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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.

THE efficacy of the resistance to wave action of vertical wall breakwaters built on a rubble mound foundation has been called into question recently by reason of two unfortunate, and, in fact, structurally disastrous, incidents which have been experienced, at Catania in Sicily in March 1933 and at Algiers in North Africa in February 1934. The matter is one of fundamental importance, since quite a number of important harbours in the Mediterranean and elsewhere are protected by breakwaters of this type. It was. discussed at considerable length by an eminent Italian engineer, Prof. E. Coen Cagli, in a lecture which he delivered lately at the Institution of Civil Engineers, a short reference to which was made in NATURE of July 20, p. 99.

O texto reflete sobre a reiteração do fenômeno do clientelismo na história política brasileira. Discute-se de forma crítica com a historiografia a aparente duração alargada desse fenômeno desde o período colonial à história republicana. O ponto fundamental, não obstante, é a percepção do que ao longo do tempo vai se diferenciando nessas relações, de maneira que preserve o essencial de sua função política ante um contexto político, social e econômico marcadamente assimétrico. Duas dimensões de análise, por fim, são sugeridas para se acompanhar essa diferenciação do fenômeno clientelístico ao longo do tempo, as formas da racionalidade econômica e da cultura política.

THE PRINTED RECORDS for even the commonest nonce words are not easy to locate. The difficulty is not that they do not get into print frequently, but that the attention lags, unless we set out to make a specific capture. The notation of any word-genre which depends upon desultory annotation is likely to be haphazard. Nevertheless, even fitful recognitions will accumulate eventually to a partial collection of substitutes for' a normal and traditional word. We all are aware that money has many names. A dozen popular terms will come to mind \vithout effort. Such words persist often for a long time; others live but briefly. Fashions change, and words, like men, have their day. For example, rhino, of unknown English origin, noted in 1688, continued in America at least until 1843. (See Robert Carlton, The New Purchase, N. Y., 1843, I I, 175: High learning became as popular as common schools ... It brought the rhino!). The word seems to have no record in this century. The following list of substitutes for money has grown from a sporadic reading-list, which is made up particularly from books which appeared in the last five years. Their character is decidedly popular, because the volumes were chosen deliberately as likely sources for the kind of language which,' otherwise, might not find its way into print. Even so, the laggard eye missed, no doubt, many illustrations of substitute terms, particularly, since its search had been directed to other kinds of phraseology, as well. A few words have no recent annotation, not because they have no record, but because the compiler has only heard them and has not noted their specific appearance. The contribution's value lies in its partial record of slang expressions in use during the last half dozen years. 1 Alfalfa. See Hay. Noted orally within the last decade. Alnperes. John O'Hara, Hope of Heaven, Bantam Books, N. Y., 1956. (Original edition, Harcourt Brace, N. Y., 1938), p. 13.

La Société française des Historiens locaux a décidé, en 1965, de renouveler les anciennes enquêtes sur la vie populaire traditionnelle, qui avaient été lancées, à partir de 1934, par une Commission des Recherches collectives sous la présidence de Lucien Febvre.La première de ces enquêtes portait sur les usages de moisson et notamment sur la mise en tas des gerbes de blé et la fabrication des meules, qui comportaient encore, à l'époque, bien des variantes régionales intéressantes, parce qu'elles correspondaient souvent à la préparation de la dîme. Comme, entre temps, les moissonneuses-batteuses se sont substituées aux simples moissonneuses et à la moisson à bras, une telle enquête eût été, de nos jours, sans objet.Il n'en est pas de même de l'évolution de la forge de village. Bien que touchée à mort par les transformations en cours, ainsi que nous le verrons, elle subsiste encore, pour quelques lustres tout au plus. Il est donc grand temps d'en étudier l'évolution régressive.

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.