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What Really Happened in Vietnam: The North, the South, and the American Defeat - by Fredrik Logevall
No full textNorthern nemesis: A Vietcong soldier taking part in the Tet offensive © 1968 (Getty Images / Agence France-Presse) A pathbreaking history of the Vietnam War reveals that the Northern government was far more divided and discouraged than commonly believed. Yet the fact remains that the United States and its allies in the South always faced very long odds of success. Fredrik Logevall is John S. Knight Professor of International Studies at Cornell University and the author of Embers of War: The F..
A Review of Institutional Change in the Public Sphere: Views on the Nordic Model Edited by Fredrik Engelstad et al.
No full textAuthor: Pablo Markin Published Online: 2017-08-13 URL: http://openscience.com/a-review-of-institutional-change-in-the-public-sphere-views-on-the-nordic-model-edited-by-fredrik-engelstad-et-al/ This timely volume provides a Nordic and theoretically informed perspective on the transformations that the public sphere has been undergoing in recent decades. Excerpt Published in April 2017 by De Gruyter Open, Institutional Change in the Public Sphere: Views on the Nordic Model, a collection of cont..
Concerns, norms and social action: notes on Fredrik Barth's analytical model
No full textThis article explores ways to conceptualise the relationship between human action and cultural constructs. Driven by observations from fieldwork in Baluan, Papua New Guinea, the author focuses on motivations for actions, both conscious and unconscious, as well as on the variety of social norms and values that are available to actors within the same society After a short historical sketch of major theoretical trends in American and British anthropology concerning norms and actions, Fredrik Barth's thinking on the topic is presented in some more detail. In his later work -in Papua New Guinea and Bali - Barth complements his earlier focus on actors and transactions with an interest in the cultural premises that inform transactions between actors. Barth's notions of (implicit) 'concerns' and (explicit) 'traditions of knowledge' are explained and illustrated with ethnographic material and the author expands Barth's analytical model by highlighting the complex relationship between the different layers of cultural premises
Dutch cultural heritage of Fredrik Ruijsch and Herman Boerhaave in the Military Medical Academy named after S. M. Kirov
Get PDFDuring historical research into the Russian physician Nikolay Ivanovich Pirogov (1810–1881)
and his relation to Dutch scientists in shaping Russian medical science, access was allowed to
the first author of this manuscript to the fundamental library of the Military Medical Academy
named S. M. Kirov. The library is one of the oldest libraries in Russia and was founded by Pavel
Zakharyevich Condoidi, a pupil of the Dutch scientist Herman Boerhaave. Condoidi succeeded
the oldest nephew of Herman Boerhaave, Herman Kaau-Boerhaave after his death as director
of the Russian Meditsinskaya Kantselyariya (Ministry of Healthcare). At this site, the extensive
library and personal notes of Hermann Boerhaave and his nephews are kept. Later on, it appeared
that the same Academy also had a collection of artefacts that are attributed to the famous
anatomist Frederik Ruijsch. These artefacts were acquired during the first visit of Peter the Great
to the Netherlands. To understand how these artefacts and archive of Boerhaave had become
part of the Academy’s collection, we delved into the common medical history of Russia and the
Netherlands. In this manuscript, we will lift a tip of the veil regarding the archives of Herman
Boerhaave and the “small” anatomical and zoological collections of Fredrik Ruijsch
Control of a Scaled Vehicle in and Beyond Stable Limit Handling
No full textIn this research a controller is developed that can control path-tracking both within and beyond stable limit handling. A controller is developed, based on the equations of motion of the nonlinear bicycle model. The performance of the controller is evaluated in both simulation and on a 1/10 scale radio controlled car. The controller is able to track a path in typical cornering conditions and let the vehicle enter and maintain a drift while remaining close to the desired path.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.Cognitive Robotic
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Recent Advancements in Continuous Wheel Slip Control
No full textThe paper presents an overview of continuous wheel slip control (WSC) methods as the part of anti-lock braking system (ABS) for the several vehicles configurations with friction brakes and electric motors. Performance of proposed WSC design variants using several control techniques has been experimentally evaluated for three different test vehicles: Sport Utility Vehicle (SUV) with decoupled electro-hydraulic brake (DEHB) system, SUV with four individual on-board electric motors (OBM), and compact vehicle with four individual in-wheel motors (IWM). Obtained results demonstrated that proposed continuous WSC variants provide a simultaneous effect on braking efficiency and ride quality as well as robust operation in various road conditions. Presented summary provides outlook on future perspectives of the continuous WSC and compares its status with conventional rule-based ABS systems.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.Intelligent Vehicle
Cornique wharfos et moyen breton hoaruout : note étymologique
No full textCornish wharfos and Middle-Breton hoaruout, an etymological note.
The author proposes to see in Cornish wharfos and Middle Breton hoaruout to happen’ a Celtic compound *su+ari+butd arriver the morphological structure of which corresponds to that of *to+ari+buta to happen’ (W. d-ar-fod) : *su-, like *to-, goes back to an inherited syntactic particle.L'auteur se propose d'expliquer le comique wharfos et le moyen breton hoaruout à partir d'un celtique commun *su+ari+butá «arriver» dont la structure morphologique est comparable à celle rencontrée dans *to+ari+butá «arriver» (gall, d-ar-fod : *su-, ainsi que *to-, refléterait une particule syntactique héritée.Lindeman Fredrik Otto. Cornique wharfos et moyen breton hoaruout : note étymologique. In: Etudes Celtiques, vol. 30, 1994. pp. 211-212
“Daring to Be True and to Shine Brightly in the Time That Remains” : Imagining Transgender Ageing in Fredrik Ekelund’s Q
No full textThis article explores imaginings of transgender ageing, and more specifically visions of transfeminine ageing futures, through an analysis of the auto-fictional novel Q by Swedish author Fredrik Ekelund. The novel tells the story of Fredrik, who comes out as transvestite at the age of 60, and subsequently struggles to come to terms with and explore their transfeminine identity as Marisol. Overall, cultural representations of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer ageing are rare, and often tell tales of misery. As such, Q is a unique example of a complex and relatively positive narrative of transgender ageing. On the one hand, transgender ageing is portrayed as a potential escape from both time and growing old, a form of “rebirth”. On the other hand, failure emerges as a constant threat, including both the failure to perform age-appropriate femininity and failure in the sense of becoming stuck with self-loathing and shame. The protagonist’s struggles to age successfully become intimately connected with pride and standing up for oneself, struggles that are in turn bound to homonationalist discourses of Scandinavian progressiveness and LGBT exceptionalism. </p
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