place of the Christian Church in the development of civilization. By distinguishing between the ‘healthy heathenism’ of Rome and the ‘perverse paganism’ of Carthage, Chesterton shows how Rome became the setting for the Christmas story, which fulfills the natural religiosity of mankind and provides a center for the unified human story. Roman civilization as a chrysalis for Christianity is at the heart of Chesterton’s historical imagination.

La cure thermale en dermatologie, mode d’emploi

Thermalism is one of the oldest medical disciplines with a history of thousands of years and whose benefits are well documented. The therapy is based on a program of daily care for a period of three weeks in a thermal station. Hydrotherapy is particularly suitable in dermatology since the thermal water will be in direct contact with the skin lesions. The main indications are eczema, psoriasis, chronic pruritus, and wound healing disorders with new indications emerging, such as for cancer treatment-related side effects and follow-up care after cancer treatment. Thermalism encompasses much more than hydrotherapy, acquiring over the past few years a distinct place in therapeutic education. The therapy, which for a long time has been seen as an alternative to pharmacological treatments, should be positioned as an adjunct treatment for chronic dermatoses, aiming at reducing in the mid and long term the severity of the disease and drug dependence. © 2020 Elsevier Masson SAS. Tous droits réservés.