Stigma is not the automatic outcome of power differentials, but a distinctive moral inscription generated through cultural evaluations and governmental processes. Research on welfare recipients records how unemployed displace stigma onto other recipients, positioning other(ed) claimants as ‘real unemployed’ or ‘scroungers’. Theoretically we adapt Butler’s analysis psychic processes whereby subj...

We revoke the problem of drawing graphs in the plane so that only certain specified pairs of edges are allowed to cross. We overview some previous results and open problems, namely the connection to intersection graphs of curves in the plane. We complement these by stating a new conjecture and showing that its proof would solve the problem of algorithmic decidability of recognition of string gr...

Broadband perfect metamaterial absorbers have been drawing significant attention in recent years. A close-to-unity absorption over a broad spectral range is established and this facilitates many photonic applications. A more challenging goal is to construct a broadband absorber with a tailored spectral absorption. The spectral absorption control and spectral shaping are very critical in many ap...

The Arizona inspection and maintenance (I/M) program provides one of the first opportunities to examine the costs and effectiveness of vehicle emission repair. This paper examines various aspects of emission reductions, fuel economy improvements, and repair costs, drawing data from over 80,000 vehicles that failed the I/M test in Arizona between 1995 and the first half of 1996. We summarize the...

The assessment of the influence of the work-hardening of material on the optimum die profile and drawing force  in rod drawing process is the main objective of the present paper. The upper bound solution, based on the assumption of perfect plasticity, has been extended to consider the work-hardening of the material during the rod drawing process through curved dies. Analytical results of drawin...

This report describes the Fifth Annual Graph Drawing Contest , held in conjunction with the 1998 Graph Drawing Symposium in Montreal, Canada. The purpose of the contest is to monitor and challenge the current state of the art in graph-drawing technology 4, 5, 6, 7].