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Dark Matter Substructure and Dwarf Galactic Satellites

Advances in Astronomy, 2010
A decade ago cosmological simulations of increasingly higher resolution were used to demonstrate that virialized regions of Cold Dark Matter (CDM) halos are filled with a multitude of dense,
Andrey Kravtsov
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GHOSTLY ENCOUNTERS IN LAGOS: Virtual Reality between Urban Marketing and Media Activism

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the role of virtual reality (VR) technologies in mediating and contesting dominant visions of urban futures in West Africa. Drawing on theoretical insights from a hybridization of the work of the German‐born Jewish critic Walter Benjamin and the Nigerian writer Amos Tutuola, I introduce the concept of phantasmagoria as a ...
Hervé Roquet
wiley   +1 more source

COSMOLOGICAL MARKINGS AND ERASURES: The Political Theology of State‐Led Gentrification and Heritagization

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article investigates the symbolic politics of state‐led gentrification and heritagization, focusing on how these processes serve to ‘glorify’ state power. Drawing on Agamben's political theology, Bourdieu's notion of symbolic power and space, and political heritage studies, we argue that the symbolic politics of state glorification can ...
Wouter van Gent, Tular Sudarmadi, Bakti Setiawan   +2 more
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Motion deviation of test body induced by spin and cosmological constant in extreme mass ratio inspiral binary system

European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields, 2019
The future space-borne detectors will provide the possibility to detect gravitational waves emitted from extreme mass ratio inspirals of stellar-mass compact objects into supermassive black holes.
Yu-Peng Zhang, Shao-Wen Wei, Pau Amaro-Seoane, Jie Yang, Yu-Xiao Liu   +4 more
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Late Antique Allāh: Ancestral Arabian Religion and the Monotheistic Zeitgeist

Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This essay addresses the ongoing scholarly tension between the monotheistic interpretations of late pre‐Islamic Arabian religion, pioneered by G. Hawting and P. Crone, and the traditional accounts of rampant Arabian polytheism found in later Islamic literary sources.
Ahmad Al‐Jallad, Hythem Sidky
wiley   +1 more source

Toward an Indigenous Curatorial Practice: Learning From Tłı̨chǫ Metaphors of Care to Establish Principles of Curation

American Anthropologist, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The displacement of items of cultural heritage from Indigenous communities is continually perpetuated through their appropriation into collection systems that are inappropriate to Indigenous laws and customs. This paper presents the efforts of the Tłı̨chǫ Government (TG) to address such issues by creating a system that is rooted within its ...
Rebecca L. Bourgeois, Karen Gelderman
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Cryogenic pure CsI as a probe for neutrino electromagnetic interactions

European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields
Searches for neutrino electromagnetic interactions at reactor sites require an unusual combination of ultra-low thresholds and a stable low-background environment.
C. M. Lewis
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Constraining the minimally extended varying speed of light model using time dilations

Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences
The Robertson–Walker (RW) metric, derived from the cosmological principle and Weyl’s postulate, characterizes the ΛCDM cosmological model. Traditionally, in this framework, the assumption of a constant speed of light leads to specific cosmological time ...
Seokcheon Lee
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Toward a Politics of Planetary Care: The Limits of More‐Than‐Human Approaches, Silenced Notes From Indigenous Forest Worlds in India

American Anthropologist, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In response to the planetary climate crisis, influential scholarship has directed us to decenter the human, recognize nonhuman agency, and imagine more‐than‐human futures. But what might this leave out? Drawing on Indigenous forest worlds in India and the incarcerated intellectual‐activists who struggled alongside them, this article develops a
Alpa Shah
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Cosmology and convention

Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, 2017
I argue that some important elements of the current cosmological model are "conventionalist" in the sense defined by Karl Popper. These elements include dark matter and dark energy; both are auxiliary hypotheses that were invoked in response to observations that falsified the standard model as it existed at the time.
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