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INTERGOVERNMENTAL ARRANGEMENTS FOR DEALING WITH POLLUTION PROBLEMS
Environmental Economics and Policy,
Player agency in interactive narrative: audience, actor & author
The question motivating this review paper is, how can
computer-based interactive narrative be used as a constructivist learn-
ing activity? The paper proposes that player agency can be used to
link interactive narrative to learner agency in constructivist theory,
and to classify approaches to interactive narrative. The traditional
question driving research in interactive narrative is, āhow can an in-
teractive narrative deal with a high degree of player agency, while
maintaining a coherent and well-formed narrative?ā This question
derives from an Aristotelian approach to interactive narrative that,
as the question shows, is inherently antagonistic to player agency.
Within this approach, player agency must be restricted and manip-
ulated to maintain the narrative. Two alternative approaches based
on Brechtās Epic Theatre and Boalās Theatre of the Oppressed are
reviewed. If a Boalian approach to interactive narrative is taken the
conflict between narrative and player agency dissolves. The question
that emerges from this approach is quite different from the traditional
question above, and presents a more useful approach to applying in-
teractive narrative as a constructivist learning activity
User's guide to resin infusion simulation program in the FORTRAN language
RTMCL is a user friendly computer code which simulates the manufacture of fabric composites by the resin infusion process. The computer code is based on the process simulation model described in reference 1. Included in the user's guide is a detailed step by step description of how to run the program and enter and modify the input data set. Sample input and output files are included along with an explanation of the results. Finally, a complete listing of the program is provided
A prosopographical analysis of society in East Central Scotland, circa 1100 to 1260, with special reference to ethnicity
This thesis seeks to examine the Europeanizing themes of the spread of charters, the adoption of common European names and the interaction of the chivalric āaristocratic diasporaā with local landholding society through the methodology of prosopography. The role of aristocratic landholders as grantor, witnesses and recipients of charters was studied, based on an analysis of the texts of over 1500 aristocratic, royal and ecclesiastical documents relating to Scotland north of Forth, dating from circa 1100 to circa 1260. The Appendix is a list of all non-royal, non-ecclesiastical (or āprivateā) charters, agreements, brieves and similar documents, catalogued herein for the first time.
The results of this study are two-fold. First, the thesis involves a degree of reappraisal, in which phenomena which were seen previously as pertaining to either ānativeā or āNormanā trends are instead examined as part of a single Scottish society. Second, this thesis offers several new findings based on the prosopographical analysis of the charter material, which help to hone our understanding for how Europeanization worked in Scotland. It is now clear that, while the adoption of charters should certainly be seen as a Europeanizing trend, their use by aristocratic landholders followed several stages, none of which adhered to any ethnic bias. This study reveals the prominence of networks in spreading charter use, including one focused around Countess Ada and other related countesses, in the early stages of aristocratic charter use. Furthermore, the important component of Europeanization, whereby āperipheralā peoples took up common European personal names, can be qualified in the case of Scotland north of Forth, where the society was already characterised by a diverse intermixing of Gaelic, Scandinavian and Anglo-Saxon names, and where certain Gaelic names were not only maintained by ānativeā families, but also adopted by immigrant knights. This thesis shows that the practice of using personal names as evidence for ethnicity does not hold up to close scrutiny. Moreover, the aristocratic diaspora for Scottish earls was a two-way street, and some earls and other Scottish nobles married into some of the most powerful families in western Europe. On the other hand, immigration of knights into Scotland north of Forth resulted in the creation of a new baronial class, one which also incorporated various types of ānativeā Scottish landholder. Indeed, even in regions like the Mearns, where the king had a free hand, landholding was balanced between local and immigrant families. Finally, and perhaps most significantly, this study has verified that the notion that Scotland had āno institutionalised apartheidā was not merely a legal technicality, but a fundamental characteristic of the society. Landholding patterns reveal no evidence of ethnic separation; neither does analysis of assemblies, courts, civil legal proceedings and processes of perambulation. Instead, power was exercised by a diverse aristocratic class. The nature of Europeanization in Scotland is distinct and special, and serves as a fascinating case study of an aristocratic society that was transformed, but in some ways on its own terms
Ampelopsis cordata Michx.
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Universality Principle for Orbital Angular Momentum and Spin in Gravity with Torsion
We argue that compatibility with elementary particle physics requires
gravitational theories with torsion to be unable to distinguish between orbital
angular momentum and spin. An important consequence of this principle is that
spinless particles must move along autoparallel trajectories, not along
geodesics.Comment: Author Information under
http://www.physik.fu-berlin.de/~kleinert/institution.html . Latest update of
paper also at http://www.physik.fu-berlin.de/~kleinert/kleiner_re27
Tetragonal CuO: A new end member of the 3d transition metal monoxides
Monoclinic CuO is anomalous both structurally as well as electronically in
the 3 transition metal oxide series. All the others have the cubic rock salt
structure. Here we report the synthesis and electronic property determination
of a tetragonal (elongated rock salt) form of CuO created using an epitaxial
thin film deposition approach. In situ photoelectron spectroscopy suggests an
enhanced charge transfer gap with the overall bonding more ionic. As
an end member of the 3d transition monoxides, its magnetic properties should be
that of a high antiferromagnet
The generating function for a particular class of characters of SU(n)
We compute the generating function for the characters of the irreducible
representations of SU(n) whose associated Young diagrams have only two rows
with the same number of boxes. The result is a rational determinantal
expression in which both the numerator and the denominator have a simple
structure when expressed in terms of Schur polynomials.Comment: 7 pages, no figure
Superconducting niobium thin film slow-wave structures
A superconducting comb structure as a slow-wave element in a traveling-wave maser will significantly improve maser noise temperature and gain by reducing the insertion loss. The results of the insertion loss measurements of superconducting niobium slow-wave structures subjected to maser operating conditions at X-Band frequencies are presented
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