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Early feminist author and advocate Charlotte Perkins Gilman is today best remembered for the haunting short story The Yellow Wallpaper, which recounts the female protagonist's descent into madness. In addition to her prodigious body of fictional work, Gilman wrote a great deal of non-fiction, including scholarly and persuasive essays about equality and the female condition. This long-form essay details the misogyny that was pervasive in Western culture in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

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As users, we require more and more reliable and longer operation of electronic devices. Most often, the efforts of scientists and engineers related to energy management, energy conversion, and energy storage are overlooked. The PowerMEMS slogan in its meaning hides the science of materials enabling the construction of modern accumulators and batteries, so important for the developing consumer electronics and electromobility; energy harvesters used wherever conventional power sources cannot be used; and finally the methods and algorithms of energy processing and management that increase the efficiency of the devices they operate. This Special Issue contains six research papers selected from those presented at the 19th International Conference on Micro and Nanotechnology for Power Generation and Energy Conversion Applications (Power MEMS 2019), as and representative of all papers presented during the Conference.

Anna Katharine Green

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Cover; A Strange Disappearance; Copyright; CONTENTS; CHAPTER I; A NOVEL CASE; CHAPTER II; A FEW POINTS; CHAPTER III; THE CONTENTS OF A BUREAU DRAWER; CHAPTER IV; THOMPSON'S STORY; CHAPTER V; A NEW YORK BELLE; CHAPTER VI; A BIT OF CALICO; CHAPTER VII; THE HOUSE AT THE GRANBY CROSS ROADS; CHAPTER VIII; A WORD OVERHEARD; CHAPTER IX; A FEW GOLDEN HAIRS; CHAPTER X; THE SECRET OF MR. BLAKE'S STUDIO; CHAPTER XI; LUTTRA; CHAPTER XII; A WOMAN'S LOVE; CHAPTER XIII; A MAN'S HEART; CHAPTER XIV; MRS. DANIELS; CHAPTER XV; A CONFAB; CHAPTER XVI; THE MARK OF THE RED CROSS; CHAPTER XVII; THE CAPTURE.

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Unfinished Revolution is the first study to gather nineteenth-century representations and performances of Haitian sovereignty in the Atlantic world. In assembling this undiscovered archive of black power, this book offers compelling evidence of the ways that sovereignty and blackness intersect with unstable processes of modernity to produce an articulation of black authority always, already under threat for eradication or ridicule. Undeterred, nineteenth-century Haitian leaders mounted a century's-long battle to situate Haiti at the centre of the Atlantic world.

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This book proposes a stochastic simulation process as an efficient approach to consumption simulation. The process complements the explicit transient analysis. Thereby, it takes into account statistically evaluated vehicle and route data and calculates a probability distribution of the energy savings which can be achieved by specific measures.

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The book presents the results of a conference at the DFG Graduate College on "Interdiscipline History of Ecology" held in December, 2008. Nature has always been a definite factor for man as well as for societies, and in spite of many attempts to expand his sphere man has had to submit to nature in the face of catastrophies or the limitations of resources. The book comprises scientific and cultural history articles on mediaeval and modern ages, reflecting in a broad spectrum the topic nature as a borderland.Der vorliegende Band ist das Ergebnis einer Tagung, die vom 2.12.-4.12.2008 im DFG Graduiertenkolleg 1024 Interdisziplinäre Umweltgeschichte. Naturale Umwelt und gesellschaftliches Handeln in Mitteleuropa unter dem Titel Natur als Grenz(E)rfahrung veranstaltet wurde. Natur begrenzte stets menschliche Lebensräume. Sie beeinflusste die Art und Weise individueller und gesellschaftlicher Entwicklung. Menschen, die diese Grenzen in historisch unterschiedlicher Weise als Beschränkungen erfuhren, versuchten, sie zu überschreiten und zu verschieben. p. dehnten sie ihre Lebens- und Erfahrungsräume aus. Doch blieb menschliches Leben in der Erfahrung von Naturkatastrophen, der eigenen physischen und psychischen Belastbarkeit sowie der Endlichkeit von Ressourcen letztlich an Natur gebunden. Der Sammelband umfasst natur- und kulturwissenschaftliche Beiträge zu Mittelalter und Neuzeit, die aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven den Gegenstand Natur als Grenzerfahrung beleuchten. So wird in den Rubriken zu Ressourcen, Entdeckungen und Katastrophen in einem breiten Spektrum gezeigt, wie sich Deutungsmuster von und Umgangsweisen mit Natur als Grenze entwickelten.

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<P>In der vorliegenden Arbeit sollen in unterschiedlicher Manier Konzeptionen sichtbar werden, die die literarische Evolution aufhalten, überwinden wollen, um die Kunst am Leben auszurichten. Diese Arbeit ist theoretisch-historisch. Ausgehend von der Berechtigung der Frage nach dem Verhältnis von Volk oder Proletariat und Literatur und der Notwendigkeit einer Überwindung der Entfremdung sollen hier die Ansätze rekonstruiert werden, die den Grund für diese Entfremdung in der Kunst selbst sahen. </P>

George Gissing

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Leaving his lowly Midlands home to pursue his career as a journalist among the free-thinkers of London, Godwin Peak's origins and poverty hinder him at every turn. Publishing an article attacking the hypocrisy of the Victorian Church gives him his break. His future dims, however, when he falls catastrophically in love with the devout Sidwell Warricombe.

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Movement and locomotion have always been key activities for all animals, being related to the most crucial life functions: retrieving food, facing environmental issues and mating. Humans developed complex upper arms movements and bipedal gaits in order to move and locomote. To enhance their performance, they started inventing smart passive mechanical tools. This need arose from intrinsic limitations of their muscle–joint–bone systems and metabolic power availability. Newly invented devices were mainly introduced in order to cope with such constraints. The aim of this Special Issue is to advance knowledge regarding symmetry, biomechanics and energetics of passively assisted human movement and locomotion.

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This book consists of nine papers covering a number of basic ideas, concepts, and methods of nonlinear analysis, as well as some current research problems. Thus, the reader is introduced to the fascinating theory around Brouwer's fixed point theorem, to Granas' theory of topological transversality, and to some advanced techniques of critical point theory and fixed point theory. Other topics include discontinuous differential equations, new results of metric fixed point theory, robust tracker design problems for various classes of nonlinear systems, and periodic solutions in computer virus propagation models.

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Including contributions from such figures as Douglas Irwin, James Foreman-Peck, Kevin O'Rourke and Max-Stefan-Schulze, this key book summarizes the recent empirical research carried out on the issue of the classical period of trade protectionism. It provides a basis for revising widely held views on the standard effects of tariffs on economic structures and progress, as well as a historical perspective on recent developments. Long-held views on modern trade policies have been challenged by the introduction of recent theoretical developments in international economics and in measurement techniques brought about in the 1960s and 70s. One question in particular has attracted attention and has contributed to the bringing to light of a number of previously ignored measurement and interpretation problems: the assessment of French and British nineteenth century trade policies. This noteworthy volume examines the theoretical and practical problems associated with the assessment and measurement of the direct impact of tariffs, prohibitions and quotas on domestic prices, output structure and competitiveness. The contributors also examine the direct and long-run consequences of protectionist measures on particular economies, utilizing evidence from in-depth investigations of trade statistics as well as ‘best practice’ statistical techniques such as effective protection, elasticity of demand and revealed comparative advantage.

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The proliferation of HF radar systems for ocean remote sensing and maritime surveillance continues apace, with hundreds of such radars now deployed around the world. The overwhelming majority of these radars operate in the conventional monostatic configuration, with the transmitting and receiving systems collocated or closely spaced; this simple geometry has obvious advantages in terms of cost, siting requirements, communications, maintenance, signal processing, and echo interpretation, and it has been adopted by HF radars exploiting line-of-sight, surface wave, and skywave propagation modalities. All these considerations notwithstanding, in some circumstances there can be compelling reasons to implement bistatic configurations, defined as geometries in which the separation between transmitter and receiver is comparable with the range to the zones being interrogated. Factors that can drive this decision include energy budget, desire to exploit hybrid propagation modes, scattering characteristics of the targets of interest, properties of the clutter, survivability, and covertness. This book, a compilation of papers by leading researchers in the field, offers a panoramic account of the state of the art in bistatic HF radar. Topics covered include system design, HF propagation and scattering, signal processing, echo interpretation, and applications in the maritime domain. Supported with extensive references to the literature, this book should serve as an essential source for practitioners keen to expand the capabilities of their HF radar systems.