762 research outputs found
Caput mundi: Rome as Center in Roman Representation and Construction of Space
No full textThis is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Peeters Publishers via the DOI in this record
Commencer et se mettre à : une description axiologico-conceptuelle
No full text2. B. Peeters, « Commencer and se mettre à : an axiologico-conceptual description »
This paper examines in full detail all syntactic environments in which the Modern French aspectual verbs commencer and se mettre à are currently used. It also investigates the precise semantic differences between both verbs. Definitions are couched in semantic primitives. The author attempts to take a stand with respect to all observations made by others on these verbs over the last thirty years. Most examples are drawn from a corpus of weekly magazines and/or 20th century novels.Peeters Bert. Commencer et se mettre à : une description axiologico-conceptuelle. In: Langue française, n°98, 1993. Les primitifs sémantiques, sous la direction de Bert Peeters. pp. 24-47
Turbulent heat transfer in channels with irregular roughness
No full textIt is well known that rough surfaces affect turbulent flows significantly. How such surfaces affect turbulent heat transfer is less well understood. To gain more insight, we have performed a series of direct numerical simulations of turbulent heat transfer in a channel flow with grit-blasted surfaces. An immersed boundary method is used to account for the rough surface. A source term in the thermal energy balance is used to maximise the analogy between the transport of heat and the transport of streamwise momentum. The wall roughness size is varied from to =120. Turbulence statistics like mean temperature profile, mean temperature fluctuations and heat fluxes are presented. The structure of the turbulent temperature field is analysed in detail. Recirculation zones, which are the result of an adverse pressure gradient, have a profound effect on heat transfer. This is important as it leads to the wall-scaled mean temperature profiles being of larger magnitude than the mean velocity profiles both inside and outside the roughness layer. This means that the temperature wall roughness function is different from the momentum wall roughness function . Since the bulk temperature and velocity depend on and , it was shown that the Stanton number and the skin friction factor directly depend on and , respectively. Therefore, the failure of the Reynolds analogy in fully rough conditions can be directly related to the difference between and
Delving into Heart-and Soul-Like Constructs:Describing EPCs in NSM
No full textIn this introduction to the volume, the editor sets the scene for what follows, justifying the choice of label (ethnopsychological personhood construct or EPC) for the soul-, heart-, and mind-like constructs canvassed by the four contributors. He then addresses the perennial problem of Anglocentrism and reification of EPCs in scholarly discourse, where English continues to set the tone and its constructs continue to be used as yardsticks in the description of cultural diversity, thereby elevating the English language to a status it does not deserve, no matter how important it may be on a world scale. Use of the Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) is put forward as a way out of the problem. NSM is introduced, with specific reference to semantic primes, semantic molecules, and semantic templates. In addition, to demonstrate the famous NSM motto that �every explication is an experiment�, the author reconstructs the various stages that explications of the English EPC mind have gone through since the first attempt was made in the late 1980s
De revisor revisited: over de literatuur van de desillusie
No full textIn this article the author searches for the characteristic features of Revisor-prose, i.e. the prose associated with the literary periodical De Revisor. In the late seventies, two leading critics, Aad Nuis and Carel peeters, confronted their views on the subject. The former highlighted the references to reality, the latter emphasized the influence of imagination. A few years ago, two academic researchers, Jaap Goedegebuure and Sander Bax, followed their example. The former opted for a 'modernist' approach, the latter preferred a 'postmodernist' perspective. The author of this article presents an alternative 'poetic' reading, supported by Kathryn Hume's study on Fantasy and Mimesi
Effect of viscosity and density gradients on turbulent channel flows
No full textWe perform Direct Numerical Simulations (DNS) of a turbulent channel flow with temperature dependent density and viscosity. The Navier-Stokes equations are solved using their low Mach number formulation. In the simulations performed, the fluid is internally heated and the temperature at the walls is fixed. The friction Reynolds number based on half channel height and wall friction velocity is Reτ = 395. The modulation of turbulence, which is caused by the density and viscosity gradients, is characterized using the semi-local scaling of Huang et al. [1995, JFM]
Profissionalidade e genero : participaçao dos homens e pequena infancia
No full textThe approach of the relationship between professionalism and gender at work with early childhood, proposed in this paper, requires a brief contextualization. Jan Peeters is director of the Centre for Innovation in the Early Years, a research center linked to the University of Gante in Belgium and the Social Pedagogy and Social Work course. His studies focus on the relationship between gender and early childhood, with emphasis on the coordination of five projects on the professionalization of services for early childhood, within the Framework of the European Union (EU). Early-childhood services within the EU, especially in countries and regions cited by Peeters in this article, are varied and generally intersectoral in nature, involving areas such as social assistance, education and health.Although in different countries - even regions and cities - they have their own characteristics, they can be characterized as services that arise with a perspective of custody and more recently incorporate a perspective of reception. Therefore, welcoming is a broader conception about the sharing with the families of education and care of young children, which can occur in collective institutions, small institutions that welcome few children, in some contexts up to five, in private space of the family, with the hiring of a professional accredited by the responsible body, among other forms.This variety of services, named in some passages of the text as structures for early childhood, differs significantly from the Brazilian context, and requires some attention to their understanding, including in relation to the terminologies used, as welcoming, when referring to the objective of the services and caregivers and educators, when it identifies the professionals who work in different services with the children. In relation to the central theme — the relationship between gender and professionalism — the author treats it considering the set of professionals who work in different care services of young children. The studies, policies and programs that he describes and analyses throughout the text lead him to advocate gender equity in professions of young childhood, which the author calls gender-neutral professionalism, a definition derived in particular from the experiences developed in UK at Sheffield Children's Center and the Pen Green Family Center, integrated services for small childhood, which since the 1980s employ almost as many men as women.These brief notes seek to situate aspects that characterize the important contribution of Jan Peeters to the debate on gender and professionalism at work with early childhood and introduce the reader in approach presented here, which was systematized from a conference held in 2009, transformed into a paper and published in 2013, in “Little Childhood and Participation: a Democratic Approach to Welcoming” (Petite enface et participation: une approche démocratique de l'accueil), organized by Sylvie Rayna and Catherine Bouve
Church and State in Lithuania
No full textE-ISSN : 1783-1458The author gives a short overview of evolutions in legislation, jurisprudence and doctrine in Lithuania.Vytauto Didžiojo universitetas / Vytautas Magnus UniversitySocialinių mokslų fakultetas / Faculty of Social SciencesSociologijos katedra / Department of Sociolog
La science-fiction au prisme de l’intime : étude des séries Lupus et Aâma de Frederik Peeters (2002-2014)
No full textL’article porte sur deux séries de BD de quatre tomes scénarisés et dessinés par l’auteur genevois Frederik Peeters, Lupus et Aâma, qui sont envisagées dans leur logique interne respective, de manière comparée et dans le rapport qu’elles entretiennent avec certains stéréotypes de la bande dessinée francophone de science-fiction. L’horizon d’attente postulé sur un plan générique est notamment discuté à partir des images de couverture et des incipit des albums. L’accent est mis sur l’écart instauré par Peeters avec certaines conventions du genre, puisque l’introspection et le quotidien sont dans les deux séries privilégiés sur l’exotisme et le spectaculaire : l’introspection se superpose à l’exploration spatiale. Nous montrons notamment comment, d’une série à l’autre ainsi que d’un tome à l’autre de la seconde série, l’auteur en vient à s’approprier certaines caractéristiques génériques qu’il formule toutefois de manière personnelle. L’étude de récurrences graphiques et narratives nous amène à faire l’hypothèse que les récits peuvent être lus comme l’expression d’une ambition visant à proposer une bande dessinée science-fictionnelle adulte dans le prolongement de Mœbius et de la BD autobiographique, et qui fait dès lors écho à l’orientation subjective prise par certains romanciers dans le champ de la littérature de science-fiction dès les années 1970.The article focuses on Lupus and Aâma, two series of four comic books written and drawn by the Genevese author Frederik Peeters, which are considered in their respective internal logic, in a comparative way and in their relationship with certain stereotypes of the science-fiction bande dessinée. The generic expectations created by the comic books of Peeters are discussed in particular on the basis of the cover images and the first panels of the albums. The emphasis is on the gap established by Peeters with certain conventions of the genre, since introspection and everyday life are in both series privileged on exoticism and spectacular: introspection is superimposed on spatial exploration. In particular, we show how, from one series to another as well as from one volume to another in the second series, the author gradually appropriates certain generic characteristics that he nevertheless formulates in a personal way. The study of graphic and narrative recurrences leads us to hypothesize that the stories can be read as an expression of an ambition to propose an adult science-fiction comic book as a continuation of Mœbius and autobiographical comics, and which therefore reflects the subjective orientation taken by some novelists in the field of science-fiction literature since the 1970s
Human-agent experience sharing : Creating social agents for elderly people with dementia
No full textAs intelligent technology steadily becomes a part of modern societies, people collaborate with agents more frequently, and so agents need to be socially intelligent, i.e. personalised and context-sensitive. This paper introduces a context-sensitive personalisation framework for social agents that facilitates the establishment of human-agent relationships by sharing past experiences through personal conversation, and sharing new experiences by engaging in joint activities to-gether. We apply the framework in a robot application for the dementia care practice: ReJAM - Robots engaging Elderly in Joint Activities with Music
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