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    An Analysis of Theme and Rheme Used in the Five-star Hotels' Web Sites in Surabaya

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    The study done by the writer observes the themes and rhemes used in the five-star hotels' web sites in Surabaya. It includes the types of themes and the notions of subject which are under the Systemic Functional Grammar (SFG) proposed by Halliday and Matthiessen (2004). In addition, the data of the study are in the form of text and taken from seven Surabaya five-star hotels' web sites. The writer also used a descriptive qualitative approach in analyzing the 155 data. From the analysis, it is found the two kinds of structure of theme and rheme used by the hotels in their web sites. The hotels also used three types of theme which are simple theme, clause as a theme, and thematic equative. In terms of the subjects (psychological subject, grammatical subject, and logical subject), the hotels are able to fulfill either one, two, or three notions of subject

    Strong gravitational field light deflection in binary systems containing a collapsed star

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    Large light deflection angles are produced in the strong gravitational field regions around neutron stars and black holes. In the case of binary systems, part of the photons emitted from the companion star towards the collapsed object are expected to be deflected in the direction of the earth. Based on a semi-classical approach we calculate the characteristic time delays and frequency shifts of these photons as a function of the binary orbital phase. The intensity of the strongly deflected light rays is reduced by many orders of magnitude, therefore making the observations of this phenomenon extremely difficult. Relativistic binary systems containing a radio pulsar and a collapsed object are the best available candidates for the detection of the strongly deflected photons. Based on the accurate knowledge of their orbital parameters, these systems allow to predict accurately the delays of the pulses along the highly deflected path, such that the sensitivity to very weak signals can be substantially improved through coherent summation over long time intervals. We discuss in detail the cases of PSR 1913+16 and PSR 1534+12 and find that the system geometry is far more promising for the latter. The observation of the highly deflected photons can provide a test of general relativity in an unprecedented strong field regime as well as a tight constraint on the radius of the collapsed object.Comment: 7 pages, uuencoded, gzip'ed, postscript file with figures included. Accepted for pubblication in MNRA

    The Discovery of 8.7s Pulsations from the Ultrasoft X-Ray Source 4u0142+614

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    We discovered a periodicity at about 8.7s from the X--ray sources 4U0142+61, previously considered a possible black hole candidate on the basis of its ultrasoft spectrum. The pulsations are visible only in the 1--4 keV energy range, during an observation obtained with the EXOSAT satellite in August 1984. A search for delays in the pulse arrival times caused by orbital motion gave negative results. In the same data, periodic oscillations at 25 minutes had been previously found in an additional hard spectral component dominating above 4 keV which arises from the X-ray transient RX J0146.9+6121, discovered with ROSAT and identified with a Be star. Though the very high (>10^4) X--ray to optical flux ratio of 4U0142+61 is compatible with models based on an isolated neutron star, the simplest explanation involves a low mass X--ray binary with a very faint companion, similar to 4U1626--67. The discovery of periodic pulsations from 4U0142+61 weakens the phenomenological criterion that an ultrasoft spectral component is a signature of accreting black holes.Comment: plain LaTeX v3.1, 14 pages + 2 PostScript figures available upon request to [email protected] . To appear on The Astrophysical Journal, Letters. SISSA ref.: 106/94/
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