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Is it possible to conceive of a Hello Kitty Middle Ages or a Tickle Me Elmo Renaissance? The Oxford English Dictionary dates the first reference to “cute” in the sense of “attractive, pretty, charming” to 1834. More recently, Sianne Ngai has offered a critical overview of the cuteness of the twentieth-century avant-garde within the context of consumer culture. But if cuteness can get under the skin, what kinds of surfaces does it best infiltrate, particularly in the framework of historical forms, events, and objects that traditionally have been read as emergences around “big” aesthetics of formal symmetries, high affects, and resemblances? The Retrofuturism of Cuteness seeks to undo the temporal strictures surrounding aesthetic and affective categories, to displace a strict focus on commodification and cuteness, and to interrogate how cuteness as a minor aesthetics can refocus our perceptions and readings of both premodern and modern media, literature, and culture. Taking seriously the retro and the futuristic temporalities of cuteness, this volume puts in conversation projects that have unearthed remnants of a “cult of cute”—positioned historically and critically in between transitions into secularization, capitalist frameworks of commodification, and the enchantment of objects—and those that have investigated the uncanny haunting of earlier aesthetics in future-oriented modes of cuteness.

Aesthetics, Modern. --- Charm. --- Childishness. --- Childishness in literature.

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This book highlights two essential analyses of data collected during the LHCb experiment, based on the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. The first comprises the first observation and studies of matter-antimatter asymmetries in two three-body b-baryon decays, paving the way for more precise measurements of the relatively unknown decay properties of b-baryon decays. The second is an analysis of a charged B meson decay to three charged pions, where previously large matter-antimatter asymmetries were observed in a model-independent analysis. Here a model of the decay amplitude is constructed using the unitarity-conserving ‘K-matrix’ model for the scalar contributions, so as to gain an understanding of how the previously observed matter-antimatter asymmetries arise; further, the model’s construction yields the most precise and comprehensive study of this decay mode to date.

Hadrons --- Particles (Nuclear physics) --- Charm (Nuclear physics) --- Charmed particles (Nuclear physics) --- Quantum theory --- Decay. --- Charm. --- Nuclear physics. --- Nuclear Physics, Heavy Ions, Hadrons. --- Quantum Field Theories, String Theory. --- Atomic nuclei --- Atoms, Nuclei of --- Nucleus of the atom --- Physics --- Heavy ions. --- Quantum field theory. --- String theory. --- Models, String --- String theory --- Nuclear reactions --- Relativistic quantum field theory --- Field theory (Physics) --- Relativity (Physics) --- Ions

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This book discusses the study of double charm B decays and the first observation of B0->D0D0Kst0 decay using Run I data from the LHCb experiment. It also describes in detail the upgrade for the Run III of the LHCb tracking system and the trigger and tracking strategy for the LHCb upgrade, as well as the development and performance studies of a novel standalone tracking algorithm for the scintillating fibre tracker that will be used for the LHCb upgrade. This algorithm alone allows the LHCb upgrade physics program to achieve incredibly high sensitivity to decays containing long-lived particles as final states as well as to boost the physics capabilities for the reconstruction of low momentum particles.

Particles (Nuclear physics) --- Quantum flavor dynamics. --- Charm. --- Dynamics, Quantum flavor --- Flavor dynamics, Quantum --- Quantum theory --- Quarks --- Charm (Nuclear physics) --- Charmed particles (Nuclear physics) --- Quantum theory. --- Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory. --- Measurement Science and Instrumentation. --- Elementary particles (Physics). --- Quantum field theory. --- Physical measurements. --- Measurement   . --- Measuring --- Mensuration --- Mathematics --- Technology --- Metrology --- Physical measurements --- Measurements, Physical --- Mathematical physics --- Measurement --- Relativistic quantum field theory --- Field theory (Physics) --- Relativity (Physics) --- Elementary particles (Physics) --- High energy physics --- Nuclear particles --- Nucleons --- Nuclear physics

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Challenging notions that the "white backlash"; of the 1960's and 70's was driven by increasing race resentment, Durr examines white working-class life and politics in the neighbourhoods, workplaces and community institutions of blue-collar Baltimore in the decades after World War II.

Working class whites. --- Business. --- History. --- Social Science. --- Working class whites --- Business & Economics --- Labor & Workers' Economics --- Political activity --- Attitudes --- Political activity. --- Attitudes. --- Baltimore (Md.) --- Race relations. --- White working class --- Whites, Laboring class --- Whites, Working class --- Baltimore City (Md.) --- Caucasian race --- Whites --- City of Baltimore (Md.) --- Charm City (Md.) --- Baltemore Town (Md.) --- White working class people --- White people --- Working class white people --- Mobtown (Md.)

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African Americans --- Free African Americans --- Afro-Americans --- Black Americans --- Colored people (United States) --- Negroes --- Africans --- Ethnology --- Blacks --- Free Afro-Americans --- Free blacks --- Segregation --- History --- Civil rights --- Philadelphia --- Baltimore (Md.) --- Baltimore City (Md.) --- City of Baltimore (Md.) --- Charm City (Md.) --- Baltemore Town (Md.) --- Race relations --- Black people --- Free Black people --- Mobtown (Md.)