Police Labor and Exploitation: Case Study of North India

This chapter analyzes data collected over more than two years of ethnographic fieldwork with police in north India. It argues that subordinate police personnel in this decolonizing world region often experience exploitation as laborers, even as they routinely deploy excessive force and sometimes misuse their authority to intervene in everyday life. The analysis reveals an imbrication of official police rank hierarchies with broader forms of social inequality (especially socioeconomic class, religion, and caste) through observations of interactions among police personnel of various ranks and interviews with current and former officers in Uttar Pradesh, India’s most populous state. It also develops methodological concepts of “strategic complicity” and “critical empathy,” and suggests directions for future ethnographic research on policing that may help us discern the complexities of both local and global social justice movements and power relations.

Expedience of force applicationg massage

The article examines the feasibility of using force during massage and its intensity. It is proved that each patient needs an individual approach, as well as the negative impact of the template approach. The issue of harm to the life and health of the patient from use of excessive force during the massage is being investigated. The consequences that a person after the procedure are revealed if we do not take into account his individual characteristics: age, sex, chronic diseases, peculiarities of pain perception and diseases of the musculoskeletal system. The option of some massage therapists is analyzed, who claim that only a strong massage can bring benefits and a positive result. It was found that people who attended massage, applying a strong influence without taking into account individual characteristics. Such patients show negative consequences. According to the results of theoretical and practical research, it is established that the force use during the massage must be individually selected. To avoid mistakes and negative consequences, masseurs need to research to work on this topic and listen to high-class professionals who use only an individual approach. It is necessary to listen carefully to the patient, communicate with him about his condition, study the general picture of health and use only those methods and manipulations that are affective and not contraindicated. The author concludes that massage is not just pressing with force on a person but the launch of many processes in the body. It the massage is done correctly and the result will be positive, if not, the result will be negative and unpredictable. At best, a person will be disappointed in the massage and will never come again. The author concludes that any qualified massage therapist in his practice should take an individual approach and avoid the most common mistakes.

Unexpected Anesthetic Circuit Leak Attributed to Improper Use of a Tube Holder: A Case Report

Leaks involving the anesthesia circuit can cause significant complications including hypoxia and hypoventilation. We present a case of a circuit leak caused by damage to the corrugated tubing attributed to improper use of the tube holder. A 58-year-old male was scheduled for resection of a palatal tumor under an intubated general anesthetic. After successful nasotracheal intubation, the anesthesiologist inserted the corrugated tubing of the anesthetic circuit into the tube holder. A leaking sound was heard and a tear in the corrugated tubing was promptly discovered. The corrugated tubing of the anesthetic circuit presumably tore because it was inserted into the groove of the tube holder at an inappropriate angle with excessive force. Anesthesiologists should be aware of potential leaks if the anesthesia circuit is damaged, which may be caused by improper use of tube holders.

Social media, police excessive force and the limits of outrage: Evaluating models of police scandal

Recent criminological research has developed a processual conceptualisation of scandal to analyse policing and criminal justice transgression and its attempted management. Through media content analysis and in-depth interviews with police and non-police respondents, this article applies criminological theories of scandal to a case of bystander-filmed police excessive force at the 2013 Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras parade and uploaded to YouTube. The article renders scandal more complex than existing models, emphasising outrage and surprise in cases of bystander social media police scandals involving police excessive force, in conjunction with Mawby’s processual model. However, it argues that despite the mobilising force of outrage through social media, police capture of police complaint mechanisms and political opportunism can normalise police transgression and blur lines of responsibility. Individual transgressions can be linked to a macro, ‘chronic’ scandal of police excessive force, diminishing scandal’s conceptual and practical purchase as a police accountability lever.

The design of a force feedback soft gripper for tomato harvesting

In smart farming, both artificial intelligence and robotic systems are applied in order to improve efficiency. In agriculture, for jobs such as seeding, monitoring, and harvesting, robots are widely used. When using robots to harvest fruit and vegetables, it is essential not to apply excessive force, as it may damage the harvest. In this paper, a soft robotic three-fingered gripper is presented. It was designed and analysed using the finite element method. Each finger is made of silicone rubber. The shape of the finger is designed so that it is capable of handling spherical shaped objects, such as tomatoes or oranges. When holding a tomato, the fingers apply the contact force. The fingers are actuated pneumatically and the force applied is also controlled by a micro controller. The pressure inside the air chamber of the finger is in the range of 0- 95 kPa. Force sensors are attached to the end of each finger to provide force feedback. Then, the holding force is adjusted and applied to the surface of the tomato. The gripper can successfully grasp tomatoes with a force less than the bio-yield of the tomatoes 2.57 N.

The glycocalyx affects force loading-dependent mechanotransductive topography sensing at the nanoscale

ABSTRACTThe cell/microenvironment interface is the starting point of integrin-mediated mechanotransduction, but many details of mechanotransductive signal integration remain elusive due to the complexity of the involved (extra)cellular structures, such as the glycocalyx.We used engineered nano-bio interfaces with extracellular matrix nanotopography-mimicking features to analyse the impact of the glycocalyx on nano-mechanosensing. Our data demonstrates that the glycocalyx configuration affects spatiotemporal nanotopography-sensitive mechanotransductive events at the cell/microenvironment interface. Opposing effects of glycocalyx removal were observed, when comparing flat and specific nanotopographical conditions (i.e., 15 nm root-mean-square (rms) roughness). In fact, the excessive force loading and retrograde actin flow speed, characteristic for the 15 nm rms nanotopography in the presence of native glycocalyx, are strongly reduced in its absence. Conversely, on the flat substrate, these parameters increased upon glycocalyx-targeting enzymatic treatment.Our results highlight the importance of the glycocalyx configuration in a molecular clutch force loading-dependent cellular mechanism for nano-mechanosensing of the topography.

Understanding significance of sitting posture as a etiological factor causing low back pain

Good posture is important because it minimizes the excessive force that muscles and joints need to absorb. Psychology studies have suggested that slouchier postures make people look less confident to others, and even feel less competent, Henderzahs-Mason said. There's also some evidence showing that people who walk with a slouched posture have a higher predisposition to depression than those who walk more upright. In this article we have tried to compile the significance of sitting posture as a etiological factor causing low back pain. Back pain has been termed as “an illness in search of a disease”.