Une identité réinterprétée : Notes sur un vieux documentaire et recherche autour de l’identité macanaise

The present paper, originating from its author’s innocent search for his identity in his twenties as a postcolonial yearning for an emotion-driven, if not unconsciously voluntary, cultural self-colonization, appears ten years later as a self-reflexive and self-critical essay. It can be read as a piece of postcolonial literature apart, or as a commentary to his documentary Ou Mun Ian, Macaenses (2009) and its textual research (2010). This quest, if not construction or invention of identity, resonated with a cross-epochal public discourse which transcended Macau’s last colonial years and its first postcolonial decade, that Macau was never a colony but a unique result from a China-West exchange. Originally to mark the tenth anniversary of the postcolonial Macau, between 2008 and 2009, the author, who was a great yet naïve admirer of the domestic exoticism and the colonial nostalgia of the mix-blood Portuguese Macanese, travelled across Portugal, Canada, US and Brazil to create a project from filmed interviews in the diaspora, in a government-sponsored adventure which let to the author’s self-discovery. This very amateur thirty-three-minute documentary largely shaped the author’s earlier belief in his undecolonizability and his later extended search and creation of his multiplying beliefs inside an Eurocentric expansion of an European universe.

Impressionist Expressionist (Intermediate)

In this activity, students will create a two- to four-minute soundscape based on one of two Impressionist paintings of contrasting styles. Students will develop a basic fluency with a DAW of the teacher’s choosing. Translating the emotional effects of art across mediums can be a useful exercise because it can develop sensitivity to the art forms on either side of the transfer. This project teaches students how to make connections between extramusical ideas and their manifestation in sound. Providing source materials serves to give students a starting point from which to move forward in sequential steps to achieve a unique result that is a synthesis of both classic works of art and their own creativity.

Ground States of a 𝐾-Component Critical System with Linear and Nonlinear Couplings: The Attractive Case

Consider the system \left\{\begin{aligned} \displaystyle-\Delta u_{i}+\mu_{i}u_{i}&\displaystyle=% \nu_{i}u_{i}^{2^{*}-1}+\beta\mathop{\sum_{j=1,j\neq i}^{k}}u_{j}^{\frac{2^{*}}% {2}}u_{i}^{\frac{2^{*}}{2}-1}+\lambda\mathop{\sum_{j=1,j\neq i}^{k}}u_{j}&&% \displaystyle\phantom{}\text{in}\ \Omega,\\ \displaystyle u_{i}&\displaystyle>0&&\displaystyle\phantom{}\text{in}\ \Omega,% \\ \displaystyle u_{i}&\displaystyle=0&&\displaystyle\phantom{}\text{on}\ % \partial\Omega,\quad i=1,2,\ldots,k,\end{aligned}\right. where {k\geq 2} , {\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^{N}} ( {N\geq 3} ) is a bounded domain, {2^{*}=\frac{2N}{N-2}} , {\mu_{i}\in\mathbb{R}} and {\nu_{i}>0} are constants, and {\beta,\lambda>0} are parameters. By showing a unique result of the limit system, we prove existence and nonexistence results of ground states to this system by variational methods, which generalize the results in [7, 18]. Concentration behaviors of ground states for {\beta,\lambda} are also established.

A Study on Models and Methods of Information Retrieval System

Information Retrieval (IR) is the action of getting the information applicable to a data need from a pool of information resources. Searching can be depends on text indexing. Whenever a client enters an inquiry into the system, an automated information retrieval process becomes starts. Inquiries are formal statements which is required for getting an input (Rijsbergen, 1997). It is not necessary that the given query provides the relevance information. That query matches the result of required information from the database. It doesn't mean it gives the precise and unique result likewise in SQL queries (Rocchio, 2010). Its results are based on the ranking of information retrieved from server. This ranking based technique is the fundamental contrast from database query. It depends on user application the required object can be an image, audio or video. Although these objects are not saved in the IR system, but they can be in the form of metadata. An IR system computes a numeric value of query and then matches it with the ranking of similar objects.

A Study on Models and Methods of Information Retrieval System

Information Retrieval (IR) is the action of getting the information applicable to a data need from a pool of information resources. Searching can be depends on text indexing. Whenever a client enters an inquiry into the system, an automated information retrieval process becomes starts. Inquiries are formal statements which is required for getting an input (Rijsbergen, 1997). It is not necessary that the given query provides the relevance information. That query matches the result of required information from the database. It doesn't mean it gives the precise and unique result likewise in SQL queries (Rocchio, 2010). Its results are based on the ranking of information retrieved from server. This ranking based technique is the fundamental contrast from database query. It depends on user application the required object can be an image, audio or video. Although these objects are not saved in the IR system, but they can be in the form of metadata. An IR system computes a numeric value of query and then matches it with the ranking of similar objects.

ROADMAP FOR THE IMPLEMENTARION OF A PROJECT MANAGEMENT MODEL IN A SME OF ENGINEERING AND TURN-KEY SUPPLY OF INDUSTRIAL EQUIPMENT

Project management is focused on planning, executing, monitoring and controlling of all aspects of a project, defined as a temporary effort to carry out a unique result, in order to achieve the targets set under the criteria of time, quality and cost restrictions. In a small or medium-sized organization focused on this type of activity, the integration of the various factors involved in the project life cycle is needed. A roadmap developed as a set of guidelines for effective project management, tailored to this type of organizations but based on the existing sets of best practices and methodological standards (traditionally oriented to huge corporations), is pursued in this work through a comprehensive-qualitative analysis added to an interview approach.

The curious case of auxiliary -manya in Lwitaxo

Lwitaxo, one of the Luhya languages of Kenya, has an auxiliary verb of the form -many’a that occurs in compound constructions that express either a generic reading (“normally do V”) or a culminative reading (“ended up V-ing”). This verb is identical in form to the lexical verb -many’a ‘(come to) know’. However, while there are attested cases of KNOW verbs grammaticalizing as habitual/generic auxiliaries, there are no such attestations of KNOW verbs grammaticalizing as indicators of culmination. The author proposes that auxiliary -many’a is the unique result of a convergence of factors—sound change, morphophonological analogy, and semantic reinterpretation—that led an original auxiliary, -mala ‘finish’, to shift in form to resemble lexical -many’a.

On the gravitational influence of direct particle fields

The problem of the contribution of direct particle interaction of the Fokker type to the gravitational equations is solved. It is shown that the usual procedure for obtaining the gravitational equations, of making small variations of geometry, g ik + δg ik replacing g ik in finite regions, with δg ik = 0 on their boundaries, and of requiring that the action be stationary for such variations, can be carried through with the aid of Green functions. This procedure, due to Hilbert, serves to define the energy tensor T ik associated with each of the fields. That for the C -field turns out exactly the same as we have used in the macroscopic form of the theory. That for the electromagnetic field turns out to have some new features. These are terms containing the vector potential and its derivative when world-lines are broken, although these terms vanish when there is charge conservation. The terms in the field F ik are identical with the usual tensor if the field is calculated from retarded potentials. In former work no decision has been made on the form the tensor should take when the potentials are ½ (retarded + advanced). Wheeler & Feynman showed that alternative choices are possible and that a decision cannot be made from electromagnetic considerations alone. Our analysis leads to a unique result, the Frenkel tensor.