Bilingual/bisexual

Abstract Recent work in language and sexuality has emphasized globalization and multilingualism as important areas of investigation (Bucholtz & Hall 2006, Leap & Boellstorff 2003, Murray 2014). Concomitantly, other scholars have employed the construct of sexual fluidity as a metaphor for linguistic fluidity (Otsuji & Pennycook 2010, Pennycook & Otsuji 2015). Few studies, however, have examined how sexual and linguistic fluidity intersect in individual experience. This paper examines metalinguistic discourse in three fictional novels involving bisexual, bilingual characters in order to understand how talk about language informs representations of sexualities. In these texts bilingualism functions in constructing access to queer communities, authenticity, belonging, and emotional control for bisexual characters. Further, sexual and linguistic fluidity are portrayed as lifespan processes embedded in specific time periods. Such understandings point to a need for historical approaches to fluidity that capture longer timescales and multiple dimensions of linguistic and sexual desire, practice, and identity.

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Legal Protection Of Contract Employees Agreement In The Implementation Of Certain Time In Kendal (National Land Agency)

Jurnal Akta ◽

10.30659/akta.v5i2.3221 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 5 (2) ◽

pp. 491

Author(s):

Aldila Marselli ◽

Sri Endah Wahyuningsih

Keyword(s):

Legal Protection ◽

Employment Law ◽

Specific Time ◽

Labor Contract ◽

Contract Workers ◽

Contract Employees ◽

Employment Agreement ◽

Time Work ◽

Time Periods

Reforms in the field of employment law is done with the purpose to improve and enhance the quality of labor and personnel welfare. Reformation in the field of employment law begins with the issuance of Act No. 21 of 2000 concerning Trade Union / Labor United. Then followed with the release of Act No. 13 of 2003 on Manpower. Problems in this reasearch: (1) To identify and analyze the Implementation of the Employment Agreement in the Specific Time (PKWT) At the National Land Agency of Kendal. (2) To identify and analyze the forms of legal protection for workers at National Land Agency of Kendal with the Specific Time of Work Agreement (PKWT). The results of this study are: (1) Implementation of the Employment Agreement in the Specific Time (PKWT) at the Land Office of Kendal by implementing probation on each worker who recruits including contract workers. Which it is not supposed to apply probation at a certain time and labor agreements remain to be done if the employment agreement becomes null and void. (2) The legal protection of workers / laborers at Specific Time Work Agreement (PKWT) inemployeein practice has not run optimally, given the frequent violations, because of the vagueness of the rules on the implementation of the Employment Agreement for specific time periods, in providing protection against labor law for employees in the Land Office of Kendal.Keywords: Legal Protection; Labor Contract; the National Land Agency.

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A Longitudinal Analysis of COVID-19 Lockdown Stringency on Sleep and Resting Heart Rate Measures Across 20 Countries

10.21203/rs.3.rs-331447/v1 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Ju Lynn Ong ◽

TeYang Lau ◽

Mari Karsikas ◽

Hannu Kinnunen ◽

Michael W.L. Chee

Keyword(s):

Heart Rate ◽

Human Physiology ◽

Social Isolation ◽

Longitudinal Analysis ◽

Resting Heart Rate ◽

Specific Time ◽

Daily Routines ◽

Time Periods ◽

Subjective Reports

Abstract Lockdowns imposed to stem the spread of COVID-19 massively disrupted the daily routines of many worldwide, but studies to date are mostly confined to observations within a limited number of countries, based on subjective reports and survey from specific time periods during the pandemic. We investigated associations between lockdown stringency and objective sleep and resting-heart rate measures in 113,000 users of a consumer sleep tracker across 20 countries from Jan-Jul 2020. With stricter lockdown measures, midsleep times were universally delayed, particularly on weekdays, while midsleep variability and resting heart rate declined. These shifts (midsleep: +0.09 to +0.58 hours; midsleep variability: –0.12 to –0.26 hours; resting heart rate: –0.35 to –2.08 bpm) correlated with the severity of lockdown across different countries and highlight the graded influence of mobility restriction and social isolation on human physiology.

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Analysing palaeo cirque glacier equilibrium line altitudes as indicators of palaeoclimate across Scandinavia

10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-16981 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Rachel Oien ◽

Matteo Spagnolo ◽

Brice Rea ◽

Iestyn Barr ◽

Robert G. Bingham ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Equilibrium Line ◽

Specific Time ◽

Glacial Cycles ◽

Time Period ◽

Time Periods ◽

Glacial Periods ◽

Alpine Environments

<p>The equilibrium line altitudes (ELAs) of past cirque glaciers are used to obtain quantitative palaeoclimatic information from Alpine environments. The dimensions of these glaciers, and therefore their ELAs, are partly reconstructed from ice-free glacial cirques. However, in order to derive palaeoclimatic data for a particular time period, studies typically gloss-over the fact that cirques are time-transgressive landforms, shaped over multiple glacial cycles. In this study, we test the time-transgressive nature of cirque formation and assess the validity of using cirques as indicators of climate during individual glacial periods. To achieve this, we reconstruct glaciers and obtain palaeo ELAs from &#8764;4000 cirques across Norway and Sweden. The cirques are mapped in GIS, and the GlaRe tool is used to reconstruct glacier outlines before palaeo ELAs are estimated. The population of cirques is analysed to investigate whether sub-divisions can be made on the basis of floor altitude, aspect, and links to known palaeoclimatic patterns. In all, this study allows us to test the usefulness of cirques as indicators of palaeoclimate during specific time periods.&#160;&#160;</p>

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They Made a Desert and Called it Peace

Sociological Research Online ◽

10.5153/sro.259 ◽

1999 ◽

Vol 4 (2) ◽

pp. 93-101

Author(s):

Mike Drake

Keyword(s):

Recent Work ◽

Social Relations ◽

Critical Analysis ◽

Gulf War ◽

Ethnic Cleansing ◽

Global Order ◽

The Balkans ◽

Organized Violence ◽

Multiple Dimensions ◽

The Social

This paper addresses the social theorisation of war to the current conflict in the Balkans. It takes its terms of analysis from attempts to develop a sociology of war on the basis of the classic theories of Clausewitz and Jomini, from theories of postmodern war, from Baudrillard's commentary on the Gulf War, and from an extended critical application of recent work by Mary Kaldor on the new mode of warfare. I seek to avoid the blackmail of for-or-against and its loaded ideological positions by undertaking analysis through an exposition of the techniques, rationalities, economies, and social relations of organized violence constituting the current condition of warfare. By working through the complexity of these factors, rather than constructing simple oppositions, the method of critical analysis employed here enables us to explain how and why it is that NATO has failed to engage its primary objectives. The paper is thus able to confront the question not of whether NATO should have intervened in Kosovo, but of whether its campaign did or even could intervene in any real sense. The events in Kosovo are the contestation of war itself, and NATO's failure to recognise this has also been its failure to instrumentalise its violence in direct engagement with its military objectives, leading to circular self-justification in terms of achieving its own operational preconditions. The essay explores multiple dimensions of this misengagement, showing how the failure of NATO's air campaign to engage with the realities of ethnic cleansing illustrates the virtuality of its strategy and policy. The paper concludes by drawing some implications for contemporary projects of global order.

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A Longitudinal Analysis of COVID-19 Lockdown Stringency on Sleep and Resting Heart Rate Measures across 20 Countries

10.1101/2021.03.15.21253668 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Ju Lynn Ong ◽

TeYang Lau ◽

Mari Karsikas ◽

Hannu Kinnunen ◽

Michael W.L. Chee

Keyword(s):

Heart Rate ◽

Human Physiology ◽

Social Isolation ◽

Longitudinal Analysis ◽

Resting Heart Rate ◽

Specific Time ◽

Daily Routines ◽

Time Periods ◽

Subjective Reports

Lockdowns imposed to stem the spread of COVID-19 massively disrupted the daily routines of many worldwide, but studies to date are mostly confined to observations within a limited number of countries, based on subjective reports and survey from specific time periods during the pandemic. We investigated associations between lockdown stringency and objective sleep and resting-heart rate measures in 113,000 users of a consumer sleep tracker across 20 countries from Jan-Jul 2020. With stricter lockdown measures, midsleep times were universally delayed, particularly on weekdays, while midsleep variability and resting heart rate declined. These shifts (midsleep: +0.09 to +0.58 hours; midsleep variability: -0.12 to -0.26 hours; resting heart rate: -0.35 to -2.08 bpm) correlated with the severity of lockdown across different countries and highlight the graded influence of mobility restriction and social isolation on human physiology.

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An italic obsession: electoral reforms

Quaderni dell'Osservatorio elettorale QOE - IJES ◽

10.36253/qoe-9528 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 83 (1) ◽

pp. 5-16

Author(s):

Alessandro Chiaramonte

Keyword(s):

Electoral Systems ◽

Electoral System ◽

Proportional Representation ◽

Political Agenda ◽

The Political ◽

Specific Time ◽

Electoral Reforms ◽

History Of ◽

Time Periods ◽

Mixed Systems

The history of Italy is plenty of reforms of the electoral system. Many are those implemented since the country’s unification: from the majority system to the limited vote, from proportional representation to the majority premium in the liberal era; and, again, in the Republican era, the return to proportional representation and then the use of mixed systems, combining PR with plurality or majority premium. And many other are the reforms which, discussed and sometimes even approved, as in the case of the italicum, have remained dead letter or never saw the light. What explains this Italic obsession with the electoral systems? Why have their reforms been on the parties’ and governments’ political agenda for so long? The goal of this article is to answer these questions. In the end, electoral reforms have played as instruments of coordination and adaptation in the political strategies pursued by the parties in specific time periods and also as substitute instruments of institutional engineering in the absence of broader agreements on major constitutional reforms.

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Using Musical Codes to Enhance the Gaming Experience

10.1093/oso/9780190938680.003.0005 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 51-68

Author(s):

Noah Kellman

Keyword(s):

Video Games ◽

Multiple Time ◽

Specific Time ◽

Specific Time Period ◽

Time Period ◽

The World ◽

Time Periods ◽

The Creation ◽

Different Characteristics

Musical codes are musical devices, including melodies, timbres, or themes that carry predetermined associations for the listener. These types of codes have been used frequently in the world of film. However, the strange visual landscapes of video games provide composers with interesting opportunities to utilize and combine these codes in new ways to elicit different responses from the player. This chapter explores the different characteristics of sound that carry associations and how one can use these sounds to create new ones. It dives into a variety of well-known games that have used this technique and discusses the effectiveness, or conversely the ineffectiveness, of the resulting portrayal. Since codes can also be attached to a specific time period, this chapter also covers the concept of using codes in the creation of musical anachronism: using musical codes to layer multiple time periods on top of each other to blur the game’s timeline or create a stacked temporal atmosphere.

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Development Through Epistemicide: The Case of Indigo

Social Change ◽

10.1177/0049085719873484 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 49 (4) ◽

pp. 573-589

Author(s):

Krishnamurari Mukherjee

Keyword(s):

Specific Time ◽

Post Colonial ◽

Politics Of Knowledge ◽

Time Periods ◽

Indigo Dye ◽

The Way

This essay strives to probe the trajectory of politics of knowledge in the context of India’s politics of development in two specific time periods—the colonial and the post-colonial. The chosen empirical case through which the inquiry will be undertaken is the case of cultivation of the indigo dye. The primary interrogation of this work stands as follows: can a case for epistemicide be made with regards to certain practices of development instantiated herein by the cultivation of the indigo dye in the time-periods cited above? If so, then how? Furthermore, the essay also seeks to understand the differences that exist in the way which the politics of epistemicide plays out in both these temporal contexts. Hence, if there are any differences, what would they be? Finally, how does such politics of knowledge implicate a developmental democracy like India? The methodology pursued is analytical and comparative.

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Identities and Bodies in Early Modern Studies

The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Embodiment ◽

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199663408.013.13 ◽

2016 ◽

pp. 227-246

Author(s):

Ania Loomba

Keyword(s):

Early Modern ◽

Recent Work ◽

Sexual Desire ◽

Religious Faith ◽

Black Body ◽

Gender And Sexuality ◽

The Body ◽

Skin Colour ◽

Colonial History ◽

Physical Attributes

This essay reflects on intersectionality as a perspective in early modern studies, and how it can be brought into productive conversation with the question of embodiment. It argues that we can use recent work on gender and sexuality in non-Western contexts to rethink our understanding of these categories, and also their relationship to racial and colonial history. It then looks at some key writings about the black body in the medieval and early modern periods to show how their concern with the question of embodiment, or how the physical attributes of the body (such as skin colour), is connected to what lies inside (be that the soul, or religious faith, or particular moral traits, sexual desire, or fluids and secretions that ensure procreation), helps us understand the intimacy of the vocabularies of race and global contact with those of gender and sexuality.

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Categorisation of Urban Water Consumptions

10.29007/2mtq ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Joaquim Leitão ◽

Nuno Simões ◽

José Alfeu Marques ◽

Paulo Gil ◽

Bernardete Ribeiro ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Water Supply ◽

Water Consumption ◽

Time Distribution ◽

Urban Environments ◽

Consumption Patterns ◽

Urban Water ◽

Specific Time ◽

Pattern Recognition Techniques ◽

Overall Performance ◽

Time Periods

Achieving an optimised management of water supply infrastructures is a very important and challenging task, namely in urban environments. The identification and prediction of actual water consumption patterns can be exploited to improve the overall performance of water supply infrastructures. This work considers the application of pattern recognition techniques on water consumption time-series to quantify the time distribution of common consumption behaviours in urban environments. Three groups representing typical consumption patterns have been considered: one characterised by residual consumptions, which occur during the summer months of June and July, while the remaining two consist of significant consumption during the day, with differences taking place during night periods – the first group, more prevalent during warmer months, is represented by higher consumptions during the night, when compared with the second group, more representative of colder months, but showing also some expression all year round. Results also demonstrate that an automatic categorisation of urban water consumptions can be carried out along with the identification of specific time periods in which each pattern occurs.

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