Discussion of ‘experimental investigation of shear strength of sands with inherent fabric anisotropy’ by Tong et al. (doi:10.1007/s11440-014-0303-6)

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Orientalismo a su pesar : Gao Xingjian y las paradojas del sistema literario global

This paper shortly reviews a few of the reactions to the Nobel Literature Prize awarded to Gao Xingjian in 2000. It argues that, when circulating within a globalized, cross-cultural literary sistem, both Gao’s figure and work have been defined by an Orientalist hermeneutical perspective that, at certain points, contradicts the postulates of the writer and the value of his work. This is a mechanism to which writer and work are inescapably subjected.Este artículo realiza un breve repaso a algunas reacciones a la concesión del premio Nobel de literatura del año 2000 a Gao Xingjian. El articulo sostiene que, al entrar en circulación dentro de un sistema literario intercultural y globalizado, la figura y la obra de Gao han quedado definidas a través de un prisma interpretativo orientalista que, en algunos puntos, entra en contradicción con los postulados del autor y el valor de su obra. Este es un mecanismo ante el cual escritor y obra están irrevocablemente sujetos

Orientalismo a su pesar : Gao Xingjian y las paradojas del sistema literario global

Este artículo realiza un breve repaso a algunas reacciones a la concesión del premio Nobel de literatura del año 2000 a Gao Xingjian. El articulo sostiene que, al entrar en circulación dentro de un sistema literario intercultural y globalizado, la figura y la obra de Gao han quedado definidas a través de un prisma interpretativo orientalista que, en algunos puntos, entra en contradicción con los postulados del autor y el valor de su obra. Este es un mecanismo ante el cual escritor y obra están irrevocablemente sujetos.This paper shortly reviews a few of the reactions to the Nobel Literature Prize awarded to Gao Xingjian in 2000. It argues that, when circulating within a globalized, cross-cultural literary sistem, both Gao's figure and work have been defined by an Orientalist hermeneutical perspective that, at certain points, contradicts the postulates of the writer and the value of his work. This is a mechanism to which writer and work are inescapably subjected

Astronomy: Starbursts near and far

Observations of intensely bright star-forming galaxies both close by and in the distant Universe at first glance seem to emphasize their similarity. But look a little closer, and differences emerge.Comment: 6 pages including 1 figur

Comments on Unified dark energy and dark matter from a scalar field different from quintessence

In a recent paper by C. Gao, M. Kunz, A. Liddle and D. Parkinson [arXiv:0912.0949], the unification of dark matter and dark energy was explored within a theory containing a scalar field of non-Lagrangian type. This scalar field, different from the classic quintessence, can be obtained from the scalar field representation of an interacting two-fluid mixture described in the paper by L.P. Chimento and M. Forte [arXiv:0706.4142

On the Inverse Problem Relative to Dynamics of the w Function

In this paper we shall study the inverse problem relative to dynamics of the w function which is a special arithmetic function and shall get some results.Comment: 11 page

Design Studies for a High Current Bunching System for CLIC Test Facility (CTF3) Drive Beam

A bunching system is proposed for the initial stage of CTF3 which consists of one (two) 3 GHz prebunchers and one 3 GHz travelling wave (TW) buncher with variable phase velocities. The electron beam is emitted from a 140 KV DC gun. Since the macropulse beam current (3.5 A) at the exit of the TW buncher is rather high, inside the TW buncher one has to take the beam loading effect into consideration. By using PARMELA, it is shown numerically that the bunching system can provide the bunches whose properties satisfy the design requirement of CTF3. The 0.8 m long TW buncher working at 2pi/3 mode has two phase velocities, 0.75 and 1. The dimensions of the caities in the two phase velocity regions are proposed considering the beam loading effect. The transient beam loading effect and the multibunch transverse instabilities are studied numerically, and it is concluded that higher order mode couplers should be installed in the TW buncher with the loaded quality factor of the dipole mode lower than 80.Comment: 5 figures, presented at the Linear Accelerator Conference 2000, August 2000, US