Despite a contemporary milieu that emphasises fluidities across gender boundaries and shifting roles, the 75 respondents in the study that informs this paper presented their food auto/biographies as a type of transformation narrative heavily influenced by the continued intersectionalities of gender and class. Respondents utilised ‘common vocabularies’ (Mills 1959) and conformed to cultural scri...

As Foundation Fieldbus becomes more widely used for the development of process control solutions, the limitations of having a standard, fixed vocabulary of function blocks will become more obvious to control system engineers. To help mitigate this problem, I intend to develop a way to safely specify arbitrary control logic within the dataflow based framework of the Foundation Fieldbus Function ...

A researcher’s position as an outsider and/or insider in relation to the population under study is important and can affect the research relationship. This paper is based on an NIHR SSCR funded research project on attitudes to social care services. Qualitative data were collected through semistructured interviews with members of the Asian (Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi) ethnic groups in the So...

Reperfusion therapy is the most useful part of the treatment for patients suffering from an acute coronary syndrome. Start time of reperfusion therapy is an important factor which influenced positively on the number of days of hospitalization, and readmission, the risk of reinfarction, as well as both, short and long-term mortality. Today, several models of reperfusion therapy are available: th...

Belgium’s foreign direct investment (FDI) screening mechanism entered into force on 13 June 2023. The genesis of this was slowed down by the complex institutional landscape in Belgium. A scenario which various levels government would have created their own separate procedure fortunately avoided. newly adopted cooperation agreement between federal state and eight ‘federated entities’ aims to est...

We give an exact spectral equivalence between the quantum group invariant XXZ chain with arbitrary left boundary term and the same XXZ chain with purely diagonal boundary terms. This equivalence, and a further one with a link pattern Hamiltonian, can be understood as arising from different representations of the one-boundary Temperley-Lieb algebra. For a system of size L these representations a...

It is commonly believed that the use of arbitrary symbols and the process of symbolisation have made possible the discourse of modern mathematics as well as modern, symbolic logic. This paper discusses the role of symbols in logic and mathematics, and in particular analyses whether symbols remain arbitrary in the process of symbolisation. It begins with a brief summary of the relation between s...