scholarly journals The gentrification of progressive red-light districts and new moral geographies: the case of Amsterdam and Zurich

2017 ◽  
Vol 24 (11) ◽  
pp. 1569-1586 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ilse van Liempt ◽  
Milena Chimienti
Keyword(s):  
Red Light ◽  
Moral Geographies

Touring the immoral. Affective geographies of visitors to the Amsterdam Red-Light district

Urban Studies ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 54 (3) ◽  
pp. 616-632 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amandine Chapuis
Keyword(s):  
Identity Formation ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Red Light ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Complex Dynamic ◽  
Consumption Practices ◽  
Mass Entertainment ◽  
Moral Geographies ◽  
Red Light District ◽  
Depth Interviews

The Amsterdam Red-Light district is a globalised mass-entertainment place for sex consumption. But the visitors touring the Red-Light district are far more diverse than sex tourists: men, women, gay, straight, stag or cultural tourists tour this place to feel the thrill of desire and disgust. The paper documents this process of commodification by these visitors, engaging with their lived experiences through ethnographic research and in-depth interviews. The paper shows the diversity of the consumption practices and representations of the spectacle of commodified sex, explaining how the emotions experienced by those touring the sex district draw on intersectional belongings (gender, sexuality, class, ethnicity). Intertwining affective and moral geographies, it concludes by arguing that the symbolic consumption of the Red-Light district cannot necessarily be predicted by virtue of standard categories of belonging, with identity formation and the consumption of sex being shaped by a complex dynamic of looks and gazes.

Postnatal growth rate and gonadal development in circadian tau mutant hamsters reared in constant dim red light

Reproduction ◽  
2000 ◽  
pp. 327-330 ◽  
Author(s):  
RJ Lucas ◽  
JA Stirland ◽  
YN Mohammad ◽  
AS Loudon
Keyword(s):  
Time Course ◽  
Red Light ◽  
Somatic Growth ◽  
Postnatal Growth ◽  
Gonadal Development ◽  
Testicular Development ◽  
Wild Type ◽  
Similar Time ◽  
Syrian Hamsters ◽  
Body Weights

The role of the circadian clock in the reproductive development of Syrian hamsters (Mesocricetus auratus was examined in wild type and circadian tau mutant hamsters reared from birth to 26 weeks of age under constant dim red light. Testis diameter and body weights were determined at weekly intervals in male hamsters from 4 weeks of age. In both genotypes, testicular development, subsequent regression and recrudescence exhibited a similar time course. The age at which animals displayed reproductive photosensitivity, as exhibited by testicular regression, was unrelated to circadian genotype (mean +/- SEM: 54 +/- 3 days for wild type and 59 +/- 5 days for tau mutants). In contrast, our studies revealed a significant impact of the mutation on somatic growth, such that tau mutants weighed 18% less than wild types at the end of the experiment. Our study reveals that the juvenile onset of reproductive photoperiodism in Syrian hamsters is not timed by the circadian system.

Inhibition of Various Steps in the Replication Cycle of Vesicular Stomatitis Virus Contributes to Its Photoinactivation by AlPcS4 or Pc4 and Red Light

1999 ◽  
Vol 69 (3) ◽  
pp. 353 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne C. E. Moor ◽  
Angeline E. Wagenaars-van Gompel ◽  
Ralph C. A. Hermanns ◽  
Jannes van der Meulen ◽  
Jolanda Smit ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Vesicular Stomatitis Virus ◽  
Red Light ◽  
Replication Cycle ◽  
Vesicular Stomatitis

Using watermark visibility measurements to select an optimized pair of spot colors for use in a binary watermark

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (15) ◽  
pp. 197-1-197-7
Author(s):  
Alastair Reed ◽  
Vlado Kitanovski ◽  
Kristyn Falkenstern ◽  
Marius Pedersen
Keyword(s):  
Food Packaging ◽  
Red Light ◽  
Human Observer ◽  
Viewing Distance ◽  
Point Of Sale ◽  
Complementary Color ◽  
Low Visibility ◽  
Packaging Industry ◽  
Spot Color ◽  
Selection Of

Spot colors are widely used in the food packaging industry. We wish to add a watermark signal within a spot color that is readable by a Point Of Sale (POS) barcode scanner which typically has red illumination. Some spot colors such as blue, black and green reflect very little red light and are difficult to modulate with a watermark at low visibility to a human observer. The visibility measurements that have been made with the Digimarc watermark enables the selection of a complementary color to the base color which can be detected by a POS barcode scanner but is imperceptible at normal viewing distance.

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