Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Geographies of Identity: Narrative Forms, Feminist Futures explores identity and American culture through hybrid, prose work by women, and expands the strategies of cultural poetics practices into the study of innovative narrative writing. Informed by Judith Butler, Homi Bhabha, Harryette Mullen, Julia Kristeva, and others, this project further considers feminist identity politics, race, and ethnicity as cultural content in and through poetic and non/narrative forms. The texts reflected on here explore literal and figurative landscapes, linguistic and cultural geographies, sexual borders, and spatial topographies. Ultimately, they offer non-prescriptive models that go beyond expectations for narrative forms, and create textual webs that reflect the diverse realities of multi-ethnic, multi-oriented, multi-linguistic cultural experiences.Readings of Gertrude Stein’s A Geographical History of America, Renee Gladman’s Juice, Pamela Lu’s Pamela: A Novel, Claudia Rankine’s Don’t Let Me Be Lonely, Juliana Spahr’s The Transformation, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s Dictée, Gloria Anzaldúa’s Borderlands/La Frontera, and Layli Long Soldier’s WHEREAS show how alternatively narrative modes of writing can expand access to representation, means of identification, and subjective agency, and point to horizons of possibility for new futures. These texts critique essentializing practices in which subjects are defined by specific identity categories, and offer complicated, contextualized, and historical understandings of identity formation through the textual weaving of form and content.

Claudia Rankine;feminism;Gertrude Stein;Gloria Anzaldúa;Juliana Spahr;Layli Long Soldier;literary studies;Pamela Lu;queer theory;Renee Gladman;Theresa Hak Kyung Cha;United States of America

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Compared to the conventional Rankine cycle using water, the ORC can create efficient expansion at low power, avoid superheater and offer higher thermal efficiency in low temperature application. Small-scale ORCs from several kWe to a few hundred kWe offer great potential for meeting the residential demand on heat and power, and are of growing interest in scientific and technical fields.  However, one critical problem is the decreased device efficiency and cost-effectiveness that arises when the ORC is scaled down. In this thesis, the ORC is combined with low concentration-ratio solar collectors. The background, research trend, merits and importance of the solar ORC are described. To reduce the thermodynamic irreversibility and the cost of the system, three innovative solutions are proposed: solar ORC without heat transfer fluid (HTF), which employs two-stage collectors and heat storage units; hybrid solar power generation based on ORC and amorphous silicon cells; osmosis-driven solar ORC. Heat collection, storage and power conversion are optimized. The design, construction and test of a prototype are conducted, demonstrating the feasibility of the ORC for small-scale cogeneration. Special attention is paid to the variable operation and parameter design with respect to the condensation temperature.

Energy. --- Renewable and Green Energy. --- Energy Efficiency (incl. Buildings). --- Renewable energy sources. --- Energies renouvelables --- Mechanical Engineering --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Mechanical Engineering - General --- Power (Mechanics) --- Rankine cycle. --- Solar thermal energy. --- Solar thermal conversion --- Solar thermal power systems --- Solar thermal technology --- Thermodynamic conversion of solar energy --- Cycle, Rankine --- Cycle, Steam --- Steam cycle --- Energy --- Renewable energy resources. --- Energy efficiency. --- Alternate energy sources. --- Green energy industries. --- Heat engineering --- Solar energy --- Thermodynamic cycles --- Mechanics --- Energy Efficiency. --- Alternate energy sources --- Alternative energy sources --- Energy sources, Renewable --- Sustainable energy sources --- Power resources --- Renewable natural resources --- Agriculture and energy --- Consumption of energy --- Energy efficiency --- Fuel consumption --- Fuel efficiency --- Energy conservation

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

The rising trend in the global energy demand poses new challenges to humankind. The energy and mechanical engineering sectors are called to develop new and more environmentally friendly solutions to harvest residual energy from primary production processes. The Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) is an emerging energy system for power production and waste heat recovery. In the near future, this technology can play an increasing role within the energy generation sectors and can help achieve the carbon footprint reduction targets of many industrial processes and human activities. This Special Issue focuses on selected research and application cases of ORC-based waste heat recovery solutions. Topics included in this publication cover the following aspects: performance modeling and optimization of ORC systems based on pure and zeotropic mixture working fluids; applications of waste heat recovery via ORC to gas turbines and reciprocating engines; optimal sizing and operation of ORC under combined heat and power and district heating application; the potential of ORC on board ships and related issues; life cycle analysis for biomass application; ORC integration with supercritical CO2 cycle; and the proper design of the main ORC components, including fluid dynamics issues. The current state of the art is considered and some cutting-edge ORC technology research activities are examined in this book.

organic Rankine cycle system --- zeotropic mixture --- heat exchanger --- low grade heat --- thermodynamic optimization --- method comparison --- micro-ORC --- gear pump --- CFD --- mesh morphing --- pressure pulsation --- cavitation --- dynamic analysis --- energy analysis --- exergy analysis --- organic Rankine cycle --- waste heat recovery --- natural gas engine --- scroll --- opensource CFD --- OpenFOAM --- CoolFOAM --- WOM --- positive displacement machine --- expander --- ORC --- ORC integration technologies --- advanced thermodynamic cycles --- decentralised energy systems --- benzene --- toluene --- cyclopentane --- internal combustion engine --- cogeneration --- district heating --- low sulfur fuels --- regression model --- predictive model --- ship --- techno-economic feasibility --- machinery system optimization --- life cycle assessment --- biomass --- CHP --- carbon footprint of energy production --- Brayton --- environmental impact --- exergy --- life cycle analysis --- performance parameters

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

While a great deal of postcolonial criticism has examined how the processes of hybridity, mestizaje, creolization, and syncretism impact African diasporic literature, Oakley employs the heuristic of the “commonplace” to recast our sense of the politics of such literature. Her analysis of commonplace poetics reveals that postcolonial poetic and political moods and aspirations are far more complex than has been admitted. African Atlantic writers summon the utopian potential of Romanticism, which had been stricken by Anglo-European exclusiveness and racial entitlement, and project it as an attainable, differentially common future. Putting poets Frankétienne (Haiti), Werewere Liking (Côte d’Ivoire), Derek Walcott (St Lucia), and Claudia Rankine (Jamaica) in dialogue with Romantic poets and theorists, as well as with the more recent thinkers Édouard Glissant, Walter Benjamin, and Emmanuel Levinas, Oakley shows how African Atlantic poets formally revive Romantic forms, ranging from the social utopian manifesto to the poète maudit , in their pursuit of a redemptive allegory of African Atlantic experiences. Common Places addresses issues in African and Caribbean literary studies, Romanticism, poetics, rhetorical theory, comparative literature, and translation theory, and further, models a postcolonial critique in the aesthetic-ethical and “new aestheticist” vein.

Literature --- Poetry --- Caribbean poetry --- Cultural pluralism --- African diaspora in literature. --- Postcolonialism in literature. --- Miscegenation in literature. --- Cultural diversity --- Diversity, Cultural --- Diversity, Religious --- Ethnic diversity --- Pluralism (Social sciences) --- Pluralism, Cultural --- Religious diversity --- Culture --- Cultural fusion --- Ethnicity --- Multiculturalism --- Caribbean literature --- Poems --- Verses (Poetry) --- Black authors --- History and criticism. --- African influences. --- Philosophy --- Glissant, Édouard, --- Walcott, Derek --- Frankétienne --- Rankine, Claudia, --- Franketyèn --- Étienne, Franck --- والكوت، ديرك --- デレク・ウォルコット --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Poetics. --- Authors, African. --- African authors --- African literature --- Technique

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

This book appeals to scientists, teachers and graduate students in mathematics, and will be of interest for scholars in applied sciences as well, in particular in medicine, biology and social sciences. The models in this connection apply, in particular, to the study of the immune system response and to the predator–prey dynamic. The efficiency of public transport is also considered and blast waves in explosions are studied. Other contributions concern pure mathematics, in particular Pythagorean means, sequences of matrices and Markov chains, and these give evidence of deep links with Symmetry.

paradox of enrichment --- prey–predator system --- persistence of predators --- extinction of predators --- blast waves --- non-ideal gas --- Rankine–Hugoniot conditions --- magnetogasdynamics --- dynamic model --- immune system response --- immune cells --- abnormal cells --- nonlinear ordinary differential equations --- stability --- diet --- Aggregation dynamic system --- Discrete system --- Epidemic model --- Cauchy’s interlacing theorem --- Output-feedback control --- Stability --- Antistable/Stable matrix --- onboard comfort level --- Markow chain --- bus passenger occupancy prediction --- Chebyshev inequality --- Tracy-Singh product --- continuous field of operators --- Bochner integral --- weighted Pythagorean mean