Final MB — Disturbing or disturbed judgement?

Disturbed families, or families disturbed?

Aesthetic Judgement and Political Judgement

a bstr act Prominent positions in the contemporary theoretical field of the humanities tend to conceptualize late modern communities in general as aes­ thetic communities of taste. In regard to political communities, this means reducing the political to an implication of the aesthetic discourse. This article argues for addressing the aesthetic and the political as distinct discourses that are, ...

Disturbing Vortices

Inviscid spatially compact vortices (such as the Rankine vortex) have discrete Kelvin modes. For these modes, the critical radius, at which the rotation frequency of the wave matches the angular velocity of the fluid, lies outside the vortex core. When such a vortex is not perfectly compact, but has a weak vorticity distribution beyond the core, these Kelvin disturbances are singular at the cri...

Prairie Dog Overpopulation: Value Judgement or Ecological Reality?

—The subject of prairie dog (Cynomys ludovicianus) overpopulation is complex, and judgements of overpopulation may not be based on prairie dog population size or density. Caughley's (1981) model of animal overpopulation is applied here to prairie dogs to clarify the basis for a judgement of overpopulation in each of several cases. There are ecological components to all such cases, but a purely ...

Overestimation of peer drinking: error of judgement or methodological artefact?

AIMS To examine whether inclusion of both self- and peer-referent items in the context of a single social norms drinking questionnaire plays an active role in producing the much-reported tendency for young people to overestimate the extent of peers' alcohol-related behaviour and the permissiveness of their attitudes towards alcohol. DESIGN, SETTING, PARTICIPANTS AND MEASUREMENTS In a between-...