On Places-I

Places on algebraic curves

Give L an algebraic extension of k(x) where x is an indeterminate, we have defined a lattice Val(L, k) which is a point-free description of the Riemann surface X associated to L/k. (The topology is such that the open correspond to the cofinite sets. Furthermore there is an extra point which corresponds to the trivial valuation ring L.) We present here a fundamental algorithm which of L enumerat...

"I am kind of a nomad where I have to go places and places"… Understanding mobility, place and identity in global software work from India

Mobilities, encompassing the movements and ‘flows’ of people, objects, capital, images technologies and information across the world have been strongly implicated in the context of contemporary globalization processes. Globally distributed software development work across boundaries of time, space and place undertaken by global software organizations (GSOs), can be seen as a microcosm of such p...

On being sane in insane places.

It is clear that we cannot distinguish the sane from the insane in psychiatric hospitals. The hospital itself imposes a special environment in which the meanings of behavior can easily be misunderstood. The consequences to patients hospitalized in such an environment-the powerlessness, depersonalization, segregation, mortification, and self-labeling-seem undoubtedly countertherapeutic. I do not...

Changing places

The announcement this spring followed months of speculation: Kim Nasmyth will assume the Whitley Chair of Biochemistry at the University of Oxford at the start of 2006, taking over from Ed Southern. Nasmyth is presently Director of the Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP) in Vienna and is well known for his work on the yeast cell cycle and chromosome segregation (for more details see Curr. Bi...

Relative places