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Multimessenger observations and the science enabled: continuous waves and their progenitors, equation of state of dense matter
No full textRotating and oscillating neutron stars can give rise to long-lived Continuous Gravitational Waves (CGWs). Despite many years of searching, the detection of such a CGW signal remains elusive. In this article we describe the main astrophysical uncertainties regarding such emission, and their relation to the behaviour of matter at extremely high density. We describe the main challenges in searching for CGWs, and the prospects of detecting them using third-generation gravitational wave detectors. We end by describing some pressing issues in the field, whose resolution would help turn the detection and exploitation of CGWs into reality
Supplemental Material for Riles and Fay, 2018
No full textData availability statement: All strains and constructs
are available upon request to the corresponding author. Supplemental Table 1: Strains used in this study. Supplemental
Table 2: Recombinant strain barcode indices, sequencing and phenotypes used for
QTL mapping. Supplemental Table 3: Primers used in this study. Supplemental
Table 4: Summary of candidate genes tested for two QTL regions. Supplemental
Table 5: Genes tested for complementation using a MoBY and/or a hemizygosity
test. Supplemental Table 6: Colony size measurements using ImageJ for HN6 X KO
Hemizygotes on Chromosome 14. Supplementary Figure 1: Ethanol and heat
sensitivity of control strains. Supplementary Figure 2: Logarithm of the odds
ratio (LOD) of a quantitative trait locus for heat and ethanol tolerance at
high temperature across the genome. Supplementary Figure 3: Protein alignment
of HN6, Oak and S288c for SEC24 and PSD1. Supplementary Figure 4: Phenotypes of resistant wild yeast
strains, Oak, Wine and S288c, containing high copy Oak allele plasmids grown at
40o. Data File S1. Genotypes and phenotypes of recombinant strains
used for QTL mapping. The raw data used to call genotypes for QTL mapping has
been deposited into NCBI's SRA under BioProject: PRJNA480857.</p
Exploring the impact of media consumption on interpersonal interaction intentions: an examination of the social effect of exposure to mental illness
No full textU of I Only Restriction Lifted for Item 93116 on 2018-07-08T09:15:16Z.I propose a technique for analyzing the influence of media consumption on social inclinations pertaining to those depicted, an effect which scarcely receives the attention for which it is exceptionally deserving. Via the explication of principal concepts regarding social dispositions and inclinations, and describing how existing psychological and media effects theory can be utilized to predict how media exposure could influence interpersonal inclinations, I produce a model of mediated interaction intentions. Furthermore, I offer an experiment in which various forms of media exposure – all of which would theoretically increase the accessibility of negative conceptions of individuals with mental illness – are examined with regard to their ability to inform social stigma and prejudice perceptions. Those perceptions are then assessed, via meditation modeling, for their impact on interpersonal interaction intentions.
The findings are discussed in terms of their support for my overall predicted model. Additionally, where support is observed, particular implications of those findings will be discussed. Where support is not observed, speculation about why expectations were not met will be provided. This dissertation will contribute to the field of media effects research by attempting to provide a holistic account of the impact of media messages on social inclinations by exploring the psychological mechanisms by which depictions indirectly influence interaction intentions. Ultimately, I attempt to provide a model which will be useful to future researchers concerned with the influence of media messages on interpersonal interaction. Though future refinements are likely necessary to enhance the prediction value of this model, it should lay the groundwork for a nuanced conceptualization of the impact of media on social outcomes.Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2018-05-01The student, Julius Riles, accepted the attached license on 2016-04-15 at 13:22.The student, Julius Riles, submitted this Dissertation for approval on 2016-04-15 at 13:30.This Dissertation was approved for publication on 2016-04-18 at 15:12.DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #9246 on 2016-07-07 at 13:49:23Made available in DSpace on 2016-07-07T20:27:26Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 3
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Between Resistance and Reform: TWAIL and the Universality of International Law
No full textIn this article we explore the relationship between TWAIL scholarship and the universality of international law. In particular, we offer an account of this relation as the outcome of what we describe as TWAIL’s characteristic double engagement with the attitudes of both reform and revolution vis-à-vis international law and scholarship. In being thoroughly critical of the cornerstones of the established order, and yet engaged with the practice and operation of international law at the same time, TWAIL scholars have intimated in their search for justice, an idea of universality capable of accepting international law as an agonic project. To further its political engagement with the universal promise of international law, we suggest an explicit methodological turn for TWAIL scholarship that is attentive to international law as a material project. By paying attention to the daily operation of international law at the mundane, quotidian and material plane, we suggest that TWAIL can sharpen its analytical potential and generate at the same time, a ‘praxis of universality’. Such a praxis would be capable of troubling the constitution of places and subjects in the name of the international, whilst heightening our sensitivity to the numerous forms of resistance that are already at play as a particular normative project is being institutionalised and administered across the world
Relations that unite and divide : a study of Freedom of Information legislation and transparency in Scotland
No full textThis research (the first long-term ethnographic study of FOI in Britain) investigates concepts at the heart of FOI - transparency, trust, secrecy, truth, private, public, power and agency. Eighteen months participant observation fieldwork, alongside policy-makers, practitioners, and end-users facilitated in depth, study of the radical subject-object transformations that FOI requires, and the aesthetics that underpin it.
The introduction of FOI entailed a 'culture change' - from a culture of secrecy to one of disclosure - driven, in Scotland, by the Scottish Information Commissioner through conferences. These were an opportunity for practitioners to come into new knowledge about the Act, their shared knowledge dissolving the divisions between them. But new divisions then opened between practitioners and colleagues; culture change being in the replication of a form of a relationship that previously lay between government and citizens.
In their replicated form, individual practitioners disappeared - were made 'transparent' - only to reappear on being differentiated, leaving them acutely aware of the personal relations this fissure disclosed, and throwing into sharp question a theory of people's division as indicative of their 'secrecy'. Transparency, here, depended on whether people were divided or combined - acting in their own capacity, or that of the organization.
While making personal relations absent from new disclosures was necessary for FOI compliance, this concealment hid a complex network of relations, and turned knowledge into 'information'. Yet the division between information and knowledge was not crisp: end-users continued to read practitioners' personal relations in disclosed information, thus relations were both absent from and implied in the information released.
Whether information was public (and accessible) depended on the undifferentiated status of those who created, handled, or were the subjects of, information. As people came into new knowledge, invoking their divided or common footing, they alternated between appearing 'private' or 'public' - person or thing - a division between individuals reflecting a division within each of them
Law after Anthropology: Object and Technique in Roman Law
No full textAnthropological scholarship after Marilyn Strathern does something that might surprise lawyers schooled in the tradition of ‘law and society’, or ‘law in context’. Instead of construing law as an instrument of social forces, or as an expression of processes by which society maintains and reproduces itself, a new mode of anthropological enquiry focuses sharply on ‘law itself’, on what Annelise Riles calls the ‘technicalities’ of law. How might the legal scholar be inspired by this approach? In this article, I explore one possible way of approaching law after anthropology, which is to find within law’s own archive a set of resources for an analogous representation of law itself. Drawing on the historical scholarship of Yan Thomas, I suggest that the Roman conception of law as object offers an engaging counterpart to the anthropological take on law as a specific set of tools or, technicalities, or as a particular art of making relations
Using Competing Theories to Explain Variations in U.S. Police Departments Reported Use of Force Counts
No full textUsing data from the 2013 Law Enforcement Management and Administrative Statistics (LEMAS) survey, the current study provides a cross-sectional analysis of U.S. police departments' reported use of force. The goal of this study was to examine the extent to which departments' reported force counts were explained by rational bureaucratic and/or institutional theory. Given the stark variations in reported force counts, a hurdle model was used to examine the potential effects of the theories on departments' likelihoods of reporting force and the frequency in which they reported it. The results highlighted the significance of both theories. In terms of rational bureaucratic theory, the results illustrate that the absence of a collective bargaining agreement and greater professionalism requirements reduced departments' likelihoods of reporting force, while less restrictive administrative policies increased departments' likelihoods of reporting force and the frequencies in which they reported it. In terms of institutional theory, the results revealed that black officer representation reduced both the likelihood of reporting force and the frequency of force reported. However, increases in jurisdictions' population and crime rates, for the most part, increased force reports. Combined the theories explained over one-fifth of the variations in departments' reported use of force for the observed year. The findings suggest that successful efforts to reduce force-related injuries and deaths should consider the contextual environments in which rules and regulations regarding force are made
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