The article proposes that engagement with John Milton's Paradise Lost in Cormac McCarthy's The Passenger and Stella Maris furnishes a clue to comprehending the duology. These twin volumes present an ...extraordinary brother and sister, Bobby and Alicia Western, as a new Adam and Eve in a vitiated world. The narrative suggests that the Western siblings' unconsummated love and the underlying theme of the absent child they never had make their circumstances a dark variation upon the Edenic story. McCarthy countervails his well-documented distrust of language by reinvigorating Milton's haptic motif of Adam and Eve's handclasp and offering an alternative form of human connection, lying beyond language, in interpersonal acts of care. McCarthy's duology instructs his readers by negative example to be thankful for life's most precious gifts by revering nature, loving another, nurturing a child, and showing kindness to those other passengers who travel with us in our shared lives.
"The Nuclear Club reveals how a coalition of powerful and developing states embraced global governance in hopes of a bright and peaceful tomorrow. While fears of nuclear war were ever-present, it was ...the perceived threat to their preeminence that drove Washington, Moscow, and London to throw their weight behind the 1963 Limited Test Ban Treaty (LTBT) banishing nuclear testing underground, the 1967 Treaty of Tlatelolco banning atomic armaments from Latin America, and the 1968 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) forbidding more countries from joining the most exclusive club on Earth. International society, the Cold War, and the imperial U.S. presidency were reformed from 1945 to 1970, when a global nuclear order was inaugurated, averting conflict in the industrial North and yielding what George Orwell styled a "peace that is no peace" everywhere else. Today the nuclear order legitimizes foreign intervention worldwide, empowering the nu
Resumen Este artículo presenta un estudio exploratorio de las controversias que emergieron en México desde finales de los años setenta debido al incremento del proceso productivo de la ...nucleoelectricidad y al surgimiento de nuevas voces de oposición tras el accidente de Fukushima en 2011. A partir de la articulación entre literatura sobre controversias, resistencia a las tecnologías y política contenciosa, se identifican los actores y los argumentos que conforman los procesos de discusión por el desarrollo nuclear en la esfera pública, así como las continuidades, las rupturas y los impactos de la resistencia que se han registrado durante la últimas tres de décadas
Chemometrics can be very useful for the classical field of UV–Vis determination of metals in aqueous solutions. A conventional approach consisting of using selective bands in a univariate mode is ...often not applicable to the real-world samples from e.g. hydrometallurgical processes, because of overlapping signals, light scattering on foreign particles, gas bubble formation, etc. And this is where chemometrics can do a good job. This paper overviews certain contributions to the field of multivariate data processing of UV–Vis spectra for seemingly simple case of metal detection in aqueous solutions. Special attention is given to applications in nuclear technology field.
A computer code is developed for processing primary images obtained in the pepper-pot emittance measurement technique, which makes it possible to estimate emittance in a single measurement. The code ...uses a pepper-pot mask image on a scintillator screen obtained by means of laser plasma radiation. This image is used to find positions of holes of the mask and its rotation angle. The pepper-pot technique is applied to measure emittance of a carbon ion beam extracted from the laser-produced plasma, which is generated by CO
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laser pulses at the focal power density on the target of about 10
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In this paper, we describe the project of a photon source with energies up to 2500 MeV at the SKIF synchrotron radiation facility (under construction in Novosibirsk). It is intended for experiments ...on photonuclear reactions, nonlinear QED, EM detector calibration and other applications. A polarized photon beam with a flux of 10
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Hz (in full spectrum) is produced using Compton backscattering (or inverse scattering) of IR, visible, and UV laser radiation, as well as the UV band of its own synchrotron radiation, on the SKIF electron beam (15 kHz). Spectrum monochromatization with collimators or/and tagging system by recoil electrons is possible. The discrepancy between experimental and theoretical photofission cross sections of actinide nuclei in a photon energy range of hundreds of MeV has been known since the 1980s, so it is proposed to study these cross sections in the first series of experiments.
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