Perversion - Science topic

This work focuses on the treatment of people suffering from post-traumatic stress with identity dissociation and personality disorders and, possibly, a "perverse connotation" in the relationship with the other. It therefore seemed appropriate to ask whether it is possible to treat all these symptoms in the context of trauma psychotherapy. Should th...

Amartya Sen’s seminal Tanner lecture: Equality of What? began a contestation on social justice and human wellbeing that saw a new human development paradigm emerge—the capability approach (CA)—which has been influential ever since. Following interviews with leading global assistive technology (AT) stakeholders, and users, this paper takes inspirati...

The Marais district, in Paris, was one of the first to be recognized as a secteur sauvegardé, a designation given to an urban area of heritage value especially protected by French legislation from 1962 onwards. From that point onwards, the criticisms to the changes undertaken by the district mounted and, in the international scene, the Marais is of...

This article examines how performance, compensation, and corporate governance are related to the rejection of compensation proposals in Brazil. Regulatory changes have expanded the disclosure of compensation and introduced distance voting, providing new information which was hand collected from 895 minutes of shareholders' meetings and 1,074 voting...

Women are just not worse than men. They are just the same. Blacks, colored, minorities, gays, lesbians, and all others are just as bloody-minded as any satanic devil. Torturing is natural for all of them. Enslaving the other groups is the basic rule for anyone and there is no exception. Raping, dismembering, and killing in any way you can imagine,...

Kapranov and schechtman gave quiver description of perverse sheaves on real hyperplane arrangements. We used this description to relate the perverse sheaves on Coxeter hyperplane arrangements of type $\mathcal A_n$ for different values of $n$. As a consequence we prove that the simple perverse sheaves whose stalk on open cells are zero are induced...

Connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) are expected to revolutionise transport worldwide and transform urban life. However, there are many unknowns concerning the impacts of these technologies in terms of sustainability, justice, and safety. It has been suggested that CAVs may exacerbate inequities and safety disparities concerning the interaction...

In this very radical paper, Haack argues tghst universities' insistence that all faculty be "prodictive" all the time has introduced a whole raft pf perverse incentives, the costs of which far exceed the benefits. She concludes by describing what a better situation wouod look like.

We explore connections between three structures associated with the cohomology of the moduli of 1-dimensional stable sheaves on $\mathbb{P}^2$: perverse filtrations, tautological classes, and refined BPS invariants for local $\mathbb{P}^2$. We formulate the $P=C$ conjecture identifying the perverse filtration with the Chern filtration for the free...

We show the smoothness over the affine line of the Hodge moduli space of logarithmic t-connections of coprime rank and degree on a smooth projective curve with geometrically integral fibers over an arbitrary Noetherian base. When the base is a field, we also prove that the Hodge moduli space is geometrically integral. Along the way, we prove the sa...

As Goresky and MacPherson intersection homology is not the homology of a space, there is no preferred candidate for intersection homotopy groups. Here, they are defined as the homotopy groups of a simplicial set which P. Gajer associates to a couple $(X,\overline{p})$ of a filtered space and a perversity. We first establish some basic properties fo...

The question about fantasy and fiction in religion is probably as old as the first interrogation and critique of revealed religion. However, the relation between fiction and religion is a two-way street. Underlying both is imagination which brings into play the psychological dimension of both but this in turn is always based on the body. Fantasy dr...

This article reviews historical legislation relating to the management of shipwrecks in Indonesia, examining issues relating to terminology, division of authority, and implementation. It focuses on the evolution of Indonesia’s commercial salvage legislation, from its introduction in 1989 to its abrupt cessation in 2010, when a moratorium was introd...

RESUMO A inovação foi responsável por saltos significativos de desenvolvimento ao longo do tempo, promovendo prospe-ridade econômica e bem-estar social. Esses avanços, entretanto, não foram suficientes para conter o crescente aumento da desigualdade no mundo e têm posto em questionamento o impacto das inovações modernas diante das passadas. Dada es...

We improve the exodromy equivalence of MacPherson, Treumann and Lurie in several ways: first, we allow stratified spaces that have locally weakly contractible strata, rather than being locally of singular shape, we remove all noetherianity assumptions and we consider more general coefficients (e.g. compactly assembled or stable presentable $\infty$...

The purpose of this article was to defend the thesis that sex in psychoanalysis has an ontologically negative character. Since Freud, we have known that sex is not limited to specific practices or attached to predetermined objects - sex is seen as instinctual; therefore, perverse, polymorphous and childish. In this case, it is a non-positivized obj...

In this essay, I first offer several scenarios where Sterba’s argument based on the Pauline Principle fails: specifically, one in which we all consent to living an earthly life in some prior existence (prior-consent scenario), one in which the victims would approve of the evil being done to them for some greater good (would-approve scenario), and o...

We study the motivic t-structure on the category $\mathcal{DM}^A_{\acute{e}t,c}(S,\mathbb{Z})$ of constructible Artin \'etale motives over a base scheme $S$. We first show how smooth Artin motives are related to Artin representations of the \'etale fundamental group of $S$ when $S$ is regular. We then construct an ordinary motivic t-structure, and...

When the political needs of governments, political parties, armed groups, etc., demand the making up of a past that justifies their specific present, their respective organs often seek to propagate a discourse that permeates the national social structure and allows the memory of the causes of past violence to be reinvented, through a strong pervers...

Western countries have increasingly turned to security force assistance (SFA) to build partner capacity and counter terrorist threats in weakly governed states. This trend sits uncomfortably alongside widespread pessimism that coup-proofed and patronage ridden armies can be meaningfully reformed and made combat effective. Searching for new solution...

Using Least Square Residual Minimization techniques, this paper develops an optimal reserve model, known as the OPREM model, which is essential in optimizing the costs of reserve holding. The paper also sets-out to test and compare the relative predictions of economic trends of the OPREM model as well as the predictions of alternative models in lit...

This article traces the emergence of and shifts in ideas about plant sexuality in European literature from the late seventeenth century to the present, with a particular focus on influential British and a few less well-known German texts. Positioned as a specifically phytopoetic history of plants and sexuality, it demonstrates with the help of lite...

The paper aims at analyzing the widespread poverty level in Nigeria within the ambit of political economy. Secondary sources of data were used. The startling poverty rate in Nigeria over the years is said to be a direct consequence of our forefathers' ill activities which trend is still hunting the system till date. The paper suggests that poverty...

This article is concerned with the Lacanian subject of cyberwar and how the Real of network communication in the post-Trump era is experienced as horror. The centrality of the technological sublime and practices of self-divination to the American political imaginary give this moment of the Real a properly cosmic and spiritual scale. What returns ar...

Given any symmetric Cartan datum, Lusztig has provided a pair of key lemmas to construct the perverse sheaves over the corresponding quiver and the functions of irreducible components over the corresponding preprojective algebra respectively. In the present article, we prove that these two inductive algorithms of Lusztig coincide. Consequently we c...

Starting from a recent ideological and political controversy regarding the devaluation of the concept of “nationalism” in relation to that of ‘patriotism”, the author – following his own years-long investigations on the subject – historically and philosophically reframes each of these concepts from the perspective of rhetoric and argumentation. It...

Background Interregional patients’ migration, according to Italian Law, can be considered an expression of the (inviolable?) right to health and freedom of choice regarding place of care. It contributing, albeit perversely, to guaranteeing equity in the Italian National Health Service allowing citizens to overcome territorial inequalities in the di...

The objective of our study is to capture the roles of product quality and network effects in the success and efficiency of network markets under strategic settings that defined in terms of market share as a strategic factor and profit as a financial indicator. The research paper shows that the efficiency of network markets depends heavily on the ph...

In many countries, attention for fostering research integrity started with a misconduct case that got a lot of media exposure. But there is an emerging consensus that questionable research practices (QRPs) are more harmful due to their high prevalence. QRPs have in common that they can help to make study results more exciting, more positive and mor...

Let p be a prime number. We prove that the \(P=W\) conjecture for \(\mathrm {SL}_p\) is equivalent to the \(P=W\) conjecture for \(\mathrm {GL}_p\). As a consequence, we verify the \(P=W\) conjecture for genus 2 and \(\mathrm {SL}_p\). For the proof, we compute the perverse filtration and the weight filtration for the variant cohomology associated...

Despite increased media exposure, bondage, discipline, dominance and submission, and sadism and masochism (BDSM) is a stigmatised subculture and this stigmatisation can have serious social and legal implications for practitioners even when the participation is consensual. Psycho-medical narratives have constructed practitioners of BDSM as perverse...

We propose a conjecture on the categorical trace of the 2-category of perverse schobers (expected to model the Fukaya-Fueter 2-category of a holomorphic symplectic space). By proving a Betti geometric version of Tate's thesis, and combining it with our previous 3d mirror symmetry equivalence and the Ben-Zvi--Nadler--Preygel result on spectral trace...

Deterioration of mental health is an extremely important risk factor for sexual dysfunction. The aim is to investigate sexual dysfunction in patients with neurotic mental disorders. Material. Peculiarities of sexual dysfunctions in 256 patients (120 men and 136 women) were analyzed. Research. Assessment of sexual dysfunctions was performed on the b...

Despite the diversity of viewpoints throughout the history of philosophy on the subject of blame, one thing philosophers appear to agree on is that blame is an irreducible feature of experience. That is to say , no philosophical approach makes the claim to have entirely eliminated the need for anger and blame. On the contrary, a certain conception...

This essay explores the craving for polymorphous perverse relationships of a son of a Holocaust survivor mother. The material presents the interplay of two levels which shaped the patient’s character structure and object-relating: the active behavior of the mother to her developing child and the mother’s internal struggles, which the son could not...

Purpose To investigate the view of radiologists on the integrity of their own and their colleagues’ scientific work. Materials and Methods Corresponding authors of articles that were published in 12 general radiology journals in 2021 were invited to participate in a survey on scientific integrity. Results A total of 219 (6.2%) of 3,511 invited co...

The author examines a range of modes in which the relationship between flora and the human are portrayed. The paper begins with an inquiry into anthropomorphization of plants—a phenomenon firmly established in Western culture—only to show subsequently that such a notional approach has its counterpoise in non-anthropocentric reflection, primarily in...

In this paper, I draw from an in-school music research-creation project to consider the complex, racist-ableist politics of failure in the early childhood classroom. I theorise failure as it unfolds through anxiety, which I conceptualise as an affect of failure, to discuss both the perverse possibilities and perilous precarities of (neuro)queer fai...

The global use of assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) to address structural infertility has burgeoned since the early 2000s. Large corporate in vitro fertilization (IVF) providers from the metropolitan north quickly identified India as a prime location for service delivery, creating satellite clinics in its metropolitan centers. Having learnt...

The brutal beating of Jina (Mahsa) Amini for not wearing the “proper hijab” and her subsequent murder by the Iranian regime’s “morality police” have dominated the frontpage of newspapers and news sites throughout the world. What was not mentioned in the initial reporting was her true ethnic identity. The victim was not Persian; she was Kurdish, fro...

I started dealing with cytotoxicology of botanicals since 2017, since the European Commission decided with a completely anti-scientific report to ban the hydroxyanthracene derivatives HAD from anthraquinone plants such as Aloe, Rhubarb, Senna etc ... this as you will read several times in this document for non-scientific myths as it tries to sell E...

Outcome-based reimbursement models can effectively reduce the financial risk to health care payers in cases when there is important uncertainty or heterogeneity regarding the clinical value of health technologies. Still, health care payers in lower income countries rely mainly on financial based agreements to manage uncertainties associated with ne...

Based on a broad investigation of the appropriations of digital social networks in the mediatized daily life, this article seeks to investigate the use of audiovisual narratives to constitute fake news about the Covid-19 pandemic in Brazil. The main objective is to identify the occurrence of audiovisual use by producers/spreaders of fake news on di...

The Covid‐19 pandemic brought a heightened fear of death and illness, and increased experiences of isolation, loneliness and aloneness. In this article we describe clinical experiences of psychotherapists in Argentina, the UK and Germany in order to explore how the impacts of the pandemic are variously felt and mediated by inner resources. We explo...

A theorem of Nomizu and van Est computes the cohomology of a compact nilmanifold, or equivalently the group cohomology of an arithmetic subgroup of a unipotent linear algebraic group over $\mathbb{Q}$. We prove a similar result for the cohomology of a compact open subgroup of a unipotent linear algebraic group over $\mathbb{Q}_{\ell}$ with coeffici...

In this book, we reflect on the confrontation, resistance and overcoming of modern western that separates the human being from nature and propagates a model development that perversely destroys the environment. In this process, images and processes allowed us to start from our anchorages and understand environmental education as a theoretical-pract...

The so-called "governments of change" of Ahora Madrid and Barcelona en Comú have recently reframed cultural policies. Both coalitions were led by Podemos, a left-wing party born in 2014 and initially linked to the "indignados" movement. In this spirit, these administrations boosted a cultural program explicitly aimed at overcoming what was framed a...

Executive Summary Low levels of practises of environmental behaviour are causing harm and waste on an epic scale, especially in the developing world. Perversely aid has often provided incentives for persistent low levels of pollution of waters and outright waste. The losers are the poorest and most vulnerable. Despite vigorous efforts by donors and...

A Persistent Interlocutor (PI) is someone who, in argumentative contexts, does not cease to question her opponent’s premises. The epistemic relevance of the PI has been debated throughout the history of philosophy. Pyrrhonians famously claim that our inability to dialectically vindicate our claims against a PI implies scepticism. Adam Leite disagre...

We use the Springer correspondence to give a partial characterization of the irreducible representations which appear in the Tymoczko dot action of the Weyl group on the cohomology ring of a regular semisimple Hessenberg variety. In type A, we apply these techniques to prove that all irreducible summands which appear in the pushforward of the const...

We prove the $P=W$ conjecture for $\mathrm{GL}_n$ for all ranks $n$ and curves of arbitrary genus $g\geq 2$. The proof combines a strong perversity result on tautological classes with the curious Hard Lefschetz theorem of Mellit. For the perversity statement, we apply the vanishing cycles constructions in our earlier work to global Springer theory...

The Champions League is the Union of European Football Association's (UEFA) premier club cup competition. The socially desired outcome for UEFA is that the best 16 teams play in the Champions League knockout stages. To qualify, teams must finish first or second in the group stage. Teams that finish third, drop down to play in the Europa League, the...

Shareholders are the residual claimants on the assets of a corporation. Creditors are fixed claimants whose interest lies in the solvency of the borrower. Consequently, shareholders are usually thought to have optimal incentives to maximise the value of the corporation. The article challenges this common wisdom and proposes to reform bank governanc...

The digital revolution and globalization have sorted out the philosophy of what is now known as digital forms, which has been spread widely in various fields. There are many interpretations about the definition of digital architecture, but we can say that it is a different type of architecture as a result of digital techniques and architectural app...

Societal Impact Statement Mixed species plantings present an attractive alternative to monoculture reforestation through their added benefits to biodiversity. Yet there is ambiguity in the use of the term ‘biodiversity’ in carbon and biodiversity markets, which may create perverse outcomes when designing schemes and projects. Here, we review how th...

This commentary paper reviews issues in the management of large scale or strategic change in health care systems. Such efforts often have limited or even perverse consequences. To make the analysis more concrete, it examines some issues which may arise in the implementation of the 2019 NHS Long Term Plan in the English health system.

We adopted a difference-in-difference (DID) design to evaluate the impact of a case-based payment pilot in Tianjin, China on hospital admission, utilization of varied therapeutic regimes, and the associated costs. We used claim data of all admissions of angina and acute myocardial infarction during July 2015 to June 2018, 18 months before and after...

The root causes of the Italian decline lie in the distortions of collective action, which enhance the perverse behavior of both the elite and the people. The elites are “packs of wolves” that extract income and wealth to the detriment of society, shaping formal institutions. The people cultivate myriads of small special interests, operating as “swa...

This short paper considers the implications of the anti-abortion movement as part of a larger historical project of male domination, domination of nature, and exploitation of labor. It emphasizes how the attempt to control the mother and her body represents both denial of dependency and the split off defense of the vulnerable self projected into th...

Há uma permanente ferida na sociedade brasileira que reverbera sua herança colonial e afrodiaspórica. Nas artes visuais e nos seus discursos é possível encontrar e justapor de forma anacrônica diferentes fragmentos que apontam para uma contínua reiteração de elementos que partem de uma pretensa essência do sujeito negro e seu uso como categoria par...

This essay is a theologico-philosophical meditation on Bruno Schulz, focusing on his “love for the marginal”: a special attention paid to tandeta, in other words all things trashy, located on the eponymous edges of the world, far away from the center. Contrary to the assumed mode of interpretation, which reads Schulz’s fascination with the “dark fo...

The price puzzle occurs when a contractionary monetary policy innovation is followed by an increase, rather than a decrease, in the price level, which contradicts the conventional economic theory. The paper helps explain the connection between economic regimes and the response of prices to monetary policy shocks. We provide empirical evidence that...

The timelessness of the matters of love and heartbreak is evident from the place that these themes have historically held in the literature. Fictional representations of love and estrangement are frequently recovered within legal reasoning, because of the nature of the stories portrayed, or the ethical-normative judgements and frames of reference o...

The freedoms offered by individualistic-democratic societies are marked by an intrinsic ambiguity: they are both real and (partly) illusory. They are rooted in the universe of representation, which, by proclaiming them, manages to force reality, but without this reality ever attaining the purity of the proclaimed principles. By subtle perverse mech...

The Pudukavithai, known as Vasanakavidhai, Vidunilaippa, and light poetry, were written with different content. In the initial period, new poems were sung, highlighting social reform ideas like women's emancipation, poverty, education, etc. Over time, poems have been created with the realities and miseries of contemporary life in mind. The aim of t...

We prove an isomorphism for simple perverse sheaves on the affine Grassmannian of a connected reductive algebraic group that is a geometric counterpart (in light of the Finkelberg–Mirković conjecture) of the Steinberg tensor product formula for simple representations of reductive groups over fields of positive characteristic.

Gerrymandering is the perversion of an election based on manipulation of voting district boundaries, and has been a historically important yet difficult task to analytically prove. We propose a Markov Chain Monte Carlo with Simulated Annealing as a solution for measuring the extent to which a districting plan is unfair. We put forth promising resul...

Objective to unveil the vulnerabilities of homeless women linked to the social markers of gender and race/color. Methods qualitative study, developed with ten homeless women through participant observation, field diary, and sociodemographic questionnaire, systematized based on content analysis. Results it was found that gender identity and race/c...

We provide a systematic way of calculating a quiver region associated to a given exceptional collection, which as an application is used to prove that $\mu$-stable sheaves represented by two-step complexes are Bridgeland stable. In the later sections, we focus on the case of even rank $2$ instantons over $\mathbb{P}^3$, $Q_3$ and $V_5$ to prove tha...

The Amazon, as it becomes the scene for sacrifices that serve to solidify economic-political agreements, is the object of an asymmetric war due to new appropriations and capitalization. Our purpose was to demonstrate how the different fronts of dispossession in the Amazon Region advance and intertwine so that the practices of stigmatization and ext...

Ecocriticism is popularly thought of as a unidirectional exercise for preserving nature in its pristine and uncontaminated form. This view is grossly reductive because ecosystems are many, not one, local and not global. The natural green world is not always necessarily friendly to human aspirations. In fact, ‘green’ is the colour of falsehood, unre...

Ribbons are a class of slender structures whose length, width, and thickness are widely separated from each other. This scale separation gives a ribbon unusual mechanical properties in athermal macroscopic settings, for example, it can bend without twisting, but cannot twist without bending. Given the ubiquity of ribbon-like biopolymers in biology...

В обзоре представлены особенности показательной истории возникновения и превратности развития народного «Сада Томсона», созданного в 1908 году в городе Иркутске Августом Карловичем Томсоном, уникальным подвижником садоводства в суровом сибирском климате. Показано преодоление климатических ограничений и социальных проблем, когда талантливый самоучка...

Publication in the list of 50 journals endorsed by the Financial Times (i.e., the FT50) has become ‘institutionalized’ as a primary measure of research quality and prestige by business schools and faculty. This study investigated the extent to which this closed publication system is (mis)aligned with societal imperatives, in particular the United N...

The ecological and societal impacts of plastics production, use, and waste are a complex global challenge. Management strategies to mitigate the impacts of plastics, such as recycling, waste-to-energy, and replacement with alternative materials have impacts of their own. Achieving long-term sustainability of plastics use therefore requires consider...

Under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), insurers cannot engage in medical underwriting and thus face perverse incentives to engage in risk selection and discourage low-value patients from enrolling in their plans. One ACA program intended to reduce the effects of risk selection is risk adjustment. Under a risk adjustment program, insurers with less he...

In this article, I draw on two sets of sources to explore how Peruvian doctors tried to make sense of what had driven a man to engage in necrophilia in late 1942. On the one hand, I examine the case history and other related documentation that I located in Lima’s psychiatric hospital. On the other, I study a detailed article written on the case by...

We present in this article the first results of a post-doctoral research developed in the Graduate Program in Psychoanalytic Theory at UFRJ, which has, as a field of intervention of the psychoanalyst, popular social movements. The working hypothesis is that the presence of the psychoanalyst with such movements favors sublimation, a destination of t...

The report investigates the role of science in the policy-making process in order to deepen understanding of the science-policy interface and the ways in which the scientific basis underpinning policy might be strengthened to better support good environmental decision-making. We found that current regulatory direction guiding decision making, pri...

This paper investigates the question of genrontocratic betrayals represented as obstructions to romantic love in Ngũgĩ's Devil on the Cross. It looks at how Ngũgĩ creates the relationship between "sugar daddies" and "sugar girls" as a perversion of modern love in Devil on the Cross. The heroine, Warĩĩnga enjoys her relationship with her "sugar dadd...

The present period constitutes a crisis of science, of method. Take for example the Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (CITI) universities often require for both students and faculty as part of their ethics review board protocol. 1 Importantly, this training now covers the replication crisis. Lack of reproducibility of research results...

Time mirror literature that captures human life. Literature used to capture only human life. It is a tool for expressing characteristics. Oppression and deception of people on the basis of professions is a phenomenon that takes place from time to time. Tuppukkari is a novel about the social oppression of the cleaners who do the cleaning work and th...

T. Janagraman is of the opinion that they are responsible for his life. In the novel ‘Nalapagam’ the individual morality is explained as social morality through the character of Kameshwaran in this review article with relevant external and internal evidence. Man does not need to be touched on many occasions even one occasion creates a chance for a...

Historical-institutional analysis reveals both long-term conceptual and ideological causes of financialization and, since 2010, the emergence of counter forces in the US. Theoretical confusions between the categories of financial balance sheets and the categories of national income and production produced two errors of conceptual stretching: of ban...

We define a stratification of the moduli stack of coherent sheaves on an elliptic curve which allows us (1) to give an explicit description of the irreducible components of the global nilpotent cone of elliptic curves, (2) to establish an explicit bijection between the simple objects of the category of perverse sheaves defined by Schiffmann to cate...

ABSTRACT Interlocality competition is a staple concern of modern economic geography. Yet, beyond the abstract bases of this competition in the very nature of capitalism, the question of how such interlocality competition arose in thepost-1945 period remains underexplored. In this article we draw on the sociology of markets and metrics literature to...

Understanding the toxic relationships in which victims of a “toxic” parent are trapped, finding tools that will allow these grown-up children to get out of the grip they have been in, often since birth. The aim of this article is to better understand and identify this concept of parental toxicity, not only by the very functioning of the “toxic” par...

Understanding the toxic relationships in which victims of a “toxic” parent are trapped, finding tools that will allow these grown-up children to get out of the grip they have been in, often since birth. The aim of this article is to better understand and identify this concept of parental toxicity, not only by the very functioning of the “toxic” par...

William Shakespeare's two plays The Merchant of Venice and The Tempest are constructed through 'alterity'. The first play is an example of racial, religious, and gender alterity portrayed through the Christian dominated and Jew-unfriendly society in Venice. The second play involves the question of race and gender alterity through the colonial machi...

Source: Stunning Art/Shutterstock KEY POINTS Only some individuals seem capable of the split-second decisions necessary for heroic action during emergencies. Men are more likely than women to engage in physically risky bravery to save the lives of strangers. Research shows that physically risky heroic behavior may be an evolutionary adaptation that...

The CNI model generates C, N, and I parameters to measure people’s mental processes—consequence sensitivity (C), norm sensitivity (N), and generalized inaction/action preferences (I)—in moral decision making. Given the limitations of the CNI model, the CAN algorithm was developed to depict the consequence sensitivity (C), overall action versus inac...

Die Aufklaerung ist eine eigenartige soziale Praxis. Sie ist weder eine selbstaendige Philosophie, noch eine selbstaendige Ideologie oder - um es auch kurz zu erwaehnen - keine selbstaendige Politik. Sie ist eine eigenartige Praxis, die zumindest zwei Partner voraussetzt. Niemand ist imstande, sich selbst aufzuklaeren. Niemand kann, wie Münchhausen...

The emerging technology of Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) communication over vehicular ad hoc networks promises to improve road safety by allowing vehicles to autonomously warn each other of road hazards. However, research on other transportation information systems has shown that informing only a subset of drivers of road conditions may have a perverse...

The emerging technology of Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) communication over vehicular ad hoc networks promises to improve road safety by allowing vehicles to autonomously warn each other of road hazards. However, research on other transportation information systems has shown that informing only a subset of drivers of road conditions may have a perverse...

This study examines the intergenerational transmission of family resources (class, education and income) on people’s educational and occupational attainment in their early career life. It asks whether parental resources remain effective or fall into insignificance. It also asks whether the resources operate in a similar way for the ethnic minoritie...

We prove that cuspidal automorphic D-modules have non-vanishing Whittaker coefficients, generalizing known results in the geometric Langlands program from GL_n to general reductive groups. The key tool is a microlocal interpretation of Whittaker coefficients. We establish various exactness properties in the geometric Langlands context that may be o...

The death of migrants trapped in a trailer in San Antonio, Texas, sparked a border show by trivializing and politicizing the pain of others. In this manuscript it is argued that these cases are misfortunes that can be interpreted as border sacrifices: perverse rituals of necropower that demand the lives of some migrants or displaced persons, by tra...

This work thematizes the problem of socio-sanitary and environmental consequences of the vicious circle that links human rights violations, food insecurity, and institutionalized intoxication, mainly in relation to the effects on mental health resulting from environmental contaminants and pesticides. The predatory model of post-industrial capitalis...