PETIT TRIANON AND MARIE ANTOINETTE: REPRESENTATION, INTERPRETATION, PERCEPTION

My Dos between 2010-2014 was Professor Daniel Maudlin. I have belonged to the Faculty of Arts for this period, before transferring in the last year of completion to the Faculty of Business. I had to seek the expertise of the School of Tourism due to the interdisciplinary nature of my thesis.Images unavailable due to 3rd party copyright restrictions.This interdisciplinary thesis belongs to Marie Antoinette studies. The contemporary dissonant commodification of the controversial historical character of the last Queen of France, detected at her former home, Petit Trianon, drives the course of the thesis research. Considering the complexity and controversy of the subject, the thesis seeks to make a contribution to extant scholarship by clarifying important modern history issues through a fresh approach: by using art history as an indicator in assessing the historical truth of the narrative of Petit Trianon, the residence identified as home to the last Queen of France. The thesis examines Petit Trianon and Marie Antoinette in the context of four major narratives - the historical, cinematic, architectural and heritage narratives - relevant to the contemporary heritage interpretation of Petit Trianon as well as its visitor perceptions. In addition to sourcing evidence for the arguments originating in art history information, the thesis relies on the data collection provided by a tailor-made survey for the topic, placing the results in the wider context of a hermeneutical interpretation of data found in either history or contemporary popular culture. The array of Marie Antoinette’s images detected by the analysis charts the commodification of this historical character at Petit Trianon: its production and consumption. It is through the assessment of this commodification that the present thesis reveals the misconceptions surrounding the historical character best known as Marie Antoinette. The thesis argues that the true role of the last Queen of France was successfully obscured through juxtaposition with her perception by the French collective memory. In other words, the perception of Marie Antoinette had subverted historical truth. Furthermore, the commodification of her historical character is perpetuated in an endless chain of representations fuelled by postmodern consumerism

The cathodic evolution of hydrogen on nickel in artificial seawater

The hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) on Ni electrode in artificial seawater was investigated by steady-state polarisation curves and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy methods at the room temperature and at high temperatures (30–60oC). The electrochemical kinetics parameters of the HER – Tafel slope, charge transfer coefficient and exchange current density – were evaluated in accordance with the potential scan direction and temperature. The Tafel slopes are significantly higher than 120 mV/decade and they increase with the increasing of the solution temperature. The charge transfer coefficient is lower than 0.5 and it decreases with temperature. The exchange current density has a magnitude order of 10-5 A·cm-2 and its value is increasing with increasing solution temperature. The activation energy of the HER has a moderate value, that slowly decreases with the cathodic polarisation increase. The HER is controlled by the charge transfer step and by the mass transfer of the intermediate reaction product Hads on the electrode surface

Experimental Investigation and Modeling of Film Flow Corrosion

The paper focuses on the experimental investigation and mathematical modeling of the corrosion of steel when a film of water flows over its surface. The experimental monitoring of corrosion dynamics in the flowing film was carried out using a laboratory pilot model, exploited in such a way as to obtain data necessary to identify some characteristic parameters of the mathematical model of this problem. The mathematical model of the case takes into account the transfer of oxygen through the liquid film flowing on the surface of the corroding plate where the chemical surface processes characteristic of corrosion occur (dissolution of Fe, oxidation of Fe2+ to Fe3+, formation of surface deposit, etc.). Experimental measurements were used to identify the parameters of the mathematical model, especially the reaction constant of the Fe dissolution rate and the surface oxidation yield of Fe2+ to Fe3+. Calculation of the correlation coefficients for the apparent constant surface reaction rate and process factors showed that they correlate strongly and non-linearly with the Reynolds number (Re) of the film flow, with the cumulative flow duration, and with the cumulative standby time of the experiments. Using the dynamics of the resistance to the transfer of oxygen through the rust film and the dynamics of its thickness resulting from the specific flow of rust deposition, the apparent oxygen diffusion coefficient through the rust film formed on the plate was expressed

Sustainable Hydrogen Production from Seawater Electrolysis: Through Fundamental Electrochemical Principles to the Most Recent Development

Among the many potential future energy sources, hydrogen stands out as particularly promising. Because it is a green and renewable chemical process, water electrolysis has earned much interest among the different hydrogen production techniques. Seawater is the most abundant source of water and the ideal and cheapest electrolyte. The first part of this review includes the description of the general theoretical concepts: chemical, physical, and electrochemical, that stands on the basis of water electrolysis. Due to the rapid development of new electrode materials and cell technology, research has focused on specific seawater electrolysis parameters: the cathodic evolution of hydrogen; the concurrent anodic evolution of oxygen and chlorine; specific seawater catalyst electrodes; and analytical methods to describe their catalytic activity and seawater electrolyzer efficiency. Once the specific objectives of seawater electrolysis have been established through the design and energy performance of the electrolyzer, the study further describes the newest challenges that an accessible facility for the electrochemical production of hydrogen as fuel from seawater must respond to for sustainable development: capitalizing on known and emerging technologies; protecting the environment; utilizing green, renewable energies as sources of electricity; and above all, economic efficiency as a whole

Sustainable Hydrogen Production from Seawater Electrolysis: Through Fundamental Electrochemical Principles to the Most Recent Development

Among the many potential future energy sources, hydrogen stands out as particularly promising. Because it is a green and renewable chemical process, water electrolysis has earned much interest among the different hydrogen production techniques. Seawater is the most abundant source of water and the ideal and cheapest electrolyte. The first part of this review includes the description of the general theoretical concepts: chemical, physical, and electrochemical, that stands on the basis of water electrolysis. Due to the rapid development of new electrode materials and cell technology, research has focused on specific seawater electrolysis parameters: the cathodic evolution of hydrogen; the concurrent anodic evolution of oxygen and chlorine; specific seawater catalyst electrodes; and analytical methods to describe their catalytic activity and seawater electrolyzer efficiency. Once the specific objectives of seawater electrolysis have been established through the design and energy performance of the electrolyzer, the study further describes the newest challenges that an accessible facility for the electrochemical production of hydrogen as fuel from seawater must respond to for sustainable development: capitalizing on known and emerging technologies; protecting the environment; utilizing green, renewable energies as sources of electricity; and above all, economic efficiency as a whole

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Carbon disk electrodes with film of poly ethylenediamine tetra-N-(3-pyrrole-1-yl