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Bacanu, Horea. "Globalisation of Cultural Circuits. The Case of International Awards for Fiction." European Review Of Applied Sociology 8, no. 11 (2015): 19–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/eras-2015-0008.
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Abstract In the international circuit of fictional texts from the last fifty years (perhaps even one hundred years, in some cases), several independent international organizations, academic and editorial platforms of critique and debate have been established. They have been organizing international contests, fine authorities of critical appreciation, evaluation and awarding of most prolific authors and most successful fictional texts: novels, short stories, stories or utopian and dystopian fictions. The allotment on cultural corridors, the geographical identification of both author and title dynamics which have been nominated at the most prestigious international awards for fiction demonstrates an increased emergence of several zones where wide international circulation texts were seldom, fifty years ago. In this paper, we suggest a reinterpretation and a comprehension of the political context from the contemporary fiction, by regrouping in one category, the three classical genres (historic novel, social novel, political novel) and also the universal fiction which implies characters and relations of power. Thus, we create a category which is known as „political fiction”. The increased individualization of this literary macro-genre called „political fiction” is also a creative answer to the high speed of circulation and at the general international amplitude with which contemporary socio-political novels are distributed.
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Hume, Kathryn. "Narrative Speed in Contemporary Fiction." Narrative 13, no. 2 (2005): 105–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/nar.2005.0010.
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Lévy, Joseph. "Invariance of Light Speed: Reality or Fiction?" Physics Essays 6, no. 2 (1993): 241–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.4006/1.3029058.
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Baker, Jessica Swanston. "Sugar, Sound, Speed." Representations 154, no. 1 (2021): 23–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/rep.2021.154.3.23.
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This essay presents the song “Area Code 869,” an example of a Caribbean genre known as “wilders” or “pep,” as a form of what Kodwo Eshun calls “sonic fiction.” By focusing on sonic bodies as “bodies touched by sound,” the essay suggests that “869” offers a reimagination of the historical relationship between sugar, sound, and speed in the Eastern Caribbean island of St. Kitts, a former British sugar colony.
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Connor, Kimberly Rae. "The Speed of Belief: Religion and Science Fiction, an Introduction to the Implicit Religions of Science Fiction." Implicit Religion 17, no. 4 (2014): 367–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1558/imre.v17i4.367.
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Pastourmatzi, Domna. "Researching and Teaching Science Fiction in Greece." PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 119, no. 3 (2004): 530–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1632/003081204x20613.
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In the dreams our stuff is made of, Thomas M. Disch talks about the influence and pervasiveness of science Fiction in American culture and asserts the genre's power in “such diverse realms as industrial design and marketing, military strategy, sexual mores, foreign policy, and practical epistemology” (11-12). A few years earlier, Sharona Ben-Tov described science fiction as “a peculiarly American dream”—that is, “a dream upon which, as a nation, we act” (2). Recently, Kim Stanley Robinson has claimed that “rapid technological development on all fronts combined to turn our entire social reality into one giant science fiction novel, which we are all writing together in the great collaboration called history” (1-2). While such diagnostic statements may ring true to American ears, they cannot be taken at face value in the context of Hellenic culture. Despite the unprecedented speed with which the Greeks absorb and consume both the latest technologies (like satellite TV, video, CD and DVD players, electronic games, mobile and cordless phones, PCs, and the Internet) and Hollywood's science fiction blockbuster films, neither technology per se nor science fiction has yet saturated the Greek mind-set to a degree that makes daily life a science-fictional reality. Greek politicians do not consult science fiction writers for military strategy and foreign policy decisions or depend on imaginary scenarios to shape their country's future. Contemporary Hellenic culture does not acquire its national pride from mechanical devices or space conquest. Contrary to the American popular belief that technology is the driving force of history, “a virtually autonomous agent of change” (Marx and Smith xi), the Greek view is that a complex interplay of political, economic, cultural, and technoscientific agencies alters the circumstances of daily life. No hostages to technological determinism, modern Greeks increasingly interface with high-tech inventions, but without locating earthly paradise in their geographic territory and without writing their history or shaping their social reality as “one giant science fiction novel.”
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van Belkum, Alex. "High-speed development of bacterial DNA identification assays: fact or fiction?" Journal of Microbiological Methods 50, no. 3 (2002): 225–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0167-7012(02)00039-8.
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Lévy, Joseph. "Erratum: Invariance of Light Speed: Reality or Fiction? [Phys. Essays6, 241 (1993)]." Physics Essays 7, no. 2 (1994): 252. http://dx.doi.org/10.4006/1.3029139.
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Guo, Yu Feng, and Guo Zhu Cheng. "Theoretical Calculation of the Maximum Speed Limit Value on Freeway in Adverse Weather." Applied Mechanics and Materials 209-211 (October 2012): 663–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.209-211.663.
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In order to increase driving safety level on freeway, the paper analyzed the affecting mechanism of rainy day, snowy day and foggy day on road traffic safety. Considering that the sum of running distance and braking distance is less than visible distance, theoretical calculation formula of maximum speed limit value on freeway in adverse weather was presented based on the safe distance. Suggestions values of corresponding speed limit were given according to different visible distance, road fiction coefficient and grade.
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Chen, Eva. "Its Beauty, Danger, and Feverish Thrill: Speed and Cycling Women in Fin de Siècle Fiction." MFS Modern Fiction Studies 63, no. 4 (2017): 607–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2017.0049.
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Grillner, Sten, and Alexander Kozlov. "The CPGs for Limbed Locomotion–Facts and Fiction." International Journal of Molecular Sciences 22, no. 11 (2021): 5882. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms22115882.
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The neuronal networks that generate locomotion are well understood in swimming animals such as the lamprey, zebrafish and tadpole. The networks controlling locomotion in tetrapods remain, however, still enigmatic with an intricate motor pattern required for the control of the entire limb during the support, lift off, and flexion phase, and most demandingly when the limb makes contact with ground again. It is clear that the inhibition that occurs between bursts in each step cycle is produced by V2b and V1 interneurons, and that a deletion of these interneurons leads to synchronous flexor–extensor bursting. The ability to generate rhythmic bursting is distributed over all segments comprising part of the central pattern generator network (CPG). It is unclear how the rhythmic bursting is generated; however, Shox2, V2a and HB9 interneurons do contribute. To deduce a possible organization of the locomotor CPG, simulations have been elaborated. The motor pattern has been simulated in considerable detail with a network composed of unit burst generators; one for each group of close synergistic muscle groups at each joint. This unit burst generator model can reproduce the complex burst pattern with a constant flexion phase and a shortened extensor phase as the speed increases. Moreover, the unit burst generator model is versatile and can generate both forward and backward locomotion.
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Gao, Jicheng, Chao Li, and Yifu Shen. "Investigations into the mechanical, morphological and thermal analyses of friction stir processing of high-density polyethylene composites." Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part B: Journal of Engineering Manufacture 232, no. 7 (2016): 1193–200. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0954405416666892.
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The aim of this work is to fabricate the high-density polyethylene–copper composites by submerged friction stir processing at different traverse speeds. The scanning electron microscopy is used to analyze the distribution of microstructure and particles. The experimental results indicated that the macrostructure morphology, microstructure and tensile strength vary depending on the traverse speed. Compared with the pure high-density polyethylene, Cu-filled polymer composites showed lower tensile strength and higher microhardness. The maximal values of the tensile strength and microhardness were achieved at traverse speeds of 30 and 15 mm/min, respectively. The thermal properties of Cu-filled high-density polyethylene composites were studied by differential scanning calorimetry. The crystalline content of the composites was decreased due to the addition of copper. From the experimental tests, it can be concluded that submerged fiction stir processing has a great potential for producing polymer–metal composites.
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Sallay, Hassen, Mohsen Rouached, Adel Ammar, Ouissem Ben Fredj, Khalid Al-Shalfan, and Majdi Ben Saad. "Wild-Inspired Intrusion Detection System Framework for High Speed Networks (f|p) IDS Framework." International Journal of Information Security and Privacy 5, no. 4 (2011): 47–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/jisp.2011100104.
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While the rise of the Internet and the high speed networks made information easier to acquire, faster to exchange and more flexible to share, it also made the cybernetic attacks and crimes easier to perform, more accurate to hit the target victim and more flexible to conceal the crime evidences. Although people are in an unsafe digital environment, they often feel safe. Being aware of this fact and this fiction, the authors draw in this paper a security framework aiming to build real-time security solutions in the very narrow context of high speed networks. This framework is called (f|p) since it is inspired by the elefant self-defense behavior which yields p (22 security tasks for 7 security targets).
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Torkkeli, Marko, Anne-Laure Mention, and João José Pinto Ferreira. "The power of technology: A Fact or Fiction for Majority?" Journal of Innovation Management 3, no. 3 (2015): 1–3. http://dx.doi.org/10.24840/2183-0606_003.003_0001.
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This Fall Issue will discuss about the power of technology and Internet. Innovation is taking place everywhere through new and emerging technologies changing the way we think, live, breathe, travel, and do shopping to name a few areas. Funny enough is that some of us believe that the most important technologies are on the market available to please customers and users, and nothing more important will show up later. We, as humans, systematically underestimate the power of technology and its impact on daily life. There are several well-known quotations from very smart people which have turned ridiculous after some time by basically shifting initial assumptions into market knowledge. Whatever is too expensive and complex today becomes a commodity in no time and shortly after doesn’t bring competitive advantage any longer (the S-curve effect, see e.g Bayus, 1998 or Rogers, 1962, for different explanations). Several notable studies illustrate (like the well cited and used BCG tools) how rapidly diffusion is influencing production costs and consequently, accelerates the speed of diffusion itself. The question here stems from where the balance between the minority of ‘crazy’ developers and the majority of pioneering consumers willing to try something new lies. (...)
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Morse, Daniel Ryan. "An ‘Impatient Modernist’: Mulk Raj Anand at the BBC." Modernist Cultures 10, no. 1 (2015): 83–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/mod.2015.0099.
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Mulk Raj Anand's self-description – in a 1945 broadcast about war-time London – as an ‘impatient modernist’ highlights Anand's ability to harness the velocity of broadcast production, transmission, and reception into an aesthetic of speed. Pairing Anand's unpublished BBC scripts with his war-time novel The Big Heart (1945), I show how Anand's work remediating contemporary texts for broadcast accompanied a shift in his approach to writing fiction, using the technique of intertextual scaffolding to accelerate composition. This article proposes that the name of Anand's impatience was realism – that Anand's fascination with literary modernists such as Joyce and Woolf was tempered with a desire for the immediacy and social embeddedness of realism and that broadcasting encouraged Anand in his attempt to pair modernism's cosmopolitanism and polyvocality with realism's speed, engagement, even ephemerality. Challenging the often feeble distinction between realism and modernist anti-representational technics, Anand's radio writing captures the contradictions of combined but uneven development.
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Yu, Xin Qi, Pei Ying Peng, Hui Qin Gao, and Jia Hui Yu. "Numerical Analysis on Tribological Properties of Mechanical Seals with a Laser-Textured Face." Advanced Materials Research 154-155 (October 2010): 1266–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.154-155.1266.
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An analytical model is developed to study the effects of operation conditions and micro-pore geometry parameters on the friction performance of the mechanical seals with a laser-textured micro-pore face. Seal opening forces at various operation conditions and micro-pore geometry parameters are obtained from the solution of the Reynolds equation by the finite difference method. A derivative expression of the friction torque of the mechanical seals with a laser-textured micro-pore face is calculated and contributing factors of the friction torque are analyzed. It is shown that fiction torque increases with increase of the rotating speed. An optimum pore size that corresponds to minimum friction torque is found and is consistent with experimental results.
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Higgins, Rosalyn. "Time and the Law: International Perspectives on an Old Problem." International and Comparative Law Quarterly 46, no. 3 (1997): 501–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0020589300060784.
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I begin by confessing a general fascination with the concept of time. I puzzle endlessly over the relationship between time and matter, and the insistence of scientists that before the Big Bang time did not exist. I grapple with the relationship between time and speed, and the fact that if we could travel at the speed of light time would not move. I seek to grasp Stephen Hawking's recent conversion to the view that, in the physical world, time may yet run in reverse. I am intrigued that our concepts of time came to Australia only with the First Fleet, for aboriginal time was cyclical rather than linear. Events could recur, dead people could live again. I find exhilarating the idea that we see at this moment, through our telescopes, stars that no longer exist. I love the objective reality of the equator and the total artificiality of the meridian, and the intention that this felicitous fiction is the place for us to see in the “real beginning” of the next century.
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Ebrahimzadeh, Pejman, Hamid Baseri, and Mohammad J. Mirnia. "Formability of aluminum 5083 friction stir welded blank in two-point incremental forming process." Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part E: Journal of Process Mechanical Engineering 232, no. 3 (2017): 267–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0954408917692370.
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In the present study, an attempt was made to analyze the formability of aluminum 5083 fiction stir welded blank through an incremental forming process. Experiments are performed on the joints which were fabricated by optimal welding parameters with 73% strength sufficiency. Firstly, a series of experiments were carried out to compare the formability of welded blank in single-point and two-point incremental forming operations, under different wall angles. Thereafter, an experimental study based on response surface methodology was carried out to find out the effect of incremental forming factors on the dimensional accuracy and minimum thickness. It was found from the results that irrespective of the wall angle, the formability of welded blank (i.e. forming height until occurrence of tear) which formed in two-point incremental forming process is relatively higher than that of single-point incremental forming. Also, statistical analysis revealed that tool rotary speed and step down has a significant effect on the critical thickness, while springback is affected by the sequence of tool rotary speed and feed rate.
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Reinertsen, Anne Beate. "DDD + Assemblage." International Review of Qualitative Research 2, no. 2 (2009): 247–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/irqr.2009.2.2.247.
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This is a writing story about becoming. It is therefore about change and about identifying myself—deconstructing myself—as learner always: “Getting smart” “getting lost” and “getting real” eventually as doing what we consider to be the ideal; moral perfectibility and learning as both function and fiction. It is a Deleuzian stumbling nomadic and rhizomatic inquiry into creating community through not and supplements and the displacement of terms: Subject/subjectivity/reconstruction/deconstruction/intersubjectivity/ co-construction/co-deconstruction…—being under erasure. Sentence (de) construction might therefore be sometimes a bit stumbling too. Thinking Deleuze and Derrida and a little bit of Dewey together: DDD + assemblage. A deconstructive auto ethnography, autobiography, youto(o)biography: Writing community, school and ultimately research together hopefully picking up speed in the middle.
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Whyte, Kyle P. "Indigenous science (fiction) for the Anthropocene: Ancestral dystopias and fantasies of climate change crises." Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space 1, no. 1-2 (2018): 224–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2514848618777621.
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Portrayals of the Anthropocene period are often dystopian or post-apocalyptic narratives of climate crises that will leave humans in horrific science-fiction scenarios. Such narratives can erase certain populations, such as Indigenous peoples, who approach climate change having already been through transformations of their societies induced by colonial violence. This essay discusses how some Indigenous perspectives on climate change can situate the present time as already dystopian. Instead of dread of an impending crisis, Indigenous approaches to climate change are motivated through dialogic narratives with descendants and ancestors. In some cases, these narratives are like science fiction in which Indigenous peoples work to empower their own protagonists to address contemporary challenges. Yet within literature on climate change and the Anthropocene, Indigenous peoples often get placed in historical categories designed by nonIndigenous persons, such as the Holocene. In some cases, these categories serve as the backdrop for allies' narratives that privilege themselves as the protagonists who will save Indigenous peoples from colonial violence and the climate crisis. I speculate that this tendency among allies could possibly be related to their sometimes denying that they are living in times their ancestors would have likely fantasized about. I will show how this denial threatens allies' capacities to build coalitions with Indigenous peoples. Inuit culture is based on the ice, the snow and the cold…. It is the speed and intensity in which change has occurred and continues to occur that is a big factor why we are having trouble with adapting to certain situations. Climate change is yet another rapid assault on our way of life. It cannot be separated from the first waves of changes and assaults at the very core of the human spirit that have come our way. Just as we are recognizing and understanding the first waves of change … our environment and climate now gets threatened. Sheila Watt-Cloutier, interviewed by the Ottawa Citizen. (Robb, 2015) In North America many Indigenous traditions tell us that reality is more than just facts and figures collected so that humankind might widely use resources. Rather, to know “it”—reality—requires respect for the relationships and relatives that constitute the complex web of life. I call this Indigenous realism, and it entails that we, members of humankind, accept our inalienable responsibilities as members of the planet's complex life system, as well as our inalienable rights. ( Wildcat, 2009 , xi) Within Māori ontological and cosmological paradigms it is impossible to conceive of the present and the future as separate and distinct from the past, for the past is constitutive of the present and, as such, is inherently reconstituted within the future. (Stewart-Harawira, 2005, 42) In fact, incorporating time travel, alternate realities, parallel universes and multiverses, and alternative histories is a hallmark of Native storytelling tradition, while viewing time as pasts, presents, and futures that flow together like currents in a navigable stream is central to Native epistemologies. ( Dillon, 2016a , 345)
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Magri, Dirceu. "Machado de Assis: a crônica e a seleção da notícia." Jangada: crítica | literatura | artes, no. 10 (April 7, 2018): 19–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.35921/jangada.v0i10.78.
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RESUMO: Este estudo visa percorrer o fazer literário de Machado de Assis nas crônicas, da seleção da notícia à adaptação aos percalços da imprensa, haja vista o cronista ter vivenciado em plenitude o instante híbrido que marca a passagem da lentidão do livro para a velocidade da imprensa. Nesse período o jornal desenha uma nova forma, adequa-se ao fragmentário da diagramação da página, restringe o espaço e imprime noção de agilidade. A estas alterações subscreve-se um novo estilo de escrita que, embora contaminado pelo vestígio da ficção, irá suscitar movimento cada vez mais rápido, em resposta a um espírito que não mais se habitua à lentidão livresca e, aos poucos, ganha apreço pela velocidade contemporânea, feito o bonde, tão presente em suas crônicas.
 PALAVRAS-CHAVE: Crônica, notícia, leitor, distanciamento, dúvida, ironia.
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 ABSTRACT: This study aims to explore the Machado de Assis’ literary composition in the chronicles from the news selection to adaptation to the mishaps of the press, as he experienced in fullness the hybrid moment that marks the passage from the slowness of the book to the speed of the press. In this period, the paper draws a new way, suits the fragmentary diagramming, restricts the space and prints notion of agility. These changes subscribes a new style of writing that, although contaminated by traces of fiction, will give rise to a faster and faster movement, in response to a spirit that no longer gets used to the bookish slowness and gradually gains appreciation for contemporary speed, as the tram, so present in his chronicles.
 KEYWORDS: Chronicle, news, reader, estrangement, doubt, irony.
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Gao, Chang Yin, and Wan Quan Li. "Design of the Pinch Machine for Battery Grid Continuous Casting Machine Based on Link and Floating Gear Mechanism." Key Engineering Materials 474-476 (April 2011): 2258–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/kem.474-476.2258.
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In order to realize pinch during the production of the continuous casting battery grid, using the link and floating mechanism a pinch machine is designed which can automatically adjust the roll gap and pinch tension. First the structure of the grid pinch machine is introduced ,in which adopts the dual drive roller to achieve the upper and lower pinch roll and pinch roll to rotate in accordance with the same speed, but in the opposite direction. The pinch force generates by the fiction force between the grid plate and the upper and lower pinch roller. By means of the shifting bearing and spring the position of the upper pinch roller is controlled and the roll gap adjustment mechanism adopts the link and floating gear mechanism which results in structure simplification , high reliability, Low cost, stable, long life and low noise. Finally, according to the design principle of the pinch machine, using the theoretical mechanics and the Euler formula the pinch roller tension, tension roller tension and pinch pressure are calculated. The pinch machine has made it possible to achieve the manufacturing system of continuous casting battery grid.
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Labriola, Joe. "The Room Above." After Dinner Conversation 2, no. 9 (2021): 30–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/adc20212982.
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If society could clean the memories of a criminal, and allow them to start a new life, with new life experiences, would they have a new person? Are we more than our memories? In this work of philosophical short story of fiction, John wakes up with complete amnesia in a small white room. His roommate Jack is in the same situation, but has been in the room longer. They are gassed and when John wakes up a doctor explains to him that he was convicted of a crime and, rather than going to prison, he opted to have his memory erased, to have a new memory implanted, and to get an entirely new life. Unfortunately, in order to get a clean slate, the process from memory wipe to new life takes 18 months. John and Jack share a cell. John reads, and Jack draws. Eventually, Jack’s time is up and he disappears, ready to enter his new life. John gets a new cellmate and gets him up to speed. Eventually, John’s time is up and he is gassed a final time before starting his life as a "newborn."
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A. AlGhamdi, Asmaa, Sundus Z. AlQadi, Jumana M. AlHammad, and Nadia A. Shukri. "Reading Needs Analysis of EFL Learners in the Saudi Context: Identifying Needs and Deficiencies." International Journal of English Language Education 6, no. 2 (2018): 92. http://dx.doi.org/10.5296/ijele.v6i2.13863.
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The aim of the current study is to do a reading needs analysis of preparatory-year students in the Saudi context. The scope is to identify the reading needs and deficiencies of EFL learners at King Abdulaziz University. The instrument used is a paper-based questionnaire that was distributed among the participants. A total of sixty-three female students participated in the study. The questionnaire is adapted from the needs analysis questionnaire for non-English learners (Gravatt, Richards & Lewis, 1997). Two open-ended questions were added in order to get in-depth data from the participants. The statistical analysis was utilized for the quantitative data via SPSS whereas the open-ended questions were analyzed thematically using NVivo. The results demonstrate that EFL learners in the Saudi context have deficiencies of some reading strategies such as reading speed and reading to respond critically. However, they do not have difficulties with general comprehension of reading texts and they are able to read slowly in order to understand the details of the text. Regarding preferences, they mostly like to read works of fiction such as stories or novels but they do not prefer to read long texts. Based on the findings, this study was able to draw a number of implications and propose several recommendations.
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Seed, David. "The Flight from the Good Life: Fahrenheit 451 in the Context of Postwar American Dystopias." Journal of American Studies 28, no. 2 (1994): 225–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021875800025470.
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Surveying the American scene in 1958, Aldous Huxley recorded his dismay over the speed with which Brave New World was becoming realized in contemporary developments: “The nightmare of total organization, which I had situated in the seventh century After Ford, has emerged from the safe, remote future and is now awaiting us, just around the next corner.” Having struck a keynote of urgency Huxley then lines up a series of oppositions between limited disorder, individuality and freedom on the one hand, and order, automatism and subjection on the other in order to express his liberal anxieties that political and social organization might hypertrophy. Huxley sums up an abiding fear which runs through American dystopian fiction of the 1950s that individuals will lose their identity and become the two-dimensional stereotypes indicated in two catch-phrases of the period: the “organization man” and the “man in the grey flannel suit. ” William H. Whyte's 1956 study diagnoses the demise of the Protestant ethic in American life and its replacement by a corporate one which privileges “belongingness. ” The result might be, he warns, not a world controlled by self-evident enemies familiar from Nineteen Eighty-Four, but an antiseptic regime presided over by a “mild-looking group of therapists who, like the Grand Inquisitor, would be doing what they did to help you.”
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Reid, Christopher R., Maury A. Nussbaum, Karen Gregorczyk, et al. "Industrial Exoskeletons: Are We Ready for Prime Time Yet?" Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting 61, no. 1 (2017): 1000–1004. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1541931213601733.
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What is an exoskeleton? Exoskeletons are external devices that are worn for an intended purpose such as rehabilitation or replacement for lost physical functions like walking. Others have considered these systems from what earlier might have been a more science fiction perspective – such as increased mechanical leveraging, strength, and speed – though such applications are starting to become science fact. Examples of such emerging applications have, until now, been directed toward military applications, such as developing the “super soldier” concept. Exoskeleton technologies are also being increasingly applied in medical scenarios. However, industrial applications are still in their infancy despite a dramatic increase in commercial products being released to the market. With this infancy, designers of systems have focused on system function; but, what about user population safety, fit accommodation, and regulatory concerns? How should designers design for human user concerns while targeting system function? What considerations should customers and stakeholders contemplate before buying that next commercial off-the-shelf system? Ultimately, how do we use ergonomic approaches to better design, assess, and use exoskeletons to benefit labor-intensive occupational tasks, or most effectively adopt exoskeletons to enhance work that involves physical fatigue and risk of musculoskeletal injury? The session will start with initial lectures and introductions from the panel, followed by an encouraged panel discussion with the audience led by the moderators.
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Parry, Geraint. "Jurassic World: just how impossible is it?" Biochemist 37, no. 6 (2015): 18–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1042/bio03706018.
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In the movie business, bigger is usually better, bigger spaceships, bigger disasters, bigger dinosaurs and the latter was especially true in the latest installment of the Jurassic Park franchise, Jurassic World. Although the Indominus rex knocked the Tyrannosaurus rex into a cocked hat when it came to size, strength, speed and special abilities, the ‘scientific’ details of its creation are perhaps not so far-fetched if you accept the original premise of Jurassic Park. However, that is a big IF! Twenty years ago many of us enjoyed the scientific ideas suggested by Jurassic Park, either in the Michael Crichton book or in the Spielberg film. For those younger readers who haven't seen the original film; the idea was that scientists had managed to extract dinoDNA from a mosquito that had been trapped in prehistoric amber. This DNA was attached to a nucleic acid scaffold from a frog and ‘voila!’ there were more Stegosauri, Brontosauri and T. rex's than you could shake a pipette at! Inevitably as we left the cinema, we asked if this would ever be ‘possible’? Indeed there are current efforts to recreate long-extinct creatures, although on a slightly less ambitious scale. Whatever the source of your dinosaur DNA; be it from fossilized bones or from an amber-trapped mosquito, the chances of it being intact are essentially nil making the idea of the creation of new dinosaurs from preserved DNA more fiction than fact.
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ORiordan, Maeve. "‘We … galloped hard and straight over some big stone gaps’: Freedom of the Hunt for Elite Women in Ireland, 1860-1914." Studies in Arts and Humanities 7, no. 1 (2021): 18–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.18193/sah.v7i1.200.
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Hunting was an elite social pastime accessible to both men and women, of the correct social class, throughout the period 1860-1914. Female involvement in this sport preceded their widespread involvement in other sports and pastimes such as tennis and cycling. This article explores the contradictions inherent in women’s involvement in this masculine sport. The sport demanded that participants display contemporary masculine characteristics of bravery, strength, and independence, and yet it was open to both married and unmarried women of the gentry and ascendancy class in Ireland. The sport was a dangerous one, and considerable skill was demanded of all participants. However, daughters of hunting families were not persuaded against joining the hunt, and were instead encouraged to display the necessary skill and competitiveness to ride a horse side-saddle cross-country at speed; jumping stone walls and banks along the way. It was the norm for women to wear adapted dress modelled on masculine hunting attire, however this dress did not diminish their perceived femininity, and was perceived by some in hunting circles as the most alluring form of female dress. The article explores the numbers of women involved in the sport during the period utilising both contemporary fiction and directories. It also provides a case study of one woman’s experience as she partook of the hunt while also battling long term ill health; challenging the contemporary notion of women as inherently weak and unable for rigorous physical activity.
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Ndalianis, Angela. "De digitale verdeners (vid)under." MedieKultur: Journal of media and communication research 19, no. 36 (2003): 8. http://dx.doi.org/10.7146/mediekultur.v19i36.1239.
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I tidens blockbusterfilm spiller digitale special effects en stadig større rolle. Fra at have været et ‘usynligt’ redskab, der muliggjorde impone- rende stunts som bussen, der flyver over et hul i motorvejen i Speed, har digitale effekter erobret hovedrollen. Siden den morfende termi- nator i Terminator 2: Judgment Day og de realistiske dinosaurer i Jurassic Park har digitale elementer opnået en stjernestatus, der ofte overgår skuespillernes. Således er den digitale Gollum i Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers mere troværdig end de øvrige ‘fysiske’ stjer- ner. De amerikanske blockbusterfilm, der anvender en iøjnefaldende brug af digital æstetik, er ofte science fiction- og fantasy-film, der af den kritiske teori har været anset for “usundt slik for øjet.” Forfatteren viser, hvordan filmens digitale undere kan sættes i relation til Rene Descartes’ tanker om underet/det vidunderlige, der hensætter tilsku- eren i en æstetisk undren, der fører til en intellektuel trang til forståelse (som første gang stjernesystemet lod sig se i en kikkert). Samme und- ren bliver hos Blaise Pascal en ’afgrund’ (une abîme), der indgiver ære- frygt og fører os til det religiøse og mystiske, til overvejelser over natu- rens undere og Guds natur. Det digitale liv er ikke blot æstetik; det får sit eget, uforudsigelige liv - som de digitale figurer i The Two Towers der er programmeret til at slås, men foretrækker at flygte, og derfor må re- programmeres. Det digitale liv udfordrer os med intet mindre end over- vejelser over naturens orden, menneskets natur, teknologiens rolle, livet, døden og fremtiden.
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Hans, V. Basil, and Shawna Jill Crasta. "DIGITALIZATION IN THE 21st CENTURY." Journal of Global Economy 15, no. 1 (2019): 12–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1956/jge.v15i1.524.
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World is changing at dizzying speed. The Internet is not only fascinating buy is also rapidly affecting our work and life. How do we prepare students for jobs that have not yet been created, for technologies that have not yet been invented? It has been estimated that our current skill sets would last only “the next decade or twoâ€. Knowledge is no longer limited to set theories or single idea or linear thinking. What is required is the capacity to think across disciplines, connect ideas and “construct informationâ€. The distinguishing fact from fiction is essential in our digital age and requires, “the capacity of young people to see the world through different perspectives, appreciate different ideas, and be open to different culturesâ€. Information for tomorrow has to be for transformation. Hence “learn, unlearn, and relearn†is the modern mantra of education. In countries like India, where illiteracy and lack of education are still haunting is it possible to achieve digital empowerment and inclusive growth? Is digital disruption cost-effective? How to overcome technophobia? These are some of the research questions that this paper tries to address based on theoretical and empirical data. This paper explores ways and means of digitally empowering marginalised communities living in socio-economic backwardness and poverty. Our finding is that digitalization per se is a complex programme and evolves with the perception and participation of the stakeholders. It suggests blending of technological and human approaches that strengthen the enabling and evaluatory mechanisms of digital empowerment.
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Soongbeum, Ahn. "Resistance to a Posthuman and Retrograde Oughtopia: Exploring the Narrative of South Korea’s Sci-Fi Animation, Wonder Kiddy." Animation 12, no. 1 (2017): 45–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1746847716686544.
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This article analyzes the narrative of South Korea’s first animated science fiction TV series, 2020 Space Wonder Kiddy, which presents the model of a posthuman society and seeks to demonstrate the characters’ perception of this imaginary world. The study provides insight into the so-called ‘oughtopia’ model, proposing a possible way to organize the society of the future. By portraying the community of Wonder Kiddy, where humans, aliens (elves) and robots of all kinds coexist as one social organism, the author carries out judgments about a technological civilization of the future and analyzes concerns associated with the technophobia of modern people. The first concern is the fear that intelligent machines could start living according to their own rules of self-evolution, imitating the governing principles typical of human society. Secondly, Wonder Kiddy reflects the fear of the collapse of modern humanity and the death of the human race, followed by a shift to a posthuman society. Thirdly, it presents concerns about how mythological value, an essential component of humans’ spiritual richness, might collapse if a technological civilization’s speed and sense of direction get out of hand. Finally, it questions the belief about the historical progress of the human race, which rests on the concept of linear time. On the other hand, Wonder Kiddy presents the model of an ideal solution for preserving all ecological, natural and scenic values. This adds strength to the view that the oughtopia of Wonder Kiddy was not planned as a realistic model, but designed to symbolize a simple outcome of general environmentalist logic.
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Jabłońska-Stefanowicz, Ewa. "Polski rynek książki 2015. Zamrożona transformacja cyfrowa." Roczniki Biblioteczne 60 (June 8, 2017): 299–314. http://dx.doi.org/10.19195/0080-3626.60.14.
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THE POLISH BOOK MARKET 2015. A FROZEN DIGITAL TRANSFORMATIONThe aim of the paper is to assess the impact of electronic books on the Polish book market, including publishers’ off ering and organisation of work. The main method of obtaining information used by the author was in-depth interviews based on a structured scenario. The interviews were conducted with representatives of fifteen companies from various segments of the market offering electronic publications. The author attempted to established the moment of each publisher’s entry into the e-publication market, type of the publisher, ways of distributing the files, the production process, attitude of the publisher to digital publications. An analysis of the information obtained has demonstrated considerable differences in the speed of adoption of new book formats by the various segments of the market. The strongest turn to digital content concerns educational and specialist literature. Publishers of fiction and books for children have reached a state which satisfies readers. They are reluctant to experiment further with digital content because of the high cost of its production and low profits, and in the case of children’s literature — because of the belief of some adult customers that e-publications are not books. However, there is evidence to suggest that publishers deliberately do not support the development of the e-publication market and even hamper it, e.g. by failing to provide information about non-printed book formats on their websites. Yet it should be acknowledged that in recent years everyone has acquired at least basic knowledge of the opportunities created by e-publications and limitations of their production and distribution. Publishers’ employees have acquired basic competences, contacts with technology companies and file distributors have been established. The publishers are now waiting for further developments.
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Colder Carras, Michelle, Matthew Carras, and Alain B. Labrique. "Stakeholders’ Consensus on Strategies for Self- and Other-Regulation of Video Game Play: A Mixed Methods Study." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 17, no. 11 (2020): 3846. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17113846.
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Background: Little is known about strategies or mechanics to improve self-regulation of video game play that could be developed into novel interventions. This study used a participatory approach with the gaming community to uncover insider knowledge about techniques to promote healthy play and prevent gaming disorder. Methods: We used a pragmatic approach to conduct a convergent-design mixed-methods study with participants attending a science fiction and education convention. Six participants answered questions about gaming engagement and self- or game-based regulation of gaming which were then categorized into pre-determined (a priori) themes by the presenters during the presentation. The categorized themes and examples from participant responses were presented back to participants for review and discussion. Seven participants ranked their top choices of themes for each question. The rankings were analyzed using a nonparametric approach to show consensus around specific themes. Results: Participants suggested several novel potential targets for preventive interventions including specific types of social (e.g., play with others in a group) or self-regulation processes (e.g., set timers or alarms). Suggestions for game mechanics that could help included clear break points and short missions, but loot boxes were not mentioned. Conclusions: Our consensus development approach produced many specific suggestions that could be implemented by game developers or tested as public health interventions, such as encouraging breaks through game mechanics, alarms or other limit setting; encouraging group gaming; and discussing and supporting setting appropriate time or activity goals around gaming (e.g., three quests, one hour). As some suggestions here have not been addressed previously as potential interventions, this suggests the importance of including gamers as stakeholders in research on the prevention of gaming disorder and the promotion of healthy gaming. A large-scale, online approach using these methods with multiple stakeholder groups could make effective use of players’ in-depth knowledge and help speed discovery and translation of possible preventive interventions into practice and policy.
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Greenspan, Anna. "The Power of Spectacle." Culture Unbound 4, no. 1 (2011): 81–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.3384/cu.2000.1525.12481.
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When people say Shanghai looks like the future the setting is almost always the same. Evening descends and the skyscrapers clustered on the eastern shore of the Huangpu light up. Super towers are transformed into giant screens. The spectacular skyline, all neon and lasers and LED, looms as a science fiction backdrop. Staring out from the Bund, across to Pudong, one senses the reemergence of what JG Ballard once described as an “electric and lurid city, more exciting than any other in the world.” The high-speed development of Pudong – in particular the financial district of Lujiazui – is the symbol of contemporary Shanghai and of China’s miraculous rise.
 Yet, Pudong is also taken as a sign of much that is wrong with China’s new urbanism. To critics the sci-fi skyline is an emblem of the city’s shallowness, which focuses all attention on its glossy facade. Many share the sentiment of free market economist Milton Friedman who, when visiting Pudong famously derided the brand new spectacle as a giant Potemkin village. Nothing but “the statist monument for a dead pharaoh,” he is quoted as saying.
 This article explores Pudong in order to investigate the way spectacle functions in China’s most dynamic metropolis. It argues that the skeptical hostility towards spectacle is rooted in the particularities of a Western philosophical tradition that insists on penetrating the surface, associating falsity with darkness and truth with light.
 In contrast, China has long recognized the power of spectacle (most famously inventing gunpowder but using it only for fireworks). Alongside this comes an acceptance of a shadowy world that belongs to the dark. This acknowledgment of both darkness and light found in traditional Chinese culture (expressed by the constant revolutions of the yin/yang symbol) may provide an alternative method for thinking about the tension between the spectacular visions of planners and the unexpected and shadowy disruptions from the street.
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SKOWRON, BARTOLOMIEJ. "VIRTUAL OBJECTS: BECOMING REAL." HORIZON / Fenomenologicheskie issledovanija/ STUDIEN ZUR PHÄNOMENOLOGIE / STUDIES IN PHENOMENOLOGY / ÉTUDES PHÉNOMÉNOLOGIQUES 9, no. 2 (2020): 619–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.21638/2226-5260-2020-9-2-619-639.
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From an ontological point of view, virtuality is generally considered a simulation: i.e. not a case of true being, and never more than an illusory copy, referring in each instance to its real original. It is treated as something imagined — and, phenomenologically speaking, as an intentional object. It is also often characterized as fictive. On the other hand, the virtual world itself is extremely rich, and thanks to new technologies is growing with unbelievable speed, so that it now influences the real world in quite unexpected ways. Thus, it is also sometimes considered real. In this paper, against those who would regard virtuality as fictional or as real, I claim that the virtual world straddles the boundary between these two ways of existence: that it becomes real. I appeal to Roman Ingarden’s existential ontology to show that virtual objects become existentially autonomous, and so can be attributed a form of actuality and causal efficaciousness. I conclude that the existential autonomy and actuality of virtual objects makes them count as real objects, but also means that they undergo a change in their mode of existence.
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Morling, Beth, and Jeong Min Lee. "Undergraduates at a Research University Think of Faculty as Teachers and That Teaching is Prestigious." Teaching of Psychology 47, no. 1 (2019): 50–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0098628319888089.
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What do university students understand about faculty work? Undergraduate (mostly first-year) students ( N = 317) at a research university gave definitions of tenure, estimated how much time faculty spend teaching, and rated fictional faculty members. Most students could define tenure but could not describe how it is earned or its role in academic freedom. Students overestimated the time faculty spend on teaching and underestimated time spent on research. Finally, students who assumed that fictional faculty taught more courses also assumed they had higher status. By comparison, faculty respondents ( N = 645) who read the same fictional descriptions assumed higher teaching loads went with lower status markers. As they acculturate to life at a research university, first-year students could benefit from learning about faculty research roles and the value of academic freedom.
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Costa, Dennis. "The Speed of Fright: Temporal Dramas in Dante's Inferno." KronoScope 2, no. 2 (2002): 185–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156852402320900733.
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AbstractThis article is in two parts. It opens with a synoptic view of how Dante-poet connects the particular purview of his fictive character (whom critics typically name 'Dante-pilgrim') with a worldview - a philosophical theology, a cosmology and an ethics - shared fairly commonly among Christian intellectuals in the late Middle Ages. This worldview includes certain general assumptions about the nature of time and some detailed ideas about how a human person, an individual psyche, is contextualized by time. Included are some reflections on the medieval figure of the cosmos as God's "book" and of divine creativity and providence as a 'narrative' art. Dante, particularly in the Paradiso, is perhaps the greatest elaborator of that figure. The article's second part is a detailed textual analysis of the episode of the barrators (those who illicitly offer or receive political favors) in Inferno XXII-XXIII. A psychology of uncertainty and terror is dramatized poetically in these cantos in terms of the differences (and some likenesses) between one trapped sinner's experience of time and the pilgrim's participation in it. Virgil's guidance, fidelity and extraordinary discernment are also figured by Dante in temporal terms.
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Mary Baine Campbell. "Speedy Messengers: Fiction, Cryptography, Space Travel, and Francis Godwin's The Man in the Moone." Yearbook of English Studies 41, no. 1 (2011): 190. http://dx.doi.org/10.5699/yearenglstud.41.1.0190.
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Prince, Gerald. "Exploring stories." Semiotica 2016, no. 210 (2016): 267–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/sem-2016-0055.
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AbstractAiming to underline the link between storytelling content and ritual structure and to show how the building of community constitutes the meta-theme of storytelling in general and film narrative in particular, L. A. Alexander explores the notion of symbolic community and provides a detailed account of narrative (film) genres in terms of three parameters–their origin in a basic ritual, the cultural need they address, and the cultural function they fulfill–as well as sets of rules for the successful creation of fictional worlds. Though it does not pay much attention to such important narrational elements as distance, speed, and point of view, Alexander’s exploration sheds decisive light on the foundations, characteristics, and possibilities of fictional worlds represented in (film) narratives.
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Sanders, Mike. "MANUFACTURING ACCIDENT: INDUSTRIALISM AND THE WORKER’S BODY IN EARLY VICTORIAN FICTION." Victorian Literature and Culture 28, no. 2 (2000): 313–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1060150300282041.
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I refer to the health of millions who spend their lives in manufactories. . . I ask if these millions enjoy that vigour of body which is ever a direct good, and without which all other advantages are comparatively worthless? (The Effects of Arts, Trades, and Professions, and of civic states and habits of living, on health andlongevity, C. Turner Thackrah) [Factory reformers] wrote in the newspapers, and circulated pamphlets - they petitioned Parliament - exhibited diseased and crippled objects in London - and made such an impression on the public mind, that their measures were carried in the House of Commons almost by acclamation, notwithstanding the testimony of facts of a directly contrary nature. (Exposition of the Factory Question)THIS ARTICLE SEEKS to explore the significance of the injured working-class body in debates about the nature and meaning of industrial capitalism in the first half of the nineteenth century.1 It will argue that a growing awareness that the comforts of middle-class existence depended on processes that maimed working-class lives was profoundly unsettling to the bourgeois conscience as it threatened one of its most important narratives of legitimation. Finally, it will trace the emergence of the “accident” (as both concept and fictional trope) as a response to and resolution of this ideological crisis.
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Williams, Charles. "Take-Em!" After Dinner Conversation 2, no. 4 (2021): 24–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/adc20212433.
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At what point is a discussion a debate, and at what point is it undue pressure? Is all unwanted pressure a kind of manipulation and violence? In this work of philosophical short story fiction, the narrator is invited by his father to go duck hunting as part of their bonding time. The narrator wants to spend time with his father, but expresses ethical concerns about hunting ducks. The father asserts hunting is a natural part of human evolution. The debate continues as the narrator decides to go on the hunt, but is undecided if he will pull the trigger. The story ends with father and son in the blind just at the moment before the narrator must decide if he is going to pull the trigger.
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White, Claire. "Work Avoidance: Idleness and Ideology in Turn-of-the-Century Utopian Fiction." Nottingham French Studies 55, no. 1 (2016): 46–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/nfs.2016.0138.
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This article explores the political stakes of idleness in a range of turn-of-the-century utopian novels, all of which engage explicitly with socialist and anarchist discourses: Paul Adam's Les Cœurs nouveaux (1896), Émile Zola's Travail (1901), and Jean Grave's Terre libre (1908). These works attend, it is argued, to the fate of idleness, and of the idler, in ways which not only bear out very different ideological agendas, but also provide a reflection on the limits of utopian idealism. By the turn of the century, an increase in leisure time had become critical to almost every effort to imagine the future trajectory of working-class emancipation. But the question of just how this abundant free time was to be employed gave rise to much anxious speculation. If calls for the individual's right to leisure were clearly bound up with ideals of edification and aesthetic and moral cultivation, which were both sanitary and salutary, these depended on the worker choosing to spend his or her time ‘well’. Whether at work or at leisure, the problem of harnessing the worker's energy to the ends of communitarian ideals is a central preoccupation of each utopian text. More than a form of individual deviance or a de Certeauian ‘tactic’, idleness proves to be a symptom of disaffection that threatens the very foundations of the utopian community, and in turn, the master-narrative of working-class redemption.
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Buss, Robert R., and Pierre Drapeau. "Synaptic Drive to Motoneurons During Fictive Swimming in the Developing Zebrafish." Journal of Neurophysiology 86, no. 1 (2001): 197–210. http://dx.doi.org/10.1152/jn.2001.86.1.197.
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The development of swimming behavior and the correlated activity patterns recorded in motoneurons during fictive swimming in paralyzed zebrafish larvae were examined and compared. Larvae were studied from when they hatch (after 2 days) and are first capable of locomotion to when they are active swimmers capable of capturing prey (after 4 days). High-speed (500 Hz) video imaging was used to make a basic behavioral characterization of swimming. At hatching and up to day 3, the larvae swam infrequently and in an undirected fashion. They displayed sustained bursts of contractions (‘burst swimming’) at an average frequency of 60–70 Hz that lasted from several seconds to a minute in duration. By day 4 the swimming had matured to a more frequent and less erratic “beat-and-glide” mode, with slower (∼35 Hz) beats of contractions for ∼200 ms alternating with glides that were twice as long, lasting from just a few cycles to several minutes overall. In whole cell current-clamp recordings, motoneurons displayed similar excitatory synaptic activity and firing patterns, corresponding to either fictive burst swimming (day 2–3) or beat-and-glide swimming (day 4). The resting potentials were similar at all stages (about −70 mV) and the motoneurons were depolarized (to about −40 mV) with generally non-overshooting action potentials during fictive swimming. The frequency of sustained inputs during fictive burst swimming and of repetitive inputs during fictive beat-and glide swimming corresponded to the behavioral contraction patterns. Fictive swimming activity patterns were eliminated by application of glutamate antagonists (kynurenic acid or 6-cyano-7-nitroquinoxalene-2,3-dione anddl-2-amino-5-phosphonovaleric acid) and were modified but maintained in the presence of the glycinergic antagonist strychnine. The corresponding synaptic currents underlying the synaptic drive to motoneurons during fictive swimming could be isolated under voltage clamp and consisted of cationic [glutamatergic postsynaptic currents (PSCs)] and anionic inputs (glycinergic PSCs). Either sustained or interrupted patterns of PSCs were observed during fictive burst or beat-and-glide swimming, respectively. During beat-and-glide swimming, a tonic inward current and rhythmic glutamatergic PSCs (∼35 Hz) were observed. In contrast, bursts of glycinergic PSCs occurred at a higher frequency, resulting in a more tonic pattern with little evidence for synchronized activity. We conclude that a rhythmic glutamatergic synaptic drive underlies swimming and that a tonic, shunting glycinergic input acts to more closely match the membrane time constant to the fast synaptic drive.
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Radler, Dana. "Us and Them: A Vision of Heroes on the Move in John McGahern’s Fiction." American, British and Canadian Studies Journal 27, no. 1 (2016): 74–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/abcsj-2016-0019.
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Abstract Current explorations of migration in fiction focus on innovative perspectives, linking memory and trauma with the concepts of exile and conflict. Personal memories ask for an understanding of what belonging and identity represent for the Irish; immigration has hybrid and fertile links to memory studies, psychology and psychoanalysis (Akhtar), making the immigrant both love and hate his new territory, while returning to the past or homeland to reflect and regain emotional balance. From the focus on ‘the sexy foreigner’ (Beltsiou), we rely on the idea of crisis discussed by León Grinberg and Rebeca Grinberg, Frank Summers’ examination of identity, the place of the modern polis and the variations of the narrative (Phillips), the trans-generational factor (Fitzgerald and Lambkin), the departure seen as an exile (Murray and Said) and the impact of guilt (Wills). Such views support an analysis of McGahern’s writing which works as a blend of memories and imagination, the writer highlighting dilemmas, success and failure as ongoing human threads. They are as diverse as the people met by the novelist in his youth, many of them being workers, nurses, entrepreneurs, teachers and writers, both young immigrants in search of a better life and migrants returning to spend their retirement or holidays home.
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Pulver, Stefan R., Timothy G. Bayley, Adam L. Taylor, Jimena Berni, Michael Bate, and Berthold Hedwig. "Imaging fictive locomotor patterns in larval Drosophila." Journal of Neurophysiology 114, no. 5 (2015): 2564–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1152/jn.00731.2015.
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We have established a preparation in larval Drosophila to monitor fictive locomotion simultaneously across abdominal and thoracic segments of the isolated CNS with genetically encoded Ca2+ indicators. The Ca2+ signals closely followed spiking activity measured electrophysiologically in nerve roots. Three motor patterns are analyzed. Two comprise waves of Ca2+ signals that progress along the longitudinal body axis in a posterior-to-anterior or anterior-to-posterior direction. These waves had statistically indistinguishable intersegmental phase delays compared with segmental contractions during forward and backward crawling behavior, despite being ∼10 times slower. During these waves, motor neurons of the dorsal longitudinal and transverse muscles were active in the same order as the muscle groups are recruited during crawling behavior. A third fictive motor pattern exhibits a left-right asymmetry across segments and bears similarities with turning behavior in intact larvae, occurring equally frequently and involving asymmetry in the same segments. Ablation of the segments in which forward and backward waves of Ca2+ signals were normally initiated did not eliminate production of Ca2+ waves. When the brain and subesophageal ganglion (SOG) were removed, the remaining ganglia retained the ability to produce both forward and backward waves of motor activity, although the speed and frequency of waves changed. Bilateral asymmetry of activity was reduced when the brain was removed and abolished when the SOG was removed. This work paves the way to studying the neural and genetic underpinnings of segmentally coordinated motor pattern generation in Drosophila with imaging techniques.
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Boonstra, Steven, and Frank Rieck. "Analysis of a Fictive Active e-Trailer." World Electric Vehicle Journal 9, no. 1 (2018): 6. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/wevj9010006.
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Trucks consume an enormous amount of diesel annually and contribute significantly to the total CO2 emissions around the world. Electrification of these freight vehicles would lead to a reduction in fuel consumption and CO2 emissions. Trailers, as part of heavy freight vehicles, are a great opportunity for innovative change. Electrifying the trailer would allow the combustion engine of the truck to cooperate with the electric motors in the trailer. The trailer would be able to regenerate energy using the electric motors built into the rear axis of the trailer. The energy that is regenerated could be stored in a battery power pack for later use. Using the principle of peak shaving, the combustion engine would be assisted by the active e-trailer. Peak shaving would occur when the calculated load on the combustion engine is highly above average, for example, during acceleration, climbing a hill, or during high speed. Energy from the power pack could be routed to the electric motors, adding propulsive force. This analysis of a fictive active e-trailer has focused on reducing fuel consumption and emissions. The energy consumption of the trailer and the energy regeneration were studied. For this analysis, two vehicle configurations were simulated within the MATLAB Simulink: one truck–trailer combination without the e-trailer application and one truck–trailer combination with the e-trailer application. Differences between the two simulated vehicle combinations have been analyzed and documented. The whole system would be self-sustaining by using the regenerating energy from braking and adjusting its assisting function according to the energy level of the power pack. However, better results would be achieved by charging the power pack periodically. By doing so, the reduction of fuel cost and emissions could be significantly improved.
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Irsasri, Irsasri, St Y. Slamet, Retno Winarni, and E. Nugraheni Eko Wardani. "Mataram Islam and Religiosity in Novel Trilogi Rara Mendut By YB. Mangunwijaya." IBDA` : Jurnal Kajian Islam dan Budaya 16, no. 2 (2018): 181–200. http://dx.doi.org/10.24090/ibda.v16i2.1720.
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Trilogy novel, Rara Mendut is one of the historical evident in fictional-historical novel which reveals reality in fictional expression. Rara Mendut tells the main character, woman with strong and struggle oriented in gaining her goals. The struggle and principle of life dominated the story through its episodes compiling by the author, Y.B. Mangunwijaya. This research aims to dig up the principle of life, condition, and belief of people in Mataram Islam through the presentation of main character, Rara Mendut, Genduk Duku, and Lusi Lindri. Sociological approach and theory of sociology are used as theoretical framework to result the goal of the research. The result shows that in people of Mataram Islam had belief and perfoemed islam rules as the religion spred by Wali in Java island. The attitude and characters of Rara Mendut shows the values of Islamic teaching in the background of Matara Islam in novel Rara Mendut.
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Freedman, Carl. "Polemical Afterword: Some Brief Reflections on Arnold Schwarzenegger and on Science Fiction in Contemporary American Culture." PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 119, no. 3 (2004): 539–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1632/003081204x20631.
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The 2003 Guber natorial recall campaign in California was a perfect political storm. The extraordinary result—the democratic removal of a sitting governor before his term expired (for the first time in California history and the second time in United States history) and his replacement by a bodybuilder turned movie star with not the slightest governmental experience—depended on the improbable conjuncture of several factors, each pretty odd in itself: the special severity with which the Bush recession hit the California economy, largely because of the latter's unusual dependence on high-tech corporations; the California power crisis engineered by Enron and other denizens of the Houston energy industry; the astonishing charmlessness of Governor Gray Davis, whose political career had been based not on attracting strong loyalty or admiration but on fund-raising, negative campaigning, and convincing core Democratic constituencies that he was marginally less repellant than Republican alternatives; the willingness of the multimillionaire United States congressman Daryl Issa to spend two million dollars of his own money to get the recall on the ballot in the first place; and, of course, the overwhelming star power of Arnold Schwarzenegger. One might suppose that the evident contingency of the whole matter precludes finding historical importance in it. It is after all possible, even likely, in what Guy Debord brilliantly analyzed as la société du spectacle, for an event to be sensational without being tremendously significant.
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Melnick, Samantha. "A Student's Perspective: Fictional Characters in Books as Positive Role Models for Adolescent Females." Gifted Child Today 25, no. 2 (2002): 44–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.4219/gct-2002-64.
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As I flip through the television channels on a quiet Sunday afternoon, I have nothing particular in mind that I would like to watch. I spend no more than a few minutes on each station, yet I am already beginning to notice a pattern in the way women are portrayed.
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Bergstrom, Zoey, Philip Sadler, and Gerhard Sonnert. "Evolution And Persistence Of Students' Astronomy Career Interests: A Gender Study." Journal of Astronomy & Earth Sciences Education (JAESE) 3, no. 1 (2016): 77. http://dx.doi.org/10.19030/jaese.v3i1.9690.
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This article uses U.S. survey data (N=15,847) to characterize the evolution of student interest in an astronomy career in the period between middle school and the beginning of college. We find that middle school students have a relatively high interest in astronomy, which sharply declines with every phase of their education. However, many of the students who leave astronomy - particularly male students - feed heavily into other STEM disciplines. Through statistical modeling, we find that students who spend extracurricular time observing stars, tinkering with mechanical or electrical devices, or reading/watching science or science fiction are significantly more likely than students who do not engage in these activities to hold an interest in pursuing an astronomy career at the end of high school. We also find that females who observe stars during extracurricular time show a greater improvement in their odds of pursuing astronomy than males do. Furthermore, we find that these outside-of-school time activities are better predictors of astronomy interest than commonly studied academic predictors. We discuss the implications of these findings on future extracurricular programming for students.