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299. Ataka no seki
No full textIwao Seiichi, Sakamato Tarō, Hōgetsu Keigo, Yoshikawa Itsuji, Kobayashi Tadashi, Bonmarchand Georges, Kanazawa Shizue. 299. Ataka no seki. In: Dictionnaire historique du Japon, volume 1, 1963. Lettre A. p. 93
Anti-Neoliberal Neoliberalism: Post-Socialism and Bulgaria’s “Ataka” Party
No full textThe last elections (2014) for European Union deputies once again confirmed the popularity of far-right parties. Despite scholarly attention, racism and xenophobia in the easternmost part of the EU, remain relatively unexplored. This essay focuses on Ataka, the first far-right political party to enter Bulgaria’s parliament after 1989. Specifically, the article focuses on its official media discourse in order to explain its complex position on neoliberalism. While this party engages in criticisms of neoliberalism, its understanding of it is non-economic and ambiguous. A rhetorical analysis of the party’s newspaper reveals that angry attitudes towards neoliberal economics fuel movements such as Ataka. However, Ataka often presents neoliberalism as a cultural project focused on multiculturalism, “Islamization”, and anti-nationalism. The essay explores this strategy to fuse economic demands with issues of identity. As such, this piece calls for a more nuanced understanding not only of the discourse of contemporary far-right movements, but also of neoliberalism itself.</jats:p
Ataka : les gloires éphémères de la xénophobie ?
No full textÀ la surprise générale, avec près de 9 % des voix, le parti Ataka (Attaque) a surgi en 2005 dans le paysage politique bulgare, parvenant même au second tour de la présidentielle de 2006 à engranger 24 % des voix. Ramené en 2011 à 3,6 % des voix, il semble avoir érodé sa capacité à se présenter comme une force antisystème. Néanmoins, son recul électoral ne saurait être réduit à une disparition des thèmes qu’il a portés et dont certains se sont banalisés dans la société. On y retrouve les ingrédients classiques de ce genre de formation qui cherche à ethniciser des contrastes sociaux grandissants ou la corruption de la classe politique en stigmatisant l’ «Autre » , en l’occurrence le Rom, ou dénonce la minorité musulmane, voire en dénonçant la «tsiganisation» de la Bulgarie.Ragaru Nadège. Ataka : les gloires éphémères de la xénophobie ?. In: Recherches Internationales, n°92, 2011. L’extrême droite, une nébuleuse multiforme qui s’enracine. pp. 69-79
Anti-Neoliberal Neoliberalism: Post-Socialism and Bulgaria’s “Ataka” Party
No full textThe last elections (2014) for European Union deputies once again confirmed the popularity of far-right parties. Despite scholarly attention, racism and xenophobia in the easternmost part of the EU, remain relatively unexplored. This essay focuses on Ataka, the first far-right political party to enter Bulgaria’s parliament after 1989. Specifically, the article focuses on its official media discourse in order to explain its complex position on neoliberalism. While this party engages in criticisms of neoliberalism, its understanding of it is non-economic and ambiguous. A rhetorical analysis of the party’s newspaper reveals that angry attitudes towards neoliberal economics fuel movements such as Ataka. However, Ataka often presents neoliberalism as a cultural project focused on multiculturalism, “Islamization”, and anti-nationalism. The essay explores this strategy to fuse economic demands with issues of identity. As such, this piece calls for a more nuanced understanding not only of the discourse of contemporary far-right movements, but also of neoliberalism itself
A different kind of massive attack: How the Bulgarian Ultranationalist Party Ataka engineered its political success using electronic media
No full textThis study explores the role of media in securing the electorate success of Ataka, Bulgaria’s ultra-right-wing party, as well as their contribution to the rise of nationalistic tendencies among the Bulgarian electorate. To accomplish this, the study sets two goals: fi rst, to explore the political and socio-cultural environment which has allowed for the growth of ultra-nationalist rhetoric in Bulgaria, and second, to examine how Ataka’s media publicity machine, with a specific focus on their new media tactics, have contributed to securing popular support for the virtually unfettered expression of ultra-nationalistic ideas. By conducting a critical analysis of Ataka’s use of electronic media, including websites, online forums, and other social networking tools, the study analyzes the importance of electronic media to a right wing party such as Ataka, that catapulted it from complete obscurity into a political force of national importance. This study explores the role of media in securing the electorate success of Ataka, Bulgaria’s ultra-right-wing party, as well as their contribution to the rise of nationalistic tendencies among the Bulgarian electorate. To accomplish this, the study sets two goals: fi rst, to explore the political and socio-cultural environment which has allowed for the growth of ultra-nationalist rhetoric in Bulgaria, and second, to examine how Ataka’s media publicity machine, with a specific focus on their new media tactics, have contributed to securing popular support for the virtually unfettered expression of ultra-nationalistic ideas. By conducting a critical analysis of Ataka’s use of electronic media, including websites, online forums, and other social networking tools, the study analyzes the importance of electronic media to a right wing party such as Ataka, that catapulted it from complete obscurity into a political force of national importance
A bending sensor insensitive to pressure: soft proprioception based on abraded optical fibres
No full textOptical sensors have recently been proposed for sensing bending, linear strains and external forces in soft actuators. However, the susceptibility of these sensors to a number of stimuli makes it difficult to comprehend the resulting data output. We address this challenge through the introduction of a low-cost flexible bending sensor based upon the abrasion of optical channels. Such sensors are responsive to bending while being insensitive to internal pressure or external forces. The developed sensor is integrated into a soft pneumatic finger in order to obtain feedback of its curvature. We further demonstrate that the sensor is insensitive to normal forces applied on a blocked finger. Through this work, we propose a simple, low-cost sensor development technique towards addressing the challenge of decoupling forces and deformations in soft robots
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Highly Manoeuvrable Eversion Robot Based on Fusion of Function with Structure
No full textDespite their soft and compliant bodies, most of today’s soft robots have limitations when it comes to elongation or extension of their main structure. In contrast to this, a new type of soft robot called the eversion robot can grow longitudinally, exploiting the principle of eversion. Eversion robots can squeeze through narrow openings, giving the possibility to access places that are inaccessible by conventional robots. The main drawback of these types of robots is their limited bending capability due to the tendency to move along a straight line. In this paper, we propose a novel way to fuse bending actuation with the robot’s structure. We devise an eversion robot whose body forms both the central chamber that acts as the backbone as well as the actuators that cause bending and manoeuvre the manipulator. The proposed technique shows a significantly improved bending capability compared to externally attaching actuators to an eversion robot showing a 133% improvement in bending angle. Due to the increased manoeuvrability, the proposed solution is a step towards the employment of eversion robots in remote and difficult-to-access environments
Model-based Pose Control of Inflatable Eversion Robot with Variable Stiffness
No full textPlant-inspired inflatable eversion robots with their tip growing behaviour have recently emerged. Because they extend from the tip, eversion robots are particularly suitable for applications that require reaching into remote places through narrow openings. Besides, they can vary their structural stiffness. Despite these essential properties which make the eversion robot a promising candidate for applications involving cluttered environments and tight spaces, controlling their motion especially laterally has not been investigated in depth. In this letter, we present a new approach based on model-based kinematics to control the eversion robot's tip position and orientation. Our control approach is based on Euler-Bernoulli beam theory which takes into account the effect of the internal inflation pressure to model each robot bending segment for various conditions of structural stiffness. We determined the parameters of our bending model by performing a least-square technique based on the pressure-bending data acquired from an experimental study. The model is then used to develop a pose controller for the tip of our eversion robot. Experimental results show that the proposed control strategy is capable of guiding the tip of the eversion robot to reach a desired position and orientation whilst varying its structural stiffness
A different kind of massive attack: How the Bulgarian Ultranationalist Party Ataka engineered its political success using electronic media
No full textTh is study explores the role of media in securing the electorate success of Ataka, Bul- garia’s ultra-right-wing party, as well as their contribution to the rise of nationalistic tendencies among the Bulgarian electorate. To accomplish this, the study sets two goals: fi rst, to explore the political and socio-cultural environment which has allowed for the growth of ultra-nationalist rhetoric in Bulgaria, and second, to examine how Ataka’s media publicity machine, with a specifi c focus on their new media tactics, have contributed to securing popular support for the virtually unfettered expression of ultra-nationalistic ideas. By conducting a critical analysis of Ataka’s use of electronic media, includ- ing websites, online forums, and other social networking tools, the study analyzes the importance of electronic media to a right wing party such as Ataka, that catapulted it from complete obscurity into a political force of national importance
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