13 research outputs found
Frontier Forts of Iowa: Indians, Traders, and Soldiers, 1632â1862
Review of: "Frontier Forts of Iowa: Indians, Traders, and Soldiers, 1632â1862," edited by William E. Whittaker
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State-of-the-art Model M-2 Maintenance System
The Model M-2 Maintenance System is part of an ongoing program within the Consolidated Fuel Reprocessing Program (CFRP) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) to improve remote manipulation technology for future nuclear fuel reprocessing and other remote applications. Techniques, equipment, and guidelines which can improve the efficiency of remote maintenance are being developed. The Model M-2 Maintenance System, installed in the Integrated Equipment Test (IET) Facility at ORNL, provides a complete, integrated remote maintenance system for the demonstration and development of remote maintenance techniques. The system comprises a pair of force-reflecting servomanipulator arms, television viewing, lighting, and auxiliary lifting capabilities, thereby allowing manlike maintenance operations to be executed remotely within the remote cell mockup area in the IET. The Model M-2 Maintenance System incorporates an upgraded version of the proven Central Research Laboratories' Model M servomanipulator. Included are state-of-the-art brushless dc servomotors for improved performance, remotely removable wrist assemblies, geared azimuth drive, and a distributed microprocessor-based digital control system. 5 references, 8 figures
Voices From the Closet: Male Homosexuality and Dual Identity in the Republic of Cyprus
What is the relationship between semiotics and gay identities in the Republic of Cyprus? I initially planned to explore the complex relationship between language, and more specifically semiotics and gay male identity in Greek Cypriots. Early in my research, however, I realized that a lot of background research was required before I would be able to do this sort of in-depth analysis. In addition, after becoming aware of the deep colonial legacy left to homosexuals in Cyprus I was reluctant to use the work of European theorists to analyze a post-colonial space. I also came across a pertinent assertion of Homi Bhabhaâs regarding semiotic analysis in which he says the following: Why return to the semioticianâs daydream? Why begin with âtheoryâ as story, as narrative and anecdote, rather than with the history or method? Beginning with the semiotic projectâenumerating all the languages within earshotâevokes memories of the seminal influence of semiotics within our contemporary critical discourseâŠIf you seek simply the sententious or the exegetical, you will not grasp the hybrid moment outside the sentenceânot quite experience, not yet concept; part dream, part analysis; neither signifier nor signified. This intermediate space between theory and practice disrupts the disciplinary semiological demand to enumerate all the languages within earshot (Bhabha 1994). In addition to this enlightenment regarding the potential limitations of semiotics, I realized that, while my original intent was to limit the scope of my research by filtering it through a semiotic interpretation, this was too confining and unreasonable an expectation. There has not been enough written on homosexuality in Cyprus to reasonably begin a new body of research anywhere but at âsquare one.â The question that I was able to answer, at least in general terms, was, âWhat is the experience of being a gay man in Cyprus?â While this may seem like too general a question, it was necessary to understand this before looking at any one aspect of gay identity in Cyprus