This paper provides a critique of governmentally inspired accounts of urban regeneration and partnership working. Drawing on the work of Norbert Elias and prominent figurational sociologists, it discusses the changes taking place within and through the many partnerships set up by New Labour around the notion of ‘community safety’. Whilst recognising the important insights provided by accounts o...

With each of the classical tree-like forcings adjoining a new real, one can associate a σ-ideal on the reals in a natural way. For example, the ideal s0 of Marczewski null sets corresponds to Sacks forcing S, while the ideal r0 of nowhere Ramsey sets corresponds to Mathias forcing R. We show (in ZFC) that none of these ideals is included in any of the others. We also discuss Mycielski’s ideal P...

First paragraphs: What is farming for? are the objectives? How should it relate to nature and wider society?” (p. 121) asks Jan Douwe van der Ploeg in his new book, The Sociology of Farming: Concepts Methods. As an accomplished interdisciplinary scholar making significant contributions fields rural sociology, agroecology, peasant studies, offers emerging sea­soned scholars alike overview wide a...

Herein, we described the first case of self-inoculation in a veterinarian with bovine Johne’s disease(BJD) attenuated vaccine in Iran that required medical attention. A needle-stick injury to the right thumb of ayoung veterinarian during vaccination of cattle with BJD vaccine resulted in an inflammation that not onlyfailed to resolve but also progressed to a lesion 2.5 cm in diameter. The usual...