This article joins many contemporary activists and scholars in criticizing and seeking alternatives to the ongoing neoliberalization of the global political economy. It sets out two main arguments: (1) in order to resist the growing control of capital over the global political economy, one important project is to develop new notions of citizenship that expand the decision-making control of citizens; and (2) Henri Lefebvre's concept of ‘the right to the city’ is one particularly fertile set of principles on which to base such alternative citizenships because it resists and rethinks both traditional citizenship forms and capitalist social relations. The first part of the article outlines the context in which Lefebvre's ideas might be pursued by examining the contemporary destabilization of traditional citizenship and its relationship to global political and economic restructuring. The second part of the article develops more specifically the potential of Lefebvrian citizenship by constructing a theoretical sketch of one possible citizenship based on Lefebvre's idea: what I call the right to the global city. The article finishes by suggesting that the right to the city can be extended beyond the urban context. It points toward a new set of more democratic political relationships in which the power of inhabitants to shape the global political economy displaces the power of capital and the nation-state.



Cet article fait echo a nombre de militants et d'intellectuels contemporains critiquant la neoliberalisation actuelle de l'economie politique mondiale, et y cherchant des alternatives. Il expose deux arguments principaux: d'abord, pour resister au contro le croissant du capital sur l'economie politique mondiale, un grand projet doit definir de nouvelles notions de citoyennete qui permettent aux citoyens de mieux maitriser les decisions; ensuite, le concept de ‘droit a la ville’ d'Henri Lefebvre est un ensemble particulierement productif de principes utilisables pour asseoir ces citoyennetes alternatives, car il repousse et repense a la fois les formes de citoyennete traditionnelles et les relations sociales capitalistes. La premiere partie de l'article delimite le cadre dans lequel les concepts de Lefebvre pourraient s'appliquer, en examinant la destabilisation contemporaine de la citoyennete classique et son lien avec la restructuration politico-economique mondiale. La seconde partie developpe le potentiel de la citoyennete selon Lefebvre en ebauchant une possible citoyennete theorique basee sur son idee: ce que j'appelle le droit a la ville mondiale. L'article se termine en suggerant que le droit a la ville peut s'etendre au-dela du contexte urbain. Il vise un nouvel ensemble de relations politiques plus democratiques ou le pouvoir des habitants pour faconner l'economie politique mondiale supplante celui du capital et de l'Etatnation.

https://faculty.washington.edu/mpurcell/ijurr.pdf

Citizenship and the right to the global city: reimagining the capitalist world order

Over the past few years, Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have become popular as a possible pathway to enable low-power event-driven neuromorphic hardware. However, their application in machine learning have largely been limited to very shallow neural network architectures for simple problems. In this paper, we propose a novel algorithmic technique for generating an SNN with a deep architecture, and demonstrate its effectiveness on complex visual recognition problems such as CIFAR-10 and ImageNet. Our technique applies to both VGG and Residual network architectures, with significantly better accuracy than the state-of-the-art. Finally, we present analysis of the sparse event-driven computations to demonstrate reduced hardware overhead when operating in the spiking domain.

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Going Deeper in Spiking Neural Networks: VGG and Residual Architectures.

Metastatic relapse in patients with solid tumors is caused by systemic preoperative or perioperative dissemination of tumor cells. The presence of individual tumor cells in bone marrow and in peripheral blood can be detected by immunologic or molecular methods and is being regarded increasingly as a clinically relevant prognostic factor. Because the goal of adjuvant therapy is the eradication of occult micrometastatic tumor cells before metastatic disease becomes clinically evident, the early detection of micrometastases could identify the patients who are most (and least) likely to benefit from adjuvant therapy. In addition, more sensitive methods for detecting such cells should increase knowledge about the biologic mechanisms of metastasis and improve the diagnosis and treatment of micrometastatic disease. In contrast to solid metastatic tumors, micrometastatic tumor cells are appropriate targets for intravenously applied agents because macromolecules and immunocompetent effector cells should have access to the tumor cells. Because the majority of micrometastatic tumor cells may be nonproliferative (G0 phase), standard cytotoxic chemotherapies aimed at proliferating cells may be less effective, which might explain, in part, the failure of chemotherapy. Thus, adjuvant therapies that are aimed at dividing and quiescent cells, such as antibody-based therapies, are of considerable interest. From a literature search that used the databases MEDLINE(R), CANCERLIT(R), Biosis(R), Embase(R), and SciSearch(R), we discuss the current state of research on minimal residual cancer in patients with epithelial tumors and the diagnostic and clinical implications of these findings.

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Detection and clinical importance of micrometastatic disease

An ecosystem approach for sustainability: addressing the challenge of complexity

Since ancient past humans have attempted to harness the wind energy through diversified means and vertical axis wind turbines (VAWTs) were one of the major equipment to achieve that. In this modern time, there is resurgence of interests regarding VAWTs as numerous universities and research institutions have carried out extensive research activities and developed numerous designs based on several aerodynamic computational models. These models are crucial for deducing optimum design parameters and also for predicting the performance before fabricating the VAWT. In this review, the authors have attempted to compile the main aerodynamic models that have been used for performance prediction and design of straight-bladed Darrieus-type VAWT. It has been found out that at present the most widely used models are the double-multiple streamtube model, Vortex model and the Cascade model. Each of these three models has its strengths and weaknesses which are discussed in this paper.

Aerodynamic models for Darrieus-type straight-bladed vertical axis wind turbines

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