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Mechanica op de microcomputer
No full textAfscheidscollege van prof.dr.ir. J.G. Lekkerkerker (informele notities)
In Search of Shambhala? Nicholas Roerich’s 1934–5 Inner Mongolian Expedition
No full textDuring the 1920s and 1930s, Western visitors to Inner Mongolia came for a variety of reasons. Some came for the purpose of scholarship, others passed through on their way to visit the new ‘independent’ nation of Manchukuo, often at the invitation of the Japanese authorities. Among these visitors was Nicholas Roerich, the purpose of whose visit is still the subject of debate. Roerich’s journey through Inner Mongolia has attracted some scholarly attention, but there are still many unanswered questions about what it was that Roerich actually did while he was there, or what he hoped to achieve. This article draws on earlier studies, but analyses the available reports from the US State Department in China together with contemporary news reports, to place Roerich’s journey within the geopolitical context of the time
Installatierede van de Technische Commissie voor de Waterkeringen
No full textRede uitgesproken bij de installatie van de Technische Adviescommissie voor de Waterkeringen door de Minister van Verkeer en Waterstaat, J.G. Suurhoff, en het antwoord van de voorzitter van de TAW op deze rede, prof.ir. P.P. Jansen. De commissie werd ingesteld naar aanleiding van de overstromingen in Tuindorp-Oostzaan in 1960. De commissie is officieel ingesteld op 31 mei 1965, maar de installatierede is in Augustus van dat jaar uitgesprokenTAW/EN
Implicit large-eddy simulation of the stratocumulus-topped boundary layer: A grid sensitivity study
No full textA range of implicit large-eddy simulations of the stratocumulus-topped boundary layer is performed to study the influence of grid resolution on selected parameters including liquid water path and second and third moments of vertical velocity fluctuations. The simulations are based on two sets of aircraft measurements, which are also used to evaluate the results of the simulations. The specific case presented here indicates that simulations with a grid aspect ratio accounting for the anisotropic nature of the turbulence near the surface and at the top of the boundary layer lead to better agreement with measurements than simulations with an isotropic grid
Experimental application of a dynamic observer to capture and predict the dynamics of a flat-plate boundary layer
No full textThe recent approach, proposed by Guzman-Inigo et al. \cite{GuzmanInigo2014}, using System Identification to derive a Reduced Order Model from snapshots of a flow is applied to a transitional boundary layer growing over a flat-plate. It is shown that such an approach can indeed be applied to experimental PIV snapshots. Using a proper learning dataset and a proper local sensor, it is shown that the evolution of boundary layer can be properly estimated from the time evolution of the local probe and with no more than ten POD modes for the Reduced Order Model. The influence of the various parameters on the efficiency of the system identification technique is discussed
Entering GATTACA: Yeast genomes: Analysis, insights and applications
No full textAccepted Author ManuscriptBT/Industriele Microbiologi
‘The one person in the world who has the peculiar knowledge and experience necessary …’: The Life and Career of Morishima Kakufusa
No full textDuring his lifetime Morishima Kakufusa was closely connected with Japanese expansionist schemes in Mongolia, as a monk, a trader, a lecturer, an author, an escort for academic explorers and a military intelligence officer. The specifics of Morishima’s employers at various points throughout his long career are unclear, but an examination of his career provides some idea of the different groups and individuals in Japanese society who sought to implement either direct or indirect Japanese control over Mongolia during the first four decades of the twentieth century. Moreover, the promotion of Morishima’s career by his hometown of Tokunoshima in the twenty-first century is an example of how some in Japan at the present time are presenting the imperial era in a more positive light
Conservation Return on Investment Analysis: A Review of Results, Methods, and New Directions
No full textConservation investments are increasingly evaluated on the basis of their return on investment (ROI). Conservation ROI analysis quantitatively measures the costs, benefits, and risks of investments so conservancies can rank or prioritize them. This paper surveys the existing conservation ROI and related literatures. We organize our synthesis around the way studies treat recurring, core elements of ROI, as a guide for practitioners and consumers of future ROI analyses. ROI analyses involve quantification of a consistent set of elements, including the definition and measurement of the conservation objective as well as identification of the relevant baselines, the type of conservation investments evaluated, and investment costs. We document the state of the art, note some open questions, and provide suggestions for future improvements in data and methods. We also describe ways ROI analysis can be extended to a broader suite of conservation outcomes than biodiversity conservation, which is the typical focus.return on investment, conservation planning, reserve site selection
Semantic and Stylistic Potential of the Theonyms in the Strutsyuk`s J.G. Works about Kholmshchyna
No full textУ статті розглянуто функціонування теонімів у творах Й. Г. Струцюка про
долю холмщаків, виявлено їхні структурні, функціональні та семантичні особливості. Дослідження показало, що в художній спадщині волинського письменника вжито усталені найменування Бога, які в контексті набувають оригінальних конотацій. This article is dedicated to analysis the theonyms in the work of Volyn writer Strutsyuk J.G. This type of own names is distinguished by particularly expressiveness, as behind their referents appears complexes of philosophical and religious beliefs. In the investigation was examined the structural and semantical particularities of onyma God, and was found nominative, differential, localizing, emotional and allusive functions. The theonyms used in the work of J.G. Strutsyuk disclose the Christian worldview's fundamentals of the author and special by proper understanding of the religious experience of God. The results of the investigation showed that the style of this language units in the texts based on their traditional using in folk speech and confessional style
Hauntings – A nodalist study
No full textSince Deleuze and Guattari first described the concept of the rhizome as a model of cultural transmission in A Thousand Plateaus (1980), a new way of processing information in the Arts and Social Sciences has emerged – ‘Nodalism’. Philip Gochenour has convincingly argued that units of culture can now be thought of as ‘nodes’ existing in a nonhierarchical, web-like network. Information transfer between nodes in the network is horizontal, omni-directional and not necessarily teleological, a way of viewing the world which has been paralleled and actualized in the last twenty years by the emergence, growth and ubiquity of the internet and the World Wide Web.
The author – a developing audiovisual artist – here offers four videomusic pieces and one virtual sound-synthesis tool. At first glance, the pieces may appear to have little in common. However, the commentary will attempt to show that they are subtly linked together, immersed in a cocoon of rhizomatic, pluralistic, thread-like connections.
The strongest ‘thread’ holding them together appears to be the trope of being ‘haunted’ in some way – either by influence, genre, or overarching concept. However, this thesis will attempt to show how a detailed consideration of each piece results in a highly complex final picture in which the pieces can be thought of as individual cultural nodes suspended in a dense rhizomatic mass of lateral cultural threads. For the sake of completion, however, the project has received the name Hauntings in reference to one of the strongest shared tropes running throughout all five works
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