Light District Research Articles

Shedding light on the Light District : artistic processes in and around the Teatro de Contêiner

This articlepresents interviews with artists from Cia Mungunzá de Teatro and their partnersabout the artistic work carried out in Bairro da Luz in the centre of the cityof São Paulo /Brazil. In 2016, Cia Mungunzá was responsible for creating the Teatro de Conteiner (Theatre of Container), a cultural space established in one of themost impoverished areas of Brazil, where the level of poverty leads many to use crack cocaine and alcohol.The Teatro de Conteiner was installed as a result of an occupation of publicland by Cia Mungunzá de Teatro unknown to andunsupported by the state. Since then, the cultural space has been home tosocial and artistic activities. The possibilities for action by artists in theregion were placed alongside my (Vinicius Torres Machado’s)own experience in order to highlight the difficulties of thework and the achievements of the interviewees. Respondents Lucas and Verônicaare co-founders of the CiaMugunzá and areco-responsible for the occupation of the area. Dona Carmen is a former socialworker who leads a project in the neighbourhood that has moved into the Theatreof Container, teaching impoverished women how to sew. Finally Dentinho is asocial worker and artist in the area. The article seeks to bring the voice ofthese artists to reflect on thepresence of artistic works in places of extreme poverty.

Analysis of the shading of the development area of different cities in one light district

The purpose of this work is to compare the insolation regime of the built-up territories of different cities of the same city in the same administrative region by light climate. The study was conducted in the Citis: Solaris software package. Based on the calculation results, models of shading the territory were built, and a conclusion was drawn on the differences in insolation in these cities.

Welcoming Diversity? Symbolic Boundaries and the Politics of Normativity in Kansas City’s LGBTQ Communities

ABSTRACTUsing document analysis and ethnographic field work, this article examines the debate within the LGBTQ community of Kansas City over the decision to hold its Pride festival in the Power and Light District (P&L), a renewed downtown area with a controversial dress code. Despite the developers’ and city’s goals of creating a cosmopolitan urban space that welcomed diverse populations, the P&L acquired a reputation as an anti-Black, anti-queer space due to its dress code and redevelopment history. I argue that the debate surrounding this controversy reveals limits to notions of diversity and diverging approaches to sexual politics within the LGBTQ community that are normally obscured by political actors within the movement but that work to create symbolic boundaries that exclude “non-respectable” members of the LGBTQ population. Recovering queer perspectives allows us to imagine a more capacious definition of diversity and inclusion, both within the LGBTQ movement and in urban space.

Ghent’s Red-Light District in Comparative Perspective

Research on modern red-light districts is centered largely on street prostitution zones. Missing from most of the literature are studies that examine red-light districts consisting of clusters of visible indoor businesses that are legal and reg- ulated by the authorities. This paper examines this kind of zonein Ghent, Belgium. Avariety of data is used to document this red-light district's social and physical ecology, routine activities within it, and key characteristics of actors involved in the sector. The goal of the paper is to provide a fairly comprehensive analysis of both the zone's internal arrange- ments as well as ways in which it is shaped by external forces. The findings are then compared to previous research on red- light districts in two other Belgian cities, Antwerp and Brus- sels, which reveals significant differences between the three settings.

Research on Semi Physical Test System of PCU on Satellite

Power control unit (PCU) is an important component of space power system on satellite; it provides power supply to main bus and regulates output status of solar battery array in light district. So it is very important to test the performance of PCU before equipped in satellite. A semi physical test system for PCU is developed in this paper, some Agilent simulators are used to simulate working environment of PCU, and control software is programmed to control these simulator as well.

School SLPs “Know It and Show It”

School SLPs “Know It and Show It”

CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE STUDY OF DEVELOPMENT OF THE WING-PATTERN IN LEPIDOPTERA

1. Goldschmidt's observations and ideas on the problem of different velocities of development for different parts of a pattern are described. The experiments of Kühn and his school and their negative views in regard to the idea of different velocities of developmental processes are summarized. 2. New observations confirm the existence of the "relief-stage" in the pupal wing of Platysamia cecropia and Papilio ajax, as well as in Ephestia k., where it has not been previously observed. 3. It was observed that the relief-stage proceeds over the pupal wing from the proximal base to the distal margin in a wave-like fashion as is the case with the mitosis-pattern. The relief stage and the mitosispattern appear on the hind wing earlier than on the front wing. 4. No difference in growth of the scales was observed in sections through the wing during the relief-stage. 5. With the help of a chitin-reaction it could be shown that during the relief-stage the subsequent light parts of the wing were more chitinized than the subsequent dark parts. 6. A test with polarized light during the relief-stage gave no clear results. 7. With the help of artificial pigmentation (tyrosine-reaction) a complete pattern can be produced on the still unpigmented wing long before the relief-stage could be observed. 8. This tyrosine-reaction shows that a certain condition of the chitin is necessary to deposit pigment in the scales. Subsequent light parts of the wing are more chitinized at the time of pigmentation than subsequent dark parts and therefore cannot deposit any pigment. This experiment proves that the different velocities of development of the different parts of the pattern lead to the pattern of pigmentation. 9. By dissolving scales from subsequent dark and light districts in H2SO4 during the relief-stage and dark and light scales on the mature wing, it could be actually shown that the scales are differently chitinized at the time of pigmentation and equally chitinized on the mature wing. 10. The similarity of processes during the mitosis-period and the relief stage and their general appearance in different species of Lepidoptera allow us to correlate them. Both stages express the different velocities of developmental processes for different parts of the wing, which finally produce the pattern of pigmentation.