This article examines how hospital workers engage in embodied mobilizations drawing on the life-affirming power of death and love to resist the demise of the French public hospital system. Drawing on Butler’s work on “What is a livable life” (2022a, 2022b) and Notes toward a performative theory of assembly (2015), the study analyses a four-year data collection of Facebook posts, from two activist collectives of hospital workers. Our findings highlight three forms of ethical resistance. First, hospital workers mobilize the symbolism of death to denounce the erosion of public healthcare infrastructure and to urge the public to help save it. Second, they use this symbolism to shed light on the precariousness of their working conditions and to elicit compassionate care from citizens. Third, they make the symbolism of love for public healthcare visible, prompting reflection on the importance of public service values in a society rooted in solidarity and mutual care. This work contributes to the literature at the intersection of social mobilization and ethics of care: first, it brings to the front death and love as symbols that illuminate the radical political potential of care in social movements; second, it advances the theoretical construct of “ethics of publicness.”

This paper presents a study in which modelling and simulation have been used to assess the effect of the aircraft lifts on the air flow over the flight deck of the Queen Elizabeth Class (QEC) aircraft carriers and the subsequent impact on helicopter operations. The aircraft lifts can be either raised or lowered, and they can also have aircraft on them. They can therefore significantly alter the geometry of the starboard side of the ship and, potentially, the air flow over the flight deck. The air flow over the flight deck of the QEC was investigated using experimental and Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) techniques. To assess how the air flows for the different lift configurations affected a helicopter landing on the flight deck, piloted flight simulation trials were performed in which a test pilot conducted helicopter deck landings in CFD-simulated Green 60 winds with speeds from 10 kt to 40 kt. Pilot assessment showed the operational wind speed limits, across all spots and lift configurations, were 30 kt or 35 kt and that the different lift configurations produced a 5 kt change in the maximum tolerable wind speeds. While the distribution of the workload experienced by the pilot along the flight path was different for the three lift configurations, it was judged that the difficulty of the overall landing task was not sufficiently affected to require different limiting wind speeds for the different lift configurations.

Scholars continue to demonstrate the enduring relevance of structural power when analysing contemporary international affairs such as US–China rivalry, transformations of global finance, and the increasing significance of cyber power. Yet, in this paper, I find that the everyday foundations of structural power remain vastly unexplored. While work on structural power and everyday research might be seen as opposites, I argue that there are important interactions between these two approaches to international power. Everyday forces and everyday agents constantly inform and shape structural power. This highlights a mutually dependent relationship between power in the international system and the everyday. In this paper, I therefore advance a new theoretical framework that explores these links between the mundane dynamics of the everyday and world affairs. It conceptualises the state as a mediator between the two levels and stresses how a perceptual selectivity favours certain parts of the everyday over others. I illustrate the usefulness of this theoretical approach and the continued relevance of structural power by exploring how intersections between everyday life and patterns of production in parts of the US have contributed to recent disruptions to American structural power and the way it is being deployed on the international stage.

We present a study of oblique-wave scattering by an H-shaped breakwater submerged in deep water. The H-shaped breakwater is designed using two thin vertical plates connected by a thin horizontal plate. The velocity potentials that describe the wave motion in different regions are expressed using the Havelock expansion. Two first-kind Fredholm-type integral equations are derived by applying the continuity of fluid velocity and pressure at the interface for the horizontal component of fluid velocity across the gap below and above the breakwater. The coefficients of wave reflection and transmission are derived in explicit forms that require the solution of integral equations. The solutions of integral equations are obtained by employing the Galerkin approximation that involves simple polynomials. In some limiting cases, wave scattering by submerged $\large \boldsymbol {\sqcap }$ and $\large \boldsymbol {\sqcup }$-shaped breakwaters is also studied. The correctness of the results is verified by comparing them with existing results reproduced in a limiting case and checking the wave energy balance equation. The results reveal that the H-, $\large \boldsymbol {\sqcap }$- and $\large \boldsymbol {\sqcup }$-shaped breakwaters show low wave transmission for most incident wavelengths. The horizontal plate between the vertical plates accounts for this low wave transmission. Wave forces and the overturning moment are also calculated. These breakwaters may be used in water regions that require low wave transmission.

The history and practice of party polarization in Congress is a gendered concept. Men have comprised the overwhelming majority of legislators from both parties, served as their party’s leaders, and dominated the party caucuses. As women and women of color have increased their presence in the institution, particularly among Democrats, gender and race have emerged as important themes in understanding party polarization in contemporary congresses. In an analysis of legislative activity of members in the 104th to the 117th Congresses, I find the two most distinct groups of partisans, Democratic women and Republican men, are prominently featured in the opposing party’s negative messaging to constituents and voters. The prominence of Democratic women as the focal point of negative messaging from the opposition has significant consequences for this group of officeholders. This study enhances our understanding of how gender dynamics inform party polarization in legislatures.

Previous research has suggested bidirectional relations between depressive symptoms and both internal and external core beliefs (self-esteem and optimism, respectively) in adolescence. However, little work has examined the cultural commonality versus specificity of these developmental pathways in adolescence across diverse contexts. To address this gap, the current study traced bidirectional associations among depressive symptoms and two forms of core beliefs (self-esteem and optimism) in adolescents from 12 cultural groups in nine countries. Longitudinal data were collected from 1,090 adolescents at ages 15 and 17. Significant associations emerged between age 15 depressive symptoms and both age 17 core beliefs across all cultural groups except Sweden. No significant associations between age 15 core beliefs and age 17 depressive symptoms were found in the multigroup model. However, the pathways from core beliefs to depressive symptoms and from depressive symptoms to core beliefs did not significantly differ in strength. These findings provide cross-cultural evidence for the scar theory (depressive symptoms → core beliefs), but no clear support for the vulnerability theory (core beliefs → depressive symptoms), perhaps due to the measurement and stability of depression. These findings have implications for understanding the adolescent development of psychopathology and cognitions, such as core beliefs, across diverse cultures.

Transitional justice’s nature has continued to evolve and, consequently, its scope has significantly widened, raising various unsettled issues. As this review essay observes, transitional justice itself has become conceptually “transitional”, undergoing profound transitions and doing so within an also increasingly and profoundly changing context. Also, as this essay contends, the orientation of those transitions lies at the core of competing visions for transitional justice as a whole. In this vein, as this essay further argues, two major trends seem to be emerging and giving shape to transitional justice’s ongoing transitions: firstly, a trend towards focusing on the (infra)structural dimension of transitional justice processes and thus aiming to reorient transitional justice towards addressing “(infra)structural” factors of (societal) change; and, secondly, a trend towards increasingly relying on public law, in both international and internal legal orders, as a framework to conceptually articulate and implement (infra)structural processes of change.

In this paper a part of a new multi-proxy results obtained from the Kotoń landslide fen deposits (the Beskid Makowski Mountains, the Outer Western Carpathians, S Poland), including loss on ignition analysis, plant macrofossil analysis and radiocarbon dating is presented. The aim of the study was to verify whether the reconstructed local palaeoecological stages of the Kotoń fen development could be correlated with the Bølling-Older Dryas-Allerød sequence and to verify whether the rarely recognised short GI-1d/Older Dryas climate cooling affected the regional and local palaeoecological record of the Kotoń deposits. Results showed that four palaeoecological stages of development (poor-in-vegetation waterbody, waterbody with aquatic succession, calcareous extremely rich fen and moderately rich fen) determined for the Kotoń landslide fen deposits between ca. 14,600–13,500 cal BP stay in agreement with the earlier pollen division of the Kotoń deposits and with the extraregional chronology of the Greenland ice cores. The influence of GI-1d/Older Dryas climate cooling on the surrounding and regional vegetation was recognised for the deposits of Kotoń and other localities in a form of open-space habitats with herbs, shrubs and sparse tree stands, e.g. steppe-tundra, reflecting the cold and dry climatic conditions. In case of local vegetation and palaeohydrological changes, the Older Dyas climatic oscillation was recorded as a shallowing of the existing palaeo-waterbodies. Although for other localities this process was attributed to the dry climatic conditions, in case of Kotoń site more detail multi-proxy research is necessary to distinguish the climatic impact from the autogenic succession.

For any $2 \le n < \omega $, we introduce a forcing poset using generalized promises which adds a normal n-splitting subtree to a $(\ge \! n)$-splitting normal Aronszajn tree. Using this forcing poset, we prove several consistency results concerning finitely splitting subtrees of Aronszajn trees. For example, it is consistent that there exists an infinitely splitting Suslin tree whose topological square is not Lindelöf, which solves an open problem due to Marun. For any $2 < n < \omega $, it is consistent that every $(\ge \! n)$-splitting normal Aronszajn tree contains a normal n-splitting subtree, but there exists a normal infinitely splitting Aronszajn tree which contains no $(< \! n)$-splitting subtree. To show the latter consistency result, we prove a forcing iteration preservation theorem related to not adding new small-splitting subtrees of Aronszajn trees.

In rural India, a large portion of the population continues to struggle with poverty, limited access to resources and education, and few job opportunities. This leads to many individuals, including men, women, and children, having to take on daily wage labouring jobs to make ends meet. Women from marginalised communities often find themselves working in fields, brick kilns, construction sites, small factories, or as domestic workers in higher caste households. Unfortunately, the wages earned from these informal jobs are often insufficient for survival, and these women also face discrimination based on caste, class, religion, and gender in the workplace. This creates an undignified and oppressive environment for these women, particularly when they take on paid domestic work, which is often exploitative and rife with abuse in rural areas.

This paper seeks to explore the intertwined experiences of paid domestic workers in rural India. It is based on primary research conducted through in-depth, semi-structured interviews with 25 domestic workers during and after the pandemic in the Chandauli district of Uttar Pradesh, representing a rural area. The paper contends that domestic work in rural India remains deeply rooted in caste-based servitude. The organisation of paid domestic work in rural India is influenced by a complex interplay of caste, class, gender, and religious identities. There exists not only a division of labour but also a hierarchy of labourers within domestic work. They not only encounter caste discrimination but also perpetuate discrimination against fellow workers ranked lower in the caste hierarchy.

We give some characterizations of $\sigma $-unbounded Dunford–Pettis operators (whenever $x_{n}\overset {uaw}{\longrightarrow } 0$ implies that $T(x_{n})\overset {un}{\longrightarrow } 0$). In addition, we study some properties of this operator, some other interesting results are also obtained.

Camera traps have revolutionised wildlife monitoring. However, no consensus method exists for analysing these data. We investigated how commonly used modelling procedures affect the detection of environmental effects and quantified how this affected species distribution maps, which are essential tools for conservation planning. We used the tapeti Sylvilagus brasiliensis sensu lato, monitored using camera traps in a Brazilian indigenous reserve. We compared the ability of two commonly used modelling procedures (occurrence- vs abundance-based models, controlling or not for imperfect detection, using or not time-to-independence thresholds) to detect species responses to environmental variables. We then compared the species distribution predicted from each modelling procedure. Abundance models detected additional effects compared with occurrence models. Occurrence models detected the same environmental effects whether or not they accounted for imperfect detection. In contrast, abundance models were sensitive to imperfect detection. N-mixture models that controlled for detection provided consistent results regarding the nature, sign, and magnitude of effects, whether no time-to-independence, 30-min or 60-min thresholds were applied. Ignoring imperfect detection should not be an option for analysing camera-trap data of unmarked individuals. Hierarchical modelling, allowing detection and ecological processes to be modelled separately, should be preferred. We advocate for developing guidelines for analysing camera-trap data.

Ghostwriting autobiographies has gained so high a profile that novels and films focus on the ghost. To deepen understanding of such collaborations in science and medicine, this article reconstructs the making of A Matter of Life (1980), ‘the sensational story of the world’s first test-tube baby’. Although critiqued by feminist scholars, revised through research and embellished in fiction, this double autobiography of Robert Edwards and Patrick Steptoe is still the standard history of the British team’s work to achieve in vitro fertilisation (IVF). It is thus high time to investigate the debt acknowledged only by ‘gratitude for his invaluable help’ to the physician and poet Dannie Abse. I use previously unexploited manuscripts to illuminate relationships among authors, rewriter, and editor, and among those they cast as involved in the research. The records show that Abse rewrote underwhelming drafts for a publisher that had bought and sold the doctors’ story of the ‘baby of the century’ and needed a bestseller. To engage readers, he reworked the text so that alleviating infertility appeared as a career-long quest. As a result of adding vivid scenes with characters and expository dialogue, Abse began to give women—wives, assistants and patients—larger roles in the drama. The objections of Edwards and his circle to various literary references and factual claims were overruled. Yet the authors came across more sympathetically, and IVF was promoted more effectively, than in their own drafts. The process puts recent retellings of the story into perspective and exemplifies how collaboration can shape scientific and medical autobiographies.