This article examines representations of the PaciŽ c in the Ž lm Rapa Nui, in articles from National Geographic, and in the academic debate on cannibalism as epitomized by Marshall Sahlins’ and Gananath Obeyesekere’s discussion of Cook’s fate in Hawaii. While the area is typically the location of an Edenic paradise, in these texts it becomes the locus of apocalypse ending in cannibalism. Furthe...

Transitional justice has become the dominant international framework for redressing mass harm and historical injustices. However, transitional justice is commonly premised on the notion of a recent point of rupture or change from violence and oppression to a ‘new dawn’, and has therefore been less attuned to accommodating the long-term effects of colonialism. Accordingly, the historical experie...

We propose a new mechanism for undersampling chaotic numbers obtained by the ring coupling of one-dimensional maps. In the case of 2 coupled maps this mechanism allows the building of a PRNG which passes all NIST Test. This new geometric undersampling is very effective for generating 2 parallel streams of pseudorandom numbers, as we show, computing carefully their properties, up to sequences of...

This paper describes an electromagnetic interference (EMI)resisting Bandgap voltage reference. Its basic topology is a Kuijk Bandgap with a PMOS pass device and an active load, improved to generate a low voltage output (441.3mV) via substituting BJT by MOSFET while preserving a low temperature coefficient (TC). A double differential pair and a power-supply independent bias jointly enhance the E...

Various methods of water-splitting with use of solar energy are reviewed and compared to each other. Direct thermal method has the highest efficiency, but the difficulty is the heat-resisting materials. Thermochemical method is pro­ mising if the corrosion-resisting materi­ als are found. Electrolytic method is tra­ ditional, but the hybrid system combined with thermochemical and/or photochemic...