Journeys to Knua: displacement,return and translocality in Timor-Leste

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Return journeys to ancestral lands are a central dimension that underscores contemporary ideas of origin, identity, kinship, custom, health and prosperity for the East Timorese. The material and social reproduction of knua – both in the sense of the ancestral territory and associated kin-based ritual community – is heavily reliant on ongoing place-based and translocal customary reciprocal exchanges. Based on multi-sited fieldwork, this article examines the return journeys to Lesuai, an ancestral settlement in the remote central southern highlands of Timor-Leste, which was abandoned during the Indonesian invasion and restored in the later years of occupation. Lesuai community believes the spirit realm exerts an overwhelming influence over their general well-being, compelling ‘house’ members to renew their connection with knua to maintain family ties and benefit from ancestral protection. Closer ethnographic attention reveals how the motivations, experiences and understandings of ‘return’ to origin places are highly personal, gendered and generational. Broadly, these return mobilities demonstrate the agency, adaptability and resilience of conflict-affected populations. Through prolonged displacement and resettlement, dispersed knua members have created new livelihoods, subjectivities and attachments across multiple places, which are reconfiguring family ties, connections to ancestral places, and how ritual obligations are fulfilled.     

Assessing local influence for elliptical linear models under equality constraints

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In this article, we study the local influence for the elliptical linear regression model under equality constraints. We first obtain the parameter estimators of this model using the penalized log-likelihood function and iterative techniques. Then we obtain the diagnostics under the perturbations of constant variance, responses, and explanatory variables in the spirit of Cook (1986 Cook, R.D. (1986). Assessment of local influence. J. Royal Stat. Soc. Ser. B 48(2):133–169. [Google Scholar]). Finally, a numerical example on the data set of the salinity of water is given to illustrate the theoretical results.     

数控变量泵功率匹配节能系统的原理与实验研究

本文介绍以８０９８ 单片机控制的数控变量泵功率匹配节能系统的基本组成,工作原理及实验研究方法．     

随机激振位移作用下大位移单摆的非线性分析

本文应用非线性谱分析法对随机激振位移作用下大位移单摆的非线性随机响应进行了分析。结果表明,在小位移条件下,线性解可以得到较好的近似解,但线性解的误差随角位移的增大而显著增加。因此,对于大位移单摆,应当考虑其非线性效应。该方法勿需对非线性项线性化,从而消除了由于线性化所带来的人为误差,使计算结果趋于精确。     

从“基督的流亡”到“女人的失语”——评奥康纳《背井离乡的人》

美国南方天主教女作家弗兰纳里.奥康纳对西方传统神学进行了独特的透视。在她的著名短篇《背井离乡的人》中,奥康纳的神学观得到了集中的彰显。奥康纳通过这部作品表明,推翻了上帝的权威之后,部分女性主义神学家将女性的解放寄托在上帝之子耶稣基督身上的观点同样是行不通的,传统的基督已经成了一个＂背井离乡的人,＂对传统基督的依赖只能是女性主体性的再次丧失,导致＂女人的失语＂,进而导致＂女人之死＂。     

轴流式叶栅内部流动变工况性能的计算分析

应用有限元方法求解不可压黏性流动Ｎ－Ｓ耦合方程，对ＮＡＣＡ叶型的叶栅在不同冲角的条件下，叶栅内部的流动作了较为完整的计算分析。结果包括叶片表面的压力分布、叶片表面法向的速度分布以及表面摩擦系数。在计算中，采用了Ｂａｌｄｗｉｎ－Ｌｏｍａｘ湍流模型和壁面函数以提高计算的速度。结果表明：冲角不仅对叶片表面的压力分布，而且对叶片附近的流动状态，特别是在叶栅流道的后半部，有很大的影响。     

何处是吾乡——《同胞》中两代旅美知识分子家园意识对比研究

中华民族5000余年的农耕文化,铸造了中国人根深蒂固的寻根归家意识?家园是漂泊异乡的游子心之所系?神之所向的物质实体和精神寄托? 《同胞》中两代旅美知识分子代表人物梁文华?詹姆斯父子对于地理家园?精神家园都有着深深的眷恋和追求,却成了无家可归者?之所以无家可归,直接的原因是当时动荡的时局使梁氏父子成了地理上的无家可归者;深层的原因是尴尬?杂糅的文化身份使其在文化冲突中产生困惑,由此成了心理上的无家可归者;而最根本的原因是知识分子脱离实际的生活状态?无家可归的实质主要是在人与环境?角色与关系?主体与客体的适应上发生了偏差,使梁氏父子无法融入现实环境?角色关系混乱?主体性丧失,由此导致其身心无处安放,灵魂无处寄托?在社会流动性加大,越来越多的人像梁氏父子被迫或者自愿远离故土的当代社会,研究以梁氏父子为代表的两代旅美知识分子无家可归及其对家园苦苦寻觅的精神苦旅,不但具有历史的?文学的借鉴意义,而且具有现实的?生活的启示意义