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Mapping Middle-earth : Environmental and Political Narratives in J.R. R. Tolkien’s Cartographies (2024) by Anahit Behrooz
No full textThe force driving Anahit Behrooz’s Mapping Middle-earth is a desire todemonstrate that J. R. R. Tolkien’s work deserves to be taken (more) seriouslyin the field of literary studies. The author argues this case by relating maps,mapping, and cartography – within and outside the story world – to a handfulof critical perspectives that currently enjoy certain appeal both within themainstream and among fantasy scholars. And should the book fail to convincesome hobbitophobic critics out there, the fault does not seem to lie either withTolkien’s work or Behrooz discussions of it but with the fact that fantasy(including Tolkien) require more of its analytical tools than some mainstreamcritical perspectives offer when taken off the rack
Author Correction: A comparative study of the local effect of tranexamic acid and phenylephrine on the amount of bleeding in rhinoplasty: A randomized clinical trial
No full textAfter the publication of the article titled “A Comparative Study of the Local Effect of Tranexamic Acid and Phenylephrine on the Amount of Bleeding in Rhinoplasty: A Randomized Clinical Trial”, it was noticed that the name of Behrooz Gandomi had been omitted from the list of contributors. The authors’ names and affiliations have now been corrected accordingly.
The Original Article was published on 7 Sep 2024.
Published: 20 Oct 202
Mapping Middle-earth [Elektronisk resurs] : Environmental and Political Narratives in J.R. R. Tolkien’s Cartographies (2024) by Anahit Behrooz
No full textThe force driving Anahit Behrooz’s Mapping Middle-earth is a desire todemonstrate that J. R. R. Tolkien’s work deserves to be taken (more) seriouslyin the field of literary studies. The author argues this case by relating maps,mapping, and cartography – within and outside the story world – to a handfulof critical perspectives that currently enjoy certain appeal both within themainstream and among fantasy scholars. And should the book fail to convincesome hobbitophobic critics out there, the fault does not seem to lie either withTolkien’s work or Behrooz discussions of it but with the fact that fantasy(including Tolkien) require more of its analytical tools than some mainstreamcritical perspectives offer when taken off the rack.</p
To develop a model for design protocol in the research-based design process in architecture education
Full text linkDespite a great deal of effort has been made to present systematic models of design process, in practice, a lot of designs still proceed through unsystematic methods. It seems that the reason for this is too much emphasizing on describing the final design (product) and little attention to the design process; such that, there is no clear method so as to research-based design. This led to illustrate a distinct pattern from configuration of "design protocol" in terms of research-based design process. The aim of this study is to develop a model that can be used in the architecture educational system. So at first step, the readers of this research are architecture students, and designers can also benefit from it in the next steps. So that all the readers of this research using this model, in a logical process, can recognize the right information for design and ultimately achieve an optimal architectural design. In this research, our preferred context is architecture, and the focus is on research-oriented design; therefore, any given example would be in the field of architecture. In this paper, the proposed process is the result of experience gained from five years teaching architectural design (2) in master\u27s degree that includes three milestones as follows: 1) Statement of problem 2) The scheme and 3) Design protocol. "Statement of design problem" is obtained from people\u27s concerns about "design subject" integrated in its "bed". The scheme, itself, constitutes the expectations, goals and mission representing two sets of information (cognitive and distinction) about design that finally leads to establish a "spatial-body program" of the project. As proceeding from the onset of diagram into the end, we passed from "analyze" into "synthesize" phase. In fact, in «analyze» phase, designer decides to collect and analyze information; however, as the process goes forward, he/she combines the information from the previous phase in order to achieve novel findings. Finally, we hope that by taking advantage of the proposed process, designers can find the best way to accomplish their design projects within a defined framework
Mapping Middle-earth: tracing environmental and political narratives in the literary geographies and cartographies of J.R.R. Tolkien's Legendarium
Full text linkIn 1954, shortly before the publication of The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien
wrote to friend and author Naomi Mitchison, “I wisely started with a map, and
made the story fit” (Letters 177). This reciprocal relationship between map and
story is integral to understanding broader narratives about the interaction
between humans and their environment in Tolkien’s legendarium. Tolkien’s
corpus of maps acts as far more than paratextual material for the external
reader’s understanding of the narrative; rather, it indicates a subcreated
tradition of cartography that articulates particular power dynamics between the
map maker, the map reader, and what is being mapped, that are expressed
both through the maps and in the wider legendarium. Tolkien positions
cartography as an inherently political act that embodies a desire for totalising
understanding and control of its subject matter; this problematizing of external
control then enables a critique of harmful contemporary engagements with
land that intersect with but also move beyond cartography, namely
environmental damage, human-induced geological change, and the natural
and bodily costs of political violence and imperialism. Using historical,
ecocritical, and postcolonial frameworks, this thesis argues that Tolkien
employs particular generic characteristics such as medievalism, fantasy, and
the interplay between image and text, in order to highlight and at times even
correct his contemporary socio-political context and its destructive relationship
with the wider world, through both narrative and cartographic expression
Dynamic pricing and inventory control policies in a food supply chain of growing and deteriorating items
No full textRevenue and inventory management play a crucial role in the operational efficiency of food supply chains. The current study investigates dynamic pricing and inventory control policies in a two-level Food Supply Chain (FSC) of growing and deteriorating inventory that involves a rearing farm as the supplier and a retailer where these slaughtered items are prone to deterioration. The rearing farm breeds newborn animals, then slaughters them and sends the items to the retailer. The negative impact of overbreeding is taken into account to preserve the items’ quality and decrease food waste on the supply side. The model is analyzed under decentralized and centralized supply chain scenarios with a profit-sharing contract as the coordination tool in the centralized case. An analytic solution approach based on non-linear convex programming is developed to solve the problem. The developed structure is illustrated through experimental results with a real estimated growth function for broiler chickens. Sensitivity analysis is carried out to investigate the impact of different input parameters. It is shown that the centralized supply chain scenario not only enhances the profit of the supplier and the retailer but also is more desirable for the customers as the selling price of the items decreases in this setting. The results provide decision-makers of each echelon with insights into the features of the studied FSC, including their most influential input parameters, the areas that require further attention, and managerial suggestions under different scenarios.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.Transport and Logistic
The Social Construction of Value Orientation of the Middle-aged: Providing a Grounded Theory Mohsen Shaterian[1] ,Behrooz Behrooziyan[2] ,Ahmad Falahi[3] Received: 25/11/2016 Accepted: 25/03/2017
No full textThe Social Construction of Value Orientation of the Middle-aged: Providing a Grounded Theory Mohsen Shaterian[1] ,Behrooz Behrooziyan[2] ,Ahmad Falahi[3] Received: 25/11/2016 Accepted: 25/03/2017 Abstract The goal of this research study has been to investigate the value orientation of middle-aged individuals using the social interpretivism approach. The Methodology of the study is qualitative and the social construction method (social interpretivism) is used as a method of operation for research. Qualitative data were collected in this study using the technique of in-depth interviews. To analyze the information and provide the ultimate theory of strategy we used grounded theory. Based on purposive sampling and the theoretical saturation criterion, 12 middle-aged individuals from South Roodbar participated in this study and their attitudes toward value orientation was studied and analyzed. The results obtained with "grounded theory" include six major categories as follows: realism, dissatisfaction with the way of life, mass media, altruism, convergence of religious values, and nepotism. The core notion of this study is the retrospective reflexivity which includes the other major categories. The ground theory gained in the form of a paradigm model contains three Dimensions of conditions, interactions and outcomes. Keywords: Social Interpretivism, Value Orientation, Reflexivity, Middle-Aged [1]. Associate Professor University of Kashan. (Corresponding Author). [email protected] [2]. Ph.D. Student in Sociology, University of Kashan. [email protected] [3]. M.A. in Socail Sciense of HormozganUniversity. [email protected]
Food supply chain coordination for growing items: A trade-off between market coverage and cost-efficiency
No full textThe accurate operation of a Food Supply Chain (FSC) is a critical issue as it directly interfaces with health and safety matters. This study addresses coordination and conflict management in a three-level FSC that embraces a new inventory type known as growing items like poultry and livestock. The chain involves a rearing farm as the supplier, a processed food producer as the manufacturer, and multiple processed food retailers. Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI) is applied by the manufacturer to handle the retailers' systems and prevent replenishment mismatches and thereby food waste. To increase its market coverage, the manufacturer needs to provide the retailers with enough incentives to enter this setting. So, a cost-sharing contract is designed under which the manufacturer undertakes a fraction of the retailers’ holding costs. Accordingly, the manufacturer faces two contradictory targets, increasing its market coverage by convincing the retailers to enter the system on the one hand and managing its costs efficiently on the other hand. An analytic solution approach with a game-theoretic perspective is developed to solve the model. Extensive numerical experiments and a case study are provided, presenting fruitful managerial insights that can be utilized by the policymakers and chain members under different settings. The results highlight the efficiency of our VMI and cost-sharing collaboration scheme in enhancing the performance of the chain.Transport and Logistic
Lawyers of Egypt: class, precarity and politics
Full text linkThis dissertation examines the rising precarity of Egyptian lawyers and its consequences on their politics. In making sense of lawyers’ complex class and status situation, now professionals living through subaltern lives, I trace the making of the profession to historical transformations since the 1950s. In particular, I expose critical junctures such as the unification of the legal system and the resulting diversification of the profession in the 1950s, the tripling of Law Schools and concurrent dismantling of the welfare state in the 1980s, and the mounting state infiltration of the Lawyers’ Syndicate in response to the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood within its ranks in the 1990s. In so doing, I situate the making of contemporary lawyers within the context of a deteriorating law school that reproduces legal professionals with little cultural and economic capital, but simultaneously socializes them into the fantasies of the past grandeur of their profession. Based on eighteen months of ethnographic research, I elucidate lawyers’ precarity as embodied in a life lived in relation to the imagined past of an elite and radical profession. This experience of broken trajectories produces unsettled bodies, quivering in the gaps between their past and present, and their aspirations and frustrations, while seeking to assert their relevance and challenge their life situation. The logics of their precarity thus produces a politics of mattering that enables and structures diverse and often contradictory political possibilities. Lawyers’ complex class situation and logics of mattering enable them to broker street- and courtroom politics and mediate the relationship of the subaltern with national elites, while asserting their significance in society.Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2023-08-01The student, Hebatallah Khalil, accepted the attached license on 2021-07-11 at 16:30.The student, Hebatallah Khalil, submitted this Dissertation for approval on 2021-07-11 at 17:17.This Dissertation was approved for publication on 2021-07-13 at 11:07.DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #16853 on 2022-01-12 at 13:04:30Made available in DSpace on 2022-01-12T22:55:04Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 3
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A model of empathy for artificial agent teamwork.
Full text linkThis thesis introduces a model of empathy as a basis for helpful behaviour in teams consisting purely of artificial agents that collaborate on practical problem-solving tasks, and investigates whether the performance of such teams can benefit from empathic help between members as the analogy with human teams might suggest. Guided by existing models of natural empathy in psychology and neuroscience, it identifies the potential empathy factors for artificial agents, as well as the mechanisms by which they produce affective and behavioural responses. The performance of empathic agent teams situated in a microworld similar to the Coloured Trails game is studied through simulation experiments, with the model parameters optimized by a genetic algorithm. For low to moderate levels of random disturbance in the environment, empathic help is superior to random help, and it outperforms rational help as rational decision complexity grows, in particular at higher levels of environmental disturbance. --P. ii.The original print copy of this thesis may be available here: http://wizard.unbc.ca/record=b180582
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