98 research outputs found
London, Love, and a Little Something Irish
No full textLondon, Love, and a Little Something Irish is based on the author\u27s true story of romance and trusting in God’s timing. In the beginning, Nataly is in a relationship with Joel, who is safe and stable but doesn’t quite give Nataly the passionate, head-over-heels love. Eventually, she meets Nathan, a man full of mystery and adventure, with whom Nataly immediately feels a spark. She is torn between her comfortable relationship with Joel and risking everything for the once-in-a-lifetime love with Nathan. The story is a clean Christian romance set against the beautiful scenery of London and the wild countryside of Ireland, containing themes of following your heart and trusting in God’s plan.https://ecommons.udayton.edu/ul_popularromance/1117/thumbnail.jp
Images de mafia à cheval sur trois cultures : Una storia semplice de Leonardo Sciascia et ses traductions espagnole, française, anglaise
No full textLeonardo Sciascia’s A Simple Story (Una storia semplice) sparked interest among translators and readers worldwide. The paper explores the relationships between a literary representation of the mafia in the Italian original text and its iterations in English, French and Spanish translations. The Sicilian author aptly uses the framework of the mafia detective story, where fiction and reality intertwine, to unravel and condemn the enigmas of the mafia criminal system. Through the use of a language marked by regionalisms, a specialized vocabulary and an often complex syntax, Sciascia creates color and atmosphere in his narrative and provides an important ironic flavor. These aspects present particular challenges for translators; their creative versions of Sciascia’s text, in each of the three languages mentioned, will be analyzed in order based on the year of publication
On the dependence of the domain of values of functionals of hypersonic aerodynamics on controls
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Biological Mechanism of Mental Illness
No full textIn this paper, we sought to understand the biological mechanisms of five common mental illnesses so that we could learn about the relationship between the mind and body. Previous research has predicted mental health challenges by variables such as sympathetic/parasympathetic activity in obsessive-compulsive disorder, prefrontal cortex size in borderline personality disorder, amygdala activity in depressive rumination and in generalized anxiety disorder, and cerebellar activity in eating disorders. In our correlational study, we tested the strength of these relationships by examining naturalistic daily changes in their variables longitudinally over a one-week period. We measured sympathetic/parasympathetic activity by measuring heart rate, prefrontal cortex activity by EEG, amygdala activity by increases in heart rate after watching a scary video clip, cerebellar activity by a balance task, and measured by questionnaires levels of obsessive-compulsion, rumination, anxiety, borderline personality, and eating disorder. In contradiction to our predictions, data pooled across our participants showed a significant positive correlation between heart rate and obsessive compulsive disorder symptoms and there were no significant results in support of any of our other predicted relationships. These results could be helpful to understanding the biological mechanisms of obsessive-compulsive disorder. A possible practical application of these findings shows that having increased sympathetic/parasympathetic activity indicates higher obsessive-compulsive disorder symptoms.Supervising Instructor & Course Number: Michael Pollock, Psyc 215 (“Biological Psychology”
Experimental Investigation of Submarine Landslide Induced Tsunami Waves
No full textThis MSc thesis was initiated as part of an interdisciplinary project researching post-disaster coastal reconstruction in the Tohoku region of Japan. On March 11, 2011, a highly destructive earthquake induced tsunami hit the north-eastern part of Honshu island, causing enormous damage to numerous small towns along the coast. Since 2011 various studies have been completed to better understand this historical event and explain the nature of tsunamis. However, some researchers have noted the inability of tsunami models, using only an earthquake as a source, to reproduce the timing, frequency and wave heights recorded along the Tohoku coast in March 2011. The differences are especially striking for the Sanriku coast – a relatively small area north of Sendai plain characterised by a ria-type coastline. D. R. Tappin et al. (2014) suggested that a secondary source is required to explain the deviating model results and locally higher tsunami waves, such as a submarine landslide. In low-lying coastal areas, tsunamis are an unavoidable hazard to human lives. A common way of addressing natural disasters of this scale is with timely warning and evacuation, which in turn requires appropriate techniques for prediction of an upcoming disaster. While earthquake induced tsunamis provide a sort of a warning signal, tsunamis generated by a submarine landslide can be much more difficult to predict. Landslide tsunamis are usually concentrated in local areas and do not propagate far, as they are more dispersive than earthquake tsunamis. However, the source of landslide tsunamis is often located on a continental slope near the coastal line. As a result, waves reach the shore in a very short period of time and run-up heights can reach extremely high levels (Harbitz et al., 2006). Thus, landslide generated tsunamis pose a serious hazard to densely populated coastal areas. Within the scope of this thesis, a number of experimental simulations on submarine slope failures were conducted in a so-called static liquefaction tank – a unique testing facility for large scale experiments at the Geo-Engineering Laboratory of TU Delft. To improve the understanding of tsunami generation, this study focuses on the moment of onset of a submarine slope failure and wave generation, linking the processes within failing soil mass to initial characteristics of waves. This study illustrates the connection between these two processes that are usually only considered individually from either a geotechnical or hydraulic perspective.Geo-Engineerin
Анализ экономической целесообразности открытия франшизы Subway в Крыму
No full textIn article analysis the state of the modern fast-food market in Russian Federation. The author observes main trends in this area, the competitiveness of the different regions of the country. The special attention is given to the proposal of opening Subway franchise in the Crime
Fiction in School Textbooks as Reflection on English Culture
No full textThis article analyzes classical and modern works of fiction in English textbooks for grades 10-11 (recommended for work at school by government) as material for analyzing the cultural characteristics of the country to which the author of the works belongs. National character is one of the most significant features of the culture. It is true for the English culture as well as for the Russian one and may seem one of important features to be studied and discussed in class.. The article gives prominent features of classical and modern fiction, reveals its impact on the students of 10-11 grade of the Russian secondary schools and figures out why it is important for the English textbooks. Students find the features of the national character from classical and contemporary fiction, get in contact with culture of the foreign country and analyse the authentic material in general. The article also points some questions for discussion which are to be solved later by more thorough research
El impacto de los gobiernos locales en el campo del control del delito. Brevísima reseña de la obra Del Estado al parque: el gobierno del crimen en las sociedades contemporáneas, de Fernando León Tamayo Arboleda
No full textThe text that I am pleased to review in these pages is the product of the PhD process of its author, who is not only a lawyer but also a criminologist. He is concerned with the study of cities, their aesthetics, and the way in which urban politics impacts crime control. I explained how that using an innovative methodology, the author proposes a novel reading of the relationship between local and national politics, and an analysis that is undoubtedly an invitation to new research agendas.El texto que tengo el gusto de reseñar en estas páginas es producto del proceso doctoral de su autor, quien es no sólo un abogado sino también un criminólogo que se ha preocupado por el estudio de las ciudades, su estética y la forma como lo urbano impacta en el campo del control del delito. A partir de una metodología innovadora, el autor propone una lectura novedosa sobre la relación existente entre las políticas locales y las nacionales, en un análisis que es sin duda una invitación a nuevas agendas investigativas
Composite cathode prepared by argyrodite precursor solution assisted by dispersant agents for bulk-type all-solid-state batteries
No full textAll-solid-state lithium batteries based on sulfide solid electrolytes are potential candidates for large-scale energy storage applications. Here, composite cathode with high content of an active material was prepared by a liquid phase process assisted by a dispersant agent to produce a better electrode and electrolyte interface. Li6PS5Cl sulfide electrolyte derived from a solution containing dispersant showed an argyrodite crystal phase with a better distribution of particle size and higher conductivity compared with those without dispersant. Regular distribution of Li6PS5Cl particles in nanometric scale with a spherical shape below 500 nm and conductivity of 0.6 x 10(-3 )S cm(-1) (rho = 1.40 g cm(-3)) at room temperature were obtained. Composite cathode was prepared by the dispersion of LiNi1/3Mn1/3Co1/3O2 particles and carbon additive in the Li6PS5Cl-solution containing dispersant agent and subsequent drying at 180 degrees C. Bulk-type all-solid-state battery fabricated with the composite cathode containing 89 wt% of the active material showed an initial discharge capacity of 110 mA h g(-1) at 25 degrees C and maintained 95% discharge capacity after 15 cycles
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