this paper is an attempt to explore how lacanian concepts of desire, unconscious, as well as alienation are reflected in the major characters of vladimir vladimirovich nabokov’s lolita. before unleashing the new, inexplicable yet highly fascinating aspects of psychoanalysis by the advent of french poststructuralist and psychoanalyst jacques lacan, freudian psychoanalysis used to play the pivota...

Most computational story generation systems lack the ability to generate new types of imaginary objects that play functional roles in stories, such as lightsabers in Star Wars. We present an algorithm that generates such imaginary objects, which we call gadgets, in order to extend the ontological expressivity of existing, planning-based story generation systems. The behavior of a gadget is repr...

In this study the third order nonlinear susceptibilities are theoreticallycalculated for an electron confined in an isolated PbS/ CdSe/ CdS spherical core-shellshellquantum dots. Our calculation is associated with intersubband transitions in theconduction band. We used the effective mass approximation in this study which is asimple and straightforward study of the third-order optical nonlineari...

The eigenvalue-function pair of the 3D Schrödinger equation can be efficiently computed by use of high order, imaginary time propagators. Due to the diffusion character of the kinetic energy operator in imaginary time, algorithms developed so far are at most fourth-order. In this work, we show that for a grid based algorithm, imaginary time propagation of any even order can be devised on the ba...

Multi-layer orthotropic finite cylindrical shells with a viscoelastic core in contact with fluids are gaining increasing importance in engineering. Vibrational control of these structures is essential at higher modes. In this study, an extended version of the wave propagation approach using first-order shear deformation theory of shell motion is employed to examine the free vibration of damped ...

Research on the facial expression of emotion distinguishes between correlates of posed vs. spontaneous emotion expression. Similar research in the vocal domain is lacking. In this study, we compare changes in a range of vocal parameters between posed vs. spontaneous adult-directed (AD) and child–directed (CD) speech. CDS is a highly affectively charged speech register which lends itself well to...