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Fatigue and Fatality: Remembering Roy
No full textThis chapter reflects on the life and loss of Roy, an individual I encountered during a research project focusing on the resettlement of prisoners in a Category B male prison in England. In doing so, it considers Roy’s feelings of fatigue after three decades of heroin use and interactions with the criminal justice system. Roy continually spoke of just having ‘had enough’. But this fatigue was also evident in those surrounding Roy – his family and those criminal justice professionals who engaged with him. Here then, fatality is considered in relation to fatigue, which is framed as an indicative characteristic of the structural violence running throughout the circuits of society which includes the illusory promises of the criminal justice system’s resettlement processes and the hopes of those involved within this. The chapter concludes with some critical reflections around Roy’s loss and how this influenced and impacted me as a person, researcher and academic
Out-of-season water escape during Mars' northern summer triggered by a strong localized dust storm
No full textMars almost certainly had a considerable amount of water in its past. Recent observations reveal that during southern summer, when the atmosphere is warmer and dustier, water vapor can reach high altitudes without condensing, leading to water loss to space. Here, by combining infrared, visible, and ultraviolet data from multiple Mars orbiters, we identify a new pathway for water loss, observed for the first time to our knowledge during the opposite season. Our findings show that a strong, localized, and short-lived dust storm in Martian Year 37 (August 2023) drove considerable vertical transport of water vapor in the northern summer season. Just days after the storm, enhanced water vapor concentrations were observed at altitudes over 40 km across northern high latitudes, followed by an increase in escaping hydrogen detected at the exobase. These results suggest that water loss on Mars can be triggered by strong local dust storms at any time of year
Committees and religious politics at the Scottish General Assemblies, 1638-39
No full textThis article explores the role of the Scottish General Assemblies of 1638 and 1639 in opposing the religious policies of Charles I. It investigates the activity of the committees that met during the General Assemblies and explores how they contained a broad range of competing voices. The article demonstrates that, against a background of greater public participation in the political debates of the 1630s, it was in the privacy of committee meetings that members of the General Assemblies found ways to maintain the unity of the protest movement against Charles I. The article contends that the Assemblies’ greatest success was in holding together the competing voices of the movement and it underscores the importance of private deliberations in a moment of increased public political participation
A dynamic network approach to bilingual child data
No full textUsage-based approaches to language acquisition emphasize the central role of input–output relationships in the gradual emergence of linguistic knowledge. Recent computational work has provided empirical support for this view by showing how network-based analyses can capture constructional patterns in child language. One such method is the Dynamic Network Model (DNM). However, it remains unclear whether these findings extend to bilingual acquisition, where differing input conditions across the two languages are expected to shape the formation of linguistic networks more visibly. To address this gap, the present study investigates two German–English bilingual children aged 2;03–3;11. Applying the DNM to both child-directed speech and children’s own utterances, we examine how constructional “pivots” emerge under bilingual input conditions and how they differ between individual children. Our results indicate that the DNM identifies informative clusters in the data, reflecting the language distribution in the input and thus provides a promising heuristic for advancing our understanding of bilingual first language acquisition
[Editorial] ‘Are you a first-time parent?’ Challenges for reproductive and infant researchers in asking about reproductive history and family composition
No full textMultiple and Multi-dimensional Life Transitions of World Transplant Athletes
No full textTransplant Games are sports competitions open to transplant athletes (TxA) aiming to promote sport among organ recipients, donors, and the wider community. There is some emerging evidence that preparing for and participating in Transplant Games might help to improve motivation, and mental and physical health of TxA. Nonetheless, most literature takes a medical or social care perspective on the experience of transplant recipients, with limited research focussed on the lived experiences and transitions of TxA and their direct social networks (e.g., partner, family, friends). Using the Multiple and Multi-dimensional transitions (MMT) framework of Jindal-Snape (2020), this mixed methods research used an embedded case-study approach and analysed in-depth the multiple and multi-dimensional lived transitions of four UK TxA who received a kidney transplant from an unrelated donor and became cyclists/triathletes. Substantial differences were reported in how participants coped with these transitions, and how they were actively or passively supported, encouraged, and sometimes discouraged by their direct social networks. This study shows that TxA and their stakeholders need to be more aware of the potential impact of direct social networks on TxA transitions
Fie Upon “But Yet”: Stanza Lead Words and Adversative Conjunctions in The Faerie Queene
No full textThis essay explores the first words in each stanza of Spenser's Faerie Queene, with a full index in an appendix of these words. It argues that these words give subtle yet pervasive semantic colouration to the poem, repeatedly inflecting the narrative in new directions. It is written as part of a festschrift for Judith H. Anderson, a leading scholar of medieval and renaissance poetry, who died in 2022
From print to wool: Vesalius and the ‘knit your own womb’ movement
No full textThis paper considers contemporary approaches to representing the female sexual organs in such media as wool and fabric, and their relationship to the detailed, fully-labelled, two-dimensional images in sixteenth-century medical texts, in particular to those of Vesalius. I shall consider what it means to move the body into the public domain through such media, and how the skills of the crafter and the materials used are brought into play. Among the modern versions of the female body which I shall compare to Vesalius are online knitting patterns for the uterus and two small groups in the UK: the Shoreditch Women’s Institute and its vulva quilt and the Whitstable Profanity Embroidery Group
Conveni de col·laboració entre l'Institut de Cultura de Barcelona i Serveis Actualitzats de l'Espectacle S.L. per a la instal·lació i gestió del sistema de ticketing de Onebox S.L. a les taquilles del Palau de la Virreina
No full textAprovat per resolució del president de l'Institut de Cultura de Barcelona de 23-05-2022Annex de protecció de dade