A novel regrowth mechanism and enhanced optical properties of Mg0.25Zn0.75O nanorods subjected to vapor-confined face-to-face annealing

2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (46) ◽  
pp. 9918-9923 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giwoong Nam ◽  
Byunggu Kim ◽  
Youngbin Park ◽  
Seonhee Park ◽  
Jiyun Moon ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Optical Properties ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Face To Face

We report the novel regrowth method of spin-coated Mg0.25Zn0.75O films through the use of vapor-confined face-to-face annealing (VC-FTFA).

Reading Beyond the Code

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Relevance Theory ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Human Communication ◽  
Communicative Acts ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Code Model ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Central Claim

This book explores the value for literary studies of relevance theory, an inferential approach to communication in which the expression and recognition of intentions plays a major role. Drawing on a wide range of examples from lyric poetry and the novel, nine of the ten chapters are written by literary specialists and use relevance theory both as an overall framework and as a resource for detailed analysis. The final chapter, written by the co-founder of relevance theory, reviews the issues addressed by the volume and explores their implications for cognitive theories of how communicative acts are interpreted in context. Originally designed to explain how people understand each other in everyday face-to-face exchanges, relevance theory—described in an early review by a literary scholar as ‘the makings of a radically new theory of communication, the first since Aristotle’s’—sheds light on the whole spectrum of human modes of communication, including literature in the broadest sense. Reading Beyond the Code is unique in using relevance theory as a prime resource for literary study, and is also the first to apply the model to a range of phenomena widely seen as supporting an ‘embodied’ conception of cognition and language where sensorimotor processes play a key role. This broadened perspective serves to enhance the value for literary studies of the central claim of relevance theory: that the ‘code model’ is fundamentally inadequate to account for human communication, and in particular for the modes of communication that are proper to literature.

Inventing the Novel: Bakhtin and Petronius Face to Face by R. Bracht Branham

Acta Classica ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 64 (1) ◽  
pp. 340-344
Author(s):  
Suzanne Sharland
Keyword(s):  
The Novel ◽  
Face To Face

scholarly journals Graphene-Assisted Goos–Hänchen Shift in a Planar Multilayer Configuration in the Visible Light Range

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Wei Lin ◽  
Zhichen Xiao ◽  
Wenyun Zhou ◽  
Mengjiao Ren ◽  
Zhiwei Zheng
Keyword(s):  
Optical Properties ◽  
Visible Light ◽  
Fermi Energy ◽  
Optical Sensing ◽  
Optical Beam ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Incident Wavelength ◽  
Visible Light Range

In this paper, the graphene-assisted Goos–Hänchen (GH) shift of the optical beam reflected from a planar multilayer configuration is investigated. The increased positive Goos–Hänchen shifts can be modulated by adjusting the Fermi energy due to graphene with unique optical properties in the visible light range. Moreover, the GH shift can be tuned by varying the layers of graphene, the thickness of the medium, incident wavelength, and so on. These results will be useful for designing the novel graphene-based optical sensing and switching.

scholarly journals A Flexible Transoral Robot Towards COVID-19 Swab Sampling

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Changsheng Li ◽  
Xiaoyi Gu ◽  
Xiao Xiao ◽  
Chwee Ming Lim ◽  
Xingguang Duan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Parallel Mechanism ◽  
Degrees Of Freedom ◽  
Flexible Manipulator ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Visual Guidance ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Tongue Depressor ◽  
Operation Procedure ◽  
The Face ◽  
Master Device

There are high risks of infection for surgeons during the face-to-face COVID-19 swab sampling due to the novel coronavirus’s infectivity. To address this issue, we propose a flexible transoral robot with a teleoperated configuration for swab sampling. The robot comprises a flexible manipulator, an endoscope with a monitor, and a master device. A 3-prismatic-universal (3-PU) flexible parallel mechanism with 3 degrees of freedom (DOF) is used to realize the manipulator’s movements. The flexibility of the manipulator improves the safety of testees. Besides, the master device is similar to the manipulator in structure. It is easy to use for operators. Under the guidance of the vision from the endoscope, the surgeon can operate the master device to control the swab’s motion attached to the manipulator for sampling. In this paper, the robotic system, the workspace, and the operation procedure are described in detail. The tongue depressor, which is used to prevent the tongue’s interference during the sampling, is also tested. The accuracy of the manipulator under visual guidance is validated intuitively. Finally, the experiment on a human phantom is conducted to demonstrate the feasibility of the robot preliminarily.

scholarly journals Filmed Monologue Vignettes: a novel method for investigating how clinicians document consultations in electronic health records

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Glew ◽  
Elizabeth M Ford ◽  
Helen Elizabeth Smith
Keyword(s):  
Real Life ◽  
Correct Selection ◽  
Free Text ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Full Compliance ◽  
Electronic Healthcare Record ◽  
Novel Method ◽  
Quality Rating ◽  
Selection Of Descriptors

Introduction and Objectives The accuracy of conclusions based on Electronic Healthcare Record (EHR) research is highly dependent on the correct selection of descriptors (codes) by users. We aimed to evaluate the feasibility and acceptability of filmed vignette monologues as a resource-light method of assessing and comparing how different EHR users record the same clinical scenario. Methods Six short monologues of actors portraying patients presenting allergic conditions to their General Practitioners were filmed head-on then electronically distributed for the study; no researcher was present during data collection. The method was assessed by participant uptake, reported ease of completion by participants, compliance with instructions, the receipt of interpretable data by researchers, and participant perceptions of vignette quality, realism and information content. Results 22 participants completed the study, reporting only minor difficulties. 132 screen prints were returned electronically, enabling analysis of codes, free text and EHR features. Participants assigned a quality rating of 7.7/10 (range 2-10) to the vignettes and rated the extent to which vignettes reflected real-life (86-100%). Between 1 and 2 hours were required to complete the task. Full compliance with instructions varied between participants but was largely successful. Conclusions Filmed monologues are a reproducible, standardized method which require few resources, yet allow clear assessment of clinicians’ and EHRs systems’ impact on documentation. The novel nature of this method necessitates clear instructions so participants can fully complete the study without face to face researcher oversight.

Mesomorphic, dielectric, and optical properties of fluorosubstituted biphenyls, terphenyls, and quaterphenyls

2008 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Kula ◽  
A. Spadło ◽  
J. Dziaduszek ◽  
M. Filipowicz ◽  
R. Dąbrowski ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Optical Properties ◽  
Liquid Crystal ◽  
Dielectric Anisotropy ◽  
Polar Group ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Vertical Alignment ◽  
Rigid Core ◽  
High Birefringence ◽  
Low Viscosity ◽  
Dielectric And Optical Properties

AbstractCompounds with moderate and large negative dielectric anisotropy (Δɛ) are very attractive liquid crystal (LC) for vertical alignment mode (VA). Materials with such properties can be achieved by lateral substitution of a polar group into a mesogenic molecule. We synthesized some new LC materials with a negative value of Δɛ, a moderately high birefringence (Δn), and a low viscosity. The mesomorphic and physical behaviour of the novel biphenyls, terphenyls and quaterphenyls fluorosubstituted in the rigid core and also with fluorinated alkyl and alkoxy chains are investigated. The prepared series of four LC compounds are promising for new LC mixtures for various applications. Examples of nematic mixtures with Δɛ∼−3.25 will be presented.

scholarly journals Providing Support for Rural Special Educators During Nontraditional Instruction: One State’s Response

2020 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 193-200
Author(s):  
Melinda Jones Ault ◽  
Ginevra Courtade ◽  
Sally A. Miracle ◽  
Amanda E. Bruce
Keyword(s):  
Online Teaching ◽  
Technical Assistance ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Free Appropriate Public Education ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
Nontraditional Instruction ◽  
The Face ◽  
Face To Face Instruction ◽  
Problem Solve

In the midst of the COVID-19 global pandemic, teachers were forced to quickly determine how to deliver a free appropriate public education to their students when in-person instruction was not possible. School districts and states have a variety of ways to provide supports to their teachers. One method for providing technical assistance, professional development, consultation, and mentoring to teachers is through the use of regional cooperatives. In this Practice in Action article, two educational cooperative consultants present their experiences in supporting their teachers in the face of the pandemic. Successful strategies the cooperatives developed for teachers included providing trainings in online formats, creating an organized list of resources appropriate for online teaching, and facilitating opportunities for teachers to work together to problem solve in the era of the novel COVID-19. Challenges for teachers providing instruction for their students when schools were closed to face-to-face instruction are discussed.

scholarly journals Attention, Representation, and Unsettlement in Katherena Vermette’s The Break, or, Teaching and (Re)Learning the Ethics of Reading

Humanities ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 164
Author(s):  
Cynthia R. Wallace
Keyword(s):  
Emmanuel Levinas ◽  
Indigenous Women ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Careful Attention ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Ethics Of Reading ◽  
Sexualized Violence ◽  
Literary Ethics ◽  
Classroom Conversations ◽  
Women And Girls

Theories of literary ethics often emphasize either content or the structural relationship between text and reader, and they tend to bracket pedagogy. This essay advocates instead for an approach that sees literary representation and readerly attention as interanimating and that considers teaching an important aspect of an ethics of reading. To support these positions, I turn to Katherena Vermette’s 2016 novel The Break, which both represents the urgent injustice of sexualized violence against Indigenous women and girls and also metafictionally comments on the ethics of witnessing. Describing how I read with my students the novel’s insistent thematization of face-to-face encounters and practices of attention as an invitation to read with Emmanuel Levinas and Simone Weil, I explicate the text’s self-aware commentary on both the need for readers to resist self-enlargement in their encounters with others’ stories and also the danger of generalizing readerly responsibility or losing sight of the material realities the text represents. I source these challenges both in the novel and in my students’ multiple particularities as readers facing the textual other. Ultimately, the essay argues for a more careful attention to which works we bring into our theorizing of literary ethics, and which theoretical frames we bring into classroom conversations.

Structural, elastic, electronic and optical properties of the novel quaternary diamond-like semiconductors Cu2MgSiS4 and Cu2MgGeS4

2017 ◽  
Vol 70 ◽  
pp. 21-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Bedjaoui ◽  
A. Bouhemadou ◽  
S. Aloumi ◽  
R. Khenata ◽  
S. Bin-Omran ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Optical Properties ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Electronic And Optical Properties
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