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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.

Recent measurements of top-quark properties at the Tevatron are presented. CDF uses data corresponding up to 9.0 fb^{-1} to measure the ratio R of the branching fractions B(t \rightarrow Wb) / B(t \rightarrow Wq), the branching fraction for top-quarks decaying into \tau leptons and the cross section for the production of an additional \gamma in t\bar{t} production. The results from all these measurements agree well with their respective Standard Model expectation. D0 uses 5.3 fb^{-1} of data to measure the t\bar{t} cross section as a function of the time. A time dependency would imply Lorentz invariance violation as implemented by the Standard Model extension. No time dependency is observed and D0 sets first limits in the top-quark sector for Lorentz invariance violation. D0 also determines indirectly the top quark width using the results of earlier measurements at D0. The measured top quark width is in agreement with the SM expectation and does not show any hints for new physics contributions. Comment: 5 pages, 5 figures, To appear in Proceedings of Top 2012

In the study presented here, the three Russian basic additive and contrastive coordinating conjunctions i, a and no were compared to their two Norwegian counterparts og and men when used in utterance-initial position. By means of a direct comparison of sentences from Russian and Norwegian novels and their translations, both differences between the languages and language-internal boundaries between the conjunctions were made apparent. A core meaning was formulated for each of the five conjunctions. Their basic properties account not only for their use in general, but they can also explain certain specific qualities and conditions for pragmatic use in utterance-initial position.

Graffiti plays a leading role in the contemporary city. It shows the variety of social dynamics that lie beneath the urban fabric. This article briefly discusses graffiti’s interrelationship with cultural heritage, considering the different relations that it makes in terms of the visual communication it establishes with the city. “Armazém Vieira’s” intervention with graffiti in Florianópolis is presented for the purpose of analysing the tension bet- ween the past and the present in terms of the re-attribution of meaning and the appropriation of places. The role of cultural heritage material is examined as an indisputable reference of a place, of its people, and its culture.

Synopsis The interstellar medium contains both polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and cosmic rays. The frontal impact of a single heavy cosmic ray strips out many electrons. The highly charged species then relax by multi-fragmentation, potentially feeding the interstellar medium with hydrocarbon chains. We model both ionization(s) and fragmentation processes and compute the fragments production rates of particular interest for astrophysical models.

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