The British Experience of Decolonization

Itinerario ◽  
1996 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 51-63
Author(s):  
Robert Holland
Keyword(s):  
Rite Of Passage ◽  
Relative Ease ◽  
British Experience ◽  
Solar Plexus ◽  
To Come ◽  
Key Questions

In reconstructing the metropolitan experience of the ‘end of empire’, one of the key questions might be posed as follows: how much did it really hurt? Was it a mere glancing blow to the head, or some more crushing punishment delivered to the chin or solar plexus? How successful – to pursue the boxing metaphor - was the metropole at improvising a ring-craft to come out on top, or at least avert defeat, in the contest of decolonization? This article will assess the extent to which the loss of empire for the British constituted an agonizing and disorienting experience, or whether it was a ‘rite of passage’ accomplished with relative ease and a soothing sense of inevitability.

Flame Retardant Treatments of Nylon Textiles: A Shift towards Eco-Friendly Approaches

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chanchal Kumar Kundu ◽  
Zhiwei Li ◽  
Lei Song ◽  
Yuan Hu
Keyword(s):  
Wear Resistance ◽  
Flame Retardant ◽  
Environmental Impacts ◽  
Great Risk ◽  
Environmentally Benign ◽  
Rapid Improvement ◽  
Relative Ease ◽  
Application Techniques ◽  
Application Methods ◽  
To Come

Among the synthetic polymeric textiles, Nylon (Polyamide) textiles (Nylon66/Nylon 6) are one of the most widely used materials, especially as apparel and industrial uses for their excellent properties, namely higher strength and good wear resistance. Unfortunately, due to their organic structures, they show the relative ease of burning, which poses a great risk to fire. For the flame retardant (FR) treatment of nylon textiles, several strategies have been developed throughout the years and the earlier studies show the enormous uses of petroleum-based flame retardant compounds via energy intensive application methods. However, the rapid improvement in living standards as well as the recent call for a reduction of environmental impacts during manufacturing and use have been pushed researchers to come up with environmentally benign chemistries and processes. Therefore, the challenges in search of the most sustainable, efficient and durable flame retardant treatments for nylon textiles still remain as a hot topic to be addressed. This chapter discusses the eco-friendly approaches that have been taken in escalating the fire performance of these novel nylon textiles, especially focusing on the applied compounds and the application techniques along with the durability issues of such applications.

Sexual motivation: problem solved and new problems introduced

2020 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald Pfaff ◽  
Farid Saad
Keyword(s):  
Behavioral Change ◽  
Sexual Motivation ◽  
Laboratory Animals ◽  
The Past ◽  
Epigenetic Effects ◽  
Androgenic Hormone ◽  
Brain States ◽  
To Come ◽  
Intervening Variables ◽  
Key Questions

AbstractBackgroundDuring the past 50 years, motivational studies have evolved from the logical inference of logically required “intervening variables” to explain behavioral change, to electrophysiological and molecular analyses of the mechanisms causing such changes.AimThe purpose of this review article is two-fold: first to describe the logic of sexual motivation in a way that applies to laboratory animals as well as humans, and the second is to address some of the problems of sexual motivation experienced by men.ResultsWhen problems of motivational mechanisms are stripped down to their essentials, as performed in the laboratory animal models and are available for reductionistic studies, then the problems can be solved with certainty, as illustrated in the first part of this review. However, with respect to human sexual motivation, the various determinants which include so many behavioral routes and so many brain states come into play, that definite conclusions are harder to come by, as illustrated in the second part of this review.ConclusionsThis review highlights a number of key questions that merit further investigation. These include (a) What mechanisms do cultural and experiential influences interact with androgenic hormone influences on human sexual motivation? (b) How would epigenetic effects in the human brain related to changes in motivation be investigated? (c) What are the effects of unpredictable traumatic and stressful human experiences on sexual motivation; (d) How such mechanisms are activated upon unpredictable traumatic and stressful insults? (e) What are the outstanding differences between sexual motivational drive and motivations driven by homeostatic systems such as hunger and thirst?

scholarly journals Simulating a Foreign Policy Dilemma: Considering US Humanitarian Intervention

2014 ◽  
Vol 47 (03) ◽  
pp. 682-686 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bob Switky
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Latin American Country ◽  
Humanitarian Intervention ◽  
National Interest ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Us ◽  
To Come ◽  
Key Questions

ABSTRACTThe humanitarian impulse in the United States routinely clashes with isolationist sentiment, with appeals to the national interest, and with apathy in and out of government. This class exercise encourages students to explore the contours of the debate over humanitarian intervention with a crisis unfolding in Belagua, a fictitious Latin American country. As the crisis deteriorates, students increasingly feel the tension between wanting to help the at-risk civilian population and avoiding a messy conflict from which the United States could have trouble extracting itself. The project requires students to address key questions about the US role in the Belagua case and to consider what the United States could or should have done in actual situations, such as Rwanda and Syria. Because these crises are likely to occur in the decades to come, this exercise initiates students to the challenges that the United States, as well as the international community, undoubtedly will face.

scholarly journals What Cost Scientific Illiteracy in Time of Global Pandemic?

In medias res ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (19) ◽  
pp. 2987-3008
Author(s):  
Marko Grba
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
World Economy ◽  
Scientific Journals ◽  
Fake News ◽  
Missed Opportunities ◽  
Main Thesis ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
To Come ◽  
Key Questions

This paper traces the course of the ongoing pandemic as it was reported in some of the established world media as well as in scientific journals. The author has been following the various sources since practically the begining of the pandemic in Europe and here will try to assess the role and the actual practice of scientists, politicians and other actors throughout the pandemic, from its begining in China at the close of 2019 till end of February 2021. The key questions addressed in this paper are: Why the events of the ongoing pandemic unfolded as they did, with so many misguided decisions by politicians (as well as experts at times), with so much misinformation and fake news and so many missed opportunities for decisive and life-changing action? What is the reason behind prolonged intervals of silence in the communication chain? And what cost the insufficient familiarity with science – its facts, methods or means of communication – in the time of global pandemic? The main thesis is that the insufficient level of scientific knowledge – and at times of basic scientific litteracy – as witnessed from the highest places of political power to the so called conspiracy theorists, costed us all too many lives lost and an unforseeable suffering to come. The responsibility is shared between virtually all actors and it must be given due consideration, in some cases even at the courts of justice, if we are to learn all the valuable lessons for the future of public health, world economy and, indeed, the survival of humanity.

Selfconscious or Unselfconscious Software Design?

1990 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-36
Author(s):  
Martin Loomes
Keyword(s):  
Science Education ◽  
Computer Science ◽  
Programming Language ◽  
Software Design ◽  
Computer Science Education ◽  
Computer Scientists ◽  
Science Community ◽  
To Come ◽  
Key Questions

Anyone who is involved in computer science education will be used to engaging in passionate debates over questions such as ‘What programming language should we be teaching'? Moreover, if these debates take place in front of colleagues from other disciplines, for example when joint schemes are being developed, then concern is often expressed about the inability of computer scientists to come to any generally accepted conclusions. In this paper the view is proposed that the key questions of computer science education are really manifestations of a much deeper issue in computing which has been alluded to in various publications, but never discussed to a generally accepted conclusion by the computer science community at large.

With alcohol beyond the order of everyday life

1997 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 209-218
Author(s):  
Philip Lalander
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
The Body ◽  
Rite Of Passage ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
Different Types ◽  
To Come ◽  
The Individual

Based on an ethnographical study of a group of young Swedish politicians, the author carries out a discussion concerning two major questions: How can one understand and interpret orgiastic behavior at parties? In what way does the use of alcohol make orgiastic behavior legitimate at parties? The author claims that the use of alcohol in different types of rituals may be seen as a way to travel beyond the structures of everyday life into another reality in which certain interaction and self-presentation norms become less important and less used. Alcohol is thus used as a symbol in a rite of passage. Using the anthropologist Turner's words, this other reality can be seen as liminal. The individual who enters this reality can do things which she would otherwise find taboo or inconvenient. The body is central in this liminal and carnevalistic reality and the individuals can play with different forms of taboos. The party may thus be seen as an escape zone for people who discipline themselves in their everyday life. The group is of major importance in the transgression. Through rituals in the group, the transgression becomes legitimate. The group also helps the individual to come back to everyday life.

Standards for Preservation via Digital Recording to Microforms

2007 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Breslawski
Keyword(s):  
Light Emitting Diode ◽  
Digital Recording ◽  
Light Emitting ◽  
User Community ◽  
Traditional Technology ◽  
To Come ◽  
Key Questions ◽  
Computer Output ◽  
Recording Techniques

Modern film writers feature a variety of recording techniques, some based on traditional technology like CRT and Laser based Computer Output Microfilm (COM) and some with newer Light Emitting Diode (LED) technology. There are three key questions that seem to come up frequently from the user community. These can be summarized as follows:

Beyond Everyday Order; Breaking Away with Alcohol

1997 ◽  
Vol 14 (1_suppl) ◽  
pp. 33-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip Lalander
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
The Body ◽  
Rite Of Passage ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
Different Types ◽  
To Come ◽  
The Individual

Based on an ethnographical study of a group of young Swedish politicians, the author carries out a discussion concerning two major questions: How can one understand and interpret orgiastic behavior at parties? In what way does the use of alcohol make orgiastic behavior legitimate at parties? The author claims that the use of alcohol in different types of rituals may be seen as a way to travel beyond the structures of everyday life into another reality, in which certain interaction and self-presentation norms become less important and less used. Alcohol is thus used as a symbol in a rite of passage. Using the anthropologist Turner's words, this other reality can be seen as liminal. The individual who enters this reality can do things which she would otherwise find taboo or inconvenient. The body is central in this liminal and carnevalistic reality and the individuals can play with different forms of taboos. The party may thus be seen as an escape zone for people who discipline themselves in their everyday life. The group is of major importance in the transgression. Through rituals in the group, the transgression becomes legitimate. The group also helps the individual to come back to everyday life.

scholarly journals Urban Questions in the Times of Coronavirus. Responding to the Crisis of Public Space

2020 ◽  
pp. 233-248
Author(s):  
Darko Radović ◽  
Davisi Boontharm ◽  
Pieter Klomp ◽  
Antonella Bruzzese ◽  
Stephen Cairns ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Small Group ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Round Table ◽  
Current Situation ◽  
To Come ◽  
The Times ◽  
Key Questions

This paper is edited on the basis of intensive round-table discussions within a relatively small group of colleagues interested and involved in thinking, making and working towards quality of public space, to discuss, problematise and evaluate what is going on and to speculate on actions suitable for these times, and the times that follow. The title of the round table emphasises questions, deliberately pointing at the enigmas posed by current situation. We see it as an opportunity to get and think together in a structured brain-storming session that encourages brave and risky discussion. The “task” for all of the participants is to reflect upon practices/experiences that we are individually familiar with, those that we are witnessing these days, and - to suggest what would be the key questions /issues that need to be (re)thought and addressed in the weeks, months, perhaps years to come. The roundtable discussions were held online on 1st May 2020 – then recorded, transcribed, edited and published as a joint piece.

Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival 2016, Huddersfield

Tempo ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 71 (280) ◽  
pp. 89-91
Author(s):  
Rose Dodd
Keyword(s):  
String Quartet ◽  
Contemporary Music ◽  
Rite Of Passage ◽  
Music Festivals ◽  
Music Festival ◽  
The World ◽  
To Come ◽  
Life On Earth ◽  
Selection Of

The Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival leaves an indelible impression on any brave soul who ventures into the chill, dark November nights across its ten days, a rite of passage challenging conceptions of the stuff music is made of. Now in its thirty-ninth year, this is one of the more established contemporary music festivals, yet it never fails to provoke and stimulate, a snapshot of current musical preoccupations. The first weekend traditionally showcases a selection of significant works, setting the tone for the subsequent week, and 2016 was no exception. Jennifer Walshe and the Arditti String Quartet opened the festival in a ‘declaration of love to life on earth’. EVERYTHING IS IMPORTANT (2016) is an eco-treatise on the bombardment the world is suffering – a torrent of visual and vocal disturbance with the arch-complexist Arditti gamely along for the ride, a playful synergy of theatre, voice and string quartet, preparing us for what was to come over the next few days.

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