bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
TESTS OF ARRANGEMENTS IN A PROTOTYPE OF A STEAM GENERATOR IN AN ABSORPTION REFRIGERATION SYSTEM
Authors: Santos R. F. M. , Cezar K. L. , Rocha P. A. C. , Lima R. J. P. , Silva M. E. V. da , Alcantara S. C. S.
Published: December 2019

This paper presents a proposal to optimize the prototype II of a steam generator, developed by the Cooperativa de Pesquisa Norte/Nordeste de Gas Natural, RECOGÁS - UFPB, which is a component of an absorption refrigeration system of water and lithium bromide triggered by direct burning of natural gas. The optimization was carried out through changes in the arrangement, geometry, and number of the heat exchanger pipes. It was developed a computational code using F-Chart software Engineering Equation Solver® (EES), applying the principles of heat transfer to all the different geometries. As a result, their respective coefficients of heat transfer, heat flow rate and other parameters of the process were obtained. The findings are organized in a table and represented in graphs generated by the EES software, allowing to verify which factors had a greater influence on the process, as well as the most efficient geometries. Internal convection was identified as the governing factor in the heat transfer process. Some of the geometries presented satisfactory values to the product of overall heat transfer coefficient and surface area (UA) and also to the heat transfer rate in the steam generator. Other ones presented a better thermal efficiency relation with the amount of volume occupied in the steam generator. Some geometries did not present satisfactory values under any aspect.
NON-DARCY FLOW EVALUATION OF UNCONSOLIDATED POROUS MEDIA IN A CLOSED LOOP PERMEAMETER
Authors: Maciel H. E. , Camara L. D. T.
Published: December 2019

A new closed loop permeameter was implemented in this work to study the fluid flow through two different unconsolidated porous media. An apparent permeability, similar to that proposed by Barree and Conway, was described in this work in terms of the absolute permeability combined with a new fluid property description, the inertial contribution factor that accounts for the domain of viscous and inertial forces. Such approach discriminate those properties of the rock as intrinsic permeability from those related to the fluid as the inertial contribution factor. The apparent permeability equation of Barree and Conway was applied to different intervals of the experimental data in which it was possible to obtain the Forchheimer coefficients as well as the inertial contribution factors according to each interval. Two different types of unconsolidated porous media materials were utilized in the new Closed Loop Permeameter, sand (1-2 mm) and glass spheres (3.96 mm). The equation of Barree and Conway provided a great agreement fitting the experimental data in a wide non-Darcy Reynolds number range. It was observed an increase in the Forchheimer coefficient and decrease in the apparent permeability with the flow rate increase. The results indicate a correlation between the permeability and the inertial effects in the non-Darcy turbulent regions in which the porous media materials with low permeability values are probably more subjected to flow losses due to the inertial effects.
STEADY-STATE HEAT TRANSFER IN A PLATE WITH TEMPERATURE-DEPENDENT THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY (AN EXACT SOLUTION)
Authors: Miguelis A. , Pazetto R. , Gama R. M. S.
Published: December 2019

This work presents the solution of the steady-state heat transfer problem in a rectangular plate with an internal heat source in a context in which the thermal conductivity depends on the local temperature. This generalization of one of the most classical heat transfer problems is carried out with the aid of the Kirchhoff transformation and employs only well known tools, as the superposition of solutions and the Fourier series. The obtained results illustrate how the usual procedures may be extended for solving more realistic physical problems (since the thermal conductivity of any material is temperature-dependent). A general formula for evaluating the Kirchhoff transformation as well as its inverse is presented too. This work has a strong didactical contribution since such analytical solutions are not found in any classical heat transfer book. In addition, the main idea can be used in a lot of similar problems.
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS OF THE AIR-FUEL MIXTURE IN INDIRECT AND DIRECT INJECTION OF FOUR-STROKE ENGINES
Authors: Narcizo G. G. , Miranda D. A.
Published: December 2019

The quality of the air-fuel mixture in internal combustion engines directly affects the combustion efficiency, therefore a good design of the combustion chamber combined with the correct fuel injection system, can provide a better use of this mixture and increase the efficiency of the engine. Considering these aspects, this scholarly work presents a comparative study of the indirect injection system and direct fuel injection, analyzing the way the mixture behaves in these two conditions. For this, the Ansys Fluent simulation software was used, in which were applied computational fluid dynamics simulations of the air-fuel mixture. The objective of this scholarly work is to contribute to the development of the injection systems, enabling the improvement of new studies and developments of new nozzle models can be performed.
De BGK-vordering in een deelgeschilprocedure
Authors: Leen R.D.
Published: December 2019

De BGK-vordering in een deelgeschilprocedure

In dit artikel staat de vraag centraal hoe de deelgeschilrechter aankijkt tegen het voorleggen van een BGK-geschil in de recente jurisprudentie. Een BGK-geschil kan worden voorgelegd in een deelgeschilprocedure. Rechters gaan wisselend om met de toepassing van de formele vereisten die gelden voor een deelgeschilprocedure. Een harde grens wordt getrokken indien sprake is van misbruik van procesrecht. Indien het BGK-geschil voldoet aan de formele vereisten, is het aan de rechter om te beoordelen of de BGK inhoudelijk aan de dubbele redelijkheidstoets voldoen. Het feit dat sprake is van een BGK-geschil kan op de dubbele redelijkheidstoets van invloed zijn.
THE ABILITY OF NANOCOMPOSITE CARBON COATINGS
TO WITHSTAND FRICTION UNDER SEVERE CONDITIONS
Authors: ZIMOWSKI Sławomir , KOT Marcin , WIĄZANIA Grzegorz , MOSKALEWICZ Tomasz
Published: December 2019

The paper presents an analysis of the micromechanical properties of selected thin, hard anti-wear coatings of
the type nc-TiN/a-C and nc-TiC/a-C, which were deposited by magnetron sputtering on a steel substrate. The
load carrying capacity of the nanocomposite coatings was analysed in point contact with the use of indentation
method, a scratch test, and friction test in contact with a ceramic ball. The hardness and modulus of elasticity
of the coatings were determined by an instrumented indentation method using a Vickers indenter. The coating
adhesion to the substrate was examined in a scratch test. Tribological tests in sliding contact with an Al2O3
ball were made at various loads to determine the limit load in which normal friction occurs. The results of
tribological tests were compared with the resistance to plastic deformation index (H3/E2). It was found that the
basic micromechanical parameters of coatings provide important information concerning durability and load
carrying capacity. However, while predicting wear, it is also important to investigate the nature of the wear
process during friction. The wear nature of the nc-TiN/a-C and nc-TiC/a-C coatings depends on the load value
and the number of forced loads.
Techno-economic Analysis of the Olive Oil Mills Waste Valorisation for Energy Production: A Case Study of Corfu
Authors: Dounavis Athanasios Sotirios
Published: December 2019

Olive oil production in Greece is undoubtedly linked to its history and tradition.

However, large quantities of by-products are produced (with the olive oil production)

which are harmful to the environment. Those environmental problems are a result

of the chemical composition of the waste and its high organic load. This intense

phenomenon has led to the exploration and development of methods and technolog0ies

for the treatment of olive mill waste. One of the methods used is the biogas production

through anaerobic digestion and its subsequent disposal for energy production.

This method could be particularly appealing to the Greek islands so that there is

their energy dependence from the mainland. A typical example is the island of Corfu

as the problem of waste from olive oil mills is intense and its energy demands are

increased. Therefore, energy production via anaerobic digestion could greatly

contribute to overcoming the current situation. The purpose of this study is to

design a central power plant, which is fed by biogas, produced by the anaerobic

digestion of the waste oil mills in Corfu and to present various economic data

regarding its construction and operation.
Leachates From Landfill Sites In Thessaloniki, Greece: Effect Of Aging
Authors: Mai Sofia , Barampouti Elli , Koumalas Adamadios , Dounavis Athanasios
Published: December 2019

Sanitary landfilling still is one of the most common management systems of solid urban wastes. The persistent environmental impact of landfills depends on leachate characteristics. The present study aimed at the characterisation of leachate from two landfill sites in the prefecture of Thessaloniki, Greece. Mavrorachi landfill stands in our study as a representative Greek active landfill site, that started operating in 2008. Tagarades landfill has stopped receiving waste from 2008 after 27 years of full operation. In this investigation, leachate samples were physico-chemically characterised so as to assess their pollution potential and their concentration in regard to the type and age of landfill. Elevated concentrations of inorganic and organic constituents were observed in the leachate composition. COD ranged from 2,490 mg/L to 19,700 mg/L, while the respective range for BOD was 390-14,850 mg/L during a 35-year period. The pH values of the leachate samples presented more moderate fluctuations between 7.3 and 8.5. In addition, the ammoniacal nitrogen content increased as landfill age increased, whereas heavy metals concentrations showed significant variations with a slight decreasing trend. The results presented in this paper proved that as time passed, the values of most parameters decreased as the biodegradable compounds are broken down while the refractory compounds resist to biodegradation. Thus, the age has a pronounced influence on the composition of leachate. This study also focused on quantifying the level of contamination that leachates can be potentially cause on a comparative basis by Leachate Pollution Index (LPI). LPI values showed that pollution load was declining but is still not negligible after 33 years.
Facebook or Fakebook? How users’ perceptions of ‘fake news’ are related to their evaluation and verification of news on Facebook
Authors: Müller Philipp , Schulz Anne
Published: December 2019

Research suggests that Facebook’s reputation as a news source is in decline. One reason for this development might be found in how users perceive their own exposure to alleged ‘fake news’ - a phenomenon which has been strongly linked to Facebook in public debate. Using a quota survey of German Internet users (n = 743) we investigate how users’ self-perceived exposure to ‘fake news’ and the ‘fake news’ debate are related to their evaluation and verification of political information on Facebook. Results indicate that the evaluation of Facebook as a news source is independent of users’ perceptions of their total amount of exposure to ‘fake news’ or the ‘fake news’ debate. However, individuals who feel they encounter many ‘fake news’ from traditional news sources evaluate Facebook more positively. Contrary to that, those who believe that the ‘fake news’ they are exposed to originate in alternative sources evaluate Facebook less positively and also engage in verification behaviors more frequently. Moreover, verification is predicted by the overall level of perceived ‘fake news’ exposure and, most strongly, by exposure to the ‘fake news’ debate. Findings are discussed in light of recent research on news audience polarization.
Picking location metrics for order batching on a unidirectional cyclical picking line
Authors: Hofmann FM , Visagie SE
Published: December 2019

In this paper order batching is extended to a picking system with the layout of a unidirectional cyclical picking line. The objective is to minimise the walking distance of pickers in the picking line. The setup of the picking system under consideration is related to unidirectional carousel systems. Three order-to-route closeness metrics are introduced to approximate walking distance, since the orders will be batched before the pickers are routed. All metrics are based on the picking location describing when a picker has to stop at a location to collect the items for an order. These metrics comprise a number of stops, a number of non-identical stops and a stops ratio measurement. Besides exact solution approaches, four greedy heuristics as well as six metaheuristics are applied to combine similar orders in batches. All metrics are tested using real life data of 50 sample picking lines in a distribution centre of a prominent South African retailer. The capacity of the picking device is restricted, thus the maximum batch size of two orders per batch is allowed. The best combination of metric and solution approach is identified. A regression analysis supports the idea that the introduced metrics can be used to approximate walking distance. The combination of stops ratio metric and the greedy random heuristic generate the best results in terms of minimum number of total cycles traversed as well as computational time to find the solution.
Considering fairness in the load shedding scheduling problem
Authors: Rakotonirainy RG , Durbach I , Nyirenda J
Published: December 2019

Every day national power system networks provide thousands of MW of electric power from generating units to consumers, requiring different operations and planning to ensure secure systems. Where demand exceeds supply, load shedding - controlled, enforced reduction in supply - is necessary to prevent system collapse. Should load shedding need to be implemented, a planned schedule is necessary to allocate geographic areas on the required period of shedding. The problem of how to construct a schedule that fairly allocates load shedding responsibilities over geographic areas with minimum economic impacts is addressed in this paper. Two programming models are proposed. The first model consists of a linear integer programming model in which the objective is to minimise the economic cost subject to different fairness allocation constraints, while the second model involves formulation of the problem as a goal programming model in which different conflicting goals are simultaneously optimised. Several case studies are conducted in the context of a realistic, but hypothetical, scenario to explore the possible solutions that the proposed models provide. Results show that a fair schedule requires a high cost whereas lower cost can only be achieved with some sacrifices to the fairness of the schedule.
Application of stochastic programming to electricity generation planning in South Africa
Authors: Bashe M , Shuma-Iwisi M , Van Wyk MA
Published: December 2019

A two-stage stochastic programming model is used to solve the electricity generation planning problem in South Africa for the period 2013 to 2050, in an attempt to minimise expected cost. Costs considered are capital and running costs. Unknown future electricity demand is the source of uncertainty represented by four scenarios with equal probabilities. The results show that the main contributors for new capacity are coal, wind, hydro and gas/diesel. The minimum costs obtained by solving the two-stage stochastic programming models range from R2 201 billion to R3 094 billion.
A mediação na Educação Infantil: possibilidade de aprendizagem
Authors: Brito Angela Do Céu Ubaiara , Kishimoto Tizuko Morchida
Published: December 2019

A educação Infantil favorece contexto de aprendizagem para a criança quando possibilita um processo de mediação. A mediação na educação é a intervenção que estabelece relações intermediárias para a aprendizagem. O trabalho trata-se de um ensaio bibliográfico que discute na obra de Lev Vygotski o processo de mediação na educação e em autores da infância a possibilidade de aprendizagem por meio da mediação na educação infantil. O texto discute um percurso de mediação que possibilita uma multiplicidade de ações para a compreensão da aprendizagem que parte do interesse da criança. A criança no processo de mediação é envolvida por relações indiretas, ou seja, uma ação mediada pelo meio para realizar alguma atividade. A discussão aponta que o ambiente para a criança na educação infantil tem múltiplas aprendizagem a partir de situações mediadas por signos, instrumentos e sujeitos mais experientes, no qual possibilita a construção do conhecimento na ampliação das experiências tornando as crianças sujeitos ativos de sua aprendizagem.
Spouses’ perceptions of network interference in the early years of marriage
Authors: Trotter Pamela B. , Orbuch Terri L. , Shrout M. Rosie
Published: December 2019

In early marriage, couples are intricately tied to their social networks and are influenced by important connections, social interactions, and socialization processes within those networks. Most of the research on the links between social networks and marital processes has focused on the positive effects or support married couples receive from their friends and family. The present study examined the links between perceptions of interference from family and friends and newlyweds’ reports of marital well-being in the early years of marriage. The contexts of both gender and race were explored to gain a better understanding of how interference from family and friends might be linked to marital well-being. Data from Black American and White American couples in their early years of marriage were analyzed. The findings revealed that perceptions of interference from friends were negatively associated with marital well-being for both Black American and White American wives. Husbands’ perceptions of interference from their wives’ friends were negatively linked to marital well-being, but only for Black American husbands. We offer several explanations for the differential links between perceptions of interference and marital well-being, including the role of relationships in self-identity and the negative spillover effect of external stressors.
Verbal working memory load dissociates common indices of the numerical distance effect: Implications for the study of numerical cognition
Authors: Maloney Erin A. , Barr Nathaniel , Risko Evan F. , Fugelsang Jonathan A.
Published: December 2019

In four experiments, we explore the role that verbal WM plays in numerical comparison. Experiment 1 demonstrates that verbal WM load differentially impacts the two most common variants of numerical comparison tasks, evidenced by distinct modulation of the size of the numerical distance effect (NDE). Specifically, when comparing one Arabic digit to a standard, the size of the NDE increases as a function of increased verbal WM load; however, when comparing two simultaneously presented Arabic digits, the size of the NDE decreases (and here is eliminated) as a function of an increased verbal WM load. Experiment 2, using the same task structure but different stimuli (physical size judgments), provides support for the notion that this pattern of results is unique to tasks employing numerical stimuli. Experiment 3 demonstrates that the patterns observed in Experiment 1 are not an artifact of the stimulus pairs used. Experiment 4 provides evidence that the differing pattern of results observed between Experiment 1 and Experiment 2 are due to differences in stimuli (numerical vs. non-numerical) rather than to other differences between tasks. These results are discussed in terms of current theories of numerical comparison.
Novel Geometric Morphometric (GMM) Application to the Study of Bronze Age Tutuli
Authors: Vestergaard Christina , Hoggard Christian Steven
Published: December 2019

In this paper, we examine the morphological diversity of the tutuli object group from the earlier Nordic Bronze Age (henceforth NBA) – an often over-looked object group despite their abundance specially, temporally and contextually. Currently, only a few studies of the morphological diversity of tutuli have been published, and these consist primarily of decade-old-typologies. The objective of this of this paper is first and foremost methodological, as we examine two research questions – concerning classification and periodisation – through a novel two-dimensional geometric morphometric (henceforth GMM) framework and subsequent multivariate analysis. Inherently we examine whether specific shapes conform to the classificatory of the Montelius typology, and whether a temporal relationship exists between types and shapes.
Rune Carvers and Sponsor Families on Bornholm
Authors: Kitzler Åhfeldt Laila , Imer Lisbeth M.
Published: December 2019

The runestones on Bornholm have for a long time aroused discussion due to their singular character and dating as compared to most runestones in other parts of Denmark. In this paper, the relations between sponsors and rune carvers have been investigated through analysis of the carving technique by means of the first 3D-scanning and multivariate statistical analysis ever carried out on the Danish runestone material. The results indicate that the carvers were attached to the sponsor families and that the carvers were probably members of those families. During the fieldwork, a fragment of a previously unknown runestone was documented in the church of St. Knud.
The subject of Exoticism: Victor Segalen's Equipée
Authors: Michel Andreas
Published: December 2019

This essay analyzes Victor Segalen's Equipée in conjunction with Segalen's exploration of the notion of "exoticism" as a philosophical concept. It demonstrates how exposure to radical difference (the "exotic") leads to a destabilization of the self-same subject which is made and unmade in the contact with otherness and how Equipée enacts Segalen's vision of the subject as a process of continuous emergence.
Ernst Behler's "The Contemporary and the Posthumous"
Authors: Adams Hazard , Behler Ernst , Birus Hendrick , Derrida Jacques , Iser Wolfgang , Krieger Murray , Miller Hillis , Pfeiffer Ludwig , Readings Bill , Wang Ching-hsien , Yu Pauline
Published: December 2019

This roundtable discussion of "The Contemporary and the Posthumous", Ernst Behler's contribution to the first International Conference for Humanistic Discourses, was held in April, 1994. The papers of this first meeting of the ICHD have been published in volume 4 of Surfaces (1994).
J. Hillis Miller's "Humanistic Discourse and the Others"
Authors: Adams Hazard , Behler Ernst , Birus Hendrik , Derrida Jacques , Iser Wolfgang , Krieger Murray , Miller Hillis , Pfeiffer Ludwig , Readings Bill , Wang Ching-hsien , Yu Pauline
Published: December 2019

This roundtable discussion of "Humanistic Discourse and the Others", J. Hillis Miller's contribution to the first International Conference for Humanistic Discourses, was held in April, 1994. The papers of this first meeting of the ICHD have been published in volume 4 of Surfaces (1994).
Ludwig Pfeiffer's "Culture and the Humanities: Symptomatologies, Mostly Historical, Mainly German"
Authors: Adams Hazard , Behler Ernst , Birus Hendrik , Derrida Jacques , Iser Wolfgang , Krieger Murray , Miller Hillis , Pfeiffer Ludwig , Readings Bill , Wang Ching-hsien , Yu Pauline
Published: December 2019

This roundtable discussion of "Culture and the Humanities: Symptomatologies, Mostly Historical, Mainly German", Ludwig Pfeiffer's contribution to the first International Conference for Humanistic Discourses, was held in April, 1994. The papers of this first meeting of the ICHD have been published in volume 4 of Surfaces (1994).
Studying English Literature in the Transnational University
Authors: Miller J. Hillis
Published: December 2019

Against the backdrop of the end of the Cold War, the decline of the Nation-State, the globalization of economies and research efforts, the radical transformations being brought about by new communications technologies, and the shift in funding from government sources to transnational corporations, this essay examines the role of literary studies and the humanities in the context of the emerging transnational university.
Memoir: In Celebration of Academic and Athletic Excellence
Authors: Melville Stephen
Published: December 2019

Thoughts on, and memories of, Bill Readings, curricular change, and the elements of sport.
Transforming Differences into "Normality". German Unification and the Crisis of the Humanities
Authors: Barck Karlheinz
Published: December 2019

The text, written in spring, 1992, describes certain effects of the German unification process on what has been called the unification of two different scholarly systems. This essay examines how, in the humanities, the hasty political drive to "depoliticize" the scholarly institutions of the former German Democratic Republic and "normalize" them according to Western standards, led to frictions and clashes that run counter to "normalization" as well as to the supposed universality of "Western standards".
Just Politics: Bill Reading's Impertinent Call
Authors: Wagner Valeria
Published: December 2019

In this article I argue that "impertinence" is one of the main strategies at work in Bill Reading's writings to disempower modernist metanarratives and their implicit universal subject. But if rendering these narratives impertinent (irrelevant) can "save" events from their totalizing grasp, the risk remains of rendering action itself impertinent to events.
Rhapsodic Readings: The Ion and Literary Knowledge
Authors: Moyes Craig
Published: December 2019

Within the context of current debates on the institutional status of literature, this paper discusses the problem of literary knowledge through a detailed reading of Plato's Ion. It argues further that the structure of the negative response that Socrates offers to the rhapsode is curiously repeated by two modern apologists for literature, Sainte-Beuve et Eliot.
Shakespeare and the Formation of the Modern Economy
Authors: Waswo Richard
Published: December 2019

Describing money and words as homologous systems that function to constitute, transmit, and alter values permits this essay to explore the formative period of the modern economy, when sixteenth-century writers were struggling to conceptualize it, and Shakespeare was dramatizing its basic principles.
ON S’AUTORISE MAIS ON NE S’INSTITUE PAS DE SOI-MÊME. KANT ET LES LIMITES DE L’AUTONOMIE MODERNE
Authors: Joos Jean-Ernest
Published: December 2019

L’auteur entame une remise en question du concept moderne d’autonomie en rendant explicite la distinction entre s’autoriser et s’instituer qui traverse l’oeuvre de Kant et qui permet à ce dernier de limiter son propre concept d’autonomie.
LITERATURE, LOCALISM, AND LOVE
Authors: Robbins Bruce
Published: December 2019

With devastating wit, the author attempts to nip in the bud a new tendency in literary criticism which consists in promoting the practice of interpretation as a purely disinterested, unpolitical, act of love. The article is woven around three instances of new localist rhetoric in recent works by Stanley Fish, Elaine Marks and John Guillory.
THE NARRATIVE ACT: WITTGENSTEIN AND NARRATOLOGY
Authors: McDonald Henry
Published: December 2019

This essay uses the late work of Ludwig Wittgenstein to reformulate the traditional distinction between story and narrative discourse, or diegetic and extra-diegetic levels of narrative, as a distinction between story and narrative act. In describing the transformations performed by the narrative act, the author elaborates the principle of narrative uncertainty, which dictates that the more definite the account of story or plot, the more indefinite the account of the narrative act — and vice versa. In this conceptual framework, the essay then characterizes the narrative act as the differential, within a given fictional text, of two of more types of stories (or plots), and articulates the relationship between narrative act, narrator, and cultural context.
THE RISE OF CYBORG CULTURE OR THE BOMB WAS A CYBORG
Authors: Porush David
Published: December 2019

Pictured by the author as a cybernetic rather than an atomic age, the Cold War is shown to be structured by the quest for a cybernetic modelling of human intelligence capable to eliminate uncertainty. The rise of the cyborg figure in science fiction is brought into consideration as an illustration.
HIROSHIMA, THE VIETNAM VETERAN'S MEMORIAL, AND THE GULF WAR: POST-NATIONAL SPECTACLES
Authors: Pease Donald E.
Published: December 2019

In the context of changing structures of global power, this essay offers a theoretical and historical analysis of prevailing U.S. representations of itself and its Others. Taking as its point of departure the Gulf War, it examines the national narratives of impending nuclear desaster, the Vietnam syndrome, and the erection of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. It concludes by interpreting the Rodney King incident as the activation of an alternative memory that cannot be subsumed by the image of a New World Order.
THE CONTEMPORARY AND THE POSTHUMOUS
Authors: Behler Ernst
Published: December 2019

Culture humanism are problematic notions that cannot be reduced to a singular meaning and that are often in conflict with one another. This essay examines these notions historically, in early German Romanticism and Nietzsche, with discussions of Novalis and the Schlegels, among others, and concludes with theoretical reflections on these themes and their contemporary significance.
HUMANISTIC DISCOURSE AND THE OTHERS
Authors: Hillis Miller J.
Published: December 2019

This essay focuses on the question of otherness as crucial for discussions of culture and humanistic discourse. In developing an idea of the non-concept of the Other, it summarizes articulations of otherness in Lévinas, Lacan, Derrida, and de Man, among others. In conclusion, it addresses the institutional situation of English departments in the United States.
DES HUMANITÉS ET DE LA DISCIPLINE PHILOSOPHIQUE
Authors: Derrida Jacques
Published: December 2019

L’auteur entreprend de repenser le droit à la philosophie dans sa dimension internationale. La réflexion qu’il engage s’appuie sur une lecture de « Idée (en vue) d’une histoire universelle au point de vue cosmopolite » qui fait ressortir les implications de ce texte de Kant pour certaines institutions fondées après la seconde guerre mondiale. En examinant ces implications, l’auteur aborde la problématique de l’eurocentrisme, l’histoire de l’émergence de la modernité, et le rôle de l’UNESCO dans la réflexion sur la philosophie contemporaine.
OF THE HUMANITIES AND THE PHILOSOPHICAL DISCIPLINE
Authors: Derrida Jacques , Dutoit Thomas
Published: December 2019

This essay engages in a rethinking of the right to philosophy in its international dimension. It grounds its reflections in a reading of Kant's "Idea of a Universal History from a Cosmopolitical Point of View", considering the essay in terms of its implications for institutions founded after World War II. In examining these implications, it discusses issues of Eurocentrism, the founding history of modernity, and the role of UNESCO in posing the question of contemporary philosophy.
Confucius at the Center of a Humanistic Discourse or "Cheng Hsuan Awakened from a Dream"
Authors: Wang Ching-hsien
Published: December 2019

This text is a poem translated by the author from Chinese into English. The annotations furnish information about the historical context to which the poem refers.
Introduction to and Discussion Summary of Lin Yaofu's "Toward a Version of China: The Taiwan Experience"
Authors: Krieger Murray
Published: December 2019

In the context of the Second International Conference on Humanistic Discourse, this text introduces Lin Yaofu's "Toward a Version of China: The Taiwan Experience" and reports on the central concerns that emerged in its discussion.
Toward a Version of China
Authors: Yaofu Lin
Published: December 2019

This essay elucidates the components and modalities of Taiwan's cultural identity. In describing this cultural identity, which includes issues of literature and language as well as of collective self-understanding, it characterizes the context of Taiwan's social, political, and cultural history, particularly with regard to China but also in reference to Japan.
INTRODUCTION TO KONSTANTIN AZADOVSKI’S "RUSSIA’S SILVER AGE IN TODAY’S RUSSIA"
Authors: Krieger Murray
Published: December 2019

In the context of the Third International Conference on Humanistic Discourse, this text introduces Konstantin Azadovski’s "Russia’s Silver Age in Today’s Russia" and reports on the central concerns that emerged in its discussion.
RUSSIA’S SILVER AGE IN TODAY’S RUSSIA
Authors: Azadovski Konstantin
Published: December 2019

The culture of Russia’s Silver Age (1890-1917) has taken its place in the history of the arts of the country after having been forbidden under the Soviet regime. With a relative "thaw" under Khrushchev, the works of Sergei Esenin, Ivan Bunin and some of Marina Tsvetaeva’s works became available. Today, after the fall of the Soviet regime, what used to be forbidden is now widely published often in cheap editions. What used to be elite culture has become mass culture. However, it unclear how the culture of the Silver Age can address the problems of today's extremely politicized Russia. A similar problematic faces the new wave of interest for other cultural trends, which have also garnered the particular interest of Russian society: the culture and literature of Russian emigration and the literature of the Underground.
HUMANISM AS ANTI-IDEOLOGY
Authors: Gavrilov Alexander K.
Published: December 2019

Under Communist rule, Party ideology and humanistic values conflicted with one another. In analysing this conflict, the author underlines the theoretical resources and the great political assets of humanism. Communism was afflicted by its hypocrisy moving from the general the "Man is good" to the particular the "Men living in communism are good". However, scientific socialism and its state politics changed the country into a great reading hall where humanities, and among them philology, became very popular. Philology, as a tool in the study of style, is essentially ideology-proof. Rather than developing counter-ideologies, many Russians turned to an active passive resistance through uses of irony that the humanities cultivated. This praxis of gradually eroding the dominant ideology within oneself and one’s environment was necessary to what would become perestroika. Humanism has proven to be, under necessity, a marvelous opponent of ideology.
INTRODUCTION TO DOUGLAS J. OSLER’S "IMAGES OF LEGAL HUMANISM"
Authors: Pfeiffer K. Ludwig
Published: December 2019

In the context of the Third International Conference on Humanistic Discourse, this text introduces Douglas J. Osler’s "Images of Legal Humanism".
LA TOILE FAIT-ELLE AUTORITÉ ?
Authors: Rheault Sylvain
Published: December 2019

La mise en ligne d’informations dans les humanités peut se comparer au travail de l’encyclopédiste : accumulation et organisation. Des questions se posent et des pistes s’ouvrent avec cette comparaison. L’accumulation modulaire qu’encourage la Toile peut-elle modifier nos pratiques d’écriture, voire nos modes de pensée ? Quant à l’organisation, encore plus cruciale, elle commande aujourd’hui de repenser l’évaluation par les pairs.
PARALYSIS, CRUTCHES, WINGS: ITALIAN FEMINISMS AND TRANSCULTURATION
Authors: Allen Beverly
Published: December 2019

A discussion of the way in which recent feminist writing on the body as a site of ideology enforces a rethinking of translation practices. Questions of translation and transculturation in Italian studies, with reference to feminist praxis.
LITERARY READING: HÖLDERLIN THROUGH HEIDEGGER THROUGH DE MAN
Authors: Pelmas Sarah
Published: December 2019

This essay examines how the stakes of literary theory can be understood within the activity of reading. Through Paul de Man's reading of Martin Heidegger's reading of Friedrich Hölderlin, this essay analyzes the way that Heidegger uses Hölderlin's poetic language, examples, and etymology to elaborate his own thought — thought which ultimately demands to be read. By understanding de Man's response to Heidegger's thinking, we can see how readings must respond to thought precisely because language requires the reader to recover the moments language is always documenting as already lost.
THE MANAGEMENT OF PRIVATIZATION
Authors: Godzich Wlad
Published: December 2019

A study of the constitution of the modern subject at the end of the Middle Ages. Godzich argues that this is accomplished through the privatization of the collective memoria into a social imaginary made up of individual consciousnesses. This is traced with particular reference to the problem of genre and of fiction in Don Quijote.
README. WRITING NOTES
Authors: Benjamin Andrew
Published: December 2019

Meditations on the temporality of writing.
COLLOQUE QUEER SITES (MAI 1993). L’ÉTAT DU JEU : QUELQUES RUBRIQUES DE LA THÉORIE QUEER
Authors: Park Christophe
Published: December 2019

En mai 1993 s’est tenu, au New College de l’Université de Toronto, un colloque d’études culturelles lesbiennes et gaies intitulé Queer Sites: Bodies at Work, Bodies at Play. Reprenant quelques-uns des thèmes abordés au cours de cet événement, l’auteur fait état des défis pragmatiques et épistémologiques auxquels sont actuellement confrontées les études lesbiennes et gaies.
LA CULTURE EN TANT QU’ACTION POLITIQUE
Authors: Barck Karlheinz
Published: December 2019

Notes sur la problématique du concept de culture dans la pensée allemande contemporaine. La nécessité de repenser la culture comme action politique sans référence à Rousseau.
CONSTRUIRE UNE POSITION D’ÉNONCIATION FÉMINISTE ET THÉOLOGIQUE. ANALYSE DE LA RÉSISTANCE DU GROUPE L’AUTRE PAROLE
Authors: Couture Denise
Published: December 2019

La subjectivité féminine dans le discours théologique : étude des pratiques de résistance des groupes féministes au Québec. Mise en évidence de la notion de sujet en transit de de Certeau.
"DOING JUSTICE TO FEMINISM"
Authors: Elam Diane
Published: December 2019

The relationship between feminism and cultural studies, with particular reference to feminism as a "cultural project".
Poste Restante, Dead Letters and General Delivery (Hawthorne Writes Home from Rome)
Authors: Melville Stephen
Published: December 2019

The question of culture in America and the conditions under which it becomes possible to say "we", with particular reference to Hawthorne's Marble Faun.
BIODEGRADABILITY: FLOATING ON THE SURFACE OF CULTURE
Authors: Zucker Lisa
Published: December 2019

A study of the work of Charlotte Salomon as an example of revolutionary feminist poetic practice.
FROM THE INQUISITION TO DESCARTES. THE ORIGINS OF THE MODERN SUBJECT
Authors: Godzich Wlad
Published: December 2019

An account of the discursive problematic that accompanies the emergence of the modern subject, and of the difficulties attendant upon that subject's encounter with cultural difference.
ROCK MUSIC AND NATIONAL IDENTITY IN HUNGARY
Authors: Milun Kathryn
Published: December 2019

Marxism and nationalism. The political form and meaning of the discourse of national identity in Hungary as it appears in popular culture. Hungarian rock and shamanpunk. The debate over the national flag.
TRANSLATIO AND COMPARATIVE LITTERATURE: THE TERROR OF EUROPEAN HUMANISM
Authors: Readings Bill
Published: December 2019

The interest of comparative literature as its divided relation to the function of translation. Critique of the terror of European humanism and insistence on the minoritarian reading of literature, on translation as an encounter with difference.
MODERNITY AND THE VERNACULAR
Authors: Schaber Bennet
Published: December 2019

The vernacular in medieval literature, jazz, and rock and roll, as an avant-garde practice, a search for a sociality in the absence of pre-existing rules. Contrast between modernist experimentation (which is teleological and project-oriented) and the vernacular encounter with sheer chance. The social poetics of the vernacular as a way of rethinking the relation between literature and society.
THE MEDIA AND THE WAR
Authors: Weber Samuel
Published: December 2019

A critique of the nature of the representation of the Gulf War in the American mass media.
Faire « local » avec un accent étranger : entre inclusion et minorisation
Authors: Prikhodkine Alexei
Published: December 2019

L’étude à la base de cet article montre que, dans le contexte de la diversité croissante de la population suisse, des ressources langagières relevant de la variation régionale commencent à signifier de nouvelles frontières de type ethno-national. Ce changement indexical consiste à exclure de la signification sociale d’une variante locale le trait d’ethnicité majoritaire lorsqu’elle côtoie des marques d’accent étranger, ce qui annule la plus-value que les personnes migrantes pourraient retirer de l’usage de variantes locales. Ce résultat démontre un paradoxe : l’appropriation par des personnes issues de l’immigration des ressources langagières qui permettent une intégration sociale ne contribue pas à réduire leur minorisation.
Silence, on s’occupe de vous ! Barrières à la socialisation langagière dans l’accueil des requérants d’asile en Suisse
Authors: Zeiter Anne-Christel
Published: December 2019

Dans une perspective sociolinguistique critique, cet article explore la manière dont l’assistance procurée aux requérantes et requérants d’asile en Suisse peut limiter leurs possibilités de socialisation, et par là même leur entrée dans la langue du lieu d’accueil. L’analyse de différents types de données ethnographiques montre comment l’accès de ces personnes à des agir sociaux susceptibles de favoriser leur appropriation langagière est limité par divers savoirs sur les requérantes et requérants d’asile, savoirs qui se construisent et se manifestent dans le discours des acteurs qui détiennent l’autorité sur l’accueil des migrantes et migrants.
Hydrogeology of the Karst Area of the Grassano and Telese Springs
Authors: Leone Guido , Pagnozzi Mauro , Catani Vittorio , Testa Giovanni , Esposito Libera , Fiorillo Francesco
Published: December 2019

This work deals with the hydraulic phenomenon of the ascendant groundwater flow affecting the karst area of the Grassano and Telese springs (Campania, Southern Italy). It has been investigated through piezometric measurements, discharge and chemical-physical monitoring of springs and measurements of the radon 222Rn activity. The presence of ascendant flows is supported by numerous and different types of evidences in the area: location and topographical position of the springs; amazing density of sinkholes connected to geomorphic processes that develop below the topographic surface and involve the rising of CO2 and H2S rich waters; constancy of the temperature and the electrical conductivity of the spring waters over the time; fluctuation of the radon activity during the hydrological year; increasing of the hydraulic head with depth; presence of artesian conditions in the alluvial plain. Numerical simulations of the groundwater flow also support the general phenomenon of the ascendant flow in the discharge area and represent a useful background to interpret hydrological phenomena in the study area. The results of the simulations are suitable with all the hydrogeological processes observed in the area of the Grassano and Telese springs; this last is thought to belong to the regional groundwater flow system of the Matese massif and represents its discharge zone.
The ‘Polluter Pays Principle’: environmental liabilities and scientific evidence under the Italian law system
Authors: Covucci Dario
Published: December 2019

The “Polluter Pays” Principle is a cornerstone in environmental law. The Italian law system, like other European ones, show that this principle, although being easy to understand, is hard to be implemented. Case law and experience confirm that a multidisciplinary approach, combining legal competences and technical expertise, is required to make this principle effective, especially when contamination dates to a distant past.
Groundwater response to precipitation extremes: the case of the “Vaia” storm (Eastern Italian Alps)
Authors: Lucianetti Giorgia , Mastrorillo Lucia , Mazza Roberto , Partel Piergiovanni
Published: December 2019

Extreme precipitation events are expected to increase in intensity in Alpine regions due to climate change. While many studies have analyzed the impact of these phenomena on flooding risk, very few deal with their effect on groundwater. This work analyzes the hydrograph response of three springs to an extreme storm, which occurred in Northern Italy in October 2018. We observed that the newly infiltrated storm water contributed to feeding the winter baseflow, increasing its volume up to 85 % compared to normal conditions. It was also found that the response of groundwater to heavy precipitation seems to be influenced by the type of media. A high-altitude spring belonging to the fractured carbonate aquifer shows a quick response to the storm input, while springs outflowing at the base of the mountain slopes (mixed fractured carbonate and porous deposits) exhibit a delayed response. Results are important when analyzing future water availability and to better understand the impact of extreme events on groundwater flow.
On the mechanism of automated fizzy extraction
Authors: Chang Chun-Ming , Yang Hao-Chun , Urban Pawel L.
Published: December 2019

Fizzy extraction (FE) facilitates analysis of volatile solutes by promoting their transfer from the liquid to the gas phase. A carrier gas is dissolved in the sample under moderate pressure (Δp ≈ 150 kPa), followed by an abrupt decompression, what leads to effervescence. The released gaseous analytes are directed to an on-line detector due to a small pressure difference. FE is advantageous in chemical analysis because the volatile species are released in a short time interval, allowing for pulsed injection, and leading to high signal-to-noise ratios. To shed light on the mechanism of FE, we have investigated various factors that could potentially contribute to the extraction efficiency, including: instrument-related factors, method-related factors, sample-related factors, and analyte-related factors. In particular, we have evaluated the properties of volatile solutes, which make them amenable to FE. The results suggest that the organic solutes may diffuse to the bubble lumen, especially in the presence of salt. The high signal intensities in FE coupled with mass spectrometry are partly due to the high sample introduction rate (upon decompression) to a mass-sensitive detector. However, the analytes with different properties (molecular weight, polarity) reveal distinct temporal profiles, pointing to the effect of bubble exposure to the sample matrix. A sufficient extraction time (~12 s) is required to extract less volatile solutes. The results presented in this report can help analysts to predict the occurrence of matrix effects when analyzing real samples. They also provide a basis for increasing extraction efficiency to detect low-abundance analytes.