Abstract Contemporary carnivals represent rather banal spectacles, harnessed by institutional control and stripped of their meaning as disruptive processes revelry, expressivity defiance. However, when organised at grassroots level, may retain subversive character, revealing intentions to cross the limits urban normality. By drawing on ethnographic data, this article explores carnival Metaxourg...

We report on the experimental observation of the phase angle of a particle escaping over a periodically modulated potential barrier. Optical tweezers and back-focal plane position detection were used to record particle trajectories in the entire double-well potential. These measurements provide a sensitive test of theories proposed in the past decade of escape driven by random thermal noise fro...

Introduction Although it would be inaccurate to suggest that time has been neglected in sociology (Nowotny, 1992) it is a frequently taken for granted presence, embedded in normalcy and thus escaping a critical gaze (Daly, 1996). The intangibility of temporal experience raises challenges for its study, yet everything people do is embedded and extended in time across the modalities of past, pres...

Fire hazard causes lots of economic loss and personal injuries every year. Many ways are proposed to help people escape quickly from dangerous region. As one key step for fire escaping, the fire escaping system detects fire and dynamically provides escaping route to help people escape from fire scene. With the advanced technique, Wireless Sensor Network (WSN), the fire escaping system is develo...

Let f be a transcendental entire function and U be a Fatou component of f . We show that if U is an escaping wandering domain of f , then most boundary points of U (in the sense of harmonic measure) are also escaping. In the other direction we show that if enough boundary points of U are escaping, then U is an escaping Fatou component. Some applications of these results are given; for example, ...

The hippocampus has long been of interest to memory researchers, but recent studies have also implicated the hippocampus in various aspects of future thinking and imagination. Here we provide an overview of relevant studies and ideas that have attempted to characterize the contributions of the hippocampus to future thinking and imagination, focusing mainly on neuroimaging studies conducted in o...