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Prediction of soil water retention properties using pore-size distribution and porosity
Several models have been suggested to link a soil's pore-size distribution to its retention properties. This paper presents a method that builds on previous techniques by incorporating porosity and particles of different sizes, shapes, and separation distances to predict soil water retention properties. Mechanisms are suggested for the determination of both the main drying and wetting paths, which incorporate an adsorbed water phase and retention hysteresis. Predicted results are then compared with measured retention data to validate the model and to provide a foundation for discussing the validity and limitations of using pore-size distributions to predict retention properties. </jats:p
For a Migrant Art: Samuel Beckett and Cultural Nationalism
This essay charts Samuel Beckettâs linguistic migration from English to French at the end of the Second World War, locating this within the context of other twentieth-century literary migrations. It then proceeds to identify some of the principal ways in which Beckett seeks to resist forms of cultural nationalism (Irish, French and German). The distance that Beckett takes from these European forms of cultural nationalism is reflected not only in the migrant status of his characters, but also in the way in which he deploys national-cultural references. The essay argues that Beckettâs aim in this respect bears comparison with that of the âgood Europeanâ as defined by Nietzsche. An important difference, however, is that in Beckettâs case the emphasis falls not upon cosmopolitanism but rather upon a perpetual migrancy that is captured above all in his movement between languages
P05-10. Sequential Immunization with a Subtype B HIV-1 Envelope Quasispecies Elicits Broader Neutralization than Vaccination with a Single Envelope Clone
Building with turf at Roman Vindolanda:Multi-scalar analysis of earthen materials, construction techniques, and landscape context
Confidentiality and public protection: ethical dilemmas in qualitative research with adult male sex offenders
This paper considers the ethical tensions present when engaging in in-depth interviews with convicted sex offenders. Many of the issues described below are similar to those found in other sensitive areas of research. However, confidentiality and public protection are matters that require detailed consideration when the desire to know more about men who have committed serious and harmful offences is set against the possibility of a researcher not disclosing previously unknown sensitive information that relates to the risk of someone being harmed.</p
'Another wall of turf':Geoarchaeological analysis of the Antonine Wall at 72 Grahamsdyke Street, Laurieston, Falkirk
Narrative and Cognitive Modeling: Insights From Beckett Exploring Mind's Complexity
Complex systems exacerbate a common problem for scientific enquiry: the difficulty of creating models able to discriminate fundamental elements or patterns from random behaviours or corollary components in the event or process at issue. This chapter argues that a similar tension between order and randomness has been a chief modelling problem of Samuel Beckettâs narratives, tied to his interest in a specific kind of complex system (the mind) and its emergent properties (consciousness and the narrative sense of self). Bulding on narratology, complex system frameworks, cognitive theories of emergence and of scientific modelling, this chapter introduces the idea of âfictional cognitive modellingâ. Through this concept, the chapter analyses Beckettâs treatment of narrative devices as formal tools for the creation of âexploratory modelsâ able to atomise the emerging unity of conscious experience and of a narrative sense of self into its core components (defined as the ânarrative dynamic coreâ). It concludes by suggesting that Beckettâs narrative method shows how literature can occupy a proper position in the investigation and exploration of complex systems
Fragility Assessment of Traditional Wooden Houses in Madagascar Subjected to Extreme Wind Loads
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