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In 2009, Damian Walford Davies called for a counterfactual turn in Romantic studies, a move reflective of a wider growth of critical interest in the relationship between Romanticism and counterfactual historiography. In contrast to these more recent developments, the lives of the Romantics have provided a consistent source of speculation for authors of popular alternate history since the nineteenth century. Yet the aims of alternate history as a genre differ markedly from those of its more scholarly cousin, counterfactual historiography. How, then, might such works fit in to the proposed counterfactual turn? This article makes a case for the critical as well as the creative value of alternate histories featuring the Romantics. By exploring how these narratives differ from works of counterfactual historiography, it seeks to explain why the Romantics continue to inspire authors of alternate history and to illuminate the forking paths that Davies's counterfactual turn might take.

“[W]hat if they gave an apocalypse and nobody noticed?” was the question that Brooks Landon (1991, 239) proposed as the central thematic concern of the 1980s cyberpunk – a movement which today represents a landmark in the development of the science fiction genre. Diverse as they are in their focus and scope, the contributions to this issue of ELOPE, dedicated to the position and role of speculative fiction, and especially science fiction, in a world which is increasingly becoming speculative and science fictional, invariably demonstrate that an apocalypse did indeed take place and went by largely unnoticed.

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate food taste, smell, and characteristics from consumers’ online reviews. Several studies in food sensory evaluation have been presented for consumer acceptance. However, these studies need taste descriptive word lexicon, and they are not suitable for analyzing large number of evaluators to predict consumer acceptance. In this paper, an automated text analysis method for food evaluation is presented to analyze and compare recently introduced two jjampong ramen types (mixed seafood noodles). To avoid building a sensory word lexicon, consumers’ reviews are collected from SNS. Then, by training word embedding model with acquired reviews, words in the large amount of review text are converted into vectors. Based on these words represented as vectors, inference is performed to evaluate taste and smell of two jjampong ramen types. Finally, the reliability and merits of the proposed food evaluation method are confirmed by a comparison with the results from an actual consumer preference taste evaluation.

Mary Douglas (1921–2007) war eine der bekanntesten britischen Ethnologinnen der Nachkriegsgeneration, die sich besonders durch ihre Anwendung ethnologischer Konzepte auf westliche Gesellschaften auszeichnete. Als Tochter eines Beamten im britischen Kolonialburo in Burma, wurde Douglas von ihrer Grosmutter in England aufgezogen, wo sie den Sacred Heart Convent in London besuchte. Diese strukturierte katholische Erziehung spielte eine pragende Rolle fur ihre Theorien, die sie wahrend ihrer Karriere entwickelte.

In the Maya area, funerary practices are tightly linked to residential spaces. The proximity between the living and the dead is, therefore, at its apex. This situation raises a number of questions regarding the relationship between these defunct and their living heirs, inter-rogations reinforced by the high selectivity that seems to affect the sample. The residential Groups appear to be restricted areas for the dead, places that only a selected few can access according to different parameters. Amongst these, status is certainly the most prominent. It is further complexified by the existence of regional variations.This study opens with a general approach that deals with the practice of burying the dead within the house, complete with an extensive methodological discussion. A presentation of the excavation results from Naachtun’s Unit 5N6 (Guatemala) follows to illustrate the foregoing. Finally, data from several sites are statistically compared to show similarities and differencies, then discussed in light of several ethnographical studies.; Les pratiques funéraires sont, dans l’aire maya, étroitement associées aux ensembles résidentiels. La proximité entre les vivants et les morts y est donc maximale, l’espace quotidien étant tout à la fois un lieu d’habitat et un espace funéraire. Cela soulève un certain nombre de questions quant à la relation entre ces individus défunts et leurs descendants, interrogations encore renforcées par l’important degré de sélection qui semble s’exercer à l’endroit des morts. Les Groupes résidentiels sont, pour ces derniers, des lieux dont l’accès est restreint par un certain nombre de paramètres dont le plus important est sans nul doute le statut - situation complexité par l’existence de nombreuses nuances régionales.La présente étude comprend en premier lieu une discussion générale autour de la question des morts dans l’habitat, augmentée d’une discussion méthodologique approfondie concernant la fouille. Elle se poursuit avec la présentation des résultats de la fouille intensive de l’unité 5N6 de Naachtun (Guatemala), qui illustre concrètement le propos développé précédemment. Enfin, les données de différents sites sont confrontées pour mettre en évidence schémas récurrents et différences, puis discutées à la lumière de quelques exemples ethnographiques.

Abstract The work is devoted to research of vulcanization characteristics of mixtures and revealing of features of change of technological, dynamic and physical-mechanical properties of elastomers on the basis of isoprene rubber filled with carbon black N330 and boron nitride (BN). It has been established that with a gradual increase in the concentration of the inert filler BN a decrease in the curing rate by 33% and the density of the polymer cross-linking by 26% is observed, as well as an increase in the curing start time by almost 300% and the optimal curing time by 200%. At the same time, there is a 26% decrease in the "Payne effect", a 50% increase in the relative elongation at rupture and a 30% decrease in the tensile strength.

Geleneksel kültür izleri toplumların kimliklerini betimlemede önemli rol oynar. Geleneksel Kültürler, toplumların öz değerleridir. Toplumların yaşama biçimi, örf ve adetleri, kılık kıyafetleri, günlük kullanım eşyalarındaki süsleme unsurları bu öz değerleri betimler. Geleneksel kökenli süsleme tarzlarının üslup ve özelliklerinin geleceğe yansımasının en temel güncel göstergesi, hediyelik eşyalardaki bulunurluklarıdır. Yerli ve yabancı turistlerin hediyelik eşyalara ilgisi aslında yöreye özgü geleneksel temada birleşir.Bu çalışmada geleneksel kökenli hediyelik eşyaların kültür yolculuğuna değinilmiştir. Antalya – Kaleiçi'nde, hediyelik eşya sektörünün ürün tedariği, sektörün sorunları, Turizm'deki rolü ele alınmıştır. Antalya-Kaleiçi kompleksinde dükkânlarda satılan geleneksel kökenli hediyelik eşyalarda yozlaşmanın (Kitschleşme) güncel oran ve durumuna yer verilmiştir. Geleneksel üslup ve yozlaşmış ürünlerin dükkân içi ve dışı sergilenme şekli, satıcıların ürünleri satış stratejileri incelenmiştir. Traces of traditional culture play a vital role in describing the identities of societies. Traditional cultures are the core values of societies. The way societies live; customs and traditions, costumes, elements of ornamentation in daily use goods describe these core values. The most basic current indicator of the reflection of the style and characteristics of traditional ornamental styles is their presence in souvenirs. The interest of domestic and foreign tourists in souvenirs is actually combined with the traditional theme of the region.In this study, the cultural journey of traditional souvenirs has been mentioned. In Antalya -Kaleiçi, the product supply of the souvenir sector, the problems of the sector and its role in tourism were discussed. The current rate and degeneration of corruption (kitschization) in traditional souvenirs, which are sold in the shops in Antalya-Kaleiçi complex, are given. Traditional style and degenerated products display in and out of shops, sellers' product sales strategies were examined. 178

Generaly, the Chinese Temple is a place for Chinese people doing their religious activities, e.g. pray God, anchestor, prophet and the soul related with Konfusianism, Taoism and Buddhism. The name of some Chinese Temples use their main god or god's superiority. It's interested in analyzing the architecture of the building of Chinese Temple because of its uniqueness