1,626 research outputs found
Letter from Daoud Hinnawi (aka David Chapple), December 4, 1967
No full textLetter from Daoud Hinnawi to Fayez Sayegh, December 4, 1967, regarding his appearance on the David Susskind show and the Arab-Israeli conflict; includes copy of a letter sent to David Susskind on the same topic sent under the name David Chappl
El extranjero: Albert Camus vs. Kamel Daoud. Por un postexistencialismo libertario
No full textThe Stranger by Camus is one of the most widely read books in the world. This essay tackles Camus philosophy of the absurd in his philosophical tale, along with libertarian spirit that Daoud’s counter inquiry tends to defend, nearly half a century later, in The Meursault Investigation. Indeed the Algerian author offers a retelling of The Stranger in order to confront the absurd figured by Camus with those real harsh conditions of living that his own people had to endure, at least concerning its minorities. We are the absurd! This is the thesis the author wishes to defend. This dialogue between Daoud and Camus argues the issue of a potential process of independence and liberty from a libertarian and post-existentialist perspective.El extranjero de Albert Camus es uno de los libros más leídos del mundo. El presente ensayo pone en relieve la filosofía del absurdo que aborda Camus en este cuento filosófico con la visión libertaria defendida, medio siglo después, por Kamel Daoud en su contra encuesta: Meursault, caso revisado. El autor argelino propone reescribir El extranjero para confrontar el absurdo desde las condiciones objetivas de existencia sufridas por las minorías de su pueblo. ¡El absurdo somos nosotros!, es la tesis que defiende el autor. Este diálogo Albert Camus vs. Kamel Daoud argumenta la posible construcción de un proceso de independencia y de libertad a partir de un post-existencialismo-libertario
Towards Nature-Inspired Antenna Systems for Artificial Light-harvesting Devices
No full textWith the growing demand for cleaner energy, decoding the design principles of natural antenna complexes has become essential for designing efficient artificial devices. Thus, supramolecular engineering of dye materials relies on both the photophysics of individual components and the assembly-induced coupling patterns. This thesis advances the computational design and mechanistic understanding of molecular systems for light-harvesting, energy transfer, and photoresponsive applications, mainly through multiconfigurational quantum chemistry and excitonic modeling. The present work bridges molecular-level insights to functional material design by focusing on three distinct chromophore classes: (bacterio)chlorophyll (BChl)-like systems, azobenzene-derived models, and cyanine-based dyes. First, we focused on natural and synthetic (B)Chl systems. Regarding the monomers, we explored a series of chemically and structurally modified (B)Chl pigments through computational chemistry to evaluate their electronic and spectroscopical properties. Subsequently, we systematically surveyed how geometric arrangements of BChl dimers modulate excitonic couplings and spectral characteristics using a Frenkel exciton Hamiltonian (FEH) model coupled with multiconfigurational monomeric wave functions. The extensive high-throughput analysis of over 11,000 BChl dimeric configurations demonstrated how intermolecular distances, translation, and rotations around different axes drive transitions between H-, J-, X-, and (+)-aggregate types, along with their corresponding distinct spectral and energetic landscapes. The same FEH approach was applied to the Photo System II reaction center, where multireference calculations quantified electronic couplings between Chls, highlighting the significance of accurate monomeric and excitonic calculations in understanding energy transfer events. Spectroscopic tuning principles were then extended to the azobenzene dye, for which we constructed a library of chemically derived models. We found that substituents’ chemical nature and position significantly tune the monomeric models’ chemistry in the studied cases. Then, the evaluation was expanded to the excitonic properties of homo- and, more interestingly, heterodimeric aggregates composed of π-stacked and slip-stacked arrangements. Our results showed how heterodimeric dyes, constructed with monomers of particular chemical and physical characteristics, can exhibit strong excitonic coupling with considerable spectral shifts and excitonic properties that are different from those achieved with homodimers. Finally, we present our preliminary findings based on the multiconfigurational multireference calculations on Cyanine-based fluorophores. The main focus was on the influence of optimizing the geometry and/or including the implicit solvent effect on the electronic structure, the energetics of the dyes, and on the resulting excitonic behavior for a series of homodimeric models. By integrating quantum chemistry with organic material science, this project establishes computational strategies inspired by nature for color-tuning and tailoring chromophores. The detailed findings provide design principles for artificial light-harvesting systems and advanced exciton-based materials
Data & Material of the paper "Application of a novel cascade-routing and reinfiltration concept with a Voronoi unstructured grid in MODFLOW 6, for an assessment of surface-water/groundwater interactions in a hard-rock catchment (Sardon, Spain)"
No full textThis data is part of the article with the DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10040-021-02430-z. The article is studying surface-water/groundwater interactions using modeling tools. All the data are secondary data retrieved from Dr. Maciek Lubczynski (ITC, University of Twente) who is the second author of the article. The uploaded data folder includes two folders (Raw data, Processed data).
In the Raw data folder, there are 2 folders:
1- Meteo_data; include the raw and some processed files of the climate and rainfall data. One report is also included (named: climatic_data report.pdf) to describe the data.
2- Observation data; include the raw and some processed files of the groundwater and streamflow data. One report is also included (named: observations_report.pdf) to describe the data.
In the Processed data folder, there are 4 folders:
1- Grid creation; includes all data used (sheets, python codes, shapefiles, images) to create the model grid.
2- Driving forces; include all data used (sheets, python codes, shapefiles, images) to prepare the model inputs.
3- Model design; include the model files (sheets, python codes, figures).
4- Results; include the model results in different formats (mainly sheets and figures)
Mechanical Behavior of Aluminum Phosphide under Pressure
No full textWith the help of structural parameters and elastic constants obtained previously in our work (S. Daoud, N. Boiud, N. Lebga, J. Optoelectron. Adv. Mater. 16, 207 (2014)), different empirical formulae were successfully used to investigate: equation of state, the isotropic shear modulus, the Young modulus, the Cauchy ratio, the Born ratio, the Poisson ratio, the Pugh ratio, the Kleinman parameter, and the converse piezoelectric coefficient of the aggregate AlP material with cubic zinc-blende structure under pressure up to experimental pressure of phase transition (9.5 GPa). In addition, the Debye temperature at equilibrium volume was predicted, the result obtained is in excellent agreement compared to the experimental ones, the deviation is less than 1.4%
Análise da degradação do sistema celular móvel AMPS provocada por estações comerciais de FM /
No full textDissertação (Mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro Tecnológico
Verso un riscatto delle voci negate: il potere della narrazione e la sfida al canone occidentale in "Foe" di J.M. Coetzee e "Meursault, contre-enquête" di Kamel Daoud
No full textQuesto lavoro di tesi propone l’analisi di due romanzi che instaurano un dialogo critico con la tradizione letteraria europea attraverso una prospettiva postcoloniale: "Foe" (1986) di J. M. Coetzee, che rilegge "Robinson Crusoe" (1719) di Daniel Defoe mettendo in luce il linguaggio come strumento di potere; e "Meursault, contre-enquête" (2013) di Kamel Daoud, che si confronta con "L’Étranger" (1942) di Albert Camus, restituendo voce e identità alla figura che ne è privata nel testo originale. L’obiettivo di questo studio è dimostrare come Coetzee e Daoud, oltre a decostruire criticamente le narrazioni coloniali, le utilizzino come punto di partenza per un’indagine più ampia e articolata sul ruolo del linguaggio e della rappresentazione nella costruzione, nel mantenimento e nel possibile sovvertimento dei rapporti di potere che relegano i soggetti subalterni ai margini. La dissertazione si articola in quattro capitoli: il primo esplora le origini e l’evoluzione della teoria postcoloniale, esaminando il contributo dei suoi principali esponenti e i concetti chiave che hanno elaborato; il secondo approfondisce il contesto storico e letterario del Sudafrica e dell'Algeria; il terzo è dedicato alla figura di J. M. Coetzee e all'analisi di "Foe"; il quarto si concentra su Kamel Daoud e "Meursault, contre-enquête"; infine, nell’ultima sezione, vengono messe in luce le differenze e le analogie tra le due rielaborazioni di opere del canone occidentale.
This thesis analyzes two novels that engage in a critical dialogue with the European literary tradition through a postcolonial perspective: "Foe" by J. M. Coetzee, which reinterprets "Robinson Crusoe" by Daniel Defoe, highlighting language as a tool of power; and "Meursault, contre-enquête" by Kamel Daoud, which responds to "L’Étranger" by Albert Camus, granting a voice and an identity to a character who is deprived of them in the original text. The aim of this study is to demonstrate how Coetzee and Daoud, beyond critically deconstructing colonial narratives, use them as a starting point for a broader and more complex investigation into the role of language and representation in the construction, maintenance, and possible subversion of power relations that marginalize subaltern subjects. The dissertation is structured into four chapters: the first explores the origins and development of postcolonial theory, examining the contributions of its key figures and the main concepts they formulated; the second delves into the historical and literary contexts of South Africa and Algeria; the third is dedicated to J. M. Coetzee and the analysis of "Foe"; the fourth focuses on Kamel Daoud and "Meursault, contre-enquête"; finally, the final section highlights the differences and similarities between these two reinterpretations of works from the Western canon
EFL/ESP teacher development and classroom innovation through teacher-initiated action research
No full textThis study is an investigation of the potential of teacher-initiated action research for
EFL/ESP teacher development and classroom innovation. The Collaborative Academic
Writing Research Project (CAWRP), on which it is based, was carried out at the ESP
Centre, Damascus University, in 1996-1997. It was in two phases, Baseline and
Main. The researcher, a teacher in the context, assumed a participatory and facilitating
role. The pedagogic problem was the teaching of research paper writing to
postgraduate students. The CAWRP was proposed to ease this problem and introduce
classroom innovation through teacher-initiated action research, the long-term aim of
which was continuous professional development. The baseline research aimed at
articulating a picture of teacher and context needs and assessing project viability. The
proposal was refined in the light of the findings, and a programme of teacher
development activities was agreed with the participants. This was implemented in the
Main Phase, which had three stages: Orientation, Research and Reporting, and
Summative Evaluation and Follow-up. The role of the researcher was to facilitate the
teachers to self-direct their professional learning and introduce needed pedagogic
innovations.
The thesis is in eight chapters and 32 appendices. Chapter One sets the scene
and introduces the study. Chapter Two focuses on the baseline investigation: its
methodology, findings, and their implications for the Main Phase study. Chapter Three
is a review of the relevant literature in the fields of teacher development and classroom
innovation. Chapter Four focuses on project design and methodology and gives more
details on the principles, values, strategies, and procedures that guided project
implementation and how they worked out in action. Chapter Five reports the findings,
focusing on the contribution of the Orientation Stage activities to the development of
the teacher group as a whole (a total of 20 out of 23 Centre teachers). Its main sources
of data are recordings, feedback questionnaires, and participant observation. Chapter
Six focuses on the teachers who carried out action research and reported on it (8 out
of the 20 Orientation Stage participants). It presents two case studies of frill
participants, starting with their entry points and showing how they developed in the
Research and Reporting Stage. One case exemplifies the experienced teachers and
those who did research individually, and the other the novices and those who worked in
collaboration. Chapter Seven reports on the participants' sununative evaluation of the
project and the effect of this evaluation on project continuity. Chapter Eight
summarises the main findings and evaluates them with reference to the literature, on
the one hand, and design principles and methodology, on the other. In this chapter, I
have looked critically at the lessons learnt from the study, discussed its significance and
limitations, and put forward some recommendations. The appendices include some of
the materials and documentary evidence used in the research
The Stranger: Albert Camus vs. Kamel Daoud. For a libertarian post-existentialism
No full textÈlodie Ségal, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana – Cuajimalpa. Profesora Investigadora, UAM Cuajimalpa, Departamento de Estudios Institucionales, [email protected]. Asociada Universidad Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, IEDES. Doctora en Sociología, Centre Pierre Naville, Francia. Ha escrito artículos sobre el tema de las cualificaciones de los trabajadores, la regulación económica, sus alternativas/resistencias y su impacto sobre la racionalización de la subjetividad. En 2015 participó en los seminarios de Monique David-Ménard sobre psicoanálisis y filosofía. Recientemente inició un programa de investigación intitulado: “El exiliado. Bajo el signo Libertario”, en la red de investigación de la Cátedra Estudios Críticos de la Cultura de la Universidad Iberoamericana.El extranjero de Albert Camus es uno de los libros más leídos en el mundo. El presente ensayo pone en relieve la filosofía del absurdo abordada por Camus en este cuento filosófico, contraponiéndola a la visión libertaria defendida, medio siglo después, por Kamel Daoud en su contrainvestigación: Meursault, caso revisado. El autor argelino propone reescribir El extranjero para confrontar el absurdo desde las condiciones objetivas de existencia experimentadas por las minorías de su pueblo. ¡El absurdo somos nosotros!, es la tesis que defiende. Este diálogo entre, Albert Camus y Kamel Daoud gira en torno a la posibilidad de construir un proceso de independencia y libertad partiendo de un postexistencialismo libertario.The Stranger by Camus is one of the most widely read books in the world. This essay tackles Camus philosophy of the absurd in his philosophical tale, along with libertarian spirit that Daoud’s counter inquiry tends to defend, nearly half a century later, in The Meursault Investigation. Indeed the Algerian author offers a retelling of The Stranger in order to confront the absurd figured by Camus with those real harsh conditions of living that his own people had to endure, at least concerning its minorities. We are the absurd! This is the thesis the author wishes to defend. This dialogue between Daoud and Camus argues the issue of a potential process of Independence and liberty from a libertarian and post-existentialist perspective
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