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10th Asia Pacific Structural Engineering and Construction Conference 2018

PrefaceThe construction industry has accepted innovation and safeguarded great extent of sustainability by creative applications in design and construction practices. A sustainable structure or construction practice implicates that it is judiciously deployed to challenges faced by modern construction industry. As a matter of fact, the innovation in this field has kept developing or evolving to meet the expectation of ever more demanding design requirements in addition to persistent needs for change and improvement in performance. The problems faced contemporarily by the construction industry may not necessarily identical as in the future. Nevertheless, innovation and developments should not be ceased in order to offer cost effective sustainable solution that can change these challenges into opportunities.The School of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), organised this International Conference to discuss the challenges as well as innovations in regards to sustainable construction industry, which including new materials, technologies, environmental concerns and economic factors to enhance its excellence. This is done by gathering Engineers, designers, researchers, scientists and scholars from different countries all around the world to celebrate the excellence in sustainable structure and construction practices. This conference dealt with key technical under the theme of “Sustaining the world with better structures and construction practice”. Over 65 papers were presented by authors during this Conference and these are compiled in a single volume conference proceeding.The event was co-organized with Construction Research Institute of Malaysia (CREAM). The organisation is gratefully acknowledged for their indispensable support. Organising a Conference is immense and substantial. Assistances and helps from all those involved are gratefully acknowledged, particularly the members of Technical and Supporting Committee for their supports from start to finish; the Authors and the Session Chairs for their invaluable contributions.This Proceeding has been completed via camera-ready copy printed from the digital manuscripts submitted by the authors and editing has been limited to the least, where it was considered unavoidable.Tan Sri. Datuk. Prof. Dr. Ir. Ts. Tr. Ar. Noor Nabilah Sarbini

Publishing a Computer Graphics Book With Prototype Desktop Publishing Tools

The first major computer graphics text, Principles of Interactive Computer Graphics,1 was inspired by a course, a research project, and a set of notes, all by Ivan Sutherland. In 1971, William Newman invited me to join forces to supplement his partial book draft with notes I had been writing. The book, which appeared in 1973, was received well, exceeding the sales projections of its publisher, McGraw-Hill. Between 1973 and 1977, William and I were research staff at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) working on tools for an “office of the future,” focusing especially on interactive graphics and raster printing. We realized that raster displays and printers would soon dominate and would require mastering new techniques and adapting old ones. The second edition of our book, a complete rewrite, introduced some of the new technologies. This note is a story of the writing of the two editions of the book and it is also a story about how the editions were published in the era before commercial desktop publishing systems. In both the cases, we exploited and adapted computer tools of the time to do much of the publishing ourselves. For the second edition, we chose to use the illustration and printing tools we had developed at PARC to produce camera-ready copy. Especially significant was the use of the Press file format, an early page description language, to combine onto each page the various separate components prepared by different composition tools.

From the Mast-Head

From the Mast-Head John Bryant Leviathan has reached another significant milestone in its fifteen-year development. With the publication of this issue, we welcome Johns Hopkins University Press as our publisher. JHUP will produce and circulate hardcopy issues to members, three times a year. Online access to our journal will be made available to individuals and institutions through Project Muse. Our journal's happy landing in the arms of this prestigious academic duo comes, for me, at the end of twenty-five years of service to the Melville Society. At the end of this year, I will be stepping down as editor-in-chief and hope to be of continued service in some consultatory fashion. But before descending from this mast-head perch, let me reflect on where we are and how Leviathan got this far. As seasoned members of the Melville Society will recall—and as our newer subscribers might like to know—this Journal of Melville Studies grew out of—budded from, you might say—Melville Society Extracts, a scholarly periodical of significant repute published as a quarterly, in newsletter format, for over thirty years, from 1969 to 2005. Past editors Hennig Cohen—whose name adorns our annual prize for first-time publishers on Melville—and Donald Yannella—who died last year (see our recognition of him in Leviathan 14.3)—brought Extracts through two earlier milestones: the regularizing of its periodicity and the converting from a loose-leaf, stapled mailing to a computer-formatted publication. Both editors established high standards for excellence in scholarship and writing, and from its early days onward Extracts was routinely indexed in the profession's most reliable bibliographies, in particular the MLA International. Still, Melville Society Extracts suffered because its length was not conducive to more fully-developed essays and argumentation; its title was sometimes mistaken for "Abstracts," which projected the notion of its being a "go elsewhere" reference tool, and its newsletter format posed problems for librarians to acquire, bind, and shelve the periodical. In 1990, following directly in Yannella's footsteps, I spent my time as Editor of the Melville Society learning how to edit Extracts. Like Redburn, I was a "boy" on board this craft. Having published Greenwood's Companion to Melville Studies, I had some bona fides in the process of critiquing and copy-editing submissions, but I was a greenhorn in the scheduling of a periodical, the marshaling of readers, the selection of articles, the assigning of book reviews, the laying out of each issue in something [End Page 1] called Adobe PageMaker, the placement of text, photos, and line-drawings, the delivery of camera-ready copy to a printer (on the Hofstra University campus), and the arrangement for each copy to be stuffed in an envelop, labeled, and mailed. These were the many ropes I found myself in need of learning, and I vividly recall re-doing my first issue of Extracts—Issue No. 80, I believe it was—three times before I felt it was ready for the press. If you think of The Honor and Glory of Editing, you might conceive of yourself skippering a numerous editorial staff: but think again. Better to imagine one man rowing: much exertion facing backward, going forward only through repeated glances over the shoulder in order to correct the course, all on a mission to deliver good writing and good thinking safely into port. I rather like sharing the pain and indirection of editing, so much so that I early on resolved to ensnare more people into the process. Thus, the first milestone in the long journey to Johns Hopkins University Press was the creation of an Assistant Editor in charge of book reviews, a role first ably performed by Sheila Post-Lauria beginning in 1994, and then in 1996 by Wyn Kelley, a vibrant Melville scholar with great ideas, Job-like patience, and an eagle-eye for typos, who would assume more editorial responsibilities, learn the perilous protocols of PageMaker, and eventually rise to the position of Associate Editor. Throughout the 1990s, Extracts grew, in part because the Society began to grow and because no other journal was so centrally positioned to provide a forum for...

The Birth and Rebirth of Sign Language Studie s

As most readers of this journal are aware, Sign Language Studies (SLS) served for many years as effectively the only serious scholarly oudet for work in the nascent field of sign language linguistics. Now reaching its fortieth anniversary, the journal was founded by William C. Stokoe and then edited by him for the first quarter century of its existence. The SLS community of readers will generally be receptive to the claim that Bill Stokoe was also the founder of the emerging field just mentioned. In January 1989 Stokoe himself published a fairly detailed account of the journal's first sixteen years (although published at the beginning of 1989, his paper had been written in 1988). We cannot do better than to allow Bill to tell the story in his own words, and following is an extended extract from his account of those early years, especially how he entered the desktop publishing business, as well as that of journal editing. It is noted here that the illness that necessitated the withdrawal of his wife, Ruth, from partnership with him in 1987 was Alzheimer's disease, which led first to complete disability and, ultimately, her death in 1998. So, the following passage was written during an exceptionally difficult time in his life. Not only was his wife showing signs of a terrible disease, but, as we will see later, he was finding it increasingly difficult to continue editing and publishing the journal.Bill begins his account by describing how he got into a scholarly field that was almost as untouchable at that time as sign language linguistics - that of the origin and evolution of language in general - and how he founded the publishing business that he named Linstok Press:1A symposium on the origins of language at the 1972 American Anthropological Association meetings in Toronto was stimulating to its participants and enthusiastically received by many in attendance. Nevertheless, the seven formal papers and commentaries on them remained unpublished, although two or three university presses and at least one small private publisher had been approached. As the reopening of a topic anthropological and linguistic societies had mooted long ago, it evidendy appeared unmarketable. Nevertheless, I joined the two organizers of the symposium in an attempt to publish it despite that assessment. My secretary in the Gallaudet College Linguistics Research Laboratory, of which I was then director, prepared camera-ready copy on a proportional-spacing IBM Executive typewriter equipped with a reasonably book-like font. I designed the book, added a second paper by one of the presenters, a lengthy bibliography of the subject, and commentaries by the three co-editors.The typist's time was paid for, as a legitimate cost of research reporting, from an NSF grant: the book contained two chapters resulting from our research. The cost of printing and binding iooo copies and of a small direct-mail promotion were mine personally, as were the embarrassments of publishing inexperience when Language Origins was published in November 1974 and mailed to contributors and others, along with a twenty-four-page saddle-stapled insert containing a list of errata and a revision of its chapter 6.This initial venture into desktop publishing did not produce the personal tax loss I had half expected. One or two anthropologists used the volume in their teaching; its critical success was assured when Charles F. Hockett reviewed it with three other books on the topic in 1978; and the remaining copies, warehoused for years in the basement of my home, were sold out shortly thereafter.The next step toward desktop publishing followed a suggestion by Thomas A. Sebeok (then Distinguished Professor at Indiana University) that I edit an international journal on sign language linguistics. The journal, Sign Language Studies, was first published in 19722 by Mouton under an arrangement with the Indiana University Research Center in the Language Sciences. Edited at Gallaudet, it was electronically typeset in Indiana, offset printed in Michigan, and published and distributed in the Netherlands. …

Nana Asma'u's Instruction and Poetry for Present-day American Muslimahs

In 1995 I whined to Dave Henige about the difficulties involved in producing a 753-page volume of 383 pages of translated poetry (each including a work number, language of the original, source of the text, an historical introduction, and related text section) containing three orthographies, four languages, 947 footnotes, 241 pages of barely-arranged Arabic-script (but not all Arabic language) facsimiles, six maps, three glossaries, two works cited lists (published and unpublished), two appendices, and an index – all without a copy editor, and for a press demanding camera-ready copy from two novices an ocean apart who had access only to primitive email (remember CompuServe?) that would scramble poetic verse and jumble margins. When I finally took a breath, he smiled. Dave loves a challenge, and loves even more, passing one on. “Write about it,” he said. Suddenly I found myself signed up for the “Technical Problems in Preparing Text and Translations for Camera-Ready Copy” Historical Texts Panel at ASA's 1996 meetings. But that was not enough for Dave. He also expected an article, which I duly produced: “This Will (Not) Be Handled By the Press: Problems and Their Solution in Preparing Camera-Ready Copy for The Collected Works of Nana Asma'u, Daughter of Usman Dan Fodiyo 1793-1864” for History in Africa 25 (1998). In fact, it was Dave who rained on our anticipated title, “The Complete Works…,” dryly inquiring, “How can you be sure?” So it was “Collected Works…” instead.

Editorial: Letter from the Editor-in-Chief

The editor-in-chief would like to update everyone on CAL's progress. So far this year, there have been 60 submissions, which is about the same pace as last year, but up dramatically from prior years. The acceptance rate has actually dropped slightly, to 24%. The turnaround time has also improved dramatically. In 2010 so far, all of submissions received a first decision within 2 months, 93% within 6 weeks (a 9% improvement over 2009), and 85% within one month (a 27% improvement over 2009). The goal is that all submissions should be decided within one month, and we are continuing to work on procedures to achieve that. However, we never want to sacrifice the quality of a decision for the sake of expediency, and prefer to take extra time when necessary to get an extra review or clarify some aspect of a review. Once a paper is accepted and the final camera-ready copy is submitted, it is posted immediately to IEEE Xplore, where it appears under CAL's "forthcoming" papers until it appears in print. We look for papers that provide ideas or insights that are novel or likely to have lasting importance. We welcome papers presenting early work in new areas, and recognize that such work is also likely to provide only early evidence to support the paper’s claims. Papers on more established topics are expected to be able to provide stronger evidence in support of their claims.

Celebrating 100 years of publishing discovery in physiology 1908 – 2008

Celebrating 100 years of publishing discovery in physiology 1908 – 2008

The Saljūqnāma of Żahīr al-Dīn Nīshāpūrī. A critical text making use of the unique manuscript in the Library of the Royal Asiatic Society. Edited by A. H. Morton. pp. vii, 63, 136, index, 1 chart. Printed from camera-ready copy prepared by the editor. Published by the Trustees of the Gibb Memorial Trust, Chippenham, 2004.

The Saljūqnāma of Żahīr al-Dīn Nīshāpūrī. A critical text making use of the unique manuscript in the Library of the Royal Asiatic Society. Edited by A. H. Morton. pp. vii, 63, 136, index, 1 chart. Printed from camera-ready copy prepared by the editor. Published by the Trustees of the Gibb Memorial Trust, Chippenham, 2004.

The Contest for Knowledge: Debates over Women's Learning in Eighteenth-Century Italy by Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Rebecca Messbarger, Paula Findlen

MLR, I0 I .3, 2006 867 many of the issues she is concerned with have been dealt with in those more northerly traditions that have preoccupied recent emblem studies. The book also contains a dismaying number of typographic widows, and its publishers urgently need to review their policy for the final editing of camera-ready copy. All future work, however, not just on these Italian theorists themselves but on the wider use of emblematic forms both within and beyond Italy, will need henceforth to be grounded in a thorough knowledge of this book. UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW MICHAEL BATH The Contest for Knowledge: Debates over Women's Learning in Eighteenth-Century Italy. By MARIA GAETANA AGNESI and others. Ed. and trans. by REBECCA MESSBARGERand PAULAFINDLEN. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2005. xxxi+i8Ipp. $45 (pbk $i8). ISBN 0-226-OI054-6 (pbk 0-226-O0055-4). The eighteenth century in Italy witnessed a significant increase in both women's writing and writing about women, with women's education the most frequent topic of debate. Should women be educated at all? If so, inwhat fields and towhat extent? Would the education of women undermine the family as one knew it?Would they in fact still be 'women' once they acquired an education? Are women's minds up to the task anyway? These were the concerns that dominated both men's and women's writings on the subject. While some men were against women's education, those who upheld its validity did so for the sake of something else, be itmaking them better home-makers and mothers or improving their defective judgement. Similar lines of argument were adopted by women, generally accompanied by a host of self legitimation techniques. The present volume contains translations of texts by both women and men on the topic of women's education spanning the century in its Enlightenment period, from Neapolitan philosopher Eleonora Barbapiccola's introduction to her transla tion of Descartes's Principia philosophiae (I722) to philosopher and mathematician Diamante Medaglia Faini's I763 oration Quali studi convengano alle donne, via the dispute held in 1723 at the Accademia de' Ricovrati in Padua with the specific remit 'se debbano ammettersi le donne allo studio delle scienze, e delle belle arti', which was the most visible episode in this continuing debate. Although the Padua dispute began as a debate among men, in its published version (I729) it included two con tributions by women, Aretafila Savini de' Rossi's Apologia in favore degli studii delle donne, and an Oratio, qua ostenditur artium [not 'atrium', p. 120] liberalium studia a femineo sexo neutiquam abhorrere by the nine-year-old Maria Gaetana Agnesi, later to become one of the most distinguished mathematicians of the century. The writings by Barbapiccola, Savini de' Rossi, Agnesi, and Medaglia Faini are translated here in their entirety, while the original male participants in the Padua dispute are whittled down to two, Antonio Vallisneri, who defended women's education, and Giovanni Antonio Volpi, who attacked it. The volume opens with a general introduction by Rebecca Messbarger. This be gins with a contrastive analysis in both diachronic and synchronic terms. It situates the eighteenth-century debate on women's education within the context of the age old querelle des femmes, highlighting its specificity and innovations with regard to the tradition, and also within the context of contemporary women's contribution to in tellectual activity and scholarship, and male views of this. It then focuses on women's own contribution to the debate, highlighting the ambivalences and nuances of their ar gumentative strategies. It concludes with a survey of the studies so far on the subject. This is very informative and stimulating. One minor inaccuracy: Eleonora Fonseca 868 Reviews Pimentel's journal was called Monitore napoletano (Monitore repubblicano by Croce), not Monitore partenopeo (p. io). The translations, which are each preceded by very useful introductions on the authors, read well on the whole. I especially liked the renditions of Agnesi (no mean feat, as her Latin is often hard to unravel) and Barbapiccola, which read as if they were not translations at all. On the other hand, the versions of Volpi, Vallisneri, and Savini de' Rossi are occasionally...

Im Schatten der Literaturgeschichte: Autoren, die keiner mehr kennt. Plädoyer gegen das Vergessen by Jattie Enklaar, Hans Ester

MLR, 10I.4, 2oo6 II89 criticism, including Leslie Adelson's arguments against the exclusionary effects of critical rhetorics of hybridity and 'in-between-ness'. Adelson herself provides aGer man version of her article 'The Turkish Turn in German Literature and Memory Work' (Germanic Review, 77 (2002), 326-38). Jim Jordan highlights postmodernist features of Turkish and other migrant German writing (with a focus on $enocak and Akif Pirin9ci). Manfred Durzak gives a cool account of the satirist Sinasi Dikmen. Part III has a survey of Ukrainian-German migrant literature (Alexandra Krav chenko); a more substantial survey of Russian-German literature, with a lengthy appendix giving the contents of several remigrant journals (Hans-Christoph Graf von Nayhauss); brief papers on Johann Warkentin (Valentina Zaretchneva) and Vik tor Heinz (Lilla Egorova); and an account of Jewish culture in Breslau (Norbert Honsza). Mecklenburg's concluding report mentions, inter alia, the lack of cover age of Romanian-German literature, snipes atAdelson and McGowan for providing previously published work, and allows that his own keynote paper's 'provozierende Wertungen' were 'zurechtgeriickt' by the contributions of Bullivant, Pazarkaya, and Jordan. From this, and Canan Senoz Ayata's more formal report, we conclude that in Istanbul a good time was had by most. Durzak's 'Nachwort' describes the difficulties of preparing camera-ready copy, the problems posed by Turkish special characters ('$enocak' crops up in Bullivant's essay), and the impossibility of enforcing a com mon referencing system, or even-in one case-persuading an author to provide any references at all. Still, itwas all worth it. UNIVERSITYOFWALES SWANSEA TOM CHEESMAN Im Schatten der Literaturgeschichte: Autoren, die keiner mehr kennt. Pladoyer gegen das Vergessen. Ed. by JATTIE ENKLAAR and HANS ESTER. (Duitse Kroniek, 54) Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi. 2005. 358 pp. E70. ISBN 90-420-I9I5-8. If one chances upon the name of a forgotten author, four kinds of interest might impel one to study him or her further: a purely positivistic desire to find out more; a feeling that the works would be worth incorporating in the canon-itself a difficult concept-or at any rate bringing back to the attention of the reading public or literary scholars; awish to discover what made the author popular or influential at the time but has lost its potency; and respect for representatives of extinct cultures and ways of life. The editors of the present volume flirt with all of these, though primarily the third: why are surviving libraries showing the aspirations and tastes of blirgerliche Lesekultur (p. 8) of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries so dead to us? Not every contribution can be mentioned here. To my mind the more important factual essays are a study of Gutzkow concentrating on Die Ritter vom Geiste; a brief account of Karl Emil Franzos's life and ghetto stories; a survey of Leo Hirsch's work as a leading critic in the I920S and the ghettoized culture of the I930s; and a treatment of Gustav Landauer mainly as critic and political thinker. Pleas for greater recognition include a redefinition of Sacher-Masoch's celebrated -ism; a defence of Otto Roquette's novellas; and an attempt (inmy view, unsuccessful) to rescue Alfred Margul-Sperber from the accusation of over-comfortable, routine writing. Walde mar Bonsels is presented, all too briefly, as having more interest than filmings of Die Biene Maja might suggest. Friedo Lampe was never well known; a case ismade for close study of Am Rande der Nacht. Vicki Baum is considered, in line with previous recent attempts, as more sophisticated than her public image. Carl Hauptmann is viewed as the master of psychological analysis of marginal figures who are unable to communicate their concerns. Historico-socio-cultural analysis is applied to Ernst von Houwald's writings for children. Felix Dahn is examined for his rhetorical struc II90 Reviews tures and ideological foundations. Erinnerungskultur isprominent with Adam Muller Guttenbrunn's Lenau trilogy: Lenau as a symbolic figure (rather than as awriter) embodies the lost culture of the Banat Swabians. Of interest more in theDutch context are contributions on Friedrich Markus Huebner, Sophie van Leer, and Grete Weil. All the essays are at least competently written and show commitment...

Jenische, Sinti und Roma in der Schweiz by Helena Kanyar Becker (review)

MLR, 100.4, 2005 1159 Changing Notions of Money and Language in German Literature from i$og to igs6. By Regina Angela Wenzel. (Studies in German Language and Literature, 32; Bristol German Publications, 12) Lewiston, Queenston, and Lampeter: Mellen. 2003. x + 262pp. ?69.95. ISBN 0-7734-7058-1. The best aspect of Regina Wenzel's adapted doctoral thesis is, as appropriate to the genre, the close analysis of texts: chapters on the role of money and financial termi? nology in Fortunatus, Till Eulenspiegel, Nathan der Weise, Kabale und Liebe, Faust II, Der griine Heinrich, Von morgens bis mitternachts,and Der Besuch der alten Dame. These reflect and extend the state of scholarship in these areas and should be read carefully by anyone interested in these works. Beyond that, doubts set in. The theory of Chapter 1, that as money and language are both systems of negotiation whose usefulness depends on mutual trust (in the genuineness of the currency, the truth of the utterance), therefore there must be parallels in their literary treatment, is surely correct, and leads to useful insights about, for instance, the project of realist writ? ing (p. n)?though it would still have been useful, here, to go back to Christopher Prendergast's remarks in The Order of Mimesis (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986). But it does not follow that the same texts that exemplify changing no? tions of money are also good instances of changing awareness of language: those two developments have differentrhythms,however well Wenzel argues for their coming together, for instance, in Keller, or however sharply she observes Leibniz's analogy of the functions of money and of words (p. 97). In effect,therefore, Wenzel in her central chapters limits herself to half her sub? ject, money, with occasional forays into the other, language. Even this lacks a certain dimension, promised by Martin Swales in his preface: the systematic consideration of magic alongside money and language?few German writers to this day can conceive of prosperity except as the result of, if not actual magic, at least far-fetched coincidences, or else sharp practice. A reading of Simplicissimus could have added much to this theme and filled a chronological and thematic gap, with its transition from a superstitious world where treasures are guarded by uncanny spirits, via the easy-come-easy-go attitude of the soldier living on booty, to a world of commerce where judicious investment is the condition of profit. Die Insel Felsenburg would also suggest a shiftto Aufklarung values, and there is more to the (short) nineteenth cen? tury than can be dealt with by a chapter on Der griine Heinrich and short passages on Soll und Haben and Buddenbrooks. Though Wenzel ends on a note of Kulturpessimismus ?'The belief ofthe Enlightenment in at least some universal values seems to have collapsed irrevocably in our post-modern times' (p. 258)?she is only restating a timeless complaint which she has traced back to the late Middle Ages (p. 29). Some theorists of values, notably Pierre Bourdieu (not mentioned here) with his system of differentkinds of capital, would disagree. The volume is well presented as one expects of the publisher (Wenzel should prob? ably share this praise, forproviding perfect camera-ready copy). Notes at the ends of chapters?though surely an oddity now that footnotes magically arrange themselves without human intervention?help to overcome the disadvantage ofthe lack ofa bib? liography. Cardiff University Alfred D. White Jenische, Sinti und Roma in der Schweiz. Ed. by Helena Kanyar Becker. (Basler Beitrage zur Geschichtswissenschaft, 176) Basel: Schwabe. 2003. 185 pp. SwF 48; ?33.50. ISBN 3-7965-1973-3. Helena Kanyar Becker'sjenische, Sinti und Roma in der Schweiz represents an impor? tant contribution to German cultural studies, being the firstvolume to deal with the 1160 Reviews history and culture of Switzerland's 35,000 Yenish (or 'White Gypsies') and Sinti, 2,500 Travellers, and some 30,000 immigrant Romanies from south-eastern Eur? ope. Becker's aim is to highlight their history of abuse and persecution, and increase understanding of their culture and traditions. The authors are all active in the field of Yenish, Romany, and minority rights,and there is a...

Changing Notions of Money and Language in German Literature from 1509 to 1956 by Regina Angela Wenzel (review)

MLR, 100.4, 2005 1159 Changing Notions of Money and Language in German Literature from i$og to igs6. By Regina Angela Wenzel. (Studies in German Language and Literature, 32; Bristol German Publications, 12) Lewiston, Queenston, and Lampeter: Mellen. 2003. x + 262pp. ?69.95. ISBN 0-7734-7058-1. The best aspect of Regina Wenzel's adapted doctoral thesis is, as appropriate to the genre, the close analysis of texts: chapters on the role of money and financial termi? nology in Fortunatus, Till Eulenspiegel, Nathan der Weise, Kabale und Liebe, Faust II, Der griine Heinrich, Von morgens bis mitternachts,and Der Besuch der alten Dame. These reflect and extend the state of scholarship in these areas and should be read carefully by anyone interested in these works. Beyond that, doubts set in. The theory of Chapter 1, that as money and language are both systems of negotiation whose usefulness depends on mutual trust (in the genuineness of the currency, the truth of the utterance), therefore there must be parallels in their literary treatment, is surely correct, and leads to useful insights about, for instance, the project of realist writ? ing (p. n)?though it would still have been useful, here, to go back to Christopher Prendergast's remarks in The Order of Mimesis (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986). But it does not follow that the same texts that exemplify changing no? tions of money are also good instances of changing awareness of language: those two developments have differentrhythms,however well Wenzel argues for their coming together, for instance, in Keller, or however sharply she observes Leibniz's analogy of the functions of money and of words (p. 97). In effect,therefore, Wenzel in her central chapters limits herself to half her sub? ject, money, with occasional forays into the other, language. Even this lacks a certain dimension, promised by Martin Swales in his preface: the systematic consideration of magic alongside money and language?few German writers to this day can conceive of prosperity except as the result of, if not actual magic, at least far-fetched coincidences, or else sharp practice. A reading of Simplicissimus could have added much to this theme and filled a chronological and thematic gap, with its transition from a superstitious world where treasures are guarded by uncanny spirits, via the easy-come-easy-go attitude of the soldier living on booty, to a world of commerce where judicious investment is the condition of profit. Die Insel Felsenburg would also suggest a shiftto Aufklarung values, and there is more to the (short) nineteenth cen? tury than can be dealt with by a chapter on Der griine Heinrich and short passages on Soll und Haben and Buddenbrooks. Though Wenzel ends on a note of Kulturpessimismus ?'The belief ofthe Enlightenment in at least some universal values seems to have collapsed irrevocably in our post-modern times' (p. 258)?she is only restating a timeless complaint which she has traced back to the late Middle Ages (p. 29). Some theorists of values, notably Pierre Bourdieu (not mentioned here) with his system of differentkinds of capital, would disagree. The volume is well presented as one expects of the publisher (Wenzel should prob? ably share this praise, forproviding perfect camera-ready copy). Notes at the ends of chapters?though surely an oddity now that footnotes magically arrange themselves without human intervention?help to overcome the disadvantage ofthe lack ofa bib? liography. Cardiff University Alfred D. White Jenische, Sinti und Roma in der Schweiz. Ed. by Helena Kanyar Becker. (Basler Beitrage zur Geschichtswissenschaft, 176) Basel: Schwabe. 2003. 185 pp. SwF 48; ?33.50. ISBN 3-7965-1973-3. Helena Kanyar Becker'sjenische, Sinti und Roma in der Schweiz represents an impor? tant contribution to German cultural studies, being the firstvolume to deal with the ...

Strings, Branes and New World Scenarios

International Journal of Modern Physics AVol. 18, No. supp01, pp. 46-55 (2003) Mini-Courses on BasicsNo AccessStrings, Branes and New World ScenariosC. BachasC. BachasLaboratoire de Physique Théorique, de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure, Francehttps://doi.org/10.1142/S0217751X03016574Cited by:0 PreviousNext AboutSectionsPDF/EPUB ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsRecommend to Library ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmail Only the discussions are reported here, since the camera-ready copy of the contribution did not arrive in time. You currently do not have access to the full text article. Recommend the journal to your library today! FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Recommended Vol. 18, No. supp01 Metrics History PDF download

Regole grammaticali della volgar lingua by Giovan Francesco Fortunio, Brian Richardson

MLR, 98.2, 2003 473 Manuel de linguistique romane. By Jacques Allieres. (Bibliotheque de Grammaire et de Linguistique, 10) Paris: Champion. 2001. xxii + 323 pp. ISBN 2-74530439 -9. Jacques Allieres sets himself the task of providing an introduction to Romance linguistics , the intended readership being French students ofthe subject, using this term in its broader as well as narrower sense. Indeed, the back-cover blurb refers to a pub? lic cultive, while the foreword invokes, no doubt more realistically, the need felt by a teacher fora coursebook that should fillthe gap between, on the one hand (to a French undergraduate), foreign-language texts of a compass similar to the present volume, and more comprehensive but less wieldy tomes, on the other. In other words, this is an intermediate-sized French-languagetextbookof comparative Romance linguistics. Allieres starts the book where any linguist would, with a short firstchapter discussing the origins ofthe Romance languages. This chapter takes a sprint through the relevant varieties of Latin and the substrate, adstrate, and superstrate languages in question. The second chapter is rather mysteriously called 'Les grandes divisions' but, again quite conventionally, compares the Romance languages on the phonetic, morphological , syntactic, and lexical levels, devoting most space to morphology. Chapter 3 takes the complementary approach of providing a linguistic description of each of the languages, with the same breakdown by linguistic level within each language. This is a good idea, as it fills in gaps left in the previous chapter, as well as providing a synthetic overview of each language. The author apologizes early on, and quite unnecessarily, forthe format ofthe book, which was prepared as camera-ready copy. The format is in fact unexceptionable, but this is a furtherexample of cheese-paring by publishers, who have obliged the author to solve the often quite formidable problems of typography inseparable from a book of this sort. The maps are good and plentiful. The redoubtable impression of density that emanates from the volume is largely due to the subject matter and the relentlessly compressed way in which it is treated. All the same, the line-spacing has been squeezed to save on pages, and this gives a cramped look. This book deserves to do well in the niche into which it settles; the most obvious is the French undergradu? ate market, but lecturers of French in anglophone countries might wish to append the volume as supplementary reading, perhaps to improve reading fluency in the linguistics register. Romance linguistics is really too large a subject to lend itself to compendious treatment in a handily sized volume, so that the present book will above all be useful in supplementing the large standard texts. Alternatively, the book will be suitable in offeringa brief, clear treatment of topics discussed in a less searching undergraduate course, but, as ever, the teacher who employs this book will need to be conversant with the bibliography to which it refers. University of Leeds Nigel Armstrong Regole grammaticali della volgar lingua. By Giovan Francesco Fortunio. Ed. by Brian Richardson. Padua and Rome: Antenore. 2001. lxxxv + 254 pp. ?30. ISBN 88-8455-520-5. This is a critical edition of the firstprinted Italian grammar (1516), recently published in facsimile by Claudio Marazzini and Simone Fornara (Pordenone: Accademia di San Marco, 1999). The introduction develops Carlo Dionisotti's studies on Fortunio and deals with the biographical circumstances surrounding the composition of the Regole ('II contesto e la genesi delle Regole', pp. ix-xxvii), the sources and purposes of the text ('II Fortunio grammatico', pp. xxviii-lxi), and its reception ('La fortuna delle Regole', pp. lxii-lxxiii). After recallingFortunio's links with Venice, Brian Richardson 474 Reviews suggests the reasons forboth the delay in the publication of the work (the book privilege was requested in 1509) and its distance from the Venetian cultural environment. An examination of archival sources and of Sanudo's Diarii reveals that Venetian suspicions about the treachery of Fortunio's brother, Matteo da Zara, harmed Giovan Francesco too: he was probably forced to leave the Serenissima and moved to Ancona, where the grammar was published one year before his mysterious suicide. Fortunio's proem addresses 'gli studiosi della regolata volgar lingua', for whom the...

NRJ Book: Taking Stock: Journalism and the Publicly Traded Newspaper Company

Taking Stock: Journalism and the Publicly Traded Company by Gilbert Cranberg, Randall Bezanson and John Soloski (Ames: Iowa University Press, 2001), 210 pages. Industry changes have way of creeping along silently until, as happened recently in the newspaper business, their implications come home with sudden shock of realization. Such was the effect of events at the Los Angeles Times that began in 1997 with elimination of the Church-State Wall between editorial and advertising offices and culminated in the 1999 Staples Center scandal. The sudden concern can only come as slight solace for those, such as Ben Bagdikian, who warned of the dangers for democracy of newspaper companies entering the stock market for capital in his 1983 book, The Media Monopoly. His hypothesis has been taken up by three University of Iowa professors in 1997 study funded by the Open Society Institute in New York. While their research is definitely start in the right direction, it suffers couple of fatal flaws, not the least of which is some unfortunate timing. This publication will be compared with the exhaustive State of the American Newspaper project underwritten by the Pew Charitable Trusts and also published in mid-2001 by the University of Arkansas Press as Leaving Readers Behind: The Age of Corporate Journalism. The difference is acknowledged by the Iowans early in their study. While the Pew project seeks insight into changes in newspapering through and thematic cases studies, Cranberg, Bezanson and Soloski explain that theirs is study that focuses on a more systematic understanding of structural forces - economic, market, social, legal, and technological. Were their flattering self-assessment even remotely accurate, their research would be of immensely more value, as systematic understanding of the structural forces affecting the newspaper industry is what this study lacks most. Taking Stock is curious construction that lacks some basic scholarly features, such as bibliography. The publisher notes cryptically that it was printed from camera-ready copy provided by the authors, suggesting perhaps that the vital editing stage was omitted. The result of two years of research into the seventeen publicly-traded firms that control just over 40 percent of U.S. daily newspaper circulation, the study is based on detailed financial information the companies and interviews with more than 100 journalists, newspaper executives and stock analysts. Almost quarter of the book comprises useful appendix that outlines the financial performance and ownership structure of the firms, including listing of the 10 largest institutional investors of each. …

The People of the Parish: Community Life in a Late Medieval English Diocese (review)

Reviews 187 functions in aristocratic society? I think not, and neither does LoPrete, w h o skilfully and knowledgeably explores those functions. Adela played a major role throughout the forty or so years of her marriage and rule of Blois-Chartres in defending the domains of her affinal family against the pretensions of others, especially the Angevins and the Capetians. She was a powerful, adroit, and determined mler. In the interests of her own house, she played a decisive role in 1105 in the reconciliation ofAnselm of Canterbury and Henry I that cleared the way for Henry's conquest of Normandy and thus by keeping Maine in the AngloNorman orbit continued to protect her western borders from Anjou. In the spring of 1106 at Blois, she hosted magnificently the marriage of Philip I's daughter Constance to the hero of the First Crusade, Bohemond ofTaranto. One could go on, but it is not necessary. A s LoPrete writes: 'Contemporary observers acknowledged that Adela exercised the same authoritative powers as her male peers' (p. 27). She was also literate in Latin, by the by, and had extensive relationships with important ecclesiastics. The only criticism I have of this volume is its continuation of the pernicious practice of using endnotes, combined for allfivecontributions at the end of the book, which necessitates constant skipping backwards and forwards between text and notes. In this age of electronic submission and camera-ready copy, such a practice is simply annoying and unnecessary. John H. Pryor Centrefor Medieval Studies and Department ofHistory University of Sydney French, Katherine L., The People of the Parish: Community Life in a Late Medieval English Diocese (The Middle Ages Series), Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press 2001; cloth; pp. vii, 316; appendix; maps. R.R.P.£42.00, US$59.95; ISBN 0812235819. This book is a contribution to the present widespread attempt to consider E religious culture in the period leading up to and surrounding the Reformation from the perspective of the laity in both urban and rural parishes. It reinforces the increasingly widely held view that the laity in the Middle Ages participated extensively in religious affairs at the parish level. The control of resources, whether they were managed by religious guilds or churchwardens, gave lay 188 Reviews people a significant influence. This counters the arguments sometimes made that it was the coming of Protestantism which opened up religion to active lay involvement. Much, of course, depends on the historian's perspective and focus. Dr French does not argue that the laity played more than a passive role in the purely sacerdotal aspects of daily religious observance such as the mass. What she does suggest is that all the evidence of its role in building and maintaining the fabric of the nave of the church, including such responsibilities as the carving of the rood screens, and carving on the pews that were being introduced in the fifteenth century and the wall paintings and statuary implies a good understanding of the Christian message and a clear view of what they wanted from the artisans they employed to provide them. Her account of the interaction of laity and clergy in providing a suitably reverend and impressive liturgical practice which would maintain orthodoxy has to depend on what can be discovered about the bishops' ordinances and instructions, their attempts to promote clerical education, the licensing of preaching and the occasional evidence of wills or images in surviving stained glass windows. She describes in some detail the religious year with its locally specific calendar, ceremonies and processions. She documents as far as possible the provision by the laity of the required mass and liturgical books, and their interest in providing peals of bells. All this gives a good impression of what the co-operation of clergy and laity at its best may have been. The title of the book, however, is somewhat misleading. Dr French has not managed tofindenough material to enable her to re-animate the people whose names appear on the Somerset parish registers which are the focus of her study The range of expenditure and the sources of income which they reveal, which she has conscientiously analysed, provide a good basis for...

Making Connections: Essays in French Culture and Society in Honour of Philip Thody by James Dolamore (review)

MLR,96.3,200 I 847 nineteenth-century literature, whichalso contains theonlyillustrations in the volume. To those needing anintroduction tothesubject ofdancewriting this bookwill actas an invaluable andaffordable handbook which plots thepathfrom Lucian onwards and includes someofthemainFrench writers involved in thefield. However, inthat Montandon claims neither tolimit this study's scopetoFrench writing ondancenortoa specific time frame, hewhets theappetite for a broader international focus anda morecontemporary reach, meatfora further volume perhaps. The general bibliography willserve as a hugely time-saving guidetothefield, despite some puzzling omissions suchasStephen Lonsdale's Dance and Ritual Play in Greek Religion (Baltimore andLondon: TheJohns Hopkins University Press, I993). Evensomeoftheworks citedin thetextare omitted. As to thequality of prooEreading, ina bookofthis pricea fewmisspellings andlinerepetitions are probably unavoidable. Although this isnottheplacetolookfor newandoriginal research, thescholarship isthorough andthe presentation ofallthe contributions is clear andconcise. Eachessay actsasaninducement tofollow the path further, with plenty ofsignposts provided. Montandon hasdonethe Seldofdancewriting a good turn. BIRKBECK COLLEGE, LONDON JILL FELL Making Connections: Essays inFrench Culture and Society inHonour of Philip Whody. Ed.by JAMES DOLAMORE. Frankfurt a.M.,NewYork, andParis: Peter Lang. I999. 283PP £27 Thiscollection ofstudies wasdesigned asa tribute tooneoftheoutstanding British figures inFrench studies inthepost-war period, anincisive critic with thecourage ofhisconclusions, a teacher whocouldinspire anda man(not for him the political correctness ofbeing calleda person!) whofrankly relished thebest that life offiered andwho, likeArnold Bennett's Dendry, identified himself with thegreat causeof cheering usallup.Fortunately Philip Thody hadtime tosavour this rich symposium; nowthat death hasdenied himthelongretirement hedeserved, Making Connections stands asa fitting memorial. Therange ofthese eighteen 'essays inFrench culture andthought' that James Dolamore hasedited isaptly andimpressively wide.Robert Gibson setsthetone when sketching with splendid breadth andconfident eclecticism the images that the French andtheEnglish create oftheir cross-Channel neighbours. Themajor role thelawplaysin XartufFe is explored byDavidShaw,whoperhaps overstates the importance of Orleansin Moliere'straining. David Williams contributes an exemplary study ofCondorcet andslavery. Vivid cameos ofreminiscence provide a framework for Graham Chesters' assessment ofLarkin's reading andresponse to Frenchpoets,especially Baudelaire.Building on Thody'sI989 studyof a characteristic facet ofFrench politics, RachelKillick examines Valery's Caesarism. Alert analyses of'La Marcheimperiale' and'Cesar',which disquietingly rhymes 'hasard'and'Cesar',leadtoenlightening comparisons ofthepoet'sattitudes to Napoleon, Napoleon III, who,as usual,comesoffworst, Petain, andde Gaulle. Andrew Rothwell, whoisalsoparticularly thanked for helping generate the cameraready copy for this pleasingly presented book, examines connections between early Surrealism and theLeft.Addinganother dimension to hisworkon FranSois Mauriac, John Flower discusses thecorrespondence with JeanPaulhan, and,also pursuing intellectual affiliations, MichaelKellywrites on HenriLefebvre and Reviews 848 RolandBarthes. Underthedisillusioning title 'Useless Passions', Margaret Atack reveals, with special reference toLes jtustes Causes andLes Mandartns, the intellectuals' evolving attitudes towards theLiberation. Thepost-War novelistheconcern of DavidCoward. Asurvey ofMarguerite Duras's early life, including her membership ofthe'Comite depropagande a labananefran jcaise' aswellasherexpulsion from theCommunist Party, prefaces anaccount ofthedevelopment ofherfiction until 'autobiography, stripped ofanecdote, isinteriorized'. Aspects ofSartre are, fittingly, discussed in a number ofessays. Lynette R. Muirsympathetically presents the neglected Bariona, suggesting parallels with Sartre's later treatment ofclassical myth. ObeyandtheQuinzemaymerit a placebeside theTheophiliens among possible influences onthe play. Thedifficult, intriguing topic ofSartre's flirtation with radio iswellhandled byChristopher Todd,though hisremark that 'theIndochinese war is seenas a form ofgangrene which placedFrance[...] in thehandsofthe Americans' isinfelicitous. Decolonization isalsoatissue inDavidMacey's account ofintellectual civil warinvolving Nizan, Fanon andSartre. Intheelegant 'Cuvier's Bone'IanMagedera explores Derrida's Glasandthepost-Saint Genet JeanGenet, andJames Dolamore shows the contrary Ionesco standing firm against theSartrean tide andmuch elsebesides. James Dryhurst argues for ClaudeMichelet's LaJtZUit de Calama, andDavidPlatten, incomparatist vein, brings outantagonisms between French film andHollywood. MaxSilverman closes hismeditation oncontemporary civilization somewhat glumly: 'freedom ofthecity inthenewmillennium willstill bestrictly limited tothe privileged few' unless a newlanguage isfound to'promote newforms ofsolidarity across diXerences'. Thisvolume honours itsdedicatee byreflecting hisinterests inFrench thought, especially initspolitical implications, with the verve andvigour that wasthestamp ofhispassionate enquiry. Making Connections will, moreover, bereadnotonly for the quality oftheindividual essays butalsobecause itisthevery image ofa significant branch ofFrench studies inpost-War Britain. UNIVERSITY OFEAST ANGLIA CHRISTOPRER SMITH Bibliografia testuale oflologia dei testi a stampa? Definizioni metodologiche eprospettive future. Convegno distudi inonore diConor Fahy (Udine 24-e5-26febbraio I997). Ed.by NEILHARRIS. Udine: Forum.I999. 363pp. 50,000 lire. A laurea adhonorem conferred uponConorFahyistheunderlying motivation and crowning event ofthis collection ofproceedings. TheFacolta diLettere e Filosofia oftheUniversita diUdinebrought together...

A Response to Jason's Review

Hasan El-Shamy's Folk traditions of the Arab World: A guide to motif classification, 2 vols. Indiana University Press, 1995, (henceforth: GMC-A) was reviewed in Asian Folklore Studies (1996, vol. 55: 184-86). The reviewer, Professor Heda Jason, raised a number of issues and expressed opinions on a variety of matters dealing mostly with editorial aspects of the work; many of these are impressionistic and require clarification. First, a few general facts need to be presented. To start, GMC-A, as its title specifies, is designated as a guide that offers primarily relevant themes and concepts to be applied toward generating a full fledged motif-index, and secondarily samples of references (1, xiii-emphasis appears in the original). Producing a complete motif-index for intricate and diverse social and cultural systems, as is the case with the Arab World, requires intensive work on the part of many trained researchers and indexers-a condition beyond what has been available to the present writer. Scholars from folklore and related disciplines are expected to apply these motifs to data under investigation, and then make their findings available to other users. These findings would be integrated in new editions of the GMC-A (or made accessible to users through other means). Thompson's Motif Index, first published between 1932 and 1936, was refined and augmented in this manner (THOMPSON 1955-1958, 1, 26). As of today, some additional 10,000 motifs have been generated and designated for the forthcoming revision of GMC-A. Second, GMC-A is computer generated and meant to be made available to users on floppy disks and CD-ROM. In its present format, it represents the outcome of innumerable trial and error attempts by the author to address certain printing demands, within the limitations imposed by computer technology available to him at various stages between 1986 and 1994; these limitations apply to the computer itself (memory, speed, size of hard disk, etc.), and word processing programs (or databases), in conjunction with the varying capabilities of printers for personal computers in generating foreign language characters (e.g., under-dotted letters, long vowels, glottal stops). The goal was to produce a single computer file for the entire work, which would allow users to electronically search for words or characters, and easily find them. During the 1980s, this goal was not easily attainable (e.g., a file that was about 15-20 pages long proved to be beyond the capacity of the personal computer used, and had to be shortened); today, especially with CD-ROM technology, it is a much easier undertaking (p. 1, xvii n. 27). Third, GMC-A was submitted as a camera ready copy to Indiana University Press: the manuscript was typed, typeset with printing font selected and applied, formatted, and printed as it currently stands by El-Shamy (at a considerable financial cost incurred by him personally). The size of the print and the length of a page were determined by the production department at the publisher, which is also responsible for other features of the printed work (jacket design, paper quality, etc.). Certain financial conditions (including the fact that publishing reference works is not a profit-making undertaking) were considered. An attempt to have the work published jointly with a certain Arab folklore center was not successful. With reference to errors, it is the author's view that one error in an academic work is one too many; regrettably, there are some in GMC-A. However, even with more personnel

Comment on “Will AGU survive?” by William H. Prescott] journal production needs modernization

Predictions about the imminent arrival of electronic journals are always thought‐provoking. A recent Forum (Eos, October 15, 1996) served rather to remind me that here and now we are faced with problems in preparing work for publication in more conventional forms.About this time last year I was notified by Tectonics of their acceptance of a paper. With that acceptance came a sheaf of instructions on how to prepare the camera‐ready copy. Keystroke by keystroke, pages of instructions led me through the use of both Word and WordPerfect, but unfortunately in versions predating those I currently use, adding to the confusion. It was with quite a feeling of triumph that, after about two days of agony, I finally had the whole thing in the form required. In fact, it was a pity I hadn't a few more accepted papers on hand, because with my hard won (and since forgotten) experience, I could have dealt with them in a fraction of the time.

Specifications for Camera-Ready Copy: Helping Authors Be More Productive

With thespreadof desktop publishing technology throughout colleges anduniversities, scholarly publishers are asking an increasing number of authors not only to write manuscripts, but also to provide camera-ready copy. In allbut the printing, binding, and distribution aspects, authors are indeed'publishing' today. Both publishers andauthors canbenefitfrom this arrangement. This article discusses the issues surroundingcamera-ready copyfromwhichpublishers candevise optimal guidelines. These suggestions also caninform authors aboutthenatureofthe camera-ready process.