Dune

This issue of Reconstruction offers little in the way of fixing problems, but plenty in the way of critiquing attempts to automate war, media, opinion, democracy, culture and life to produce predictable outcomes -- all attempts to dominate the world. Postmodernism trumpeted the death of "grand narratives," but now we are quickly finding out that they have come back as ghosts, this time hard to see, harder to believe in, difficult to capture, and, perhaps, impossible to kill. Yet, we are called to do the impossible, to pick up our pens and pencils or pots and pans and make the world a better place.

Internet studies are rapidly approaching disciplinary status in academia. As ethnographers we find Internet cyber-culture(s) and social networking using advancing communication technologies to be provocative and relatively unexplored ethnographic topics. As Romani studies scholars we seek out research applications relevant to our specific interest in culture change among Gypsies (Romanies) and Travelers in the United States (GR&T peoples). As cyber-ethnographers using a ‘data dredging’ methodology we explore Internet cyber-subcultures comprised of youthful GR&T peoples. We describe GR&T adaptive and creative uses of some interfacing new mass communications technologies, for example, camera cell phones, the Internet and personalized web logs. GR&T adolescents using these technologies construct self-ascribed identities and ascribe identities to others via their online Internet communications. They also reveal their values and material cultures. GR&T ‘self-narratives’ encountered in their photo-blog guest books comprise a distinctive written argot. From these online data sources, we isolate and discuss specific themes, and a theoretical implication.

"In this paper I introduce and discuss some evidence of a
creative tension between poetic and scientific writing styles
in some of Alexander yon Humboldt's published works.
These two styles seem oddly juxtaposed in his most popular
book, Views of Nature: Contemplations on the SUblime Phenomena
of Creation; with Scientific Illustrations, originally published in
1807. I interpret this tension in Humboldt's published Views
as an outcome of two major competing worldviews
manifesting as parallel discourses in turn-of-the-century
European intellectual life. I contrast them in this paper as
the "romantic" and the "scientific" worldviews."

The article features the results of rescue investigation of the Maltsevo IV site located on a low floodplain dune in the lower reaches of the Toyma river, the right tributary of the Kama (Republic of Tatarstan). A portion of a frame-and-pillar structure and household pits of the settlement were uncovered at an excavation with an area of 100 square meters. All the ceramic material of the site from the layer and filling of the pits corresponds to the Lugovskaya culture of the Late Bronze Age of the Volga-Kama region (17th - 15th centuries BC). This data gives the author opportunity to make a conclusion about the site had a single-layer character. Considering the location, thickness of the cultural layer, and certain features of the buildings, the author suggests a seasonal nature of Maltsevo IV site, associated with the grazing of cattle, which its inhabitants were engaged in.

The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) is an international, world-class experiment aimed at exploring fundamental questions about the universe that are at the forefront of astrophysics and particle physics research. DUNE will study questions pertaining to the preponderance of matter over antimatter in the early universe, the dynamics of supernovae, the subtleties of neutrino interaction physics, and a number of beyond the Standard Model topics accessible in a powerful neutrino beam. A critical component of the DUNE physics program involves the study of changes in a powerful beam of neutrinos, i.e., neutrino oscillations, as the neutrinos propagate a long distance. The experiment consists of a near detector, sited close to the source of the beam, and a far detector, sited along the beam at a large distance. This document, the DUNE Near Detector Conceptual Design Report (CDR), describes the design of the DUNE near detector and the science program that drives the design and te...

Field data from the Rio Paraná, Argentina, are used to examine patterns of suspended sediment transport over a sand dune. Measurements of three-dimensional velocity are made with an acoustic Doppler current profiler whilst suspended sediment concentration and particle size have been quantified using a laser in situ sediment scattering transmissometer. Suspended sediment concentration and streamwise and vertical sediment flux are highest close to the bed, with an upward vertical flux over the stoss side of the dune and downward flux over the lee side. Suspended sediment concentrations are higher over the crest compared with the trough and suspended sediment is coarsest near the bed. About 17% of the suspended-load transported over the crest is deposited in the lee side before it reaches the trough. Most of this deposited sand is coarser sediment that originates close to the bed over the crest, a result consistent with simulations based on the model of Mohrig and Smith (Water Resources Research 1996; 32: 3207–3217) for the excursion lengths of sediment dispersed in the lee side of a dune. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.