Undulating grounds,undisciplined bodies: the Soviet Rationalists and the Kinaesthesis of revolutionary crowds

In the turbulent political conditions of early modernity, the urban mass crowd emerged as a social phenomenon which presented demanding challenges to the arts: to innovate spatial formulations, graphic compositions and even aesthetic principles drawing on this new collectivity for legitimacy. Comparing the work of the Soviet Rationalist architects to the theatrical methods and productions by the Soviet revolutionary director V. E. Meyerhold, this paper probes the arts' responses to this crowd design problem. It discerns a spatial logic of ground-and-body: designers shaped theatrical sets and building surfaces to choreograph group ensembles as events, and to forge an alternative conception of space from the varying intensities of kinaesthetic bodily rhythms. Accordingly, the paper reflects on the nature of collective consciousness thereby evoked, and its distinct difference from another modernist state of consciousness: the paranoid individualism of panoptic inspection. It ventures to speculate that the Rationalists' architecture (and Meyerhold's theatre) effectively restores inter-subjectivity from its idealist discourse as an inquiry into other minds, to a problem of other bodies where subjectivity unfolds between emotional states at the body's expressive surface: the domain of generative spatial-design.     

Comparative study of olive oil quality from Chemlali Sfax versus Arbequina cultivated in Tunisia

The effects of the geographical region on the behavior of the Arbequina olive cultivar (cv) cultivated in the south of Tunisia (in the arid zone of Sfax) was compared to an autochthonous cultivar (Chemlali Sfax). Various olive parameters were analyzed, such as ripening index, pulp/stone ratio, oil contents, and sensory profiles. Most of the quality indices and fatty acid composition showed significant variations among olive cultivars. Arbequina cv is characterized by high oil yield with a less total phenols and pigments content than Chemlali Sfax cv. Cielab spectrophotometer coordinate L*, b*, and a* values show a great difference in olive oil colors. In spite of their low oleic acid contents, autochthonous cultivar presented a higher induction time (6.82 and 2.68 h for Chemlali and Arbequina, respectively) and high contents of phenolic compounds (158.28 and 110.27 mg/kg for Chemlali Sfax and Arbequina, respectively). The most important compounds identified were oleuropein aglycon (45.50 mg/kg), hydroxytyrosol (3.68 mg/kg), 1‐acetoxypinoresinol (6.23 mg/kg) in Chemlali Sfax oil and hydroxytyrosol glucoside (25.15 mg/kg), tyrosol (12.51 mg/kg), and oleuropein aglycon (30.60 mg/kg) in Arbequina oil. Chemlali Sfax also possessed a very bitter taste, whereas the Arbequina had a sweet taste amongst its attributes. The principal component analysis of the results indicated that the geographical region has significantly affected the olive oil quality.     

Free Vibration of Laminated Composite Shallow Shells Containing Piezoelectric Layers

The free vibration of laminated shallow shells containing piezoelectric layers is investigated in this article. A finite-element formulation based on the transverse shear deformation theory has been used to determine the natural frequencies, mode shapes, and modal voltages of laminated composite shell structures containing piezoelectric layers. Comparisons of degenerate cases with published results show excellent agreement. The effect of electromechanical coupling on the predicted natural frequencies is discussed. Results are presented for different geometries, laminate configurations, and boundary conditions. The effects of shell shallowness and piezoelectric layer thickness are also studied. Higher natural frequencies are obtained when the full electromechanical coupling is considered. It is also found that the natural frequencies increase considerably with the shell curvature, particularly for thin piezoelectric layers.     

Hall effect on couette flow with heat transfer of a dusty conducting fluid between parallel porous plates under exponential decaying pressure gradient

In the present study, the unsteady Couette flow with heat transfer of a dusty viscous incompressible electrically conducting fluid under the influence of an exponential decaying pressure gradient is studied without neglecting the Hall effect. The parallel plates are assumed to be porous and subjected to a uniform suction from above and injection from below while the fluid is acted upon by an external uniform magnetic field is applied perpendicular to the plates. The governing equations are solved numerically using finite differences to yield the velocity and temperature distributions for both the fluid and dust particles.     

MHD Hartmann flow of a dusty fluid with exponential decaying pressure gradient

In the present study, the unsteady Hartmann flow with heat transfer of a viscous incompressible electrically conducting fluid under the influence of an exponentially decreasing pressure gradient is studied. The parallel plates are assumed to be porous and subjected to a uniform suction from above and injection from below while the fluid is acted upon by an external uniform magnetic field applied perpendicular to the plates. The equations of motion are solved analytically to yield the velocity distributions for both the fluid and dust particles. The energy equations for both the fluid and dust particles including the viscous and Joule dissipation terms, are solved numerically using finite differences to get the temperature distributions. On leave from: Department of Engineering Mathematics and physics, Fac. of Engineering, El-Fayoum University, El-Fayoum, Egypt.     

Automated segmentation of stromal tissue in histology images using a voting Bayesian model

Over the past two decades, digital histology has been clinically approved for the various cancer diagnosis and prognosis tasks including proliferation rate estimation (PRE). Histology images contain two types of regions: epithelial and stromal. PRE is clinically restricted to epithelial tissue because stromal cells do not become cancerous. PRE has very high inter- and intra-pathologist variability and especially among juniors. The major cause of this variability is the stromal area. In this paper, we digitally segment out all stromal areas and present the pathologist with only epithelial areas for PRE. This reduces inter- and intra-pathologist variability. To that end, we propose a Bayesian voting-based model for removal of stromal cells utilizing cells texture and color. Our results on fifty clinical images show that pathologists’ PRE become more accurate and reproducible. Furthermore, PRE of expert pathologists shows very high inter-observer reliability after our fully automated segmentation. We validate our proposed model by testing three aspects and we find: (i) the effect of our segmentation on the clinical decision is the same before and after our segmentation. (ii) the segmentation similarity dice measure is 86.78 % which is a high similarity level. (iii) the time reduction of the pathologist is, on average, over 39 % which also supports the clinical benefit of our proposed work.     

Enhancing Phosphorescence and Electrophosphorescence Efficiency of Cyclometalated Pt(II) Compounds with Triarylboron

A synthetic strategy for the preparation of cyclometalated platinum(II) acetylacetonate (acac) complexes functionalized with triarylboron is achieved. This method is used to synthesize a series of triarylboron‐functionalized phosphorescent Pt(acac) compounds, which are characterized by NMR spectroscopy, X‐ray crystallography, and theoretical calculations. These complexes exhibit a range of bright phosphorescent colors spanning the green to red region of the visible spectrum (λ_max = ～520–650 nm) in solution and the solid state. Functionalization with a triarylboron group leads to significant enhancement in quantum yield for several of these complexes relative to the non‐borylated Pt(II) parent chromophores, which may be attributed to the increased mixing of ¹MLCT and ³LC states. The phosphorescent enhancement, electron transport capabilities, and steric bulkiness offered by the triarylboron group can be used to significantly enhance the performance of electrophosphorescent devices based on Pt(II) emitters. A high efficiency green electrophosphorescent device is fabricated with a maximum external quantum efficiency of 8.9%, luminance efficiency of 34.5 cd A^?1, and power efficiency of 29.8 lm W^?1, giving significantly improved performance over control devices in which the Pt(II) emitter lacks the boron functionality.     

ANALYTICAL SOLUTION FOR FLOW OF A DUSTY FLUID IN A CIRCULAR PIPE WITH HALL AND ION SLIP EFFECTS

Unsteady flow of a dusty electrically conducting incompressible viscous fluid in a circular pipe is studied considering ion slip. A constant pressure gradient in the axial direction and a uniform magnetic field directed perpendicular to the flow direction are applied. The particle phase is assumed to behave as a viscous nonconducting fluid. A series solution for the governing equations of both fluid and particle phases is obtained for the whole range of physical parameters.