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‘To persuade them all’:James Johnston, state communication and the Fagel’s Letter campaign of 1688
Full text linkThe subject of Fagel’s Letter, a propaganda campaign financed by Prince William of Orange, Stadhouder of Holland, was carefully recorded by his principal spy and propagandist, James Johnston. The significance of Johnston and the wider campaign on religious toleration are still obscure amongst students of the Glorious Revolution of 1688. This essay will draw on Johnston’s secret intelligence, harnessing his rich chronology of Fagel’s Letter to reveal a fuller assessment of Dutch propaganda in England. Crucially, this is a study about how and why intelligence can improve state communication with a foreign public. While this essay suggests that Fagel’s Letter was a flawed experiment, it considers the breadth of Johnston’s covert activities to increase the appetite for Williamite propaganda. The concluding hypothesis will show that Johnston’s reports enhanced William’s ability to penetrate the English public sphere, laying much of the groundwork for the monumental Declaration of Reasons.</p
H II regions and supernova remnants associated with molecular clouds:A pilot study with the SARAO MeerKAT Galactic Plane Survey
No full textMassive stars (mass >8 M⊙) release vast amounts of energy into the interstellar medium through their stellar winds, photoionizing radiation, and supernova explosions. These processes may compress nearby regions, triggering further star formation, but the significance of triggered star formation across the Galactic disc is not well understood. This pilot study combines 1.3GHz continuum data from the South African Radio Astronomy Observatory (SARAO) MeerKAT Galactic Plane Survey (SMGPS) with 13CO (2–1) data from the Structure, Excitation, and Dynamics of the Inner Galactic Interstellar Medium (SEDIGISM) survey to identify and examine molecular clouds associated with HII regions and supernovae remnants (SNRs). We focus on their physical properties and massive star formation potential. We identify 268 molecular clouds from the SEDIGISM tile covering the Galactic plane region 341◦ ≤ ℓ ≤ 343◦ and |b| ≤ 0.5◦, of which 90 clouds (34 per cent) are associated with SMGPS extended sources. Compared to unassociated clouds, we find that associated clouds exhibit significantly higher mean mass (∼9600 M⊙ versus ∼2500 M⊙) and average gas surface density (∼104 M⊙pc-2 versus ∼67 M⊙pc-2), and slightly elevated but comparable virial parameters. We also find that the size–linewidth scaling relation is steeper for associated clouds compared to unassociated clouds. In addition, radio luminosity shows a positive correlation with total complex mass, and the ratio Lradio/ Mcomplex increases with source size, consistent with an evolutionary sequence where expanding HII regions progressively disrupt their natal molecular environment. These findings suggest an enhanced dynamical activity for the associated clouds and support the hypothesis that feedback from massive stars influences molecular cloud properties and may trigger star formation.</p
‘To persuade them all’:James Johnston, state communication and the Fagel’s Letter campaign of 1688
No full textThe subject of Fagel’s Letter, a propaganda campaign financed by Prince William of Orange, Stadhouder of Holland, was carefully recorded by his principal spy and propagandist, James Johnston. The significance of Johnston and the wider campaign on religious toleration are still obscure amongst students of the Glorious Revolution of 1688. This essay will draw on Johnston’s secret intelligence, harnessing his rich chronology of Fagel’s Letter to reveal a fuller assessment of Dutch propaganda in England. Crucially, this is a study about how and why intelligence can improve state communication with a foreign public. While this essay suggests that Fagel’s Letter was a flawed experiment, it considers the breadth of Johnston’s covert activities to increase the appetite for Williamite propaganda. The concluding hypothesis will show that Johnston’s reports enhanced William’s ability to penetrate the English public sphere, laying much of the groundwork for the monumental Declaration of Reasons.</p
Genocide:Emergence of Evil in the Absence of Justice
No full textReview of Being Human: Political Modernity and Hospitality in Kurdistan-Iraq, by Fazil Moradi, New Brunswick, NJ, Rutgers University Press, 2024, 210 pp., US$150 (hardcover), ISBN 978197883170
Partial unified learning for dynamic change detection in hyperspectral images
No full textHyperspectral image change detection (HSI-CD) aims to identify changes in bi-temporal hyperspectral images (HSIs) captured at different times in the same location. Existing algorithms often overlook the inherent class imbalance in HSI-CD, leading to poor generalization in detecting changes while introducing redundant computation in unchanged regions. This paper introduces a novel mechanism based on Partial Unified Learning for Dynamic Change Detection (PUL-DCD) to address these limitations. Particularly, a novel partial unified learning network is proposed, whose backbone is trained using multiple datasets, whilst the task-specific networks are trained independently with each individual dataset. In so doing, the network can maintain outstanding performance on specific datasets while having strong generalization ability. Furthermore, an innovative dynamic architecture is introduced that distinguishes between easy and hard regions for change detection, thereby optimizing parameter configuration and enhancing detection performance in challenging areas, while mitigating redundancy regarding unchanged information. Experimental results on three datasets show that PUL-DCD is competitive in both accuracy and efficiency.</p
Brenda Dervin's Sense-Making Methodology:What Has Been Achieved and Why It Matters Now?
No full textBrenda Dervin made a tremendous contribution to both the fields of communication and information science through her Sense-Making Methodology. She was one of the first to advocate for a user-centered perspective in the field and had a tremendous impact on generations of researchers across various disciplines. Almost three years after her passing in December 2022, this panel brings together a diverse range of speakers to celebrate Dervin's contribution to ASIS&T and to information science. This highly interactive panel will cover various topics ranging from interactions with Dervin to the use of Dervin's SMM in theory, research, practice, human interaction, and artificial intelligence tools. The panel members have either engaged with Dervin the person, with her Sense-Making Methodology, or both. The session hopes to inspire the audience to use Dervin's Sense-Making Methodology (SMM) in their research and practice.</p