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The people behind the papers - Yonit Maroudas-Sacks and Marko Popovic
No full textDuring Hydra regeneration, supracellular actomyosin fibres are disoriented at two distinct foci of the regenerating tissue. These sites of nematic topological defects eventually form the new head and foot of the regenerated animal. In a new study, Yonit MaroudasSacks, Marko Popovic, Kinneret Keren and colleagues propose a positive-feedback loop that incorporates fibre organisation, tissue strain and morphogen gradients to promote head organiser formation. To find out more about the work, we caught up with first author Yonit Maroudas-Sacks and co-corresponding author Marko Popovic, Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Germany
BOOK REVIEW: Radomir Popovic, "Serbian Orthodox Church in History" (translated in English by Petar V. Serovic, Belgrade and Novi Sad: Art Print, 2005), 135 p.
No full textThe history of the Serbian Orthodox Church is known in the Romanian space, but also in the other Orthodox spaces, mostly due to the activity of some important Serbian personalities, like Saint Nikolas Velimirovic or Saint Justin Popovic. The main reason for such a problem is the fact that most of the works dedicated to this subject are not translated in English or French. Therefore, the publication of some works like the one of Bosko Bojovic about the Serbian Orthodox Church means a lot for the research of this subject in other cultural spaces. However, if the aforementioned work is addressed to specialists, the one of Professor Radomir Popovic, who teaches History of the Church at the Faculty of Orthodox Theology in Belgrade, can be read and analysed by anyone who wants to improve his/her knowledge about this subject. It is similar to the synthesis about the history of our Orthodox Church, published by Father Mircea Păcurariu
Stojan Jovanovic - a state cadet and the author of French grammar
No full textStojan Jovanovic, called by the name of Cukic by his contemporaries, is
mainly known as a leader of Katanska buna (The Rebellion of Katanas) in 1844.
The subject of this paper is Jovanovic?s education in Serbia and Vienna. A
thesis statement is that Stojan Jovanovic, Filip Hristic, and Anastas
Jovanovic have enjoyed the favor and support of the Obrenovic family, to whom
they have been loyal in return. Stojan Jovanovic belonged to the first
generation of students who've graduated from all schools existing in Serbia
during Prince Milos?s reign - he has finished the primary school in Belgrade,
the High School, i.e. the Kragujevac Gymnasium in 1836, and has attended the
Military Academy in Pozarevac, Belgrade and Kragujevac between 1837 and 1838.
In 1839. Jovanovic was appointed to the first group of state cadets who were
sent to study in Vienna. This generation of students was in many ways similar
to the one that attended the Belgrade Higher School (1808 - 1813). Jovanovic
stayed in Vienna for three years. For the first two years he has learned
French and German, preparing for the Law school. He has enrolled at the
Vienna University in the winter of 1841, and passed three exams by the end of
the school year. Several times he has asked the Ministry of education in
Belgrade to send him to study in Paris, but he was denied. On the initiative
of the emissary of the Serbian government, Jovan Sterija Popovic, Jovanovic
and other cadets have been withdrawn from the studies in Vienna. Between
1842. and 1844. Jovanovic has taken part in three rebellions against the
regime of Ustavobranitelji (the Defenders of the Constitution). In the summer
of 1844. in Vienna, Jovanovic has printed a manual for learning French,
French Grammar. Although it is a compilation, the manual is significant since
it has brought contemporary methods of learning French language to Serbian
readers. The papers end with a well founded presumption, based on the yet
unknown document, that Stojan Jovanovic has survived the Katanska buna in
1844.</jats:p
General Programs for Least pth and Near Minimax Approximation
No full textTitle: General Programs for Least pth and Near Minimax Approximation, Author: Jadranka K. Rizoniko-Popovic, Location: ThodeUser-oriented computer programs in FORTRAN IV for discrete least pth approximation with a single specified function, and more generalized discrete least pth approximation with various specifications, which may also be used for nonlinear programming, are presented. Values of p up to 10^6 can be used successfully in conjunction with efficient gradient minimization algorithms such as the Fletcher-Powell method and a recent method due to Fletcher. It has already been demonstrated how efficiently extremely near minimax results can be achieved on a discrete set of sample points using this approach and the programs written verify this. The programs may be applied to a wide variety of design problems with a wide range of specifications. They are suitable for electrical network and system design and such problems as filter design.ThesisMaster of Engineering (ME
Marginal social groups in Serbia: A look into the past: Vladimir Jovanovic: Splendours and miseries of town life: Marginal groups and state reaction in Serbia in the 19th century, Zavod za udzbenike, Beograd, 2017
No full textNicifor Ninkovic - on the trail of his “Autobiography ” and other historical sources
No full text?My Autobiography? by Nicifor Ninkovic, barber to Prince Milos, is one of the
most widely read Serbian memoirs. There were five reprints from 1976 to 2016.
Our only information on his life can be gathered from that work. He was born
in the Syrmian village of Dobrinci in 1788. He crossed over to insurgent
Serbia in 1807. In the winter of 1812-1813 he moved through Wallachia and
went to Constantinople. He returned to Serbia in 1819. He was personal barber
to Prince Milos from 1822 to 1826. Then he served as a scribe in the Rudnik
District Magistrate in 1828-1829. He left Serbia again in 1831 and spent ten
years roaming around Turkey. He finally came back to Serbia in late 1841 or
early 1842. This paper focuses on the unknown sources from the Archive of
Serbia and the Historical Archive of Belgrade related to Nicifor Ninkovic,
which include his requests to Prince Milos dated April 28/May 10, 1819, April
24/May 6, 1825, and April 14/26, 1826, in which he asks for the ruler?s mercy
or employment, also a letter to Prince Milos?s secretary Nikola Nikolajevic
dated October 13/25, 1820, in which he recommends himself for the post of the
Prince?s barber. The registers of births, marriages and deaths of Belgrade
Cathedral contain information on the date of his marriage to Hristina from
Zemun (April 30/May 12, 1822), the birth and death of his daughter Draginja
(March 16/28, 1827 - March 18/30, 1834), and the death of his wife Hristina
(January 5/17, 1835). We put forth a new argument that Nicifor Ninkovic died
in Belgrade, and not in Pozarevac, as has been held so far.</jats:p
La plainte du chien battu, ou la poésie désenchanteresse (1991-2013) de Michel Houellebecq
No full textCe mémoire propose une étude des poésies de Michel Houellebecq menée dans le respect des visées et du cadre théorique de la sociocritique (Duchet, Robin, Popovic). Chacun de ses trois chapitres explore un thème de recherche qui s’est imposé par sa prégnance dans l’œuvre étudiée : la vie urbaine, la vie sociale, les altérités de la ville. L’hypothèse principale est que l’écriture houellebecquienne capte des signes, des actes de langage, des représentations qui circulent dans la société française contemporaine, et qu’elle le fait de manière dynamique, c’est-à-dire en les soumettant à un travail scriptural qui critique leur usage et qui en modifie le sens. La « mise en texte » (Duchet) de la vie urbaine (premier chapitre) met à jour une domination de la ville et de ses habitants par les seules lois économiques. Elle décrit ainsi un monde qui n’est plus que marchand. Celle de la vie sociale et des liens interpersonnels (deuxième chapitre) démontre leur étonnante facticité et atteste que leur organisation restreint de plus en plus les libertés individuelles. Ce qui était un acquis de la modernité sociale : pouvoir bénéficier de « temps libre » pour prendre soin de soi et des proches, devient de plus en plus impossible. Enfin, celle des altérités de la ville (banlieue, province, nature – troisième chapitre), prouve que ces dernières n’offrent aucune alternative à l’hostilité du monde urbain et à la règle du chacun pour soi. Malgré ce diagnostic désolant, la poésie cherche à déceler ici ou là des traces d’espoir et de solidarité.This master’s dissertation is a study of Michel Houellebecq’s poetry according to the theoretical framework of sociocritic (Duchet, Robin, Popovic). Urban life, social life and alterities of the city are the most present themes in the poetical work of the author. The main hypothesis is that the writing mobilizes and take over signs, linguistic acts and representations which float around in the French contemporary society, but in a dynamic way: the scriptural act of writing modifies their meaning and criticizes their common use. In the first chapter, we will discuss the “putting into text” (literal translation of the « mise en texte » concept by Duchet, which is the action of putting something into the form of a literary text) of urban life, which shines a light on how much the economic laws rule the city and its inhabitants. It describes a market world where money reigns. In the second chapter, the “putting into text” of social life and people-to-people ties shows how surprisingly artificial they are and certifies that their organization shrinks individual liberties more and more. Having free time to spend with your loved ones was once a given of social modernity but is now becoming difficult to manage. In the third and last chapter, the putting into text of the othernesses of the city (suburbs, province, nature) reveals that they offer no alternative to the hostility of the urban world and the fact that it is, and it will always be, every man for himself. Despite this distressing diagnosis, poetry tries to detect here and there hints of hope and solidarity
La plainte du chien battu, ou la poésie désenchanteresse (1991-2013) de Michel Houellebecq
No full textCe mémoire propose une étude des poésies de Michel Houellebecq menée dans le respect des visées et du cadre théorique de la sociocritique (Duchet, Robin, Popovic). Chacun de ses trois chapitres explore un thème de recherche qui s’est imposé par sa prégnance dans l’œuvre étudiée : la vie urbaine, la vie sociale, les altérités de la ville. L’hypothèse principale est que l’écriture houellebecquienne capte des signes, des actes de langage, des représentations qui circulent dans la société française contemporaine, et qu’elle le fait de manière dynamique, c’est-à-dire en les soumettant à un travail scriptural qui critique leur usage et qui en modifie le sens. La « mise en texte » (Duchet) de la vie urbaine (premier chapitre) met à jour une domination de la ville et de ses habitants par les seules lois économiques. Elle décrit ainsi un monde qui n’est plus que marchand. Celle de la vie sociale et des liens interpersonnels (deuxième chapitre) démontre leur étonnante facticité et atteste que leur organisation restreint de plus en plus les libertés individuelles. Ce qui était un acquis de la modernité sociale : pouvoir bénéficier de « temps libre » pour prendre soin de soi et des proches, devient de plus en plus impossible. Enfin, celle des altérités de la ville (banlieue, province, nature – troisième chapitre), prouve que ces dernières n’offrent aucune alternative à l’hostilité du monde urbain et à la règle du chacun pour soi. Malgré ce diagnostic désolant, la poésie cherche à déceler ici ou là des traces d’espoir et de solidarité.This master’s dissertation is a study of Michel Houellebecq’s poetry according to the theoretical framework of sociocritic (Duchet, Robin, Popovic). Urban life, social life and alterities of the city are the most present themes in the poetical work of the author. The main hypothesis is that the writing mobilizes and take over signs, linguistic acts and representations which float around in the French contemporary society, but in a dynamic way: the scriptural act of writing modifies their meaning and criticizes their common use. In the first chapter, we will discuss the “putting into text” (literal translation of the « mise en texte » concept by Duchet, which is the action of putting something into the form of a literary text) of urban life, which shines a light on how much the economic laws rule the city and its inhabitants. It describes a market world where money reigns. In the second chapter, the “putting into text” of social life and people-to-people ties shows how surprisingly artificial they are and certifies that their organization shrinks individual liberties more and more. Having free time to spend with your loved ones was once a given of social modernity but is now becoming difficult to manage. In the third and last chapter, the putting into text of the othernesses of the city (suburbs, province, nature) reveals that they offer no alternative to the hostility of the urban world and the fact that it is, and it will always be, every man for himself. Despite this distressing diagnosis, poetry tries to detect here and there hints of hope and solidarity
Effect of Hot Isostatic Pressing on the Microstructure of Directionally Solidified Nickel Alloy After SLM
No full textThe paper investigates the effect of hot isostatic pressing of single-crystal nickel-based alloy manufactured by selective laser melting (SLM) with a high-temperature substrate preheating. A study of the structure and phase composition of the material before and after treatment has been carried out. It was found that as a result of such treatment, the ratio and proportion of the strengthening phases change; however, due to slow cooling after treatment, the optimal ratio and shape of the inclusions are not fixed. In addition, the hardening particles are precipitated.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.Team Vera Popovic
Heat treatment effect on the structure formation of directionally solidified nickel alloy after SLM
No full textThe aim of this study was to determine the influence of heat treatment on the microstructure of single-crystal nickel-based alloy manufactured by selective laser melting with a high-temperature substrate preheating. The change of gamma/gamma prime -phases ratio was established as a result of various heat treatment modes.Team Vera Popovic
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