• 영어영문학
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• 제55권3호
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• pp.441-458
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• 2009

The Imperial Road is Jean Rhys s unfinished manuscript, rejected by publishers for its openly racist tone. Although it describes Rhys s actual visit to Dominica in 1936, it is not a transparent recollection of the travel but a recreation informed by racial dynamics of the 1970s when she wrote the text. This paper examines the manuscript as a troubled (and troubling) response to what Rhys perceived as racial rejection from Dominica at the wake of political independence. Rhys s representation of white Creole womanhood significantly depends on an interwoven configuration of racial dynamics and sexual politics, where an oppressive white European man facilitates a white Creole woman s cross-racial identification with Afro-Caribbeans. However, the political and literary landscape of the West Indies in the 1970s made such cross-racial identification untenable. As a result, The Imperial Road is full of disturbing racial hatred, prejudice, and resentment. And yet, it also reflects Rhys s honest and serious concern over a white Creole s racial identity in postcolonial Dominica, raising a difficult question: How would a postcolonial age change a white Creole identity that belongs neither to the colonized nor to the colonizer (or both)? In The Imperial Road, unable to identify with Afro-Caribbeans, the white Creole is disoriented in time and space, lost at home, stuck between the past and the present, not knowing how to participate in a postcolonial homeland. Through the narrator s racial disorientation, The Imperial Road exposes the white Creole s fundamental dependence on other Creoles.

• 영어영문학
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• 제57권6호
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• pp.1199-1212
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• 2011

This paper is to scrutinize Jean Rhys' Wide Sargasso Sea through a Marxist criticism. While critics were industriously excavating discourses of feminism, post-colonialism, and racism in the novel, they tended to regard the Marxist attribute as supplementary material and to diminish the significance not considering as an independent subject to be examined. However, the novel, in which all the major relationships are based on capital, exemplifies class conflict between the bourgeois and the proletariat. Marx and Engels believe that the foundation of our society is capital and that society evolves through class conflict to obtain more capital, and thus they assert people's relations are the product of the commodification of individuals. Furthering their study, Louis Althusser specifies the power system through the (repressive) state apparatus and the ideological state apparatus. With the theories of the thinkers' above, this paper analyzes the relationship between Annette and Mason, Antoinette and her nameless husband, allegedly Rochester, Rochester and Amelie, and Rochester and Daniel Cosway. This paper offers an alternative reading of a classical feminist and post-colonial text.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제56권11호
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• pp.4929-4937
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• 2024

The current work investigates a computational model to study the thermal and hydraulic air behavior during the natural circulation at air ingression and accidents. This is done with the RHYS coupling ASYST VER 4 package. The test facility considered for the present study is a dual vertical channel facility comprised of two parallel channels connected to the upper and lower plenum. The flow fields in the heated and cooled channels were comprehensively characterized by analyzing axial temperature and velocity distributions using varied uniform iso-flux (100-1400 W/m²) and different outer surface temperatures (278, 288, 298, and 308 K). Temperature and velocity reversal recorded after maximal spots due to natural convection. The temperature rise from 278 to 308 K gave an average of 25.51 and 25.19° increase in air and inner wall temperatures, respectively, while air velocity increases at high cooling intensity (278 K) within the heated channel, in the cooled channel, low cooling intensity (308 K) resulted in higher velocity. The convective heat transfer is represented in terms of heat transfer coefficients, which are used to compute the Nusselt number. Additionally, the ASYST model was validated with data from literature sources, indicating strong agreement.

• 한국결정성장학회지
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• 제9권2호
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• pp.141-148
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• 1999

Ir 도가니에서 PbO와 $WO_{3}$를 50 %~50 % 혼합한 시료로 부터 쵸코랄스키 성장방법에 의해 고품질의 순수한 $PbWO_{4}$와 Nb 도핑한 $PbWO_{4}$를 성장 시켰다. 결정은 성분의 선택적 결손에 부합하는 화학양론적 변화는 $PbWO_{4}$의 노란색 형성에 원인이 되었다. X선 회절 실험을 통해서 각 $PbWO_{4}$ 결정의 격자상수 변화를 조사하였으며 광발광, 광흡수 및 라만 스펙트럼에 대한 특성들에 대해 조사를 하였다. 광발광은 10 K~300 K 온도 영역에서 측정 되었으며 낮은 온도 영역에서는 미흡한 온도의존성을 보였으며 200 K 온도 이상에서는 열적소광에 의한 광발광 강도의 감소를 보였다. PL 강도와 반치폭의 온도 의존성으로 부터 각 PWO 시료에 대한 활성화 에너지, Huang-Rhys 결합상수, 비균질선폭계수를 구하였다.

• 한국진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국진공학회 2012년도 제42회 동계 정기 학술대회 초록집
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• pp.310-310
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• 2012

ZnO thin films were grown on porous silicon (PS) by plasma-assisted molecular beam epitaxy (PA-MBE). The optical properties of the ZnO thin films grown on PS were studied using room-temperature, low-temperature, and temperature-dependent photoluminescence (PL). The full width at half maximum (FWHM) of the near-band-edge emission (NBE) from the ZnO thin films was 98 meV, which was much smaller than that of ZnO thin films grown on a Si substrate. This value was even smaller than that of ZnO thin films grown on a sapphire substrate. The Huang-Rhys factor S associated with the free exciton (FX) emission from the ZnO thin films was found to be 0.124. The Eg(0) value obtained from the fitting was 3.37 eV, with ${\alpha}=3.3{\times}10^{-2}eV/K$ and ${\beta}=8.6{\times}10^3K$. The low- and high-temperature activation energies were 9 and 28 meV, respectively. The exciton radiative lifetime of the ZnO thin films showed a non-linear behavior, which was established using a quadratic equation.