Journalism and Correspondence

This chapter discusses recent developments in digital technologies and their application to Dickens’s overlapping roles as correspondent, reporter, journalist, and editor. It argues that open-access digitization, digital cataloguing, and computational stylistics open up new possibilities for our understanding of Dickens and his mediation of these roles, revealing new information as to subject matter, style, trends in editorial policy, and patterns of contribution. This information challenges previous author-centred narratives regarding Dickens’s progression from reporter and sketch artist to journalist and editor as well as long-held assumptions regarding his journals Household Words and All the Year Round. In this, digitization follows the current trend in scholarship towards the destabilization of the traditional ideas of Dickens as journalist and editor and acknowledges the changeable and sometimes contradictory nature of his fulfilment of these roles and points to new areas of interest.

Vibration measures in the diagnostics of technical systems

In the article author identifies a possible bone of mutual vibration energy measuring application used in the study of standard rail, as part of a dedicated research methodology and detailed methodologies developed in many previous author studies. Theoretical analysis and practical verification of susceptibility testing measurement information complex vibration processes indicates a possibility for their use. Recognizing the need to improve methods of machines and structures testing to assess their degradation state - this work presents important results of the research in the verification field of the proposed measures effectiveness of mutual research bench.

Historically Speaking– Debatable or Erroneous Statements Relating to the History of Mathematics

The student or teacher who consults several references to obtain information about some historical point in the development of mathematics may, at first, be shocked to find definite discrepancies. Further study may reveal that while in certain cases the reference seems to be definitely in error, in other cases the point may be debatable. Sometimes the error seems clearly to be typographical; in other situations the author has been careless in drawing too-general conclusions; in still others the situation is simply one in which even competent research has not yet produced clear-cut evidence. Unfortunately, in some cases, reading of the references indicates an error caused by repeating an unchecked statement made by some previous author.