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Research on Wave Energy Converters

With the acceleration of the global warming process, the clean energy crisis is becoming serious; conventional energy is unlikely to solve the current crisis, so people pay attention to new energy. As wave energy is widely distributed, renewable, and clean, hundreds of wave energy converters emerge. In order to understand the research progress of wave energy converters better, this paper divides wave energy converters into overtopping type, oscillating water column type, and oscillating body type according to the working principle and divides the oscillating body type into oscillating float type and oscillating pendulum type by different ways of energy capture. Based on the classification, various types of engineering cases, physical tests and digital simulation, and other academic research results are summarized, especially the generation power and energy conversion efficiency of various devices, and some shortcomings and suggestions are put forward, hoping to provide help for readers to study wave energy generation converters.

A DEIXIS ANALYSIS OF SONG LYRICS IN NIKI’S “NICOLE” ALBUM

This study aimed to identify the kinds of Deixis and their influence on the formation of meaning in song lyrics. The object of the study was the entirety of the songs under Niki's album, namely, the "Nicole" album. The study examined 12 songs in total. The researchers used a qualitative-descriptive method to do the study as it was considered the best method to describe the analysis result. The result of the study stated that the three kinds of Deixis existed in semantics. There are 99 personal deixes, 15 spatial deixes, and 52 temporal deixis, with 166 deixes. It was identified that the song lyrics from the album mainly used personal. According to the study, Deixis plays an essential role in clarifying the meaning of song lyrics. This study not only offered supplementary information but also provided practical help for readers to comprehend better Deixis, including its various kinds, semantic meanings, and how the use of Deixis was able to influence song lyrics.

“You’re Me”: Moriarty’s Undoing of Holmes/Sherlock

This essay compares and contrasts Professor James Moriarty in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s “The Final Problem” and Jim Moriarty in the BBC’s Sherlock, focusing on the ways in which they respectively undo or deconstruct the existence of Doyle’s Holmes and the BBC’s Sherlock. Drawing on Roland Barthes’s distinction between Work and Text, the essay contends that, while Doyle’s failure to take Holmes out of the realm of Work through Professor Moriarty attests to the power of characters to challenge the author’s authorship/authority, Jim Moriarty’s failure to cancel out the existence of Sherlock through the exposure and performance of the (inter)textuality of their existence illustrates the show’s investment in reinforcing its own status as Work. The different ways in which Professor Moriarty and Jim Moriarty call into question and thereby reaffirm the existential status of Holmes and Sherlock are closely interwoven with the values that pervade the worlds depicted in each text. Holmes, as a hero of the new era of science and technology, manages to survive the author’s attempt to kill him through a character with equal intellectual powers with the help of readers willing to overlook the absurd premise that one single person can restore or destroy the order of the entire society. On the other hand, Sherlock emphasizes the process by which Sherlock differentiates himself not only from Jim Moriarty but also from Doyle’s Sherlock, demonstrating its urge to move away from postmodern features that define the digital era and to preserve what is uniquely human.

Generating keyphrases for readers: A controllable keyphrase generation framework

AbstractWith the wide application of keyphrases in many Information Retrieval (IR) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks, automatic keyphrase prediction has been emerging. However, these statistically important phrases are contributing increasingly less to the related tasks because the end‐to‐end learning mechanism enables models to learn the important semantic information of the text directly. Similarly, keyphrases are of little help for readers to quickly grasp the paper's main idea because the relationship between the keyphrase and the paper is not explicit to readers. Therefore, we propose to generate keyphrases with specific functions for readers to bridge the semantic gap between them and the information producers, and verify the effectiveness of the keyphrase function for assisting users’ comprehension with a user experiment. A controllable keyphrase generation framework (the CKPG) that uses the keyphrase function as a control code to generate categorized keyphrases is proposed and implemented based on Transformer, BART, and T5, respectively. For the Computer Science domain, the Macro‐avgs of , , and on the Paper with Code dataset are up to 0.680, 0.535, and 0.558, respectively. Our experimental results indicate the effectiveness of the CKPG models.

Aging and Alzheimer's disease pathology.

The number of people with dementia worldwide is predicted to increase to 131.5 million by 2050. When studying dementia, understanding the basis of the neuropathological background is very important. Taking Alzheimer's disease (AD) neuropathology as an example, we know that the accumulation of abnormal structures such as senile plaques and neurofibrillary tangles is a hallmark. Macroscopic atrophy affects the entorhinal area and hippocampus, amygdala, and associative regions of the neocortex. Braak advocates the spread of tau deposits from the entorhinal to associative regions of the neocortex as the disease progresses. If the AD has only tau pathology, the degree and distribution of tau deposition may be associated with clinical symptoms. However, AD is also accompanied by amyloid-β deposition and even atrophy. Although it is possible to make a neuropathological diagnosis of AD from the spread of amyloid and tau depositions, neuropathological abnormal protein accumulation cannot explain all clinical symptoms of AD. There is an ambiguity between clinical symptoms and neuropathological findings. It is important to understand neuropathological findings while understanding that this ambiguity exists. So, for the reader's help, first we briefly explain the changes in the brain with age, and then describe AD as a typical disease of dementia; finally we will describe the diseases that mimic AD for neurologists who are not experts in neuropathology.

Luče, Luče, Zlaté Lúče! Hviezdoslavovské Poznámky K Viacsmernosti Lexikálnej Dynamiky

Abstract The literary texts of Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav contain a lot of lexical items unknown to contemporary readers. From anthropocentric point of view, these words as well as many other peripheral lexical items (i.e. obsolete and dialectal words, archaicisms and historicisms) in various texts of the earlier periods may be considered lexical agnonyms. In this connection, the occurrence of small dictionaries attached to the published books as a help for readers is particularly interesting. The appended dictionaries, originating in different periods as a specific kind of reduced text dictionaries, are worth attention from the point of view of Slovak and Slovak­Czech lexicography and from the viewpoint of the language policy and planning in support of Czech­Slovak and Slovak­Czech bilingualism and biliteracy.

Enlightenment of Living Library to Knowledge Service of University Library

Living library is a brand new service way that has emerged in the library community at home and abroad in recent years. “Living library” is to take the "people" as "books" to build the new way of library knowledge services. The “borrowing” of “books” is to make face-to-face communication with people with expertise, providing “borrowing experts” for readers to answer questions and discuss with them, and provide a wide range of knowledge services and intellectual help for readers. At present, this kind of service has been tried in China. In the context of vigorously advocating knowledge services, the living library project can provide reference for the improvement of the knowledge service system of university libraries.

The Challenge of Oral Epic to Homeric Scholarship

The epic is an intriguing genre, claiming its place in both oral and written systems. Ever since the beginning of folklore studies epic has been in the centre of interest, and monumental attempts at describing its characteristics have been made, in which oral literature was understood mainly as a primitive stage leading up to written literature. With the appearance in 1960 of A. B. Lord’s The Singer of Tales and the introduction of the oral-formulaic theory, the paradigm changed towards considering oral literature a special form of verbal art with its own rules. Fieldworkers have been eagerly studying oral epics all over the world. The growth of material caused that the problems of defining the genre also grew. However, after more than half a century of intensive implementation of the theory an internationally valid sociological model of oral epic is by now established and must be respected in cognate fields such as Homeric scholarship. Here the theory is both a help for readers to guard themselves against anachronistic interpretations and a necessary tool for constructing a social-historic context for the Iliad and the Odyssey. As an example, the hypothesis of a gradual crystallization of these two epics is discussed and rejected.

Jonathan Culler. Theory of the Lyric. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2015. 391pp.

Jonathan Culler. <i>Theory of the Lyric</i>. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2015. 391pp.

Readership Survey 2013: What You Think About Our Journal

A readership survey was sent via email link to all current members of the Aerospace Medical Association for whom email addresses were available. This is necessary to pulse readership, to answer certain questions about the direction of the journal, and to provide advertisers with demographic information to help them make an informed decision about advertising in the journal. The overall response rate was excellent: approximately 25% of the reachable active membership responded. There were 2,037 possible respondents and only 37 bounces, with 535 responses, of which 491 were complete. The survey was conducted using Survey Monkey and a total of 36 questions were asked. The overall impression of the journal ranged from good to excellent with a few exceptions, as did the ratings for the writing and mix of articles. One item that has been asked and answered in every readership survey I have been a part of over the years is that you would like us to publish more clinical articles. This is an area where the journal will strive to improve, with the help of readers and authors.

Virginia Publications

Virginia Libraries invites VLA members and Virginia creators to send news of their latest publications. Publications should have appeared (whether in print or electronic format) within the previous year or two and will only be featured once. VLA members are particularly encouraged to share news of their intellectual property contributions, whether print or digital, text-only, or audio-visual (AV). Asterisks before the author’s name will indicate known VLA members (please include this information). We also welcome works produced by Virginia residents and solicit the help of readers who are aware of Virginia authors to populate this column. Finally, as this list may also be used to find books to review for the “Virginia Reviews” column, it will also contain works on Virginia subjects. It is further hoped that works on this list will be of interest to Virginia libraries for their Virginia content and/or creation.

The Analysis of Sula’s Eccentricity in Character: Family and Community’s Influence on a Person’s Character

Sula, the heroine in the second novel by Toni Morrison, has attracted the attention of many critics and readers. There are many discussions and reviews on Sula, especially on Sula’s character from every perspective. Based on the previous reviews, this paper mainly analyzes Sula’s eccentricity in character from the family and community’s influence in shaping a person’s character, which is of great help for readers to better understand Sula. Key words : Sula; Character; Eccentricity

Volver a Berlín by Eliah Germani

bythree African American soldiers ina Jeep, whotransmit their loveof boxingandjazz tohim.A believer in universalhuman rights,Laurent 'sfather is shockedthatblack soldiers havetoplaytheir jazz separated from theother soldiers, andhe mournsprofoundly the assassinationofDr . Martin Luther KingJr. Ironically, Laurent's altruistic father was killedby a black policeman whenhe attended a rallylinkedto thecommemoration oftheAmericancivilrights leader. Thememory, thevoiceoftheassassinofhisinnocent , unmourned father haunts Laurent throughout hislife. Mamad and Laurentare part of theirseparateculturalworlds, a world neithercan escape. The author's epilogue, however, allows us toenvision a reconceptualization ofthefamily that bothmitigates the tension betweenthetwomenand provides narrative closure. Allwith Dalembert's ever-present irony. Robert H.McCormick Jr. Franklin College, Switzerland Eliah Germani. Volver a Berlin. Santiago de Chile. RilEditores. 2010.168pages. CLP$5,780. isbn 978-956-284-745-2 The arduous experienceof East European Jewish immigrants tothe agricultural colonies of northern Argentina iswelldocumented inthe works ofAlberto Gerchunoff, Cesar Tiempo, Jose Rabinovich, andother pioneering writers. Theirchildren did notremainin thecountry but movedtothebigcities, wherethey andtheir offspring wrote abouttheir urbanexperiences. The cityis central notjusttoArgentines (Bernardo Verbitsky, AliciaSteimberg, Marcos Aguinis), butitis alsoimportant to theworksofother LatinAmerican Jewish writers, including thenovels of TeresaPorzekansky (Uruguay), Isaac Chocron (Venezuela), and Angelina Muniz(Mexico). Eliah Germani'sshortstories from Volver a Berlin arestriking for theircosmopolitan, sophisticated tone.His characters are cultured, professional, sensitive people constantly surprised by theunexpected behaviorofthosetheythought they knewwell:bychancea grandson discoversthathis introverted grandmother was, in her youth, a revolutionary communistwho foughtagainstthe Nazis during WorldWar II ("El secretode la bobe");a recently widowedoldman turnsout to be farmoreenergetic and outgoing thanwhathisgrandson feared("Floresdel camino"); a marriedwoman feelsashamed after spending a night withherbest friend's husband,onlyto discover thefollowing morning that herown husband hasbeencommitting adultery withthesamefriend. Chile,Germani'scountry of birth, playsa central roleinhisstories .Whileitwas a shelter for Jewishrefugees during World WarII,it was also thecause ofmanyexiles, including Jews, during thePinochet dictatorship in the 1970s.During the following decade it emerged as a country thatassumedresponsibility foritspastcrimes and created a "Comisionde la Tortura" to prosecute thosewho committed criminal abusesduring themilitary regime("jSi ni siquieraestejardin estalimpio!"). WhatgivesGermani's writing a distinctive "Jewish" toneis the pervasive spirituality heinfuses into hisstories. He integrates traditional and religious issuesintohisnarrative ,goingbeyondtheinclusion of concrete Jewish objectssuch as a mezuzah, a candelabra, or a prayer shawl.There areabundant references to thevanishing Yiddishworld. The Yiddish glossaryat the end provides helpfor readers unfamiliar withthelanguage ofEastEuropean Jews. Yiddishis associated withthe m Dhaka Dust 9 Dilruba Ahmed 1 WWi flfBM traditions and religioushabitsof theshtetl generation, remembered and reveredby theirgrandchildren ,who return to theold world to reconstruct theirlives.As they learnabout themselves, theyalso confront anti-Semitic incidents that tookplacein Polandbefore World WarII ("Flowers ontheRoad"). Themysticism pervading Germani 'sstories stemsfrom theTalmud . God offers man a gift:the "intuition of luminosity ," a splendorthatilluminates hischaracters, a lightthattouchestheir soul.The Shechina orDivinePresence appears againand againinGermani's writing .Webecomeawarethat Messiah has thesameletters as theHebrew word Simcha,meaning "happiness ."Shaddai, oneofthenamesof God, can also be perceivedas an eroticmetaphor meaning"female breasts." In sum, Eliah Germani'sstoriesprovide many delights: they are puzzling, entertaining and intellectually stimulating. NoraGlickman Queens College, CUNY Paolo Giordano. The Solitude of Prime Numbers. Shawn Whiteside, tr. NewYork. Penguin. 2011.271pages. $15.isbn 978-0-14-311859-6 The youngest winnerever of the prestigious Italian PremioStrega (2008),thethentwenty-three-yearold graduatestudentof particle physics, Paolo Giordano, surprised theliterary worldwitha chillingly brilliant and pessimistic novel,La solitudine dei numeri primi. It has been translatedinto thirtylanguagesandwas madeintoa movie in 2010.It was hailedas a special literary achievement, although the youngphysicist assertshe could havenever written ithadhestudied literature. Thenoveliscomposed offortysix episodes,distributed in seven majorportions. These chronologicallyfollow thedevelopment ofthe two main characters, Mattiaand Alice,children ofwealthy middleclassprofessional parents. Giordano depicts thelivesoftwodysfunctional youngpeople fromelementary through highschool, surrounded by a dysfunctional world(family and school), andillustrates thealarming situation existing formanyyoung adultstoday. Mattia'sand Alice's growing painsoriginate in traumatic childhood eventsand are compounded bytheir environment: Mattiaallegedly caused the drowning of his retarded twinsister, Michela.In a never-ending seriesofself-inflicted punishments, hecuts himself repeatedlyandbecomes obsessed with his scars, which becomea barometer of hismental anxiety. Onlyhisscientific visionoftheworldand obsessive studying seem to help him. Alice,on theother hand,has been crippled in a skiaccident after her father's insistence that shebecome a proficient skier. During hisAmerican booktour thisApril, Giordano discussed various aspectsof his work thathe called"sort ofa lovestory" butalso a noveloffear andofrage:Mattia's ragetowardhisfather...

A Land-Based Approach to Postcolonial, Post-Modern Novels

white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay. Now he has won our brothers, and our clan can no longer act like one. He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart.' (1) This passage comes from Chinua Achebe's 1959 seminal work Fall Apart, a novel written thirty-nine years after the publication of William Butler Yeats' poem Second Coming, which famously declares, Turning and turning in the widening gyre/The Falcon cannot hear the falconer;/Things the centre cannot hold;/Mere anarchy is loosed upon the (2) The connections between the Yeats' poem and Achebe's novel and between modernism and post-colonialism appear obvious at first and seem to require little if any investigation or analysis: in both cases, elusive event at some point in the past leads to the end of stability and the beginning of era of uncertainty and chaos; and in both instances dislodged, disillusioned individuals seek some source of stability and, by extension, a new direction through art. But this familiar line of inquiry that highlights these thematic and contextual parallels moves us precipitously away from the obvious but important questions implied by both works and respective movements, which is to say: what are the Things that fell what, exactly, does it mean to fall apart; and finally, how effectively did each set of artists go about putting these things back together? Of course the answers to these questions from a modernist or even postmodern perspective seem fairly clear (anyone who has taught a class or course on Modernism is likely familiar with that seemingly ubiquitous list of modernist traits and characteristics, a list that includes a sense of alienation, a shared feeling of disillusionment, inability to act, and, as corollary characteristics, a tendency to construct new worlds/realities from fragments and to chart new directions in art and culture through innovations and, paradoxically, allusions).3 But rather than returning to this list to underline connections between two eras and their respective texts, I want to provide a way of approaching these questions and these novels that enables us to provide a new perspective, one that is not Modern or Postmodern or even Post-Postmodern. Instead, my aim is to address these questions associated with things falling apart here and abroad, then and now, from a vantage point outside of a Eurocentric and often anthropocentric position, the one many of us invariably occupy as readers and critics living downstream from the Modern Period. II The Modernist Aesthetic Through innovations that invited readers to piece together cultural detritus, modernists sought ways to reconstitute even if what resulted was-with the reader's help--only a provisional stay against uncertain, unstable future. Some authors, such as Ezra Pound for instance, attempted to strip away artifice and to offer the minimal as a means of protecting it from corruption. (4) In different ways but for similar reasons, others piled images and allusions and, in the process, attempted to tether synthetic scenes and fictive worlds through allusions to older, seemingly more stable places and times set at some considerable temporal distance. In these ways, the writers attempted to steady things and fix meaning in the moment. The one author in particular who most clearly represents this effort to respond to the idea that things had fallen apart was T. S. Eliot. In The Waste Land, Eliot suggested that reality was an internal and changeable [entity], not external, concrete reality, (5) and the important work likewise signified a collapse of the object into the subject, a sentiment that resonates with then-emerging thinking about humankind's place in the living, natural world. This was a potentially promising turn in art, from the standpoint of bringing it in line with nature and a more ecological worldview. …

A new technology for the measurement of the sea level and the sea state

A considerable proportion of the world population lives and works on or near coasts. Therefore, knowledge of the physical processes which affect the coast is very important. These include the tides of the sea and the oceanic and meteorological circulation patterns that cause variations of the sea level and generate waves. The sea level is measured by tide-gauges, while the height of waves may be determined by a variety of special devices. Radar systems have been applied for the sea level and wave measurements since the late 1990s. This paper presents results from a field test or such a radar application and aims to give the reader help and support in the selection of an appropriate radar-gauge system to measure sea level and sea state. The underlying physical principles of radar and its application in distance measurements are not subjects of this paper.

Effects of topic headings on text processing: evidence from adult readers’ eye fixation patterns

Effects of topic headings on the processing of multiple-topic expository texts were examined with the help of readers’ eye fixation patterns. Adult participants read two texts, one in which topic shifts were signaled by topic headings and one in which topic headings were excluded. The presence of topic headings facilitated the processing of topic sentences and increased the number of topics mentioned in the text summaries written after reading the texts. The facilitatory effect of headings was reflected both in the fixations made during the first-pass reading as well as in the later look-backs directed to the topic sentences. A framework is outlined to depict the process of reading and comprehending multiple-topic expository texts.

SOI CMOS TRANSISTORS FOR RF AND MICROWAVE APPLICATIONS

The new communication markets are vey demanding: high frequency, high degree of integration, low power consumption. Silicon-on-Insulator offers many advantages and this paper illustrates the potentialities of this technology for RF and microwave applictions. After an overview of the SOI material, the properties of the SOI MOSFET's are analyzed and compared to bulk Si MOSFET's. The models of transmission lines and inductors on SOI are compared and further used in the on-wafer characterization of the transistors. Various models for the transistors are presented and their limitations are given. A new model is described, valid from DC to the microwave region. This model agrees very well with the measurements for various transistor dimensions. Finally, variuos RF and microware circuits are presented. Ths paper does not fully describe all the properties and applications of SOI but the numerous references offered to the reader help him to gather more informations.

SOI CMOS Transistors for RF and Microwave Applications

The new communication markets are vey demanding: high frequency, high degree of integration, low power consumption. Silicon-on-Insulator offers many advantages and this paper illustrates the potentialities of this technology for RF and microwave applications. After an overview of the SOI material, the properties of the SOI MOSFET's are analyzed and compared to bulk Si MOSFET's. The models of transmission lines and inductors on SOI are compared and further used in the on-wafer characterization of the transistors. Various models for the transistors are presented and their limitations are given. A new model is described, valid from DC to the microwave region. This model agrees very well with the measurements for various transistor dimensions. Finally, various RF and microwave circuits are presented. This paper does not fully describe all the properties and applications of SOI but the numerous references offered to the reader help him to gather more informations.

The Uncertainty of Courtesy in Book VI of The Faerie Queene

Critics’ concerns about Book Six—its discontinuity, the inappropriate behaviors by characters, and the uncertain relationship between narrator and reader—help to define the book’s dominant quality and the reader’s experience. This quality of uncertainty emerges particularly when comparing Books Six and Five. Using this quality as an insight into the structure of the Legend of Courtesy, the reader can more clearly understand Spenser’s concept of the virtue and our reactions to the material. Spenser’s virtue of courtesy is more than a code of conduct occurring within the civilized world; it is an awareness of human value reached by poetic insight.

Images in infectious diseases in obstetrics and gynecology

A picture is worth a thousand words. I think we all ascribe to this dictum. For this reason, Infectious Diseases in Obstetrics and Gynecology will begin a new section in which clinically important visual images will be reported to allow its readers to appreciate the visual nature of the broad spectrum of infectious diseases in obstetrics and gynecology and in women's health care. The section can offer insight regarding the pathophysiology of disease, as is presented in our first “Images” on pelvic inflammatory disease. It may also reflect common disease states that we see weekly in our clinical practices or manifestations of severe disease that we hope to see infrequently, as is planned in an upcoming “Images” on necrotizing fasciitis. We are hopeful that this section will become popular and highly anticipated, which can only be accomplished with the help of readers willing to submit clinically important visual images that a practitioner in women's health might encounter. Readers are requested to submit high-quality color or black-and-white photographs or slides representing such images along with descriptive legends to David E. Soper, M.D., Division of Benign Gynecology, Medical University of South Carolina, 171 Ashley Avenue, Charleston, SC 29401-2233. “Images” is made possible through an educational grant from Pfizer, Inc.