scholarly journals Romantic Refractions: Light Effects in Ruskin's Poetry

Romanticism ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 279-288
Author(s):  
Peter Garratt
Keyword(s):  
Physical Properties ◽  
Environmental Effects ◽  
Second Generation ◽  
Natural Theology ◽  
Large Body ◽  
John Ruskin ◽  
Light Effects ◽  
Abstract Condition

The poetry of John Ruskin – which amounts to a surprisingly large body of work, mostly written in the 1830s and 1840s – reveals the stirrings of the moral perceptual attitude that would emerge with such distinctive force in Modern Painters, yet one guided by the influences of Keats, Shelley and Byron as much as the natural theology of Wordsworth (despite Modern Painters taking its epigraph from The Excursion). Although in some respects a poetry of post-Romantic transition, Ruskin's work also demonstrates a consistent interest in light – in ways that affirm its imaginative commerce with second-generation Romanticism – while exploring light's physical properties and dynamic environmental effects. Focusing in particular on his prize-winning poem ‘Salsette and Elephanta’ (1839), I suggest that Ruskin's poems establish possibilities that reach beyond merely received metaphorical meanings (light as redemptive telos and/or abstract condition of the visible) and instead look forward to the overdetermined stylisations typical of his mature prose works.

Nanomaterials for Soil Reclamation

2021 ◽  
pp. 530-541
Author(s):  
Avni Jain ◽  
Neha Singh ◽  
Suphiya Khan
Keyword(s):  
Physical Properties ◽  
Environmental Effects ◽  
Environmental Contaminants ◽  
Polluted Soil ◽  
Soil Biota ◽  
Soil Reclamation ◽  
Pollution Remediation ◽  
Remediation Technology ◽  
Feasible Method ◽  
Unique Chemical

The demand for the development of eco-friendly, sustainable, and adaptable technologies for the disinfection of the environmental contaminants is increasing nowadays. Nano-bioremediation is one such technique that has made possible the use of biosynthetic nanoparticles for soil pollution remediation. It is an effective, efficient, and feasible method for revitalizing soil potential and rendering it pollution free. Pollutants present in soil are a great threat to soil biota, environment, and in fact human health. Nanomaterials exhibit the unique chemical and physical properties because of which they have always received attention in the growing era of bioremediation. Use of nanotechnology for bioremediation is one such technology as it focuses mainly on the interaction between the contaminants, the microorganisms, and the nanomaterials being used for both the positive (i.e., stimulating) and negative or toxic environmental effects. Thus, this chapter focuses on the need to recover the polluted soil and application of nano-remediation technology for restoring soil's cultivation capacity.

scholarly journals Topological patterns in two-dimensional gel electrophoresis of DNA knots

2015 ◽  
Vol 112 (40) ◽  
pp. E5471-E5477 ◽  
Author(s):  
Davide Michieletto ◽  
Davide Marenduzzo ◽  
Enzo Orlandini
Keyword(s):  
Physical Properties ◽  
Experimental Work ◽  
Gel Electrophoresis ◽  
Large Body ◽  
2D Electrophoresis ◽  
Topological Complexity ◽  
Two Dimensional ◽  
Two Dimensional Gel Electrophoresis ◽  
Theoretical Understanding ◽  
Straight Line

Gel electrophoresis is a powerful experimental method to probe the topology of DNA and other biopolymers. Although there is a large body of experimental work that allows us to accurately separate different topoisomers of a molecule, a full theoretical understanding of these experiments has not yet been achieved. Here we show that the mobility of DNA knots depends crucially and subtly on the physical properties of the gel and, in particular, on the presence of dangling ends. The topological interactions between these and DNA molecules can be described in terms of an “entanglement number” and yield a nonmonotonic mobility at moderate fields. Consequently, in 2D electrophoresis, gel bands display a characteristic arc pattern; this turns into a straight line when the density of dangling ends vanishes. We also provide a novel framework to accurately predict the shape of such arcs as a function of molecule length and topological complexity, which may be used to inform future experiments.

scholarly journals The Convective Rainfall Rate from Cloud Physical Properties Algorithm for Meteosat Second Generation Satellites: Microphysical Basis and Intercomparisons using an Object-Based Method

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francisco J. Tapiador ◽  
Cecilia Marcos ◽  
Juan Manuel Sancho
Keyword(s):  
Physical Properties ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Theoretical Basis ◽  
Short Range ◽  
Second Generation ◽  
Rainfall Rate ◽  
Convective Rainfall ◽  
Object Based

The Convective Rainfall Rate from Cloud Physical Properties (CRPh) for Meteosat Second Generation Satellites is a day-only precipitation algorithm developed at the Spanish Meteorological Agency (AEMET) for EUMETSAT’ Satellite Application Facility in support to Nowcasting and Very Short Range Forecasting (NWC SAF). It is therefore mainly intended to provide input for monitoring and near-real-time forecasts for the next few hours. This paper critically discusses the theoretical basis of the algorithm with special emphasis in the empirical values and assumptions in the microphysics of precipitation and compares the performances of the CRPh with its antecessor, the Convective Rainfall Rate algorithm (CRR), using an object-based method. The analyses show that AEMET’s CRPh is physically consistent and that outperforms the CRR. The applicability of the algorithm for nowcasting and the challenges to evolve the product to an all-day algorithm are also presented.

scholarly journals The Convective Rainfall Rate from Cloud Physical Properties Algorithm for Meteosat Second-Generation Satellites: Microphysical Basis and Intercomparisons using an Object-Based Method

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
pp. 527 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francisco Tapiador ◽  
Cecilia Marcos ◽  
Juan Sancho
Keyword(s):  
Physical Properties ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Theoretical Basis ◽  
Short Range ◽  
Second Generation ◽  
Rainfall Rate ◽  
Convective Rainfall ◽  
Object Based

The convective rainfall rate from cloud physical properties (CRPh) algorithm for Meteosat second-generation satellites is a day-only precipitation algorithm developed at the Spanish Meteorological Agency (AEMET) for EUMETSAT’ Satellite Application Facility in support of nowcasting and very short-range forecasting (NWC SAF). It is therefore mainly intended to provide input for monitoring and near-real-time forecasts for a few hours. This letter critically discusses the theoretical basis of the algorithm with special emphasis on the empirical values and assumptions in the microphysics of precipitation, and compares the qualitative performances of the CRPh with its antecessor, the convective rainfall rate algorithm (CRR), using an object-based method applied to a case-study. The analyses show that AEMET’s CRPh is physically consistent and outperforms the CRR. The applicability of the algorithm for nowcasting and the challenges of improving the product to an all-day algorithm are also presented.

Differences in chemical composition and physical properties imprinted by industrial storage on sugarcane bagasse result in its efficient enzymatic hydrolysis

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vanessa de Oliveira Arnoldi Pellegrini ◽  
Regiane P. Ratti ◽  
Jefferson G Filgueiras ◽  
Mauricio Falvo ◽  
Marisa A.L. Coral ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Chemical Composition ◽  
Enzymatic Hydrolysis ◽  
Physical Properties ◽  
Ethanol Production ◽  
Sugarcane Bagasse ◽  
Second Generation ◽  
Biomass Pretreatment ◽  
Fermentable Sugars ◽  
Industrial Storage ◽  
Second Generation Ethanol

Sugarcane bagasse (SCB) is a promising feedstock for second-generation ethanol production. Bioconversion of lignocellulose into fermentable sugars involve several technological steps, with biomass pretreatment being among the most expensive ones....

CMSX-4 ALLOY

Alloy Digest ◽  
1994 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Heat Treatment ◽  
Physical Properties ◽  
Single Crystal ◽  
Second Generation ◽  
Heat Treating ◽  
Single Crystal Superalloy ◽  
Turbine Engine ◽  
Low Levels

Abstract CMSX-4 ALLOY is a good second generation single crystal superalloy containing 3% Re. It has been extensively developed to maximize overall properties, through collaborative programs with several turbine engine companies, involving over one hundred 400 lb. (182 kg) and several 8000 lb. (3630 kg) production size heats. The alloy’s aim chemistry and heat treatment (including the HIP option) have been developed to optimize microstructure and effect low levels of residual microsegregation. This datasheet provides information on composition, and physical properties as well as creep and fatigue. It also includes information on heat treating. Filing Code: Ni-447. Producer or source: Cannon-Muskegon Corporation.

Nature, History and the Search for Order: The Boyle Lectures, 1730–1785

2010 ◽  
Vol 46 ◽  
pp. 276-292
Author(s):  
Robert G. Ingram
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
First Generation ◽  
Second Generation ◽  
Natural Theology ◽  
Historical Record ◽  
Robert Boyle ◽  
Historical Turn ◽  
Argument From Design ◽  
Design In Nature

History supplanted nature as the most important apologetical language among English polemical divines during the mid-eighteenth century, but not for the reasons usually adduced. The triumph of history over nature owed everything to the power of orthodox patronage and to nature’s demonstrable apologetical efficacy, and nothing to natural theology’s supposed failure sufficiently to prove God’s existence. Put another way, by the late 1720s orthodox apologists had come to believe that the popular argument from design in nature applied equally to history. Moreover, the argument from design in history appears to have been an apologetical strategy which accorded more closely with the disposition of an increasingly orthodox episcopate during the mid-century period. Little evidences the mid-century historical turn — a shift either missed or ignored by most historians — more clearly than the second generation (1730–1785) of the Boyle lectures, a series of public sermons founded by Robert Boyle in order to defend Christianity from the attacks of unbelievers. For whereas the first generation of lecturers founded their defences of Christianity on natural theology, the second built on Christianity’s historical record.

scholarly journals V. The specific heat of water and the mechanical equivalent of the calorie at temperatures from 0° C. to 80° C

1912 ◽  
Vol 211 (471-483) ◽  
pp. 199-251 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Physical Properties ◽  
Specific Heat ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
Pure Water ◽  
Large Body ◽  
Reasonable Time ◽  
Straight Line ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Similar Series ◽  
Heat Curve

The work described in this paper started from the researches upon the properties of aqueous solutions, which have occupied one of us for some years past. In the course of this work it had been found that the measurement of various physical properties of solutions, including density, conductivity, and viscosity, at various temperatures and various concentrations, threw considerable light, not only on the constitution of solutions, hut upon that of water itself and upon the amounts of water combined with a solute at various temperatures and concentrations. It seemed probable that similar series of observations upon the specific heat of solutions over considerable ranges of concentration and temperature would throw further light upon these matters, and the apparatus described in this paper was therefore primarily designed for the observation of the specific heat of solutions with the desired degree of accuracy, and with the facility and ease of manipulation which are essential when it is required to amass a large body of data in a reasonable time. At an early stage it became apparent that the temperature-specific heat curve of water was entirely altered in character by the introduction of a small amount of solute. With a half-normal solution of KCI the more or less parabolic curve for water becomes nearly a straight line, and even with fairly dilute solutions the water curve is greatly modified. The appreciation of this modification necessarily involved as a starting-point the consideration of the curve for pure water, as to the form of which different observers have come to widely different conclusions. A reference to fig. 10 (Section 14 post ), where the curves given by different observers are plotted, shows that the latest form of the curve, which is the result of the researches of Callendar and Barnes, differs widely from the curves given by Regnault and by Lüdin. At 80° C. the values of the specific heat of water in terms of the 15° calorie are.

scholarly journals Surface solar radiation forecasts by advecting cloud physical properties derived from Meteosat Second Generation observations

Solar Energy ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 177 ◽  
pp. 47-58 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ping Wang ◽  
Rudolf van Westrhenen ◽  
Jan Fokke Meirink ◽  
Sibbo van der Veen ◽  
Wouter Knap
Keyword(s):  
Solar Radiation ◽  
Physical Properties ◽  
Second Generation ◽  
Surface Solar Radiation
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