This collection of critical essays anchors itself in the Indian Ocean and explores the multiple ways dynamic exchanges have shaped this multilingual region of the world, from India to the Mascarene ...Islands to Southern Africa. Borders, edges and third spaces are revisited through the notion of the ecotone, a transitional zone between two ecosystems. If the term has primarily been used by biologists and ecologists, the metaphorical angle proves to be fruitful as it authorizes trans-disciplinary approaches and empowers fresh perspectives. In French and in English, the aim of the volume is to contribute to scholarship already published across various disciplinary fields and to participate in the development of Indoceanic studies. The authors of the volume aim to rethink those ecotonal sites that are spaces of frictions as much as spaces of fusion. The essays are by Pallavi Chakravarty, Debdatta Chowdhury, Cécile Do Huu, Pierre-Éric Fageol and Frédéric Garan, Laurence Gouaux-Rabasa, Elisa Huet, Marianne Hillion, J.U. Jacobs, Annu Jalais, Valérie Magdelaine-Andrianjafitrimo, Nicolas Roinsard, Laëtitia Saint-Loubert, Meg Samuelson, Ritu Tyagi. A conversation with the Mauritian writer Shenaz Patel offers a conclusion that opens the horizon towards literary creation.
This collection of critical essays anchors itself in the Indian Ocean and explores the multiple ways dynamic exchanges have shaped this multilingual region of the world, from India to the Mascarene ...Islands to Southern Africa. Borders, edges and third spaces are revisited through the notion of the ecotone, a transitional zone between two ecosystems. If the term has primarily been used by biologists and ecologists, the metaphorical angle proves to be fruitful as it authorizes trans-disciplinary approaches and empowers fresh perspectives. In French and in English, the aim of the volume is to contribute to scholarship already published across various disciplinary fields and to participate in the development of Indoceanic studies. The authors of the volume aim to rethink those ecotonal sites that are spaces of frictions as much as spaces of fusion. The essays are by Pallavi Chakravarty, Debdatta Chowdhury, Cécile Do Huu, Pierre-Éric Fageol and Frédéric Garan, Laurence Gouaux-Rabasa, Elisa Huet, Marianne Hillion, J.U. Jacobs, Annu Jalais, Valérie Magdelaine-Andrianjafitrimo, Nicolas Roinsard, Laëtitia Saint-Loubert, Meg Samuelson, Ritu Tyagi. A conversation with the Mauritian writer Shenaz Patel offers a conclusion that opens the horizon towards literary creation.
Direct heavy ion mapping of single-event burnout (SEB) in power MOSFETs is presented for the first time utilizing the GSI microprobe with Xe and Ar ion beams. The mapping results indicate that the ...source and the channel of the power MOSFET are the most sensitive areas to SEB. Correlation to charge collection mapping, as well as the difference between the mapping results of the two ion beams are discussed.
Introduction Arnold, Markus; Duboin, Corinne; Misrahi-Barak, Judith
2020
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Borders, whether physical, geopolitical, social, or cultural, are ontologically ambivalent. Both ‘barriers and bridges’, they are conceived of as dividing lines between two distinct elements, the ...inside and the outside, belonging and unbelonging, normative and subversive practices, ‘we’ and ‘they’—the Other, the foreigner. They are inner and outer margins that determine categories and differences; they delineate the contours of individual and collective identities—whether territorial, nationa...
Realizing quantum speedup for practically relevant, computationally hard problems is a central challenge in quantum information science. Using Rydberg atom arrays with up to 289 qubits in two spatial ...dimensions, we experimentally investigate quantum algorithms for solving the Maximum Independent Set problem. We use a hardware-efficient encoding associated with Rydberg blockade, realize closed-loop optimization to test several variational algorithms, and subsequently apply them to systematically explore a class of graphs with programmable connectivity. We find the problem hardness is controlled by the solution degeneracy and number of local minima, and experimentally benchmark the quantum algorithm's performance against classical simulated annealing. On the hardest graphs, we observe a superlinear quantum speedup in finding exact solutions in the deep circuit regime and analyze its origins.
A financial derivative is a contract entered between two parties, in which they agree to exchange payments based on events or on the performance of one or more underlying assets -- independently of ...whether they own or control the underlying assets. Securitization of cash flows using derivatives transformed the financial industry over the last three decades. However, mispricing of these derivatives is believed to have contributed to the financial crash of 2008. In this article, which the current write-up is flying to describe at a simplified level, the authors injected a new aspect into this debate. They show that even when the underlying financial model used by buyers and sellers is correct there is an inherent obstacle to accurate pricing due to computational complexity. Formally, even in industry-standard models, the pricing problem can be as difficult as solving the planted dense subgraph problem, which has been proposed as a basis for cryptosystems.
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