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Journal articles on the topic "Military writer"
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KLEINREESINK, ESMERALDA. "MILITARY AUTOBIOGRAPHIES: ENCOURAGE, DISCOURAGE OR IGNORE?" CONTEMPORARY MILITARY CHALLENGES, Volume 2019, issue 21/2 (June 12, 2019): 105–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.33179/10.33179/bsv.99.svi.11.cmc.21.2.5.
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Of every 6,000 soldiers deployed, one publishes an autobiographical book about their experiences shortly after the war. Military memoirs are therefore an inescapable consequence of deployments. How should defence organizations react to these soldier-authors: should they be encouraged, discouraged, or ignored? A substantiated answer to that question is given in this article by providing a profile of all writers of military Afghanistan memoirs from seven countries (the US, the UK, Germany, Canada, Australia, Belgium and the Netherlands) and the kind of plots they write. A small majority write positive plots. The negative ones specifically deal with disillusionment about the care the defence organization or society at large provided, and experiences with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). It is interesting that it proves to be possible to predict whether a writer will write a positive or a negative plot based on the type of work they do and whether they still work for the defence organization. Military organizations interested in getting positive books published are advised to particularly encourage writing by individually deployed personnel who work in combat support positions and are on active service.
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Shamyakina, Tatʼyana I. "Destiny and creativity of military draft writers." Journal of the Belarusian State University. Sociology, no. 2 (October 4, 2020): 72–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.33581/2521-6821-2020-2-72-81.
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The attitude of front-line writers and those writers who survived the Great Patriotic War in childhood is considered. The author gives an assessment of the political and social phenomena of the post-war period from the perspective of today. The question is highlighted – the writer and ideology. The main attention is paid to the military experience of writers and their reflection in their work. The prose of the most prominent representatives of two generations of writers is analyzed. Significant for our time, works are also evaluated in terms of plots, images, styles. The work of V. Bykov is investigated in detail. The importance of the work of Belarusian front-line writers in the development of Belarusian literature is indicated.
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Czachorowska, Magdalena. "Idiolekt Bolesława Prusa. Przegląd najnowszych ustaleń." Poznańskie Studia Polonistyczne. Seria Językoznawcza 23, no. 2 (2016): 21–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.14746/pspsj.2016.23.2.2.
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This article is intended to approximate arrangements for features characteristic writing of Prus, from the publication of monographs, which appeared in the last decade, after 2006, because they are not as well known as the earlier comments on writer’s idolect placed even in studies Bystroń or Bachórz. Notes on writing of Prus has been divided into several thematic areas: vocabulary topography (depicting the formation of landscape, the author’s preferred method of constructing space and filling it with specific object), color names (the world of colours, which enabled the writer to expose an entire palette of colour and shade names), floral vocabulary, used by the writer, war and military (this article contains an overview of the functions of military language within nomina militaria in the works of Bolesław Prus for example) and trade vocabulary.
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Anglo, Sydney. "Vegetius'S ‘De Re Militari’: The Triumph of Mediocrity." Antiquaries Journal 82 (September 2002): 247–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0003581500073790.
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Throughout the Middle Ages and Renaissance, Vegetius was regarded as the most authoritative writer on Roman military institutions in particular and upon war in general. His appeal was both historical and practical; his anti-mercenary fervour impressed Italian humanists in the fifteenth century,- his aphoristic wisdom was incorporated by Machiavelli into his own work and was, in turn, further disseminated by the many military writers who fell wider Machiavelli's spell. Nevertheless, Vegetius's reputation was increasingly under threat. The accumulation and publication of materials relating to modern warfare and to technologies unknown to the ancients was developing apace, and even writers who believed that classical military institutions remained relevant to modern warfare now had at their disposal a range of ancient authors largely unknown in the Middle Ages. Scholars were becoming simultaneously more aware of Vegetius's shortcomings and more sophisticated in their handling of historical sources. Yet, despite this, Vegetius enjoyed hisgreatest (though short-lived) triumph early in the seventeenth century when he was translated, paraphrased and illustrated by Johann von Wallhausen as an indispensable source forall practical military men.1
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Zaytseva, T. I., and E. N. Petrova. "Military essays by the Udmurt writer M. P. Petrov." Bulletin of Ugric studies 9, no. 4 (2019): 623–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.30624/2220-4156-2019-9-4-623-632.
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Koznova, Irina E. "«THE СOMBATING MNEMOSYNE»: THE THEME OF MEMORY IN ANDREY PLATONOV’S MILITARY PROSE". Yaroslavl Pedagogical Bulletin 116, № 5 (2020): 208–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.20323/1813-145x-2020-5-116-208-216.
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Memory is one of the key concepts in A. Platonov’s creativity. The writer also implements the mnemonic function of literature in his military stories. The article analyzes representations of memory mechanisms in Platonic military prose in the context of the «memorial turn» of modern humanitarian knowledge. The article considers the possibility of applying to it the approaches developed in the «memorial studies» in relation to various forms and types of memory, the dynamics of the interaction of remembering and oblivion, individual and collective, communicative and cultural memory, ways of memorization. Memory appears as a meaningful and multi-valued cultural and psychological phenomenon expressing the anthropology of war. The range of manifestations of memory in the form of private and social experience, cultural and historical traditions is diverse. The writer's military prose can be seen as a metaphor for a battle, coupled with heroism and tragedy. Within the individual and in society, different layers of memory, memory and forgetting collide. The concept «consolation» is closely connected with memory. The stories also show the trials of memory. To express the mnemonic, the writer used the concepts «аnguish», «grief» and « suffering». Platonov’s arguments were built in two directions – from the point of view of the limited possibilities of the individual’s memory and in the aspect of the «eternal memory» that overcomes it. Mnemotopics of stories offers ways for salvation by memory in the form of communication between present and former generations, the living and the dead. The writer's perception of the memorial as an important factor of citizenship is significant.
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Faszcza, Michał Norbert. "MONTESQUIEU A RZYMSKA DYSCYPLINA WOJSKOWA: POGLĄDY, INTERPRETACJE I ŹRÓDŁA POZNANIA." Zeszyty Prawnicze 16, no. 1 (2016): 27. http://dx.doi.org/10.21697/zp.2016.16.1.02.
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Montesquieu and Roman Military Discipline: Opinions,Interpretations, and SourcesSummaryMontesquieu’s influence on the development of modern public lawis undisputed, but he also played a very important role in shaping theperception of the Roman art of war. Like Machiavelli, he devoted a considerable amount of attention to Roman disciplina militaris. His comments were quite general, but they exerted a substantial influence onthe opinions of scholars of military discipline. Along with Lipsius andMachiavelli, he was one of the most cited authors, and his perceptionof military discipline was even reflected in some of the arrangementsemployed in the French army under the First Republic. Research on thereception of Roman ideas on the art of war usually stops at the MiddleAges, but Montesquieu’s work as a writer and his impact on later scholarsare the best justification for studying his opinions on this issue.
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Ritson, Philip A., and Lee D. Parker. "You’re in the Army now!" Journal of Management History 22, no. 3 (2016): 320–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jmh-02-2016-0011.
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Purpose This paper aims to examine the employment of the military metaphor by the management thinker and writer Lyndall Urwick who in the twentieth century developed and articulated his ideas over a 60-year period, arguably the longest continuous period of any management writer of his day. Design/methodology/approach This study draws on published research into Urwick as well as upon the breadth of his published writings over a 60-year period. It offers a contextualised explanatory analysis of his military theory ideas and explores their lack of traction by reference to British military, economic and social history. Findings The study reveals the wartime context that surrounded the emergence of his ideas and motivated Urwick’s faith in the military approach to management. This stood in contrast to the countervailing forces of the post-war decline in British industry and a populist mythology of British Army mismanagement and failure in the Great War. Originality/value In this case of a management idea’s failure to gain traction, the importance of the congruence between management theory and societal beliefs emerges as crucial to the likely uptake of new management thinking.
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Djordjevic, Bojan. "Hitherto anonymous writer Hristina Petkovic." Prilozi za knjizevnost, jezik, istoriju i folklor, no. 80 (2014): 83–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/pkjif1480083d.
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?The Belgrade Paper?, the organ of the Military General Government for Serbia, was issued from December 1915 to October 1918 and was the only periodical in occupied Serbia. After an initial hesitation, even some Serbian authors eventually accepted the cooperation with the journal, publishing their poetry and prose in it. Certain renowned names include Isidora Sekulic, Bora Stankovic, Milica Jankovic and Milorad Petrovic Seljancica. However, for the most part, its contributors came from the ranks of the so-called minor writers, and to some of them, the poems and short stories published in ?The Belgrade Paper? were the only works that they printed. Among them is also Hristina Petkovic, author of three short stories - Nina, Poverty and The Confession. An analysis of these stories can reveal that they essentially belong to the poetics of the so-called trivial literature, with pronouncedly amatory and partly social topics, especially focusing on the fate of the woman in collision with the patriarchal mentality. Owing to the archival materials from the Archive of Serbia and the Austrian State Archive, the paper demonstrates that the author is in fact the wife of Serbian poet Vladislav Petkovic Dis.
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Cardone, Resha. "The silent treatment: Alejandra Basualto´s a esthetic of censorship." Revista Boletín Redipe 9, no. 10 (2020): 126–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.36260/rbr.v9i10.1093.
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Alejandra Basualto is a little studied yet significant Chilean prose writer and poet whose first short story collection, La mujer de yeso (1988), exemplifies the redefinition of the woman writer that occurred in many female- authored fiction texts published during the Pinochet regime. Exemplifying the aesthetic of censorship and silence characterizing her entire short story collection, analyses in this article of “La espera” and “1954” reveal how Basualto undermines the repressive hierarchies defining Chilean politics of the dictatorship era as well as the national literary establishment through what I call her aesthetic of silence and censorship. The art of censorship recalls the context of dictatorial repression Basualto confronts in this
 collection, while the aesthetic of silence points to the dialogue with international feminist thought perceptible in the compilation. In these two short stories, creative women protagonists challenge institutional power structures by assuming the feminized positions of vulnerability and silence. Basualto incorporates literary strategies like metaphors, mythical allusions, and ellipses to create an intricate textual dynamic representing repressive military tactics like censorship and disappearing dissidents. A story inscribed on a tortured and repressed female body longing to create, an extended metaphor for the Chilean nation and its writers, “La espera” showcases artists’ frustrated attempts to create during the regime while representing the psychological despair of Chileans suffering due to the “disappearance” of their loved ones. The focus on women and writing in “1954” depicts women authors’ need to identify female literary models and to imagine belonging to same-sex writers’ communities to succeed as authors despite the male-dominant literary establishment, traditional gender roles, and military and self-censorship.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Military writer"
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Détrie, Jean-François. "Le général Arthur Boucher (1847-1933) : une carrière atypique, une œuvre érudite." Thesis, Montpellier 3, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017MON30035/document.
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Depuis une vingtaine d’années, l’histoire militaire contemporaine, tournant le dos à l’histoire bataille traditionnelle, s’est intéressée aux témoignages des combattants de la Grande Guerre. Cette approche très riche, qui a fait l’objet de vives controverses scientifiques, s’est penchée sur le vécu des simples soldats, et leurs contraintes matérielles et culturelles. L’approche biographique des chefs militaires, malgré un certain renouveau, très récent, a par contre été largement négligée. Il en est de même pour les officiers supérieurs appartenant au « second cercle», largement inconnus du grand public. Pourtant, connaître leur parcours militaire et familial permet d’appréhender de façon concrète ce qu’a été cette nouvelle armée, née après la terrible défaite de 1870, et qui, après la victoire de 1918, est devenue la première armée du monde.La biographie du général Arthur Boucher (1847-1993) étudie en détail son parcours atypique et met en avant le caractère érudit de son œuvre d’écrivain militaire. Elle expose sa très longue carrière militaire et sa vie familiale. Elle fait revivre, à travers son cas personnel, l’armée de la IIIe République et les grands événements de l’époque. Elle redonne vie à un certain nombre de généraux marquants de cette époque, qu’Arthur Boucher a côtoyés. Ce travail a été rendu possible grâce à des archives publiques, mais aussi et surtout grâce à des archives familiales fournies, conservées par l’une de ses filles.Si l’histoire militaire a maintenant une connaissance précise de la vie des soldats sous la IIIe République et durant la Grande Guerre, cette recherche permet d’un peu mieux connaître celle des officiers supérieurs, qui, grâce à leur formation de haut niveau, à leurs qualités intellectuelles, ont permis à la France d’affronter victorieusement l’armée allemande durant la Grande Guerre.Cette thèse, mettant en avant un officier supérieur, qui plus est le « doyen » de l’armée française, comme était surnommé Arthur Boucher pendant la Grande Guerre, et éclairant plus généralement la vie des officiers supérieurs de « second rang », enrichit les études consacrées aux élites militaires du XIXe siècle<br>For the last twenty years, contemporary military history, turning away from a traditional History of Battles, has been about witness accounts of participants in the Great War. There is a place for this approach that, although sometimes controversial, focuses on the lives of private soldiers and on their material and cultural constraints. On the other hand, biographical studies of military heads, in spite of a very recent renewal of interest, are largely neglected. The same applies to the study of senior officers belonging to the “second circle”, who are mainly unknown to the public at large. And yet through their family and military history much is to be learned of this contingent and of the officers who rose after the disastrous defeat of 1870 and became the world first army following their 1918 victory.General Arthur Boucher biography is a detailed study of his atypical long military career and of his family life, and draws out the erudite character of his output as a military writer. It also brings to the fore some key events and important Third Republic generals, with whom General Boucher interacted. This study was made possible through researching public archives as well as some private archives made available by one of General Boucher’s daughters.This research adds to what recent contemporary military history reveals about the lives of private soldiers during the Third Republic and the Great War with a better knowledge of officers who, thanks to their training and intellectual capacities, gave France victory over Germany during the Great War.This thesis about a senior officer known as the French army Great War “elder” throws a light on the life of senior officers and enriches the studies of 19th Century military elites
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Gilliver, Catherine M. "The Roman art of war : theory and practice : a study of the Roman military writers." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 1993. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1317953/.
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This thesis is a comparative study of the theory and practices of Roman warfare. The content of the various treatises, both extant and lost, is described, along with a discussion of the ancient traditions of textbook composition, their role in education and their possible practical use. The following chapters consider various aspects of Roman warfare for which sufficient historical and archaeological evidence exists and which are dealt with fully in the treatises. The size and internal organization of the different units of the Roman army are discussed with particular reference to the de munitionibus castrorum and Vegetius; a discussion of marching camps follows which considers the origins of these camps and an estimation at the density of soldiers per acre through the application of the rules of the de munitionibus castrorum to examples in Britain. The practices of the Roman army in the field are dealt with in the next three chapters., the order of march, pitched battles, and siege warfare. The first of these includes a discussion of Arrian's order of march and the relationship between the order of march and the line of battle whilst that on pitched battles considers the role of auxiliaries in the battles of the early Empire and the suggested reintroduction of the Greek style phalanx in the second century AD. The development of siege techniques, both offensive and defensive, is discussed, and this is followed by an analysis of the 'rules of war'. Although it is difficult to argue how much influence the treatises may have had on actual practices, the thesis illustrates the very close correlation between the treatises and actual field practices of the Roman army and shows that some of the treatises were of practical value.
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Ferry, A. Douglas. "A project to compile and edit a devotional book for military personnel written by members of the United States Chaplains Corps." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1989. http://www.tren.com.
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St, Pierre Catherine Sacchi. "Uniforms and Universities: A Qualitative Study of Post 9/11 Marine Student Veterans’ Literacy Practices." The Ohio State University, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1503073304349867.
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Harsh, Mary Anne. "From muse to militant francophone women novelists and surrealist aesthetics /." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1199254932.
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Cha, Sung-bok. "Analyse des productions écrites des militaires coréens apprenant le français." Thesis, Lyon 2, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012LYO20053.
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Notre recherche a pour objectif d’interpréter les erreurs de productions écrites chez les apprenants militaires coréens lors de leur apprentissage du français. Actuellement, au sein de d’École Militaire Académique en Corée du Sud, l’enseignement de la grammaire française occupe encore la place la plus importante, même si une certaine approche communicative dans la didactique des langues étrangères commence à faire sont apparition. Dans l’approche communicative, deux compétences (orale et écrite) sont prioritaires lors de l’enseignement / apprentissage des langues étrangères. Mais du fait de certaines difficultés liées à la distance entre la France et la Corée du Sud et à l’organisation actuelle de l’enseignement à l’École Militaire Académique, notre recherche n’a pu porter que sur l’analyse des erreurs à l’écrit ainsi qu’à leur remédiation.Notre travail s’articule en trois parties. La première repose sur la présentation de la situation atuelle de l’enseignement / apprentissage du français à l’École Militaire Académique de l’Armée de Terre. Une enquête menée auprès des élèves officiers nous permet d’aborder leur motivation et leur attitude face à l’apprentissage du français et d’observer comment leur est actuellement enseignée le français dans cette école. La deuxième partie est consacrée à la théorie et à la méthodologie fondée sur les recherches de la langue de l’apprenant. Nous nous proposons de retracer l’itinéraire des recherches comparatives en commençant par l’analyse contrastive jusqu’à l’étude de l’interlangue. La troisième partie porte sur l’analyse des données de façon détaillée pour élucider les difficultés linguistiques intraphrastiques et textuelles rencontrées dans la production écrite par les apprenants militaires coréens en situation d’apprentissage du français au niveau intermédiaire.Cette analyse nous permet de mieux comprendre le processus d’apprentissage du français chez les apprenants militaires et de réfléchir aux améliorations qu’il convienrait d’apporter à l’enseignement du français dans l’École Militaire Académique<br>The objective of our research is to interpret the types of errors made in written documents by Korean junior officers studying French. In the South Korean Military Academy for the Army French grammar is the most important part of the syllabus, though now more importance is given to communicative aspects of language training than previously. In communication the two competences (written and spoken) are both priorities in foreign language training. The organization of language training in the South Korean Military Academy for the Army and the distance between France and South Korea means our research has concentrated on the analysis of errors in written communication and ways to improve these.This work is in three parts. The first examines the current situation with language teaching at the South Korean Military Academy for the Army. This allowed us to follow the motivation and attitude of students learning French and to find out how it is taught in this school. The second part concentrates on the theory and methodology based on language research for learners of the language, using comparative research and starting with comparative analysis of the study between languages. The third part analyses in detail the linguistic difficulties in written French (both text and structure) encountered by intermediate level students at the South Korean Military Academy for the Army.This detailed analysis allows us to better understand the learning process for French language by these students at the South Korean Military Academy for the Army and to propose areas for improvement in the teaching of French
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Courtray, François. "« Anar lunch, sempre ! » Jòrgi Reboul : itinéraire d’un poète et militant d’oc à travers le XXe siècle. Parcours personnel, analyse littéraire et édition de textes." Thesis, Montpellier 3, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020MON30041.
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Militant et poète marseillais, Jòrgi Reboul (1901-1993) joua un rôle majeur au XXe siècle dans la défense et la promotion de la langue et de la culture d’oc. S’il rejoignit très tôt le Félibrige, son indépendance et son regard critique l’amenèrent rapidement à fonder sa propre structure associative, Lou Calen de Marsiho qui, pendant près de 60 ans, rayonna sur la vie culturelle d’oc de Marseille et de la Provence. Après la Seconde Guerre mondiale, il rompit peu à peu avec le Félibrige avant de rallier officiellement le nouvel Institut d’Études Occitanes et le mouvement occitaniste pour lequel il œuvra jusqu’à ses 80 ans.Dans le domaine des Lettres, Reboul fut avant tout poète, même s’il fut également dramaturge, chroniqueur et critique littéraire. Sa poésie, qui s’inscrit dans le double héritage de Mistral et des Trobaires marseillais, se montre dès le départ très novatrice, en rupture avec les canons félibréens traditionnels, tant dans la forme souvent proche du vers libre que dans les thèmes choisis où le désir, l’esprit de liberté et la conscience de la fuite du temps impriment une couleur particulière aux dialogues que Reboul instaure avec ce qui l’entoure : la femme aimée, les amis, ses maîtres en poésie ou la terre d’oc qu’il arpente en marcheur infatigable.Reflet de l’histoire mouvementée de la langue d’oc au XXe siècle, particulièrement en Provence, l’œuvre poétique de Reboul oscille entre la graphie mistralienne et les états successifs de la graphie classique ; il en va de même pour la variété de la langue employée puisque, si Reboul fit rapidement de l’occitan provençal marseillais sa langue de prédilection, les premières années de son œuvre donnèrent une place importante à l’occitan languedocien tandis que les contraintes éditoriales de l’immédiat après-guerre conduisirent à la publication de poèmes en provençal rhodanien, sur fond de conflits grandissants entre mistralisme et occitanisme.Bien que Reboul ait été un poète de premier plan sur la scène littéraire d’oc contemporaine, son œuvre a peu à peu perdu en accessibilité et en visibilité. Le tirage réduit de ses recueils, leur absence de réédition, la dispersion de ses textes dans de très nombreux journaux et revues n’ont pas aidé à préserver jusqu’à aujourd’hui la place qui devrait être la sienne.Ma thèse a permis de retracer les grandes étapes de la vie de Reboul en tant que militant et poète d’oc, d’étudier la façon dont son œuvre s’est construite pas à pas et a été reçue par la critique, puis d’analyser plus en détail les cinq premières années de son parcours poétique — période qui n’avait pour l’heure jamais réellement fait l’objet d’une étude approfondie. En parallèle et en complément de ces analyses, mon travail a également porté sur la traduction des poèmes dépourvus de version française et sur la reconstitution et l’édition critique de l’ensemble de l’œuvre poétique, complétée de quelques poèmes inédits mis au jour au cours de mes recherches.S’appuyant sur l’analyse linguistique de la langue et des différents systèmes graphiques employés dans les textes d’origine, ce travail d’édition s’est accompagné d’une proposition de mise en graphie classique actuelle de l’ensemble des poèmes de manière à en assurer une présentation harmonisée et plus cohérente<br>Militant and poet from Marseilles, Jòrgi Reboul (1901-1993) played a major role during the 20th century in the defense and promotion of the culture and langue d’oc. After he joined the Felibrige very early, his independence and critical eye quickly led him to establish his own associative structure, Lou Calen de Marsiho. For nearly 60 years, it extended over the oc cultural life of Marseilles and Provence. After World War II, he broke with the Felibrige before officially joining the new Institute of Occitan Studies and the occitanist movement for which he worked until his 80th birthday.In the field of literature, Reboul was first of all a poet, even though he was also a dramatist, chronicler and literary critic. His poetry, which falls within the dual heritage of Mistral and Trobaires of Marseilles, is from the outset very innovative. It breaks with the traditional canons of Felibrige, in the form often close to the free verse as well as in the selected topics. The desire, the spirit of freedom and the consciousness of the flight of time imprint a particular color to the dialogues that Reboul establishes with his surroundings: the beloved woman, the friends, his teachers in poetry or the land of oc that he travels as an indefatigable walker.Reflecting the turbulent history of the langue d’oc in the 20th century, particularly in Provence, Reboul’s poetic work oscillates between Mistralian written form and the successive states of classical written form. The same holds true for the variety of the language used. Although Reboul quickly made the Provençal occitan of Marseilles his favorite language, the first years of his work gave an important place to the occitan of Languedoc. The editorial constraints of the immediate post-war period however led to the publication of poems in dialect of Rhone Provençal against a background of growing conflicts between Mistralism and Occitanism.Although Reboul was a leading poet on the contemporary oc literary scene, his work has gradually lost in accessibility and visibility. The reduced circulation of his collections, their lack of republication, the dispersion of his texts in numerous newspapers and magazines have not assisted in preserving until today the place which should be his.My thesis allowed to retrace the major stages of Reboul’s life as an oc militant and poet, study the way in which his work was built step by step and was received by criticism, then analyse in more detail the first five years of his poetic career — a period that had never really been the subject of a thorough study. In parallel and in addition to these analyses, my work also focused on the translation of poems without French version and on the reconstitution and critical edition of the whole poetic work, supplemented by some unpublished poems found during my research.Based on the linguistic analysis of the language and of the different written form systems used in the original texts, this editing work is accompanied by a transcription proposal in classical written form of all the poems in order to ensure a harmonised and more consistent presentation
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Liao, Chiu Hung, and 廖秋紅. "Evolution Of Self-identity Of Taiwanese In The Japanese Terminal Occupation---A Case Study Of Military Volunteers In The Novel Of Taiwanese Writer（1941．6－1945．8）." Thesis, 2007. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/71201065083904894354.
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碩士<br>國立臺北教育大學<br>台灣文學研究所<br>95<br>As to the dilemma of today’s Taiwan, it’s all about the differences of identity, and it’s the main reason that the people in Taiwan cannot unite together. Above all, the arguments are extremely against each other. From the political aspect, the disputes hinder the government’s major policies and obstruct the power of moving forward and make slow progress. And the disagreements consume the country’s competitiveness inside the nation. From the social aspect, Taiwan is an immigrant society with different races living together. Therefore, an appeal for identity can achieve some goals of mass movements. But it also brings the hidden danger of the racial tension and hatred. Thus, it should be the present key issue to learn how to terminate the extremely opposing positions of identity. Especially, all the researchers think the sense of Taiwanese identity sprouted in the Japanese Era, so it has a deeper value to study the identity entanglements in Taiwanese literature in the Japanese Era. The subject matter of volunteers of military is the important index of Japanese “assimilation” and it is also one of Japanese radical means. Therefore, it can not only help understand the evolvement of Taiwanese identity, but also understand more about the essence of identity by doing two things.They are by observing Taiwanese volunteers’ participation and their historical emotions, and by comparing that with the situation in the novel, composed by the writers, in the subject matter of volunteers. With the lead-in of psychological research examples, it unveils the subject matter of volunteers of military a “synchronic” clear face; and also with the help of the writer’s composing “diachronic” observation, it finally appears a changing but clear sequence ideas of Taiwanese identity in Japanese Era.From the aspect of the Country’s nationality identity, Taiwanese have almostreached the agreement on idemidentity—the Country’s nationality identity. As to the ipseidentity, national identity, it has to be constructed by the culture and the people’s subject narration. It can be united together by visible languages and words; though time is not mature yet, it still can be sure that the form of a nation won’t be blocked out by the blood and races. As to the aspect of the cultural identity, from hundreds of memoirs and literature works, it’s not hard to find the so-called modern cultural and the traditional decisions are a kind of relationship between competition and cooperation. And it shouldn’t be categorized and divided into parts.
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Lee, Chung-Yeong, and 李春勇. "An Analysis of Errors in English Compositions Written by Selected Military Carets: Its Implications for Teaching EFL Writing." Thesis, 1997. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/61311787712899944849.
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碩士<br>政治作戰學校<br>外國語文學系<br>85<br>Writing used to being considered the last skill and the least important of the language skills to be taught and learned in the lingualapproach. However, writing is an important part of language proficiency since it can benefit students to integrate all learning in the foreign language. Although the writing skill has been valued in Taiwan, writing is still inadequately taught and therefore need pedagogical focus and attention.
Error analysis (EA), which is the focus of attention for language teachers and linguists in applied linguistics, is a recently-emerged field in language teaching and learning. The main purpose of EA is to examine the students'' learning strategies by analyzing the errors they make in their compositions. In addition. the teachers can adopt an effective and a useful teaching approach in the writing class. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to understand the distribution, nature, and frequency of effors committed by the selected military cadets in writing English compositins and to offer a wide variety of strategies to meet the diverse needs of the military cadets of the EFL learners.
All of the forty-four cadets, the twenty-two sophomores and twenty-two seniors, were selected as the subjects for the study. The subjects were full-time matriculated at Department of English Literature and Languages of Fu Hsing Kang College (FHK) in Taipei, Taiwan, the Republic of China.
From the collected data, the major findings are; (1) the most common errors committed by the subjects fall into the basic grammar of the traditional framework of eight parts of speech, misspellings or morphology errors, and obscure meanings or misuses of rhetoric.(2) the intralingual interference and the interference from the first language are the special errors identified in the subjects'' compositions. (3) the hierarchy of diversity in descending order is: grammatical errors, semantic errors, and lexical errors. Besides, verb tense enjoys the highest frequency of errors. Namely, such errors should be considered the global errors and the most diffcult problems in EFL writing learning. (4) the subjects usually used the grammatical translation method to achieve the acquisition of the target language. this strategy often causes students to make effors. (5) As far as a good writing is concerned, the language proficiency of the subjects is not good and their writing ability still leaves lot to be improved.
Based on the findings of the study, the implications and recommendations can offer not only the composition teachers'' effective methods and strategies in English writing pedagogy but also researchers topics for further study in this realm.
Books on the topic "Military writer"
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Snyder, Carla Mond. An investigation of the service writer methodology in Directorate of Engineering and Housing vehicle maintenance shops. US Army Corps of Engineers, Construction Engineering Research Laboratory, 1987.
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Grossman, Vasiliĭ Semenovich. A writer at war: Vasily Grossman with the Red Army, 1941-1945. A.A. Knopf Canada, 2005.
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Grossman, Vasiliĭ Semenovich. A writer at war: Vasily Grossman with the Red Army, 1941-1945. Harvill Press, 2005.
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Grossman, Vasiliĭ Semenovich. A writer at war: Vasily Grossman with the Red Army, 1941-1945. Pantheon Books, 2004.
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Stoecker, Sally W. Soviet writers begin to clarify "defensive defense". Rand, 1988.
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Peters, Ralph. Lines of fire: A renegade writes on strategy, intelligence, and security. Stackpole Books, 2011.
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United States. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. Writers guide and style manual for geospatial intelliegence production. 2nd ed. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, 2005.
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Adams, Barbara A. Roadmap to job-winning military to civilian resumes: How to write military to Federal, defense contractor, and corporte resumes proven to earn job interviews. Career Pro Global, 2012.
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Lee, John. "‘The writer is indebted to the Pioneer and Civil and Military Gazette’." In Kipling and Yeats at 150. Routledge India, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429283857-11.
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Woodward, Rachel, and K. Neil Jenkings. "Why Are Military Memoirs Written?" In Bringing War to Book. Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-57010-9_3.
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Woodward, Rachel, and K. Neil Jenkings. "Who Are Military Memoirs Written For?" In Bringing War to Book. Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-57010-9_4.
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Stachura, Anne. "Soldiers and Shadows: The Post-national Militant in Ignacio Padilla’s Amphitryon and El daño no es de ayer." In The Mexican Crack Writers. Springer International Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62716-8_6.
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Koebner, Thomas. "‘Militant Humanism’: a Concept of the Third Way in Exile 1933–1945." In German Writers and Politics 1918–39. Palgrave Macmillan UK, 1992. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-11815-1_9.
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Lucas, George. "Military Ethics AND Cyber Warfare." In Military Ethics. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/wentk/9780199336890.003.0012.
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We hear people referring to “cyberspace” all the time, but what exactly is it? “Cyber” is derived from an ancient Greek noun referring to a “space” or a domain. The slightly redundant term “cyberspace” was first coined to popularity by science fiction writer William...
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Penslar, Derek J. "The Jewish Soldier between Memory and Reality." In Jews and the Military. Princeton University Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691138879.003.0002.
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This chapter explores the Jews' historic self-image as a people that shuns what the Hebrew writer S.Y. Agnon called “the craft of Esau, the waging of war.” The notion of Jews as wards of divine and state authority derives from both rabbinic tradition and the specific conditions of Jewish life in medieval Christian and Muslim civilizations. Committed to maintaining their faith and community, Jews had little reason to cross social boundaries or endanger their lives through military service. The historical memory of Russian and Polish Jewry is replete with images of harsh military service and tales of fleeing the country in order to avoid it. Like all historical memory, this narrative blends fact with fiction. Eastern European Jews engaged in a variety of paramilitary activities long before conscription into the tsar's army, and once the draft was implemented in the nineteenth century, their experiences were not uniformly miserable.
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Barbantani, Silvia. "Hellenistic and Roman Military Epitaphs on Stone and on Papyrus." In Greek Epigram from the Hellenistic to the Early Byzantine Era. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198836827.003.0010.
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Chapter 10 studies Hellenistic and Roman military epitaphs and addresses a number of interconnected issues: the unpopularity of epitaphs for individual soldiers in the Greek Anthology (only a dozen of such epigrams are present, leaving side fictitious pieces for literary or historical figures); the near absence of inscribed epitaphs in literary sources, despite the fact that they are often of good literary quality; and the question of their authorship: there is no evidence that any epigrammatist known from the Greek Anthology also acted as a professional writer of military epitaphs, as Simonides did. Epitaphs for common soldiers were usually commissioned to professional poets, most of whom now remain anonymous; in some cases the deceased, especially when he presents himself as a veteran belonging to the local elite, may have had his say on the contents and form of his future epitaph.
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Bryan, Simms. "The War and Its Aftermath, 1914–20." In Berg. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190931445.003.0005.
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In this chapter Berg’s service in the Austrian military is outlined. He began as an officer trainee in the infantry, but a health crisis led to his reassignment in guard duty and later in office work at the War Ministry in Vienna. He had a lifelong belief in predestination, which he increasingly perceived in circular patterns and occurrences. His superstitious interest in numbers focused on the number twenty-three, which he saw as his fateful number. His belief in fate and numerology had a growing influence on his music. Berg’s progress on the opera Wozzeck was delayed by his military service and also by major confrontations with those in his family, especially over the sale of family property. Around 1920 Berg even considered making his main profession that of a writer on musical topics, and he wrote polemics attacking the ideas of Hans Pfitzner and Viennese music critics at this time. Eventually he put aside his activity as a writer and returned to composing, to complete his opera Wozzeck.
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Parsons, David L. "Setting Up Shop." In Dangerous Grounds. University of North Carolina Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469632018.003.0002.
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This chapter describes the impetus behind the GI coffeehouse concept, following writer and organizer Fred Gardner as he and other activists begin building a coffeehouse network in a number of base towns around the country. In 1968 a "Summer of Support" brings more people and resources, as large national antiwar organizations join the effort to bring attention to the growing GI movement against the Vietnam War. Placing the coffeehouse phenomenon within the wider context of GI and military dissent in the late 1960s and early 1970s, this chapter shows how antiwar groups began to focus on the American military as an important site of resistance.
Conference papers on the topic "Military writer"
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Chen, Q., J. P. Longtin, S. Sampath, and R. J. Gambino. "Ultrafast Laser Micromachining and Patterning of Thermal Spray Multilayers for Novel Sensor Fabrication." In ASME 2003 Heat Transfer Summer Conference. ASMEDC, 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/ht2003-47069.
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Fabrication of structural and functional parts and components, especially at the micro and nano scales, is crucial to a wide range of applications in the electronics, communications, medical, aerospace, and military industries. This work presents an innovative conformal direct-write technique for rapid prototyping and manufacturing novel sensors. The technique combines thermal spray, which, as an additive process, produces blanket depositions of films and coatings, with ultrafast laser micromachining, a subtractive process to produce functional patterns. Several kinds of sensing components, such as microheaters and strain gauges, have been successfully fabricated in this work with thermal spray technology and a femtosecond laser, which demonstrates the feasibility and advantages of the proposed technique. The electrical and thermal property characterization of the sensors was also performed, and shows promise for sensors in micro-sensing systems. With minor modification to pattern design and processing procedures, various sensing structures and electronic components, for example, precision resistors and interdigitated capacitors, can be readily fabricated using the presented technique.
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André, L., R. Coutellier, C. Maïs, and A. Bonnaud. "New technologies of human/machine interaction: a prospective study in the military naval context." In International Ship Control Systems Symposium. IMarEST, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.24868/issn.2631-8741.2020.003.
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Today, military defense vessels are equipped with many systems that allow sailors to interact with each other or with their digital equipments. These systems are relatively efficient and allow mariners to perform their tasks efficiently and securely. It is important to identify new technologies that sailors can interact with, in the future. An evaluation must then be conducted to ensure compliance with their usefulness, usability and acceptability. This paper discusses how to study, upstream, various innovative technologies in order to identify the positive and negative points and to conduct a human factors evaluation following a user-centric approach, replicating operational conditions. The paper focuses then on three widely available technologies. The first is the eye-control, which allows an operator to interact with a digital system thanks to the movements and fixation of his eyes. This system allows validating information being displayed on a screen or to navigate in an interface when the operator has his hands busy with another task. Different interactions are available today (scrolling, clicking, and displaying a keyboard to write using the eyes ...). However, various limitations were highlighted during the first human factors evaluations, for example visual fatigue or calibration of the eye-tracking system, which is also sensitive to the movements of the operator and those of the platform on which it is based. The second and the third technologies presented are related because they both concern communications. In very noisy environments or when there are different sound sources, it is sometimes difficult for operators to be attentive to all auditory information or to be heard effectively. Bone conduction systems (for listening and for expression) allow the operator to be attentive to different sound sources while speaking audibly. As for the bone conduction listening system, the sound vibrations conducted by the bones reproduce a listening equivalent to classical hearing. Concerning the throat microphone, the treatment of the waves captured at the throat makes it possible to transmit a clear sound, without any environmental interference, which makes it possible to guarantee the good intelligibility of the speech. This paper concludes on how these studies from the human factor service of the research and development department of Naval Group (France) are related to advance research in these areas as well as trials for future equipment that can be developed on board for naval defense vessels.
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Newhouse, Norman L., and Harish N. Patel. "Composite Pressure Vessels for Marine and Land Based Applications." In ASME/USCG 2010 2nd Workshop on Marine Technology and Standards. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/mts2010-0211.
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Composite pressure vessels have been used for over 40 years in a variety of military, aerospace, marine, transportation, stationary, and vehicle applications. Codes, standards, and guidelines have been developed to address vessel performance in these high pressure applications by ASME and American Bureau of Shipping (ABS). A risk or hazard identification analysis may be conducted during qualification and approval process. Prototype and qualification testing in these standards validate the design and anticipated operating conditions. Knowledge has been gained from qualification testing, field experience, and inspection that supports selection of materials and design configurations for marine and land based applications. Periodic inspection of vessels mitigates risk, particularly in terms of detecting environmental and mechanically induced damage before failure can occur. This paper was written jointly between ABS and Lincoln Composites through the certification process of Lincoln’s Titan™ project. This paper will outline qualification of technology and, testing requirements, as well as discuss the basis for hazard mitigation and material selection in the marine environment. Paper published with permission.
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Quarta, Aurora. "Il Castello di “Carta”. Excursus della presenza del castello di Gallipoli nella cartografia storica." In FORTMED2020 - Defensive Architecture of the Mediterranean. Universitat Politàcnica de València, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/fortmed2020.2020.11339.
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The Castle of "paper". Excursus of Gallipoli’s castle presence in historical cartographyThe castle is located at the eastern part of the Gallipoli’s old town: the first data in archives and libraries started from the sixth century under the mention of castrum and in the following centuries there are many informations on parchments, written documents and bibliography published until today. The Syllabus Grecarum Membranarum from the twelfth century and the Statutum de reparatione castrorum of Frederick II are two precious sources about the primitive castle’s architecture.The structure endured the passage of the Byzantines, Normans, Swabians, Angevins and again, Aragonese, Venetians, Spaniards, Austrians and finally the Bourbons, until it became property of the State and now of the Gallipoli’s municipality. It has suffered over time numerous interventions to adapt it to new military needs: the castle was no longer effective with leading defence from new siege weapons, as for other architectures of the same period.The numerous representations preserved in Italian and European archives give a complete picture of the Gallipoli’s urban development and include the defensive system of the city: the different views illustrate the walls and allow us to understand the castle’s main evolutionary dynamics and its connection with the town.
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Krishnan, Shankar, Jayathi Y. Murthy, and Suresh V. Garimella. "A Two-Temperature Model for the Analysis of Passive Thermal Control Systems for Electronics." In ASME 2002 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. ASMEDC, 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/imece2002-33335.
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Passive control of unsteady thermal loads using phase change materials is being explored for a variety of military and consumer electronics applications. The phase change materials usually have very low thermal conductivity. To enhance the thermal response of the system, thermal conductivity enhancers like metal foams, internal fins and metal filler particles have been proposed. Local thermal equilibrium between the solid matrix and the fluid is not ensured in such systems since the thermal conductivities and heat capacities for the fluid and solid are very different. The use of a single volume-averaged energy equation for both the phases cannot be justified in such situations. A two-medium approach is developed in the present work to account for the local thermal non-equilibrium. Separate energy equations are written for the solid and fluid respectively, and are closed using a steady-state interstitial heat transfer coefficient between the two phases. A general momentum equation which includes the Brinkman-Forchheimer extension to Darcy flow is employed. The resulting equations are solved using a finite volume scheme. The influence of various parameters such as the ratios of fluid to solid conductivities and heat capacities, porosity, Rayleigh number, Prandtl number, and Darcy number on the thermal and flow fields is investigated. The importance of using a two-medium approach for such situations is illustrated using the results obtained.
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Lash, Alex, Kevin Murray, and Gregory Mocko. "Natural Language Processing Applications in Requirements Engineering." In ASME 2012 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/detc2012-71084.
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In the design process, the requirements serve as the benchmark for the entire product. Therefore, the quality of requirement statements is essential to the success of a design. Because of their ergonomic-nature, most requirements are written in natural language (NL). However, writing requirements in natural language presents many issues such as ambiguity, specification issues, and incompleteness. Therefore, identifying issues in requirements involves analyzing these NL statements. This paper presents a linguistic approach to requirement analysis, which utilizes grammatical elements of requirements statements to identify requirement statement issues. These issues are organized by the entity—word, sentence, or document—that they affect. The field of natural language processing (NLP) provides a core set of tools that can aid with this linguistic analysis and provide a method to create a requirement analysis support tool. NLP addresses requirements on processing levels: lexical, syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic. While processing on the lexical and syntactic level are well-defined, mining semantic and pragmatic data is performed in a number of different methods. This paper provides an overview of these current requirement analysis methods in light of the presented linguistic approach. This overview will be used to identify areas for further research and development. Finally, a prototype requirement analysis support tool will be presented. This tool seeks to demonstrate how the semantic processing level can begin to be addressed in requirement analysis. The tool will analyze a sample set of requirements from a family of military tactical vehicles (FMTV) requirements document. It implements NLP tools to semantically compare requirements statements based upon their grammatical subject.
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Zhou, Zhenxu, Hao Nie, and Qin Zhang. "Design and Development of DeRisk: A Fault Tree Analysis Program Package." In 2018 26th International Conference on Nuclear Engineering. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/icone26-81291.
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Fault tree analysis (FTA) has been proven to be a very important tool and has been successfully applied to safety/reliability studies in nuclear, chemical, military, space industries/systems. Hitherto, several useful and popular FTA software/program packages have been developed, like CAFTA+, FAUNET, RiskSpectrum, SAPHIRE, RiskA etc. Minimum Cut Set (MCS) method is the most commonly used traditional FTA method. However, it suffers from low efficiency when solving remarkably large fault trees (FTs). To overcome the shortcomings of the traditional method, several new techniques are proposed such as Binary Decision Diagram (BDD), Zero-suppressed Binary Decision Diagram, (ZBDD) Petri Net (PN), Bayesian Network (BN) and Dynamic Uncertain Causality Graph (DUCG). DUCG is a newly presented Probabilistic Graphic Model to deal with systems with dynamics, uncertainties and logic cycles. DUCG is a good choice to analyze large FTs, in our previous papers, we have proved that any FT can be mapped into a DUCG graph and additional modeling and analytical power can be achieved. DeRisk is a DUCG embedded risk analysis program package written in C# for FTA and is designed as a powerful tool to assist reliability engineers. In this paper, the design schema and the main algorithms of DeRisk are introduced. DeRisk contains five parts: (1) A Graphical User Interface (GUI) Module which interacts with users; (2) A Preprocessing Module which preprocesses FTs (3) An Input Module which allows user to input necessary data by file or by command line; (4) A Calculation Module which offers qualitative/quantitative analysis; (5) An Output Module which outputs the results required by users. Some illustrative examples are used to verify the correctness and effectiveness of DeRisk.
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Landi, Luca, and Damiano Amici. "Steel Sheets Impact Simulation for Safety Guards Design: Problems and Perspectives." In ASME 2016 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/imece2016-65181.
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The growing need of design of safety guards for industrial workers led to the need for experimentation in the field of ballistics, typically used in the military research. In the last few years some international standards for the safety of machine tools have been developed, such as the ISO 23125: 2010, improving the ballistic protection of safety guards. But it is still possible to find in the market a large quantity of machine tools with doubtful real protective characteristics of guards. The uncontrolled projection of parts of work piece or tools can often cause very dangerous perforations of the safety guards. In such a way specific experimental tests like the ones conducted in EU, have assured the possibility to write appendices of ISO standards for safety guards design of machine tools. These tests are based on impact between a particular standardized projectile, which exemplifies an impacting fragment of variable size and energy, and a flat plate placed in the trajectory of the projectile. The penetration or buckling of the target determines the non-suitability of a particular material of a given thickness, for the design and production of safety guards. However these tests, have the following limitations: they are valid only for: a limited type of thickness and materials, a perpendicular impact with flat plates of about 500 mm × 500 mm and when the standardized penetrator is a cylinder with a prismatic head. Moreover another limitation arises for the design of real safety guards: difficulties in taking into account curved design of guards such as the ones typically used in the spindles of machine tools. Moreover it is very difficult to take into account innovative materials different from the ones provided by the standards and also it is impossible to consider projected objects whose geometry is not regular, for example fragmented parts of tools, broken as a result of a wrong manoeuvre of the machine user. The main focus of this paper is to test the applicability of numerical methods for the simulation of impacts on steel sheets of standardized penetrators for the numerical design and validation of industrial safety guards. Correlation between experimental penetration tests found in international papers and optimized numerical tests will be presented.
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Rogers, John, and Robert Rabb. "Control Theory in Practice: Magnetic Levitation." In ASME 2010 10th Biennial Conference on Engineering Systems Design and Analysis. ASMEDC, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/esda2010-24827.
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A device that levitates a steel ball beneath an electromagnet is used for educational purposes at the United States Military Academy, West Point, New York. Students in the course “Mechatronics” engage in a set of laboratory exercises with the device to reinforce classroom learning. Mechatronics is a senior-level course that introduces the interdisciplinary design of smart systems. Students in the electrical engineering and mechanical engineering programs take the course together, and the material is taught by a team of instructors from both academic departments. The Magnetic Levitation experiments are the primary means of teaching the classical analog control portion of the course. Other aspects of the course involve interfacing microcontrollers with sensors and actuators, and digital control. The magnetic levitation device fits easily on a two-person workbench and requires a power supply and oscilloscope. An infra-red emitter / detector pair is used to sense ball position for a feedback compensator. Students first learn classical control theory in a co-requisite course, “Dynamic Modeling and Control.” Modeling principles are introduced in the context of the magnetic levitation system as an unstable plant to be controlled. The system can be simulated by models ranging from simply linear to more complex to teach the trade-off between model fidelity and model development effort. The students derive the nonlinear governing equations and then linearize the equations and develop the transfer function of the plant. Students design a compensator and simulate the resulting stabilized system with Matlab and Simulink software. Students build their compensator on a solderless project board to levitate the steel ball. A proven lead-type compensator using two resistors and a capacitor is readily provided to students that struggle with their own compensator design so that all teams may enjoy the fruit of a successful experiment. As a laboratory aid, the magnetic levitation system allows for basic and advanced approaches to both theoretical study and practical investigation of a nonlinear, unstable system control. The comparison of measured results to predicted behavior leads to insight about how the physical system is modeled by mathematics. Students write a case study describing the system in detail including characterization of the sensors and actuators. Instructors report that the hands-on nature motivates students to excel. Surveyed students cite the hands-on activities as relevant applications that help develop deeper understanding and greater appreciation for the concepts learned in the classroom. The students are motivated to learn by the fascination of defying gravity.
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Lohn, Andrew. Hacking AI: A Primer for Policymakers on Machine Learning Cybersecurity. Center for Security and Emerging Technology, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.51593/2020ca006.
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Machine learning systems’ vulnerabilities are pervasive. Hackers and adversaries can easily exploit them. As such, managing the risks is too large a task for the technology community to handle alone. In this primer, Andrew Lohn writes that policymakers must understand the threats well enough to assess the dangers that the United States, its military and intelligence services, and its civilians face when they use machine learning.