Introduction - Gods’ Imprints, Humans’ Technology – Religious maps, Satellite Imagery

International audienceThis Atlas presents a series of forty-six maps recording processional routes. It deals with seven events and puts on view seven territories and sacred places in the region of Tainan. This new study of processions based on cartographic material constitutes an original entry into the understanding of Taiwan’s cultural space, popular religion, as well as local history

La nature et sa patrimonialisation à Taiwan

La valeur symbolique accordée à la nature à Taiwan s’est accrue au cours des décennies passées. Les raisons en sont variées et complexes et sont à rattacher, non seulement, à l’engouement patrimonial ou à la crise environnementale que l’on constate ici et partout ailleurs dans le monde, mais aussi, à une évolution politique interne et à une reconstruction identitaire. La nature taïwanaise, variée et luxuriante dont les manifestations se déploient surtout dans les parties montagneuses ou les milieux côtier et maritime, est aussi devenue le support d’un lien affectif collectif et d’un sentiment d’appartenance recentré, tendant à faire exister Taiwan pour soi et à la distinguer d’une Chine expansionniste. Cet article examine le contexte, le cadre normatif et les enjeux de ce processus, en concluant sur l’adéquation de l’action de protection et de conservation avec les objectifs fixés par la communauté internationale qui tient cependant Taiwan à l’écart

Development of an Equivalent Porous Medium Model for a Tubular Receiver Equipped With Raschig Rings

The porous insert has become one of the promising methods for heat transfer enhancement in many industrial applications ranging from small electronic devices to nuclear reactors, and large solar fields. For the assessment of such systems, the CFD numerical studies are usually employed by scientists to investigate the heat and mass transfer inside the region in micro or macro scales. Although micro studies are accurate and provide a detailed analysis of the process, they cannot be used for every study due to complex and costly computational resource they may demand for the case under study. Therefore, sometimes macro-scale simulations become more favorable thanks to the reduction in time and cost as well as the simplification over the morphology of the porous medium they offer. For these reasons, this study aims at developing a macro model for a novel porous disc made of Raschig Rings, to be applied to the tubular solar absorber for future simulations. The methodology devised in this study was to exploit detailed micro-scale simulations, achieving the macro properties and then developing a new equivalent macro model of a porous medium, based on the obtained properties. Numerical data indicated that when the developed macro model is compared to the micro simulations, the thermo-hydraulic results are in good agreement. Applying the macro model to a solar absorber working under linear Fresnel heating showed that the proposed porous disc could reduce the temperature rise on the tube wall by 40%

Fitz-Hugh-Curtis Syndrome: A Diagnosis to Consider in a Woman with Right Upper Quadrant Abdominal Pain without Gallstones

A young woman presented with right upper quadrant abdominal pain exacerbated by movement and breathing. Extensive evaluation revealed no gallstones or any other specific cause. Urine polymerase chain reaction results for Chlamydia trachomatis were positive, so the clinical diagnosis of Fitz-Hugh-Curtis syndrome was confirmed. This type of localized peritonitis is thought to be a complication of an ascending genital infection leading to pelvic inflammatory disease. The diagnosis is established on clinical grounds after excluding alternative, more common conditions. Proper antibiotic treatment usually leads to recovery and prevents long-term complications

Profiling Performance of Application Partitioning for Wearable Devices in Mobile Cloud and Fog Computing

Wearable devices have become essential in our daily activities. Due to battery constrains the use of computing, communication, and storage resources is limited. Mobile Cloud Computing (MCC) and the recently emerged Fog Computing (FC) paradigms unleash unprecedented opportunities to augment capabilities of wearables devices. Partitioning mobile applications and offloading computationally heavy tasks for execution to the cloud or edge of the network is the key. Offloading prolongs lifetime of the batteries and allows wearable devices to gain access to the rich and powerful set of computing and storage resources of the cloud/edge. In this paper, we experimentally evaluate and discuss rationale of application partitioning for MCC and FC. To experiment, we develop an Android-based application and benchmark energy and execution time performance of multiple partitioning scenarios. The results unveil architectural trade-offs that exist between the paradigms and devise guidelines for proper power management of service-centric Internet of Things (IoT) applications