German museum in Polish theatre?

Artykuł dotyczy wpływów teatru niemieckiego na teatr polski w ostatnim ćwierćwieczu. Dla opisania tego zjawiska posłużono się koncepcją sieci kulturowych Wolfganga Welscha. Pozwala ona uchwycić różne zjawiska mające udział w przepływach i wymianach między kulturami. Zastosowanie tej koncepcji do badania relacji między teatrem polskim i niemieckim pozwoliło uwzględnić zarówno przepływ technik dramatopisarskich, estetyk i praktyk teatralnych, jak i własnych doświadczeń polskich twórców. W tym świetle czerpanie przez naszych dramatopisarzy i reżyserów z osiągnięć ich niemieckich kolegów nie powinno być postrzegane jako mechaniczne naśladownictwo, lecz jako jedna z nici w sieci interkulturowych powiązań.The paper concerns the influence of German drama and theatre on the theatre work in Poland after 1989. It is an attempt to capture the mechanism of this phenomenon and to test theoretical tools to describe and interpret it. Wolfgang Welsch’s concept of transculturality (1992) has been employed, with its assumption that homogeneity is a constitutive feature of neither the contemporary multicultural societies nor contemporary cultures any longer, and that the former formula of the whole has been replaced by the formula of differentiation. Taking into consideration Welsch’s thesis that contemporary cultures are characterised by blending and mutual permeation, selected examples were presented to illustrate the impact of German drama-theatre practice on Polish theatre: the dynamic development of the young drama, the ways of understanding national drama and the emergence of political theatre as a new phenomenon in the Polish tradition

Computing combustion noise by combining Large Eddy Simulation with analytical models for the propagation of waves through turbine blades

Two mechanisms control combustion noise generation as shown by Marble and Candel [1]: direct noise, in which acoustic waves propagate through the turbine stages and indirect noise, in which vorticity and/or entropy waves generate noise as they are convected through turbine stages. A method to calculate combustion-generated noise has been implemented in a tool called CHORUS. The method uses the Large eddy simulations of the combustion chamber obtained with the unstructured solver AVBP developed at CERFACS [2] and analytical models for the propagation through turbine stages. The propagation models [3] use the compact row hypothesis to write matching conditions between the inlet and the outlet of a turbine stage. Using numerical simulations, the validity of the analytical methods is studied and the errors made quantified

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Accounting for convective effects in zero-Mach-number thermoacoustic models

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Effect of Composition on Hydrogen Permeation Through Palladium Based Membranes

Multi-component synthetic gas (syngas) mixtures produced from the gasification of coal, low-grade fuel, waste and biomass offers a novel source of hydrogen production. Gasification also eliminates much of the pollutant emissions from the combustion of these fuels. Palladium based membranes present a promising method for extracting hydrogen from syngas. Experimental results are presented from a lab scale experimental facility designed and built to examine various types of palladium and palladium alloy membranes used to harvest hydrogen from syngas. The membrane examined had a 10μm Pd layer supported on porous stainless–steel. This study used a mixture of pure gasses including hydrogen, nitrogen, and carbon dioxide to simulate syngas of different compositions. The focus aimed to determine whether composition of syngas affected hydrogen separation performance under various operating conditions. It was concluded that in addition to the hydrogen partial pressure, the partial pressure other gas species were major controllers of membrane performance

Search for direct production of charginos and neutralinos in events with three leptons and missing transverse momentum in √s = 7 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector

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Search for squarks and gluinos with the ATLAS detector in final states with jets and missing transverse momentum using √s=8 TeV proton-proton collision data

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