912 research outputs found
The real option with an absorbing barrier.
No full textCe papier analyse l'option réelle avec barrière inférieure. C'est le modèle d'un investissement irréversible soumis au risque de perdre l'option d'investir si on attend trop. La valeur critique pour investir décroit lorsque la barrière se rapproche, ou lorsque la volatilité augmente. L'incertitude a un effet ambigu sur le temps espéré de décision et sur la probabilité de résolution après N années. Les résultats numériques et analytiques s'appliquent aussi à une option financière aéricaine avec une "down-and-out barrier" sur un support payant des dividendes.option réelle, incertitude, irréversibilité
Hybrid products: Successful Combinations or Misunderstood Novelties?
No full textIf a manufacturer wishes to combine two or more existing products into a new "hybrid" product, he needs to pay special attention to the way in which the product is to be marketed. The fact is that it may prove difficult to sell if consumers cant readily recognise the new product combination. Failure to clearly define the hybrids position in the market and to immediately explain its purpose means a manufacturer may soon have a flop on his hands. This was the conclusion of research by Kaj Morel, psychologist at the Product Innovation and Management department of the Industrial Design subfaculty of Delft University of Technology. He was recently awarded a doctorate on the strength of his thesis on consumer response to products that are open to various interpretations. 'Designers always play a major role in making hybrid products understandable.
Reply to Morel : cadmium as a micronutrient and macrotoxin in the oceans
No full textAuthor Posting. © The Author(s), 2013. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here by permission of National Academy of Sciences for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 110 (2013): E1878, doi:10.1073/pnas.1305068110.We thank François Morel for his interest in our study. Morel states that our conclusions are based on
the approximate match between the Cd-isotope composition of cultured bacteria and the fractionation
of Cd isotopes seen in seawater (1). This match is only a minor component of our argument, and we
welcome the opportunity to reiterate our case
RUBEM FONSECA E O ROMANCE METAFICCIONAL: ESTUDOS DO PROCESSO DE CRIAÇÃO EM O CASO MOREL - RUBEM FONSECA AND THE METAFICTIONAL NOVEL: STUDIES OF THE CREATIVE PROCESS IN O CASO MOREL – THE MOREL CASE
No full textResumo: A análise do romance O caso Morel de Rubem Fonseca revela,dentre os estudos da estratégia da narrativa, um processo de produção emque o modo de recepção e a forma diegética estão voltados para ametaficcionalidade e autorreflexividade, centradas na participação ativa doleitor enquanto co-autor do texto. Nessa perspectiva, o artigo busca ademonstrar que o caráter metaficcional vai residir na própria criação –romance dentro do romance – e nas manifestações literárias. Logo, aproblematização do ato da escrita e o da leitura é estabelecida por umpersonagem-escritor autoconsciente e pelo caráter metatextual. Desse modo,podemos identificar, segundo Genette, que as relações transtextuaispresentes na narrativa fonsequiana surgem com o intuito de refletir sobre aconstrução do texto dentro do próprio texto ampliando a interrelação entre arealidade e a ficção.Palavras-chave: O caso Morel. Romance metaficcional. Metatextualidade.Mímese do processo.Abstract: The analysis of Rubem Fonseca’s novel O Caso Morel – TheMorel Case – reveals, among the studies of narrative strategy, a productionprocess in the receiver mode and diegetic form are directed to meta-fictionaland self-reflexivity focusing on active reader participation like a co-author ofthe text. From this perspective, this article seeks to demonstrate that themeta-fictional aspect will lay down in its own creation – a novel within thenovel – and its literary manifestations. Therefore, the questions of writingand reading acts are established by a self-conscious writer/reader and by themeta-textuality features. Thus, we can identify, according to Genette, thatthe relations in Fonseca’s trans-textual narrative arise in order to reflect onthe text building within the text itself expanding the inter-relation betweenreality and fiction.Keywords: The Morel Case. Meta-fictional novel. Meta-textuality. Mimesisprocess
Archiving Simulacra: The Invention of Reality in Adolfo Bioy Casares' La Invencion de Morel
No full textAdolfo Bioy Casares??? La Invenci??n de Morel is a magical realist novel written in epistolary form that revolves around two characters: the anonymous narrator/author, and the scientist Morel, whose invention preserves reality by virtue of its ability to create perfect copies. Bioy Casares??? concern with the difference between subjective and objective reality, and the role of representation, anticipates Jean Baudrillard???s postmodern theories about a simulated reality in Simulacra and Simulations. Through an analysis of character and Morel???s machine, as well as an integration of Baudrillard???s ideas, my research explores how La Invenci??n de Morel calls into question our assumptions about the relationship between what we perceive to be reality and its representation. My research also examines the paradoxical aspect of magical realist literature in that it both creates mistrust in the mediums of image and language, as well as uses them to correct our assumptions about history or the world through the process of archiving. This research is useful in that it reminds us to question the means by which we communicate and perceive truths
Are domestics back?
No full textcontribution à un site webOver the past few decades, France has actively been supporting jobs in services to individuals, to the point that the sector currently involves 1.2 million employees. However, this apparent success belies a strategy that creates few jobs relative to its public cost. It could also contributes to social polarization, with the “new poor” serving the “new rich”. Nathalie Morel, co-author of the book Le retour des domestiques [Domestics are back] (ed. Seuil) and researcher at the Center for European Studies and Comparative Politics and the Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Evaluation of Public Policies, explores the reasons for this growing inequality, and considers fairer policies
Are domestics back?
No full textcontribution à un site webOver the past few decades, France has actively been supporting jobs in services to individuals, to the point that the sector currently involves 1.2 million employees. However, this apparent success belies a strategy that creates few jobs relative to its public cost. It could also contributes to social polarization, with the “new poor” serving the “new rich”. Nathalie Morel, co-author of the book Le retour des domestiques [Domestics are back] (ed. Seuil) and researcher at the Center for European Studies and Comparative Politics and the Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Evaluation of Public Policies, explores the reasons for this growing inequality, and considers fairer policies
Biological Mechanisms of Plant Interactions With a Combination of Biotic and Abiotic Stresses
No full textThis eBook is a collection of articles from a Frontiers Research Topic. Frontiers Research Topics are very popular trademarks of the Frontiers Journals Series: they are collections of at least ten articles, all centered on a particular subject. With their unique mix of varied contributions from Original Research to Review Articles, Frontiers Research Topics unify the most influential researchers, the latest key findings and historical advances in a hot research area! Find out more on how to host your own Frontiers Research Topic or contribute to one as an author by contacting the Frontiers Editorial Office: frontiersin.org/about/contac
Design-to-Robotic-Production and -Operation for Activating Bio-Cyber-Physical Environments
No full textWith current advancements in Cyber-physical Systems (CpS), data-driven design to both production and operation processes has been increasingly incorporating aspects of robotics and Artificial Intelligence (AI). These aspects are the focus of architectural exploration implemented in the Robotic Building lab at Technical University (TU) Delft using Design-to-Robotic-Production and -Operation (D2RP&O) methods. In the presented project implemented in collaboration with the Landscape Architecture and Informatics departments from TU Delft and the University of Fribourg, respectively, new habitats are developed for various animal and plant species by introducing small-scale interventions in residual space. The intention for these inserts is to support biodiversity by engaging humans in interaction with them and each other. In this context, the inserts are not only produced by computational and robotic means, but they also contain sensor–actuator mechanisms that allow humans to interact with them by establishing bio-cyber-physical feedback loops. The aim is to identify the challenges and potential of such systems to improve spatial experience, increase social interaction, as well as support biodiversity, in urban environments.Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository 'You share, we take care!' - Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care. Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.History, Form & AestheticsLandscape Architectur
Molecular mechanisms underlying microbial disease control in intercropping
No full textMany reports indicate that intercropping, which usually consists in growing two species next to each other, reduces the incidence of microbial diseases. Besides mechanisms operating at the field level like inoculum dilution, there is recent evidence that plant-centered mechanisms with identified plant molecules and pathways are also involved. First, plants may trigger the induction of resistance in neighboring plants by the well-known mechanism of induced resistance. Second, molecules produced by one plant, either above or below ground, can directly inhibit pathogens or indirectly trigger resistance through the induction of the plant immune system in neighboring plants. Third, competition for resources like light or nutrients may indirectly modify the expression of the plant immune system. The conceptual frameworks of non-kin/stranger recognition and competition may be useful to further investigate the molecular mechanisms underlying crop protection in interspecific plant mixtures
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