Drunken Sailor Research Articles

Sounds of the Past: Creating Immersion in Video Games Through Diegetic, Pre-Existing Music

The modern state of gaming has seen a variety of interactive narratives play out in a variety of worlds. A major category of setting in video games is ‘the past’, whether that be a form of realistic fiction, an alternate history, or something which draws inspiration from some aspect of the real past to create an entirely imagined location. Despite the differences in their likenesses to our own world, many games referencing the past share a commonality in their musical soundtracks: the use of pre-existing music. Songs like “Drunken Sailor” or “La Cucaracha” are prolific, but there exists an ever-growing variety with less well-known examples. An interesting pattern which emerges in the temporal space of these games is the diegetic use of pre-existing music. Using pre-existing music comes with the risk of not aligning with a player’s expectations for a given piece, and using diegetic music creates a risk of misalignment between the action the player sees and the audio they hear. Combining these two modalities could initially seem to be not worth the collective risks, but games like Pentiment (2022), Assassin’s Creed: Unity (2014), and Life Is Strange: True Colors (2021) all successfully integrate their pre-existing audio with game narratives. What purpose does pre-existing, diegetic music serve to warrant its widespread inclusion in such games? An analysis of the three games and their respective examples will demonstrate the importance of integrating player expectations and experiences with the physical space established in the game to produce a more immersive experience.

High seas and hard drinks: Alcohol rations on Dutch vessels

How valid is the historical reputation of drunken sailors? On board Dutch vessels in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, how much alcohol was really being issued at a time when the Dutch were perhaps the most intensely maritime nation in Europe? Were Dutch sailors, therefore, exceptional in their alcohol consumption when compared to other European nations’ navies and merchant marines? Mariners consumed all types of alcohol on land and at sea, although drinking during the early modern period was culturally contextualized and done for a wide array of purposes besides intoxication. At sea, Dutch ships issued alcohol rations consisting of beer, wine and/or spirits. Just as the British gave out rum, the Dutch ships distributed genever. Overall, Dutch vessels did issue more alcohol, by per cent, compared to other states, even as the types of alcohol consumed varied. This article compares the Dutch maritime drinking rates and practices with those of other European nations to determine if sailors on Dutch ships were excessive or atypical.

Polyphenol MHQP as an allosteric inhibitor of Kinesin-5: Cease the molecular catwalk of “Drunken Sailor”

Polyphenol MHQP as an allosteric inhibitor of Kinesin-5: Cease the molecular catwalk of “Drunken Sailor”

The Enigmatic Nature of Shakespeare’s The Tempest

Prospero in Shakespeare's last play, The Tempest, written around 1611 and first published seven years after the dramatist’s death, in 1623, is not a duke who has failed in his task of ruling, but a man who has gained power to direct and discipline others. To that sense, he tends to be the god-man like who rightly castigates and strictly scourges. The magician appears to be so humane at times and too harsh at other times that he dazzles, leads astray or terrifies the island’s dwellers, an ambivalent mission that further intensifies the enigmatic nature of the play. While he has intentionally raised a storm to cause the disorder of the drunken sailors' minds and bodies, thus leaving them on shore at the mercy of chance, instead of winds and waves as before, he has laboriously established order towards the end of the play. Prospero's white magic helps him bring together characters speaking their true character irrespective of their social classes: princes, courtiers, and sailors. When disharmony begets harmony, humanism emerges from the tragi-comic elements, and when the concept of colonization exists, it strikingly embodies the notion of resistance, where the relationship between the self and the other, the centralized and the marginalized, is perhaps blurred. Such are some of the facets the reader is presented with in The Tempest. This paper is yet an attempt to explore the many facets of Shakespeare’s last masterpiece. Within the framework of being a keynote to harmony, the paper would study the play in light of humanism, colonialism, drama genres and other aspects.

Electrochemical Tutorials on Diffusion: Models and Demonstrations with Physical Therapy Putty

Although diffusion is a pervasive concept in chemistry, minimal discussion in chemical education literature provides intuitive explanation of diffusion and mass transport. Explanation of diffusion is often given as a dichotomy: (1) a drunken sailor described by a discrete binomial distribution and (2) a continuous solution of the diffusion (heat) equation. As the dichotomy suggests, there is a persistent dislocation between the drunken sailor and error functions as the two explanations do not align to provide a unified and intuitive explanation of this important and fundamental concept. Here, we present an introduction to diffusion through models and demonstrations to bridge the intuition gap of diffusion in the classroom. Discrete diffusion is explained initially with the classic drunken sailor narrative and also by the Galton board (Figure 1). The Galton board provides a much improved and intuitive explanation of discrete diffusion via hands-on demonstration of the binomial probabilities. Transition into continuous diffusion evolves from an explanation of flux (Figure 2.) and concentration gradients, the drivers of diffusion. Finally, we provide a demonstration suitable for any classroom with diffusion of physical therapy putty. The broadening of a physical therapy putty disk with time is modeled with the diffusion equation. Time dependence of the putty radius is observed and compared with the standard diffusion length metric. Figure 1

Céad Míle Fáilte, One Hundred Thousand Welcomes: A Summary Review of O'Neill Performances

<i>Céad Míle Fáilte</i>, One Hundred Thousand Welcomes: A Summary Review of O'Neill Performances

What Shall we do with the Drunken Sailor? Product Safety in the Aftermath of 3D Printing

AbstractThis article contributes to the discussion about proper product safety in the wake of disruptive digital technologies. By picking the example of 3D printing we analyse why incumbent product liability law does not incentivise optimal deterrence of harmful 3D printed products. We identify the new business models associated with 3D printing as the main trigger for the non-applicability of incumbent liability law. The new business models are characterised by making no strong reference to economies of scale. As a result, the informational content of specific producers and their products is scarce and the identification of tortfeasors becomes a challenge for the legal system. While there is yet no easy solution to the problem, we provide at the end of the article an inventory of institutions that may take the lead in finding new proper liability rules and safety regulations.

Mr Povondra’s Collage in Hungarian

Abstract Karel Čapek’s The War with the Newts combines a wide assortment of textual forms and genres to portray the assumed history of the newts in close connection with that of the human race. Newspaper articles, scientific studies, notes of drunken sailors, and other inserts form a unique collage in style as well as in layout. In the various editions of the originally 1948 Hungarian translation of the novel, the textual arrangements of the most composite part of The War with the Newts – the second book – are significantly altered compared to the Czech edition. Moreover, the introductory sentences of the inserts, the typefaces, and the stylistic differences tend to suggest that there is a different notion of text and reading underlying the Hungarian versions. Other unifying tendencies traceable in the translation, e.g. standardized language use or concepts of character identity, can be correlated with these features. As the borders of various text-types within the Czech text are reorganized and re-established in the translation, a different position of the reader and a different idea of the literary text emerge. My aim is to demonstrate the translational differences and try to account for them with an underlying concept of text and translation embedded in the Hungarian variant.

Crime and Punishment in the Russian Revolution by Tsuyoshi Hasegawa

Reviewed by: Crime and Punishment in the Russian Revolution by Tsuyoshi Hasegawa J.-Guy Lalande Hasegawa, Tsuyoshi – Crime and Punishment in the Russian Revolution: Mob Justice and Police in Petrograd. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2017. Pp. 351. Tsuyoshi Hasegawa's Crime and Punishment in the Russian Revolution opens with a brief history of St. Petersburg (renamed Petrograd in 1914), a city with real and powerful social divisions and one plagued, as a result of recent decades of industrialization and urbanization, by increased criminality. With the outbreak of the Great War in 1914, law and order in the imperial capital eroded rather quickly; things deteriorated even further when, following the abdication of Nicholas II in March 1917, the Provisional Government decided to dismantle the tsarist criminal justice system and its much-hated police force. Furthermore, all incarcerated prisoners were freed, and a large number of weapons fell into the hands of hooligans and criminals. Drug abuse, theft and robbery, gambling, prostitution and venereal disease, alcoholism, kidnapping and rape, and murder became rampant. Lastly, the acute shortage of consumer goods, above all food, a housing crisis, skyrocketing inflation, the decline in real wages, as well as the roaming and brawling of drunken sailors and soldiers—both psychologically brutalized on an unprecedented scale by the carnage of the First World War—also accounted for a significant increase in the crime rate and fostered social disintegration. The Provisional Government, whose authority was eroded by incessant political crises, failed to establish a new, centralized, and coherent legal order that would be accepted and respected in Petrograd. The same fate befell a municipal government (the city duma) that soon found itself confronted with escalating problems. Since the latter was broke, it could not provide essential social services to its citizens; for example, the city militia that replaced the tsarist police force was poorly trained and provisioned, badly coordinated across districts, too often lacking self-control, and occasionally infiltrated by former criminals; unsurprisingly, it proved to be ineffective. The fact that workers chose to patrol their own neighbourhoods through their own militias (a class-based, politicized police that revealed the powerful force of decentralization spawned by the Revolution itself) did not help either. Unable to rely on higher authorities to protect their property and their lives, frustrated city dwellers, as they came to appreciate their own vulnerability, reacted with anger and violence. Insecure, deprived, and desperate, they turned to vigilantism; they took the law into their own hands. Mob justice (samosud), a symbol of their fleeting empowerment, thus became "the ultimate symbol of February's hopes dashed" (p. 167). This violence, frequent and extraordinarily brutal, was directed against merchants, political opponents, medical personnel, even simple thieves and robbers. Predictably, not only did it fail to stem the crime rate, but it also contributed to escalating lawlessness and violence. Lawyers and journalists, who argued that mob justice represented a serious danger to the creation of a genuine civil society, could not contain the fury of the crowd. Thus a vicious cycle of fear, rage, and violence was created—one that alienated the people from politics, contributed to the disintegration of society, and set the stage for [End Page 430] Lenin's October coup d'état, a takeover that was largely ignored by Petrograders consumed by their daily struggle for survival. Criminality, Hasegawa concludes, had fostered conditions for state failure. Once in power, though, the Bolsheviks were immediately challenged by the very breakdown of social order that they had helped unleash before October. Actually, social disintegration accelerated as robberies and murders increased in quantity and intensity to the point, for example, where even a funeral procession turned into a shootout. The destructiveness of the so-called alcohol pogroms (from November 1917 to January 1918) as well as a significant escalation of mob justice—a mayhem that resulted in hundreds of lives lost, property stolen, and cultural treasures ruined—affected the Bolsheviks' attitude toward crime, police, and governance in general. They convinced them that the infestation of crime in the capital had to be dealt with coercively. Lenin's government ultimately restored order by establishing the Cheka, a centralized and state-driven police force that, by using unprecedented...

Stability and accuracy of free surface time integration in viscous flows

Geodynamic simulations increasingly rely on models with a true free surface to investigate questions of dynamic topography, tectonic deformation, gravity perturbations, and global mantle convection. However, implementations of free surface boundary conditions have proven challenging from a standpoint of accuracy, robustness, and stability. In particular, time integration of a free surface tends to suffer from a numerical instability that manifests as sloshing surface motions, also known as the “drunken sailor” instability. This instability severely limits stable timestep sizes to those much smaller than can be used in geodynamic simulations without a free surface. Several schemes have been proposed in the literature to deal with these instabilities.Here we analyze the problem of creeping viscous flow with a free surface and discuss the origin of these instabilities. We demonstrate their cause and how existing stabilization schemes work to damp them out. We also propose a new scheme for removing instabilities from free surface calculations. It does not require modifications to the system matrix, nor additional variables, but is instead an explicit scheme based on nonstandard finite differences. It relies on a single stabilization parameter which may be identified with the smallest relaxation timescale of the free surface.Finally, we present numerical results to show the effectiveness of the new approach and discuss the free surface implementation in the open source, community based mantle convection software ASPECT.

What shall we do with the drunken sailor? EC Competition Law and Maritime Transport.

This study examines the application of EC competition law in the special environment in which the shipping industry operates, with special emphasis on the two block exemptions of Art. 3 of Regulation 4056/86 and Art. 3 of Regulation 823/2000. It will show that, like with a drunken sailor, something is seriously amiss with the way EC competition law is applied in this specific field. The first chapter provides some background information on the development of the shipping industry since the middle of the 19th century and an overview of the main legal developments in EC maritime competition policy. Chapter two, which constitutes the main part of this paper, contains an analysis of the two block exemptions mentioned. Chapter three addresses the question whether the current approach of EC competition law is adequate and compatible with the relevant Treaty provisions. This will lead to some concluding remarks on the question whether the current approach should be continued or whether it is advisable to modify it.

Strongly correlated quantum walks in optical lattices

Full control over the dynamics of interacting, indistinguishable quantum particles is an important prerequisite for the experimental study of strongly correlated quantum matter and the implementation of high-fidelity quantum information processing. We demonstrate such control over the quantum walk-the quantum mechanical analog of the classical random walk-in the regime where dynamics are dominated by interparticle interactions. Using interacting bosonic atoms in an optical lattice, we directly observed fundamental effects such as the emergence of correlations in two-particle quantum walks, as well as strongly correlated Bloch oscillations in tilted optical lattices. Our approach can be scaled to larger systems, greatly extending the class of problems accessible via quantum walks.

Quantum walkers under a microscope

Quantum Walks Generations of physics students have been taught to think of one-dimensional random walks in terms of a drunken sailor taking random steps to the right or to the left. But that doesn't compare with the complexity of a quantum walker, who can propagate down multiple paths at the same time. Preiss et al. detected particles in single sites of an optical lattice to study the dynamics of two interacting atoms of 87Rb performing a quantum walk (see the Perspective by Widera). Depending on the initial conditions and the interaction strength between the atoms, the atoms either ignored each other, stuck to each other, or tried to get as far away from each other as possible. Science , this issue p. [1229][1]; see also p. [1200][2] [1]: /lookup/doi/10.1126/science.1260364 [2]: /lookup/doi/10.1126/science.aaa6885

Lessons of the HealthSouth Fraud: An Insider's View

T he night was December 6, 2005. I could not go to sleep. As I tossed and turned, my entire life replayed in my mind. How did I get to where I was? I went all the way back to my childhood. I was raised in a middle-income home with an older brother and sister and two loving parents. We were far from rich, but had what we needed. I was a normal kid. I loved riding my bike and being with friends. I never got into any real trouble. My thoughts on December 6 moved forward to college. I made good grades and was extremely involved in extracurricular activities. Lying in bed, my thoughts drifted forward. When I graduated from college, I had a job waiting at Ernst & Young. I passed the CPA exam, and for the next five years served as an auditor and specialized in the healthcare industry. I was surrounded by a lot of smart, hardworking people. As is so common with staff within CPA firms, with five years’ experience, my phone began ringing with various job offers. Then one day, a former colleague called and wanted to have lunch. An opportunity had opened at a small startup company named HealthSouth Rehabilitation Corporation. The next day, I interviewed with HealthSouth’s CEO and Founder, Richard Scrushy. He was extremely engaging and had a strong vision for the growth of the company. He also talked a lot about making money. I believed it was a great opportunity and accepted the position. The years rolled by and the company became enormously successful. During those years, HealthSouth grew from a dozen locations to over two thousand, located in all 50 states and five countries. I had risen from a middle-management position to become the company’s CFO. With a large salary, bonuses, and stock options, I had become financially successful. From the outside looking in, it was a dream come true. But why was I thinking about all of this on December 6? Let me tell you where I was. I was not at home in my comfortable bed that night. I was on the top rack of a bunk bed in a federal prison camp, looking at spending the next two years of my life there. All because I had become involved in a $3 billion accounting fraud at HealthSouth. Never in a million years would I have imagined being in prison. After all, I had always done all the ‘‘right things.’’ How on earth had I become a convicted felon? Simple. I crossed the line. In business and in our personal lives, we are constantly faced with situations of crossing the line. I am not writing about $3 billion frauds, I am talking about everyday life—the small temptations to cross the line are always there. Therein lies the danger. Facing a new line will create trepidation, but may be answered with the simple rationalizations, ‘‘It’s not that big of a deal,’’ ‘‘Everyone does it,’’ ‘‘It is

Of Trumpets, Gabriel, Richard and Albert: Gamete Tranport and Einstein's Theorem of the Drunken Sailor.

In this to the tribute to Professor Richard J. Blandau I'm not going to comment in the more than a hundred papers, his many books on ovulation, fertilization and embryonic development, and the multiple prizes and medals he received during his long and productive life. I'll rather give a portrait of this remarkable colleague from inside his laboratory and from the close friendship we shared for several exciting years of research collaboration. Dick had a tremendous intuition to identify critical research targets and an insatiable craving to understand the challenging mysteries of reproductive biology. He was a remarkable explorer. His keen talent to tell apart signal from noise and to scrutinize the faintest clues in data sets lead him to tackle the most difficult questions in reproductive physiology. He made detailed notes of his observations, but holding his horses in theorizing when dealing with complex phenomena, where secrets were hidden in a multifaceted biology. Richard had the Germanic discipline from his family upbringing and the characteristic intellectual insolence he carried with his genes. However, confronted with results he could not interpret he turned into a humble student, anxious to learn how to crack the riddle at hand. He was a careful gambler fully aware of his limits, ready to seek help when the bet became uncertain. Professor Blandau was a strong leader and a great teacher; he managed his research team in a hand-off stile regularly allowing his students and postdoctoral fellows to take the initiative. He often knew the trail they might be tracking would sometimes go to nowhere, but trusting that they would soon come back with a lesson well learned. He told me once, “all the baloney we publish, no matter how laud might be their initial impact, it'll receive attention for one or two years at the most, and in ten years no even ourselves will remember: the only legacy we leave behind are the people we form”. Several generations of medical and graduate students attest to Dick's wisdom and remember him as the enlighten master, teaching his disciples the secrets, rewards, and pains of our challenging trade. Landing on Blandau's kingdom for someone with training in biophysics and engineering was like entering a mysterious castle with riddles written on every wall: a rich trove of data presented in the most elegant films waiting to be deciphered. It was a privilege to be Richard's friend and colleague and I think the best way to celebrate his remarkable scientific legacy is to give you a taste of the excitement of how we cracked some of the riddles posted by Gabriel Fallopius in the 16th-century. This will be the core of my tribute to Professor Richard J. Blandau, a dear friend and remarkable scholar.

O'Neill's “Damned Unconventional” Play from the Prohibition Years: “Anna Christie”

O'Neill's “Damned Unconventional” Play from the Prohibition Years: <i>“Anna Christie”</i>

Guidelines for Screening Social Networks in Hiring

Guidelines for Screening Social Networks in Hiring

The elephant song!

If you don’t know this song, you can sing it to the tune of ‘Baa Baa Black Sheep’, ‘The Can Can’ or ‘What Shall We do with a Drunken Sailor’.

What shall we do with the drunken sailor?

It's a rich man's world: just ask Bill Gates. Yes, I have just had a look at the Taxpayers'Alliance top 10 salaries in NHS list www.taxpayersalliance.com ). And laughed. And swore. And so this editorial is going to propose the Lister Hypothesis.

What shall we do with the drunken sailor?: Effects of alcohol on the performance of ship operators

The purpose of this study was to specify the effects of alcohol on the performance of ship operators as a contribution to the development of new strategies against the risks of alcohol in water traffic. The nautical performance of 21 captains before and after alcohol consumption was assessed on a ship piloting simulator. The simulated scenarios represented passages of a container vessel through the German Bight. Performance was examined by nautical instructors according to standardised protocols. Mean (S.D.) blood alcohol concentrations (BACs) of 0.100 (0.024) g/dl before and 0.100 (0.017) g/dl after the performance trial resulted in striking effects on the nautical performance. The categories most severely affected were foresight and analysis of situation (impairment in 18 of 21 cases), concentration (impairment in 16 of 21 cases), accurateness, risk disposition and navigation (impairment in 15 of 21 cases). Chart work, preparation and communication were impaired in 12, 11 and 10 of 21 cases, respectively. None of the participants were capable to operate the simulated ship with an adequate safety after ingestion of alcohol. From these findings, and in consideration of the well-established impairment of a multitude of mental and physical functions by alcohol, it can be concluded that even low BACs bear high risks in water traffic, a concentration above 0.1 g/dl will hinder a sufficiently safe performance of ship operators. This should be considered in alcohol education and legislation.