Pub Date : 2018-08-09DOI: 10.1002/9781119549475.ch2
R. Coldicutt
Infrastructure is the artificial foundation on which any form of social life depends. When it works well, infrastructure fades into the background of social interactions as though a feature of the landscape, at once obvious and invisible, that runs on its own. Composed of the technologies and systems responsible for extracting and distributing resources, infrastructure provides human populations with the materials they need in order to make a living and reproduce their way of life. Although it often blends into the natural environment, infrastructure’s technological domination of space facilitates and directs flows of people, objects, and information within this space and, in this sense, completely displaces nature. It does so by choreographing the movement of human actors within the space it governs, limiting what these actors can see, hear, or feel, and often preventing them from sensing how that space controls their movement. So defined, infrastructure refers not only to the roads, conveyances, pipes, and fiber-optic cables that distribute goods, services, information, and pleasure to a population but also to the production of the very categories that identify those units of information as either people or things. As it limits what information a person gathers in the way of experience and how they organize it, infrastructure imposes those same limits on the lives people imagine for themselves as opposed to others. This means that infrastructural control extends well beyond an individual’s personal experience to manage the cultural abstractions and fictional narratives available to that individual not only for making sense of this world but also for imagining alternatives to it. Hence its importance for literary studies. Infrastructure has always shaped the way that literature is produced. In addition to the infrastructures that contribute to a literary work’s production—from the printing presses to the global supply chains that connect readers with books—literary form also provides texts with their own narrative infrastructure. Consider the novel’s dependence on specific formal conventions to unfold a world around a representative human character over time and through space, so that readers will recognize that narrative as a novel. Such a narrative must create an artificial space where characters interact according to the protocols governing any number of modern spaces. This artificial infrastructure space must exercise control over the unfolding of a plot that ensures its (even inverse) homology to the infrastructure that limits the historical time and space in which the novelist writes. Insofar as the Bildungsroman and domestic fiction both divided the 19th-century reader’s world into public and private spheres that could interact dialectically, its narrative infrastructure supported the interrelated routines of production and reproduction. Alternatively, a novel or other literary text will test the reigning infrastructure to expose the mea
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. The primary objective of this track is to bring together specialists in different fields of industrial robots modeling, control and their application in manufacturing and service. It addresses scientific and engineering problems that arise in automation of various technological processes and robot-based transportation in the industrial environment. Particular topics covering by the track include optimal design, simulation and modeling of robotic manipulators and robotic manufacturing cells, robot calibration and estimation model parameters, manipulator accuracy improvement, advanced and intelligent robot control, human-robot collaboration, cooperation and interaction, as well as robot application in assembling, milling and welding. Special emphasis is given to the innovative methodologies and advanced technologies in the area of modern industrial robotics and multi-robot cooperation.
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Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.1017/9781108233118.008
Xiaoyang Tang
The thesis deals with special economic zones (SEZs). The first part, chapter 2-5, explains them as a phenomenon. Their history and features/incentives are spelled out, as are their underlying rationale – the advantages the host can achieve through them (chapter 4.1). These possible advantages include increased employment; cluster effects; technology transfer and training; partial policy reforms; laboratory simulations of economic policy and being a means of regional policies. An important way SEZs can achieve this is to attract foreign direct investments. Also the possible costs of zones are presented (chapter 4.2) as well as their alternative cost (chapter 4.3). To complete this part of the analysis chapter 5 presents the point of view of the firms, i.e. the investors SEZs are supposed to lure. The second part of the thesis, chapter 6-7, applies the first part on the case of India. This results in some specific advice, implications, for the SEZ policy of India. These include using SEZs as laboratories to find beneficial general economic policies and SEZ policies; to include the Indian diaspora to a greater extent to achieve the chapter 4.1 advantages; the promotion of cluster effects; as well as others. The rapid change in the Indian economy increases the uncertainty, but the main recommendations should be robust in all likely scenarios.
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Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.1017/9781108233118.009
Dennis Stewart
Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration announced a new national director for the Office of Job Corps, Ms. Grace Kilbane. Now with a new national dire(:tor in place, we intend to re·initiate the discussion of determining an appropriate course of action for the Gulfport Job Corps Center with a community meeting as soon as possible. We will work with you to schedule a mutually convenient date and time within the coming weeks. Additionally, we are moving forward in commissioning a study of the existing structures and the steps necessary to secure and protect the historic buildings with the support of the City of GulfjJOrt.
美国劳动、就业和培训管理局(Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration)宣布任命Grace Kilbane女士为就业服务团办公室(Office of Job Corps)新任全国主任。现在，随着新的国家计划的实施，我们打算尽快召开一次社区会议，重新开始讨论确定格尔夫波特就业中心的适当行动方案。我们将与您一起在未来几周内安排一个双方都方便的日期和时间。此外，我们正在委托对现有结构进行研究，并在湾港市的支持下采取必要的步骤来保护和保护历史建筑。
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Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.1017/9781108233118.003
Xiaoyang Tang
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