Tuning the Morphology of Sulfur-Few Layers Graphene Composites Via Liquid Phase Evaporation for Battery Application

A comparative study on sulfur-based composite electrodes comprising different few-layers graphene contents prepared via an ease evaporation method is here presented. The active material production process here employed exploring different...

‘K is for Keeper’: the roles and representations of the English gamekeeper, c. 1880–1914

The gamekeeper was an important but controversial presence in the late Victorian and Edwardian countryside. Admired by some for his skills in woodcraft and deep understanding of nature, for others the keeper was much less benign: a destroyer of wildlife; a barrier against wider public access to the land; and the upholder of fiercely contested laws. At a time when debates about the land and its present and future use formed a major part of contemporary political discourse, and when an urbanising society was investing ever more meaning in its idea of the rural, consideration of the keeper takes us beyond the study of field sports towards broader histories of the English countryside and its attendant ruralist culture. Situating the keeper in a dual setting of material production and recreational service provision, the following examines both what he did and was expected to do, and the ways in which this was represented. Not only were keepers active agents in their own representation, eager to project themselves as skilled professionals, they might also elicit support from unusual quarters. As will be seen, keeper representation was as varied as his many roles.

Regional Clusters, Similarities, and Changes in Turkey’s Wood Production

This study aimed to separate the wood production in regions and provinces of Turkey into homogeneous groups based on similarities by using the country’s wood production figures for 2013 and 2018. Within this context, the hierarchical Ward’s and non-hierarchical K-means clustering methods were used comparatively. Clustering analyses of 2 to 6 in number were performed via both methods, and the same regions mostly fell into the same cluster groups, although in different cluster combinations. The results showed that some provinces with rich forest areas did not produce enough wood. It was observed that these provinces were in the same clusters with provinces having a low amount of forest areas and low wood production. Over the five-year period, very few provinces and regions differed in line with the previous development plans. The creation of a spatial database for wood raw material production using the findings obtained in this study will contribute to the development of operational inventory methods that can be included in long- and medium-term forestry plans.

Imperial straightening devices in disciplinary choices of academic knowledge production

In this piece, the authors question whether critical language research, in its complex collection of researcher choices, is possible beyond the discursive imaginary of critical academic scholarship. In other words, how do (allegedly) anticolonial efforts re-orient towards contribution to the imperial record? We present three vignettes, through which we grapple with the notion that researcher choice exists within the solipsism of academia. In doing so, we frame research and scholarship as a collection of choices, which we believe are better understood as a collection of fraught dilemmas. These dilemmas recognize that all academic scholarship production and its processes are birthed from, and serve, an epistemology of hierarchical social configurations, which serve empire maintenance and expansion. As critical language scholars who bring overlapping and distinct sociopolitical, geographic, and methodological positionalities, these autoethnographic narrative vignettes allow us to begin to see the landscape of researcher choice in the processes and projects of accumulating knowledge production. We identify imperial straightening devices for legitimization into the imperial archive and examine how they work to orient and re-orient critical language scholars towards the ideological and material production of the imperial archive.

Halal and safety traceability of material, production, and serving of local food in Surabaya: A review

Indonesia has a very diverse culinary consisting of a variety of local food. Although the production process using ingredients and seasonings is quite complex, the serving is simple and traditional. This simplicity often leads to low consumer’s and manufacturer’s awareness of its safety and halal guarantees thus making this phenomenon very feasible to discuss. This research aims to review halal and safety traceability of local food in Surabaya, namely rujak cingur, rawon (traditional black soup), and kupang lontong (lontong mussels). These foods are most sought after by tourists when visiting Surabaya. Halal traceability and safety are carried out on materials, production, and serving of the food. Traceability results show that most street vendors selling rujak cingur, rawon, and lontong mussels in Surabaya have not implemented halal and save food traceability. The risk of safety and halal of these local foods are quite large due to the lack of concern of consumers and producers to the importance of safety and halal in their product. In fact, the food that is a specialty of an area should get greater attention to ensure the safety and halal of the product. Increased awareness and practicality to trace ingredients, production, and serving are very important to ensure the safety and halal of ready-to-eat local food, thus supporting culinary tourism development.

The Priority of the Stuttgart–Liège–Zurich Harmonies

Among witnesses to the Diatessaron, eastern ones better preserve Tatian’s narrative sequence. Western witnesses typically evince the same order. But when they differ, Codex Fuldensis is typically assumed to preserve the most primitive narrative sequence, since it is the oldest extant western manuscript. This chapter challenges that fundamental assumption. Paratextual data in Fuldensis offers valuable clues about the codex’s material production. In rare, yet significant cases, Victor of Capua and his scribe omitted or repositioned short Gospel episodes. The placement of such material in the much younger Stuttgart, Liège, and Zurich harmonies shows that they occasionally take priority over Fuldensis. In support of an earlier tenet in Diatessaron studies, these medieval Dutch and German harmonies sometimes independently attest the same Old Latin harmony underlying Codex Fuldensis.