scholarly journals Negotiating Real Space and Real Time in Red Jacket: A Novel

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 281-295
Author(s):  
Pamela C. Mordecai

Analysis of her 2015 novel, “Red Jacket” by author Pamela Mordecai showing how the tools of space and time were used to provide realism to the story. This was done by describing real events that happened over the space of the story including weather events, political events as well as geographical descriptions to give an idea of fictional locations. Red Jacket is neither fabulist tale nor historical fiction. It is a made-up story, set at a time marked by events, some real and some imaginary, and set in places, some real and some imaginary.

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ilya V. Buynevich ◽  
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Daniel I. Hembree ◽  
Christopher A. Sparacio ◽  
Dane C. Ward ◽  
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Mathematics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (10) ◽  
pp. 1148
Author(s):  
Jewgeni H. Dshalalow ◽  
Ryan T. White

In a classical random walk model, a walker moves through a deterministic d-dimensional integer lattice in one step at a time, without drifting in any direction. In a more advanced setting, a walker randomly moves over a randomly configured (non equidistant) lattice jumping a random number of steps. In some further variants, there is a limited access walker’s moves. That is, the walker’s movements are not available in real time. Instead, the observations are limited to some random epochs resulting in a delayed information about the real-time position of the walker, its escape time, and location outside a bounded subset of the real space. In this case we target the virtual first passage (or escape) time. Thus, unlike standard random walk problems, rather than crossing the boundary, we deal with the walker’s escape location arbitrarily distant from the boundary. In this paper, we give a short historical background on random walk, discuss various directions in the development of random walk theory, and survey most of our results obtained in the last 25–30 years, including the very recent ones dated 2020–21. Among different applications of such random walks, we discuss stock markets, stochastic networks, games, and queueing.


2020 ◽  
Vol 33 (6) ◽  
pp. 11-16
Author(s):  
K. E. Nygren, ◽  
D. C. Pagan, ◽  
J. P. C. Ruff ◽  
E. Arenholz ◽  
J. D. Brock

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicolás Rosillo ◽  
Javier Del-Águila-Mejía ◽  
Ayelén Rojas-Benedicto ◽  
María Guerrero-Vadillo ◽  
Marina Peñuelas ◽  
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Abstract Background On June 21st de-escalation measures and state-of-alarm ended in Spain after the COVID-19 first wave. New surveillance and control strategy was set up to detect emerging outbreaks. Aim To detect and describe the evolution of COVID-19 clusters and cases during the 2020 summer in Spain. Methods A near-real time surveillance system to detect active clusters of COVID-19 was developed based on Kulldorf’s prospective space-time scan statistic (STSS) to detect daily emerging active clusters. Results Analyses were performed daily during the summer 2020 (June 21st – August 31st) in Spain, showing an increase of active clusters and municipalities affected. Spread happened in the study period from a few, low-cases, regional-located clusters in June to a nationwide distribution of bigger clusters encompassing a higher average number of municipalities and total cases by end-August. Conclusion STSS-based surveillance of COVID-19 can be of utility in a low-incidence scenario to help tackle emerging outbreaks that could potentially drive a widespread transmission. If that happens, spatial trends and disease distribution can be followed with this method. Finally, cluster aggregation in space and time, as observed in our results, could suggest the occurrence of community transmission.


2016 ◽  
Vol 14 (6) ◽  
pp. 203-205
Author(s):  
Shiho TANAKA ◽  
Mitsuki TOOGOSHI ◽  
Yasunari ZEMPO

2015 ◽  
Vol 640 ◽  
pp. 012066 ◽  
Author(s):  
Y Zempo ◽  
N Akino ◽  
M Ishida ◽  
E Tomiyama ◽  
H Yamamoto
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2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 103-116
Author(s):  
Anca Holden

This paper examines the memory of the Romanian-German victims of the Soviet Gulag as recorded in recent collections of testimonies and interviews, a museum exhibition, an audio-visual documentary project, and Herta Müller’s 2009 novel Atemschaukel. It employs Alexander Etkind’s notions of “soft memory” and “hard memory” to discuss some of the key historical and political events that have impeded the establishing of consensual remembrance policies of the Soviet Gulag in communist Romania. I show how both German and Romanian communities since 1990 have memorialized the Gulag and discuss Atemschaukel as a legitimate impulse to document both personal and collective trauma of the second and subsequent generations. I argue that in the absence of a crystallized, hard memory, the historical documents and the historical fiction analyzed serve as viable examples of soft memory that succeed in memorializing the forced labor camps experience in its collective and individual forms.


2009 ◽  
Vol 08 (04) ◽  
pp. 561-574 ◽  
Author(s):  
MICHAEL MUNDT

The linear and nonlinear response of Si 4 and Na 4 to an external perturbation is investigated in the framework of time-dependent density-functional theory. The time-dependent Kohn–Sham equations, which are the central equations in this approach, are solved in real space and real time. A parallelized implementation to solve these nonlinear, one-particle Schrödinger equations is presented. In contrast to Na 4, Si 4 shows high-harmonic generation far beyond the cut-off predicted by the quasiclassical model and predictions for extended systems.


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