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INVESTIGATING THE IMAGE OF A TOURIST DESTINATION: THE CASE OF SAARISELKÄ
Authors: VIJOLI Cristina , MARINESCU Nicolae
Published: June 2017

This paper emphasizes the importance of defining a precise image for a tourist destination. We review first the main contributions in the literature on tourist destinations and their marketing. Then, we outline the methodology of a marketing research conducted in Saariselkä, a resort located in northern Finland. The results of the research provide interesting insights on how the image of this particular destination is perceived by tourists. The findings of the research also enable us to draw several conclusions which may prove useful for an enhanced efficiency of the promotional efforts.
JEL Classification: L83
LA ROUMANIE, PEUT-ELLE ÊTRE UNE DESTINATION ATTRACTIVE POUR LES ENTREPRENEURS FRANÇAIS ?
Authors: DOARÉ Vincent Quentin , COROŞ Monica-Maria
Published: June 2017

Could Romania be an attractive destination for French entrepreneurs? Today, most companies struggle to identify new partners, new places and new markets for their current and future projects. Despite the extremely painful past during the communist era and over the prolonged transition years, Romania faces its future with optimism. Once the difficult period after the 2008 crisis had come to an end, Romania started а new economic growth, with substantial foreign investment. This development was mainly due to the tertiary sector of the national economy and to the international support provided by institutions such as the European Commission (EC), the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), combined with an ambitious adjustment program. Romania has understood that international relations play a crucial role in a country’s development. Consequently, the state’s goal has become that of developing and maintaining good political and economic relations with various states, all over the world. From a geographical point of view, the country is a gate to the East for the European Union (EU) and to the West for the Oriental states. Rоmаniа presents а real untapped potential and а great number of benefits, aimed at attracting new investors. The domestic market, the geographic position, the geopolitical stability or the youth, as an asset, combine with many opportunities in various economic sectors, providing investors with genuine reasons to take Romania into consideration, when thinking about new phases of internationalization. The attractiveness of the country as a destination for French investors and entrepreneurs is a widely recognized fact. Factors such as the labor cost, the fiscal policies, the cultural similarities or the sharing of Francophone values have already brought major French players (Dacia-Renault, Michelin, Grоupe Sоciété Générаl BRD, Lafarge, Cora, Carrefour or Accor) on the local market and many French investments. In this context, the present paper aims at identifying those elements that determine the attractiveness of this market for French entrepreneurs. An interview-based research has been conducted among the members of the CCIFER (Chambre Française de Commerce et d’Industrie en Roumanie).
JEL Classification: L83
EKSISTENSI PERADILAN ADAT DI ACEH
Authors: Aceh Mahdi
Published: June 2017

This paper deals with the existence of customary courts in Aceh in the national judicial system. From formal-juridical perspective, the existence of customary courts is not clearly stated; however, the practices of community have indicated that most of civil disputes and criminal offenses were resolved by the customary courts in Aceh. The question relates to such issues as administration of  Aceh  customary courts, duties of functionaries in this customary courts, and its existence within the national judicial system. This paper shows that, although the local government of Aceh does not legally include customary court as one of the state official justices, this kind of court has been sociologically recognized in resolving disputes that occur in the society. Furthermore, the local government of Aceh has codified it in the form of qānūn (legal code).
The Recruitment of Youth Political Elites During Transformations in Central and Eastern Europe and Arab Mediterranean Countries: A Comparative Approach
Authors:   Associate Professor of Sociology, Kovacheva Siyka , Nanov Plamen ,   PhD student, Kabaivanov Stanimir ,   Associate Professor of Finance, University of Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Published: June 2017

This paper aims to describe and compare the mechanisms for the recruitment of youth political elites in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and the Arab Mediterranean countries (AMC) during and after the periods of social and political transformation that were the breakdown of the communist bloc in 1989 and the uprisings in the southern and eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East in 2011. While the early expectations were for a similar course of events in the two regions, at present it is the differences in the factors and consequences of the mass mobilisations that capture most scholarly attention. The analysis in this paper is based on desk research and rich quantitative and qualitative datasets from five AMCs carried out in the framework of the SAHWA Project funded by the th FP of the EC. Young people’s active engagement in institutional politics is the major channel for political recruitment into the politically relevant elite both in post-1989 CEE and in the AMCs after 2011. The official channels for youth elite recruitment, such as working in support of political parties, in election campaigns and specialised leadership training are often underpinned by young people’s families’ economic, social and cultural capital (in a more direct form in the AMCs and a more covert form in CEE).
Modernisation theory meets Tunisia’s youth during and since the revolution of 2011
Authors:   University of Liverpool, Roberts Ken , Kovacheva Siyka ,   University of Plovdiv, Kabaivanov Stanimir ,   University of Plovdiv
Published: June 2017

This paper presents evidence from interviews in 2015-16 with a nationally representative sample of Tunisia’s 15-29 year olds. We use modernisation theory as a prism to examine the sample’s political participation and orientations during the ‘revolution’ of 2011 and subsequently. We find that just 6.6 percent of those aged 15-24 at the time played any direct part in the ‘events of 2011’. Political engagement then and subsequently is shown to have been influenced most strongly by a university education and growing-up in a politically engaged family. In 2015-16 the young people were overwhelmingly pro-democracy, supported equal opportunities and status for the sexes, and endorsed self-expression values, but attached equal importance to economic security and betterment, felt that their country’s traditions should be maintained and respected, and were personally religious though threequarters wanted religion to be kept out of politics and government.
Fungsi Ehabla Pada Masyarakat Sentani, Papua
Authors: Modouw Wigati Yektiningtyas
Published: June 2017

Ehabla is one of oral poetry in Sentani, Papua that is almost extinct. It is sung spontaneously, without background of notes and memorization. The singer prepares plot and theme that will be elaborated in the performance, Ehabla can be transcribed into 4 lines that is dominated by repetition and parallelism. The first line is repeated in the third line, the second line is repeated in the fourth line. Essentially, the third and the fourth lines are the repetition of the first and the second lines. The repetition is enriched by synonym and reduplication. Ehabla that expresses the socio-cultural life of Sentani people can be used as media of (1) education (pedagogical system) that teaches hard work, cooperation, pride, respecting tradition, proud of birthplace, respecting natural environment; (2) reflection of Sentani people's idealization on ideal village, ideal society, and ideal leaders; (3) legitimacy of traditions; (4) forcing and watching; (5) sharpening the emotion of religion and belief; and (6) entertainment. For Sentani people who live in some remote areas in some islands, the singing and function of ehabla are still responded even though its socialization is not positively responded by the young generation. For Sentani people who live near the city, the singing and function of ehabla are not again responded by both old and young generation. This is caused by the influence of new traditions, technology, and globalization. The only function that is still alive is the function of entertainment.
Representasi Dalam Hikayat Siti Mariah Versi Surat Kabar Bintang Timur
Authors: Susanto Dwi
Published: June 2017

The HSM BT indicated of the Self and the Other relation that was complex. The complexity could be seen at the character of representation. The phenomenon of representation was showed within ambivalence, hybrid, floating of identity, and hazy. The play and strategy were done in orde to get space and free from shackling and shadows of colonial power and bias. Strategy and representation of story telling, narrator position, identity political, and gender relation was to the be way to reach and change colonial bias. This paper aims to expose the power and domination of colonial space and time. This paper also shows colonial zone. This paper used postcolonial paradigm in particular representation the Self and the Other. This paper had concluded that the power and shadows of colonial always get space and time at relation and aspect human relation, gender, images, identity, etc. Each of way to avoid colonial shadows and bias always followed by another colonial of ways. The tone heterogeneity and plurality were taken as tolls to repress and lie of freedom way the Other
Peran Media Massa Dalam Perkembangan Puisi Indonesia Modern Sebelum Kemerdekaan
Authors: Mahmud Amir
Published: June 2017

Pre-independence poems have been categorized as a struggle against the government and, on the other side, as a media to increase the nationalism of young natives to their country and nation. In the subsequent development, poem column in magazines is not only used as a media of poets creativity but also used as a media in propagandizing dissatisfaction to the colonialist. Native people not only need creativity space but also want to get a sense of justice, to get herness, freedom in expressing an opinion, and freedom from as an instrument of propaganda which fights for right to live free from the colonialist fetters. In addition to used as media to struggle, advice, propagandize, and get justice, pre-independence poem is also used to express the intellectual ideas of the young.
Desakralisasi Wayang Purwa Lakon Ruwat
Authors: Mashuri Mashuri
Published: June 2017

In the culture of Java, the wayang purwa (shadow play with leather puppets often dramatizing theme from Hindu epics) is important, central and sacral. Finally, many Javanese identify themselves to the characters in the wayang. The main factor is because the wayang is considered as the oldest of culture product, and also it can glorify the grandeur and the sacrality. The wayang sacrality can be found in ruwat act. The act in old treasure is ini some serat and suluk, consides that the act is not only a common story. But, the sacrality value that is glorified in Javanese culture, either in the wayang show or ruwatan, almost can not be found the presentation in Durga Umayi text, worked by YB Mangunwijaya. The are so many texts that have the• tendency to dig up the sacrality of wayang. This propane process has occurred not only to the characters of wayang that are considered as sacral's and guide's eyes only, but also in the essence of the plot and the value of the story. The Durga Umayi text seems that is presented to be comparable with the wayang disourse that has been built and established. In the text consists of desacralization ruwat act with some strategies, like blurring of binary opposition, reversal, and some other deconstruction strategy.
Eksistensialisme Kuntowijoyo dalam Novel Khotbah di Atas Bukit
Authors: Machsum Toha
Published: June 2017

Novel Khotbah di Atas Bukit is one of the Kuntowijoyo masterpieces which is monumental and assessed enough phenomenal. The novel Kuntowijoyo basically represent smooth criticism to modern life immersing in material hedonism and trapped in utilitarian philosophy. Phrased philosophy existentialism idea in that novel melt to become one in developing esthetics values. The analysis of this research uses the descriptive quantitative method. In general, the study uses librely. The data source is novel Khotbah di Atas Bukit. Data related to existentialism theme classified, analysed, then concluded. The dead theme, fear, care detached, dimay, and the jumpy colour is novel. Attitude worry, for example, experienced by Barman when he steps on dusk age. The blankness of Barman soul which do not have base think good make he detached with humanity, its deed and even also to his self. Jumpy feeling continuing befall it he tries to discharge anything and has never found a few even also from its life. Finally, dramatically Barman deals with a dilemma in his life. He really trailing at absurdity current.
Jejak Praktik Militerisme dalam Puisi Indonesia
Authors: Sungkowati Yulitin
Published: June 2017

The existence of military in a country does not automatically mean militarism. However, during the New Order era, militarism was used to dominate political life and became a power shield as an excuse to maintain national stability. The military practice could be seen, among other things in Indonesian literary works, particularly in Wiji Thukul's, Rendra's, Eka Budianta's, and K.H. A. Mustafa Bisri's writing as a reflection of his period. These poems depict military action in the New Order power such as in the land reform case, workers protest, and the 27th of July incident. Military action has become a violent pattern to silence these unpleasant incidents. Some critical activists experienced these violent actions such as terror, kidnapping, and torturing,
Ras, Etnisitas, dan Identitas Dalam Novel Batas Langit Karya Mohamed Latiff Mohamed
Authors: Mustofa Ali
Published: June 2017

This article describes the issues of post-colonialism in one of contemporary Singaporean literatures Batas langit by Mohamed Latiff Mohamed: Post-colonial issues explored in the present paper are race, ethnicity, and identity. Latiff has successfully obscured his views about Malay people and their culture. His views are somewhat skeptical and pessimistic. However, Latiff has been successfully transforming the existentialism views into his works, and has made him one of the great authors of Singapore.
Women Speak: A Writing-Subject's Perspective on Toeti Hera Ty's Calon Arang and Cok Sawitrl's Janda dari Jirah
Authors: Kurnia Fabiola D
Published: June 2017

Makalah ini mengkaji tcntang perspektif subjek kepenulisan dari dua penulis perempuan: Turi Heraty dan Cok Sawitri tentang bagaimana posisi subjek yang berkuasa memberdayakan dirinya sendiri dari konstruksi subordinat, 'the other' (liyan) pada kasus pembelaan diri seorang pcrempuan pendeta. yang dikenal sebagai Calon Arang atau janda dari Jirah, untuk mcnciptakan kebudayaaan. Heraty berbicara atas nama seorang janda tua Jirah, Calon Arang, sebagai perempuan korban masyarakat patriarkal. Sebagai korban, janda tua ini diperkenalkan sebagai simbol kejahatan dalam dikotomi kejahatan dan kebaikan. Akan tetapi, Herati memanfaatkan malapetaka dan target dari kejahatan Calon Arang untuk menghadirkan perspektif subjek kepenulisannya: kemarahan perempuan. Heraty, juga dalam kemarahannya. bcrbicara atas nama perempuan yang menjadi objek yang tcrsubjektifikasi, sebagai subordinasi kekuasaaan laki. Sawitri berbicara atas nama janda yang perkasa. janda dari Jirah. sebagai perempuan pendeta yang tak tertandingi otoritas kekuasaan laki-laki. Sebagai pendeta, janda terscbut diperkenalkan sebagai simbol lbu yang Agung. ternpat bcrlindung dan bernaung. Disini, Sawitri memanfaatkan ajaran-ajaran dari kredo si Janda untuk menunjukkan pcrspektif subjck kcpcnulisannya: superioritas pcrcmpuan. Sawitri, dalam kckagumannya, berbicara atas nama pcrcrnpuan yang menjadi subjek yang terobjektifikasi, sebagai 'the other'- sebagaimana juga laki-laki, untuk menciptakan harmoni. Baik Heraty maupun Sawitri berbicara atas nama pembungkaman Calon Arang dan Janda dari Jirah, Heraty dengan cara membebaskan pcrempuan dari esensi biologis dan mengasihani diri mereka sendiri, sedangkan Sawitri dari kemungkinan-kemungkinan filosofis dan keyakinan keagamaan mereka. Dua penulis perempuan ini telah menciptakan usaha yang luar biasa untuk berbicara dengan menggunakan perspektif-perspektif mereka terhadap pembungkaman Calon Arang dan Janda dari Jirah dalam posisi objek yang "tersubjcktifikasi" dan subjek yang "terobjektifikasi".
Paralelisme Antara Dongeng Dengan Realita dalam Cerpen-Cerpen Intan Paramaditha
Authors: Jayawati Maini Trisna
Published: June 2017

All short stories in the book. written by lntan, are using a woman perspectives; therefore, the book is used as a feminism propaganda. The book writer is trying to encourage her readers to see the truth beneath the face a ghost, called "woman" and that there is nothing to be afraid of since it is similar to look at our own reflection. What lntan has done through her short stories is actually a great contribution to the world oflndonesian women literacy.
Perubahan yang Dominan dalam Novel-Novel Putu Wijaya
Authors: Pujiharto Pujiharto
Published: June 2017

The aim of this paper is to express Putu Wijaya's novels transition from mimetic, in this paper we called it as modern novel, by taking Pabrik as sample, to the unm imetic novels that we cal led as postmodern novelsby taking Telegram and Stasiun as the sample. The research approach based on Mc Hale Theory (Postmodernist Fiction, 1991 ). Accoeding to him, the transition from modern to pascarnodern novel is signed by a dominant change: from epistemological dominant to ontological dominant. Pabrik rises accessibility. reliability or unreliability, circulation issues and knowledge transmission about factory world through its characters. This novel expresses the mistery of Tirtoatmojo family, the factory director. But, in the gap of cpystemological dominant, in chapter Ill appears the ontological dorn in ant. Ontological dominant appears only once in Pabrik, but in Telegram and Stasiun ontological dominant and epystcmological. dominant eppear by change. The appear of ontological dominant characteristic in Putu Wijaya's novels have similar relationship with pluralistic ontologism landscape that is the character of post modern condition. The reality in this condition is named unreality by Mc Hale.
Perlawanan Terhadap Politik Identitas Dalam Pieter Elberveld
Authors: Maimunah Maimunah
Published: June 2017

The resistance against Dutch colonialism in Indonesia was not only executed collectively such as through war but also sporadically, indirectly, and individually. The resistance against the political identity in the beginning of nineteenth centuries as represented in Pieter Elberveld (1924) by Chinese writer, Tio le Soei, shows the way Elberveld strives to resist colonial order and border as a "second class" below the Europeans. In order to destroy the colonial "rust en ordre", Elberveld uses various strategies such as claiming his resistance as Jihadfi Sablill ah (holy war), converting to Moslem and collaborating with Javanese priyayi which symbolically reflects his affiliation with the native. Meanwhile, his strategy to be called as "Toean Goesti" can be seen as his attempt to be classified as a Javanese leader. Despite the fact that Elberveld's tactics are not successful, the process to construct this self-naming portrays the variety of the colonial-subject resists the colonial rule.
Resensi Buku Perempuan Pala
Authors: Faruk Faruk
Published: June 2017

Perempuan Pala oleh Azhari. AKY: Yogyakarta. 2004.
Isolation and characterization of rhizospheric Streptomyces spp. for the biocontrol of Fusarium wilt (bayoud) disease of date palm (Phoenix dactylifera L.)
Authors: Mouloud Ghadbane , Samir Medjekal , Laid Benderradji , Daoud Harzallah
Published: June 2017

Fusarium wilt of date palm (Phoenix dactylifera L.) caused by Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. Albedinis is one of the most destructive diseases in North Africa spicily in Algeria and Morocco. The objectives of this work were the isolation, identiﬁcation and biocontrol efﬁcacies testing of rhizospheric actinobacteria of medicinal plant Astragalus gombo against fusarium wilt disease in date palm. Five rhizospheric Streptomyces spp. Isolates bi02, bi21, bi24, bi26 and bi28 showed the largest zone of inhibition demonstrating a potent effect against F. oxysporum f.sp. Albedinis and a broad spectrum of antimicrobial activities against the test microorganisms. All these selected isolates produced indol acetic acid (IAA) at different levels, exhibited higher activity of phosphate solubilisation and siderophore production as well as chitinase and protease activities. The inoculation of infected date palm with the five Streptomyces spp. Increased all parameters of growth measured in controlled conditions. The study revealed that the five Streptomyces spp. could be a potential biocontrol agent for controlling palm and also promoting growth of plants.
Konstruktions- und größenbedingte Einflüsse auf den Verzug von ölabgeschreckten Zahnradgrundkörpern*
Authors: Lübben Th. , Surm H. , Steinbacher M.
Published: June 2017

Kurzfassung

Aus wirtschaftlichen und ökologischen Gesichtspunkten kommt dem Thema Leichtbau in der Fahrzeugindustrie in den letzten Jahren eine besondere Bedeutung zu. Dabei werden oftmals konstruktive Lösungen verfolgt, um dieses Ziel erfolgreich umzusetzen. Allerdings müssen Aspekte einer fertigungsgerechten Auslegung der Bauteile, insbesondere im Antriebsstrang, entlang der gesamten Prozesskette berücksichtigt werden, um infolge der abschließenden Wärmebehandlung gravierende Verzugsprobleme zu vermeiden. Im Moment liegen allerdings noch keine Konstruktionsrichtlinien vor, die den Einfluss von konstruktiven Änderungen auf das Maß- und Formänderungsverhalten von Zahnrädern berücksichtigen. Daher wurde in einem Forschungsprojekt das Verzugsverhalten von Zahnradgrundkörpern auf der Basis von experimentellen und numerischen Studien analysiert. Zentrale Aspekte waren der Einfluss der Bauteilgröße, der Maße von Steg und Zahnkranz, der Zahl und des Durchmessers von Bohrungen im Steg, der Gestaltung von Querschnittsübergängen und der Abschreckprozess. Weitere Fragestellungen vor dem Hintergrund der Reduzierung des Getriebebauraums betrafen den Einfluss eines verschobenen bzw. verkippten Stegs. In diesem Teil der Veröffentlichung werden die experimentellen Untersuchungsergebnisse für das Einsatzhärten mittels Gasaufkohlung und Ölabschreckung vorgestellt. Die Ergebnisse der numerischen Untersuchungen folgen im zweiten Teil dieses Berichts.
In-situ-Untersuchung von Randschichten während des Gasnitrierens mittels Röntgendiffraktometrie und photothermischer Radiometrie*
Authors: Dong J. , Prekel H. , Dethlefs M. , Epp J. , Fischer A.
Published: June 2017

The aim of most applications of nitriding treatments at steel components is to obtain a compact compound layer and/or a deep diffusion layer. The possibility of a survey of the nitriding treatment by analyzing directly the component´s surface state during the nitriding process is particularly interesting, since it allows a process monitoring and control based on the actual nitriding result. In the present study, two measurement methods were developed and combined with the aim of direct surface state analysis during a nitriding treatment: the in-situ X-ray diffraction method and the photothermal radiometry. An experimental setup including a miniature nitriding furnace was developed in order to allow the combined application of both methods during a nitriding process under controlled atmosphere. In the present work, results of combined in-situ measurements on the steel AISI 4140 regarding the nitride layer formation during nitriding process as well as the nitride layer change during the following denitriding of the layer in nitrogen gas are presented and discussed. The investigations show that the photothermal radiometry is sensitive to the changing surface properties due to growing compound layers and when porous layers are generated. This method has a high potential for implementation in industrial nitriding furnaces, but for this, further development for quantitative evaluations of the measurements will be required.
Polymer Flow Behavior Analysis Based on Physical Visualization Technology for Ultrasonic Vibration-Assisted Injection Molding
Authors: Jiang K.-Y. , Ji Z. , Li H. , Wang M.-J. , Yu T.-M.
Published: June 2017

To understand the flow behavior of a melted polymer during injection molding with ultrasonic vibration, a new visualization device was developed and a method was proposed to analyze the filling velocity field during the injection molding process. Using the device and method, both the influence of ultrasonic vibration on the velocity of the filling front and the velocity distribution of a polypropylene melt within a cavity are discussed. The results showed that the filling front velocity of the melt was improved by ultrasonic vibration (the filling front velocity was improved by up to 27% when 200 W of ultrasonic power was applied). In addition, it was shown that the velocity gradient of the melt within the cavity decreased, and that the velocity distribution became more uniform during ultrasonic vibration.
Influence of Carbon Fillers on Thermal Properties and Flammability of Polymeric Nanocomposites
Authors: Rybiński P.
Published: June 2017

Undesirable features of polymeric materials include insufficient thermal stability under specified exploitation conditions and too high flammability. These features depend on the chemical structure of polymer macromolecules, and composition of polymeric composites. Polymeric materials with increased thermal stability and improved resistance to the action of fire are produced with the use of various types of fillers with nanometric dimensions. Among numerous nanofillers, carbon-based nanofillers such as graphite nanoplatelets, carbon nanotubes and graphenes (graphene oxide, reduced graphene oxide and modified graphene) play an essential role. The aim of this report is to highlight the latest findings concerning the effect of carbon fillers, mainly graphene and carbon nanotubes on the thermal properties and flammability of polymer nanocomposites.
Method of Calculating the Fluid Permeability of Machined Skin-Covered Porous Sheets from Experimental Flow Data
Authors: Nicolae A. , Guo H.-M. , Kumar V.
Published: June 2017

Porous polymer sheets created by the “solid state microcellular foaming process” possess an impermeable solid skin on the boundary. In order to experimentally determine the internal structure's fluid permeability, the skin is removed by machining a pattern of holes or channels so that fluid flow can be established when applying a pressure difference across the faces. In this work, a fluid flow model for this particular geometry assuming a Newtonian fluid and isotropic internal porous structure is established. This yields formulae used to compute the structure's Darcy permeability from experimental flow data. Experimental verification of the model is provided for a sample of Polyetherimide (PEI) nanoporous polymer sheet whose skin was drilled in various hole patterns, thus establishing the mathematical foundation for future work in investigating this class of porous materials.
A Combined Experimental and Modelling Approach towards an Optimized Heating Strategy in Thermoforming of Thermoplastics Sheets
Authors: Buffel B. , van Mieghem B. , van Bael A. , Desplentere F.
Published: June 2017

Determining the operational settings for the heating equipment in thermoforming is still mainly done by trial and error as well as personal experience. Depending on the type of IR heating equipment, these settings can be the consumed electrical power or the desired temperature of the heating elements. In this study, a workflow is developed, applied and validated to characterize the IR heating equipment and to determine the optimal heating strategy. The workflow starts with an on-site equipment/machine characterization, which takes all machine and environment parameters into account. This approach results in the optimal heater setting and heating duration in order to obtain a through thickness temperature distribution which lies within a predefined forming range. The proposed methodology is universally applicable as it can deal with different types of sheet material and thicknesses. Moreover it can be applied to any type of IR heating element (halogen, metal foil, ceramic or quartz). Moreover, the methodology can easily be implemented in an industrial environment. Additionally, an estimate for the thermal efficiency of halogen heater equipment can be determined.
Research on Optimizing Parameters of Thermal Bonding Technique for PMMA Microfluidic Chip
Authors: Chen X. Y. , Li T. Y. , Zhang S. , Yao Z. , Chen X. D. , Zheng Y. , Liu Y. L.
Published: June 2017

The thermal bonding method is an advanced processing technology, which can bond a variety of polymer sheets on request. This work aims to analyze the effect of applied loading, heating temperature and duration on the depth loss of the PMMA microfluidic chip after bonding. Several experiments were designed by us and the results were analyzed by orthogonal experimental method. Finally optimal applied loading, heating temperature and duration were obtained and in the optimal case, the bonded microfluidic chip has small depth loss and enough strength.
Analyzing the Influence of Surface Renewal on Diffusive Mass Transport in Vented Single-Screw Extruders
Authors: Marschik C. , Löw-Baselli B. , Miethlinger Jürgen
Published: June 2017

We present a semi-numerical modeling approach to analyzing the role of surface renewal during bubble-free devolatilization in vented single-screw extruders. To demonstrate the significance of surface renewal in the mass transport of volatiles, we derived approximate analytical solutions for the two-dimensional circulatory flow in a partially filled screw channel, placing special emphasis on the melt pool that forms in front of the active flight. By applying the resulting velocity field to the governing conservation equation for the volatile concentration in the polymeric phase, the convective influence of the polymer flow on mass transport is taken into account. The resulting convection-diffusion equation, which is solved numerically using the finite-volume method, provides both qualitative and quantitative insights into how volatile depletion in the melt pool is related to the flow field developed. Thus, we clearly demonstrate that surface renewal improves mass transport efficiency considerably, even at very low screw speeds.
The Place of Girls in the Traditions of Minstrelsy and Recitation
Authors: Vallone Lynne
Published: June 2017

Children's literature criticism has been enhanced by classic and recent work that considers and analyses the important roles children play in performance, but there is a gap in current scholarship on drama as children's literature. This gap concerns how the place of children – especially girls and notions of girlhood – has changed over time in texts and cultural productions around the traditions of recitation and minstrelsy.1Robin Bernstein has argued persuasively that the ‘scripts’ of a racist past inform the cultural constructions of the present and that children's material and popular culture is often its repository: ‘Sentimentalism or minstrelsy may have peaked in the lives of adults in the nineteenth century, but the popular cultures of childhood … delivered, in fragmented and distorted forms, the images, practices, and ideologies of sentimentalism and minstrelsy well into the twentieth century’ (7). This essay attempts to bridge this gap in scholarship by investigating late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Anglo-American black and white girlhood through readings of recitation pieces and playtexts, important aspects of children's literary culture, broadly conceived
The Polemics of Real and Imagined Childhood(s) in India
Authors: Chakramakkil Anto Thomas
Published: June 2017

This essay attempts to map historical, literary and social constructions of childhood in India and to explore ways in which these differ from Western-dominated, globalised attitudes to childhood. Evidence about Indian childhood is drawn from across a narrative spectrum including children's books and films and some adult writing and media. Notions of childhood are different within and across the cultures of the world; while there is no ‘correct’ version of childhood, many have common features and sometimes the influences of one culture can be strongly felt in another. In India, for example, a dominant construction of childhood was imported through Western education. 1 After Independence (1947), Indian children's literature in English became caught up in the mass postcolonial project of nation-building. As part of becoming emancipated from colonial rule, a dominant image of the child in fiction based on Western childhood had to be replaced by one that is hybrid and multicultural. This construction of Indian childhood is now itself being buffeted by forces of cultural homogenisation. 2
‘Here Always’: Time and Place in the Archive of Green Knowe
Authors: Long Rebecca
Published: June 2017

Lucy M. Boston's Green Knowe books are widely regarded as classics of British children's literature. This article explores the house at Green Knowe as an archive of history and memory, and in doing so interrogates the potential for both history and memory to be recovered through imagination. Childhood experience becomes the medium within which Boston considers ideas of belonging and identity in a post-war Britain where the concept of home has been fundamentally compromised. Focusing on the first two books in the Green Knowe series – The Children of Green Knowe (1954) and The Chimneys of Green Knowe (1958) – this article uses Boston's protagonist Tolly's exploration of the house, its past and his own identity to posit that reconnecting to history and heritage facilitates a recovery of self after a period of personal displacement.
‘Lovely beyond Words’: Beckett, Value, Critique
Authors: McDonald Rónán
Published: June 2017

In recent years there have been numerous pronouncements by diverse figures in the humanities, including Bruno Latour, Rita Felski and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, that critique and ‘paranoid reading’ has run out of steam. There has been renewed attention to form, the ‘literary’, affect and the phenomenology of reading. What are the implications of this new turn for Beckett studies? Is it possible to articulate a positive value for a writer that undoes value, without simply recuperating him or her into the cultural economy? This essay is in two parts, counterpointed but complementary. The first takes a metacritical approach, elaborating synergies in Beckett and wider developments in academic literary studies. The second offers a close reading of Beckett's late prose text ‘All Strange Away’, from which I derive my titular quotation. This late work is both deeply engaged with and explicitly resistant to the Western aesthetic tradition, especially Romanticism. It deploys cultural and literary traces of aesthetic tradition, but only to parody and deface them, leaving for instance the imagination/fancy distinction blurred and suggestive, and the whole equipment for judgment uncomfortably residual and remaindered. Yet for all the play on auto-critique and self-cancellation, the text keeps the imagination flickering, precisely in the self-reflexive domain. The imagined death of the imagination, endures as the remainder, preventing the actual death and thereby keeping the possibility of valuation in process. We begin to find it in the percussive accompaniment enacted by the language: the unmistakable cadences and symmetries of Beckett's own prose. Ultimately a close reading of Beckett reveals the patterns and shapes of the prose and the drama, which as Adorno pointed out, gesture towards emancipatory possibilities without naming them. The pleasure of reading Beckett emerges from the dialectic of estrangement and recognition, mixing the uncanny and patterned linguistic markers. These signposts are found in the language, in the rhythms, patterns, repetitions and variations highlighted by a formalist criticism attentive to the phenomenology of reading.
Towards a Legal Turn in the Ethics of Immigration
Authors: Rochel Johan
Published: June 2017

This contribution presents the case for a ‘legal turn’ in the ethical debate on immigration. The legal turn is an invitation directed mainly at philosophers to take law as a normative practice seriously, to draw upon the normative resources which it entails and to look for cooperation opportunities with legal scholars. In the continuation of the debates on the ethics of immigration, this legal turn represents an important opportunity for philosophy to gain more relevance in the legal and political realms by affirming its capacity to inspire and guide concrete legal evolutions.
This piece proposes both a methodological argument on how to make room for the contributions made by ethical theory within a legal argument and an exemplification of this innovative approach as a way to uncover new research fields for both immigration law and ethics. This legal turn represents a promising development of the consistency-based approach used widely by philosophers arguing from the point of view of liberal and democratic values and highlighting inconsistency in immigration policy. The legal turn pleads for a new locus for ethical investigation (namely immigration law) and proposes a methodology labelled as a ‘normative reflexive dialogue’. The potential of this dialogue will be exemplified through the principle of proportionality, a decisive principle for migration law and ethics.
Multi-Mode Electric Actuator Dynamic Modelling for Missile Fin Control
Authors: Gurav Bhimashankar , Economou John , Saddington Alistair , Knowles Kevin
Published: June 2017

Linear first/second order fin direct current (DC) actuator model approximations for missile applications are currently limited to angular position and angular velocity state variables. Furthermore, existing literature with detailed DC motor models is decoupled from the application of interest: tail controller missile lateral acceleration (LATAX) performance. This paper aims to integrate a generic DC fin actuator model with dual-mode feedforward and feedback control for tail-controlled missiles in conjunction with the autopilot system design. Moreover, the characteristics of the actuator torque information in relation to the aerodynamic fin loading for given missile trim velocities are also provided. The novelty of this paper is the integration of the missile LATAX autopilot states and actuator states including the motor torque, position and angular velocity. The advantage of such an approach is the parametric analysis and suitability of the fin actuator in relation to the missile lateral acceleration dynamic behaviour.
Terawatt-Isolated Attosecond X-ray Pulse Using a Tapered X-ray Free Electron Laser
Authors: Kumar Sandeep , Landsman Alexandra , Kim Dong
Published: June 2017

High power attosecond (as) X-ray pulses are in great demand for ultrafast dynamics and high resolution microscopy. We numerically demonstrate the generation of a ~230 attosecond, 1.5 terawatt (TW) pulse at a photon energy of 1 keV, and a 115 attosecond, 1.2 TW pulse at a photon energy of 12.4 keV, using the realistic electron beam parameters such as those of Korean X-ray free electron laser (XFEL) in a tapered undulator configuration. To compensate the energy loss of the electron beam and maximize its radiation power, a tapering is introduced in the downstream section of the undulator. It is found that the tapering helps in not only amplifying a target radiation pulse but also suppressing the growth of satellite radiation pulses. Tapering allows one to achieve a terawatt-attosecond pulse only with a 60 m long undulator. Such an attosecond X-ray pulse is inherently synchronized to a driving optical laser pulse; hence, it is well suited for the pump-probe experiments for studying the electron dynamics in atoms, molecules, and solids on the attosecond time-scale. For the realization of these experiments, a high level of synchronization up to attosecond precision between optical laser and X-ray pulse is demanded, which can be possible by using an interferometric feedback loop.
Synthesis and Biophysical Insights into the Binding of a Potent Anti-Proliferative Non-symmetric Bis-isatin Derivative with Bovine Serum Albumin: Spectroscopic and Molecular Docking Approaches
Authors: Abdelhameed Ali , Bakheit Ahmed , Mohamed Mostafa , Eldehna Wagdy , Abdel-Aziz Hatem , Attia Mohamed
Published: June 2017

As part of the research endeavors to combat cancer, a non-symmetric bis-isatin derivative (compound 3) was synthesized and showed a significant anti-proliferative potency. The current study provides a comprehensive characterization of the interaction of compound 3 with the drug-transporting protein bovine serum albumin (BSA) via the use of spectroscopic tools along with molecular docking studies. Fluorescence spectral measurements showed that the BSA intrinsic fluorescence can be significantly quenched by the addition of compound 3 and the formation of a non-fluorescent complex. Further measurements revealed a static type of quenching with Stern–Volmer and Linweaver–Burk constants of 105. The thermodynamic parameters of the binding were calculated to be ΔS° 105.09 ± 5.32 with ΔH° of −0.72 ± 0.71 and negative ΔG° values. In addition, synchronous fluorescence and 3D fluorescence spectroscopy suggested that compound 3 did not induce conformational changes in BSA. Site competition experiments revealed that compound 3 competes with warfarin within the BSA binding domain (Sudlow site I). This was further confirmed by the molecular docking results showing a binding energy of −25.93 kJ/mol for compound 3-BSA. Hence, the observed results in the present study assumed that the compound 3-BSA binding is spontaneous, involving electrostatic forces and hydrogen bonding.
Tsallis Entropy and Generalized Shannon Additivity
Authors: Jäckle Sonja , Keller Karsten
Published: June 2017

The Tsallis entropy given for a positive parameter α can be considered as a generalization of the classical Shannon entropy. For the latter, corresponding to α = 1 , there exist many axiomatic characterizations. One of them based on the well-known Khinchin-Shannon axioms has been simplified several times and adapted to Tsallis entropy, where the axiom of (generalized) Shannon additivity is playing a central role. The main aim of this paper is to discuss this axiom in the context of Tsallis entropy. We show that it is sufficient for characterizing Tsallis entropy, with the exceptions of cases α = 1 , 2 discussed separately.
Exploiting Cell Death Pathways for Inducible Cell Elimination to Modulate Graft-versus-Host-Disease
Authors: Falcon Corey , AL-Obaidi Mustafa , Di Stasi Antonio
Published: June 2017

Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation is a potent form of immunotherapy, potentially life-saving for many malignant hematologic diseases. However, donor lymphocytes infused with the graft while exerting a graft versus malignancy effect can also cause potentially fatal graft versus host disease (GVHD). Our group has previously validated the inducible caspase-9 suicide gene in the haploidentical stem cell transplant setting, which proved successful in reversing signs and symptoms of GVHD within hours, using a non-therapeutic dimerizing agent. Cellular death pathways such as apoptosis and necroptosis are important processes in maintaining healthy cellular homeostasis within the human body. Here, we review two of the most widely investigated cell death pathways active in T-cells (apoptosis and necroptosis), as well as the emerging strategies that can be exploited for the safety of T-cell therapies. Furthermore, such strategies could be exploited for the safety of other cellular therapeutics as well.
Theoretical Prediction of Electronic Structures and Phonon Dispersion of Ce2XN2 (X = S, Se, and Te) Ternary
Authors: Kanoun Mohammed Benali , Goumri-Said Souraya
Published: June 2017

A systematic study of structural, electronic, vibrational properties of new ternary dicerium selenide dinitride, Ce2SeN2 and predicted compounds—Ce2SN2 and Ce2TeN2—is performed using first-principles calculations within Perdew–Burke–Ernzerhof functional with Hubbard correction. Our calculated results for structural parameters nicely agree to the experimental measurements. We predict that all ternary dicerium chalcogenide nitrides are thermodynamically stable. The predicted elastic constants and related mechanical properties demonstrate its profound mechanical stability as well. Moreover, our results show that Ce2XN2 are insulator materials. Trends of the structural parameters, electronic structures, and phonon dispersion are discussed in terms of the characteristics of the Ce (4f) states.
Sensory Evaluation and Oxidative Stability of a Suncream Formulated with Thermal Spring Waters from Ourense (NW Spain) and Sargassum muticum Extracts
Authors: Balboa Elena , Conde Enma , Constenla Astrid , Falqué Elena , Domínguez Herminia
Published: June 2017

The purpose of this work was to evaluate four thermal spring waters from Ourense and a Sargassum muticum extract as cosmetic ingredients for the preparation of a suncream. The thermal spring waters were tested for their suitability as an aqueous phase main component, and the algal extract was added as an antioxidant instead of using synthetic preservatives in the cosmetic formula. The emulsion was tested for lipid oxidation during a period of 9 months and for consumer acceptance by performing a sensory test on controls and blanks. Further, color parameters were considered, and a pH determination was performed. The S. muticum extract protected from primary and secondary oxidation as efficiently as Fucus sp. or α-tocopherol extracts. In addition, the sensorial test revealed that consumers preferred suncreams prepared with the S. muticum extract and with thermal spring water from O Tinteiro and A Chavasqueira. The pH of the suncreams varied with the selection of the ingredients, and no oscillations in colorimetric values were visually observed. Our results indicate that the algal extract and the thermal spring waters from Ourense are potential cosmetic ingredients, since they showed effectiveness as antioxidant ingredients, and the suncreams were well accepted by consumers.