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Rotation by Reciprocation Casing-Landing Technology
Authors: Wilson Adam
Published: November 2016

This article, written by Special Publications Editor Adam Wilson, contains highlights of paper SPE 172144, “Rotation by Reciprocation Casing-Landing Technology,” by R. Gosselin and T. Montgomery, Longhorn Casing Tools; A. Muriby, SPE, and Moataz Yussef, Wildcat Oilfield Services; and S. Karrani and A. Khamis, Abu Dhabi Marine Operating Company, prepared for the 2014 Abu Dhabi International Petroleum Exhibition and Conference, Abu Dhabi, 10–13 November. The paper has not been peer reviewed.

With the innovation of extended-reach and directional drilling, running casing and liner strings has become increasingly difficult. Not much has been done to address the challenges, which include ledges and obstructions, washouts, swelling shale, bridging, high doglegs, difficult well profiles, fill on bottom, and well collapse. To overcome the challenges, a new product line was developed as a way to facilitate casing operations, especially for long horizontal strings, production strings, and intermediate casing strings.

Introduction

The technology can rotate independently from the casing when encountering obstructions and hanging. The rotation is performed by reciprocating the casing through 3- to 5-ft strokes that cause the tool shoe to act as a bit and ream. It drills off the obstruction and guides the casing string through ledges, tight swollen sections, and doglegs, allowing effective removal of fill and debris from below the casing/liner shoe to land at the intended total depth (TD).

The technology comprises two main components: the tool body, which is made similar to the casing grade being run, and the internal mechanism, which is made from industrial-grade aluminum alloy for the mandrels and bronze components for the bit, both of which lend strength and durability to the tool while facilitating a smooth clean drillout with a standard polycrystalline-diamond-compact (PDC) bit.

Technology Concept

The tool provides rotation at the end of the casing string by reciprocating the casing string rather than by rotating the string at surface. It uses a very small amount of hydraulic pressure, provided by the mud pump, to enable the removal of fill by penetrating through it and circulating it out. Also, it provides deflection of the casing shoe to bypass ledges.

The tool has a fixed helical mandrel connecting to the casing string, so the lower tool body is able to rotate.

Only 21 psi of internal hydraulic pressure is needed to extend the lower tool body along the mandrel into an open position. By applying this pressure, the mechanism at the lower assembly of the tool rotates and extends into an open position. By setting weight on the tool, the lower assembly moves up along the mandrel, causing right-hand rotation on the lower assembly by lowering the casing string.

The tool is effectively torque neutral, causing no torsional torque transmitted up the casing string.
Permian Basin Fracturing Systems Using Produced Water
Authors: Wilson Adam
Published: November 2016

This article, written by Special Publications Editor Adam Wilson, contains highlights of paper SPE 172811, “Permian Fracturing Systems Using Produced Water,” by Sarkis Kakadjian, SPE, Joseph Thompson, SPE, Robert Torres, Antonio Pontifes, Amanda Rodriguez, and Yahia Ait Hamlat, Trican Well Service, prepared for the 2015 SPE Middle East Oil and Gas Show and Conference, Manama, Bahrain, 8–11 March. The paper has not been peer reviewed.

In areas where freshwater costs and produced-water-disposal costs are problematic, operators and service companies have shown the desire to use produced and flowback water in field operations to enhance overall completions economics. This paper details the experience of using new stabilized crosslinked-fracturing-fluid systems in the Permian Basin using borated produced water. The new fracturing-fluid systems are designed to delay the crosslinking time when needed, using the boron already present in the water.

Introduction

In the US, nearly half of the wells hydraulically fractured since 2011 were in regions with high or extremely high water stress and more than 55% were in areas experiencing drought. In Colorado and California, 97 and 96% of the wells, respectively, were in regions with high or extremely high water stress. In New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming, the majority of wells were in high- or extremely high- water-stress regions. In Texas, which currently has the highest concentration of hydraulic-fracturing activity in the US, more than half of the wells examined (52%) were in high- or extremely high- water-stress regions. The World Resources Institute defines high water stress as more than 80% of available surface and groundwater being allocated for municipal, industrial, and agricultural uses.

In the Permian Basin of west Texas, one oil company already expects to use up to 1 million B/D of water over the next 10 years. This goes a long way toward securing water sources that are not fresh, more than 75% over the next several years. The Texas Railroad Commission, the state’s oil and gas regulator, reported a current collective water-recycling capacity of 1.5 million B/D.
Effect of Fracturing Fluid on Coalbed-Methane Desorption, Diffusion, and Seepage in the Ningwu Basin of China
Authors: Li Xiangchen , Kang Yili , Chen Defei
Published: November 2016

The production process of coalbed methane (CBM) includes and is controlled by desorption, diffusion, and seepage processes acting conjointly. A coal reservoir commonly has a low permeability. Well stimulation is applied to increase the CBM production, during which contact between the fracturing fluid and the coal seam is unavoidable. Developed microfractures, large specific surface area, and high capillary pressure of coal generate serious damage easily caused by fracturing fluid, which can affect the production of CBM. Therefore, we presented a multiscale mass-transfer damage-evaluation method dependent on the coal-reservoir microscopic-pore structure and CBM migration-output mechanism that includes the capacity of CBM desorption/diffusion/seepage. The No. 9 coal in the Ningwu Basin of China and the associated fracturing fluid at the site are the object of our research. A comprehensive evaluation experiment on the damage caused by fracturing fluids on CBM desorption/diffusion/seepage was conducted to optimize the fracturing fluid in construction sites. Combining the methods of mechanical testing, scanning electron microscopy (SEM), low-temperature N2 adsorption, wettability, solution ratio, and infrared spectrum, we investigated the effect of fracturing fluids on CBM desorption/diffusion/seepage. Results show that the CBM desorption rate and the diffusion coefficient of samples treated by the fracturing fluid decrease compared with those treated by formation water. Compared with formation water, the fracturing fluid can decrease the mechanical strength of coal and strengthen its sensitivity to stress. Microcracks will seal more under the action of geostress, producing a narrower flow channel and causing the seepage capacity to eventually decrease. The results of our analysis suggest that the fracturing fluid can change the pore connectivity, wettability, and surface structure of coal, as well as affect the migration capacity of CBM. This study provides a theoretical guidance for fracturing-fluid optimization during the operation of CBM-well fracturing.
Ceramic pot filters lifetime study in coastal Guatemala
Authors: Salvinelli C. , Elmore A. C. , García Hernandez B. R. , Drake K. D.
Published: November 2016

Ceramic pot filters (CPFs) are an effective means of household water treatment, but the characterization of CPF lifetimes is ongoing. This paper describes a lifetime field study in Guatemala which was made possible by a collaboration between researchers, CPF-using households, and local non-governmental organizations (NGOs). Disinfection data were collected periodically for two years using field coliform enumeration kits as were flow rate data with the assistance of NGO staff. Consumer acceptance was characterized by surveying householders in the four subject villages at the beginning and end of the study. Flow rate data showed that average CPF flow rates decreased below the recommended minimum of 1 L h−1 after 10 months of use; however, the survey results indicated that the consumers were tolerant of the lower flow rates, and it is reasonable to assume that the daily volume of treated water can be readily increased by refilling the CPFs more frequently. Of greater concern was the finding that disinfection efficacy decreased below the recommended bacterial reduction after 14 months of use because it would not be obvious to users that effectiveness had declined. Finally, the follow-up visits by the researchers and the NGO staff appeared to increase consumer acceptance of the CPFs.
“A “Canadian Bethesda”: Reading Banff as a Health Resort, 1883-1902
Authors: Lieffers Caroline
Published: November 2016

When two railway workers discovered Banff’s hot springs in 1885, an isolated mountain siding quickly became the object of national and international interest. This paper highlights a hitherto neglected factor in the creation of Canada’s first national park: the rich nineteenth-century health theories and philosophies, particularly medical geography, that invested the springs and the surrounding environment with salutary properties and drove Banff’s early development as a health and pleasure resort. Before the conservation movement took a firm hold of the national park mandate, the region’s physical, psychological, and moral health benefits were the focus. The curative mineral springs, pure air, and ennobling scenery intrigued a financially struggling government, a powerful railway company, and work-weary urbanites alike, and the vision of a luxury hotel and bathing resort soon expanded to a vast and healthful adventure playground. Banff was at once a region to be civilized and developed into a modern resort, and a natural antidote to the evils of modern life. Canada’s national park system originated in the popular and profitable association between health and the natural environment; medical and environmental histories are inextricably linked in the study of Banff’s first two decades.
Power, Arabism and Islam in the Writings of Muhib al-Din al-Khatib in al-Fath
Authors: Ghazal Amal N
Published: November 2016

The writings of Muhib al-Din al-Khatib reveal a deep concern over Muslim weakness in the face of European domination in the interwar period. In his weekly newspaper al-Fath, al-Khatib confronted the issues which threatened to increase Muslim division following the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire. He considered Islam the common bond by which all Muslims could unite to resist the West. While Arabism could fit into and uphold this unity, separatist nationalisms threatened it and caused further divisions inspired by the West. In his editorial writing, al-Khatib suggested various reforms aimed at reviving Muslim control of their own lands.
"Sisters in Arms": Slave Women's Resistance to Slavery in the United States
Authors: Chakrabarti Myers Amrita
Published: November 2016

This paper examines the gendered nature of slave resistance in the nineteenth-century United States and illustrates the ways in which both gender and race shaped the institution of slavery. This examination is based on a collection of ex-slave oral interviews which were gathered in the 1930s in the Slave Narrative Collection of the Federal Writer's Project of the Works Progress Administration. Qualitative and quantitative analysis of the data reveal that slave women defended their own needs as slaves and challenged the system itself. The analysis broadens the traditional definition of resistance," and illustrates the ways in which slave women carried out their day-to-day resistance to an oppressive system of servitude. Without women, slave resistance could not have been so throughly entwined into the fabric of everyday life as under slavery.
Africville: The Test of Urban Renewal in Halifax, Nova Scotia
Authors: Bobier Richard
Published: November 2016

Donald Clairmont's Africville Relocation Report portrays the Africville relocation as a grave injustice inflicted upon a voiceless minority by an insensitive city administration. Initially, however, the relocation enjoyed the support of Black leaders, community residents, and city administrators. This paper argues that two major factors caused the transformation of the Africville relocation from a symbol of civic and humanitarian progress to a symbol of human and perhaps racial injustice. First, the relocation process took fifteen years to complete. During that time the initial confidence exuded by Haligonians because of the postwar boom had begun to dissipate, and with it, their devotion to urban renewal schemes. Second, criticism of the project reflected changing expectations and developing sociological methodologies concerning the alleviation of poverty.
Context and Content: Harold Innis, Marshall McLuhan, and George Grant and the Role of Technology in Modern Society
Authors: Massolin Philip
Published: November 2016

Social science and science grew significantly in Canadian universities during and after World War II. This growth, along with a growth in consumerism and mass culture, signalled the decline of the centrality of the humanities in the curricula of Canadian universities and the rise of the technological society. Harold Innis, Marshall McLuhan, and George Grant were leading critics of this trend. Their criticism was shaped by the home front experience of Canada during World War II and the economic boom which followed the war. Although not linked through friendships, professional collaboration, or common academic disciplines, their thoughts and criticisms of technology and mass culture were shaped in a context which they shared.
“As If Augustine Had Said”: Textual Interpretation and Augustinian Ambiguity in a Medieval Debate on Predestination
Authors: Smith Jenny
Published: November 2016

In ninth century Francia, a rebellious monk named Gottschalk of Orbais (808-868) ardently defended his theory of divine predestination, much to the vexation of the Frankish Church, whose leaders eventually denounced him as heretical and imprisoned him for the remainder of his life. In an effort to disprove Gottschalk, his perhaps most prominent opponent, Hincmar, Archbishop of Reims (806-882), frequently cited elements of ecclesiastical tradition in an attempt to show that western Catholic orthodoxy opposed the theory of predestination that Gottschalk espoused. While most scholars have analyzed Hincmar’s writings by focusing on his citation of the patristic church father Saint Augustine of Hippo (354-430), such an approach ignores the problematic nature of Augustine’s stance on predestination, which was largely ambiguous, hence the ability of both Gottschalk and Hincmar to reference his writings as proof of their argument. While Augustine at times limited his stance to merely suggesting that God had bestowed eternal life on some individuals, at other times he was more explicit, defining predestination in terms of a twofold decree of salvation for some and damnation for others. Such ambiguity created a nebulous definition of predestination by the time of the ninth century controversy and allowed Gottschalk to weaken Hincmar’s arguments by likewise citing Augustine to support his own assertions. This in turn forced Hincmar to extend his arsenal of ecclesiastical tradition beyond citation of Augustine in order to refute Gottschalk. This paper reevaluates a sample of Hincmar’s writings in the 840s and 850s to argue that he sought to make explicit what Augustine had left unclear regarding predestination by appealing to common standards of orthodoxy in the forms of additional patristic authors, conciliar judgments, and

liturgical practices. This analysis reveals both the prominence of ambiguity in ninth-century predestination thought as well as the role of ecclesiastical tradition in forming medieval views on orthodoxy, however fluid such a label remained.
A Legal Interpretation of Livy's Caudine Sponsio: Using Roman Law to test the validity of Livy's Caudine Forks Narrative
Authors: Aston Michael Norman
Published: November 2016

Although much has been written about Livy's account of the defeat of a Roman army at the hands of the Samnites at the Caudine Forks in 321 B.C., commentators do not agree as to whether the account describes an historical event. This paper offers a new approach to the problem, by analyzing the legal form and content of the sponsio (agreement) that acts as the backbone of Livy's narrative. The body of the paper analyzes Livy's sponsio in detail, from a legal perspective. The analysis leads to the conclusion that Livy based his narrative upon the sponsio of Roman civil law. Since it is unlikely that the Romans and Samnites conducted their agreement on the basis of Roman private law, it is concluded that the events at the Caudine Forks are either fictional, or did not happen as Livy describes them.
“I Die, I Take It, For Maintaining the Fifth Commandment”: Patriarchy and the Last Dying Speeches of Royalists and Regicides
Authors: Siona Régnier-McKellar Sara
Published: November 2016

In January 1649, King Charles I was tried and found guilty of high treason and condemned to be “put to death, by the severing of his Head from his Body.” At ten in the morning on the day of his execution he was accompanied to the scaffold by a regiment on foot, “colours flying, drums beating.” After having addressed the crowd in an uncharacteristically eloquent manner the King lifted his eyes and hands towards the sky, placed his head on the executioner’s block and gave the sign that he was ready to die. With one swift blow the executioner decapitated the King and held up his head for the crowd to see. Philip Henry, then a boy of seventeen, remembered that there came from the crowd “such a groan as I never heard before, and desire I may never hear again.”
Edward Hallett Carr: Historical Realism and the Liberal Tradition
Authors: Freeland Duke David
Published: November 2016

The works of Edward Hallett Carr represent an important contribution to the historiography of Soviet Russia and to the study of international relations in general. Yet his work is often dismissed, primarily because Carr was considered 'ideologically unsound,' that is, a Stalinist. This essay examines the validity of that charge and concludes instead that Carr was in fact firmly realistic in his writings on the Soviet Union and on international relations. In the case of the Soviet Union, this paper argues that Carr's realism produced works of balance and judgement in a period - the Cold War- when such characteristics were anathema to the historiography of the subject. In at least one of his works on international relations, The Twenty Years' Crisis, this realism represented a novel and revolutionary approach to the the subject.
"My parents, they became poor": The Socio-Economic Effects of the Expropriation and Relocation of Stoney Point Reserve #43, 1942
Authors: Roos Helen
Published: November 2016

On 14 April 1942 the Stoney Point Reserve was expropriated by the Department of National Defence and Indian Affairs. The land was required for an advanced military training camp to support the war effort The Stoney Point families were quickly relocated to the neighbouring Kettle Point Reserve #44. The loss of the reserve was a traumatic experience for the small Stoney Point band and resulted in severe economic and social problems. Physical removal caused widespread poverty among the band due to inadequate compensation, separation from resources and work, and a reliance on welfare. Socially, the Stoney Pointers suffered from an identity crisis, feeling disjointed from their community and its roots. This case study provides an examination of the effects of expropriation and relocation on Native communities.
Contribuições do patrocínio da Petrobras para o campo audiovisual de 1995 a 2007
Authors: Ficheira Carolina Marques Henriques , Príncipe Paula
Published: November 2016

A partir do estudo de caso dos aportes realizados pela Petrobras em patrocínios audiovisuais no período dentre 1995 e 2007, é possível analisar o papel precursor das Leis de Incentivo Federais no desenvolvimento do campo audiovisual. Suas contribuições foram significativas ao setor quando se analisa o quantitativo de filmes patrocinados pela Petrobras e por outras instituições, denotando o estímulo do uso das leis de incentivo à cultura a outros patrocinadores, bem como no desenvolvimento do campo, como ocorre no Rio de Janeiro, que possui o maior PIB criativo de todo o território nacional, e aponta novos agentes e trajetórias no cenário atual. Sponsorship contributions by Petrobras to the audiovisual sector from 1995 to 2007AbstractBeginning with a case study about contributions made by Petrobras to audiovisual sponsorships between 1995 and 2007, it is possible to analyze the pioneering role of the Federal Tax Incentive Laws for the audiovisual sector. Their contributions to the sector were significant when the number of movies sponsored by Petrobras and by other institutions is analyzed, denoting the encouragement for the use of cultural incentive laws to other sponsors as well as the development of the sector, as happens in Rio de Janeiro that holds the highest GDP (Gross National Product) of the entire national territory and points out new agents and routes in the current scenario.
Publicidade e design: panorama nacional e como extrair maior valor das ideias criativas
Authors: Credidio Guilherme Simões
Published: November 2016

Foi traçado um panorama dos setores de Publicidade e Design, componentes da Economia Criativa, com participação de 40 profissionais. Foram apontadas necessidades de integração entre criação e negócios, determinação precisa da expectativa de retornos e estabilização de fluxos de caixa por remuneração fixa e variável e dificuldades de financiamento da expansão de operações das empresas criativas. A função geração de valor dessas empresas depende do conhecimento de economia criativa, do seu grau de profissionalização, da projeção de conversão das vendas, dos preços dos concorrentes, do valor das ideias, dos direitos autorais e da quantidade de itens vendidos.Advertising and design: national outlook and how to extract greater value from creative ideasAbstractIt was drawn an overview of Advertising and Design sectors, components of the Creative Economy, with the participation of 40 professionals. It was identified the needs of integration between creation and business, accurately determination of expected returns and stabilization of cash flows by fixed and variable remuneration and difficulties in financing the expansion of creative companies. The value creation function of these companies depends on the knowledge of the creative economy, its degree of professionalism, the projected sales conversion, competitors' prices, the value of ideas, copyright and the amount of items sold.
Geração internet das coisas
Authors: Azevedo Victor Antonio
Published: November 2016

A Internet das Coisas visa conectar objetos aos indivíduos e aos outros objetos, unificando ainda mais os mundos físico e digital. Através dessa percepção esse estudo teve como objetivo conhecer os novos horizontes e desafios criados pela Internet das Coisas. Foram feitas pesquisas qualitativa e quantitativa para entender o comportamento de consumo e influências dos jovens brasileiros de 18 a 22 anos, denominados de Geração Internet das Coisas, em relação aos objetos inteligentes.Internet of Things GenerationAbstractThe Internet of Things aims to connect objects to individuals and to other objects, further unifying the physical and digital worlds. Using this concept, this study aimed to understand the new horizons and challenges created by the Internet of Things. A qualitative and quantitative research was conducted to understand the consumer behavior and influences of Brazilian youths aged 18 to 22 years, called the Internet of Things Generation, in relation to smart devices.
Criatividade, Conflito e Direito à cidade num Rio de Janeiro Espetacularizado
Authors: Szaniecki Barbara
Published: November 2016

O artigo traz reflexões sobre a implementação do conceito de Economia Criativa no Brasil e, em particular, da transformação do Rio de Janeiro em Cidade Criativa. Essa transformação é visível através da realização de megaeventos mas torna invisíveis alguns dos potentes atores culturais e criativos da cidade. Apresentaremos a literatura que aborda esses temas assim como experiências alternativas de produção cultural e criativa – os Pontos de Cultura a nível nacional, alguns experimentos realizados na ESDI/UERJ e a criatividade multitudinária das manifestações – que conjugam as dimensões produtiva e política da Criatividade e podem fortalecer o Direito à Cidade num Rio espetacularizado. Creativity, conflict and right to the city in rio de janeiro spectacularizedAbstractThis article reflects on the implementation of the concept of Creative Economy in Brazil and, in particular, the transformation of Rio de Janeiro in Creative City. This transformation is visible through the realization of mega-events but makes invisible some of the powerful cultural and creative actors of the city. We present the literature that addresses these issues as well as alternative experiences of cultural and creative production - the Points of Culture in Brazil, some experiments in ESDI / UERJ and multitudinous creativity of the protests - which combine the productive and the political dimension of creativity and can strengthen the Right to the City in a spectacularized Rio de Janeiro.
Liberalism, Governmentality and Counter-Conduct; An Introduction to Foucauldian Analytics of Liberal Civil Society Notions
Authors: Pyykkönen Miikka
Published: November 2016

This article gives an analysis of Foucault’s studies of civil society and the various liberalist critiques of government. It follows from Foucault’s genealogical approach that “civil society” does not in itself possess any form of transcendental existence; its historical reality must be seen as the result of the productive nature of the power-knowledge-matrices. Foucault emphasizes that modern governmentality—and more specifically the procedures he names “the conduct of conduct”—is not exercised through coercive power and domination, but is dependent on the freedom and activeness of individuals and groups of society. Civil society is thus analyzed as fundamentally ambivalent: on the one hand civil society is a field where different kinds of technologies of governance meet the lives and wills of groups and individuals, but on the other hand it is a potential field of what Foucault called ‘counter-conduct’ – for both collective action and individual political action.
Haunted by the Rebellion of the Poor: Civil Society and the Racialized Problem of the (Non-)economic Subject
Authors: Selmeczi Anna
Published: November 2016

Intrigued by the so-called “rebellion of the poor,” this paper traces back the current South African concern with popular protest to its reconfiguration during the last years of the apartheid order. Focusing on the discourse around grassroots resistance in the mid- to late-1980s, I begin by showing how, in juxtaposition to an ideal notion of civil society, popular mobilization had been largely delegitimized and the emancipatory politics of ungovernability recast as antidemocratic by the first few years of the post-apartheid regime. In deploying particular notions of violence and culture, this discursive shift, I suggest, fed into reconstructing the ungovernable subject as the racial other of the new South Africa’s citizenry. The second part of the paper mobilizes Foucault’s genealogy of liberalism to draw parallels between this process and the liberal effort to resolve the potentially conflicting principles of governing the economic subject and the subject of rights within the realm of civil society. Finally, via the postcolonial critique of liberal notions of civility and their rootedness in racial thinking, I suggest that civil society secures the governability of the population through rendering the potentially disruptive freedom of the people as the excess freedom of the racialized other.
“Spiritual Gymnastics”: Reflections on Michel Foucault’s On the Government of the Living 1980 Collège de France lectures
Authors: Carrette Jeremy
Published: November 2016

This review locates the 1980 lectures within the context of the wider discussions of Foucault and religion; highlighting the influence of George Dumézil on the comparative and structural analysis. Assessing the problem of the historical accuracy of Christian history in Foucault’s work and the nature of the archaeological approach, the review explores what would be fair to ask of Foucault’s 1980 lectures on Christianity. The review focuses on the internal consistency, selections and theoretical tensions. While acknowledging that Foucault picks up the important shift towards external ritual performance of early Christian life, the review questions Foucault’s lack of appreciation of the notion of “sacramentum,” which informs the central interpretative framework of “truth acts.” The review suggests that Foucault’s thinking is shaped by an “expressionist theology” and operates on a false binary distinction between faith and practice. It shows the problematic reading of Tertullian and the indivisibility between acts and faith in his work and reveals the counter-conduct and freedom practices in Tertullian’s later Montanist commitment—which rejected church authority for inner commitment to God—and also suggests a gendered dimension to expressionist acts. The review reveals Foucault’s own inability to split the faith-practice dichotomy—on which his expressionistic argument depends—and highlights the tensions that persist in maintaining a “truth-act” model from early Christian life. It concludes by suggesting that the philosophy-theology relation in Foucault opens more questions than it resolves.
The Nineteenth Century in Ruins: A Genealogy of French Historical Epistemology
Authors: Peña-Guzmán David M.
Published: November 2016

This article investigates the historical and philosophical background of the French tradition of historical epistemology. As a sort of ‘historical epistemology of historical epistemology,’ it traces some of the forces, incidents, and events that made possible (and perhaps even necessary) the emergence of a new way of doing epistemology in the first half of the twentieth century in France. Three developments that occupy a position privilege in this narrative are: (i) the collapse of German idealism, (ii) the birth of French positivism, and (iii) what the author calls ‘the crisis in the theory of science’ that swept over Europe in the early 1900s. These developments suggest that the emergence and development of historical epistemology was the effect of changes internal to the history of Western philosophy (from Kant to Comte) as much as a function of changes external to this history (including changes in the material fabric of society).
The Down Low and the Sexuality of Race
Authors: Stone Brad Elliott
Published: November 2016

There has been much interest in the phenomenon called “the Down Low,” in which “otherwise heterosexual” African American men have sex with other black men. This essay explores the biopolitics at play in the media’s curiosity about the Down Low. The Down Low serves as a critical, transgressive heterotopia that reveals the codetermination of racism, sexism, and heterosexism in black male sexuality.
Foucault’s ‘German Moment’: Genealogy of a Disjuncture
Authors: Hannah Matthew G.
Published: November 2016

Foucault’s lectures from early 1979 on the German Ordo-liberalen are typically taken to comprise his most comprehensive account of why Germany is important for understanding neo-liberal governmentality more broadly. This paper argues, to the contrary, that the 1979 lectures actually obscure a potentially more complete account of German, neo-liberal governmentality Foucault had begun to sketch in 1977. To support this reading and to offer an explanation of why Foucault would have decided to alter his presentation of West German neo-liberalism, the paper undertakes a genealogy of Foucault’s involvement with West German political issues in 1977 and 1978. The core claims that structure the argument are as follows: (1) Key aspects of the “security state” that Foucault began to work out in 1977, must have been at least partly modeled on West German “militant” or “battle-ready” democracy; (2) Yet, in his 1979 lectures, there is no longer any trace of these repressive, extralegal dimensions; (3) This shift was motivated to a significant extent by his 1977 disagreement with Deleuze, Guattari, and others over whether the West German state of the late 1970s could be considered “fascist.” This concern to contest the accusation of fascism is carried forward in his 1979 lectures in a critique of “state phobia.”
Governing and Calculating Everyday Dress
Authors: Jeacle Ingrid
Published: November 2016

Drawing on Foucault’s governmentality thesis, together with the insightful lens offered by Miller and Rose’s seminal work “Governing Economic Life,” this paper suggests that the ‘quick response’ initiatives deployed by contemporary fashion chains to address the problem of ‘fast fashion,’ are illustrative examples of technologies for governing economic life. The meticulous recording and the minute surveillance regimes of the apparatus of quick response, renders the phenomenon of fast fashion knowable and administrable. Calculative technologies operate according to a normalising process that separates the fashionable from the unfashionable. Calculative practices also perpetuate the phenomenon of fast fashion by facilitating the faster flow of both product and information. In so doing, they both construct and sustain mass fashion.
Suspicion and Love
Authors: Chrulew Matthew
Published: November 2016

Recent philosophy has witnessed a number of prominent and ambivalent encounters with Christianity. Alongside the retrievals of Paul and political theology, thinkers such as Žižek and Negri argue that in our era of imperial sovereignty and advanced global capitalism, the most appropriate politics is one of love. These attempts to reinvigorate progressive materialism are often characterised as a break with the relativist tendencies of French philosophy, moving from the negativity and disconnection of postmodern suspicion to a new, constructive politics of creativity and fraternity. Deconstructive critiques have insisted on the exclusions necessary to any such politics of love. Foucault’s genealogy of Christianity—specifically, of the emergence from pastoral power of modern governmentality and biopolitics—sketches a further significant dimension of love’s suffocating history and contemporary risks.
Ambivalent Modernities: Foucault’s Iranian Writings Reconsidered
Authors: McCall Corey
Published: November 2016

This essay reconsiders Foucault’s writings on the Iranian Revolution in the context of his thought during 1977-1979. The essay defends three related claims: (1) Foucault does not turn away from power toward ethics as many scholars have claimed, (2) Careful interpretation of the texts on the Iranian Revolution will help us to better understand Foucault’s essays and lecture courses from this period (in particular, the relationship between political spirituality and counter-conduct), and (3) During this period Foucault is working on conceptualizing modernity as a multivalent set of practices—some that reinforce power relations and some that resist them.
Religion in the Web of Immanence: Foucault and Thinking Otherwise after the Death of God
Authors: McSweeney John
Published: November 2016

This article rethinks Michel Foucault’s relation to religion by situating his engagement with the ‘death of God’ in relation to his ongoing efforts to frame critical discourse in consistently immanent terms. It argues that a certain, indirect ‘theological’ horizon is the paradoxical and problematic limit, for Foucault, of the possibility of a thoroughgoing immanent discourse in his earlier work, due to the paradoxes of the death of long-duration of God (and ‘man’). The relation of his work to religion thus emerges less as a productive question, for Foucault, than as a problem to be resolved if his critical project is to be viable. The article argues that his later work is informed by a significant re-framing of his relation to religion, signalled in comments he makes at the end of his 1978 lecture, “What is Critique?” and performed in his engagements with Christian mysticism, the ‘political spirituality’ of the Iranian revolution and early Christian practices of the self. Foucault is shown to perform a complex openness to religion as ‘other,’ which negotiates the ‘religious problem’ haunting his early work, even as it must repeatedly risk undermining his project. It is concluded that the relation to religion in Foucault’s work, less reflects resonance with aspects of a religious worldview, than it stages and clarifies the challenge of thinking otherwise immanently after the death of God.
The Crossroads of Power: Michel Foucault and the US/Mexico Border Wall
Authors: Nail Thomas
Published: November 2016

This paper draws on the work of Michel Foucault in order to analyze the constellation of political strategies and power at the US/Mexico border wall. These strategies, however, are incredibly diverse and often directly antagonistic of one another. Thus, this paper argues that in order to make sense of the seemingly multiple and contradictory political strategies deployed in the operation of the US/Mexico border wall, we have to understand the coexistence and intertwinement of at least three distinct types of power at work there: the sovereign exclusion of illegal life, the disciplinary detention of surveilled life, and the biopolitical circulation of migratory life. By doing so this paper offers an original contribution to two major areas of study: in Foucault studies this paper expands the existing literature on Foucault by analyzing the crossroads of power particular to the US/Mexico border wall, which has not yet been done, and in border studies this Foucauldian approach offers a unique political analysis that goes beyond the critique of sovereignty and toward an analysis of coexisting strategies of power.
Philosophical Parrêsia and Transpolitical Freedom
Authors: Marzocca Ottavio
Published: November 2016

This article highlights that ancient philosophy regenerated the practice of parrêsia following the crisis into which it had fallen in the polis. Through this, it established a strong relationship between freedom, truth, and politics, constantly eluding the risk of using “true speech” as a tool of rationalizing the exercise of power. The primary outset for the argument will be the course held by Foucault in 1982-1983 (Le gouvernement de soi et des autres). The paper holds that philosophical parrêsia asserted itself as a practice that could not be anything but “transpolitical,” while remaining similar to the ideal of freedom as active participation in public life – at least in the case of Socrates and the Cynics. According to Foucault, after a long period of disuse due to the predominance of theology and pastoral power, philosophical parrêsia was able to flourish in modernity. This occurred above all with Kant through the critical ontology of the present. On my part, I try to show how philosophical parrêsia in liberal society runs the risk of being neutralized by the predominance of economic “true speech” and by the prevalence of the idea of freedom as the pursuit of private interests. This is done by re-reading certain indications provided by Foucault himself in his course of 1978-1979 (Naissance de la biopolitique). Moreover, in the last sections of this paper I suggest lines of research that could grasp the difficulties that philosophical parrêsia encounters in the age of neoliberal hegemony and global media coverage.
Resisting the lure of the paycheck: Freedom and dependence in financial self-help
Authors: Fridman Daniel
Published: November 2016

Based on two years of fieldwork with fans of financial success best-sellers, this article analyzes the idea of financial freedom, which is the cornerstone of popular financial self-help resources.  Fans of the genre train themselves and engage in business and investing with the main goal of reaching something that is at once mathematical and a condition of the self.  Financial freedom is a specific equation between income and expenses that makes it possible to quit one’s job while maintaining an income.  But it is also a condition by which one has freed oneself from one’s own fears and limitations in regards to money and investing and the need for security.  Therefore, all practices directed at increasing one’s wealth are also practices of the self that are directed at combating external and internal forms of dependence.  The intellectual roots of the problematization of internal and external dependence are explored.  The tension between freedom and security is illustrated through the example of the examination of one’s family upbringing.
Desiring Disability Differently: Neoliberalism, Heterotopic Imagination and Intra-corporeal Reconfigurations
Authors: Fritsch Kelly
Published: November 2016

Challenging the undesirability of disability is a shared responsibility that requires us to imagine disability differently. In order to imagine disability differently, we need to understand how the neoliberal hegemonic social imagination—key to processes that create good disabled and able-bodied neoliberal subjects—works to curtail who is perceived to have a desirable body. In order to desire disability differently, we must begin with marginal, heterotopic imaginations whereby disability is not something to overcome, but rather is part of a life worth living. In this article, I build on Foucault’s concepts of heterotopia (1998), milieu, and the government of things (2007), and Karen Barad’s agential realism (2007), as well as draw on the work of Mel Chen (2012) and Rod Michalko (1999) in order to argue that the heterotopic imagination reconfigures how we consider disability to emerge, with whom, and where. By mobilising the heterotopic imagination, we can come to recognise that disability does not emerge as an individualised human body, but rather is an intracorporeal, non-anthropocentric multiplicity. To desire disability differently through the heterotopic imagination is not simply to allow the current formulation of disability to become desirable, but rather to radically alter how we desire disability, in addition to altering what disability is, how it is practised, and what it can be.
Geomorphologic study of the eastern part of Son-valley with reference to land use
Authors: Shukla Sanjay
Published: November 2016

Geological and geomorphologic studies especially terrain evaluation of the eastern part of Son-valley, District Sonbhadra, U.P., reveals the areas suitable for pastures, forestry, wet and dry cultivation. It can help in the development of sectors like agriculture and industry apart from mining. The utilization of natural resources of the area taking into account the potential and constraints specific to the environment can be properly managed by land use planning.
Jain Mathematics
Authors: Jain Rama
Published: November 2016

The present article will concentrate on the period after the advent of Jainism till the time of Aryabhata around 500 AD. The reason for selecting this time period is that, till recently, it was thought to be a time when there was very little mathematical activity in India. This period shall be referred to as Jain Mathematics period. Basically Jain religious literature is classified into four groups. “Anuyoga”(the exposition of the principles of Jainism) and “Ganitanuyoga”(the exposition of the principles of mathematics) were considered prominent among those. The Jain Mathematics played a significant role when the Brahamin granthas went behind the scenes and Saidhantic Astronomy started taking shape.
Ram-Rajya and Environment
Authors: Singh Mahendra Pratap
Published: November 2016

It was the dream of the Father of the Nation Mahatama Gandhi to establish Ram–Rajya in Independent India. Ram Rajya was not a new concept of Mahatama Gandhi. The concept of Ram–Rajya is very clear in Valmiki Ramayan of Maharishi Valmiki and Ram Charit Manas of Tulsidas ji. In this article the environmental aspect of Ram Rajya is described. The latest concept of Environmental Science and Forestry, for example “The Theory of Sustained Yield”, Road side plantations are described in Ram Charit Manas
Green house agriculture in India: production and utility
Authors: Singh Brijesh , Rani Varsha
Published: November 2016

- India being an agriculture based country and more than 50% of population involved in agriculture for their livelihood. With increase in indusrialization need of development in production technologies has also increased. Green house farming has emerged one of the best modern agricultural techniques to grow the crop in more areas, where it was not possible earlier. Green house farming has increased quality and production of crops.
Biological association in insects
Authors: Kumar Ashok , Chandra Shudish
Published: November 2016

Several living beings lead their life by establishing biological association in nature. Generally this arrangement is for procuring food and safety. Social and mainly colonial insects maintain different levels of biological association in their life. Several species of ants show unique examples of symbiosis, parasitism, commensalism, bio storage and slavery by establishing biological association.
Science News(Latest Information)
Authors: Kohli Deepak
Published: November 2016

The article provides the knowledge about the latest scientific researches all over the world. Biofuel from Algae, Robot as a yoga teacher, Smart socks for preventing wounds, invetnion of Bubble pen, Smart pot for plants etc are the main topics covered in the aritcle. It fulfills the aim to provide latest knowledge about Scientific world.
Cone-beam computed tomography versus periapical radiograph for diagnosing external root resorption: A systematic review and meta-analysis
Authors: Yi Jianru , Sun Yimin , Li Yu , Li Chunjie , Li Xiaobing , Zhao Zhihe
Published: November 2016

Objective: To compare the diagnostic accuracy of cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) and periapical radiographs (PR) for the detection of external root resorption (ERR).

Material and Methods: An electronic search in databases, including the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, PubMed, Embase, the China National Knowledge Infrastructure, and System for Information on Grey Literature in Europe (SIGLE), was performed until August 2016. A manual search of relevant journals and reference lists of enrolled studies was conducted. The studies investigating the diagnostic accuracy of CBCT or PR for ERR, with simulated ERR as the reference test, were considered eligible. The diagnostic accuracy of CBCT and PR was statistically pooled using a bivariate model. Meta-regression and subgroup analysis were performed to explore the sources of heterogeneity. Sensitivity analysis was used to test the stability of the overall results in the meta-analysis.

Results: A total of 15 studies were included in this systematic review. The pooled results showed that CBCT had significantly higher sensitivity (0.89; 95% confidence interval [CI]: 0.77–0.96) and area under curve (0.96; 95% CI: 0.77–0.96) than PR (sensitivity: 0.68; 95% CI: 0.56–0.78; area under curve: 0.88; 95% CI: 0.85–0.90). No difference in sensitivity, specificity, and area under the curve between conventional and digital PR was observed.

Conclusions: Currently available evidence suggests that CBCT could be reliable to detect the presence of ERR in clinical practice and has a higher diagnostic efficacy than PR.