498 research outputs found

    In Defence of "the Lesser Cousin of History": An Interview with Rohan Wilson

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    Few branches of postcolonial literature are as contested \ud as the historical fiction of settler societies. This interview with the Australian historical novelist Rohan Wilson, author of The Roving Party (2011) and To Name Those Lost (2014), explores the intersections between truth, accuracy, and existential authenticity in his fictional accounts of nineteenth-century Tasmania. Wilson offers \ud a nuanced yet robust defence of fiction’s role in narrating colonial history. He explains his intentions in writing two linked yet distinctive novels of the frontier—one that focuses on the “Black War” of the 1820s and 1830s, and another that explores how racial violence is refracted by capitalism in subsequent decades

    Shape optimization of channels for incompressible flows

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    Název práce: Optimalizace tvaru kanálu v úlohách nestlačitelného proudění Autor: Zuzana Záhorová Katedra: Katedra numerické matematiky Vedoucí diplomové práce: Doc. Dr. Ing. Eduard Rohan e-mail vedoucího: [email protected] Abstrakt: V předložené práci studujeme problém tvarové optimalizace pro úlohy vnitřního proudění ve 3D. Uvažováno je laminární, nestlačitelné, stacionární proudění popsané Navier- Stokesovými rovnicemi. Jsou popsány stabilizace Navier-Stokesových rovnic potřebné pro řešení úloh s nízkou viskozitou. Předloženy jsou teoretické poznatky týkající se problému tvarové optimalizace včetně důkazu existence řešení. Je popsána adjungovaná metoda pro řešení optimalizační úlohy. Odvozena je analytická analýza citlivosti. Představujeme postupy využité při výpočtech a numerický software pro řešení optimalizačních úloh. Jsou prezentovány výsledky pro stabilizované i nestabilizované řešení Navier-Stokesových rovnic. Představíme výsledky zahrnující lineární omezení geometrie oblasti. Klíčová slova: Nestlačitelné Navier-Stokesovy rovnice, SUPG/PSPG stabilizace, Adjun- govaná metoda, Analýza citlivosti Title: Shape optimization of channels for incompressible flows Author: Zuzana Záhorová Department:..

    Data and Code for "Universal Constraints on Protein Evolution in the Long-Term Evolution Experiment with Escherichia coli"

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    input data files are located in the data/ directory. source code is located in the src/ directory. code and data for the LTEE 60,000 generation metagenomics dataset are located in the LTEE-metagenomic-repo/ directory. results from running the source code are located in the results/ directory. for all inquiries: contact the author at rohan dot maddamsetti at duke dot ed

    KŌDA ROHAN\nTsuyu Dandan and Nineteenth Century English Literature

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    pdfKōda Rohan recorded explanatory notes for Tsuyu Dandan (1889) as follows. "One: The ineptitude of the writing aside, to say that my literary devices are quite something and that Edward George Bulwer Lytton and William Makepeace Thackeray are really nothing is a big lie, for in fact I indulge in mere magic tricks. The discerning reader will quickly penetrate them." Here with the coyness of a neophyte author, a self-assertive attitude which emphasizes the use of as a narrative technique can be seen. This study will deal with four questions. ① What function did Kōda Rohan think that narrative technique had in Edo popular fiction? I will first investigate the topology of , clarifying this technique which overflows the boundaries of , , in connection with Lytton and Thackeray. Naturally, this will result in ③ an investigation as to whether or not Lytton and Thackeray were borrowed from Tsubouchi Shōyō's Shōsetsu shinzui, Tō sei shosei katagi, or translations. If so,④ the question of why it was not George Eliot or Charles Dickens naturally arises. Through questions ② to④ I would like to clarify the relationship between Koda Rohan and nineteenth century English literature and to capture anew the stratifications of Rohan's literature.conference pape

    Timothy M. Rohan. The architecture of Paul Rudolph

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    Nos encontramos ante un libro de referencia, uno de esos títulos fundamentales que no pueden omitirse en la bibliografía sobre un arquitecto. Tal y como reseña el editor, el autor Timothy M. Rohan ha hecho un trabajo de gran profundidad, basado en extensas investigaciones de archivo y la recopilación de material inédito. Con ello ha rescatado de cierto olvido a una figura, Paul Rudolph (1918-1997) que, siendo sin duda relevante en la historia de la arquitectura moderna, no forma parte del selecto grupo de consagrados..

    'Nicely Boiled and Scraped': Medicine, Radicalism, and the "Useful Body" in a Lloyd Penny Blood

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    The publisher Edward Lloyd (1815-1890) helped shape Victorian popular culture in waysthat have left a legacy that lasts right up to today. He was a major pioneer of both popular fiction and journalism but has never received extended scholarly investigation until now. Lloydshaped the modern popular press: Lloyd’s Weekly Newspaper became the first paper to sell over a million copies. Along with publishing songs and broadsides, Lloyd dominated the fiction market in the early Victorian period issuing Gothic stories such as Varney the Vampire (1845-7) and other ’penny dreadfuls’, which became bestsellers. Lloyd’s publications introduced the enduring figure of Sweeney Todd whilst his authors penned plagiarisms of Dickens’s novels, such as Oliver Twiss (1838-9). Many readers in the early Victorian period may have been as likely to have encountered the author of Pickwick in a Lloyd-published plagiarism as in the pages of the original author. This book makes us rethink the early reception of Dickens. In this interdisciplinary collection, leading scholars explore the world of Edward Lloyd and his stable of writers, such as Thomas Peckett Prest and James Malcolm Rymer. The Lloyd brand shaped popular taste in the age of Dickens and the Chartists. Edward Lloyd and his World fills a major gap in the histories of popular fiction and journalism, whilst developing links with Victorian politics, theatre and music

    Metrics for analytics and visualization of big data with applications to activity recognition

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    Activity recognition systems detect the hidden actions of an agent from sensor measurements made on the agents' actions and the environmental conditions. For such systems, metrics are important for both performance evaluation and visualization purposes. In this thesis, such metrics are developed and illustrated. For human activity recognition datasets, a reporting structure is described to visualize the metrics in a systematic manner. The other contribution of this thesis is to describe a visualization tool for estimating the orientation (attitude) of a rigid body from streaming motion sensor (accelerometer and gyroscope) data. A feedback particle filter (FPF) is implemented algorithmically to solve the estimation problem.Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2018-05-01The student, Rohan Arora, accepted the attached license on 2016-04-25 at 10:47.The student, Rohan Arora, submitted this Thesis for approval on 2016-04-25 at 10:48.This Thesis was approved for publication on 2016-04-27 at 15:05.DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #9459 on 2016-07-07 at 14:17:57Made available in DSpace on 2016-07-07T21:18:02Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 ARORA-THESIS-2016.pdf: 2048739 bytes, checksum: f76095ae5ef05e4ce14c6b05ab503f5d (MD5) LICENSE.txt: 4208 bytes, checksum: e5888a1be6c205bee6e88396c3d3da15 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-04-27Embargo set by: Seth Robbins for item 93308 Lift date: 2018-07-07T21:18:16Z Reason: Author requested closed access (OA after 2yrs) in Vireo ETD systemLimited Restriction Lifted for Item 93308 on 2018-07-08T09:15:30Z

    Adaptive scheduling in Spark

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    Thesis: M. Eng., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2016.This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.Cataloged from student-submitted PDF version of thesis.Includes bibliographical references (page 33).Because most data processing systems are distributed in nature, data must be transferred between machines. Currently, Spark, a prominent such system, predetermines the strategies for shuffling this data, but in certain situations, different shuffle strategies would improve performance. We add functionality to track metrics about the data during the job and appropriately adapt the shuffle strategy. We show improvements in ShuffledRDD performance, joins using Spark's RDD interface, and joins in Spark SQL.by Rohan Mahajan.M. Eng

    Citazioni della sensualità e sensualità delle citazioni: Fūryū butsu (風流仏, Il bodhisattva della sensualità, 1889) di Kōda Rohan (幸田露伴, 1867-1947)

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    Il lavoro presenta una lettura su più livelli del racconto Fûryû butsu (1889) di Kôda Rohan di cui, al momento in cui è stata condotta l'analisi, non esistevano traduzioni reperibili. La prosa complessa, che attinge a stili diversi nel procedere dell'intreccio e in cui è forte l'influenza sia di un certo giapponese vernacolare, sia del cinese classico, ed i diversi piani di lettura, cui si accede solo tenendo conto del grande numero di fonti esplicite ed implicite, di origine particolarmente eterogenea, cui l'autore ha fatto riferimento, rendono il racconto un esempio particolarmente ricco della produzione di quegli intellettuali che, a cavallo tra Otto e Novecento, non vollero acriticamente abbracciare la lezione occidentale sulla scrittura in prosa che informava le diverse teorie dell'epoca sul "nuovo romanzo giapponese".This product presents a multi-level reading of Fūryū butsu (1889) by Kōda Rohan. When the research was carried out, no translation in Western languages of the novel was available, and the analysis has been therefore conducted only on the bases of the original text. Its complex prose, which draws its characteristics from different narrative styles and is influenced both from vernacular Japanese and from classical Chinese, together with its numerous keys to the reading, accessible only when taking account of the heterogeneous, implicit or explicit sources used by the author, make of this work a remarkable example of the novels written at the end of the Nineteenth century by Japanese writers who did not uncritically embrace the theories about the "new Japanese novel", largely influenced by the Western experience

    The Pagoda

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    This novel is a landmark in Japanese literature, widely known, read, and beloved. Sometimes known as “The Five-Story Pagoda,” it tells the story of Jubei, a carpenter and craftsman, who dreams of building a pagoda for the Abbot of the Kannoji Temple. Despite his poverty, low station, and poor reputation—he is known as “the slouch”— Jubei’s determined and uncompromising allegiance to his own vision bring him the possibility of raising a great work for the ages … but will it stand against the howling demons of a tropical typhoon? Rohan Kōda’s The Pagoda (Gojūnotō, 五重塔) first appeared in installments in 1891-1892. This first English translation was published in 1909. Sakae Shioya, the translator, was the author of When I Was a Boy in Japan (1906). doi: 10.32873/unl.dc.zea.1321https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/zeabook/1121/thumbnail.jp
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