Promoting solidarity at home and abroad: the goals and tactics of the anti-Vietnam War movement in Britain

This article explores the nature, tactics and effectiveness of the vocal anti-Vietnam war movement in Britain. It focuses on the rhetoric and actions of a range of different groups, from the far-Left Vietnam Solidarity Campaign, to the broad-Left British Council for Peace in Vietnam and the labour movement. It asks how far the anti-war opposition was able to shape both government policy and public debate on the war, and positions the British opposition within its wider global anti-war context. It explores the meanings of solidarity (with the American, or global, anti-war movement or with the North Vietnamese) for the British movement, and it highlights the ultimately domestic focus of the campaign.     

Impact of Cliff and Ord (1969, 1981) on Spatial Epidemiology

The influence in spatial epidemiology of the seminar work on autocorrelation by Cliff and Ord is discussed. Quantifying the evidence of spatial clustering was an important step in the development of modern statistical methods for analyzing spatial variations of diseases. Autocorrelation is nowadays mostly accounted for at a latent level within a hierarchical framework to small area disease mapping. The importance of accounting for autocorrelation in geographical correlation studies is also reviewed.     

Gender,Nations and States in a Global Era

Abstract. Nations and national projects are gendered in different ways. Feminist theory has raised important questions about the conceptualisation of ‘difference’. This article develops the conceptualisation of the different ways in which nations and national projects are gendered, arguing for a mid‐level conceptualisation of gender relations. It argues against, on the one hand, the excessive fragmentation of gender, and on the other, too simple dichotomies of mordless unequal gender relations. This draws on a theorisation of gender relations which connects the different dimensions into specific kinds of gender regimes, either public or domestic gender regimes. This enables us to conceptualise different national projects as having a more or less public or domestic gender project. The conflicts between different national projects and with other polities, such as states, are then conflicts between differently gendered projects. The usefulness of this mid‐level conceptualisation is demonstrated through examples of the competing relations between the UK, Ireland, the EU and the Catholic Church in a global era.     

西藏坚塞颇章宫的结构计算分析

本研究以全国重点文物保护单位西藏罗布林卡三大宫殿之一的坚塞颇章宫为实例,分析藏式古建筑的结构特点,探讨计算分析方法,并针对静力荷载工况和地震组合工况下的结构性能进行了讨论。本研究区别于以往藏式结构的研究方法,主要在于:在计算分析中将墙体建入整体结构模型,考虑墙体对结构的影响;考虑墙体和木柱的“收分”造型的影响;将楼板和屋面的密布木檩等刚度转化为单向板考虑;同时考虑构件已存的变形缺陷影响。计算结果表明:西藏坚塞颇章宫在静力荷载工况作用下,整体状态良好,梁柱墙及节点均满足承载力要求;在地震组合工况作用下,部分柱和墙不满足抗震承载力要求。在地震作用下,该建筑刚度较小的木结构构件首先发生振动。结构薄弱部位是中部四根二层通高木柱。这四根通高木柱长细比较大,刚度较小,一旦发生较大的变形,将直接影响整体结构安全。木柱与墙体之间的变形差异较大,两者变形协调性较差。此外,存在变形缺陷的中部通高木柱所在梁柱节点的抗震承载力不满足要求,应注意加强防护。研究涉及的计算分析方法及相关计算结论对藏式建筑结构的深入研究具有重要的参考价值。