bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
The old man and Slovenia: Hemingway studies in the slovenian cultural context
Authors: Maver Igor 
Published: August 2018

The name of Ernest Hemingway was first mentioned in Slovenian literary criticism by the writer and critic Tone Seliškar in 1933. Soon afterwards, Griša Koritnik, the foremost translator of English and American literatures in the period between the two wars, in his article »The Great War in the English Novel« described the protagonist of the novel A Farewell to Arms (1929) somewhat enigmatically as »the symbol of the old generation«. In a short survey of contemporary American literature, which Anton Debeljak in 1939 freely adapted from the article previously published by J. Wood Krutch in The Times, Hemingway was grouped together with the Nobel Prize winner Pearl S. Buck and novelist Erskine Caldwell, which is to say with the giants of the then mainstream American fiction. However, it is curious that a Slovenian reader should already from this article have learned how Hemingway, the author of »powerful stories«, had recently become monotonous, which was before he even had a fair chance to get acquainted with any of his works translated into Slovenian.
Einige Aspekte der Mataphorik im Roman "Die letzte Welt" von Christoph Ransmayr
Authors: Gorše Dušan 
Published: August 2018

Alles begann irgendwann in der Mitte der achtziger Jahre, als Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Erfinder und Herausgeber der »Anderen Bibliothek«, den jungen Schriftsteller Christoph Ransmayr gebeten hatte, die berühmten Metamorphosen von Ovid zu bearbeiten, so daß dieses klassische Werk der Antike wieder belebt wäre. Ransmayr war damals mit seinem Erstling Die Schrecken des Eisens und der Finsternis ein unbekannter Autor, den aber jetzt Die letzte Welt zum Kultautor gemacht hat. Er mußte bald einsehen, daß er mit einer Nachdichtung nicht weiterkam, und so traf er die Entscheidung, einen eigenen Metamorphosenroman zu schreiben, in dem der ehemalige Dichter Ovid selber zu einem, zwar abwesenden, Protagonist gemacht wurde.
Il mondo sloveno nell'opera di Ippolito Nievo
Authors: Pirjevec Marija 
Published: August 2018

L'interesse per il mondo slavo, per la sua cultura, letteratura, soprattutto quella popolare, per la sua storia e il folclore, fa parte integrante della curiosita intellettuale dell'epoca preromantica e di quella romantica. Già Herder nel suo libro Ideen zur Philosophie der Geschichte der Menschheit sottolineò l'importanza e il ruolo degli Slavi, chiamati per la loro indole pacifica e mansueta ad interpretare le fondamentali esigenze dell' epoca nuova: quelle della fraterna collaborazione tra i popoli. Il periodo in cui Niewo nacque e crebbe nella consapevolezza sempre più vigile della necessità d'impegno politico e civille, l'Europa andava scoprendo il ricco partimonio poetico e folcloristico de li Slavi, che era di vitale importanza per l'ulteriore sviluppo delle loro attività letteraria.
Il postmoderno nella narrativa Italiana degli anni ottanta : (Quali linguaggi?)
Authors: Juri Franco 
Published: August 2018

È lecito parlare di una narrativa italiana postmoderna? E se lo è, quali sono gli aspetti che la identitficano e le danno diritto di stanzialità nell'arte scritta degli anni '80? La questione non è di facile penetrazione, visto che - a differenza dei generi e dei modi. riconducibili a cornici di facile sistemazione stilistico-temporale - il ˝postmoderno˝ in letteratura rimane soprattutto un'ipotesi in gestazione, destinata farse a restare solo fluida ed estemporanea sperimentazione; una risposta ludica alla crisi che fa da sfondo alla produzione letteraria, e più in genere culturale, deli anni '80, nonché al disfacimento di molti valori morali, etici ed estetici ereditati dalla decade dei '70.
El personaje del escritor en dos novelas de Antonio Azorín: El escritor, Y doña Inés
Authors: Szmetan Ricardo 
Published: August 2018

Hoy en día, estamos en mejores condiciones para valorar en su justo valor las innovaciones estilísticas que la novela del siglo XX está creando en relación a la novela del siglo pasado; y eso lo vemos nitidamente cuando estudiamos varias de las novelas de Azorín, un escritor un poco olvidado en la actualidad, pese a los importantes aportes que ha dejado. Tiempo ha pasado desde cuando Ortega y Gasset se quejaba de la decadencia de la novela. Exagerando afirmaba que: »Es prácticamente imposible hallar nuevos temas«, y que el público »necesitaba temas de mayor calidad, mas insólitos, mas nuevos« (31). Si pensamos que Ortega escribía esto en 1925, y si bien se refería a la literatura europea en general, podemos inferir que la herencia española del siglo XIX tampoco lo entusiasmaba demasiado. En ese sentido, Azorín no lo hubiera decepcionado, ya que éste siempre buscaba temas nuevos y diferentes formas de expresar su pensamiento. Al tratar Azorin los problemas de la creación artistica que aquejan al escritor, en obras como El Escritor y Doña Inés, iba él en el camino pedido por Ortega en el polémico, pero lúcido artículo anteriormente citado.
Ein geistesgegenwärtiger Zeitgenosse am Ende der Zeiten : Sichtverengung und Blickstreuung in Christoph Heins längeren Prosatexten
Authors: Šlibar Neva , Volk Rosanda 
Published: August 2018

»Ich empfinde den Beruf eines Schriftstellres als den eines Berichterstatters, eines Chronisten. Ich bin ein Schreiber von Chroniken, mit literarischen Mitteln natürlich [...]« (A, 203). Dieses Selbstverständnis Christoph Heins, geäußert in einem lnterview für das Neue Deutschland vom 2./3. 12. 1989, enthalt mehr als das Bekenntnis zum Historischen, zum Schreiben »über mich und meine Welt« (ebda.) als Leitthemen seines Iiterarischen Wirkens. Es ist eine Poetik in nuce. Im Gegensatz zum Historiker lebt der Chronist nämlich aus der Zeitgenossenschaft mit dem erzählten Geschehen, er befindet sich nach A. C. Danto folglich logisch in derselben Ordnung der Ereignisse, die er beschreibt• Es fehlt·ihm die restrospektiv wertende Sicht des Historikers, in Heins Worten: »Der Berichterstatter hat eigentlich nur etwas mitzuteilen und muß sich weitgehend der moralischen Wertung enthalten« (ebda.). Diese reduktionistische Postion bestimmt Heins Realismuskonzept, das keinen Anspruch auf epische Breite, Auktorialität und Beherrschbarkeit stellt, sowie keine konkreten Utopievorstellungen präsentiert. Weiters bestimmt sie die dominierende Bedeutung des Blickpunkts für die Wirklichkeitskonstruktion von Heins Welten, die Identitätsbildung seiner Figuren sowie die enggeführte Erzählhaltung (O, 157). Ablesbar ist sie gleichfalls an einer Motivik, die traditionellerweise Sichtverengung und Selbstbezogenheit zum Ausdruck bringt: Spiegel und blinde Scheiben, Fotoapparate und Kameras, Fotografieren und Sich-Spiegeln signalisieren vom Film inspirierte Schreibverfahren. Dieser (selbst)beschränkenden Position gilt es hier nachzugehen; ausgeklammert werden demnach bewußt aktuell geschichtliche und regional beschränkte, d. h. auf die DDR-eingegrenzte politische Interpretationsmöglichkeiten.
La tendenciosidad de la crítica Cervantina conservaroda en torno al capítulo de los galeotes : (El Quijote, I, 22)
Authors: Osterc Ludovik 
Published: August 2018

Desde que la primitiva sociedad humana se dividió en grupos y clases antagónicos, la justicia se ha vuelto el problema central de la misma y la condición principal de la paz y la convivencia entre los hombres. Por ello, no es casual el que figure como uno de los primordiales objetivos que persigue don Quijote en su lucha por restablecer el bien en la tierra, y la aventura de los galeotes que trata de ella, uno de los episodios de mayor trascendencia. Es por ello, también, que la liberación de los galeotes por parte de don Quijote, se ha constituido en uno de los temas más discutidos por los cervantistas que se escindieron en dos grupos opuestos: el tradicional o conservador, y el liberal o progresista, con distintos matices y variantes de sus respectivos puntos de vista.
The polyhedron on Duerer's "Melencolia I"
Authors: Kurent Tine 
Published: August 2018

The polyhedron with triangular and pentagonal faces on the Duerer's "MELENCOLIA I" engraving is said to be a cube with two opposite corners cut off. A cube has 6 faces, 12 sides and 8 corners. A cube with two truncated tips has 8 faces, 18 sides and 12 corners. In the above numbers, the prime factors 2 and 3 are implied. The numbers 2 and 3 are symbols for human beings, male and female. The solid is a symbol for humanity. Men and women can be affected with melancholy.
Don Quijote y los rebuznadores
Authors: Zimic Stanislav 
Published: August 2018

Para la aventura del rebuzno, que se considera generalmente como "cuento folclórico, se han señalado varias posibles fuentes, nacionales y extranjeras, antiguas y modernas, protagonizadas por un asno - símbolo universal y sempiterno de la estupidez y la ignorancia (pace Platero) - que, de un modo u otro, es la causa de cómicas, ridículas, absurdas o festivas rivalidades, contiendas, pendencias, guerras ... También se han sugerido como antecedentes ciertos sucesos supuestamente históricos que coinciden, al menos en algunos detalles, con el episodio cervantino, pero predomina la convicción de que éste, como todos sus antecedentes, son, en definitiva, sólo "consejas" populares, productos ficticios de la fantasía, sin base concreta, reconocible en la realidad: "From the realistic point of view the episode [ el cervantino] is ... inherently improbable".
The earliest translations of Emily Dickinson's poetry in Slovene
Authors: Petrič Jerneja 
Published: August 2018

The article addresses the issue of the earliest translations of Dickinson's poetry in Slovene. Only 6 of the total number of 19 poems, translated into Slovene by Vatro Grill, were published in his 1979 memoir Med dvema svetovoma (Between Two Worlds). The other 13 poems included in Grill's manuscripts were never published. In the first part of her article, the author briefly surveys the translations of Dickinson's poetry into Slovene by Mart Ogen, Aleš Debeljak, Ivo Svetina and Miklavž Komelj. In the second part, the focus is on_Grill's translation of two poems by Emily Dickinson whereby the translator's ability to capture the meaning of Dickinson's verse is measured against Mart Ogen's translation of the same poems.
Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-five : a functional grammar perspective
Authors: Kavalir Monika 
Published: August 2018

The paper tries to analyse the style of Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five with the tool of Hallidayan systemic-functional grammar. Its aim is to explore in what way the syntactic and thematic structure helps construct the sentiment of fatalism and simplicity, and how it reinforces the novel's concept of time.
Transkulturalität der "Schweizer" Autorin Ilma Rakusa
Authors: Kondrič Horvat Vesna 
Published: August 2018

Ilma Rakusa gibt mit ihrer Tatigkeit als Schriftstellerin, Essayistin, Übersetzerin und Dozen­ tin ein Paradebeispiel für die Transkulturalität ab, die bekanntlich die Fähigkeit bedeutet, scheinbar gegenteilige Werte in Einklang zu bringen. Sie hat die Erfahrung mehrerer Kulturen und Sprachen gemacht, die sie sehr konstruktiv zu verbinden weiß, was ihre Gedichte, Dramolette, Erzählungen so wie Essays am deutlichsten demonstrieren. Der Beitrag versucht ein reiches Spektrum ihres transkulturel­ len Lebens und Schaffens zu erfassen.
Assessing the performance and robustness of the UNICEF model for groundwater exploration in Ethiopia through application of the analytic hierarchy process, logistic regression and artificial neural networks
Authors: Josephs-Afoko David , Godfrey Samuel , Campos Luiza C 
Published: August 2018

This study assesses the performance and robustness of the groundwater potential (GWP) maps produced by the UNICEF model for deep groundwater exploration in Ethiopia. The UNICEF model is a weighted linear combination of hydrogeological parameters including permeability, slope, recharge, and lineament density, which has been calibrated using the expert judgements of local hydrogeologists. In order to assess the performance and robustness of the model, three techniques were employed: the analytic hierarchy process (AHP), logistic regression (LR), and artificial neural networks (ANNs). Three study areas (Dallol, Halaba and Shinelle) were selected on the basis of climatic and geological variation, in addition to the availability of well data pertaining to depth and yield. The performance of the UNICEF model in predicting outcomes of the well data included in the study was assessed by computing the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve. The solutions produced by the AHP and ANN were more accurate than the UNICEF model in determining the productivity of deep wells in the study data, whilst the LR model was less accurate than the UNICEF model. The groundwater productivity maps produced by the AHP and ANNs showed clear correlation with the maps produced by the UNICEF model, despite moderate (AHP) and severe (ANN) parameter perturbation, demonstrating the robustness of the UNICEF model. Whilst the AHP and ANN models demonstrated higher accuracy than the UNICEF model, this must be considered against the well data used to assess accuracy, which were drawn from a small sample of non-ideal distribution. Although this study focuses on case studies in Ethiopia the key findings are applicable internationally, namely, that the use of the AHP in data-scarce environments provides robust models, and that with the addition of easily obtainable well data the accuracy of modelling can be significantly increased through the application of ANNs.
Optimization of sequencing batch reactor for wastewater treatment using chemically enhanced primary treatment as a pre-treatment
Authors: Mian Haroon R , Haydar Sajjad , Hussain Ghulam , -e-Hina Gul 
Published: August 2018

The sequencing batch reactor (SBR) is a wastewater treatment option feasible for low flows. The objective of this research was to optimize SBR by varying its operational parameters, viz. (i) settling time and (ii) reaction time. The study was conducted in two phases. In Phase 1, raw wastewater was fed into the SBR after conventional settling, while in Phase 2 raw wastewater was fed into the SBR after coagulation-flocculation-sedimentation. A bench-scale model was set up and domestic wastewater was used for this study. Performance of the treatment system was evaluated through 5-day biochemical oxygen demand (BOD), chemical oxygen demand (COD) and total suspended solids (TSS). The results demonstrated that reaction time was reduced to 4 h in Phase 2 compared to 10 h in Phase 1. The BOD, COD and TSS removal efficiencies observed in Phase 1 were 80%, 80% and 73%, respectively, and for Phase 2 the removal efficiencies were 74%, 75% and 80% respectively. National Environmental Quality Standards (NEQS) were met in both cases and the treatment cost per cubic metre of wastewater for Phase 2 was 2.5 times lower compared to Phase 1.
Multiple criteria decision analysis for sanitation selection in South African municipalities
Authors: Salisbury Frances , Brouckaert Chris , Still Dave , Buckley Chris 
Published: August 2018

A multiple criteria decision analysis (MCDA) was developed for the selection of sanitation systems. This decision support system was aimed at assisting municipal engineers to design and implement sustainable solutions to meet a municipality’s obligation to provide free basic sanitation (FBS). Multi-attribute value theory (MAVT) was selected as the method most suited to the problem under consideration. Criteria which determine the sustainability of sanitation were selected from the literature and a spreadsheet-based MCDA with stakeholder and expert user interfaces was developed. Stakeholders determine the weighting of each indicator and expert users determine the values to be entered for the alternatives against each indicator. The partial values are aggregated using a weighted sum function. Research carried out into the implementation of FBS by the eThekwini Municipality that includes the city of Durban was analysed. This informed the allocation of indicator values to the sanitation alternatives under consideration: ventilated improved pit latrines (VIPs) and urine diversion dehydrating toilets (UDDTs). An innovative scenario analysis method was used to determine the effect of different weightings and/or values, representing changes in stakeholder involvement, resource recovery and political support for ecological sanitation. The MCDA was found to provide a guiding framework for municipal engineers in their efforts to implement sustainable sanitation. The process of deriving values for the MCDA is likely to prove even more useful than the overall value scores of the options under consideration.
Technical note: Nutrient removal and microbial settlement in a full-scale subsurface wastewater infiltration system: Impact of varying hydraulic and organic loads and temperature
Authors: Sun Yafei , Fan Linlin , Tong Deli , Li Zhiqi , Zheng Fanping , Hou Wanyuan , Pan Jing 
Published: August 2018

A series of experiments was conducted through a full-scale subsurface wastewater infiltration system (SWIS) to investigate the impact of hydraulic loading rate (HLR), organic loading rate (OLR) and underground temperature on nutrient removal and microbial settlement. Taking the hydraulic and treatment performance into consideration, HLR of 0.10 m3/(m2·d) was recommended with average NH3-N, TN, COD and TP removal rates of 82.6%, 81.5%, 80.9% and 90.9%, respectively.Considering treatment performance, OLR of 10.4 g BOD/(m2·d) was recommended with average NH3-N, TN, COD and TP removal rates of 88.1%, 84.8%, 86.3% and 91.3%, respectively. The number of nitrifying bacteria in each layer in the matrix decreased with increasing HLR, and the number of denitrifying bacteria increased with increasing HLR, at 0.8 and 1.0 m depths. When OLR increased, the number of bacteria and denitrifying bacteria at 0.8 and 1.0 m depths increased, and the number of nitrifying bacteria decreased. Average NH3-N, TN and COD removal rates increased with underground temperature increasing. The number of bacteria, nitrifying bacteria at 0.4 and 0.6 m depths and denitrifying bacteria at 0.8 and 1.0 m depths, increased with underground temperature increasing.
Forecasting carbon monoxide on a global scale for the ATom-1 aircraft mission: insights from airborne and satellite observations and modeling
Authors: Strode Sarah A. , Liu Junhua , Lait Leslie , Commane Róisín , Daube Bruce , Wofsy Steven , Conaty Austin , Newman Paul , Prather Michael 
Published: August 2018

Abstract. The first phase of the Atmospheric Tomography Mission (ATom-1) took place in
July–August 2016 and included flights above the remote Pacific and Atlantic
oceans. Sampling of atmospheric constituents during these flights is designed
to provide new insights into the chemical reactivity and processes of the
remote atmosphere and how these processes are affected by anthropogenic
emissions. Model simulations provide a valuable tool for interpreting these
measurements and understanding the origin of the observed trace gases and
aerosols, so it is important to quantify model performance. Goddard Earth
Observing System Model version 5 (GEOS-5) forecasts and analyses show
considerable skill in predicting and simulating the CO distribution
and the timing of CO enhancements observed during the ATom-1 aircraft
mission. We use GEOS-5's tagged tracers for CO to assess the
contribution of different emission sources to the regions sampled by ATom-1
to elucidate the dominant anthropogenic influences on different parts of the
remote atmosphere. We find a dominant contribution from non-biomass-burning
sources along the ATom transects except over the tropical Atlantic, where
African biomass burning makes a large contribution to the CO
concentration. One of the goals of ATom is to provide a chemical climatology
over the oceans, so it is important to consider whether August 2016 was
representative of typical boreal summer conditions. Using satellite
observations of 700 hPa and column CO from the Measurement of
Pollution in the Troposphere (MOPITT) instrument, 215 hPa CO from
the Microwave Limb Sounder (MLS), and aerosol optical thickness from the
Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS), we find that CO
concentrations and aerosol optical thickness in August 2016 were within the
observed range of the satellite observations but below the decadal median for
many of the regions sampled. This suggests that the ATom-1 measurements may
represent relatively clean but not exceptional conditions for
lower-tropospheric CO.
Gridded Satellite (GridSat) GOES and CONUS data
Authors: Knapp Kenneth R. , Wilkins Scott L. 
Published: August 2018

Abstract. The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) series is operated
by the US National Oceanographic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). While in operation since the mid-1970s,
the current series (GOES 8–15) has been operational since 1994. This
document describes the Gridded Satellite (GridSat) data, which provide GOES
data in a modern format. Four steps describe the conversion of original GOES
data to GridSat data: (1) temporal resampling to produce files with evenly
spaced time steps, (2) spatial remapping to produce evenly spaced gridded
data (0.04∘ latitude), (3) calibrating the original data and
storing brightness temperatures for infrared (IR) channels and reflectance for
the visible channel, and (4) calculating spatial variability to provide extra
information that can help identify clouds. The GridSat data are provided on
two separate domains: GridSat-GOES provides hourly data for the Western
Hemisphere (spanning the entire GOES domain) and GridSat-CONUS covers the
contiguous US (CONUS) every 15 min (dataset reference: https://doi.org/10.7289/V5HM56GM).
Herta Müller’s <i>Atemschaukel (The Hunger Angel)</i> in the Context of Twentieth-Century Forced Migration in East-Central Europe
Authors: Kiss Ernő Csongor 
Published: August 2018

My paper elaborates Herta Müller’s Gulag novel, Atemschaukel (2009; published in English under the title of The Hunger Angel in 2012), in the historical, political and ethical contexts of twentieth-century forced migrations by placing the novel among those exodus narratives that have unfolded the parallel history of Romanian-German and Jewish communities during and after the Second World War. Given the fact that the memory of forced migrations and of the Gulag is a “soft memory” (Etkind 2004), there are no consensual remembrance policies in any concerned East or East-Central European country regarding their history. In the absence of official ownership, the legacies of these colletive and individual traumas became predominantly text-based (rather than image- or monument-based). One must therefore study those aesthetical forms by which literature is able to encode the physical, psychological, moral, social-political conditions of any totalitarian rule—and thus, attempt to establish the perceptional and sensational frames on which the universe of the Gulag can be re-constructed. Accordingly, my paper gives an amplifying view of the tendencies by which Müller’s Atemschaukel both preserves and subtly re-orchestrates the conventions of the genre of the Gulag novel. One of the main achievements of her (politics of) aesthetics consists in re-creating the image of the labor camp through an ethically grounded conception of literary testimony, which, at the same time, gains and fulfills a mediative (mimetic) function.