scholarly journals Effective interactions of knotted ring polymers

2013 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 630-634 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arturo Narros ◽  
Angel J. Moreno ◽  
Christos N. Likos
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Effective Potential ◽  
Coarse Graining ◽  
The Self ◽  
Relative Importance ◽  
Effective Interactions ◽  
Polymeric Systems ◽  
Ring Polymers

In the present article, we review recent computational investigations on the properties of ring polymers in solution. In particular, we focus on effective interactions obtained by means of coarse-graining techniques. We discuss the relative importance of the self-avoidance and the topological contributions in the qualitative features of the effective potential. We extend our previous results on identical rings and determine the effective potential between dissimilar ring polymers of distinct topology and size. The results obtained reveal the dramatic effects of the specific topology on the effective interactions, and hence in the structural correlations, of polymeric systems.

Symbols as Means of Creating Cultural Communication and Identity. The Estonian Case

2011 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 419-440
Author(s):  
Rein Veidemann
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Internal Communication ◽  
The Self ◽  
Cultural Communication ◽  
Main Interest

In the present article my main interest is to find out which kind of role symbols play in the self-description of Estonian culture and in the internal communication and how the “cultural formatting” of the society has occurred.

scholarly journals VIRTUE LANGUAGE IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY ORIENTALISM: A CASE STUDY IN HISTORICAL EPISTEMOLOGY

2015 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 689-715 ◽  
Author(s):  
HERMAN PAUL
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Intellectual History ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Relative Importance ◽  
Historical Epistemology ◽  
Detailed Case ◽  
Thought Pattern ◽  
History Of ◽  
Dependency Relations

Historical epistemology is a form of intellectual history focused on “the history of categories that structure our thought, pattern our arguments and proofs, and certify our standards for explanation” (Lorraine Daston). Under this umbrella, historians have been studying the changing meanings of “objectivity,” “impartiality,” “curiosity,” and other virtues believed to be conducive to good scholarship. While endorsing this historicization of virtues and their corresponding vices, the present article argues that the meaning and relative importance of these virtues and vices can only be determined if their mutual dependencies are taken into account. Drawing on a detailed case study—a controversy that erupted among nineteenth-century orientalists over the publication of R. P. A. Dozy'sDe Israëlieten te Mekka(The Israelites in Mecca) (1864)—the paper shows that nineteenth-century orientalists were careful to examine (1) the degree to which Dozy practiced the virtues they considered most important, (2) the extent to which these virtues were kept in balance by other ones, (3) the extent to which these virtues were balanced by other scholars’ virtues, and (4) the extent to which they were expected to be balanced by future scholars’ work. Consequently, this article argues that historical epistemology might want to abandon its single-virtue focus in order to allow balances, hierarchies, and other dependency relations between virtues and vices to move to the center of attention.

scholarly journals SERVQUAL, SELF-ASSESSMENT THE USE OF THE SERVQUAL MODEL FOR THE COMPOSITION OF SELF-ASSESSMENT IN HEI, CASE STUDY: FACULDADE DO LITORAL PARANAENSE - ISEPE

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (7) ◽  
pp. 382-389
Author(s):  
Sebastião Cavalcanti Neto ◽  
Ivan Travassos ◽  
Cleverson Molinari Mello
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
The Self ◽  
Assessment Process ◽  
Self Assessment ◽  
Direct Communication ◽  
Five Dimensions ◽  
Structured Questionnaire

The present article intends to identify the levels of satisfaction of the Faculdade do Litoral Paranaense ISEPE, in order to assess the results in relation to the five Dimensions structured in the Self-assessment being the Tangible Dimensions of Confidence, Responsibility, Security and Empathy. With that it adapted the model SERVQUAL developed by Parasuraman, Zeithaml and Berry (2006) and with the scale of Likert establishing a structured questionnaire in order to establish a direct communication with the academics and users. The general objective of this work is to adapt this model to be used in the Institutional Self-Assessment process of the Faculdade do Litoral Paranaense - ISEPE Guaratuba, seeking to verify the feasibility of the use of these models. After the results obtained and analyzed during the research, it is necessary to appreciate the management of the Institution with the objective of improving the quality of the services provided by the Institution, which are included in the dimensions surveyed.

scholarly journals Effects of Topological Constraints on Penetration Structures of Semi-Flexible Ring Polymers

Polymers ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (11) ◽  
pp. 2659
Author(s):  
Fuchen Guo ◽  
Ke Li ◽  
Jiaxin Wu ◽  
Linli He ◽  
Linxi Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Molecular Dynamics ◽  
Molecular Dynamics Simulations ◽  
Effective Potential ◽  
Topological Constraints ◽  
Chain Stiffness ◽  
Ring Polymers ◽  
Dynamics Simulations ◽  
Flexible Ring ◽  
Peak Value ◽  
Improved Algorithm

The effects of topological constraints on penetration structures of semi-flexible ring polymers in a melt are investigated using molecular dynamics simulations, considering simultaneously the effects of the chain stiffness. Three topology types of rings are considered: 01-knot (the unknotted), 31-knot and 61-knot ring polymers, respectively. With the improved algorithm to detect and quantify the inter-ring penetration (or inter-ring threading), the degree of ring threading does not increase monotonously with the chain stiffness, existing a peak value at the intermediate stiffness. It indicates that rings interpenetrate most at intermediate stiffness where there is a balance between coil expansion (favoring penetrations) and stiffness (inhibiting penetrations). Meanwhile, the inter-ring penetration would be suppressed with the knot complexity of the rings. The analysis of effective potential between the rings provides a better understanding for this non-monotonous behavior in inter-ring penetration.

scholarly journals Vanishing Selves under Hong Kong’s Unified Screening Mechanism

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pui Yan Flora Lau ◽  
Iulia Gheorghiu
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Identity Construction ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
The Self ◽  
Political Asylum ◽  
Slow Pace ◽  
The Social ◽  
Total Institutions ◽  
Refugees And Asylum Seekers

Abstract Drawing on Erving Goffman’s analysis of total institutions and his concept of mortification of the self, the present article deals with the process of identity construction and identity loss among refugees and asylum seekers in Hong Kong. We argue that the slow pace of processing of political asylum applications as well as the harsh restrictions imposed on rights to work and the minimal welfare provisions for refugees and asylum seekers in Hong Kong operate as means of isolating them from the broader society. Another consequence of these restrictive conditions becomes manifest in the loss of identity experienced by those who have been stuck in Hong Kong for many years waiting for their applications to be processed. Being unable to preserve the sense of identity they had in their countries of origin, they find themselves deprived of the social and institutional resorts necessary to forge a new one.

Parent-Child Agreement on Attributional Beliefs

1986 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 191-204 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judith A. Cashmore ◽  
Jacqueline J. Goodnow
Keyword(s):  
Art Music ◽  
The Self ◽  
Relative Importance ◽  
Information Base ◽  
Immigrant Background ◽  
Parent Child

The present study explores the extent to which parents and their adolescent children agree with respect to their attributional beliefs. First-born Australian children of Anglo and Italian background, and their parents, ranked talent, effort and teaching according to their relative importance in the development of six areas of skill art, music, mathematics, sport, writing a story, and science. The patterns of attributions varied across the six areas of skill. It varied even more strongly according to whether the attributions were given by parents or children. Children were more likely than their parents to stress the role of effort; parents were more likely than their children to stress the role of talent. Stress on effort was particularly marked among boys of immigrant background. The results were interpreted as providing support for hypotheses concerning the self-enhancing value of particular attributions and the information base used in making judgments.

scholarly journals The Concept of the Self in Come Walk with Me: A Memoir by Beatrice Mosionier

2015 ◽  
Vol 50 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 81-94
Author(s):  
Agnieszka Rzepa
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Social Group ◽  
Life Story ◽  
The Self ◽  
Native Canadian ◽  
Beatrice Culleton ◽  
Core Identity ◽  
Self Discovery ◽  
Beatrice Culleton Mosionier ◽  
Static Core

Abstract Beatrice (Culleton) Mosionier is a Canadian Métis writer, whose first strongly autobiographical novel In Search of April Raintree (1983) has been recognized as a classic of contemporary Native Canadian literatures. Her memoir, Come Walk with Me (2009), describes her life story from 1949 till 1987, covering also the period between 1987 and 2001 in a brief epilogue. In the memoir, Mosionier uses fragments of the transcript of an interview conducted with her mother in 1984 by Alanis Obomsawin to preface the three parts of her book. Apart from constructing the two lives as parallel and in dialogue with one another, Mosionier frames and dialogises her story also through references to the process of writing, publication and the success of her novel; and reaches out to readers to induce them to “walk” with her. The aim of the present article is to examine the narrative presentation of the process of self-discovery focusing in particular on the relational aspects of the life story. Mosionier’s memoir demonstrates her growing into the realisation of the fact that her identity is relational-she recognizes herself as part of a larger ethnic and social group, and later also as shaped by familial relations. While depicting “the self [that] is dynamic, changing, and plural” (Eakin 1999: 98), she conceptualises it in reference to what she believes to be an essentially static core identity, and as “channelled” through a life that largely follows a predetermined pattern.

scholarly journals Generalized Gaussian Effective Potential: Second-Order Thermal Corrections

1997 ◽  
Vol 12 (15) ◽  
pp. 1077-1085
Author(s):  
Paolo Cea ◽  
Luigi Tedesco
Keyword(s):  
Scalar Field ◽  
Effective Potential ◽  
Finite Temperature ◽  
Spatial Dimension ◽  
Simple Relation ◽  
Second Order ◽  
The Self ◽  
Gaussian Effective Potential

We discuss the finite temperature generalized Gaussian effective potential. We put out a very simple relation between the thermal corrections to the generalized Gaussian effective potential and those of the effective potential. We evaluate explicitly the second-order thermal corrections in the case of the self-interacting scalar field in one spatial dimension.

Conceptions of Happiness and Human Destiny in the Late Thirteenth Century

Vivarium ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 276-304 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Thirteenth Century ◽  
Human Life ◽  
The Self ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Union With God ◽  
Henry Of Ghent ◽  
Self Transcendence ◽  
Coming To Know ◽  
Human Destiny

AbstractMedieval theories of ethics tended on the whole to regard self-perfection as the goal of human life. However there was profound disagreement, particularly in the late thirteenth century, over how exactly this was to be understood. Intellectualists such as Aquinas famously argued that human perfection lay primarily in coming to know the essence of God in the next life. Voluntarists such as the Franciscan John Peckham, by contrast, argued that ultimate perfection was to be achieved in patria through the act of loving God. The present article argues that Giles of Rome and Henry of Ghent defended a different sort of voluntarism with respect to the final destiny of human beings. Rather than claiming that the goal of human life lay in the perfection of the self, they argued instead that ultimate union with God was to be achieved mystically through an act of self-transcendence, which occurred through ecstasy or quasi-deification.

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