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Die zerstreute Erbschaft
Authors: Biti Vladimir 
Published: April 2018

Abstract
How can narrative come to terms with the past in a world hit by trauma was one of the questions most consistently investigated in the work of Walter Benjamin. Pursuing it in various past and present contexts, he gradually reassessed the marginalized literary tradition of narrative strolling along the scene of the crime, rummaging through and collecting of the putative indices. The chaotic execution site, calling its observers and investigators to responsibility toward its heap of ruins, resists sovereign narrative reconstruction of its emergence. The latter is therefore replaced by various conjectures, repeated preparations and hesitating roundabouts which ultimately turn the plot into a kind of a bewildering rebus, neither a story nor a picture. I read Dubravka Ugrešić’s posttraumatic novel The Museum of Unconditional Surrender (1997) within this tradition of narratives that strategically couple the incompatible registers of discursive and visual presentation, trivial and high literature, the beautiful and the sublime, materiality and immateriality with one another. Its discourse is haunted by a multitude of exiled or absolved voices and gazes who do not permit a homogeneous and transparent story. Ugrešić’s narrator is, like Benjamin’s flaneur, obsessed by their summoning resonance stored in the myriad of dissipated fragments of today’s posttraumatic world.
In der Vorhölle
Authors: Küster Burkhart 
Published: April 2018

Abstract
In 1857 Édouard Thierry and Barbey d’Aurevilly enter into the defence of the Fleurs du Mal, arguing that these strange poems are related to Dante’s Divina Commedia, the medieval model serving as a foil to the modern texts. Baudelaire intended to include those two vindicating articles in the third and final edition of his poetry, which seems to indicate that the French poet considered Dante’s work relevant to the understanding of the Fleurs du Mal. When Baudelaire the art critic deals with Doré’s and Delacroix’s visual interpretations of Dante, he underlines the great sadness of the Commedia in words that touch on his spleen, the theme which predominates in the „Limbes“ series of 1850–1851. Baudelaire does not say which passages of the Commedia his poems are referring to, but luckily T.S. Eliot, who admired both Dante and Baudelaire, can help. Eliot mentions lines of the third canto of the Inferno that fuse easily with the „Limbes“ poems. Eliot and other thinkers were fond of the canto which describes the vestibule of Hell.
Up to now, critics have mainly searched for similarities with Baudelaire’s poems in the fourth canto of the Inferno, in Limbo, and have never found much. This article attempts to demonstrate that it is ideas from the third canto of the Inferno that can be conceived as a second voice to the „Limbes“, making the reading of Baudelaire’s early poems a more enriching experience.
Asian-Americans in New York: Two Men’s Adventures in Immigrant-Land
Authors: Chevereşan Cristina 
Published: April 2018

AbstractGish Jen’s Typical American and Chang-rae Lee’s Native Speaker are two essentially urban novels that focus on issues of (ethnic) identity construction and performativity in metropolitan New York, at the end of the twentieth century. Belonging to two distinct immigrant communities (Chinese and Korean), their protagonists are Americans in the making, whose personal evolutions and involutions are shaped by the social and cultural dilemmas of transition and (mal)adjustment. The present article scrutinizes the fictional interplay of public and private (hi)stories and discourses, and analyzes the ways in which stereotypical definitions and representations of otherness, investigations and exploitations of memory, and manipulations of individual and communal belief are called upon to illustrate the intricate mechanisms of contemporary United States. Citizenship, ethnicity, education, language, power relations, discrimination, consumerism and, last but not least, politics, are important elements that this comparative approach questions. By studying the two novels together, the article argues that the two writers capture different, yet equally relevant hypostases of the (Asian) immigrant’s self-questioning and self-inscription into the American nation, whose updated versions of the “Dream” have been dominated by the material rather than the spiritual concerns.
Zentrifugen des Wissens – Zur Enzyklopädik des Barockromans
Authors: Kilcher Andreas B. 
Published: April 2018

AbstractEarly modern literature has high epistemological claims. In particular, the novel as the most innovative genre of the 16th and 17th centuries was expected to negotiate and transmit knowledge about the world in an extensive way. This epistemological optimism must be understood against the background of contemporary encyclopaedic models, which offered new possibilities of reaching out for universal and total knowledge. Two variants of encyclopaedic writing are most efficient for the novel: the logic of Lullism and the miscellaneous knowledge production of Polyhistorism. Both techniques were used in baroque novels of the 17th century: Polyhistorism produced a centrifugal dispersion of knowledge throughout the texts, whereas Lullism aimed at recollecting and ordering it. This interplay is evidently present in Daniel Casper von Lohenstein’s highly digressive 3,000 page novel „Arminius“ (1689/90), with its paratextual framework of prefaces, annotations, and indices. Moreover, the reception of „Arminius“ in 18th and 19th centuries is pertinent for the subsequent critique of encyclopaedic knowledge.
Dietmar Daths enzyklopädische Science Fiction
Authors: Willer Stefan 
Published: April 2018

AbstractIn contemporary German literature, Dietmar Dath (born 1970) is arguably the most prolific encyclopaedic author – a designation that refers not only to the amount of scientific, discursive and popular knowledge included in his books, but also to their shere volume. Since the mid-1990s, Dath has published a huge amount of fiction and non-fiction, with manifold transitions between these two categories. I propose to read Dath’s novels – especially „Für immer in Honig“ (2005, revised edition 2008) and „Die Abschaffung der Arten“ (2008) – as encyclopaedic Science Fiction: a kind of literary knowledge presentation that is at the same time extremely polyhistoric, highly entertaining, and strictly progress oriented in the vein of classical Marxism-Leninism. After sketching these programmatic aspects of Dath’s writing, I examine some of his crucial political and scientific issues and the way in which they figure in the aforementioned novels: posthumanism, scientific socialism, and mathematical category theory. To conclude, I discuss Dath’s preoccupation with the narrative integration of the multifarious elements of his writing, which is also the attempt of including them into a coherent narrative of his own authorship.
Ein anderer Pygmalion – Techniken der Kunstbelebung in Joseph von Eichendorffs Das Marmorbild, Oscar Wildes The Picture of Dorian Gray und Georg Heyms Der Dieb
Authors: Genz Julia 
Published: April 2018

AbstractThe main issue of the Pygmalion myth is the vitalisation of an artificial woman. In Ovid’s Metamorphoses it is motivated by the intervention of Venus. This article deals with Pygmalion-like protagonists since 1800, in which the crucial point of vitalisation is no longer based on divine volition but on semiotic theories that Winckelmann, Lessing, Goethe and others used in the eighteenth century. In these cases, the protagonist’s perspective gives rise to the impression of vivification. The examples of Joseph von Eichendorff, Oscar Wilde and Georg Heym show that this shift also had an impact on the narrative techniques, for their concreteness allows the reader to retrace the vivification of the figures himself. In the twentieth century Georg Heym modernised the techniques of the eighteenth century by connecting them with associations of the new medium film. In the course of time the pygmalionic observer turns into a pygmalionic narrator, whose narration obtains with the aid of the reader an enormous vitality.
Problématique du désir et du plaisir chez Honoré de Balzac et Cao Xueqin
Authors: Kan Chia-Ping 
Published: April 2018

AbstractThe issue of ‘desire’ is one that is of deep interest to both Balzac and Cao Xueqin. The purpose of the article is to show that the focus and development of these two authors on the issue of desire present astonishing similarities and a common aim to show that there is no final solution. Instead, there is a similar approach that impacts the entire life of their heroes and can be considered as the cursed part of the human condition. Recognition of desire as the chimera that it is and renouncing the pursuit of its satisfaction could be one solution. Yet is not desire what constitutes being human? Renouncing it could turn out to be as chimerical as the original problem, the hope for its fulfillment.
Transition as a focus within language maintenance research: Wellington Iraqi refugees as an example
Authors: Tawalbeh Ayman 
Published: April 2018

Abstract
Most current language maintenance and shift research has focused on investigating immigrants’ experiences and attitudes in their host countries only. Recent research has shown that additional insights can be gained from a multi-perspective approach to language maintenance that includes “spatio-temporal” frames. Transit experiences (representing extra spaces and multiple phases) offer important information which has been overlooked in most language maintenance and shift research. Drawing on a data set of 30 semi-structured interviews with Wellington Iraqis and 13 with Iraqi refugees preparing to move to New Zealand from their transit point in Jordan, this article argues for the significance of transit experiences to language maintenance research. Analysis of the data suggests the significance of transit experiences in explaining the variations in Iraqis’ linguistic preferences and competencies and elucidates differences in language ability, use and attitude between older and younger generations. The data provides evidence for the importance of transition as a focus within language maintenance and shift study.
Lexical V-V compounds in child Japanese: An experimental study
Authors: Isobe Miwa , Okabe Reiko , Kido Yasuhito 
Published: April 2018

AbstractJapanese is known to have verbal compounds consisting of two verbs (hereafter “V-V compounds”), and many theoretical studies have shown that V-V compounds can be divided into two types: lexical and syntactic V-V compounds (Kageyama 1993, among many others). A recent study by Kageyama (2013, 2016a, 2016b) points out that the lexical V-V compounds can be further categorized into two types, one of which can be paraphrased as the V-teV sequence. The aim of our current study is to elucidate based on experimental data whether Japanese-speaking children aged 4-5 can correctly comprehend lexical V-V compounds and differentiate them from the V-teV sequence which are superficially similar to but syntactically distinct from them. Our experiment reveals that children can differentiate between the syntactic properties of these constructions and thus have acquired the two different constructions consisting of two-verb sequences by the time they turn 4 years old.
Effect of a multidisciplinary treatment program on eating behavior in overweight and obese preschool children
Authors: Bocca Gianni , Kuitert Mirije W.B. , Sauer Pieter J.J. , Corpeleijn Eva 
Published: April 2018

Abstract

Background:
The effects of multidisciplinary treatment programs on eating behavior in overweight preschool-aged children are largely unknown. We evaluated a multidisciplinary intervention program on eating behavior in 3- to 5-year-old overweight children, comparing them with children given standard treatment. We also assessed the parental eating behavior changes and investigated associations between parents and children.

Methods:
We randomized 75 children to a multidisciplinary intervention or to a standard care program. During a 16-week period, children and parents in the multidisciplinary group were given dietary advice, physical activity sessions and, for parents only, psychological counseling. Children and parents in the standard group visited a pediatrician 3 times and were given information on a healthy lifestyle. At baseline, after 16 weeks, and after 12 months, children were measured and parents completed the Dutch Child Eating Behavior Questionnaire (DEBQ-C) for their children and the DEBQ for themselves.

Results:
At the three time points, 70 (93.3%), 57 (91.9%), and 42 (73.7%) DEBQ-Cs were analyzed. We found no differences in the changes in eating behavior between the two groups over time. In both groups, there was a significant increase in restrained eating behavior present at 16 weeks, however, this was no longer present at 12 months. We found no associations between changes in eating behavior between the children and their parents.

Conclusions:
A multidisciplinary obesity intervention program in preschool-aged children induced more restrained eating behavior between baseline and 16 weeks. However, there was no difference with the children in the standard care group.
Bayesian estimation of ordinary differential equation models when the likelihood has multiple local modes
Authors: Liu Baisen , Wang Liangliang , Cao Jiguo 
Published: April 2018

Abstract
Ordinary differential equations (ODEs) are popularly used to model complex dynamic systems by scientists; however, the parameters in ODE models are
often unknown and have to be inferred from noisy measurements of the dynamic system. One conventional method is to maximize the likelihood function, but the likelihood function often has many local modes due to the complexity of ODEs, which makes the optimizing algorithm be vulnerable to trap in local modes.
In this paper, we solve the global optimization issue of ODE parameters with the help of the Stochastic Approximation Monte Carlo (SAMC) algorithm which is shown to be self-adjusted and escape efficiently from the “local-trapping” problem. Our simulation studies indicate that the SAMC
method is a powerful tool to estimate ODE parameters globally. The efficiency of SAMC method is demonstrated by estimating a
predator-prey ODEs model from real experimental data.
An overview of the synthesis of CuO-ZnO nanocomposite for environmental and other applications
Authors: Das Susmita , Srivastava Vimal Chandra 
Published: April 2018

Abstract
In the field of environmental science, metal oxide nanocomposites have gained a great attention for both theoretical and experimental aspects of their upgradation because of their wide range of practical applications such as catalysts, sensors, hydrogen storages, and optoelectronics. Among all nanocomposites, Copper oxide-zinc oxide (CuO-ZnO) has attracted more research due to their excellent tunable catalytic, electrical, optical, and magnetic properties and environment-friendly nature. Coupling of one metal oxide semiconductor with another metal oxide semiconductor produces an enlarged surface area, which provide more reactive sites, promotes mass transfer, promotes electron transfer, and avoids photo-corrosion of nanocomposites, which enhances its efficiency. The CuO-ZnO nanocomposite has been prepared by various methods such as co-precipitation, sol-gel, wet impregnation, and thermal decomposition. Depending on the preparation method and conditions used, different types of CuO-ZnO nanocomposites like Cu-doped ZnO, Cu supported/impregnated on ZnO, and CuO-ZnO mixed oxides with different morphologies of CuO-ZnO nanocomposites have been obtained. This article reviews the synthesis techniques of the CuO-ZnO nanocomposite and its morphology. Various practical applications of the CuO-ZnO nanocomposites have also been discussed.
“Libre à de plus audacieux de pousser plus loin la fidélité”: Traduire les passages obscènes dans la “Collection des Universités de France” entre 1920 et 1945
Authors: Flamerie de Lachapelle Guillaume 
Published: April 2018

SummaryThis article aims to show how the translators of the Latin series of the “Collection des Universités de France” treated the obscene passages between 1920 and 1945. Some address the issue in their preface; many deliberately avoid a literal translation, either by quite simply refraining from translating the passages concerned, or by relying on a form of euphemisation. Each of these two strategies itself drew on various mechanisms. In the end, the “Collection des Universités de France” is shown to be more precise than older or contemporary bilingual collections, whether in France or in the English-speaking world. Nontheless, from the 1930 s onward Jules Marouzeau criticised the translators for their prudery; progressively, the new translators became more explicit.
Energy dissipation characteristics of crosslinks in natural rubber: an assessment using low and high-frequency analyzer
Authors: Anas K. , David Samson , Babu R.R. , Selvakumar M. , Chattopadhyay S. 
Published: April 2018

Abstract
The dynamic deformation of a viscoelastic material can cause heat generation. This heat generation is an aspect of energy dissipation. The present paper investigates the contribution of crosslink type and density on energy dissipation mechanism in natural rubber compounds. The influences of these elements are investigated using a very high frequency (VHF) analyzer (VHF 104) and a dynamical mechanical analyzer (DMA). The VHF 104 analyzer follows transmissibility and vibration isolation principle, whereas DMA works on dynamical mechanical the deformation principle. Higher crosslink density promotes lower heat generation in rubber compounds. Tan δ interpretation for energy dissipation characteristics of rubbery compounds should be done judiciously to avoid wrong interpretations. Polysulfidic linkages show higher damping ratios (ζ) than monosulfidic or disulfidic linkages due to their dissipative nature. The natural frequency (ω
n) of a system at a given mass is the function of its crosslink density.
Improving the mechanical properties of Fe3O4/carbon nanotube reinforced nanocomposites by a low-magnetic-field induced alignment
Authors: Huang Yifan , Jiao Weicheng , Niu Yue , Ding Guomin , Wang Rongguo 
Published: April 2018

Abstract
The aim of the paper is to develop a novel nanocomposite with high mechanical properties. The mechanical properties are improved by aligning the Fe3O4/multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) into a highly oriented manner in epoxy resin (EP) via a low magnetic field. Fe3O4 nanoparticles were tethered onto the surface of MWCNTs by a novel water-in-oil (W/O) method without heating at high temperatures or the protection of inert gas. Then, the modified magnetic MWCNTs (m-MWCNTs) were added into EP and aligned in a low magnetic field (100 mT). A method was presented to estimate the minimum magnetic field strength for aligning the m-MWCNTs. Besides, the morphology and microstructures of the fabricated m-MWCNTs and m-MWCNTs/EP highly ordered nanocomposites were characterized. Finally, the mechanical properties measurements were performed. The results of the experiments showed that this method was very efficient in aligning m-MWCNTs embedded in polymer matrix leading to a highly ordered composite for improving mechanical properties.
A unique structure of uranyl-carbonate mineral sharpite: a derivative of the rutherfordine topology
Authors: Plášil Jakub 
Published: April 2018

Abstract
The structure of hydrated calcium uranyl carbonate, mineral sharpite, has been solved for the first time. The structure is orthorhombic, space group Cmcm, with the unit-cell parameters a=4.9032 (4), b=15.6489 (11), c=22.0414 (18) Å, V=1691.2 (2) Å3, Z=4. The structure was refined from 858 unique observed reflections to a final R=5.48% (GOF=1.48). The structure is based upon infinite Ca2+-uranyl-carbonate sheets, which are unique among uranyl minerals and inorganic compounds. They result from edge-sharing of triangles, occupied by CO3, and hexagons that are occupied both by UO8 and Ca2+(H2O)3O5. Thus, topology of the sheets is identical to rutherfordine, (UO2)(CO3). Nevertheless Ca2+ is occupying one of the hexagons of the topology in sharpite. Sheets are extremely corrugated, stacked perpendicular to b and linked by H-bonds and Van Der Waals interactions, only. The ideal chemical formula of sharpite is {Ca(H2
[3]O)3[(UO2)3(CO3)3.6O0.2]}0, Z=4; however, one of the C sites was found to be only partially occupied. The character of sharpite structure is probably a key to understand its scarcity of occurrences in Nature.
Design of Multi-Resonant Cavities Based on Metal-Coated Dielectric Nanocylinders
Authors: Dong Junyuan , Yu Guanxia , Fu Jingjing , Luo Min , Du Wenwen 
Published: April 2018

Abstract
In this paper, the light scattering properties for multiple silver-coated dielectric nanocylinders with the symmetrical distribution were investigated. Based on the transfer matrix method, we derive the general transmission and reflection coefficient matrices for multiple dielectric nanocylinders. When the incident light frequencies are less than the plasma frequencies, the surface plasmons (SPs) appear in the interface between the silver and dielectrics. Numerical simulations show that there are three peaks of absorption cross-section (ACS) in the relationship between the ACS and the frequencies of the incident light, when the distance between the silver-coated dielectric nanocylinders is chosen properly. These SPs resonance peaks are characterised as resonances intrinsic to the cylindrically periodic system corresponding to different inner cavity structures. These multi-resonant cavities may have potential applications in integrated devices, optical sensors and optical storage devices.
Triclinic conformational polymorph of N,N,N′,N′-tetrakis(2-cyanoethyl)-1,2-ethylenediamine (TCED)
Authors: Bereska Bartłomiej , Czaja Krystyna , Dziuk Błażej , Zarychta Bartosz , Ejsmont Krzysztof , Iłowska Jolanta , Szmatoła Michał , Bereska Agnieszka 
Published: April 2018

Abstract
The crystal and molecular structures of two polymorphs of N,N,N′,N′-tetrakis(2-cyanoethyl)-1,2-ethylenediamine have been characterized by X-ray diffraction along with density functional theory (DFT) studies. The molecules differ from each other by conformation. N,N,N′,N′-tetrakis(2-cyanoethyl)-1,2-ethylenediamine has been synthesized by cyanoethylation of ethylenediamine. Cyanoethylation of vicinal diamines is important for the synthesis of hyperbranched polymeric materials applied as catalysts, surfactants and encapsulating agents in drug delivery systems. The molecular geometry of N,N,N′,N′-tetracyanoethyl-1,2-ethylenediamine is similar to that of homologous compounds. DFT calculations were performed to analyze the differences in the molecular geometry of the studied compounds in a crystalline state and for an isolated molecule.