Jeffers’s Country

Author(s):  
Shelley Alden Brooks

Chapter 1 opens with poet Robinson Jeffers’s introduction to the Big Sur landscape in 1914. Big Sur's rugged setting had long served as an obstacle to settlement or exploration, so that in the early century this coastline was sparsely populated and without modern technologies. Human endeavors had produced few permanent edifices, despite centuries of habitation and decades of small-scale extractive industries. The Spanish name for this coastline, “el sur,” represented how most people viewed the area in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and even into the twentieth centuries: as a rather inconsequential place that existed to the south of the more manageable—and profitable—Monterey Peninsula and its surrounding valley. Not until the 1920s, when highways and commercial tourism proceeded at a rapid pace throughout the country and Jeffers’s published verse on Big Sur gained popularity, did Big Sur’s isolation and underdevelopment become recast as a great asset. This chapter examines how Jeffers’s approbation of locals’ archaic mode of life helped to establish the sense that nature’s elemental forces and Big Sur’s inhabitants could together produce the most appealing landscape.

2020 ◽  
Vol 72 (1-3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lungisani Moyo

ABSTRACT This paper used qualitative methodology to explore the South African government communication and land expropriation without compensation and its effects on food security using Alice town located in the Eastern Cape Province South Africa as its case study. This was done to allow the participants to give their perceptions on the role of government communication on land expropriation without compensation and its effects on South African food security. In this paper, a total population of 30 comprising of 26 small scale farmers in rural Alice and 4 employees from the Department of Agriculture (Alice), Eastern Cape, South Africa were interviewed to get their perception and views on government communications and land expropriation without compensation and its effects on South African food security. The findings of this paper revealed that the agricultural sector plays a vital role in the South African economy hence there is a great need to speed up transformation in the sector.


2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (85) ◽  
pp. 319-325
Author(s):  
Vasily Komlatsky ◽  
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Lyudmila Velichko ◽  
Vladimir Velichko ◽  
Liliya Tsyganok ◽  
...  

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 1013
Author(s):  
Whisper Maisiri ◽  
Liezl van Dyk ◽  
Rojanette Coeztee

Industry 4.0 (I4.0) adoption in the manufacturing industry is on the rise across the world, resulting in increased empirical research on barriers and drivers to I4.0 adoption in specific country contexts. However, no similar studies are available that focus on the South African manufacturing industry. Our small-scale interview-based qualitative descriptive study aimed at identifying factors that may inhibit sustainable adoption of I4.0 in the country’s manufacturing industry. The study probed the views and opinions of 16 managers and specialists in the industry, as well as others in supportive roles. Two themes emerged from the thematic analysis: factors that inhibit sustainable adoption of I4.0 and strategies that promote I4.0 adoption in the South African manufacturing industry. The interviews highlighted cultural construct, structural inequalities, noticeable youth unemployment, fragmented task environment, and deficiencies in the education system as key inhibitors. Key strategies identified to promote sustainable adoption of I4.0 include understanding context and applying relevant technologies, strengthening policy and regulatory space, overhauling the education system, and focusing on primary manufacturing. The study offers direction for broader investigations of the specific inhibitors to sustainable I4.0 adoption in the sub-Saharan African developing countries and the strategies for overcoming them.


2018 ◽  
Vol 99 (5) ◽  
pp. 1027-1040 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. R. Jackson ◽  
A. Gadian ◽  
N. P. Hindley ◽  
L. Hoffmann ◽  
J. Hughes ◽  
...  

AbstractGravity waves (GWs) play an important role in many atmospheric processes. However, the observation-based understanding of GWs is limited, and representing them in numerical models is difficult. Recent studies show that small islands can be intense sources of GWs, with climatologically significant effects on the atmospheric circulation. South Georgia, in the South Atlantic, is a notable source of such “small island” waves. GWs are usually too small scale to be resolved by current models, so their effects are represented approximately using resolved model fields (parameterization). However, the small-island waves are not well represented by such parameterizations, and the explicit representation of GWs in very-high-resolution models is still in its infancy. Steep islands such as South Georgia are also known to generate low-level wakes, affecting the flow hundreds of kilometers downwind. These wakes are also poorly represented in models.We present results from the South Georgia Wave Experiment (SG-WEX) for 5 July 2015. Analysis of GWs from satellite observations is augmented by radiosonde observations made from South Georgia. Simulations were also made using high-resolution configurations of the Met Office Unified Model (UM). Comparison with observations indicates that the UM performs well for this case, with realistic representation of GW patterns and low-level wakes. Examination of a longer simulation period suggests that the wakes generally are well represented by the model. The realism of these simulations suggests they can be used to develop parameterizations for use at coarser model resolutions.


Author(s):  
Petr Andrienko ◽  
Vladimir Vasilevskij ◽  
Ivan Vittsivskyi

Fused Deposition Modeling is an additive manufacturing technology where a temperature-controlled head extrudes a thermoplastic material onto a build platform in a predetermined path. Standard, advanced thermoplastics and composites are used for printing. Among the areas of application for FDM printing, the main ones are rapid prototyping, as well as small-scale and batch production. The purpose of the work is the implementation of FDM 3D printing technology in the educational process of students in specialty 141 "Electroenergy, electrotechnics and electromechanics". The features of the technology of additive manufacturing of electrical apparatuses parts by the method of FDM printing have been investigated. Parts of four standard sizes were printed using ABS + and PLA plastics, namely, current transformer carcasses in the amount of 110 pieces and sensor bodies in the amount of 100 pieces. For printing, an FDM 3D printer was used built on the XZ Head Y Bed kinematic scheme with an open working chamber. The analysis of defects in finished products was carried out, which showed that the main defects are deviations of the actual dimensions and geometric shape of the finished products. Ways to prevent the occurrence of these defects are considered, namely, correcting the size of the model at the stage of preparing the model for printing, minimizing the filling density of the model, using brims in models, setting the optimal temperature of the working platform and simultaneously printing several products. The results of the study o features of the technology of additive manufacturing of electrical apparatuses parts by the method of FDM printing made it possible to develop a set of laboratory works for students of the specialty 141 "Electroenergy, electrotechnics and electromechanics".


Belleten ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 64 (240) ◽  
pp. 407-414
Author(s):  
Veli Sevin

Urartians placed great importance on the establishment of vineyards and gardens. Gardens could be dedicated to kings, nobility, royal consorts or their daughters and gods. Prominence was assigned to the cultivation of fruits and vegetables in their gardens, which were situated in proximity to channels of water. Nonetheless, their overall area was on a fairly small scale. Within the gardens, pavilions were erected upon posts with stone bases. During the hot, summer months, they took on the appearance of arbors. Arbored gardens of this type lay on the south slopes below the citadels of Çavuştepe and Aşağı Anzaf. The Urartians not only dedicated vineyards to the gods, they also offered animal sacrifices to the god Haldi at ritual ceremonies held in vineyards bearing their own names. For this reason, just as in the Near East, their gardens bore a religious significance. This concept of the garden differs both from the early examples of the Assyrian Empire, which were designed for practical purposes only, and those of the Sargonid period, which were showy and served as pleasure haunts.


Author(s):  
М.Ю. МАСЛОВ ◽  
Ю.М. СПОДОБАЕВ

Эволюция инфотелекоммуникаций, демонстрирующая стремительные темпы перехода к высокотехнологичным системам, сопровождается глубоким взаимным проникновением технологий - конвергенцией. Показано, что широкое использование беспроводных систем связи вызвало насыщение окружающей среды технологическими электромагнитными полями (ЭМП), а это, в свою очередь, актуализировало проблему защиты населения. Подчеркивается, что такая коренная перестройка привела к равномерному плотному размещению излучающих фрагментов сетей на селитебных территориях. Изменившиеся параметры излучаемых полей требуют пересмотра нормативно-методического обеспечения электромагнитной безопасности. Фрагментарный структурный, функциональный и параметрический анализ проблемы защиты населения от технологических полей выявил неопределенность в толковании реальных ситуаций, уязвимость, слабость и необоснованность методологической основы санитарно-гигиенических подходов на всех этапах электромагнитной экспертизы излучающих фрагментов сетевых технологий. Отмечается, что следствием этого являются недоверие со стороны специалистов и населения к системе санитарно-гигиенического контроля и в целом к безопасности современных технологий, растущая социальная напряженность и радиофобия. В качестве основы для решения проблем защиты населения предлагается субъективные методы и средства мониторинга ЭМП перенести в область информационных технологий. The evolution of infotelecommunications, demonstrating the rapid pace of transition to high-tech systems, is accompanied by deep mutual penetration of technologies - convergence. It is shown that the widespread use of wireless communication systems has led to the saturation of the environment with technological electromagnetic fields (EMF), and this, in turn, has actualized the problem of protecting the population. It is emphasized that such a radical restructuring has led to a uniform dense distribution of radiating network fragments in residential areas. The changed parameters of the radiated fields require a revision of the regulatory and methodological support of electromagnetic safety. A fragmentary structural, functional, and parametric analysis of the problem of protecting the population from technological fields revealed uncertainty in the interpretation of real situations, vulnerability, weakness, and groundlessness of the methodological basis of sanitary and hygienic approaches at all stages of electromagnetic examination of emitting fragments of network technologies. It is noted that the consequence of this is the distrust of specialists and the population to the system of sanitary and hygienic control and, in general, to the safety of modern technologies, growing social tension, and radiophobia. As a basis for solving the problems of protecting the population, it is proposed to transfer subjective methods and means of monitoring EMF to the field of information technologies.


Marine Policy ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 103 ◽  
pp. 101-112 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shinoj Parappurathu ◽  
C. Ramachandran ◽  
K.K. Baiju ◽  
Antony Kurisunkal Xavier

2015 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 388-402 ◽  
Author(s):  
Verena Haid ◽  
Ralph Timmermann ◽  
Lars Ebner ◽  
Günther Heinemann

AbstractThe development of coastal polynyas, areas of enhanced heat flux and sea ice production strongly depend on atmospheric conditions. In Antarctica, measurements are scarce and models are essential for the investigation of polynyas. A robust quantification of polynya exchange processes in simulations relies on a realistic representation of atmospheric conditions in the forcing dataset. The sensitivity of simulated coastal polynyas in the south-western Weddell Sea to the atmospheric forcing is investigated with the Finite-Element Sea ice-Ocean Model (FESOM) using daily NCEP/NCAR reanalysis data (NCEP), 6 hourly Global Model Europe (GME) data and two different hourly datasets from the high-resolution Consortium for Small-Scale Modelling (COSMO) model. Results are compared for April to August in 2007–09. The two coarse-scale datasets often produce the extremes of the data range, while the finer-scale forcings yield results closer to the median. The GME experiment features the strongest winds and, therefore, the greatest polynya activity, especially over the eastern continental shelf. This results in higher volume and export of High Salinity Shelf Water than in the NCEP and COSMO runs. The largest discrepancies between simulations occur for 2008, probably due to differing representations of the ENSO pattern at high southern latitudes. The results suggest that the large-scale wind field is of primary importance for polynya development.


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