Kara Lynn Andersen, in her paper "Harry Potter and the Susceptible Child Audience," argues for a rethinking of assumptions of child audiences as passive readers and viewers through an analysis of the Harry Potter phenomenon. Andersen argues that instead of categorizing children as passive and homogenous subjects of analysis, they should instead be incorporated as participants in the discourse a...

OBJECTIVES Maintaining the constant exposure to hydrophobic organic compouds in acute toxicity tests is one of the most difficult issues in the evaluation of their toxicity and corresponding risks. Passive dosing is an emerging tool to keep constant aqueous concentration because of the overwhelming mass loaded in the dosing phase. The primary objectives of this study were to develop the constan...

Archibald [1] analyzed the performance of a squeeze film between various geometrical configurations. Later on Wu [2, 3] investigated a squeeze film behavior for mainly, two types of geometries namely, annular and rectangular. Prakash and Viz [4] developed some aspects of the analysis incorporated in Wu [2, 3] and obtained the load carrying capacity ultimately leading to time height relation for...

This paper studies the nonlinear effects of squeeze film stiffening on the performance of a high resolution MEMS nonresonant inertial sensor. It is shown that these effects introduce a surprising dynamic response that extends the operational frequency range of the devices by retarding the resonate response. In addition, this performance advantage will occur without the traditional gain trade-of...

The paper presents technology of the ten-gigabit-capable Passive Optical Network – XG-PON which in two phases of its development (XG-PON1 and XG-PON2) takes the first step towards the Next-generation Passive Optical Network 1 – NG-PON1. Results of researches and analyses of the development of the fixed broadband optical network are summarized. The focus is on describing the migration process of...

This study was conducted to evaluate the corrosion resistance and optimize heat-treatment process of AISI 439 ferrite stainless steel silicon tin alloys with reduced chromium. The microstructure specimens deposition under each condition were analyzed. production oxide films compared based on thickness film change in contents element. In addition, electrochemical analyses used quantitatively com...

The study on the properties of passive films in alkali-activated slag cement can provide a theoretical basis for development and application low-carbon environmental friendly concrete materials. In this paper, passivation behaviour anti-corrosion rebar (AR) normal reinforcing steel (NR) sulfur-free simulated pore solutions pastes was investigated using electrochemical, microscale techniques mol...