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Book Review: Colin Milburn, Respawn: Gamers, Hackers, and Technogenic Life
No full textCopyright © 2020 (William Thomas Howe, [email protected]). Licensed under the Creative Commons
Attribution Non-commercial No Derivatives (by-nc-nd). Available at http://ijoc.org.Throughout the book Respawn: Gamers, Hackers, and
Technogenic Life, author Colin Milburn theorizes about the connections
between video games, hacking, science fiction, technological activism, and
technological communities
Orbit design for future SpaceChip swarm missions in a planetary atmosphere
No full textThe effect of solar radiation pressure and atmospheric drag on the orbital dynamics of satellites-on-a-chip (SpaceChips) is exploited to design equatorial long-lived orbits about the oblate Earth. The orbit energy gain due to asymmetric solar radiation pressure, considering the Earth's shadow, is used to balance the energy loss due to atmospheric drag. Future missions for a swarm of SpaceChips are proposed, where a number of small devices are released from a conventional spacecraft to perform spatially distributed measurements of the conditions in the ionosphere and exosphere. It is shown that the orbit lifetime can be extended and indeed selected through solar radiation pressure and the end-of-life re-entry of the swarm can be ensured, by exploiting atmospheric drag
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'A daughter come home?': the travel writings of Colleen J. McElroy
No full textOregon statewide status and trends report
No full textReport -- Appendix A. Black Rock Desert-Humboldt -- Appendix B. Columbia River -- Appendix C. Deschutes -- Appendix D. Goose Lake -- Appendix E. Grande Ronde -- Appendix F. John Day -- Appendix G. Klamath -- Appendix H. Malheur -- Appendix I. Mid Coast -- Appendix J. Middle-Columbia-Hood -- Appendix K. North Coast-Lower Columbia -- Appendix L. Oregon Closed Basins -- Appendix M. Owyhee -- Appendix N. Powder-Burnt -- Appendix O. Rogue -- Appendix P. Sandy -- Appendix Q. Snake River -- Appendix R. South Coast -- Appendix S. Umatilla-Walla Walla-Willow -- Appendix T. Umpqua -- Appendix U. Willamette.prepared by: Colin Donald and Ryan Michie.Title from PDF cover (viewed on November 4, 2022).This archived document is maintained by the State Library of Oregon as part of the Oregon Documents Depository Program. It is for informational purposes and may not be suitable for legal purposes.Includes bibliographical references.Mode of access: Internet from the Oregon Government Publications Collection.Text in English
Unidades fraseológicas com zoônimos em dicionários monolíngues e bilíngues (português-inglês) e em livros didáticos do PNLD
No full textTese (doutorado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e Expressão, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Estudos da Tradução, Florianópolis, 2015.Esta pesquisa investigou unidades fraseológicas com zoônimos (UFz). As unidades fraseológicas com zoônimos são expressões idiomáticas que têm nomes de animais em sua composição, como ser cachorro sem dono, ser uma galinha morta, dizer cobras e lagartos, etc. O que motivou esta pesquisa foi o entendimento de que a fraseologia é um aspecto cultural emblemático e recorrente nas línguas, por isso está no dia-a-dia na ?boca do povo?, motivo pelo qual precisa ser dicionarizada. Esta investigação toma por fundamento princípios teóricos da Metalexicografia bilíngue e pedagógica na interface que estabelece com a Fraseologia. Seus objetivos gerais são: (i) identificar e descrever o tratamento dado a unidades fraseológicas com zoônimos em dicionários monolíngues; (ii) identificar e descrever o tratamento dado a unidades fraseológicas com zoônimos (as equivalências) em dicionários bilíngues escolares, verificando se as equivalências fornecidas são as mesmas nos 7 dicionários ou se diferem umas das outras; (iii) constatar se há ausência de tradução de UFz em dicionários bilíngues escolares. (iv) investigar se as unidades fraseológicas com zoônimos estão presentes nas coleções de livros didáticos para a língua estrangeira ? inglês que fazem parte do Programa Nacional do Livro Didático nas seções de estudo de vocabulário. Os dicionários monolíngues da língua portuguesa escolhidos foram o Houaiss e o UNESP. Os dicionários bilíngues foram Oxford Escolar (2012), Longman Escolar (2009), Michaelis Escolar (2010), Collins Prático (2012), Mini-Webster?s (2011), Landmark (2006), e Larousse Avançado (atualizado, 2009). Resultado: A pesquisa constatou que as UFz quase não estão presentes nos dicionários bilíngues. Elas também aparecem pouco nas seções de vocabulário dos livros didáticos pesquisados. Outro aspecto era descobrir se as UFz presentes nos dicionários bilíngues escolares pesquisados recebiam os mesmos equivalentes de tradução. Concluiu-se que as UFz recebem uma média de três equivalentes diferentes nos dicionários bilíngues pesquisados.Abstract : This research has investigated phraseological units with zoonyms (UFz). The phraseological units with zoonyms (UFz) are idioms that take animal names in its composition, as Brazilian Portuguese idioms ser cachorro sem dono, ser uma galinha morta, dizer cobras e lagartos, etc. The motivation for such research was due to the understanding that phraseology can be said to have an emblematic and recurrent cultural aspect in the languages, and for this reason is every day in ?everyone's lips? which justifies its inclusion in the dictionary. This research has taken as foundation theoretical principles of bilingual and pedagogic Metalexicography and on the interface which it establishes with Phraseology. Its general goals are: (i) identify and describe the given treatment to phraseological units with zoonyms in monolingual dictionaries; (ii) identify and describe the given treatment to phraseological units with zoonyms (equivalences) in school bilingual dictionaries, checking whether the provided equivalences are the same in the 7 dictionaries or differ from each other; (iii) to find whether there are absences of translations of UFz in school bilingual dictionaries. (iv) to investigate whether the phraseological units with zoonyms are present in the collections of foreign language textbooks - English, which participate of the National Textbook Program (Programa Nacional do Livro Didático - PNLD) in vocabulary study sessions. The chosen monolingual dictionaries of the Portuguese language were Houaiss and UNESP. The bilingual dictionaries were school dictionaries easily accessible in bookstores, either for economic reasons, or for their popularity. They are School Oxford (2012), School Longman (2009), School Michaelis (2010), Collins Practical (2012), Mini-Webster's (2011), Landmark (2006), and Advanced Larousse (updated 2009), Outcome: The survey found out that the UFz are not present in bilingual dictionaries. They also have a small presence in the surveyed vocabulary sessions of the textbooks. Another aspect also focused was to discover whether the UFz (present in the school bilingual dictionaries surveyed) received the same translation equivalences. It was possible to conclude that the UFz receive an average of three different equivalences in the seven surveyed bilingual dictionaries
Oregon statewide status and trends report
No full textChapter 1-3. Introduction and Methods -- Chapter 4-5. Results and Citations -- Appendix A. Black Rock Desert-Humboldt -- Appendix B. Columbia River -- Appendix C. Deschutes -- Appendix D. Goose Lake -- Appendix E. Grande Ronde -- Appendix F. John Day -- Appendix G. Klamath -- Appendix H. Malheur -- Appendix I. Mid Coast -- Appendix J. Middle-Columbia-Hood -- Appendix K. North Coast-Lower Columbia -- Appendix L. Oregon Closed Basins -- Appendix M. Owyhee -- Appendix N. Powder-Burnt -- Appendix O. Rogue -- Appendix P. Sandy -- Appendix Q. Snake River -- Appendix R. South Coast -- Appendix S. Umatilla-Walla Walla-Willow -- Appendix T. Umpqua -- Appendix U. Willamette.prepared by: Colin Donald, Yuan Grund, and Ryan Michie.Title from PDF cover (viewed on October 27, 2020).This archived document is maintained by the State Library of Oregon as part of the Oregon Documents Depository Program. It is for informational purposes and may not be suitable for legal purposes.Includes bibliographical references.Mode of access: Internet from the Oregon Government Publications Collection.Text in English
Oregon statewide status and trends report
No full textReport -- Appendix A. Black Rock Desert-Humboldt -- Appendix B. Columbia River -- Appendix C. Deschutes -- Appendix D. Goose Lake -- Appendix E. Grande Ronde -- Appendix F. John Day -- Appendix G. Klamath -- Appendix H. Malheur -- Appendix I. Mid Coast -- Appendix J. Middle-Columbia-Hood -- Appendix K. North Coast-Lower Columbia -- Appendix L. Oregon Closed Basins -- Appendix M. Black Owyhee -- Appendix N. Powder-Burnt -- Appendix O. Rogue -- Appendix P. Sandy -- Appendix Q. Snake River -- Appendix R. South Coast -- Appendix S. Umatilla-Walla Walla-Willow -- Appendix T. Umpqua -- Appendix U. Willamette.prepared by: Colin Donald, Ryan Michie, and Yuan Grund.Title from PDF cover (viewed on March 20, 2020).This archived document is maintained by the State Library of Oregon as part of the Oregon Documents Depository Program. It is for informational purposes and may not be suitable for legal purposes.Includes bibliographical references.Mode of access: Internet from the Oregon Government Publications Collection.Text in English
State-and-transition simulation model files for ST-Sim software
No full textAs outlined in Appendix S1, this file contains all of the files required to run the simulations in the paper using the ST-Sim softwar
The tectonic evolution and fluid characteristics of gold-quartz veins at the Globe and Phoenix Mine, Zimbabwe
No full textThe Globe and Phoenix Mine in central Zimbabwe has been developed down to a vertical depth of 1460m and, prior to effective cessation of underground working in 1977, produced 120t of gold at an average recovery grade of 27.6g/t. The deposit contains a large number of veins with a variety of orientations and is located at and around the contact between granitic gneisses of the Rhodesdale batholith and altered rocks of the Kwekwe Ultramafic Complex. Wide zones of ductile deformation are concentrated within the ultramafic rocks and occur both along the E-dipping contact and along NNW-striking zones. Where the two intersect, major alteration to magnesite-rock grading outward to talc-schists occurs. Early deformation involved ∼E-W compression with veins generated along both the gneiss-ultramafic contact and ENE-WSW-striking, subvertical fractures. These preceded the main mineralising event which involved NE-SW-directed compression, with subsequent veining along both NE- and SW-dipping reverse-sense fractures and major veins (the Phoenix Main and Parallel Reefs) related to an oblique reverse-dextral-sense reactivation of the gneiss-ultramafic contact. A further series of veins which steepen progressively down-dip formed along curved stress trajectories late in the evolution of the deposit. In all cases, veining is restricted to gneisses and carbonatised ultramafics, with lodes terminating rapidly on entering talc-schist, indicating that carbonatisation pre-dated vein development. Within the composite lodes, early, deformed, shear-parallel vein increments are clearly post-dated by later units. In the ultramafics, mutually cross-cutting age relationships between steeply dipping shear-parallel vein increments and horizontal extensional veins indicate the operation of stress cycling in the overall formation of the composite orebodies. Shear-parallel increments formed where fluid pressures rose to supralithostatic values sufficient to cause rupture, increased dilatancy, and subsequent rapid fluid infiltration.</p
The productivity effects of decentralized reforms - an analysis of the Chinese industrial reforms
No full textThe empirical literature on the effects of ownership has not distinguished between the effects of ownership and the effects of control. It has also generally ignored the dynamic effects of various ownership and control rights. Using a rich set of panel data about changes in China's state-owned enterprises, the author examines the static and dynamic effects of decentralizing ownership and control rights. He finds that productivity and growth rates improved significantly when reform improved the incentives for managers and employees to learn and to work hard - for example by decentralizing the rights to control wages, make production decisions, and appoint new managers. Increasing profit-retention rates and adopting performance contracts - conventionally viewed as the most important reforms for China's state enterprises - did not improve productivity much. Overall, decentralization accounted for a least 42 percent of productivity growth in Chinese state enterprises in the 1980s. Much of that gain came from improvements in the growth rate of productivity rather than in improved levels of productivity.Labor Policies,Economic Theory&Research,Environmental Economics&Policies,Banks&Banking Reform,Public Health Promotion,Economic Theory&Research,Environmental Economics&Policies,Banks&Banking Reform,Health Monitoring&Evaluation,Municipal Financial Management
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