30 research outputs found
Even if he wins, Jeremy Corbyn will never be able to lead the Labour Party
No full textJeremy Corbyn is the unlikely favourite for the Labour leadership, with leadership election rule changes and an influx of new members and supporters fuelling his rise. But what would result of his ascendency to the party’s top job? Eunice Goes, author of a forthcoming book about Ed Miliband’s leadership of the Labour Party, argues the Corbyn may end up in office but not in power, with internal opposition likely making his task so difficult as to be impossible
Strain and Surface Effects on the Magnetism of Epitaxial Nickel Cobaltate Thin Films
No full textResearch into the behavior of NiCo2O4 (NCO) has accelerated in the last two decades, especially due to its promising applications in catalysis and in supercapacitive energy storage. The transport properties of NCO have been shown to be tied to its magnetic behavior, suggesting research into the magnetism of the material, especially in thin film form, may help inform other aspects of its properties. While NCO is known to exhibit perpendicular magnetic anisotropy (PMA), no work has analyzed the size of the effect, nor the mechanism of the anisotropy.This dissertation presents the observations of strong magnetic anisotropy for epitaxial films grown via pulsed laser deposition onto MgAl2O4 substrates. By fabricating a variety of sample geometries, the size of the anisotropy is determined and is close to that of similar oxides & similar thin-film materials. Using both phenomenological and microscopic studies, we then demonstrate how the modest strain induces the tetragonal distortion leading to the PMA. The second part of the dissertation presents the observation of surface magnetization which is not observed in conventional SQUID magnetometry. Through use of surface-sensitive x-ray magnetic circular dichroism (XMCD) measurements, the surface magnetization is observed to be confined to approximately the top one nanometer of the film, with magnetic transition temperature well below that of the bulk film. Evidence for the reduced magnetism coming from vacancies within the spinel structure are also presented
Finding a Way Forward. Lessons from the Corbyn Project in the UK (James Schneider interviewed by Hilary Wainwright)
No full textWithin hours of Jeremy Corbyn becoming leader of the British Labour Party, the gloves were off. The Parliamentary Labour Party (PLP), the mainstream media (assisted by much of the Labour Party’s administrative apparatus) and the British capitalist class were all intensely hostile and launched a relentless attack that constantly stymied Corbyn’s project of a transformative socialist government, culminating in the party’s heavy defeat in the general election of December in 2019, in which the right-wing populist project of ‘Brexit’ (leaving the European Union) split Labour’s members and its electoral base. Corbyn and his supporters were quickly marginalized, as the right wing reasserted its grip under the new leader, Keir Starmer.
James Schneider not only had a ringside seat at all these events, but was sufficiently part of the team to feel keenly the moments of exhilaration, sweat and pain of the five-year struggle, while all the time knowing, from his year as Momentum’s National Organizer, the vast untapped potential for movement initiative and mobilizations that lay beyond the ‘tyranny of the immediate’ which dominated life in the Leader’s office in Westminster. In this interview, he assesses the strengths and weaknesses of the extra-parliamentary forces that backed Corbyn, from the low ebb of trade union organization when Corbyn first became leader to the limited but important ways in which the new leadership of the Labour Party revalidated trade unions, and the positive legacy of the Corbyn leadership in encouraging popular self-confidence and politicization. At a time when many on the left are leaving or considering leaving the Labour Party, Schneider urges a strategy which transcends the ‘inside the party or out of it’ dichotomy which has constantly exhausted left thinking in the UK. Instead, he outlines the idea of a hybrid movement rooted primarily in communities and workplaces while at the same time, without compromising its mobilizing and campaigning energies, continuing the struggle for democratic control of the Labour Party.
Schneider is interviewed in May 2021 by Hilary Wainwright, editor of Red Pepper and contributing editor to the Socialist Register, and author of numerous books on the politics of the left. Wainwright has long been an advocate of the need for the left across Europe to experiment in ‘parties of a new kind’ that would break from both traditional social democracy and the vanguard party models of the far left
Effects of anthropogenic change on interactions between North American tephritid flies and their biotic associates
No full textAnthropogenic environmental change is increasingly altering species ranges, community composition, and ecological interactions. Climate change, agriculture, invasive species, and human management of land all affect insect community dynamics, interactions between competitors and natural enemies, and invasive potential. In this thesis, I examine the effects of the following anthropogenic changes on tephritid fruit flies, Rhagoletis pomonella (Walsh) and Zonosemata electa (Say), and their competitors and natural enemies: climate change (simulated through an experimentally-induced heat effect), novel agricultural host plants, and land/weed management. R. pomonella is native to portions of North America and historically utilized hawthorn (Crataegus spp. (L.) fruits as its host. After the introduction of apples, a fruit larger than hawthorn berries, to North America by humans, R. pomonella made a host shift to apples, which provide a partial escape from natural enemies and competitors. Similarly, Z. electa made a host shift from native horsenettle, Solanum carolinense (L.)., fruits to introduced crops: peppers and eggplant. The first study employed experimental manipulation of temperature, sunlight, and fruit location to examine the effects of anthropogenic change and competition on parasitism, larval survival rates, and pupal weight in R. pomonella. The second study examined the effects of fruit location and trap baits (apples alone, apples with R. pomonella larvae, or R. pomonella pupae alone) on attraction to ants and also surveyed species composition in an unmanaged apple orchard. The third study surveyed Z. electa parasitism rates and infestation rates in S. carolinense. The results of the first study indicate that in R. pomonella the effects of temperature include lowering parasitism and larval survival rates, with interactions from the effects of competition. The results of the second study indicate that R. pomonella larvae are attractive to local ant species and that there are effects of tree location on ant attraction to baits. The results of the third study indicate that infestation rates of Z. electa in horsenettle are low compared to infestation rates in peppers and confirmed natural low parasitism rates by Diachasmimorpha sanguinea (Ashmead). These results combined provide a more complete overview of the effects of anthropogenic change on North American tephritids and their biotic associates and will inform future pest management strategies.Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2022-08-01The student, Corbyn Giers, accepted the attached license on 2020-07-15 at 18:28.The student, Corbyn Giers, submitted this Dissertation for approval on 2020-07-15 at 18:40.This Dissertation was approved for publication on 2020-07-17 at 07:26.DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #15647 on 2020-10-02 at 15:33:39Made available in DSpace on 2020-10-07T22:44:39Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 3
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Preaching to the converted? Who attended the Cambourne, Cornwall, Corbyn rally in August 2017?
No full textThis is the author accepted manuscript. Th final version is available from Springer Nature via the DOI in this recordThe political party rally was reinvented by Jeremy Corbyn. Despite retaining the rally as an election campaign strategy, Labour calamitously lost the 2019 general election. Did something go wrong with this strategy? This paper analyses the results of a survey of participants in a rally in Camborne, Cornwall in 2017, close to two marginal constituencies. It finds that very few participants were not already dedicated Labour voters. The paper warns of the danger of advertising these rallies only through closed mobilisation channels. For improved efficacy, rallies in marginal constituencies might more widely advertise using open channels to a broader range of people.Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC
Curing Cholera: Pathogens, Places and Poverty in South Asia
No full textIn this paper I will seek to provide a new understanding of endemicity of disease in India. Through a study of cholera research in the twentieth century I will argue that disease and its endemicity has to be understood in biological factors as well as within a wider social and economic context. I will discuss the medical efforts at locating the causality of cholera from the nineteenth century in Indian climate, water bodies and human anatomy to show that cholera is no more a biological phenomena than water is an ecological or environmental problem. Both are essentially political and economic questions
Effective Strategies for Increasing Citation Frequency
No full textDue to the effect of citation impact on The Higher Education (THE) world university ranking system, most of the researchers are looking for some helpful techniques to increase their citation record. This paper by reviewing the relevant articles extracts 33 different ways for increasing the citations possibilities. The results show that the article visibility has tended to receive more download and citations. This is probably the first study to collect over 30 different ways to improve the citation record. Further study is needed to explore and expand these techniques in specific fields of study in order to make the results more precisely
Effective Strategies for Increasing Citation Frequency
No full textDue to the effect of citation impact on The Higher Education (THE) world university ranking system, most of the researchers are looking for some helpful techniques to increase their citation record. This paper by reviewing the relevant articles extracts 33 different ways for increasing the citations possibilities. The results show that the article visibility has tended to receive more download and citations. This is probably the first study to collect over 30 different ways to improve the citation record. Further study is needed to explore and expand these techniques in specific fields of study in order to make the results more precisely.Available online: http://ssrn.com/abstract=234458
Perpendicular magnetic anisotropy in conducting NiCo\u3csub\u3e2\u3c/sub\u3eO\u3csub\u3e4\u3c/sub\u3e films from spin-lattice coupling
No full textHigh perpendicular magnetic anisotropy (PMA), a property needed for nanoscale spintronic applications, is rare in oxide conductors. We report the observation of a PMA up to 0.23 MJ/m3 in modestly strained (–0.3%) epitaxial NiCo2O4 films which are room-temperature ferrimagnetic conductors. Spin-lattice coupling manifested as magnetoelastic effect was found as the origin of the PMA. The in-plane x2-y2 states of Co on tetrahedral sites play crucial role in the magnetic anisotropy and spin-lattice coupling with an energy scale of 1 meV/f.u. The elucidation of the microscopic origin paves a way for engineering oxide conductors for PMA using metal/oxygen hybridizations
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