Abstract The article focuses on how low and lower-middle class youth employed in new private sector jobs the booming service economy Indian cities engage with material environment of their workplace, how, through ‘aesthetic scrutiny’ its materiality, come to ‘consume’ work. setting is store floor a fast-expanding organized retail company, called Spexy, that sells budget eyewear products. Throug...

etween me and the sky there was nothing except the high frail roof of the pandanus leaves, where the lizards have their nests, " wrote Paul Gauguin in the autobiographical account of his first visit to Tahiti (1). Under the Pandanus (on this month's cover of Emerging Infectious Diseases) was painted shortly after Gauguin arrived on the islands in search of his famed reprieve from Western civili...

We propose a dilatant, two-layer debris flow model validated by full scale density/saturation measurements obtained from the Swiss Illgraben test site. Like many existing models we suppose consists of matrix solid particles (rocks, boulders) that is surrounded muddy fluid. However, split fluid into two fractions. One part, inter-granular fluid, bonded to and fills void space between particles. ...