Live or be left to die? Deregulated bodies and the global production network: Expendable workers of the Bangladeshi apparel industry in the time of Covid

This paper draws upon the experience of mainly women workers in the Bangladeshi apparel industry to explore whether deregulated bodies are the fundamental condition of work in the global production network (GPN). We organised the study during the first waves of Covid-19. To conceptualise how ‘deregulated bodies’ have been structured into the industry as the exchange condition of work, we draw on the work of transnational feminist and Marxist scholars. The study provides insights about how a gendered GPN emerged under the neoliberal development regime; the pattern of work and work conditions are innately linked to volatile market conditions. By documenting workers’ lived experiences, the paper enhances our empirical understanding of how workers depend upon work, and how a form of expendable but regulated life linked with work has been embedded in GPN. Our findings reveal that unlike those of other human beings, workers’ bodies do not need to be regulated by norms that enable protection from Covid-19. As for the workers, work implies earning for living and survival, so ‘live or be left to die’ becomes the fundamental employment condition, and the possibility of their death an overlooked consideration. This reality has not changed or been challenged, despite the existence of compliance regimes. We further argue that as scholars, we bear a responsibility to consider how we engage in research on the implications of such organisation practices in a global environment, when all of us are experiencing the pandemic.

The evaluation of turmeric (Curcuma longa) supplementation within feed as an antioxidant towards growth performance of catfish Clarias gariepinus Burchell 1822 in zero water exchange condition

The objective of this research was to evaluate the supplementation of turmeric in the diet on antioxidant status and growth performance of African catfish (Clarias gariepinus) in zero water exchange condition. This study used a completely randomized design with 4 treatments and 4 replications. Each treatment consisted of feed supplementation turmeric at dosage of 0; 2.5; 5 or 7.5 g kg-1 diet. One hundred catfish juvenile (5.95±0.05 g) were stocked in intermediate bulk container (IBC) tank (1×1×1 m3) and rearing in zero water exchange condition for 60 days. Catfish were fed at satiation twice a day, in the morning and evening. The results showed that an increase in antioxidant content in catfish fed with the addition of turmeric, which simultaneously also reduced the percentage of liver damage. The parameters of liver damage can be seen from several parameters i.e. pale liver, droplet fat and fat content in the addition of turmeric treatment is lower than without the addition of turmeric. However, catfish fed with the addition of turmeric did not show significant results in terms of growth performances.

Factors Affecting the Indonesia Stock Exchange: A Multi-Index Approach

This study examines the influence of world and regional capital market conditions on the Indonesian capital market (Indonesia Stock Exchange) condition. The DJIA (Dow Jones Industrial Average) index was used as a representative of the international capital market while the Hang Seng index and the Nikkei 225 index were used as a representative of regional capital market conditions. These two indices were chosen because the Japanese capital market was one of the most advanced capital markets in the world and the Hong Kong capital market, although not as big as Japan, still played an important role in the world. The data were obtained from Yahoo Finance during the period of 2014-2018. The dependent variable was the change in the JCI (Jakarta Composite Index), while the independent variables were changes in the index of DJIA, Nikkei 225 and Hang Seng index. Using daily data analyzed by the ARIMA method (1,1), it was found that there was a significant positive effect of DJIA with lag 1 and Hang Seng index on the JCI, but no significant effect was found from the Nikkei 225 index on the JCI.

Combinatorics of extended affine root systems (type A1)

We establish extensions of some important features of affine theory to affine reflection systems (extended affine root systems) of type [Formula: see text]. We present a positivity theory which decomposes in a natural way the nonisotropic roots into positive and negative roots, then using that, we give an extended version of the well-known exchange condition for the corresponding Weyl group, and finally give an extended version of the Bruhat ordering and the [Formula: see text]-Lemma. Furthermore, a new presentation of the Weyl group in terms of the parity permutations is given, this in turn leads to a parity theorem which gives a characterization of the reduced words in the Weyl group. All root systems involved in this work appear as the root systems of certain well-studied Lie algebras.

Study on Gradual Deformation and Prediction Model of the Mined Overburden

Based on the overburden three caving feature, the deformation of mining rock process was devided and the criterion of gradual transformation of each stages deformation were given. Then , combined the thin-plate theory, the differential models were derived for rock deformation in level and similar to level bured condition. The boundary condition of each models and exchange condition between different models were put forward and the gradual mechanics model was set up.The subsidence model before roof collapse was solved by Navier double trigonometric series and the deflection surface expression of rock deformation was put forword. At last, the reliability and practicality of the models was verified by engineering examples.

Study of the Homogenization Technique in a Two-Layer Cylindrical Material

The objective of this study is to analyze the thermo-mechanical behavior of a two-layer cylindrical material, subjected to variable thermal solicitations. The thermo-mechanical coupling is done by the consideration of the spatiotemporal variations of the temperature in the mechanical problem on one hand, and by means of the variations of the thermal and mechanical properties on the other hand. The study is led in two dimensions (r, z) on a cylindrical multi-material consisting of two layers subjected to a periodic or constant heat flux on one face, and to an exchange condition on the opposite face. Other faces are supposed to be insulated. We compare two approaches of the problem, the first one is a local approach based on a theoretical study of the thermal and mechanical fields (thermal transfer and constraints) and the second approach is based on the notion of equivalence of the thermo-physical properties of both layers to only one. Thus, this second approach is a homogenization of the multi-material in a single fictitious material possessing the same thermo-mechanical behavior.