Olatunde Osunsanmi and Living the Transatlantic Apocalypse

2018 ◽  
pp. 151-182
Author(s):  
Alexis Brooks de Vita
Keyword(s):  
Alien Invasion ◽  
Human Trade ◽  
Fourth Kind

This chapter explores Nigerian American Olatunde Osunsanmi’s commercially successful film The Fourth Kind as African sf immersing the audience in an empathic experience of the Transatlantic Human Trade as described in Olaudah Equiano’s Interesting Narrative, and alien invasion and colonization as depicted in Okot p’Bitek’s Song of Lawino. Analysis includes excavation of traditional pre-Christian Ifá symbolism in the film, such as the use of the owl to represent the quest for wisdom and humility of the god/dess Obatala, and situates Osunsanmi’s experiential achievement in relation to the legacy of H. G. Wells’s War of the Worlds.

Vier Arten von Römern unter den Franken im 6. bis 8. Jh.

2016 ◽  
Vol 133 (1) ◽  
pp. 459-468
Author(s):  
Detlef Liebs
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Law ◽  
Civil Law ◽  
Roman Law ◽  
Procedural Law ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Law Texts ◽  
Fourth Kind

Abstract Four kinds of Romans in the Frankish kingdoms in the 6th to 8th centuries. Roman law texts from Merowingian Gaul make a difference between cives Romani, Latini and dediticii, all considered as Romans. This difference mattered only to slaves who had been freed. The status of Latin and dediticius was hereditary, whereas the descendants of one who had been freed as civis Romanus were free born Romans, who should be classified as a proper, a fourth kind of beeing Roman; it was the standard kind. The difference was important in civil law, procedural law and criminal law, especially in wergeld, the sum to be payed for expiation when somebody had been killed: Who had killed a Roman, had to pay different sums according to the status of the killed.

scholarly journals Bifurcation Phenomena of Nonlinear Waves in a Generalized Zakharov-Kuznetsov Equation

2013 ◽  
Vol 2013 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Yun Wu ◽  
Zhengrong Liu
Keyword(s):  
Solitary Waves ◽  
Nonlinear Waves ◽  
Blow Up ◽  
Periodic Waves ◽  
The Third ◽  
Bifurcation Phenomena ◽  
Kink Waves ◽  
Fourth Kind

We study the bifurcation phenomena of nonlinear waves described by a generalized Zakharov-Kuznetsov equationut+au2+bu4ux+γuxxx+δuxyy=0. We reveal four kinds of interesting bifurcation phenomena. The first kind is that the low-kink waves can be bifurcated from the symmetric solitary waves, the 1-blow-up waves, the tall-kink waves, and the antisymmetric solitary waves. The second kind is that the 1-blow-up waves can be bifurcated from the periodic-blow-up waves, the symmetric solitary waves, and the 2-blow-up waves. The third kind is that the periodic-blow-up waves can be bifurcated from the symmetric periodic waves. The fourth kind is that the tall-kink waves can be bifurcated from the symmetric periodic waves.

New Operational Matrix for Solving Multiterm Variable Order Fractional Differential Equations

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
A. M. Nagy ◽  
N. H. Sweilam ◽  
Adel A. El-Sayed
Keyword(s):  
Differential Equations ◽  
Fractional Differential Equations ◽  
Algebraic System ◽  
Order Differential Equation ◽  
Fundamental Problem ◽  
Operational Matrix ◽  
Variable Order ◽  
Engineering Problems ◽  
Fractional Differential ◽  
Fourth Kind

The multiterm fractional variable-order differential equation has a massive application in physics and engineering problems. Therefore, a numerical method is presented to solve a class of variable order fractional differential equations (FDEs) based on an operational matrix of shifted Chebyshev polynomials of the fourth kind. Utilizing the constructed operational matrix, the fundamental problem is reduced to an algebraic system of equations which can be solved numerically. The error estimate of the proposed method is studied. Finally, the accuracy, applicability, and validity of the suggested method are illustrated through several examples.

The Alien Invasion: The Origins of the Aliens Act of 1905

1973 ◽  
Vol 78 (5) ◽  
pp. 1470
Author(s):  
F. M. Leventhal ◽  
Bernard Gainer
Keyword(s):  
Alien Invasion

MATHEMATICAL MODELING OF CONCRETE STRUCTURE CORROSION IN BIOLOGICALLY AGGRESSIVE ENVIRONMENTS

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (102) ◽  
pp. 55-67
Author(s):  
VARVARA E. RUMYANTSEVA ◽  
SVETLANA A. LOGINOVA ◽  
NATALIA E. KARTSEVA
Keyword(s):  
Mathematical Modeling ◽  
Mathematical Model ◽  
Mass Transfer ◽  
Parabolic Type ◽  
Cement Concrete ◽  
Mass Conductivity ◽  
Kinetics And Dynamics ◽  
Biological Corrosion ◽  
First Time ◽  
Fourth Kind

In the aquatic environment, biocorrosion is an important factor affecting the reliability and durability of concrete structures. The destruction of cement concretes during biological corrosion is determined by the processes of mass transfer. The article presents the development of a calculated mathematical model of liquid corrosion in cement concrete, taking into account the biogenic factor. For the first time, a model of mass transfer in an unbounded two-layer plate is considered in the form of differential equations of parabolic type in partial derivatives with boundary conditions of the second kind at the interface between concrete and liquid and of the fourth kind at the interface between concrete and biofilm. The results of a numerical experiment are presented to study the influence of the coefficients of mass conductivity and mass transfer on the kinetics and dynamics of the process.

scholarly journals Illegal markets, human trade and transnational organised crime

Temida ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 3-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vesna Nikolic-Ristanovic
Keyword(s):  
Human Trafficking ◽  
Organised Crime ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Illegal Markets ◽  
The Balkans ◽  
Effective Strategies ◽  
Human Trade ◽  
And Control

In this paper the author explores, focusing largely on the example of the Balkans, the connection between the expansion of neoliberal market economy and war, and related to it the growth of illegal markets and the shadow economy, on one hand, and the victimisation by human trafficking, on the other. By locating human trade within expanding local and global illegal markets, the author is arguing that, without taking into consideration wider social contexts, which create structural incentives for illegal markets and transnational organised crime, we can hardly understand the causes, let alone build effective strategies to combat and prevent it. Consequently, on the basis of the analyses of human trade as a form of both transnational organised crime and illegal markets, some strategies (short-term and long-term) for the prevention and control of human trafficking on both the micro and macro level are suggested.

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