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Citing from CentAUR: how to cite publications from the institutional repository, CentAUR
No full textCITING: As a general rule, you should use the version in CentAUR only as a preview and you should cite the published version wherever possible. This can be accessed by following the DOI or URL links in the CentAUR record or obtained through your Library.
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ORCID iDs in CentAUR
No full textORCID functionality has been added to CentAUR, our institutional repository. This means that you will be able to link your ORCID iD to CentAUR. Once you complete this process, your ORCID record will attempt to confirm your employment at University of Reading and you will be able to import and export publications between the repository and your ORCID record. If you do not already have an ORCID iD, you will be able to sign up for one using the functionality that has been added to the repository. ORCID is an open, not-for-profit, community-based initiative to provide researcher identifiers that enable a wide range of improvements to the scholarly communications ecosystem. University of Reading is a member of the UK JISC ORCID consortium.
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A Centaur in Salaryman's Clothing: Parody and Play in est em's Centaur Manga
No full textJapanese manga artist est em (esu to emu) is notable for blurring genre boundaries and subverting established conventions in various publications since her debut in 2006. Two of her works, Hatarake, kentaurosu! (‘Work, Centaur!’) and equus, focus exclusively on male centaurs in homosocial settings. Classified as shōjo (girls’) manga and BL (‘boys’ love’) manga respectively, these two works allow female readers to enjoy the pleasures of homoerotic subtexts and intertextual parody. This paper examines how conventions of sexuality and gender, particularly hegemonic masculinity and heterosexuality, are constructed/deconstructed in est em’s centaur manga using the framework of intertextuality, with particular emphasis on parody, pleasure and play. By placing centaurs in realistic, everyday settings, these works present a critique of Japan’s contemporary salaryman culture, while also highlighting issues of alienation and otherness that both female readers and gay men face in their daily lives
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How to be a good Centaur
No full textIn today’s popular thinking, it is all too easy to assume that the Centaurs of Greek mythology are bad, one and all. And such an assumption seems justifiable when we consider the myths that I analyzed in two previous essays posted in Classical Inquiries, 2019.04.19 and 2019.03.22. Yes, Centaurs must be bad, since they are misfits who disrupt society. But the whimsical question posed in the title of this essay, “how to be a good Centaur,” challenges the assumption that all Centaurs are bad. I will argue that Centaurs in myth can in fact be good so long as they are not in a group—so long as they are not members of a gang. To be good, a Centaur must be solitary. A prime example is the Centaur named Cheiron, who becomes a mentor of Achilles, initiating the boy hero into adulthood. While the myth about this solitary Centaur is obviously a positive model of initiation, I will argue for something more, something that is far less obvious: there is a complementarity to be found in myths about Centaurs as a gang. Such myths, in anthropological terms, are negative models of initiation, and they actually complement the positive models.The ClassicsVersion of Recor
A ring system detected around the Centaur (10199) Chariklo
No full textHitherto, rings have been found exclusively around the four giant planets in the Solar System1. Rings are natural laboratories in which to study dynamical processes analogous to those that take place during the formation of planetary systems and galaxies. Their presence also tells us about the origin and evolution of the body they encircle. Here we report observations of a multichord stellar occultation that revealed the presence of a ring system around (10199) Chariklo, which is a Centaur—that is, one of a class of small objects orbiting primarily between Jupiter and Neptune—with an equivalent radius of 124± 9 kilometres (ref. 2). There are two dense rings, with respective widths of about 7 and 3 kilometres, optical depths of 0.4 and 0.06, and orbital radii of 391 and 405 kilometres. The present orientation of the ring is consistent with an edge-on geometry in 2008, which provides a simple explanation for the dimming3 of the Chariklo system between 1997 and 2008, and for the gradual disappearance of ice and other absorption features in its spectrum over the same period4,5. This implies that the rings are partly composed of water ice. They may be the remnants of a debris disk, possibly confined by embedded, kilometre-sized satellites.Peer reviewe
CENTAUR: Smart Utilisation of Wastewater storage capacity to prevent flooding
No full textThis paper will describe and present results for a local flood risk reduction system which utilises existing in-network storage capacity to attenuate flow peaks. The storage capacity is mobilised through active flow control automatically regulated by an Artificial Intelligence system using local level monitoring. The effects of climate change, population growth and urbanisation are putting increasing pressure on sewer and drainage networks both in the UK and overseas. The capacity of networks to cope with runoff at the required rate often falls short of requirements leading to localised floods and/or increased CSO spills to receiving waters. Smart Water/ Wastewater Network technologies have the potential to deliver improved service to customers and cost-effective performance improvements for the water industry. CENTAUR aims to provide an innovative, cost effective, local autonomous data driven in-sewer flow control system whose operation will attenuate peaks and reduce the risk of surface water flooding. The system enables the capacity of existing infrastructure to be utilised more efficiently as a very economical alternative to capital-intensive solutions, for example building extra storage capacity. The system is also quick to implement with virtually no enabling works prior to installation. CENTAUR comprises level monitors which relay data to an intelligent controller, which instructs a flow control device regulated by a novel and robust artificial intelligence routine based on Fuzzy Logic. The level monitors and intelligent controller are located locally and utilise real time data to provide effective real time control (RTC). The CENTAUR Fuzzy Logic control algorithm was developed in Matlab. The Matlab RTC algorithm was linked to a SWMM hydro-dynamic model of a test network to prove its efficiency. Further rigorous testing was carried out by the University of Sheffield on the full-scale test facility designed to replicate field conditions. The CENTAUR system has been further developed and it is now implemented and fully functional in trial site in Coimbra, Portugal. Results of successful testing in the laboratory and the Coimbra field trial will be presented
CENTAUR project laboratory testing data
No full text<p>This dataset contains results from testing carried out at a laboratory facility at the University of Sheffield (UK) as part of the <a href="https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/centaur">CENTAUR project</a>. CENTAUR is an EC funded Horizon 2020 Innovation Action. The project has developed a system to reduce flood risk in urban areas by utilising existing available storage capacity in urban drainage networks through the use of a gate installed in an existing manhole. The gate is controlled by Fuzzy Logic, using data from level sensors.</p>
<p>The laboratory facility is described in the paper 'Demonstrating a Fuzzy Logic algorithm for real-time flow control in a full-scale laboratory environment' which is currently under review with the Urban Water Journal (<a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/nurw20/current">https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/nurw20/current</a>). Further details of the sensors and logging system are provided in 'Data_File_Column_Descriptions.csv'.</p>
<p>The file 'Test_Record.csv' describes all tests carried out. This dataset contains 83 csv data files in for days when good data was collected, these are zipped into 'DataFiles.zip'. Each csv file within the .zip contains the test results for one day, the files are named with the date of testing in the format yymmdd. The csv data files do not include column headers, but a full description of the data in each column is provided in 'Data_File_Column_Descriptions.csv'. The csv files contain data from all sensors, but the time period of the data from each sensor (or sensor set) and timesteps are not the same, hence for each sensor / sensor set there is a separate time column. The sampling interval for the level sensors is given in column 26 of 'Test_Record.csv', this will be correct for the test period, but outside the tests the interval was often increased and this may be seen in the data files. The gate / FCD sampling interval is the same as the Fuzzy Logic interval in column 27 of 'Test_Record.csv', although the position is only reported when the gate / FCD is active - i.e. not fully open. At the end of a test the FCD will return to the fully open position (100%), but this final datapoint is not recorded. The flow rate and downstream valve position sampling interval are given in column 12 of 'Test_Record.csv'.</p>
<p>Test numbers and fuzzy logic version ids are simplified for the journal paper 'Demonstrating a Fuzzy Logic algorithm for real-time flow control in a full-scale laboratory environment' which is currently under review with the Urban Water Journal. A correlation between the information in the paper and in 'Test_Record.csv' can be found in 'Paper_Test_Numbers.csv'.</p>
<p>This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 641931.</p>
Persued centaur (Verfolgter centaur)
No full textMedium: etchingMedium: aquatintMedium: mezzotintMedium: drypointMedium: chine collésigned."Persued centaur (Verfolgter centaur)" [2011.0002.003.000], Klinger, MaxArtist and Role: Klinger, Max,Extent: imageExtent: plateExtent: shee
Centaur Fountain in the Gardens of Prospect House on Campus of Princeton University
No full textThe fountain was commissioned by President Robert F. Goheen, a classicist, when Prospect House was still home to the University's president. Created by Dimitri Hadzi this pipe-playing centaur reflects the artist's modernist approach, which bridges abstraction and figuration. It also calls upon his lifelong interest in mythology. In myth, the artist noted, centaurs are physical but also intellectual beings
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