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Sajarah Cina a Nineteenth-century Apology in Javanese
The sometimes precarious position of the Chinese in Indonesia has a long history. The (most probably) nineteenth-century author, Apdul Mutalip, advocated a more balanced view by pointing out some fundamental contributions the Chinese had made to the welfare of the Javanese; he also demonstrates that their presence in Java has a basis in law. Although seems like a poem in Javanese metre, his Sajarah Cina, written in Javanese, is remarkable not only for its subject matter but also for the way the material is presented, in a rhetoric unknown to exist in Javanese literature by most scholars
The Art of Storytelling in Old Javanese Prose as Illustrated by the Story of Ekalawya
Scholarly attention for Old Javanese literature so far has mainly focused on poetry. The apparently simple nature of narrative prose texts, while making them excellent sources for linguistic and lexicographic research, at the same time denies them any literary value. In this article an impression is given of the art of storytelling in one Old Javanese prose story, taken from the Adiparwa of around A.D. 1000. Quite unexpectedly, a sophisticated tradition unfolds in which a rich variety of devices enables the storyteller to create a meaningful world of words
Quantitative motor unit action potential analysis in two paraspinal muscles in sound adult warmblood horses
Contributions à l'étude des organes respiratoires chez les Téléostéens Plectognathes. 5e Partie: <i>Tétrodontes</i> et <i>Diodon</i>
The 1959 Summer Program of Theoretical Studies in Geophysical Fluid Dynamics
Originally issued as Reference No. 59-53, series later renamed WHOI-.This ten-week work-study-discussion program is centered
about a formal course called Geophysical Fluid Dynamics. Eight participants
are selected from graduate and postgraduate applicants. In the discussions
emphasis is placed on the formulation of tractable research problems in geophysics.
The participants are encouraged to work on satisfactory problems thus
formulated and to continue with their research after returning to their respective
institutions.National Science Foundation under Research Grant NSF G-912
Signature of a three-dimensional photonic band gap observed on silicon inverse woodpile photonic crystals
We have studied the reflectivity of CMOS-compatible three-dimensional silicon
inverse woodpile photonic crystals at near-infrared frequencies.
Polarization-resolved reflectivity spectra were obtained from two orthogonal
crystal surfaces corresponding to 1.88 pi sr solid angle. The spectra reveal
broad peaks with high reflectivity up to 67 % that are independent of the
spatial position on the crystals. The spectrally overlapping reflectivity peaks
for all directions and polarizations form the signature of a broad photonic
band gap with a relative bandwidth up to 16 %. This signature is supported with
stopgaps in plane wave bandstructure calculations and with the frequency region
of the expected band gap.Comment: 9 pages, 5 figure
Notes on the 1975 summer study program in geophysical fluid dynamics at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
The central topic of this seventeenth Geophysical Fluid Dynamics
program was fluid motion in the earth's mantle and core. Our principal
lecturer, Dan McKenzie, first addressed himself to the task of separating
solid behavior of the mantle from fluid behavior. When the level of protest
diminished Dan advanced to his numerical studies of mantle convection.
The relationship of these numerical experiments and geophysical observables
was impressive indeed for this first generation of mantle modeling.
Intertwined seminars from P. Molnar, B. Parsons, J. Sclater and
T. Atwater exposed us to data gathering and its rationale at the frontiers
of geophysics.
The fluid properties of the core may be less suspect than those of
the mantle, but how and why the core fluid moves is still a mystery. Our
associate principal lecturer, Fritz Busse, discussed the geomagnetic evidence
for core motion. Then moving quickly to the more abstract problems
of model geodynamos, Fritz described in five lectures his achievement of
a first complete dynamic dynamo driven by convection.National Science Foundatio
Notes on the 1970 summer study program in geophysical fluid dynamics at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
The principal lectures of this twelfth Summer Program were
given by Joseph Pedlosky of the University of Chicago. On the following
page one sees Dr. Pedlosky demonstrating advanced effects
caused by rotation and stratification. Only in his last few lectures
do these novel phenomena emerge from the analysis.National Science Foundatio
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