Search results for "VILI"

Los falsos <i>Sagunt</i> de las fuentes árabes

2009

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Imperialists without an empire?

2015

This article discusses settler identity formation, in the colonial polity known as Rhodesia, using Finnish nationals as a case study. It studies the involvement of Finns in natural resource extraction in Rhodesia at a time when the colonial economy and settler domination were still in their infancy, and examines both Finnish participation in colonial practices and the limitations of Finns as colonialists. White settlers in Rhodesia have typically been categorised as ‘Europeans’ partly because of their sense of representing a generalised idea of Western civilisation and partly in order to underline contrasts between black and white experiences in the history of colonialism. By focusing on th…

Un asesinato en la Valldigna (Valencia, 1492)

2005

In 1492, a fatal robbery was committed in a small village in the Kingdom of Valencia. This article analyses the statements of the witnesses to a confession of this crime that were recorded in an Arabic document. The document provides evidence for the application of sharī'a law among Muslims in a territory that was no longer part of an Islamic state - in this case, the meting out of punishments for blood crimes. The survival of the document as part of the case file of the Christian court that adjudicated the case shows that the Valencian justice system considered valid documents produced by a Muslim judge, by a court clerk or by a notary. Moreover, these decisions were provided in Arabic wit…

"Nos llevaron a morir allí": hablan los testigos de la aniquilación de la identidad saharaui en las prisiones secretas marroquíes

2016

Este trabajo tiene como objetivo poner el foco de atencion sobre las victimas de desapariciones forzosas en el Sahara Occidental en los primeros anos del conflicto. Se cuentan por centenares las personas que, en su mayoria civiles, fueron hechas desaparecidas y prisioneras en las carceles secretas de Marruecos entre 1975 y 1991, cuyo testimonio vio la luz casi dos decadas despues de su liberacion. El grado de represion que sufrio la poblacion civil bajo la ocupacion marroqui, anadido al miedo a hablar en publico debido al caracter reaccionario del regimen monarquico, han hecho imposible que los testimonios que aqui se analizan vieran la luz en los anos inmediatamente posteriores a la puesta…

James L. Boone, Lost Civilization? The Contested Islamic Past in Spain and Portugal. (Duckworth Debates in Archaeology.) London: Duckworth, 2009. Pp.…

2013

Waterloo in Vanity Fair or the Art of not Representing War

2007

International audience; The narrator of Vanity Fair warns his reader just as he is about to start his description of Waterloo, 'We do not claim to rank among the military novelists'. it is true that none of those involved will ever speak of it. The impression remains, however, that everything has been said about the event. A close reading of the chapters concerned with the events will reveal how the victory heralding British supremacy in the nineteenth century is in fact persistently undermined in the novel. Thackeray's contempt for anything military is well known and the writing strategies used here to attack the institution are as efficient as they are varied. The narrator intervenes dire…

Narrative Tools for Games : Focalization, Granularity, and the Mode of Narration in Games

2015

This article looks at three narratological concepts—focalization, granularity, and the mode of narration—and explores how these concepts apply to games. It is shown how these concepts can be used as tools for creating meaning-effects, which are understood here as cognitive responses from the player. Focalization is shown to have a hybrid form in games. This article also explores the different types of narrators and granularities in games, and how these three concepts can be used to create meaning-effects. This is done by discussing examples from several games, for example, Assassin’s Creed III, Skyrim, Fallout: New Vegas, and Civilization.

Fast vibrational configuration interaction using generalized curvilinear coordinates and self-consistent basis

2010

In this paper, we couple a numerical kinetic-energy operator approach to the direct-vibrational self-consistent field (VSCF)/vibrational configuration interaction (VCI) method for the calculation of vibrational anharmonic frequencies. By combining this with fast-VSCF, an efficient direct evaluation of the ab initio potential-energy surface (PES), we introduce a general formalism for the computation of vibrational bound states of molecular systems exhibiting large-amplitude motion such as methyl-group torsion. We validate our approach on an analytical two-dimensional model and apply it to the methanol molecule. We show that curvilinear coordinates lead to a significant improvement in the VSC…

An improved immersed boundary method for curvilinear grids

2009

Abstract In the present paper we propose an extension of the direct-forcing immersed boundary technique, recently developed and employed by Verzicco and co-authors [Fadlun EA, Verzicco R, Orlandi P, Mohd-Yusof J. Combined immersed-boundary finite-difference methods for three-dimensional complex flow simulations. J Comput Phys 2000;161:35–60; Verzicco R, Fatica M, Iaccarino G, Moin P, Khalighi B. Large eddy simulation of a road vehicle with drag-reduction devices. AIAA J 2002;40(12):2447–55; Cristallo A, Verzicco R. Combined immersed boundary/large-eddy-simulations of incompressible three-dimensional complex flows. Flow Turbul Combust 2006;77(1–4):3–26.] and successively improved by Balaras …

Three-dimensional numerical simulations on wind- and tide-induced currents: The case of Augusta Harbour (Italy)

2014

The hydrodynamic circulation in the coastal area of the Augusta Bay (Italy), located in the eastern part of Sicily, is analysed. Due to the heavy contamination generated by the several chemical and petrochemical industries active in the zone, the harbour was declared a Contaminated Site of National Interest. To mitigate the risks connected with the industrial activities located near the harbour, it is important to analyse the hydrodynamic circulation in the coastal area. To perform such analysis, a parallel 3D numerical model is used to solve the Reynolds-averaged momentum and mass balance, employing the k-e turbulence model for the Reynolds stresses. The numerical model is parallelized usi…