Range Of Reception Research Articles

Contemporary Kazakh literature: Post-Socialist Contexts and Artistic Translations

                The change of the modern world determines the transformation of the principles of dialogicity under the influence of a single global communicative space. The literature of Kazakhstan continues intercultural interaction and develops a productive dialogue with the national literatures of the world in the XXI century. The development of the latest scientific research in the study of Kazakh literature and the literature of the ethnic groups of the country, their perception in international contexts in line with the post-non-classical period of science and postcolonial theory in literary studies are relevant and in demand today. The authors of the article consider the study of the spiritual image of the Kazakh people and culture in the perception of the foreign environment and multicultural space to be relevant and important. There were, as is known, international and interethnic interactions important for Kazakh literature in the past. There are new factors and communications affecting the state of literature in Kazakhstan today. The audiovisual and computer industry determine the expansion of discourses of the study of Russian culture and literature in the axiological aspect of modern philological research. The range of reception of Kazakh literature abroad is constantly expanding. The dynamic and progressive development of foreign relations is justified by the fact that Kazakh-English, Azerbaijani, American, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Czech and Georgian cooperation opens up new prospects for the study of Kazakh literature in international contexts in the aspect of post-non-classical epistemology and plurality. The research methodology is based on a combination of historical-typological and hermeneutic methods. The method of culturological interpretation of texts in the native literary environment and in a foreign one, in which it is included in the process of literary translation, is also important. The results of the article will be of some scientific interest in the country and abroad.

Moral Tales: A Selection, ed. Robin Runia

This rich, densely packed collection is an excellent introduction to the range of styles and reception of three of the foremost women writers of the moral tale. As well as sketching career reviews for Hannah More, Amelia Opie, and Maria Edgeworth, editor Runia supplies a precise and contextualized introduction to the moral tale as “a semantic work-around” for these authors, who were all aware of the charges of “romantic escape, sentimental excess, and a risk of moral lassitude” associated with novels. Although all were or became novel writers, their realistic, quotidian, shorter narratives not only enjoyed wide popularity but, as Runia claims, were also “a key component . . . in shaping the nineteenth-century novel.”Like the tales themselves, succinctness and diversity are the hallmarks of this tidy volume. Through an adroit selection of helpfully annotated stories for adults and children the reader hears the distinctive voice of each narrator. While in “Tawney Rachel” More presents the author as acutely attentive to village life and vernacular, a persona promoted throughout the Cheap Repository Tracts, as the reader’s “true friend” she points directly to the moral failing of “tempting Providence.” Pitying Sally Evans, “as harmless a girl as ever churned a pound of butter,” who was duped of a marriage partner by such “a hag” as the title fortune-teller, More clarifies her “duty to print this little history” as a warning against the folly of being “fated . . . to do a foolish thing.” Rejecting the schoolmistress tone, Opie’s narrative voice in “The Black Velvet Pelisse” offers psychological interiors, taking readers inside appearances. The “purse-proud” father, a successful merchant whose opulence “seemed to squeeze out its indulgences from the griping fingers of habitual economy,” aims to have his daughter brilliantly dressed to impress a visiting baronet. Although, “like most women,” Julia “derived great advantages from dress” and “knew the value of external decoration,” she forgoes the luxury of adornment and instead gives the money to a conscripted man to save him from military service and his family from the workhouse. But Opie does not make Julia unbelievably good; even when she has opted for benevolence, she still “felt like a woman . . . (with) an expression of vexation.”The volume includes two tales each by More and Opie. Edgeworth’s single tale, “The Dun,” is the true prize item. Skillfully interlacing scenes of a man of fashion’s obliviousness to his sartorial debts with a now-destitute weaver, the narrator challenges the delicate reader “whose fine feelings can be moved only by romantic elegant scenes of distress.” Instead, she offers “nothing to charm the imagination—everything to disgust the senses” by focusing on the bare interior of the weaver’s room. Neither chiding nor sentimental, this narrator subtly exposes the social injustice of the “political arithmetician” for whom “the happiness of individuals is nothing compared to the general mass.” In this nicely layered tale interventions are not altruistic. When an entrepreneurial, benign-seeming madam, “a woman hardened in guilt,” befriends the weaver’s daughter until the young woman almost consents to a liaison to free her father from jail, the tipping point is the daughter’s declaration to her would-be lover that she “never could be happy with a bad conscience.” As in every choice in this tale, true uprightness emerges in the downtrodden.In addition to contemporary reviews, this volume also includes tales for children from Edgeworth and Opie in which misjudged but generous and honest boys are at last rewarded. The final section, excerpts from Maria and Richard Lovell Edgeworth’s Practical Education and More’s Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education, grounds the fiction in arduous didactic principles. Selecting these passages must have been particularly difficult for Runia in light of the vast possibilities for illustrative theorizing. To exercise “all the powers of the mind,” the Edgeworths denigrate the “moral picturesque” produced by “immoderate novel reading” and “descriptive poetry.” With a related emphasis on lifting “the reader from sensation to intellect,” More calls for “close reasoning” as opposed to frivolous chitchat. Though not included, equally forceful and axiomatic pronouncements occur throughout Strictures in chapters on the practical use of female knowledge, the danger of ill-directed sensibility, and the modern habits of fashionable life.The value of this collection resides in its informed introduction, careful selection of tales, and clarification of sources, all of which highlight pathways for additional investigation.

Методика оценки дальности приема современными телеметрическими средствами при пусках изделий с космодромов

Проведен анализ места размещения измерительного пункта с точки зрения получения полного объема телеметрической информации при пусках изделий с заданного космодрома. Методика оценки дальности приема основана на расчёте зон радиовидимости стационарных измерительных пунктов по трассе выведения с учетом угловой ориентации изделия в ходе полета, расчёте энергетического запаса радиолиний для существующих и перебазируемых средств приёма телеметрической информации, оценке потерь уровня сигнала в радиолинии, проверке отсутствия экранирования радиолинии факелом двигателя. The analysis of the location of the measuring point from the point of view of obtaining the full volume of telemetric information when launching products from a given cosmodrome is carried out. The method for assessing the reception range is based on calculating the radio visibility zones of stationary measuring points along the injection route, taking into account the angular orientation of the product during flight, calculating the energy reserve of radio lines for existing and relocatable means of receiving telemetry information, assessing the signal level loss in the radio line, checking the absence of shielding of the radio line by the engine torch.

Analysis, Optimization, and Demonstration of a Vehicular Detection System Intended for Dynamic Wireless Charging Applications

To overcome the range limitation associated with electric vehicles (EVs), the emerging technology of dynamic wireless power transfer (DWPT) can be employed. Electrified road infrastructure and wirelessly charged vehicle constitute a complex dynamic system whose successful operation requires coordination between the two subsystems and a certain level of knowledge regarding the EV position and speed on the road. A comprehensive vehicular detection system (DWPT-VDS) operating on magnetic principle and intended for DWPT applications is proposed in this paper. The following functionalities are integrated into the DWPT-VDS: a vehicle detection mechanism, the measurement of the vehicle lateral misalignment, vehicle speed measurement, driver information system (DIS), as well as the wireless communication between a roadside power controller and the DIS. When integrated with a DWPT charging system, the DWPT-VDS allows some critical functions, such as correction of the lateral position of the vehicle by the driver, an extended range of full-power reception for a misaligned vehicle, as well as the smooth transition between adjacent pads. This paper presents a comprehensive study of different coil structures and algorithms for speed and misalignment estimation in a DWPT-VDS, along with their comparison. The objective is to maximize the misalignment detection range for a given size of test coils and provide a robust solution for vehicles with different ground clearances. A three-coil system for vehicle misalignment and speed detection is selected as part of a proof-of-concept design. Part of the system is embedded in the road, and the rest is mounted on a wirelessly charged electric bus. The implemented system has been successfully tested in an outdoor environment. A DIS visualizing speed and misalignment information is also developed and tested to help the driver align the vehicle with the road-embedded primary pads.

Traveling images and words: Czech action art through the lens of exhibitions and art criticism in Western Europe

ABSTRACT This article addresses the trajectory of Czech action artist Petr Štembera in the 1970s, focusing on the circulation of his work beyond the Iron Curtain through photographic documentation. Examining most particularly a planned, joint participation at the 10th Paris Biennial in 1977 together with Jan Mlčoch, and Štembera’s correspondence with French art critic François Pluchart, present essay discusses interpretations of the artist’s work that traveled to, and through Western Europe. The author argues that the distribution of photographs and texts completed and extended the artist’s range of action and reception, providing, on the one hand, a mediated experience of Štembera’s performances and actions for those who couldn’t physically attend them and, on the other hand, for the artist representing a channel of communication and exchange about his work.

(Dys)functional art

Abstract This article aims to explore the binary of art as a functional cultural tool and as a dysfunctional sociopolitical catalyst. The authors, Hande Sever, Sabine Priglinger and Ben Schmechel, will propose dysfunctional art as a generator of an emancipatory, intentional space of enquiry, a valuable alternative to the more functional notions of art. They will stress that dysfunctional works of art span a range of artistic production and reception as they occur in both commercial gallery and community or public space. Instances that embody elements of the functional and the dysfunctional approach will be marked out through an interrogation of artworks, arranged in an atemporal, ahistorical constellation.

The Swan’s Flight: Old Words and New Music

The Swan’s Flight: Old Words and New Music Robert C. Ketterer The articles in this special volume of Syllecta Classica began as papers delivered at a conference titled “Re-Creation: Musical Reception of Classical Antiquity,” hosted by the Department of Classics and the School of Music at the University of Iowa in October of 2011.1 The conference opened on October 27 with a demonstration of the broad chronological range of musical reception. An afternoon lecture by Wendy Heller on Jacopo Peri’s late Renaissance opera Euridice was followed by an evening concert by the University of Iowa’s Center for New Music, programmed and directed by David Gompper.2 The concert had as its thematic spine twentieth-century settings of Sappho’s poetry, beginning with three of Ivor Gurney’s “Seven Sappho Songs,” including compositions by Lennox Berkeley, Steven Stuckey, Goffredo Petrassi, and concluding with Luigi Dallapiccola’s “Cinque frammenti di Saffo” and “Sex carmina Alcaei.” In between these samplings of archaic lyric there was also a wide range of pieces, from a highly colored aria for Odysseus from August Bungert’s opera Odysseus’ Heimkehr (1896) to an arresting performance of Ludwig Senfl’s 1539 setting of Horace Odes 2.20, Non usitata nec tenui ferar, re-imagined for the occasion by Gompper. Ludwig Senfl was a Swissborn [End Page 1] composer active in Germany during the early sixteenth century, whom a contemporary called in musica totius Germaniae nunc princeps (right now the first in music in all Germany).3 A prolific composer of lieder and polyphonic masses and motets, Senfl also experimented in the 1530s with setting ancient Latin poetry to rhythms that reflected the original meters. His setting of Horace’s Odes 2.20 provides a comparatively simple but clear illustration of the complications involved in the musical interpretation and performance of antiquity. I begin with a consideration of that poem and Senfl’s setting as an introduction to the issues examined in the articles that follow this essay. Non usitata nec tenui ferar closes Horace’s second book of Odes with a prediction of the poet’s immortality, and is itself an act of musical reception. The opening two stanzas are: Non usitata nec tenui ferar penna biformis per liquidum aethera vates, neque in terris morabor longius, invidia maior urbis relinquam. Non ego, pauperum sanguis parentum, non ego, quem vocas, dilecte Maecenas, obibo nec Stygia cohibebor unda. By no light or common feather shall I be borne, a singer and seer, my shape changed, through the bright air, and I shall not tarry, earthbound, much longer, but I shall leave city life, transcending pettiness. I shall not die, though from impoverished family, not I, whom you, my dear Maecenas, call friend, nor shall I be confined by the Stygian lake. The meter is Horace’s adaptation of Greek alcaics to the demands of the Latin language. The opening lines carry a memory of a choral passage in Euripides.4 But the allusion is oblique, and in the background of the [End Page 2] poem there seems to be a skein of reference that also includes the lyrics of Alcman, Theognis, and Pindar.5 The third through fifth stanzas explain that in death Horace’s spirit will be transformed into a swan, and that it will fly the circuit of the known world. The final stanza’s forbidding mourning again nods at a literary model: Absint inani funere neniae luctusque turpes et querimoniae; compesce clamorem ac sepulcri mitte supervacuos honores. Let there be no dirges with their empty mourning, nor shameful grief and lamenting; repress your noisy cries, and forget the pointless honors of a tomb. Ennius had written the couplet, Nemo me lacrimis decoret nec funera fletu / faxit. Cur? Volito vivos per ora virum (“Let no one honor me with tears, nor celebrate my funeral with weeping. Why? Alive I fly from mouth to mouth of men.”6) This epigram appears to give form both to Horace’s final thought, and perhaps also the larger conceit that his soul (and so, his poetry) will soar from east to west over the entire Augustan oikoumene. In Horace the medium is the message. Poetry lasts, and grants...

Wireless LAN Comes of Age: Understanding the IEEE 802.11n Amendment

During the initial development of the IEEE 802.11n (11n) amendment for improving the throughput of wireless LANs, a lot of excitement existed surrounding the potential higher throughput (i.e., faster downloads), and increased range (distance) achievable. However, delays in the development of this standard (which began in 2003, and is still in the final draft stages) as well as vendor, customer reluctance to adopt the pre-11n offerings in the marketplace, have generally slowed interest in this next-generation technology. However, there is still much to be excited about. The latest draft of IEEE 802.11n (Draft 3.0) offers the potential of throughputs beyond 200 Mbps, based on physical layer (PHY) data rates up to 600 Mbps. This is achieved through the use of multiple transmit and receive antennas, referred to as MIMO (multiple input, multiple output). Using techniques such as spatial division multiplexing (SDM), transmitter beamforming, and space-time block coding (STBC), MIMO is used to increase dramatically throughput over single antenna systems (by two to four times) or to improve range of reception, depending on the environment. This article offers an exposition on the techniques used in IEEE 802.11n to achieve the above improvements to throughput and range. First, the current generation WLAN devices (11a/b/g) are described in terms of the benefits offered to end users. Next, the evolution of the Tin amendment is discussed, describing the main proposals given, and illustrating reasons for the delay in standardization. Then, the changes to the PHY for 11n are presented. A description of channel modeling with MIMO is shown, followed by the signal processing techniques employed, including MIMO channel estimation and detection, space-time block coding (STBC), and transmitter beamforming. Simulation results are presented which illustrate the benefits of these techniques, versus the existing a/g structures, for both throughput and range. Finally, a brief section outlining considerations for the rapid prototyping of a baseband design based on the 802.11n PHY is presented. We conclude with a discussion of the future for 11n, describing the issues addressed with Drafts 2.0 and 3.0, as well as its place in a wireless market with WiMAX and Bluetooth.

A psicanálise como linguagem social: o caso argentino

O recente livro de Mariano Plotkin sobre a "cultura psicanalítica" na Argentina suscita amplas discussões sobre o papel da psicanálise na dinâmica das diferentes sociedades nacionais no âmbito da cultura ocidental moderna. É particularmente rico para a comparação entre aquele país e o Brasil, onde também se deu uma difusão importante da psicanálise em período homólogo ao da Argentina. O fenômeno em questão mereceu de Plotkin uma análise muito complexa e minuciosa, reveladora das principais tensões constitutivas da história argentina ao longo do século XX, envolvendo as relações com a psiquiatria e a medicina, com a psicologia, com o "peronismo" e com a militância de esquerda. Sublinho a importância de sua demonstração do caráter de "linguagem social" que assumiu a "cultura psicanalítica" na sociedade argentina; assim como a da descrição do processo de difusão da psicanálise pelos meios de comunicação (que ensejou uma amplitude social de recepção maior do que a que se deu no Brasil). Enfatizo também a relevância analítica de sua demonstração da associação dessa difusão a um "cientificismo" generalizado na sociedade argentina, associado às características peculiares da "modernização" cultural desse país.

Acoustohydrophysical Complex for Marine Tomographic Research

An acoustohydrophysical complex for tomographic ocean surveillance is described. The complex has been developed within the framework of the US–Russia project JESAEX (The Japan / East Sea Acoustics Experiment). Technical characteristics of self-contained and mobile receiving and transmitting systems of the complex allow one to use them as building blocks in constructing tomographic systems of various configurations and complexities. Experimental tests of methods and facilities in September–October 1999 in the Japanese sea have shown that the range of reliable reception of composite phase–shift keyed signals, such as M—sequences, is 700 km at an acoustic pressure produced by a sound source of up to 7 000 Pa/m.

Aspects of the Critical Reception and Intellectual History of Baxandall’s Concept of the Period Eye

This article firstly traces a range of critical reception to Michael Baxandall’s concept of the Period Eye, which he articulated in his 1972 book Painting and Experience in Fifteenth‐Century Italy; secondly, the piece examines various aspects of the intellectual history of the concept through consideration of some of Baxandall’s sources and comparisons with other art‐historical works which test similar methodological terrain, such as Panofsky’s Gothic Architecture and Scholasticism and the ‘Beholder's Share’ section of Gombrich’s Art and Illusion.The article takes the Period Eye as a case through which to explore how different art‐historical camps evaluated the concept in the 1970s, crucial as it was as a novel approach to the idea of a social history of art. While Gombrich and Marxist art historians were suspicious of the Period Eye, the anthropologist Clifford Geertz thought Baxandall’s elaboration exemplary, as did the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu. The immediate and enduring popularity of the book, progenitor of the notion of visual culture, makes it a significant marker in the anthropological turn art history took in the 1970s and 1980s.

Observations of Adult Atlantic Cod (Gadus morhua) Overwintering in Nearshore Waters of Trinity Bay, Newfoundland

In the Random Island region of Trinity Bay, Newfoundland, individual adult Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) with surgically implanted sonic transmitters were repeatedly relocated during the winter of 1990–91. Cod remained near shore, where seawater temperatures were as low as −1.5 °C. These fish did not move in the fall to offshore continental shelf waters as do most northern cod, nor did they move into the deeper waters of Trinity Bay that were slightly warmer than those in the nearshore zone. Of 12 cod released with transmitters in the fall and early winter, two were caught by local inshore fishermen the following spring, providing evidence that adult cod that overwinter nearshore become available to the spring inshore fishery. Another three were caught within a year of release. One fish was hooked in Fortune Bay on the southern coast of Newfoundland, having traveled a minimum distance of 305 nautical miles. These results demonstrate that northern cod can survive the surgical implantation of transmitters for at least a year and that this method is a valid technique for studying the behavior of northern cod. The main limitation to our sonic tracking was the relatively short range of signal reception (<1 nautical mile).

Effect of error control system by range transmission for PCM sound broadcasting

AbstractIn the PCM sound broadcast by digital transmission, the noise due to the bit‐error at low reception field intensity degrades the speech quality, which restricts the range of broadcast reception. A method to reduce the bit‐error noise is the error control by range transmission, where the information indicating the range of the significant bit in the sample in a specified interval is transmitted as the range data. This paper presents a quantitative analysis for the reduction of the bit‐error noise, for the traditional range transmission system and the control system by majority decision, to fully utilize the merit of the method. The improvement from the viewpoint of listening sensation was verified by a subjective evaluation test. It is shown that the proposed method exhibits a remarkable improvement in the low‐intensity reception with a high error‐rate, where the error‐correcting code cannot achieve a sufficient improvement. It is shown by experiment that seven levels of the transmission range are sufficient to achieve the desired performance.

A Note on the Reception of Patrick White’s Novels in German Speaking Countries (1957-1979)

This article can only be part of a comprehensive study of the reception of Patrick White. It comprises the range of reception indicated by a survey of the responses to translations by reviewers, critics and readers. The complementary aspect of academic reception has to stay out of view as long as literary researchers have no representative results to offer. It is well known that during the past 10 years about 13 'German' articles have been published on Patrick White in various journals, yet their authors are of such heterogeneous origin that it is impossible to consider their work the representative contribution of a single language group.

Determination of throughputs, efficiencies and optimal block lengths for an error-correction scheme for the Canadian Broadcast Telidon System

Studies have shown that a reduction in bit error rates through the use of error-correcting codes would result in an improved range of reception, with reduced waiting times, for digital data which are broadcast as ancillary signals on television channels. A simple product code has been used to improve the reception of data transmitted on television lines for the Canadian Broadcast Telidon System, along with a Hamming (8,4) code for bytes in the address portion of each line. Equations for error probabilities show the relationships among variables and, in particular, the design tradeoffs between mean number of pages to decoding failure and efficiency. The use of the product code yields improvements of between 10 for <i xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">p</i> =10 <sup xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">-3</sup> and 1000 for <i xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">p</i> =10 <sup xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">-5</sup> , for a block size of 25 bytes, demonstrating the value of the coding for increasing the range of reception of data for the Telidon System.

Some Characteristics of Modern Radio Receivers and Their Relation to Broadcast Regulation

The paper gives a brief discussion of the modern tendencies in radio broadcast receiver design, with particular regard to those characteristics of receivers which are related to the problem of allocation and regulation of broadcasting stations. These characteristics are separated into five classes, as follows: (1) discrimination between channels; (2) discrimination within a channel; (3) uniformity of reception in all channels; (4) uniformity of reception within a channel; (5) range of reception. The conclusions are based upon experimental studies of a large number of broadcast receivers which have been sold commercially, and others which will be sold during the present year.