EXTENDED ESSAY ON ORIENTALISM IN THE PAINTED VEIL BY WILLIAM SOMERSET MAUGHAM

In this paper, the writer discuss orientalism in William Somerset Maugham's The painted Veil. The purpose of the paper is to analyze how West describes the East and how the East looks at the West. The conflicts, the settings, and the characters in the novel are also shown in order to supporting the orientalism. It also discusses how the orientalism works in this novel and how the relation between the occident or the west and the orient or the east. In doing this research, the writer uses method of library research. The object of the paper is William Somerset Maugham's The painted Veil. The writer also uses postcolonial approach to help explain the issues in The Painted Veil. To investigate the issues, the writer uses orientalism theory by Edward Said.From the discussion in the paper the writer finds that there are some parts that show the British view towards Chinese. The orientalism in this novel is also shown in some parts such as the policy of British in China, the purpose of conquering China, and in comparison of The West religion and The East Religion

The Magellanic Stream in Modified Newtonian Dynamics

The dynamics of the Magellanic Stream (MS) as a series of clouds extending from the Magellanic Clouds (MCs) to the south Galactic pole is affected by the distribution and the amount of matter in the Milky Way. We calculate the gravitational effect of the Galactic disk on the MS in the framework of modified Newtonian dynamics(MOND) and compare with observations of the Stream's radial velocity. We consider the tidal force of the Galaxy, which strips material from the MCs to form the MS, and, using a no-halo model of the Galaxy, we ignore the effect of the drag of the Galactic halo on the MS. We also compare the MONDian dynamics with that in logarithmic and power-law dark halo models and show that the MOND theory seems plausible for describing the dynamics of satellite galaxies such as the MCs. Finally, we perform a maximum likelihood analysis to obtain the best MOND parameters for the Galactic disk.Comment: 11 pages, 6 figure

Entoparasites Encountered in Some Fruit Trees (Region of South Albania)

The following work deals with the problems of infections of a variety of fruit trees plants met in the Southern Region of Albania. In the analysis one of the most specific groups of plant-entomologists has been obtained, that of the U / Order Coccidia Class Insecta. These insects represent a specific set of pests that feed on plant lymphoma through a highly developed oral drip type suppressor. In this way they not only mechanically damage the plant but also convey it to many viral illnesses in the lymph, leading it to complete degradation. They are so closely related to the plant that, most of them, even wintering (one of the most delicate periods for plant survival itself) passes like parasites on them. Through this work, it is shown which of these entomophytes have met in this plant group in the region concerned? Which of the plant species analyzed is found most frequented by this group of pests and what is the spread of this contamination in both variety and percentage; also by analyzing the distribution of plant species encountered, at different altitudes over sea level? The paper contains, figuratively, a series of morpho-determining features of the representatives cited in this paper.Given that this plant group is one of the main sources of vitamins for vegetarian foods for mankind, this work itself takes on importance and practical value

Filsafat Ilmu Dalam Pendekatan Studi Agama: Kajian Konsep Dan Aplikasi Ilmu Tafsir Dan Syariah

Pendekatan sains, filsafat, dan agama, ketiganya selalu dipandang memiliki konteks dan ruang berbeda. Dewasa ini, kehadiran agama semakin dituntut agar ikut terlibat secara aktif di dalam memecahkan berbagai masalah yang dihadapi manusia. Dua keilmuan penting yang mencoba menjawab persoalan masyarakat adalah studi tafsir dan syariah dalam hal ini ijtihad. Pemahaman literal terhadap teks ayat Alqur'an akan menimbulkan problem ketika pemahaman tersebut dihadapkan dengan Kenyataan sosial, hakikat ilmiah, atau keagamaan, di sinilah dibutuhkan peran interpretasi atau tafsir. Peran ilmu syariah dalam konteks ini sejatinya dimaknai sebagai nilai-nilai luhur yang digali dari prinsip ilahiah yang berisi ajaran tentang pembebasan dan kemanusiaan

Using simulation gaming to validate a mathematical modeling platform for resource allocation in disasters

The extraordinary conditions of a disaster require the mobilisation of all available resources, inducing the rush of humanitarian partners into the affected area This phenomenon called the proliferation of actors, causes serious problems during the disaster response phase including the oversupply, duplicated efforts, lack of planning In an attempt to reduce the partner proliferation problem a framework called PREDIS (PREdictive model for DISaster response partner selection) is put forward to configure the humanitarian network within early hours after disaster strike when the information is scarce To verify this model a simulation game is designed using two sets of real decision makers (experts and non-experts) in the disaster Haiyan scenario The result shows that using the PREDIS framework 100% of the experts could make the same decisions less than six hours comparing to 72 hours Also between 71% and 86% of the times experts and non-experts decide similarly using the PREDIS framewor

A Possible Solution for the M/L−[Fe/H]M/L-\mathrm{[Fe/H]} Relation of Globular Clusters in M31. II. the Age-Metallicity Relation

This is the second of a series of papers in which we present a new solution to reconcile the prediction of single stellar population (SSP) models with the observed stellar mass-to-light ($M/L$) ratios of globular clusters (GCs) in M31 and its trend with respect to $\mathrm{[Fe/H]}$. In the present work our focus is on the empirical relation between age and metallicity for GCs and its effect on the $M/L$ ratio. Assuming that there is an anti-correlation between the age of M31 GCs and their metallicity, we evolve dynamical SSP models of GCs to establish a relation between the $M/L$ ratio (in the $V$ and $K$ band) and metallicity. We then demonstrate that the established $M/L-\mathrm{[Fe/H]}$ relation is in perfect agreement with that of M31 GCs. In our models we consider both the canonical initial mass function (IMF) and the top-heavy IMF depending on cluster birth density and metallicity as derived independently from Galactic GCs and ultra-compact dwarf galaxies by Marks et al. Our results signify that the combination of the density- and metallicity-dependent top-heavy IMF, the anti-correlation between age and metallicity, stellar evolution and standard dynamical evolution yields the best possible agreement with the observed trend of $M/L-\mathrm{[Fe/H]}$ for M31 GCs.Comment: 8 pages, 4 figures, 1 table. Accepted for publication in Ap