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Journal articles on the topic "Characters from literature"
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Moon, Seo-Yeong, Yeon-A. Kim, and Jeong-Hyun Lee. "Character Design, Using MetaHuman Creator: Focusing on characters from the TV series ‘Arthdal Chronicles’." Korean Society of Beauty and Art 23, no. 3 (September 20, 2022): 7–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.18693/jksba.2022.23.3.7.
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In this study, character makeups were created from 5 main characters of the TV series ‘Arthdal Chronicles’, using MetaHuman Creator. It attempted to have a correct understanding of character makeup and recreate characters in consideration of historical background with a goal of completing perfect characters in the metaverse era by reviewing the tutorial of the MetaHuman Creator of Unreal Engine. For this, character makeups, historical background of ‘Arthdal Chronicles’ and 5 main characters were reanalyzed and reviewed through analysis of literature materials, previous studies and Internet resources. After learning how to use MetaHuman Creator, character makeups were eventually created. This process is essential for makeup specialists who are required to create characters by analyzing the scenario and characters. In this study, makeup specialists created characters who could lead industry 4.0, using computer. It is anticipated that makeup-IT convergence would further expand creative 3D character design and make a contribution to the continued growth and development of makeup and IT technologies.
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Holland, Sharon P. "When Characters Lack Character: A Biomythography." PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 123, no. 5 (October 2008): 1494–502. http://dx.doi.org/10.1632/pmla.2008.123.5.1494.
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I open with two philosophical gestures that point to the two quandaries that motivate this paper. First, the (im)possibility of biography—an account of some one's life—a documenting that usually, for better or worse, takes the lives of individuals as exemplary to the community, thus setting them apart from, rather than making them part of, the community of counterparts. And second, the problem discourse itself creates: When saying what we mean, does the message always reach its “indicated address” or audience? In critical theory, discourse often seems to circumvent rather than “treat” the material at hand. In keeping with the purpose of this special issue—to speak to comparative racialization—I would like to begin with a brief challenge to this project. I find “comparative racialization” an oxymoron: a promise to render the “races”—bundled into their minoritizations—separate but equal to demonstrate the effectiveness of the happy colored folks' companionability. Good racial feeling, after all, comes in twos (think Lone Ranger and Tonto, Amos and Andy, Sonny and Cher, etc.). My critique here is not meant to be facetious or disrespectful, since I intend to follow the rigorous investigation that I am charged with: bringing pressure to bear on the “comparative” in association with “racialization.” To understand what is being examined here, it is necessary to challenge the possibility of doing anything here. The minute we grasp that two racialized entities can be compared, does a set of proofs—such as, but not limited to, ideas of belonging and community and, more generally, ideas of a literature or literatures, a culture or cultures—then confront us? What if the subjects we choose to engage with are not subjects at all? What if we begin our query with some attention to what makes the subject work? Or, better yet, what tale would we tell about it, if we could? Could we provide a series of ontological proofs about its being that would ground itself in the happy narrative of place, space, and race?
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Bennema, Cornelis. "A Theory of Character in the Fourth Gospel with Reference to Ancient and Modern Literature." Biblical Interpretation 17, no. 4 (2009): 375–421. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156851508x329700.
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AbstractBoth literary theory and biblical narrative criticism lack an articulate, comprehensive theory of character. Many Gospel critics perceive character in the Hebrew Bible (where characters can develop) to be radically different from that in ancient Greek literature (where characters are supposedly consistent ethical types). Most people also sharply distinguish between modern fiction and its psychological, individualistic approach to character and ancient characterization where character lacks personality or individuality. In Part I, we examine concepts of character in ancient Hebrew and Greek literature as well as modern fiction, arguing that although there are differences in characterization, these are differences in emphases rather than kind. It is better to speak of degrees of characterization along a continuum. In Part II, we develop a comprehensive theory of character in the Fourth Gospel, consisting of three aspects. First, we study character in text and context, using information in the text and other sources. Second, we analyze and classify the Johannine characters along three dimensions (complexity, development, inner life), and plot the resulting character on a continuum of degree of characterization (from agent to type to personality to individuality). We observe that many Johannine characters are more complex and round than has been believed so far. Third, we analyze and evaluate the characters' responses to Jesus in relation to the Fourth Evangelist's evaluative point of view, purpose and dualistic worldview.
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Alkestrand, Malin, and Christopher Owen. "A Cognitive Analysis of Characters in Swedish and Anglophone Children's Fantasy Literature." International Research in Children's Literature 11, no. 1 (July 2018): 65–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/ircl.2018.0254.
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In Justice in Young Adult Speculative Fiction, Marek C. Oziewicz argues, ‘it is possible to study scripts through the lens of the author's cognition, through the reader's cognition, or as a textual matter with an implied author and reader’ (9–10). Here we propose a fourth method for studying scripts in children's literature: as a textual matter. Unlike previous research in the field, we argue that neither the implied author nor the implied or real reader's cognition is necessary for a cognitive analysis to offer insights about a literary text. A cognitive analysis of characters can demonstrate how each character's cognitive embodiment of their intersectional subject position contributes to the progression of a text's plot and themes.By analysing the mimetic, synthetic and thematic dimensions of character (Phelan), we maintain an ontological distinction between humans and characters – a prerequisite for applying cognitive theories to characters. In order to demonstrate the broad applicability of our approach, we analyse the cognitive scripts of the protagonists in two portal-quest fantasies from two different countries. Taliah Pollack's Saga Swärd: Omskakare och världsresenär [Saga Sword: world shaker and traveller] was published in Sweden in 2012; Tahereh Mafi's Furthermore dates from 2016 and was published in the US.
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van Peer, Willie, and Henk Pander Maat. "Narrative perspective and the interpretation of characters' motives." Language and Literature: International Journal of Stylistics 10, no. 3 (August 1, 2001): 229–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0973-9470-20010803-04.
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This article addresses the question of the effects of narrative perspective on readers. A review of the (mainly social science) literature suggests a number of factors that may affect readers' interpretation of character behaviour while reading stories. An experiment is set up to check whether the manipulation of narrative perspective indeed results in such effects. Although the results are not always unambiguous, in the majority of cases it was found that readers' sympathy for a character in the story (as driven by the internal focalizations of that character) indeed shape their interpretations of characters' actions. For instance, 'legitimate' motives are preferred over 'egoistic' ones for characters the reader is in sympathy with. When a sympathetic character's actions are nevertheless perceived as 'egoistic', they are usually explained by appealing to situational factors, while the 'egoistic' acts of unsympathetic characters are viewed as resulting from dispositional factors. The article closes with a consideration of the effects of perspective, sympathy allocation and motive attribution in the reading act.
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Rahmawati, Nfn. "KONFLIK KEJIWAAN TOKOH UTAMA DALAM NOVEL KORUPSI KARYA TAHAR BEN JELLEOUN (Psychological Conflict of The Main Character in Tahar Ben Jelleoun’s Novel, Korupsi)." Kandai 13, no. 1 (August 24, 2017): 75. http://dx.doi.org/10.26499/jk.v13i1.93.
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This study aims to describe main characters and psychological conflict experienced by the characters in “Korupsi” novel. The method used is qualitative descriptive method. Two issues are: (1) how the character of the character in “Korupsi” novel and (2) what psychological conflict experienced by the main character will be studied by combining a structural approach and psychological literature. The structural approach is used to understand the characterization aspect as one of the novel structures that discusses character and main figure’s character. The psychological literature is employed to understand psychological conflict and psychological problems experienced by the main characters. he results show that the main characters are easily tempted, inconsistent, impatient for having all his needs fulfilled. These characters makes him trapped in corruption case. The bribery money makes him in corruption trap in his office causes inevitable psychological conflicts. The main character decision to get involved in corruption case is inseparable from influence and pressure from family and his friends in his office. The action to neglect principle, integrity, and honesty that have been retained for many years causes him trapped in psychological conflicts. Psychological conflicts experienced by the main characters lead to psychological problem in the main characters, such as guilt, shame, negative hallucinations, nightmares, and desire to suicide.
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Rosmiati, Ana. "EDUCATIONAL VALUES FROM THE CHARACTERS OF EL SHIRAZY'S NOVEL 'AYAT-AYAT CINTA': A SOCIOLOGY OF LITERATURE PERSPECTIVE." Leksema: Jurnal Bahasa dan Sastra 7, no. 2 (December 30, 2022): 145–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.22515/ljbs.v7i2.5855.
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This article aimed at finding out the educational values reflected by characters in the novel Ayat-ayat Cinta written by Habiburrahman El Shirazy from sociological approach to literature. This was a descriptive-qualitative research with textual data in the form of words, phrases, clauses, sentences, and discourse uttered by the characters and narrated by the author in the novel. The result shows that the novel contains some moral messages as well as educational values. Each character in this novel carries educational messages through their characterizations and plot of the story.
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Septiadi, Hidayat Nur. "Planting Base Value of Hardworking Character Education through Ulid Novel." Budapest International Research in Exact Sciences (BirEx) Journal 1, no. 3 (July 25, 2019): 43–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.33258/birex.v1i3.323.
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Important hard work characters are taught for the younger generation today so that researchers are interested in describing and explaining the values of character education in hard work in Ulid's novel by Mahfud Ikhwan. This novel tells the story of the struggle of poor families to send their eldest children from kindergarten to high school with various struggles and hard work in his life. The actions that the characters to bring out the character values of hard work that are proven through the attitude and every dialogue of the characters. This study included descriptive qualitative with note-taking techniques and literature studies. The results of data analysis of hard work character values are known to 9 frequencies, including unyielding characters, passionate characters, active working characters, earnest characters, the full character of confidence in acting, the full character of the struggle for life, independent practice character, cooperative character, and characters fight together.
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Septiadi, Hidayat Nur, Andayani Andayani, and Nugraheni Eko Wardani. "Planting Base Value of Hardworking Character Education through Ulid Novel." Budapest International Research and Critics in Linguistics and Education (BirLE) Journal 2, no. 3 (July 27, 2019): 28–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.33258/birle.v2i3.350.
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Important hard work characters are taught for the younger generation today so that researchers are interested in describing and explaining the values of character education in hard work in Ulid's novel by Mahfud Ikhwan. This novel tells the story of the struggle of poor families to send their eldest children from kindergarten to high school with various struggles and hard work in his life. The actions that the characters to bring out the character values of hard work that are proven through the attitude and every dialogue of the characters. This study included descriptive qualitative with note-taking techniques and literature studies. The results of data analysis of hard work character values are known to 9 frequencies, including unyielding characters, passionate characters, active working characters, earnest characters, the full character of confidence in acting, the full character of the struggle for life, independent practice character, cooperative character, and characters fight together.
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Putra, EkaVidya. "Literation Movement From Tanah Ombak’s Community." SHS Web of Conferences 42 (2018): 00109. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/shsconf/20184200109.
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Nowadays, Character education becomes the attention of many parties. The key to character education is the availability of a positive character environment. Because character building is not enough just to provide knowledge about which is good attitude and what is bad as taught in school. This misunderstanding of school is the cause of character education and failure. Intended for character building requires a character environment that provides good examples to its members. The problem is that there are many character environments that do not support the building of good characters. Bad character environments can be seen in slum area. Slums, identical to poverty, low levels of education, many criminal acts, promiscuity and other negative behaviors. By using a new institutional approach . Data collection is done by qualitative method, through observation, interview and literature study. The success of the Tanah Ombak Community manipulates the institutional environment can not be separated from two things. First, there are actor who become key figures. Second, there in collectively shared values that drives ideas. How the environment is manipulated can be seen from the three aspects, regulative, normative and cognitive. Regulatively, many emergence of positive rules for character development. Normatively, bad old habits are replaced by positive new habits for character building. Finally, cognitively new knowledge emerges for the new characters building.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Characters from literature"
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Seo, Joanne Mira. "Allusive characterization from Apollonius to Statius." [S.l. : s.n.], 2004. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/174205418.html.
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Matheny, Kathryn. "The Freedom of Flexibility: Lessons from the Child Characters in Flannery O'Connor." TopSCHOLAR®, 2005. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/508.
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Flannery O'Connor had a penchant for repetition, often revisiting the same character types, plot devices, and overriding ideas in two or more stories. This repetition always goes hand in hand with reinterpretation. Even when the characters and plots seem suspiciously similar, the differences signal both O'Connor's fascination with her subject and her persistent attempts to understand it. This thesis will explore O'Connor's revisions of stories in which child characters play an integral part. The later story in the three pairs I will examine gives a clearer picture of what O'Connor believed were the freedoms of childhood. O'Connor's adults rarely arouse much pity because they move decisively toward either redemption or damnation. Her child characters, however, aren't quite as rigidly written. They do not suffer from O'Connor's predestination; they can accept or reject the future offered to them in a way the adults cannot. While some of these children seem to serve only as pawns in the adults' confrontations with grace, others are the focus of their own stories. All, however, control their own fates, even when they are least likely to have that power. The depiction of childhood in O'Connor's short stories goes beyond simply seeing the world as it is, reporting the inflexibility of adulthood. O'Connor asks her readers to recognize the benefits of becoming childlike themselves. A simple faith opens adults' eyes and allows them to accept both their weaknesses and the strength of God that accompanies awareness of weakness. O'Connor also shows us that if we refuse to become childlike, if we do not let a child's life influence ours, we may end up influencing theirs. Just as it is important to soften ourselves for our own sakes, it is doubly important that we do so to keep them from learning our bad habits.
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Hehir, Sylvia. "Writing characters from under-represented communities : a perspective from an emerging young adult fiction writer." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2018. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/30716/.
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The category of young adult (YA) fiction encompasses a wide range of genres; but despite this generic diversity, it has so far failed to represent the full range of communities that make up contemporary British society. Discussions are ongoing between professionals in the publishing industry and campaigning individuals and organisations who are aiming to redress this imbalance. Writers making new work are in a position to help effect a change, but acknowledging and responding to the call for inclusion can be far from straightforward, with questions being raised such as: ‘how far can a writer stray from their own lived experience?’ and ‘how can a writer avoid tokenism or cultural appropriation when writing for inclusion?’ This thesis consists of a new YA contemporary novel, Sea Change, and an accompanying critical essay, which reflects on the challenges I encountered while aiming to write for inclusion. Set in the Scottish Highlands, Sea Change is a contemporary YA crime novel, in which the world of the sixteen-year-old protagonist, Alex, is thrown into turmoil when he discovers a dead body next to his fishing boat. The decisions Alex makes following this discovery set in motion the plot of the story. The narrative, as it unfolds, facilitates the exploration of themes frequently associated with adolescence, such as friendship, risk-taking and the maturation into an adult identity, along with themes specifically linked to Alex’s status as a member of marginalised communities because of his sexuality and social class, such as prejudice, acute stress brought on by economic pressure, and low self-esteem. This thesis, then, reviews the opinions and recommendations being expressed by campaigners for greater diversity, and exposes the uncertainties and challenges a writer faces when aiming to write for inclusion.
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Sisic, Aldijana. "Images of female characters in the works of three contemporary male writers from the former Yugoslavia : Ivan Aralica, Mesa Selimovic, Slobadan Selenic." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.265872.
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Bean, Joann Ruth MacLachlan. "From Thraso to Herod : Hrotsvitha meets the bragging soldier /." *McMaster only, 1999.
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Österberg, Elisabeth. "Adapting the Men in Jane Eyre : A Comparative Analysis of Two Movie Adaptations (from 1943 and 2011) of the novel Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë, with a Focus on the Male Characters." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för språkstudier, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-151487.
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This is a comparative analysis of two film adaptations (from 1943 and 2011) of Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, with a focus on the male characters. My aim is to study how patriarchal control is adapted for the screen, compared to the original novel. The focus is on the characters John Reed, Mr. Brocklehurst, Mr. Rochester and St. John Rivers. The analysis is about how the filmmakers depict the essence of the characters, why they chose to do so and what determinants influenced the two films; furthermore, how this affects Jane’s character and her pursuit for independence. The thesis of this essay is that there is a difference in the interpretation of the male characters in the two films compared to the novel Jane Eyre and this affects Jane’s pursuit for independence. My conclusion is that although the films differ in narration and filming technique, the strongest impact on the discourse is the changed script due to politics and production code.
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Olchowy, Rozeboom Gloria. "Bearing men : a cultural history of motherhood from the cycle plays to Shakespeare." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/NQ56598.pdf.
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Beeler, Connie. "Miscegenated Narration: The Effects of Interracialism in Women's Popular Sentimental Romances from the Civil War Years." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2011. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc67958/.
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Critical work on popular American women's fiction still has not reckoned adequately with the themes of interracialism present in these novels and with interracialism's bearing on the sentimental. This thesis considers an often overlooked body of women's popular sentimental fiction, published from 1860-1865, which is interested in themes of interracial romance or reproduction, in order to provide a fuller picture of the impact that the intersection of interracialism and sentimentalism has had on American identity. By examining the literary strategy of "miscegenated narration," or the heteroglossic cacophony of narrative voices and ideological viewpoints that interracialism produces in a narrative, I argue that the hegemonic ideologies of the sentimental romance are both "deterritorialized" and "reterritorialized," a conflicted impulse that characterizes both nineteenth-century sentimental, interracial romances and the broader project of critiquing the dominant national narrative that these novels undertake.
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Kanon, Nillen. "Foreign character language : A case study on Kagura from Gin Tama." Thesis, Högskolan Dalarna, Japanska, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-35925.
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Role language in Japanese is a term defined in 2000 by Satoshi Kinsui. Role language usesdifferent pronouns, copula and sentence-ending particles to depict a certain type of characterusing language. This thesis compares the language of the character Kagura from the mangaGin Tama , written and illustrated by Hideaki Sorachi, to the role language definitions featured inSatoshi Kinsui’s work Virtual Japanese: Enigmas of Role Language , as well as the standardizedJapanese language. Kagura is an alien character landing on planet earth in Edo -period Japan,her character is portrayed with Chinese details and her language is known as the aruyo rolelanguage, which has been used to represent the Chinese in fiction.The case study consisted of 530 lines from the original manga gathered from seven differentvolumes spanning ten years between the first and the last.The analysis featured in the result section produced statistics of how many lines contained acertain phrase or sentence-ending particle and began analyzing the meaning of particles andhow they are used in the context of the manga . The conclusion brings forth new discoveriesregarding the command conjugation and its equivalence in role language.
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Lee, Dong-Ill. "Character from archetype : a study of the characterization of Beowulf with reference to the diction of direct speech in Beowulf." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.321774.
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Characters from young adult literature. Englewood, Colo: Libraries Unlimited, 1991.
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Searle, Judith. The literary enneagram: Characters from the inside out. Portland, Or: Metamorphous Press, 2001.
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Disney junior encyclopedia of animated characters: Including characters from your favorite Disney/Pixar films. New York: Disney Press, 2004.
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1955-, Bergen Lara, ed. Disney junior encyclopedia of animated characters: Includes characters from your favorite Disney Pixar films. New York, NY: Disney Press, 2009.
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Hustwit, Barbara E. Never far from home: Willa Cather, on choosing names from Frederick County, Virginia, for her literary characters. Wooster, Ohio: The Wooster Book Co., 2011.
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D, Key Jack, ed. Medicine, literature & eponyms: An encyclopedia of medical eponyms derived from literary characters. Malabar, Fla: R.E. Krieger Pub. Co., 1989.
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Felson-Rubin, Nancy. Regarding Penelope: From character to poetics. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press, 1994.
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Baird, Ileana. "Outliers, Connectors, and Textual Periphery: John Dennis’s Social Network in The Dunciad in Four Books." In Data Visualization in Enlightenment Literature and Culture, 265–308. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-54913-8_8.
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AbstractThis chapter uses social network analysis to visualize the fields of relations involving John Dennis, the most important critic of the first half of the eighteenth century, with the other protagonists in Alexander Pope’s satire, The Dunciad in Four Books (1743). By using visualizations generated by GraphViz, a program that creates topological graphs from sets of dyadic relations, and ShivaGraph, a tool that helps visualize large networks and navigate through them as through a map, this chapter brings to light data that is structurally embedded in the poem but not immediately legible given the large amount and complexity of information. In Dennis’s case, they reveal the competing stories told by the poem and the apparatus and the critic’s main role as the uncrowned king of The Dunciad’s textual periphery. These visualizations also highlight Dennis’s essential position as a network connector, his camp affiliations, the role played by peripheral characters in the plot network of the poem, and the main dunces targeted by Pope, or the poem’s “hall of infamy.”
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La Spisa, Paolo. "Migrazione alla ricerca di un’identità in La stagione della migrazione al nord di al-Ṭayyib Ṣāliḥ." In Studi e saggi, 319–41. Florence: Firenze University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.36253/978-88-5518-467-0.25.
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The novel by Al-Ṭayib Ṣāliḥ The Season of Migration to the North is a classic of the post-modern Arabic literature. The critical literature of the last century has privileged the post-colonial interpretation. One of the aims of this essay is to reveal the inner reality of the main characters, who are not seen from an external point of view, but within a closer relationship with the reader.
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Pae, Hye K. "Linguistic Evidence for Script Relativity." In Literacy Studies, 147–74. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-55152-0_8.
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Abstract Using the universal grammar of reading and the system accommodation hypothesis (Perfetti, 2003) as theoretical frameworks, this chapter reviews a wide range of linguistic evidence that supports script relativity. Universality and specificity found according to script features are discussed with respect to the operating principle (alphabet vs. logography), psycholinguistic gran size (phoneme vs. syllable), graph configuration (linearity vs. block), symbolic representation (arbitrariness vs. iconic quality), graph complexity (traditional characters vs. simplified characters), and multi-script representation (phonogram Kana vs. Ideogram Kanji). Linguistic skills associated with reading in terms of orthography, phonology, morphology as well as cross-linguistic and cross-scriptal transfer are reviewed. Next, based on the reviewed literature, each criterion for causality from script to cognition through reading as a multifaceted cognitive activity is checked. Although the existing literature did not aim to directly test script relativity, research findings collectively suggest script effects on readers’ thought and cognition.
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Baena, Rosalía. "Reading for pleasure: from narrative competence to character education." In Literature and Character Education in Universities, 17–33. London: Routledge, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003162209-1.
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Sasaki, Yūki. "作品 『壁』における の表象 - 安 公房はその文学に をどう描いたか / Representation of food in the collection of works Kabe: How Abe Kōbō wrote about food in the literature." In Studi e saggi, 25–44. Florence: Firenze University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.36253/978-88-5518-506-6.05.
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This paper aims to examine the way "food" is depicted in “Kabe (The Wall)” (1951) written by Abe Kōbō. “Kabe” is Abe's first collection of works, and it consists of three parts: “S.Karuma-shi no Hanzai (The Crime of S. Karma)” (1951), “Akai Mayu (The Red Cocoon)” (1950), and six other works. Based on discussions in previous studies, I first aimed to clarify where Abe's "consistent intention" in his "Postscript" can be found from the perspective of quantitative text analysis using KH Coder. Then, I chose "food" as one of the indicators to support the worldbuilding and the actions of the characters in the work. I pointed out that the variety of both food and drink is limited, also there are no significant descriptions of taste, and that it can be inferred that what people eat is divided according to their positions in the story. In “Kabe”, the description of "food" is used as a trigger for the characters to move on to the next action.
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Beauvais, Clémentine. "From Solitary to Solidary." In Intergenerational Solidarity in Children's Literature and Film, 3–17. University Press of Mississippi, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496831910.003.0001.
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This chapter discusses what happens when a children’s book represents the full lives of its main character(s), from childhood to old age. Within such books, protagonists are often made to revise their vision of younger and older characters. What changes and what remains in the character’s perspective on intergenerationality, and of their own place in the generational landscape of their world, as they grow old? First the chapter looks at biographies for children and their purpose of exemplarity. Then it explores a more haphazard collection of stories in different genres that represent the full lives of their protagonists, highlighting the more ambivalent portrayals of intergenerational solidarity that they propose. The chapter suggests that the full life in children’s literature allows authors to tackle age-related topics that are rarely seen in children’s literature from the protagonist’s perspective: the fear of generational usurpation, vicarious living through one’s children, and a sense of the role of intergenerational others in the creation of one’s existence.
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Whewell, William. "From Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences (1840)." In Literature and Science in the Nineteenth Century. Oxford University Press, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/owc/9780199554652.003.0075.
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The Idea of Time, like the Idea of Space, offers to our notice some characters which do not belong to our fundamental ideas generally, but which are deserving of remark. These characters are, in some respects, closely similar with regard to time and to space,...
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Eliot, George. "From Middlemarch (1871–2)." In Literature and Science in the Nineteenth Century. Oxford University Press, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/owc/9780199554652.003.0054.
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Starting with some general reflections on history, Eliot offers readers the history of one of her main characters, Dr Tertius Lydgate, explaining what attracted him to the district of Middlemarch. A great historian, as he insisted on calling himself, who had the happiness to...
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Rana, Swati. "Conclusion." In Race Characters, 183–96. University of North Carolina Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469659473.003.0007.
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The conclusion highlights the double movement of the book as it reveals the figure of the American dream and refracts this figure into all its complexity. Ethnic literature’s shared engagement with and inevitable difference from this figure brings out both ubiquity and unevenness. Constellating distinct literary traditions in this way develops new comparative methods and orientations to ethnic archives, along with a better understanding of how race and ethnicity are being realigned at present. The conclusion emphasizes what characterization as contestation accomplishes—how the interplay of the many facets of character across literary and social worlds breaks down persistent archetypes and foregrounds structural constraints. In closing, the book points to attentiveness, underscoring the agency of literature and of literary critique.
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Shimizu, Akihiko. "The Face as Rhetorical Self in Ben Jonson’s Literature." In Face-to-Face in Shakespearean Drama, 210–31. Edinburgh University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474435680.003.0010.
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In this essay, Akihiko Shimizu reconsiders the most widely accepted critical views on Jonson’s “flat” characters versus Shakespeare’s “round” ones. He argues that the Jonsonian concept of character—underpinned by classical rhetorical theories of Quintilian and Plutarch—should be understood as an effect of interaction and exchange and not as a manifestation of consciousness. Jonson’s characters are the effect of a simultaneous process of rhetorical self-enhancement and self-exposure. As these men and women attempt to depict their own worth by affecting humours, their interlocutors use rhetorical conjecture to expose what lies beneath this verbal disguise. Both Jonson’s and Shakespeare’s literature share an interest in performativity, acknowledging the impersonated character as inter-subjective, and prompting the audience to participate in deciphering the character from outward appearance and face.
Conference papers on the topic "Characters from literature"
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Silva Ramos, Elisa. "The Classical Detective Story Formula from Literature to Videogames." In Anais Estendidos do Simpósio Brasileiro de Games e Entretenimento Digital. Sociedade Brasileira de Computação, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5753/sbgames_estendido.2021.19644.
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The classical detective story format, originated from Edgar Allan Poe’s tales of ratiocination, has spread into all kinds of different media over the past century, transforming itself each time to make better use of each medium’s specificities. This paper stems from John Cawelti's studies about the literary formula of the detective narrative, using them as a base to analyze E. A. Poe's short story “Murders in the Rue Morgue” and Lucas Pope’s videogame Return of the Obra Dinn. I seek to understand how the literary conventions of the genre were adapted, transposed and recreated in the interactive medium. Through Cawelti’s framework for the classical detective story formula, the analysis focuses on four main patterns found in the genre: (1) situation, (2) action, (3) characters and relationships and (4) setting. I will argue here that the element of interaction is responsible for modifying the most important component of the literary genre: the detective figure. This important change alters the purpose of the detective story genre itself; however, it also makes for an experience which is more on par with the literary detective’s actions as well.
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Sari, Desi Ratna, and Ngusman Abdul Manaf. "The Characters of Tere Liye’s Novel Rindu by Tere Liye: Review from Searle’s Commisive Speaking Actions." In 4th International Conference on Language, Literature, and Education (ICLLE-4 2021). Paris, France: Atlantis Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.211201.008.
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Nguyen Thi, Dung. "The World Miraculous Characters in Vietnamese Fairy Tales Aspect of Languages – Ethnic in Scene South East Asia Region." In GLOCAL Conference on Asian Linguistic Anthropology 2019. The GLOCAL Unit, SOAS University of London, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.47298/cala2019.13-1.
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Like other genres of folk literature, fairy tales of Vietnamese ethnicity with miraculous character systems become strongly influenced by Southeast Asia’s historical-cultural region. Apart from being influenced by farming, Buddhism, Confucianism, urbanism, Vietnamese fairy tales are deeply influenced by ethno-linguistic elements. Consequently, fairy tales do not preserve their root identities, but shift and emerge over time. The study investigates and classifies the miraculous tales of peoples of Vietnam with strange characters (fairies, gods, Buddha, devils) in linguistic and ethnographic groups, and in high-to-low ratios. Here the study expands on, evaluates, correlates, and differentiates global miraculous characters, and describes influences of creation of miraculous characters in these fairy tales. The author affirms the value of this character system within the fairy tales, and develops conceptions of global aesthetic views. To conduct the research, the author applies statistical methods, documentary surveys, type comparison methods, systematic approaches, synthetic analysis methods, and interdisciplinary methods (cultural studies, ethnography, psychoanalysis). The author conducted a reading of and referring to the miraculous fairy tales of the peoples of Vietnam with strange characters. 250 fairy tales were selected from 32 ethnic groups of Vietnam, which have the most types of miraculous characters, classifying these according to respective language groups, through an ethnography. The author compares sources to determine characteristics of each miraculous character, and employs system methods to understand the components of characters. The author analyzes and evaluates the results based on the results of the survey and classification. Within the framework of the article, the author focuses on the following two issues; some general features of the geographical conditions and history of Vietnam in the context of Southeast Asia’s ancient and medieval periods were observed; a survey was conducted of results of virtual characters in the fairy tales of Vietnam from the perspective of language, yet accomplished through an ethnography. The results of the study indicate a calculation and quantification of magical characters in the fairy tales of Vietnamese. This study contributes to the field of Linguistic Anthropology in that it presents the first work to address the system of virtual characters in the fairy tales of Vietnam in terms of language, while it surveys different types of material, origins formed, and so forth.
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Nikolić, Andrijana A. "MOTIVI FANTASTIKE U ROMANU „NA PUTU ZA DARDEL“ SLOBODANA ZORANA OBRADOVIĆA I U PRIPOVJEDNOJ PROZI „ZAPISI IZ HODNIKA VREMENA“ ALEKSANDRA OBRADOVIĆA." In KNjIŽEVNOST ZA DECU U NAUCI I NASTAVI. University of Kragujevac, Faculty of Education in Jagodina, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.46793/kdnn21.113n.
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Slobodan and Aleksandar Obradović (father and son) from Bijelo Polje are authors whose fiction abounds in fantastic motifs ‒ characters’ actions, their ability to travel through time zones, their mythological features and the mission they are devoted to accomplish. Capable inventors, fliers, beings who transcendentally move from place to place require critical judgment ‒ whether contemporary children’s literature is truly in accordance with their age and whether and to what extent a child can identify with or distance from the characters. By combining symbols and fiction, both writers encourage readers to decipher the symbols and teach them the lesson of the story. The writers express their thoughts about important life issues through fictional characters, using narrative polyphony, skillfully avoiding identification with any character. Crossing the line between literary and non-literary is typical for both writers. In addition, parents’ role in child upbringing and their influence on the development of child’s imagination should be considered.
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Vieira, Alex de Souza, Álan Lívio V. Guedes, Daniel de Sousa Moraes, Lucas Ribeiro Madeira, Sérgio Colcher, and Carlos de S. Soares Neto. "ListeningTV: Accessible Video using Interactive Audio Descriptions." In Simpósio Brasileiro de Sistemas Multimídia e Web. Sociedade Brasileira de Computação, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5753/webmedia_estendido.2020.13065.
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People with visual impairments suffer from the incapacity to understand contextual information in videos, such as the place where characters are, or any other non-spoken actions in general. Some content creators address this issue by providing a secondary audio to describe such information, called Audio Descriptions (ADs). How- ever, some works in the literature have highlighted that people with visual impairment are usually not able to completely understand scene changes based only on characters’ voices or traditional ADs. Moreover, traditional ADs do not completely describe some of the important visual information, such as the background scenery (e.g. colors, furniture) and characters’ details (e.g. blond woman using a red dress). In this work, we propose incrementing the traditional AD techniques with the usage of interactive video features present in TV systems. More precisely, the proposed interactivity enables users to access specialized AD for different visual information (e.g., scene, scenario, character). To support the development of such interactive content, we present an application template, which helps to create the final interactive-enhanced video application. Asa proof of concept for our approach, we created an interactive AD for an independent video mainly composed of visual information, with only a few talks.
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Gorgulu, Ilhan, Baris Gumusel, and I. Sinan Akmandor. "Conjugate Heat Transfer Analysis of Internally Cooled Turbine Blade." In ASME Turbo Expo 2012: Turbine Technical Conference and Exposition. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/gt2012-68884.
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There are different characters of air flow in a conventional gas turbine blade cooling channel. These flow characters; including high streamline curvature caused from 180 degree bends, sequential flow separations caused from rib turbulators and pin-fin structures are analyzed separately with available commercial software for different turbulence models and validated against reliable experimental data from open literature. Also coupled conjugate heat transfer analyses on NASA C3X vane, which has only radial holes through blade span for cooling, are conducted with the same turbulence models. The accuracy information gathered from all these analyses; each interested with a single character of air and coupled conjugate heat transfer are put together and applied to a conjugate numerical analysis of internally cooled (VKI) LS-89 turbine blade. Internal cooling scheme which is applied to (VKI) LS-89 turbine blade encompassed the aforementioned flow characters and analyses are performed under realistic conditions. Because of the high temperature values occurring at realistic conditions, thermal conductivity and specific heat capacity of air and metal (Inconel 718) are modeled as temperature dependent material properties instead of using constant values. Conducted research revealed that 4 eqn. V2-f turbulence model gives similar results compared to the 2 eqn. Realizable k-e, k-w SST turbulence models for 180 degree bend and rib turbulator cases. However, at NASA C3X vane analyses V2-f turbulence model results are far more accurate than other two turbulence models in the manner of heat transfer coefficient and surface temperature distribution.
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Abdullah, Md Abu Shahid. "“Indeed, the King has a Cunt! What a Wonder!”: Sex, Eroticism and Language in One Thousand and One Nights." In GLOCAL Conference on Asian Linguistic Anthropology 2019. The GLOCAL Unit, SOAS University of London, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.47298/cala2019.1-1.
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One Thousand and One Nights, which can be traced back to as early as the 9th century, is probably the greatest introduction to Arabic culture through literature. This colossal and diverse book has drawn the attention of scholars, researchers and students to classic Arabic literature as well as influenced many prominent authors and filmmakers. It is not just a book of careless and unconnected stories but rather a piece of esteemed literature which has been read and analysed in many countries all over the world. However, it is also true that this book has been criticised for its sexual promiscuity and degraded portrayal of women. The aim of the presentation is to prove that underneath the clumsy and seemingly funny structures of One Thousand and One Nights, there is a description of overflowing sexuality. Through the sexualised or erotic description of female bodies, the book gives agency to women but at the same time depicts them derogatively, and thus fulfils the naked desire of the then patriarchal society. The presentation will highlight how sexual promiscuity or fathomless female sexual craving is portrayed through figurative and grammatical language, which objectifies the female characters but at the same time enables them to be playful with the male characters, and thus motivates them to become more powerful than the males. Finally. the presentation will focus on language or narrative as an act of survival from the perspectives of the female characters, which is most evident in the case of Scheherazade who saved not only her life but also lives of countless maidens by her mesmerizing storytelling talent.
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Cao, Thi Hao. "Research on Tay Ethnic Minority Literature in Vietnam Under Cultural View." In GLOCAL Conference on Asian Linguistic Anthropology 2019. The GLOCAL Unit, SOAS University of London, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.47298/cala2019.3-3.
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The Tay people are an ethnic minority of Vietnam. Tay literature has many unique facets with relevance to cultural identity. It plays an important part in the diversity and richness of Vietnamese literature. In this study, Tay literature in Vietnam is analyzed through a cultural perspective, by placing Tay literature in its development from its birth to the present, together with the formation of the ethnic group, and historical and cultural conditions, focusing on the typical customs of the Tay people in Vietnam. The researcher examines Tay literature through poems of Nôm Tày, through the works of some prominent authors, such as Vi Hong, Cao Duy Son, in the Cao Bang province of Vietnam. Cao Bang is home to many Tay ethnic people and many typical Tay authors. The research also locates individual contributions of those authors and their works in terms of artistic language use and cultural symbolic features of the Tay people. In terms of art language, the article isolates the unique use of Nôm Tay characters to compose stories which affect the traditional Tay luon, sli, and so forth, and hence the use of language that influences poetry and proverbs of Tay people in the story of Vi Hong, Cao Duy Son. Assuming a symbolic framework, the article examines the symbols of birds and flowers in Nôm Tay poetry and the composition of Vi Hong, Cao Duy Son, so to point out the uniqueness of the Tay identity. The above research issue is necessary to help us better appreciate the cultural values preserved in Tay literature, thereby, affirming the unique cultural identity of the Tay people and planning to preserve and develop these unique cultural features from which emerges the risk of falling into oblivion in modern social life in Vietnam. In addition, this is also a research direction that can be extended to Thai, Mong, Dao, etc, ethnic minorities in Vietnam.
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Alonso, Eloi, Maxim Peter, David Goumard, and Joshua Romoff. "Deep Reinforcement Learning for Navigation in AAA Video Games." In Thirtieth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence {IJCAI-21}. California: International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence Organization, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2021/294.
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In video games, \non-player characters (NPCs) are used to enhance the players' experience in a variety of ways, e.g., as enemies, allies, or innocent bystanders. A crucial component of NPCs is navigation, which allows them to move from one point to another on the map. The most popular approach for NPC navigation in the video game industry is to use a navigation mesh (NavMesh), which is a graph representation of the map, with nodes and edges indicating traversable areas. Unfortunately, complex navigation abilities that extend the character's capacity for movement, e.g., grappling hooks, jetpacks, teleportation, or double-jumps, increase the complexity of the NavMesh, making it intractable in many practical scenarios. Game designers are thus constrained to only add abilities that can be handled by a NavMesh. As an alternative to the NavMesh, we propose to use Deep Reinforcement Learning (Deep RL) to learn how to navigate 3D maps in video games using any navigation ability. We test our approach on complex 3D environments that are notably an order of magnitude larger than maps typically used in the Deep RL literature. One of these environments is from a recently released AAA video game called Hyper Scape. We find that our approach performs surprisingly well, achieving at least 90% success rate in a variety of scenarios using complex navigation abilities.
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Li, Zhuo, Gui-Hua Tang, Ya-Ling He, and Wen-Quan Tao. "Numerical Investigation of EDL Effects on the Flow Characters of Polar Fluids in Rectangular Microchannels." In ASME 4th International Conference on Nanochannels, Microchannels, and Minichannels. ASMEDC, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/icnmm2006-96073.
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Recently, a large number of experiments have been conducted to examine the applicability of Navier-Stokes equations to predict the friction factor for the laminar flow of polar fluids in microchannels. However, significant discrepancies still exist between various results. In order to investigate the effect of electric double layer on the pressure-driven flow of polar fluid in smooth rectangular microchannels and to reveal whether continuum model can still be applied, numerical investigations are conducted in this paper. The simulated microchannels are made of silicon engraved substrate with Pyrex cover, and the measured relative roughness of channels is less than 0.5%. Deionized water and tap water with different ion concentration and electrical conductivity are used as the working fluid. The governing equations include the two-dimensional, non-linear Poisson-Boltzmann equation, the modified N-S equation and the electric field Ez equation. The steady state electric field Ez equation is coupled with the momentum equation. The FVM (finite volume method) is adopted to discretize the governing equations. The non-uniform grid systems 152×102 is applied and the Reynolds number ranges from 0.1 to 300. Good agreements are achieved between the numerical results and the experimental data available in the literature. The effects of electrical potential, fluid ion concentration, electrical conductivity and the channel dimensions on the EDL profile, and the electroviscous effect and the friction coefficient are presented in detail. The simulation results reveal that the Debye thickness depends on ion concentration greatly. Only when the ratio of Dh/δ (the ratio of channel hydraulic diameter to the Debye thickness) is low, the electroviscous effect should be considered. According to the experimental conditions, the numerical results show that if the ratio of Dh/δ is greater than 15, the predicted friction factors agree well with the macroscale classical law, and the disparities are less than 4%.
Reports on the topic "Characters from literature"
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Kelly, Luke. Evidence on Measures to Address Security in Camp Settings. Institute of Development Studies, March 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.19088/k4d.2021.052.
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This rapid literature review finds that authorities use a range of methods to reduce insecurity in camps. Security in camps can be addressed through better planning of services by camp management, by more involvement of refugees, and through the use of outside security support. However, the militarisation of camps is a broader problem that requires political support from a number of stakeholders. The review focuses on insecurity arising from conflict (militarisation) and from crime and disputes within and around camps. It starts from the position that camps for refugees or internally displaced persons (IDPs) should be ‘civilian and humanitarian in character’, and thus, they should not host active combatants or fighters or support conflict. The rights of camp residents - e.g. non-refoulment of refugees - should be respected. In the case of insecurity arising from crime and disputes within and around camps, security measures should be proportionate and consider refugee protection. This review surveys evaluations and academic papers on camp security management. There is a significant body of evidence on the problem of camp militarisation in settings including Zaire/DRC, Thailand, Lebanon and the former Yugoslavia. However, the review has found relatively little evidence on successful efforts to counter militarisation in cases of conflict. It has found case studies and evaluations of a number of programmes to improve lower-level camp security, or in cases where conflict has abated. There are several reviews of UNHCR ’security packages’ involving support to host state police in African countries. These lessons are focused on how to engage with refugee and host populations, as well as host states, and how to manage security services. Guidance on camp management is also surveyed. There is very little evidence discussing liaison arrangements beyond stating the need to provide protection training and oversight for security forces; and the need for principled engagement with states and non-state conflict parties.
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Duong, Bich-Hang, Vu Dao, and Joan DeJaeghere. Complexities in Teaching Competencies: A Longitudinal Analysis of Vietnamese Teachers’ Sensemaking and Practices. Research on Improving Systems of Education (RISE), December 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.35489/bsg-risewp_2022/119.
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Education systems globally are implementing competency-based education (CBE) reforms. Vietnam's leaders have also adopted CBE in a comprehensive reform of its education since the early 2010s. Although the global idea of CBE has been widely adopted and recontextualized in various educational contexts, implementing the reform at the local level (e.g., teachers in schools) is never a linear and simple process. Given the complicated sensemaking process of competency and competency teaching, this study explores how Vietnamese teachers made sense of key competencies and adapted their teaching to competency development. Informed by a sociocultural approach and the sensemaking perspective, this study draws from a dataset of 91 secondary teachers collected over three years (2017-2019), with a particular focus on longitudinal analysis of eight teachers. The findings shed light on teachers’ ambivalence as they made sense of the target competencies and aligned their practices with the new CBE reform. Based on their prior experiences and worldviews, teachers made sense of competencies as learning foundational knowledge and skills, in addition to developing good attitude, character, and morality. Over the years, they placed a stronger emphasis on the competencies’ process-orientation, integration, and real-life application toward whole-child development. Despite teacher sensemaking and changing practices, the performativity culture for high learning outcomes still prevailed, making teaching competencies for life a challenging task. Contributing to the CBE literature and practice, this study illustrates the long and complicated process through which teachers recontextualize the CBE pedagogy. It also suggests how teacher practices can be better supported to transition to the new CBE curriculum.
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Kangave, Jalia, Ronald Waiswa, and Nathan Sebaggala. Are Women More Tax Compliant than Men? How Would We Know? Institute of Development Studies, March 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.19088/ictd.2021.006.
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Most research on tax compliance, including research on gender differences in compliance, is based on one of two problematic sources of data. One is surveys enquiring about attitudes and beliefs about taxpaying, or actual taxpaying behaviour. The other is experiments in which people who may or may not have experience of paying different types of taxes are asked to act out roles as taxpayers in hypothetical situations. Much more accurate and reliable research is possible with access to ‘tax administrative data’, i.e. the records maintained by tax collection organisations. With tax administrative data, researchers have access to tax assessments and tax payments for specific (anonymised) individual or corporate taxpayers. Further, tax administrative data enables researchers to take account of a phenomenon largely ignored in more conventional compliance research. Tax payment is best understood not as an event, but as part of a multi-stage process of interaction between taxpayers and tax collectors. In particular, actually making a tax payment typically represents the culmination of a process that also involves: registering with the tax collecting organisation; filing annual tax returns; filing returns that indicate a payment liability; and receiving an assessment. The multi-stage character of this process raises questions about how we conceptualise and measure tax compliance. To what extent does ‘compliance’ refer to: registration, filing, accurate filing, or payment? The researchers employed this framework while using tax administrative data from the Uganda Revenue Authority to try to determine gender differences in compliance. The results are sensitive to the adoption of different definitions of compliance and subject to year-to-year changes. Finding robust answers to questions about gender differences in tax compliance is more challenging than the research literature indicates.
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Гарлицька, Т. С. Substandard Vocabulary in the System of Urban Communication. Криворізький державний педагогічний університет, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.31812/123456789/3912.
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The article is devoted to substandard elements which are considered as one of the components in the system of urban forms of communication. The Object of our research is substandard vocabulary, the Subject is structural characteristics of the modern city language, the Purpose of the study is to define the main types of substandard vocabulary and their role in the system of urban communication. The theoretical base of our research includes the scientific works of native and foreign linguists, which are devoted to urban linguistics (B. Larin, M. Makovskyi, V. Labov, T. Yerofeieva, L. Pederson, R. McDavid, O. Horbach, L. Stavytska, Y. Stepanov, S. Martos). Different lexical and phraseological units, taken from the Ukrainian, Russian and American Dictionaries of slang and jargon, serve as the material of our research. The main components of the city language include literary language, territorial dialects, different intermediate transitional types, which are used in the colloquial everyday communication but do not have territorial limited character, and social dialects. The structural characteristics, proposed in the article, demonstrate the variety and correlation of different subsystems of the city language. Today peripheral elements play the main role in the city communication. They are also called substandard, non-codified, marginal, non-literary elements or the jargon styles of communication. Among substandard elements of the city language the most important are social dialects, which include such subsystems as argot, jargon and slang. The origin, functioning and characteristics of each subsystem are studied on the material of linguistic literature of different countries. It is also ascertained that argot is the oldest form of sociolects, jargon divides into corporative and professional ones, in the structure of slangy words there are common and special slang. Besides, we can speak about sociolectosentrism of the native linguistics and linguemosentrism of the English tradition of slang nomination. Except social dialects, the important structural elements of the city language are also intermediate transitional types, which include koine, colloquialisms, interdialect, surzhyk, pidgin and creole. Surzhyk can be attributed to the same type of language formations as pidgin and creole because these types of oral speech were created mostly by means of the units mixing of the obtruded language of the parent state with the elements of the native languages.