Microbial Empires: Active Transmission Strategies and Postcolonial Critique

In this chapter Taylor-Pirie illuminates how the microbiological imagination made its mark on anxious imperial fictions by close reading H. G. Wells’s The War of the Worlds (1898) and John Masefield’s Multitude and Solitude (1909) alongside parasitologists’ characterisations of parasite-vector-host relationships. The anthropocentric semantics of war, violence, and criminality characterised tropical illness as another form of colonial insurrection, bolstering the biopolitical power of medicine as an extension of the disciplinary law-and-order state. She interrogates the collision of the ‘medicine as war’ metaphor with a medicalised concept of ‘the Other’ to think through biomedical and national identity—as well as the discomforting agency of non-human vectors—in Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897), H. P. Lovecraft and Hazel Heald’s ‘Wingéd Death’ (1934), and the poetry and correspondence of parasitologists. Taylor-Pirie examines how vengeful insects, alien invasions, microbial villains, and the supernatural gave shape to the anxiety that Britain’s geopolitical relationships were immersing the imperial capital in a global marketplace of pathogens. By excavating the medical and political contexts of popular cultural forms like the vampire, she historicises lexes of contagion and parasitism that persist in contemporary political discourse surrounding immigration.

Effect of Particle Size on Magnetic Phase Coexistence in Nanocrystalline La0.4Bi0.3Sr0.3MnO3

Magnetic phase coexistence in the substituted perovskite compound, La0.4Bi0.3Sr0.3MnO3, is attributed to the spontaneous moment and a step-like metamagnetic transition observed in the magnetization measurements in its magnetically order state. The magnetism of samples reduced to nanometer sizes by the “top down” approach exhibits interesting changes with respect to the bulk, thus giving a handle in influencing the physical properties by reducing the particle size. The bulk sample orders ferromagnetically at TC = 295 K, whereas in nano-sized samples with particle sizes in the range of 21–30 nm, even though TC does not change, the transitions are suppressed. The nano-sized powder samples show a broad hump in the plot of magnetic susceptibility, signifying the possible disordered antiferromagnetic state. A systematic decrease in the magnitude of magnetization in nano-sized samples shows that the reduction in magnetic interaction could be attributed to the formation of a magnetic dead layer around the magnetic core.

Pomezanian Feoffees in the State of the Teutonic Order in the 1260–1370s

The article deals with the problem of incorporation of the Pomezanians who settled in western Prussian lands in the social system of the Order State in the 1260–1370s. To research this problem, the article discusses composition and functions of 227 feoffees entered the service of brethern and bishops. These aspects have not been thoroughly studied in historiography; they are fixed in 147 acts, such as Pomezanian Law and the Chronicles of Peter of Dusburg and Wigand of Marburg. The given aspects have been researched with prosopographical, historical- comparative, typological, and diachron-synchronous methods, that allowed us to make the following conclusions. The majority of feoffees (165 of 227 persons) kept the military service for their estates and additionally paid natural, natural-money or cash taxes (Group 1) or were free from taxes (Group 2). These groups were constantly increased in number in the 1260–1370s. It was caused by the Order need for warriors for military campaigns against the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Kingdom of Poland. In contrast to them, Group 3 was rarely replenished and paid the brethern and church additional taxes from distinct lands. These groups had social-propriety differentiation, negative consequences of the latter were neutralized by the Order and church due to the heirs’ increasing numver, permission to change land estates, exemption from military service and taxes for a certain period of time and other actions. These measures were based on the local law and combined with regulations of military service and taxes fixed in Culm Charter. This situation the flexible policy conducted by the brethern and church in Pomezania. It became the basis for successful incorporation of local inhabitants in the social system of the Order State.

Ideology and State Apparatus to Create New Order State Power

This research tries to describe how the New Order State Journey to power and perpetuates its power. By applying Althusser's theory of State Apparatus, this study specifically focuses on the concept of Ideological State Apparatuses (ISA) and Repressive State Apparatuses (RSA) which were operationalized in the New Order society. Qualitative descriptive research is used to interpret data in books that have researched the “New Order” before. The results of this study indicate that the “New Order” state used ISAs such as political parties, cultural, law, media, and religion. Then, “New Order” state used the RSA such as military and para-military organizations to control and maintain domination within the Indonesian State.Keywords: New Order State, Ideological, State ApparatusAbstrakPenelitian ini mencoba mendeskripsikan bagaimana Perjalanan Negara Orde Baru berkuasa dan melanggengkan kekuasaannya. Dengan menerapkan teori Althusser tentang Aparatur Negara, penelitian ini secara khusus berfokus pada konsep Aparatus Ideologi Negara (ISA) dan Aparatur Negara Represif (RSA) yang dioperasionalkan dalam masyarakat Orde Baru. Penelitian deskriptif kualitatif digunakan untuk menafsirkan data dalam buku-buku yang pernah diteliti “Orde Baru” sebelumnya. Hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa negara “Orde Baru” menggunakan ISA seperti partai politik, budaya, hukum, media, dan agama. Kemudian, negara “Orde Baru” menggunakan RSA seperti organisasi militer dan paramiliter untuk mengontrol dan mempertahankan dominasi di dalam Negara Indonesia.Kata Kunci: Negara Orde Baru, Ideologi, State Apparatus

Analysis on Controllability Results for Wellposedness of Impulsive Functional Abstract Second-Order Differential Equation with State-Dependent Delay

The functional abstract second order impulsive differential equation with state dependent delay is studied in this paper. First, we consider a second order system and use a control to determine the controllability result. Then, using Sadovskii’s fixed point theorem, we get sufficient conditions for the controllability of the proposed system in a Banach space. The major goal of this study is to demonstrate the controllability of an abstract second-order impulsive differential system with a state dependent delay mechanism. The wellposed condition is then defined. Next, we studied whether the defined problem is wellposed. Finally, we apply our results to examine the controllability of the second order state dependent delay impulsive equation.