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Hassoon, Mohammed Naser. "Epidemic as Metaphor: the Allegorical Significance of Epidemic Accounts in Literature." Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Philologia 66, no. 3 (2021): 201–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.24193/subbphilo.2021.3.13.
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"Epidemic as Metaphor: The Allegorical Significance of Epidemic Accounts in Literature. Our paper searches for those common elements in selected literary representations of the plagues that have affected humanity. As a theoretical framework for our research, we have considered the contributions of Peta Michell, who equals pandemic with contagion and sees it as a metaphor; Susan Sontag views illness as a punishment or a sign, the subject of a metaphorization. Christa Jansohn sees the pest as a metaphor for an extreme form of collective calamity. For René Girard, the medical plague is a metaphor for the social plague, and Gilles Deleuze thinks that fabulation is a “health enterprise.” From the vast library of the pandemic, we have selected examples from Antiquity to the 19th century: Thucydides, Lucretius, Boccaccio, Daniel Defoe, Mary Shelley, Edgar Allan Poe, and Jack London. For Camus, the plague is an allegory of evil, oppression and war. Our paper explores the lessons learned from these texts, irrespective of their degree of factuality or fictionality, pointing out how the plague is used metaphorically and allegorically to reveal a more profound truth about different societies and humanity. Keywords: epidemic, plague, The Decameron (Boccaccio), A Journal of the Plague Year (Daniel Defoe), King Pest (Edgar Allan Poe), The Last Man (Mary Shelley), The Nature of Things (Lucretius), The Plague (Albert Camus), The Scarlet Plague (Jack London), The War of the Peloponnesians (Thucydides) "
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Riva, Michele Augusto, Marta Benedetti, and Giancarlo Cesana. "Pandemic Fear and Literature: Observations from Jack London’s The Scarlet Plague." Emerging Infectious Diseases 20, no. 10 (2014): 1753–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid2010.130278.
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Kim, Dae-Joong. "(Post) Pandemic and (Post) Apocalypse - Ecological Collapse and the Hope of Symbiosis in Jack London’s The Scarlet Plague and Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam Trilogy -." Theological Research Institute of Sahmyook University 27, no. 1 (2025): 16–42. https://doi.org/10.56035/tod.2025.27.1.16.
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This essay explores themes of the (post-)pandemic and (post-) apocalypse by analyzing two key novels: Jack London’s The Scarlet Plague and Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam trilogy. As a theoretical framework, I draw on various theories of apocalypse and the ecological significance of pandemics, including Giorgio Agamben’s concepts of biopolitics and stasis, as well as Donna Haraway’s notions of kinship, symbiosis, and sympoiesis. Jack London’s The Scarlet Plague examines the apocalyptic collapse of human civilization during the outbreak of the “Red Death.” However, the novel attributes this collapse not only to the pandemic itself but also to overpopulation and the corruption of a ruling cryptocracy. London integrates elements of social Darwinism into his narrative, suggesting that while the pandemic leads to the downfall of civilization, it also gives rise to a post-apocalyptic world governed by the laws of nature. Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam trilogy, in contrast, envisions a world where genetic engineering and moral decay drive Glenn, a mad scientist, to orchestrate the destruction of human civilization. He achieves this by embedding a deadly virus in pills marketed as a source of ultimate pleasure and youth. While the trilogy shares a similar apocalyptic vision of collapse brought about by biopolitics and transhumanist ambitions, it also imagines a postapocalyptic world in which a new species—the Crakers, genetically engineered human-animal hybrids—emerge to form a symbiotic and sympoietic future.
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Aldama, Frederick Luis. "What Literature Tells Us about the Pandemic." Journal of Critical Studies in Language and Literature 2, no. 1 (2020): 24–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.46809/jcsll.v2i1.50.
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Literature can play an important role in shaping our responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. It can offer us significant insights into how individuals treated the trauma of pandemics in the past, and how to survive in a situation beyond our control.
 Considering the changes and challenges that the coronavirus might bring for us, we should know that the world we are living in today is shaped by the biological crisis of the past. This understanding can help us deal with the challenges in the current pandemic situation. Literature can show us how the crisis has affected the lives of infected individuals.
 By exploring the theme of disease and pandemic, which is consistent and well-established in literature (Cooke, 2009), we come across a number of literary works dealing with plagues, epidemics and other forms of biological crises. Among the prominent examples of pandemic literature is Albert Camus’s The Plague (1947), narrating the story of a plague sweeping the French Algerian city of Oran. The novel illustrates the powerlessness of individuals to affect their destinies. Jack London’s The Scarlet Plague (1912) is another story depicting the spread of the Red Death, an uncontrollable epidemic that depopulated and nearly destroyed the world. The book is considered as prophetic of the coronavirus pandemic, especially given London wrote it at a time when the world was not as quickly connected by travel as it is today (Matthews, 2020). Furthermore, Edgar Allan Poe’s The Masque of the Red Death (1842) is a short story on the metaphorical element of the plague. Through the personification of the plague, represented by a mysterious figure as a Red Death victim, the author contemplates on the inevitability of death; the issue is not that people die from the plague, but that people are plagued by death (Steel, 1981). Moreover, Mary Shelley’s The Last Man (1826) is another apocalyptic novel, depicting a future which is ravaged by a plague. Shelley illustrates the concept of immunization in this fiction showing her understanding about the nature of contagion.
 Pandemic is also depicted in medieval writings, such as Giovanni Boccaccio’s The Decameron and Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales illustrating human behaviour: the fear of infection increased sins such as greed, lust and corruption, which paradoxically led to infection and consequently to both moral and physical death (Grigsby, 2008).
 In ancient literature, Homer’s Iliad opens with a plague visited upon the Greek camp at Troy to punish the Greeks for Agamemnon’s enslavement of Chryseis. Plague and epidemic were rather frequent catastrophes in
 
 ancient world. When plague spread, no medicine could help, and no one could stop it from striking; the only way to escape was to avoid contact with infected persons and contaminated objects (Tognotti. 2013).
 Certainly, COVID-19 has shaken up our economic systems and affected all aspects of our living. In this respect, literature can give us the opportunity to think through how similar crises were dealt with previously, and how we might structure our societies more equitably in their aftermath. Thus, in order to explore what literature tells us about the pandemic, the following interview is conducted with Frederick Aldama, a Distinguished Professor of English at the Ohio State University.
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Dr, R. Ravindran, and T. K. Vedharaja Dr. "Loss and Hope in the Pandemic Condition of The Scarlet Plague by Jack London." Literary Druid 4, no. 2 (2022): 30–34. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5918671.
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<em>This paper discusses two phenomenal things of human beings. i.e hope and loss. Loss in life is always inevitable, so the hope. The more one has hope, the more he can postpone his loss. Time is a precious one. Hence one should not lament the loss. He should immediately react to it in a positive way. He should encourage his hopeful nature to step forward. Both the world and life have uncertainty as Covid-19 has shown the uncertainty of life. Literature is not the mere representation of society; sometimes it shows, teaches or educates people to live happily. On that stance, epidemic literature has been done great works or miracles in giving people hope during and after the pandemic time. Now the whole world suffered from Covid-19. Jack London is one of the famous writers who had written different themes. His “The Scarlet Plague” is an epidemic novel and the situations orient to the present pandemic. Nowadays, people’s hope has been scattered away but Pandemic literature can help them to motivate themselves to stand against the loss. Rather than lamenting on loss, one should develop hope to do better in the future. </em>
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Abukova, R. A. "Hypogammaglobulinemia and therapeutic use of gamma globulin." Kazan medical journal 43, no. 3 (2021): 82–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.17816/kazmj84095.
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In the Soviet Union, gammaglobulin was first obtained in 1946 by Kholchev and Kolesnikova from the blood serum of donors. At first, it was used to prevent measles, and then, as the content of various antibodies in it was studied, it began to be used for poliomyelitis (Leitman, Strakhova, Denisenko, Bogdanov), Botkin's disease (Ananiev, Grachev, Fabrikantov), whooping cough (Khropetskaya), scarlet fever ( Kaushanskaya, Zhagullo, Mauerman). Gammaglobulins were also obtained from the blood serum of animals, which were successfully used for rabies (Selimov, Durasova, Kovalevskaya. Kobrinsky, Chun-syun), plague (Semenova, Ponomareva), smallpox (Mirosennikova). Gammaglobulin in industrial conditions is prepared from the placental serum of healthy women in labor.
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Dibyajyoti Das. "“Numbing of the Heart”: Negotiating with Humanity in the Wake of the Pandemic in Jack London’s The Scarlet Plague." Creative Launcher 5, no. 3 (2020): 61–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.53032/tcl.2020.5.3.09.
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As the world progresses in its fight against COVID-19, the human civilization finds itself fighting against more than just a mere pathogen. Besides being an unprecedented health emergency, the pandemic has caused breakdowns in many other fronts as well. One of the very alarming issues is the incidents of inhumanity, callousness and deliberate cruelty by people towards their fellow-sufferers, which may incite far-reaching complications in the human society. In the worst case scenario, civilization could go either way- to become more united than ever or to fall to pieces with the extinction of human values- depending on our response in the wake of the pandemic. Plague and pestilence have ever been a popular topic in literature. Here, I take the case of Jack London's The Scarlet Plague for a study of the reversion to cruelty of all humans in the face of the plague and also what are the exceptions that have been admitted by the author to suggest how the retention of the ideals of human bonding and empathy can help us stand a chance in the hour of doom. This short novel has particular relevance to the present scenario for its temporal resemblances to the present outbreak, for London's preoccupation with naturalism in his fantasy and for his reliance on the latest scientific discoveries in virology and other modern technologies. The novel is also full of tropes that suggest that the germs of destruction are borne by the sociological framework and the ideologies that go into the foundation of the society.
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V. Suntsov, Victor. "Origin and Evolution of the Plague Microbe Yersinia Pestis: Molecular Genetic and Ecological Scenarios." International Journal of Clinical Case Reports and Reviews 24, no. 3 (2025): 01–08. https://doi.org/10.31579/2690-4861/728.
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It is known that the direct ancestor of the ‘blood’ plague pathogen – the microbe Yersinia pestis – is the saprozoonotic psychrophilic causative agent of the Far Eastern scarlet-like fever (FESLF) Y. pseudotuberculosis O:1b, and the divergence of these species occurred in the recent historical past, no earlier than 30 thousand years ago in the central regions of Asia without any human involvement. These facts indicate certain changes in the habitat of a certain population (clone) of the FESLF pathogen in the region of Central Asia or adjacent regions, which caused the speciation of Y. pestis. Reconstruction of the plague microbe speciation and evolution (its phylogeny/phylogeography) is based substantially on the molecular-genetic (MG) typing of strains from the extant natural foci and fragments of ancient DNA extracted from the remains of victims of the infection. However, presented phylogenies are not congruent with facts accumulated by such classic sciences as environmental ecology (ECO), biogeography, paleontology, epizootology, etc. These contradictions require the development of an integrated methodology for studying the history of the plague pathogen, combining both the model of neutral evolution, which is the theoretical basis in the MG approach, and adaptive evolution, which is the basis of the ECO approach. Herewith an ECO phylogeny as less controversial should be used as a null hypothesis in the phylogenetics/phylogeography of Y. pestis and a factual basis for the synthesis of ECO and MG approaches to the problem of the origin and global expansion of the plague causative agent.
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Suntsov, Viktor V. "The principle of ecological and molecular consensus in reconstructed plague microbe <i>Yersinia pestis</i> phylogeny." Russian Journal of Infection and Immunity 14, no. 4 (2024): 645–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.15789/2220-7619-tpo-17601.
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In the second half of the 20th century, through the efforts of scientists from many countries, a coherent theory of natural plague foci (sylvatic plague) was formulated, attempted to describe the history of the origin and evolution of the causative agent of plague infection, the microbeYersinia pestis. But the accumulated knowledge in this regard remained extremely limited. Envisioned by the modern phylogenetics, the methods of phylogenetic constructions in the pregenomic time were rather primitive, “manual”, characteristic of early empirico-intuitive Haeckel phylogenetics. Since the beginning of the 21st century, the introduction of genomic methodologies in the study of the plague pathogen allowed to detail the intraspecific diversity (subspecies, genovariants) of this particularly dangerous pathogen at the level of geographical and local populations (individual natural foci) around the world and to bring the diagnostics and description of intraspecific diversity to a high degree of perfection. Two important discoveries were made. First, the direct ancestor of the plague microbe was reliably established, it turned out to be the causative agent of intestinal infection — Far Eastern scarlet-like fever (Y. pseudotuberculosis0:1b). Secondly, the evolutionary youth of the plague pathogen was shown, the “molecular clock” showed the time of its divergence from the ancestral population no earlier than 30 thousand years ago. Thus, the root of the phylogenetic tree ofY. pestiswas fully characterized. Nevertheless, molecular genetic (MG) achievements do not yet allow to reveal the secrets of its phylogeny, i.e. the origin and sequence of world expansion. The most important reason is the high dependence of the MG of phylogeny reconstructions on the choice of evolutionary model for the analyzed characters: the model of neutral evolution is traditionally accepted, but its adequacy in relation toY. pestisphylogeny is questioned by many well-known ecological (in the broad sense) facts. At the same time, MG achievements contributed to the creation of an ecological (ECO) approach based on the provisions of the theory of natural plague foci in an updated version, according to which the plague pathogen is an evolutionarily young pathogen descended from a psychrophilic pseudotuberculous ancestor. The presumptive ECO scenario has no obvious natural-scientific and historical contradictions and can serve as a null hypothesis for improving the MG methodology of phylogenetic constructions for plague and other similar microbes. It is suggested that the creation of a real phylogeny of the plague microbe is possible only based on integration of MG and ECO approaches.
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Carvalho, André. "A praga escarlate e o vírus da linguagem." Em Tese 26, no. 3 (2021): 14. http://dx.doi.org/10.17851/1982-0739.26.3.14-37.
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: Este artigo discute A praga escarlate (The Scarlet Plague), novela publicada em 1912 pelo escritor estadunidense Jack London. A obra detalha um futuro alternativo em que o planeta foi devastado por uma pandemia e a população restante vive em condições próximas à barbárie. A obra é examinada em relação a teorias de contágio e é interpretada como uma instância exemplar das transformações intelectuais e políticas da chamada Era Progressista. Detalhamos como teorias da microbiologia e da epidemiologia influenciaram conceitos nascentes de multidão e cultura, particularmente em teorias nascentes de sociologia e comunicação. Argumentamos que a novela pode ser lida como uma reflexão sobre as atitudes e as ambivalências de uma classe de intelectuais reformistas da época, que buscava encontrar métodos e linguagens originais para representar a nova realidade social dos centros urbanos industrializados na passagem para o século XX.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "The Scarlet Plague"
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Fourrier, Hervé. "La plaine de la Scarpe et ses bordures (Nord de la France) : analyse séquentielle des formations superficiellesAspects sur les sols." Lille 1, 1989. http://www.theses.fr/1989LIL10114.
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L'étude des formations superficielles de la plaine de la Scarpe et de ses bordures, permet de proposer un modèle de sédimentation en milieu périglaciaire. Malgré une grande variabilité spatiale des dépôts, 17 unités géomorpho-sédimentaires sont définies. La synthèse des séquences sédimentaires, l'examen d'une trentaine de fosses pédologiques et l'interprétation de nombreuses données d'analyses, apportent les preuves d'une continuité stratigraphique entre les dépôts de versant et ceux de la plaine, selon une variation latérale de leur faciès. En terme de chronologie relative, 5 enregistrements sédimentaires sont proposés. L'absence manifeste de sol Eémien, les témoins localement conservés du niveau de Kesselt, et du complexe du sol de Warneton, permettent de considérer que les formations superficielles se sont mises en place durant le Weichselien. Sur la base de l'analyse séquentielle des dépôts et de leurs caractères granulométriques, le rôle prépondérant de l'action éolienne est démontré. Une action fluviatile, somme toute de faible énergie, est mise en évidence dans la partie ouest de la plaine, sous la forme d'un niveau discontinu et peu épais de sables à granules de craie, présent à la base des formations superficielles
Books on the topic "The Scarlet Plague"
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Luczak, Ewa Barbara. "“Vast and Malodorous Sea”: Racial Degeneration in Jack London’s The People of the Abyss and The Scarlet Plague." In Breeding and Eugenics in the American Literary Imagination. Palgrave Macmillan US, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137545794_4.
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Brunel, Yann. "Alten- und Krankenheim „Plaine de Scarpe“." In Entwurfsatlas Wohnen im Alter. DE GRUYTER, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783034610667.184.
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Yılmaz, Yasir. "Cindy Ermus, The Great Plague Scare of 1720: Disaster and Diplomacy in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World." In Wien um 1800. Böhlau Verlag Wien, 2024. https://doi.org/10.7767/9783205219972.551.
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Squevin, Pierre, and David Aubin. "A Small Discipline, Scarce Publicity, and Compromised Outward Reach: The Advisory Roles of Political Scientists in France." In The Advisory Roles of Political Scientists in Europe. Springer International Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-86005-9_7.
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AbstractAlthough it has been developing and come through processes of institutionalization since WWII, French political science remains a small and rather marginalized discipline in search for visibility. Several tendencies work against the performance of a decisive advisory role from its part, especially the presence of an already solid and wide-ranging internal, in-house (state) expertise, which is still considered by many as a strong national asset. Consequently, it makes it hard for political scientists, as external academic actors, to exist in the eyes of decision-makers and achieve relevance. Nonetheless, driven by favourable attitudes towards an advisory and public engagement and the presence of facilitating conditions, we show that French political science infrequently manages to move in the policy advisory system. This chapter notably finds that political scientists might individually or collectively benefit from a participatory turn shaping the operation of advisory systems, that some level of boundary work takes place in relation with public administration, and that think tanks and sub-national actors’ reinforcement has opened opportunities for advice-giving and advice circulation. A case study about an important project of reform of the parliament illustrates how involvements from French political scientists in public debates and advisory activities might unfold and translate into practice.
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Naqi, Mohammad, and Aimen Amer. "Structures and Tectonics of Kuwait." In The Geology of Kuwait. Springer International Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-16727-0_5.
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AbstractDespite the surface geology of Kuwait appears to be scarce and most of the country is covered with Quaternary deposits except for a few outcrops of Oligo-Miocene to Pleistocene age, the subsurface geology of Kuwait is quite unique and astonishing. The discovery of hydrocarbon in Kuwait at the beginning of the last century helped geologists to better understand the structural geology of Kuwait especially by utilizing geophysical methods such as potential field methods (e.g., gravity and magnetic) and seismic reflection. Being part of the Arabian Peninsula, the structural geology of Kuwait shares many of the Arabian Peninsula structural trends. The dominant N-S trending structures of the Arabian Plate are manifested in the Kuwait Arch which is one of the major structures of the country where many of the oil and gas oil fields are associated with. Other dominant structural trends of the Arabian Plate such as NE-SW and NW–SE are resembled in Kuwait as Jal Az-Zor and Dibdibah Trough, respectively. Paleo- and in-situ stress analysis is an important subject for oil and gas exploration, and many studies have been commissioned to better understand them in most of the Kuwaiti fields. The present-day in-situ stress in Kuwait is oriented NE-SW resembling the current tectonic setting of the region due to the collision of the Arabian Plate with the Eurasia Plate since the Oligocene. This chapter will present a thorough review of the previous studies discussing the surface and subsurface structural geology of Kuwait.
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Greenwood, David. "Out Of Darkness." In Antimicrobial Drugs. Oxford University PressOxford, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199534845.003.0002.
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Abstract For those of us fortunate enough to live in the industrially developed countries of the twenty-first century western world it is hard to envisage the all-pervading fear of infection that has existed through most of mankind ‘s urban history—and still dominates many poor communities excluded from or unable to afford the benefits of modern medicine. Before the therapeutic revolution of the twentieth century, grieving parents regularly buried young infants who had succumbed to infectious diseases such as measles, diphtheria, scarlet fever, whooping cough, and dysentery in the very dawn of their life. Unhappily they still do in some parts of the world: even now around 10 million children a year scandalously die from preventable diseases (2). Similarly, until the last century, the death of bread-winners and young mothers in the prime of life from pneumonia, tuberculosis, childbed fever, and other infections was a common experience, mirrored today by the death toll from HIV-related illness in many countries. A visitation of the plague could decimate whole communities within a few weeks; cholera could kill in a day.
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"Plague in Provence." In The Great Plague Scare of 1720. Cambridge University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781108784733.002.
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Hawthorne, Nathaniel. "The New England Holiday." In The Scarlet Letter. Oxford University Press, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/owc/9780199537808.003.0023.
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Betimes in the morning of the day on which the new Governor was to receive his office at the hands of the people, Hester Prynne and little Pearl came into the market-place. It was already thronged with the craftsmen and other plebeian inhabitants of...
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Orczy, Baroness. "The Jew." In The Scarlet Pimpernel, edited by Nicholas Daly. Oxford University Press, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/owc/9780198791225.003.0027.
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It took Marguerite some time to collect her scattered senses; the whole of this last short episode had taken place in less than a minute, and Desgas and the soldiers were still about two hundred yards away from the ‘Chat Gris.’ When she realized what...
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"The Spanish Plague That Never Was." In The Great Plague Scare of 1720. Cambridge University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781108784733.005.
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Saad, Akram. "Crisis Management for Construction Projects." In Coatings+ 2021. SSPC, 2021. https://doi.org/10.5006/s2021-00015.
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Abstract Construction companies will experience a crisis at some point during its existence. This is especially true for construction companies, where it is not a matter of “if” one will happen but “when” it will happen. A crisis is the sudden occurrence of any unplanned or unexpected event that causes harm to the project/company, employees, or the public. The crisis could be a medical/safety emergency, a natural disaster, or personnel crisis dealing with unethical or illegal activities. Construction companies must always operate with a “better safe than sorry” mindset. A proactive way to do so is to ensure that there is a crisis management plan in place. The Critical Steps to Crisis Management A crisis can strike at any time; advanced planning is the key to survival. Before a crisis strikes, construction business owners should think about how it would impact their clients, employees, suppliers, and the public. Review these critical steps to improve an existing crisis management plan or to create a new one. Assemble your crisis team: The crisis team consists of a combination of people which would vary based on the type of company (e.g., construction manager, safety officer, a public relations officer “PRO”). Identify potential crisis scenarios: Think about the different crisis scenarios that could happen and plan out your response (from beginning to end) to the situation. Anticipating a crisis is not meant to be a scare tactic. It is simply a way of preparing you for a potential event that could have a detrimental effect on the operation of your company if not planned for and managed appropriately. Additional critical steps must be taken to manage a crisis, what the crisis plan itself should entail and crisis management during and after the crisis Construction team must be quite familiar with the crises that construction projects deal with on a regular basis. Before a crisis strikes, project team should think about how it could affect employees and the public. No matter the size of the project, advanced planning is central to your company’s ability to survive an emergency. Critical steps construction team should follow to ensure their communication plan is up to balance, the critical steps and what the crisis plan itself should entail and crisis management during and after the emergency. Additional Critical Steps Along with assembling your crisis team, designating a spokesperson, and identifying potential crisis scenarios, construction companies must also: Respond to the public: In the wake of a crisis, providing the public with no answer is the worst thing to do. Your crisis team and spokesperson should always be prepared to give a specific answer, even if the comment is simply informing them of your intent to provide them with additional information once the facts have been gathered and verified. Educate and train employees: Once the plan is ready, provide everyone with the details of the plan and be prepared to walk them through each step. Revisit and update the plan: Your plans may change over time, so it is important to periodically review and make updates to the plan. This is especially true after a crisis. You may discover that some of the elements of your plan are inefficient or are simply outdated. A Crisis Communication Plan is Essential On any given day, an accident involving a worker falling, getting struck by or caught in between an object, or getting electrocuted could happen. A lack of a plan only adds chaos to an already panicked atmosphere. A crisis management plan empowers companies to handle a crisis efficiently and effectively. Handling a crisis in a timely manner is imperative because it could positively or negatively impact the public’s perception of the company. Most construction companies are aware of the types of problems that may arise, and they put forth great effort to mitigate them. No matter the size of the problem, a plan of action is needed to execute the solution. It is highly recommended that a crisis communication plan is vital for ensuring that construction projects handle the problems well. In the end, having a plan and implementing it properly can save your project time, cost, and your reputation. What Should Your Crisis Management Plan Entail? Is your business prepared to respond quickly, accurately, and confidently during and following a crisis? When a crisis happens, it can affect different audiences in different ways. Therefore, the plan must be created for multiple scenarios and audiences. Having an outlined plan is the key to a successful crisis management plan. When creating your plan, think about the following: Does it give your employees a set plan for handling a crisis based on the level of the seriousness? Does it provide the public with a strong first statement informing them that you have the situation under control? Does it identify key persons and their roles leading to swift action and responses? During the Crisis When in a crisis, the crisis management plan must be activated promptly by leadership. The crisis team must assess the situation and collect as much information as possible to begin communication. The crisis team must act quickly and confidently to gather, analyze, and respond to critical matters and make informed decisions. Taking charge immediately can mean the difference between success or failure. After the Crisis Another step in the crisis management process happens after the crisis. Once the company has applied some damage control, an analysis should be done to identify the weaknesses and strengths of the crisis management plan. This is the time to assess how well (or not) the team handled the situation. Is the team happy with the way decisions were made? Was the communication process efficient? Be honest about what went wrong and how things could have been handled differently. This dialogue will help to improve the plan and processes, and it will also better prepare the project for potential future events.
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Kunitsin, Andrey V. "CONTAMINATED SPEECH AS A MARKER OF COMMUNICATION FAILURE IN DIALOGUES OF JACK LONDON’S WORKS." In II All-Russian scientific-practical conference with international participation "Translation and foreign languages in the global dialogue of cultures". St. Petersburg State University, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.21638/11701/9785288064289.15.
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This article is concerned with the study of the role of contaminated speech in revealing the relationship between the characters of a work of fiction. The material used for the study is the works of Jack London — “Martin Eden” (1909) and “The Scarlet Plague” (1910). The concept of norm was introduced as the main premise for the study, which was interpreted differently by the participants of the dialogue. In the course of the research, two communicative models associated with different levels of education of the communicants were identified — the dialogue-argument and the dialogue-explanation. When analyzing the examples, the method of binary opposition was used, associated with the opposition of contaminated and non-contaminated speech as marked and unmarked members of the opposition.
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Wang, L., B. Y. Ren, H. S. Tzou, and H. H. Yue. "Finite Difference Based Electrical Modeling and Vibration Control Simulation of Piezoelectric Structronic Plate System." In ASME 2009 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference. ASMEDC, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/detc2009-87175.
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Electrical modeling and vibration control analysis of piezoelectric structronic systems are of great significance in design of new smart structures. However, studies of electrical modeling of piezoelectric structronic plate systems by using voltage signals to evaluate real-time dynamic displacements are scarce in open literatures. An equivalent circuit model is presented to simulate the piezoelectric structronic plate/sensor/actuator system with simply supported boundary conditions, so that the actual physical model could be replaced by a single circuit chip in the future. By means of the finite difference (FD) discretization method, the higher order dynamic partial differential equations (PDE) of plate’s structure/sensor signal/control system are transformed to finite difference equations and further represented by electronic components. Electrical simulation model of the piezoelectric structronic plate systems based on finite difference discretization is established. Meanwhile, an equivalent circuit design program is proposed. Control characteristics of the structronic plate model are analyzed and the control effects are compatible with the results of the numerical model in relevant references. Thus, numerical simulation result presented in this paper can provide a reference for the further research of electrical modeling of more complex piezoelectric structronic plate systems.
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Rambaks, Andris, and Katharina Schmitz. "Modelling of the Cross Angle and its Impact on Pump Performance." In ASME/BATH 2021 Symposium on Fluid Power and Motion Control. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/fpmc2021-67416.
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Abstract A secondary swash plate angle, also known as a cross angle, has been used in the past to reduce flow ripple with great success. However, for the past two decades, research in this field has been scarce. In this paper, a pressure controlled 9-piston pump is investigated to determine the effects of the cross angle on commutation, acting forces and torques, as well as volumetric flow rate pulsations. A detailed description of the piston kinematics, the simulation model used, and the subsequent simulation results are presented in this contribution.
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Flaig, Wolfgang, Rainer Mertz, and Jörg Starflinger. "Setup of the Supercritical CO2 Test-Facility “Scarlett” for Basic Experimental Investigations of a Compact Heat Exchanger for an Innovative Decay Heat Removal System." In 2017 25th International Conference on Nuclear Engineering. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/icone25-67519.
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Supercritical fluids show great potential as future coolants for nuclear reactors, thermal power and solar power plants. Compared to the subcritical condition, supercritical fluids show advantages in heat transfer due to thermodynamic properties near the critical point. This can lead to the development of more compact and more efficient components, e.g. heat exchanger and compressors. A specific field of interest is a new decay heat removal system for nuclear power plants which is based on a turbine-compressor-system with supercritical CO2 as the working fluid. In case of a station blackout this system converts the decay heat into excess electricity and low-temperature waste heat, which can be emitted to the ambient air. This scenario has already been investigated by means of the thermo-hydraulic code ATHLET, numerically demonstrating the operation of this system for more than 72 h. The practical demonstration is carried out within the Project “sCO2-HeRo”, funded by the European Commission, in which a small scale demonstration unit of the turbo compressor shall be installed at the PWR glass model at GfS, Essen, Germany. To guarantee the retrofitting of this decay heat removal system into existing nuclear power plants, the heat exchanger needs to be as compact and efficient as possible. Therefore, a diffusion welded plate heat exchanger (DWHE) was developed and manufactured at IKE. It has been designed with rectangular mini-channels (0.5–3 mm hydraulic diameter) to ensure high compactness and high heat transfer coefficients. Due to uncertainties the DWHE has to be tested in regard to the actual possible transferrable heat power and to the pressure loss. According to this demand a multipurpose facility has been built at IKE for various experimental investigations on supercritical CO2, which is in operation now. It consists of a closed loop where the CO2 is compressed to supercritical state and delivered to the test section. The test section itself can be exchanged by other ones for various investigations. After the test section, the CO2 pressure is reduced and the liquid is stored in storage tanks, from where it is evaporated and compressed again. The test facility is designed to carry out experimental investigations with CO2 mass flows up to 0.111 kg/s, pressures up to 12 MPa and temperatures up to 150 °C. The first subject of interest will be the study of the thermal behavior of a DWHE using supercritical CO2 as a working fluid close to its critical point. Experiments concerning pressure loss and heat transfer will be carried out as a start for fundamental investigation of heat transfer in mini-channels. This paper contains a detailed description of the test facility, of the first test section and first results regarding heat transfer power and pressure loss.
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Sezini, Felipe Marchiori, and Fabricia Delfino Rembiski. "Alfredo Chaves Tourist House Project - Architecture connecting places." In ENSUS 2024 - XII Encontro de Sustentabilidade em Projeto. Grupo de Pesquisa Virtuhab/UFSC, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.29183/2596-237x.ensus2024.v12.n1.p89-96.
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Tourism is an important vector for local sustainable development. The municipality of Alfredo Chaves (Espírito Santo) has several natural and tourist attractions, attracting tourists from various parts of Brazil and the world. However, support and information services for tourists are scarce. Given this, this article aimed to develop, at a preliminary project level, a Tourist Support and Experience Center, proposing a space to meet the needs of tourists. To achieve this, the following methodological procedures were adopted: bibliographical research, field research, documentary research and diagnosis of the project area. As a contribution, it appears that Tourist Service Centers are essential urban equipment to promote meaningful connections between the place, local culture and tourists.
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Gu, Jian, Xinyun Ni, Yong Cheng, Shuxia Bu, and Xiaofeng Kuang. "Experimental Investigation on the Current Suppression Performance of a Plate-Net Complex Mounted Beneath a Floating Breakwater." In ASME 2024 43rd International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/omae2024-124544.
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Abstract Suppression of currents is crucial for aquaculture and coastal engineering structures like aquaculture platforms and floating breakwaters. There have been many remarkable studies on current integration in the flow channel, mostly aiming to reduce the turbulence intensity. Meanwhile, the investigation into current suppression is relatively scarce, especially in the case of floating structures. In the present article, a novel plate-net complex is investigated experimentally, mounted beneath a floating breakwater to mitigate the current and wave simultaneously. The dependency of suppression efficiency is investigated on the flow speed, the height ratio of the plate, the solidity ratio of the net, and the motion of the floating breakwater, respectively, through model tests in a recirculating flume. A velocimeter matrix is designed to measure the flow velocity upstream and downstream of the floating breakwater simultaneously. According to the analysis, the dependency of the average current reduction ratio is found on the current speed of incoming flow, height ratio, solidity ratio and the motion of the floating breakwater. Meanwhile, the significance of the solidity ratio of the net is less than that of the height ratio of the plate on the suppression efficiency. The experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of the plate-net complex in current suppression and provide significant references for the design and optimization of the floating breakwater.
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Yang, Zhiyong, and Otto DaSilva. "A Rational Approach to Automated Pre- and Post-Processing of Offshore Structure Global Strength Finite Element Analysis." In ASME 2011 30th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering. ASMEDC, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/omae2011-49266.
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Offshore structure global strength analysis based on finite element plate model is a requirement for today’s classification societies and designers. Wave, wind, current loads have to be applied to the global strength model as a pre processing step to allow the analysis to take place. After the analysis, code checking must be performed to verify if the structure meets class or other requirements. Due to its complex nature, a large amount of engineering hours have to be spent for the pre and post processing. This is not only lengthy if performed manually or semi-automatically, but also mistake prone. General guidelines from classification societies exist, but general purpose commercial software is scarce and often still requires significant amount of engineering time to perform these tasks. This paper shows a rational approach to automate the pre and post processing of offshore structure global strength finite element analysis. Utilizing the FEMAP Application Program Interface (API), a complete automatic pre and post processing is implemented in one integrated program, Exmar Design Suite (EDS). The program will load the model from WAMIT generated wave pressure, apply internal pressure induced from motions to internal tanks, and also apply other environmental loads. After the finite element analysis, the program can execute strength code checking including yielding and buckling for the model. Both beam and stiffened plate panels can be identified using an automatic search algorithm, which is not a function available for general finite element software. The panels and beams are then checked against various common codes such as API/AISC/ABS/DNV. In addition, fatigue analysis can also be performed in either spectral or simplified approach. The benefits of automation are timesaving, accuracy and reliability. It also makes the check of whole model possible. Instead of relying more on “screening” or experience based structure check, engineers will have more confidence in the results by going through the whole model.
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Declercq, Brecht, and Loes Nijsmans. "What to do with audiovisual carriers after their digitization?" In SOIMA 2015: Unlocking Sound and Image Heritage. International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.18146/soima2015.2.08.
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Both traditional and more recent audiovisual carriers degrade. Even CD-ROMs have typically only a ten-year expected life span. In addition, playback equipment for both analogue and digital carriers will ultimately grow scarcer and more expensive to repair or replace. Archives and museums are inevitably faced with the decision of whether to preserve audiovisual carriers after their content has been digitized. This paper o ers a draft decision- making framework developed by the Flemish Institute of Archiving (VIAA). Assuming that an institution already has a digital collection management system in place, the proposed framework addresses the concepts of favourability, possibility, value, preservation conditions and the risk for other carriers through a series of questions. The paper also addresses the disposal of carriers, should an organization decide that disposal is in the best interests of its collections.
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Ahmed, Yahya. "Business Continuity Management for Organizational Success: Definitions, Triggers, and Key Processes." In 27th iSTEAMS-ACity-IEEE International Conference. Society for Multidisciplinary and Advanced Research Techniques - Creative Research Publishers, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.22624/aims/isteams-2021/v27p43.
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This paper discusses the need for business continuity management and its relevance to the successful management, protection, and sustainability of businesses. Considering the dynamic nature of global events and how it affects businesses at the speed of light. The rapid growth in technological innovations has made the world a global village, where business processes are done within the shortest time possible. This has made inter-organizational linkage and dependence very easy. But there is a need for protection against any form of disruptions for business continuity. Taking into consideration the scarce resources that lead to violence and terrorism from one place to another for power and resources. The paper look into business continuity, business continuity management, the impact of not having business continuity management, the triggers of business continuity management and the procedure for effective business continuity management. Keywords: Business Continuity, Management, Organizational Success, Triggers, Key Processes.
Reports on the topic "The Scarlet Plague"
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Dabrowski, Anna, Yung Nietschke, Syeda Kashfee Ahmed, Amy Berry, and Maya Conway. Readiness, response, and recovery: The impacts of COVID-19 on education systems in Asia. Australian Council for Educational Research, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.37517/978-1-74286-689-5.
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This review provides insights into COVID-19 responses in educational systems in Asia, and reviews which policies and practices were already in place to contribute to system readiness and resilience. Although the evidence base remains scarce, reflecting on the different system and school-level responses in Asia provides opportunity to identify gaps in current policies and research, and consider new ways in which countries in Asia can strengthen their educational systems into the future. It considers what makes an education system resilient, and the importance of school level practices. It uses an analytical framework to review readiness, response and recovery, and concludes with a discussion of gaps in evidence in Asia.
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Harris, Jeremy, Thomas Liebig, and David Khoudour, eds. How Do Migrants Fare in Latin America and the Caribbean?: Mapping Socio-Economic Integration. Inter-American Development Bank, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0005007.
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Over the last decade, the migration landscape in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) has changed significantly. In this context, the socio-economic integration of immigrants is an increasingly high priority on the regional development and policy agenda. For this reason, the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) have collaborated on this joint exercise that builds on OECDs previous experience in measuring migrant inclusion as well as IDBs expertise in building data around the state of migration in Latin America and the Caribbean, and UNDPs presence on the ground and experience working with national and local governments in the region to advance their development priorities. This report provides a general overview of the state of socio-economic integration of migrants in 12 LAC countries by 2021. It presents a series of quantitative indicators related with, for instance, labor market informality, self-employment, youth employment, school attendance, reading literacy and living conditions. This exercise also relies on selected policy indicators that shed light on the regulatory framework within which migrants integration takes place. The objective is to provide decisionmakers and policymakers in host countries with useful indicators to better understand where the gaps are in terms of migrants integration and to help them identify the areas where they should focus their efforts and scarce resources.
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Czajka, Leo, Florence Kondylis, Bassirou Sarr, and Mattea Stein. Data Management at the Senegalese Tax Authority: Insights from a Long-term Research Collaboration. Institute of Development Studies, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.19088/ictd.2022.020.
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As they increasingly adopt digital infrastructure, public administrations worldwide are increasingly collecting, generating and managing data. Empirical researchers are, at the same time, collaborating more and more with administrations, accessing vast amounts of data, and setting new research agendas. These collaborations have taken place in low-income countries in particular, where administrative data can be a valuable substitute for scarce survey data. However, the transition to a full-fledged digital administration can be a long and difficult process, sharply contrasting the common leap-frog narrative. Based on observations made during a five-year research collaboration with the Senegalese tax administration, this qualitative case study discusses the main data management challenges the tax administration faces. Much progress has recently been made with the modernisation of the administration’s digital capacity ,and adoption of e-filling and e-payment systems. However, there remains substantial scope for the administration to enhance data management and improve its efficiency in performing basic tasks, such as the identification of active taxpayers or the detection of various forms of non-compliance. In particular, there needs to be sustained investment in human resources specifically trained in data analysis. Recently progress has been made through creating – in collaboration with the researchers – a ‘datalab’ that now works to improve processes to collect, clean, merge and use data to improve revenue mobilisation.
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Lucas, Brian. Impact of COVID-19 on Poaching and Illegal Wildlife Trafficking Trends in Southern Africa. Institute of Development Studies (IDS), 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.19088/k4d.2022.017.
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This rapid review focuses on the impact COVID-19 pandemic om poaching and illegal wildlife trafficking. It provides an overview of the recent research and summarises the key themes. This review found that poaching for the purpose of international trafficking of illegal wildlife products, generally decreased. These declines are largely attributed to the disruption of transportation routes used by wildlife traffickers to move illicit goods within Southern Africa and overseas by air, and in some locations to the effects of local lockdown measures. Poaching for subsistence consumption (bushmeat) generally increased across Southern Africa and worldwide during the COVID-19 pandemic, incentivised largely by economic hardship and opportunities presented by a reduction in the capacity for anti-poaching enforcement and reduced numbers of tourists, whose presence tends to deter poachers. In the long term, poaching and trafficking are likely to return to pre-pandemic levels. Commercial poachers and traffickers are likely to adjust their transportation routes and adapt their business models to take advantage of opportunities. More positively, some authors have suggested the possibility that the COVID-19 pandemic could influence public attitudes against wildlife trafficking and in support of conservation. Trends in poaching and illegal wildlife trafficking during the COVID-19 pandemic vary significantly across and within countries. The impacts resulting from the measures put in place to reduce the spread of COVID-19 have varied significantly depending on local contexts. Up-to-date data on recent trends during the pandemic are scarce. Good quality data are available on poaching and trafficking of high-value commodities such as elephant ivory and rhino horn, while data on poaching for subsistence are less rigorous and often anecdotal. Much of the evidence available for both types of poaching is not systematic and comes from news media reports, and suffers from inherent difficulties of collecting data on illegal activities. Data collection during the pandemic has also been hampered by the challenges of working safely during the pandemic, funding for monitoring and research has been reduced in most areas, and some reporting processes have not yet analysed data collected during 2021.