Shanken / The Sublime “Jackass” is now an immense aggregation of commercial areas and office buildings. But it remains unincorporated, its political structure mirroring its indeterminate morphology. Many suburban and exurban areas, edge cities, and areas of sprawl share this ambiguity of governance and physical boundary. That they also share an abundance of neglected and remaindered spaces make...

This paper demonstrates the optimality of a non-maximal penalty in a hierarchical enforcement structure. The penalty is chosen by the social planner to maximize the probability of monitoring and to minimize the probability of transgression. We compare the optimal penalty levels with and without ex post flexibility wherein the players are allowed to alter their decision after they observe the so...

The peculiarities of the “domestic” and political worlds’ interactions as well their impact on freedom human choice are considered in article. purpose article is to analyze existential being which can be transformed light collecting or distracting way. phenomenon national security analyzed theoretical practical dimension. first part study separatism connected with modern social world’s tendency...

ate like James Bond, in thrilling ways, but under obscure Computational Modeling of Genetic and acronyms that confound the novice reader. Chapter 8 Biochemical Networks begins with an overview of how armies of leukocytes Edited By James M. Bower receive their marching orders via the sequential expresand Hamid Bolouri sion of adhesion systems, selectins, integrins, and IgCambridge, MA: MIT Press...

One line of research on children's attributions of guilt suggests that 3-year-olds attribute negative emotion to self-serving victimizers, slightly older children attribute happiness, and with increasing age, attributions become negative again (i.e., a three-step model; Yuill et al., 1996, Br. J. Dev. Psychol., 14, 457). Another line of research provides reason to expect that 3-year-olds may be...

Implicit moral evaluations-i.e., immediate, unintentional assessments of the wrongness of actions or persons-play a central role in supporting moral behavior in everyday life. Yet little research has employed methods that rigorously measure individual differences in implicit moral evaluations. In five experiments, we develop a new sequential priming measure-the Moral Categorization Task-and a m...

CNS/PNS interfaces constitute cell boundaries, because they delimit territories with different neuronal and glial contents. Despite their potential interest in regenerative medicine, the mechanisms restricting oligodendrocytes and astrocytes to the CNS and Schwann cells to the PNS in mammals are not known. To investigate the involvement of peripheral glia and myelin in the maintenance of the CN...

Rabiʿa al-Aʿdawiyya (717-801 A.D.) the first female Sufi in the Muslim world, who introduced the concept of ‘love’ into mysticism, was popular for her witticism, sharp reprimands of her contemporary male Sufis and her gender-bending practices. In ʿAttar’s Tadhkirat al-Awliya, Rabiʿa is portrayed as a challenger of the established gender norms of her day. Rabiʿa’s crossing of gender boundaries a...

This paper is based on an ongoing ethnography of a GLBT (gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender) guild in the MMOG World of Warcraft. Drawing on queer/feminist theory, the argument concentrates on sexuality as resource for ‘transgressive play’. The notion of transgressive play is usually taken to mean play against the ‘ideal’ or ‘implied’ player of the game, of playing the game in ways not anticip...