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A note on symmetry reduction for circular traveling tournament problems
2011
Abstract The traveling tournament problem (TTP) consists of finding a distance-minimal double round-robin tournament where the number of consecutive breaks is bounded. Easton et al. (2001) introduced the so-called circular TTP instances, where venues of teams are located on a circle. The distance between neighboring venues is one, so that the distance between any pair of teams is the distance on the circle. It is empirically proved that these instances are very hard to solve due to the inherent symmetry. This note presents new ideas to cut off essentially identical parts of the solution space. Enumerative solution approaches, e.g. relying on branch-and-bound, benefit from this reduction. We…
Atmospheric correction of ENVISAT/MERIS data over inland waters: Validation for European lakes
2010
Traditional methods for aerosol retrieval and atmospheric correction of remote sensing data over water surfaces are based on the assumption of zero water reflectance in the near-infrared. Another type of approach which is becoming very popular in atmospheric correction over water is based on the simultaneous retrieval of atmospheric and water parameters through the inversion of coupled atmospheric and bio-optical water models. Both types of approaches may lead to substantial errors over optically-complex water bodies, such as case II waters, in which a wide range of temporal and spatial variations in the concentration of water constituents is expected. This causes the water reflectance in t…
Lucian, a new Odysseus? : role and issue of a Homeric character in the work of Lucian of Samosata
2015
The aim of our thesis, which comes within the scope of considering the process of rewriting classic texts in the time period of the second sophistic, is to study the unique importance of Odysseus in the writings of Lucian of Samosata. At first, Odysseus is distinguished from Achilles, a character more monolithic who, even in Homer’s works is constructed in contrast to Odysseus. Moreover, from an isolated quote to intricate references, scattered to create echoes between works seemingly very different, the context in which Odysseus appears is more elaborate and subtler than that of Achilles. Hence, studying and comparing references to both heroes is sufficient to imply Odysseus’ primacy, asso…
Knowledge Representation in Travelling Texts:from Mirroring to Missing the Point
2014
<p><em>Today, information travels fast. Texts travel, too. In a corporate context, the question is how to manage which knowledge elements should travel to a new language area or market and in which form? The decision to let knowledge elements travel or not travel highly depends on the limitation and the purpose of the text in a new context as well as on predefined parameters for text travel. For texts used in marketing and in technology, the question is whether culture-bound knowledge elements should be domesticated or kept as foreign elements, or should be mirrored or moulded—or should not travel at all! When should semantic and pragmatic elements in a text be replaced and by w…
Ceļojumu apraksti, piezīmes un domas no J. Lautenbacha [Dažāda satura manuskripti], [1.- 9. burtnīcas]
1867
Materiāli latviešu un vācu valodā.
Los viajes de Maximiliano a España y Brasil: el largo camino hacia el imperio mexicano
1970
En mayo de 1864 Maximiliano de Austria llega a la costa mexicana en el que será su último viaje, que culminará con su ejecución tres años después. Mucho se ha escrito sobre las razones que le impulsaron a aceptar la corona de México, un país tan alejado en todos los sentidos de su entorno cultural, sin embargo, años antes Maximiliano había viajado a España y a Brasil (a España en dos ocasiones) y estas experiencias, si no determinantes, influyeron en gran medida en la decisión del Archiduque, que vio la oportunidad de hacer realidad un sueño que se gestó en su viaje a España y se afianzó durante su estancia en Brasil, como se puede extraer de sus memorias de viaje. In May of 1864, Maximilia…
Between Two Worlds. German Travellers in Spain and Morocco in the 19th Century
2014
La literatura de viajes, como vehículo privilegiado para documentar relaciones interculturales, es rica en diferentes expresiones y ejemplos de tipología analógica, antitética y recíproca, que resaltan las similitudes y las diferencias entre la nación propia y la extraña. En el caso de los viajeros alemanes cuyo destino era originariamente España, pero que luego, por diversos motivos, también visitaron Marruecos, la percepción de diferencias suele ser doble, como intentaremos mostrar en el siguiente artículo. En la tipología presente en estos relatos de viaje, España funciona como punto de partida. La tipología analógica y la recíproca apenas se dan, ya que Alemania como país de origen suel…
La poesia infantil en el sistema literari valencià actual:un estudi de cas
2022
L’objectiu principal d’aquest article és definir les característiques i tendències principals d’un subsistema poètic concret: la poesia per a infants publicada en llengua catalana a la Comunitat Valenciana al nou mil·lenni. Més en concret, es tracta de comprovar si les tendències definides per la literatura acadèmica com a característiques i dominants dins de la poesia per a infants de l’àmbit estatal es troben també a l’àmbit valencià. Per a arribar al nostre objectiu hem seleccionat un corpus que es correspon a l’única col·lecció de poesia diferenciada per a infants existent a la Comunitat Valenciana: «Vagó de versos», de l’editorial Andana. Així doncs, una vegada establert i descrit el c…
Viajando a la mercantil o apresado de ingleses piratas: dos formas de dar la vuelta al mundo a finales del siglo XVII y dos maneras de contarlo
2013
[EN] The paper analyses the accounts of two trips around the world conducted in the last two decades of the Seventeenth-century and published the one in Naples, 1699-1700, the other in mexico, a decade earlier. the first case was led by giovanni francesco gemelli Careri, a traveller vilified as fake by whom gave the final impetus to the genre of travel literature from french and British Enlightement. the second case was led by Alonso Ramirez, a traveller who was considered for three centuries just a fictional character. though two texts set in a peripheral place and time, from the point of view of European geopolitics of the moment and of the literary genre of travel writing as well, our ai…
“Et in Arcadia Ego … ” Voyages et Séjours de Femmes en Italie, 1770–1870
2019
In this substantial volume, the French historian Nicolas Bourguinat (Universite de Strasbourg) gives an overview of female travel writing about Italy from the end of the Enlightenment, at around 17...