Neighboring Room Research Articles

Yvonne’s House in Modiano’s Novel Ville Triste: Happy Space or Place of Illusory Happiness?

<p>談到空間的「詩學」，巴舍拉立即想到家屋。他尤其稱揚自幼居住的房舍，他試圖在此間探索幸福空間的意象。哲學家探究屋舍的各處空間，從地窖到閣樓，也同時分析了屋內的櫃子與抽屜。因為他不只要探索空間，更想了解空間與居住者間親密的互動。本文試圖探討：默迪阿諾小說的人物，多半是無國籍、無身份證件的人，這些人怎麼幻想或看待一間從小生長的房子？這些人物很少談論到家屋，更少機會能回到小時生活過的屋舍。他的小說中，直到第四本小說《傷心寓所》，才第一次出現有關家屋的描寫。這是女主角依鳳的家。依鳳對於這間房子是否存在著巴舍拉頌揚的感動？此外，小說主角緒瑪哈，一個無國籍者，又是怎麼看待他未婚妻的家屋？本文將以巴舍拉的觀點來分析《傷心寓所》關於家屋的描寫。我們將探訪依鳳的老家，她童年時的臥室。巴舍拉非常讚揚這個私密的空間。此外，我們將探討一間不在視線範圍內，卻一直被感知的鄰室，它充滿了消失及不復存在的過往的意象，最後，我們將探索一間樂園般的修車廠以及緒瑪哈對他未婚妻的這間老家的想法。</p> <p> </p><p>Speaking of the "poetics" of space, Bachelard immediately thinks of the house. He especially exalts the house where people live since childhood, where he tries to explore the "happy mind". He details each space of a house, from the cellar to the attic, and at the same time analyzes the cabinets and drawers within. Because he explores not only space, but also wants to understand the intimate interaction between the space and the occupants. But most of the characters in Modiano’s novels are stateless and without identity documents. How do these people imagine or see a house that grew up from childhood? These characters rarely talk about their homes, and even less of a chance to go back to the houses they lived in as children. In his novels, it was not until the fourth novel Villa Triste that the description of the family house appeared for the first time. This is the home of the heroine Yvonne. Between this house and Yvonne, is there something touching like that described by Bachelard? Moreover, how does Victor Chmara, the stateless protagonist of the novel and Yvonne’s fiancé, see this house? This article will analyze the description of the house in Villa Triste from Bachelard’s point of view. We will discover Yvonne’s home, her childhood bedroom – an intimate space Bachelard admires, then see a neighboring room which evokes disappearance and the untraceable past, and finally in a last part, we will explore a paradise-like garage, and we will see what perception Victor Chmara has of the home.</p> <p> </p>

Visual re-anchoring in misaligned local spaces impairs global path integration.

It is a prevailing theoretical claim that path integration is the primary means of developing global spatial representations. However, this claim is at odds with reported difficulty to develop global spatial representations of a multiscale environment using path integration. The current study tested a new hypothesis that locally similar but globally misaligned rooms interfere with path integration. In an immersive virtual environment, participants learned objects' locations in one room and then physically walked, while being blindfolded, to a neighboring room for testing. These rooms were rectangular but globally misaligned. Adopting different actual perspectives in the testing room, the participants judged relative directions (JRDs) from the imagined perspectives in the learning room. The imagined and actual perspectives were aligned or misaligned according to either local room structures or global cardinal directions. Prior to JRDs, participants did not conduct other tasks (Experiment 1) or judged relative global headings of the two rooms to activate global representations while seeing the testing room (Experiment 2) or in darkness (Experiment 3). Participants performed better at locally aligned than misaligned imagined perspectives in all experiments. Better performances for globally aligned imagined perspectives appeared only in Experiment 3. These results suggest that structurally similar but misaligned rooms interfered with updating global heading by path integration, and this interference occurred during but not after the activation of global representations. These findings help to settle the inconsistency between the theoretical claims and empirical evidence of the importance of path integration in developing global spatial memories. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).

Studying Factors Affecting Indoor Gamma-radiation Dose using Mcnp5 Simulation Software-revisited: Adding Two More Factors.

The main factors that affect the gamma-radiation dose rate inside a room are defined in a simulation model. Some previously studied factors are the point of detection inside the room, the dimensions of the room, the thicknesses of the different parts of the room, and the density of the building material. The model is meant to ease the dose-rate estimation. Relative dose rates are calculated for different values of the different factors. The calculations are made using Monte Carlo n-particle simulation software. In this study two new factors are being added: the existence of a neighboring room and the split of a wall into two portions.

Development of a simulation model for estimating the indoor gamma radiation dose

A simulation model to calculate the indoor γ radiation doses has previously been established. The basic factors that control the dose rates are studied. Some of the factors like the detection point, the dimensions, the thickness and the density have previously been taken into account. In this article, new factors are included. These are the existence of a neighboring room and the division of a wall to two segments. The dose rates are calculated for wide ranges of the considered factors. The calculations are carried out by using the MCNP simulation code. A demonstrative application of the model is given.

Dual Systems for Spatial Updating in Immediate and Retrieved Environments: Evidence from Bias Analysis.

The spatial updating and memory systems are employed during updating in both the immediate and retrieved environments. However, these dual systems seem to work differently, as the difference of pointing latency and absolute error between the two systems vary across environments. To verify this issue, the present study employed the bias analysis of signed errors based on the hypothesis that the transformed representation will bias toward the original one. Participants learned a spatial layout and then either stayed in the learning location or were transferred to a neighboring room directly or after being disoriented. After that, they performed spatial judgments from perspectives aligned with the learning direction, aligned with the direction they faced during the test, or a novel direction misaligned with the two above-mentioned directions. The patterns of signed error bias were consistent across environments. Responses for memory aligned perspectives were unbiased, whereas responses for sensorimotor aligned perspectives were biased away from the memory aligned perspective, and responses for misaligned perspectives were biased toward sensorimotor aligned perspectives. These findings indicate that the spatial updating system is consistently independent of the spatial memory system regardless of the environments, but the updating system becomes less accessible as the environment changes from immediate to a retrieved one.

Research and conservation in Marina el-Alamein in 2014 and 2015 (Polish–Egyptian Conservation mission). Part two: The Hellenistic Baths

In 2014 and 2015, the Polish–Egyptian Conservation Mission to Marina el-Alamein undertook research, conservation and presentation of the area north of the central square of the ancient town. A major landmark in this part of the city are the public baths from the Hellenistic period, discovered in 1987. The work was focused on the main chambers of the bath: the central tholos with relics of hip-bathtubs, the neighboring room with an immersion bathtub, and a set of rooms in the southern area of the complex.

Multi-point opacity measurement in a fire environment using a network of optical fibres

Opacity measurements were carried out in a smoke layer using a light source and photodiodes located outside the hot environment, using a network of optical fibers to transport the incident and attenuated light. The whole system was designed with protections for the emission and reception points against smoke, droplets and water vapor generated by a water mist system. It was tested first in laboratory conditions in order to assess its stability at high temperature or in a water spray. Its accuracy regarding the transmission measurement was then evaluated using a reference material. It was used after these qualifications steps in a fire smoke layer flowing along a corridor ceiling, in order to provide a stratification profile based on transmittance data. Results were compared to the stratification data obtained with classical thermocouple measurements. The analysis showed similar conclusions without spray: the vertical evolution in temperature and transmission indicated a similar smoke-free layer, around 1.20m high in the 2.40m high corridor when smoke was produced by a 250kW heptane pool fire in a neighboring room. When studying smoke/mist interactions using a nozzle injecting water in the corridor, a perfect mixing was deduced from temperature measurements, while some discrepancies still appeared with the opacimeters, indicating some variations in the particle concentrations. The opacity could serve to predict these concentration profiles and the visibility in the smoke/droplet medium.

Peers increase adolescent risk taking even when the probabilities of negative outcomes are known.

The majority of adolescent risk taking occurs in the presence of peers, and recent research suggests that the presence of peers may alter how the potential rewards and costs of a decision are valuated or perceived. The current study further explores this notion by investigating how peer observation affects adolescent risk taking when the information necessary to make an informed decision is explicitly provided. We used a novel probabilistic gambling task in which participants decided whether to play or pass on a series of offers for which the reward and loss outcome probabilities were made explicit. Adolescent participants completed the task either alone or under the belief that they were being observed by an unknown peer in a neighboring room. Participants who believed a peer was observing them chose to gamble more often than participants who completed the task alone, and this effect was most evident for decisions with a greater probability of loss. These results suggest that the presence of peers can increase risk taking among adolescents even when specific information regarding the likelihood of positive and negative outcomes is provided. The findings expand our understanding of how peers influence adolescent decision making and have important implications regarding the value of educational programs aimed at reducing risky behaviors during adolescence.

Effects of anonymous peer observation on adolescents' preference for immediate rewards

Research suggests that the presence of peers influences adolescent risk-taking by increasing the perceived reward value of risky decisions. While prior work has involved observation of participants by their friends, the current study examined whether observation by an anonymous peer could elicit similarly increased reward sensitivity. Late adolescent participants completed a delay discounting task either alone or under the belief that performance was being observed from a neighboring room by an unknown viewer of the same gender and age. Even in this limited social context, participants demonstrated a significantly increased preference for smaller, immediate rewards when they believed that they were being watched. This outcome challenges several intuitive accounts of the peer effect on adolescent risk-taking, and indicates that the peer influence on reward sensitivity during late adolescence is not dependent on familiarity with the observer. The findings have both theoretical and practical implications for our understanding of social influences on adolescents' risky behavior.

The Effects of Sustained Release Metofluthrin on the Biting, Movement, and Mortality of Aedes aegypti in a Domestic Setting

The impact of a sustained release metofluthrin emanator and an allethrin-based mosquito coil on biting, movement and mortality of female Aedes aegypti was assessed in an apartment. In the room in which the metofluthrin emanator was activated, mosquito biting counts were reduced to zero. Metofluthrin also had a spillover effect, significantly (P < 0.001) reducing biting counts in a neighboring room 1, 4, and 24 hours after the emanator was activated when compared with either the coil or control (untreated) treatment. Mosquitoes were neither repelled nor expelled from a room exposed to metofluthrin. Indeed, a significantly (P = 0.023) greater proportion of mosquitoes were found in the treated room after exposure to metofluthrin when compared with either the coil or control treatment. Furthermore, in the room treated with metofluthrin the majority of mosquitoes died and a spillover effect into the neighboring room caused greater than one-third mortality of the mosquitoes. Metofluthrin could be used to prevent dengue transmission within a household.

Microbiologic Contamination of Automatic Injectors at MDCT: Experimental and Clinical Investigations

It is mandatory to teach antiseptic skills to staff who use contrast agent injectors. The purpose of this study was to evaluate in an experimental setting and in clinical routine the risk of microbiologic contamination of the syringes of injectors used to administer contrast agent and saline solution for MDCT. Microbiologic contamination of CT injector syringes over multiple uses for several injections was investigated in an experimental setup simulating the clinical setting. Each refill and injection operation was performed by the same technician, who processed a contrast agent for administration in a neighboring room as in clinical CT routine. Multiple administrations of nutritive medium and a chaser bolus were performed with the injection syringes. Simultaneously with each syringe replacement and filling operation, the filling and injection operation was simulated with a separate injection system under normal clinical conditions. Hygienic conditions in the CT department also were evaluated. For microbiologic analysis of devices and of palms of staff, imprints were obtained during clinical routine at the beginning of the study and at follow-up. Throughout the study, the staff participated in continuing education on hygienic behavior, such as hand disinfection and wearing of sterile gloves. In addition, clinical injector syringes were checked for microbiologic contamination. In the experimental setup, the first four samples of each simulation experiment were sterile, and the subsequent probes were found to be contaminated with typical dermal bacteria, such as staphylococci. In the CT department, contamination with skin and oral flora was found on surfaces of devices and on palms. No imprint of surfaces or palms was contaminated with nosocomial or fecal pathogens. Because even optimization of environments does not prevent contamination of syringes, multiple uses of syringes for more than one patient should be prohibited owing to the risk of septic complications.

Sub-micrometer Particles: Their Level and How They Spread After Pan Frying of Beefsteak

Cooking fumes are among the most important sources of indoor fine and ultrafine particles. Exposure to ultrafine particles may cause pulmonary inflammation and enhance allergic reactions, especially in susceptible individuals. Limiting particular exposure caused by cooking may be important for these individuals. In this study, the number concentration of sub-micrometer particles and their spread during and after the frying of beefsteak were measured in a kitchen and the neighboring room. The kitchen was equipped with a modern extraction hood. The level of particles increased rapidly in the kitchen when frying was started regardless of the use of the hood. The sub-micrometer particles spread rapidly to the neighboring room. In both rooms, the main size fraction of the particles was below 0.5 μm. Continuing the extraction for 30 min after the end of frying gave a significantly reduced number of particles in all size fractions in the neighboring room.

Sensorimotor alignment effects in the learning environment and in novel environments.

Four experiments investigated the conditions contributing to sensorimotor alignment effects (i.e., the advantage for spatial judgments from imagined perspectives aligned with the body). Through virtual reality technology, participants learned object locations around a room (learning room) and made spatial judgments from imagined perspectives aligned or misaligned with their actual facing direction. Sensorimotor alignment effects were found when testing occurred in the learning room but not after walking 3 m into a neighboring (novel) room. Sensorimotor alignment effects returned after returning to the learning room or after providing participants with egocentric imagery instructions in the novel room. Additionally, visual and spatial similarities between the test and learning environments were independently sufficient to cause sensorimotor alignment effects. Memory alignment effects, independent from sensorimotor alignment effects, occurred in all testing conditions. Results are interpreted in the context of two-system spatial memory theories positing separate representations to account for sensorimotor and memory alignment effects.

Cortisol response and ovarian hormones in juvenile and cycling female Cebus monkeys: effect of stress and dexamethasone

We examined cortisol profiles in relation to ovarian hormones and their response to a repeated composite stressor with and without dexamethasone suppression. To evaluate the day-to-day changes in circulating cortisol relative to ovarian hormones, we subjected five adult female Cebus apella monkeys daily to restraint, sedation, transport to a neighboring room for femoral venipuncture, and return to the cage throughout the menstrual cycle. The cortisol response to the repeated stressor for blood collection, its relationship with the ovarian function, and the effects of dexamethasone were evaluated in six juveniles (18-24 months old) and five adult females in the luteal phase. Blood was sampled at time 0; then the monkeys received the vehicle and their blood was sampled again at 1, 2, 4, and 24 hr. This experiment was repeated 3 weeks later, with dexamethasone (i.m. 2 mg/Kg) injected instead of vehicle. Plasma aliquots were assayed for cortisol, progesterone, and estradiol. The results revealed that from middle infancy and throughout adulthood, hypercortisolism is the norm in female Cebus monkeys. The high cortisol values remained unchanged across the cycle despite the cyclic changes in estradiol and progesterone levels. Juvenile monkeys exhibited a higher cortisol response to stress than adults, and both juvenile and adult monkeys exhibited the typical suppression by dexamethasone. A rapid suppression of progesterone co-occurred in parallel with cortisol after dexamethasone injection in juvenile monkeys, suggesting that most circulating progesterone originates in the adrenals. In contrast, adult females exhibited an overincrement of progesterone levels, in parallel with a rise in cortisol, in response to the stressor, and this effect was exacerbated by dexamethasone. The findings suggest that hypercortisolism is insufficient to disrupt ovarian development toward a normal cyclical function, and that ovarian steroids have no influence on day-to-day circulating cortisol levels. On the other hand, the overincrement of progesterone levels induced by stress and/or glucocorticoids during the early luteal phase is unlikely to interfere with the development of this phase and implantation in this monkey species.