Analysis of Satire in Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels

As one of Jonathan Swift masterpieces, Gulliver's Travels chronicles Lemuel Gulliver's four odd voyages in the form of a travel log. With sharp satire, Swift ridicules vices of England and the whole Europe in the early 18th century. The article ana lyzes the art and specific usage of satiric techniques in Gulliver's Travels.

Swift's Anti-Eurocentrism in Gulliver's Travels

Jonathan Swift fought all his life for Irish people to protest against the cruel colonial rule of British Government.He insinuated his thought to the readers of his time in his masterpiece,Gulliver's Travels.Swift reveals the essence of colonialism and expresses his strongly criticism towards Eurocentrism through Gulliver's anti-colonial narrative and Gulliver's identity of the"self"against the"other".

China's National Image in Western Travels in the Middle Ages

The cognition of the image of China in the West during the Middle Ages is a historical base map for the formation of China's image in the eyes of Western travelers in China since the 19 th century. During the Middle Ages, with the Crusades and the Eastward March of the Mongol Empire, the exchanges between China and Europe were frequent. For political and religious purposes, Western missionaries gradually increased in China. From the expansion of the concept of time and space, Western travelers came to China to explore the world outside the Mediterranean. For the needs of literary creation, Western writers began to write Chinese travels while traveling to China. The texts about China's images created by missionaries, travelers and writers are intertwined, depicting a vivid China's national image.

An Analysis of the Changes of Gulliver's Character in Gulliver's Travels

Most of the Domestic and foreign studies of Gulliver's Travels focus on the irony of the novel, there are few studies on the character of Gulliver. This paper will study the changes of Gulliver's character through the analysis of his travels in the four different countries, in order to contribute to a better understanding of Gulliver.

A Contrastive Study of the Social Outlooks in Utopia and Gulliver’s Travels

Utopia,the masterpiece of Thomas More,is one of the milestones of the history of utopian socialism in the early age and condenses the essence of Renaissance spirit.While Gulliver’s Travels,Jonathan Swift’s immortal work,was bred under the impact of Enlightenment and enabled Swift to be one of the major representatives of radicals in the Enlightenment Movement.These two works will be compared in terms of their social outlooks by comparison and contrast to enlighten some inspirations on current soci⁃ety.There will be 2 perspectives:politics and culture.To be more specific,politic views put emphasis on democracy.And culture view discusses about attitudes towards female.Both works’values and limits will be involved in the research.The results show that though Utopia and Gulliver’s Travels born in different periods.They share similar background and themes with different means of artistic expression.They both reveal and criticize on the darkness of the British society in their ages and perform their yearning for an ideal society.Nevertheless,they also own varied social views in various aspects like attitudes towards women.Their ideas have been put on a significant post in English literature even in world literature,which are greatly worth our profound thinking.And a di⁃alectic perspective to view these two grand works is necessary.

Travels of 3 plastic bags

You’ve bought what you need.The grocery cashier asks,"Will that be paper or plastic?You reply"Plastic,please."This seems like a simple question and there are plenty of reasons we choose plastic:easier to carry,lighter than paper bags,possibly less damaging to the environment,less expensive to the shop owners,able to be used as trash bag。

Towards a Research Paradigm for Diachronic Analyses of Term Travels:A New Perspective of Term Translation Studies

Research on term travels transcends the scope of the single discipline of historical semantics,and should be included in the transdisciplinary area of discourse studies,as such travels are discursive events in history that have both a linguistic and a social aspect.In other words,the travel of terms across cultures should be treated as discourses in history,and the three-fold nature of the concept of“discourse”sheds light upon the building of a model for diachronic analyses of such processes,which helps discourse analysts sharing the same goal work together to draw more scholarly attention to academic issues at the crossroads of history,language,and society.

Researches on Translating Travel Writings in the Perspective of Eco-Translatology——Take Travels of a Pioneer of Commerce in Pigitail and Petticoats As an Example

Based on the main notion of Darwin's Evolution Theory that"survival of the fittest through natural selection",it takes"multi-dimensional alternate adaptation and adapted selection"as its translation principle and"multi-dimensional transformation"as its translation methods.In the following,some researches will be done on traveling writing translation from the perspective of linguistic-dimensional transformation,culture-dimensional transformation and Communicative-dimensional transformation,taking Travels of a Pioneer of Commerce in Pigitail and Petticoats as an example.

Safe Travels!

International travelers can once again visit China on group tours after a threeyear suspension. Starting on March 31, tourism service providers are permitted to offer inbound group tours and travel packages including flight tickets and hotels, according to the Ministry of Culture and Tourism.

Higher-dimensional Chen-Lee-Liu equation and asymmetric peakon soliton

Integrable systems play a crucial role in physics and mathematics.In particular,the traditional(1+1)-dimensional and(2+1)-dimensional integrable systems have received significant attention due to the rarity of integrable systems in higher dimensions.Recent studies have shown that abundant higher-dimensional integrable systems can be constructed from(1+1)-dimensional integrable systems by using a deformation algorithm.Here we establish a new(2+1)-dimensional Chen-Lee-Liu(C-L-L)equation using the deformation algorithm from the(1+1)-dimensional C-L-L equation.The new system is integrable with its Lax pair obtained by applying the deformation algorithm to that of the(1+1)-dimension.It is challenging to obtain the exact solutions for the new integrable system because the new system combines both the original C-L-L equation and its reciprocal transformation.The traveling wave solutions are derived in implicit function expression,and some asymmetry peakon solutions are found.

Harmonic balance simulation of the influence of component uniformity and reliability on the performance of a Josephson traveling wave parametric amplifier

A Josephson traveling wave parametric amplifier(JTWPA),which is a quantum-limited amplifier with high gain and large bandwidth,is the core device of large-scale measurement and control systems for quantum computing.A typical JTWPA consists of thousands of Josephson junctions connected in series to form a transmission line and hundreds of shunt LC resonators periodically loaded along the line for phase matching.Because the variation of these capacitors and inductors can be detrimental to their high-frequency characteristics,the fabrication of a JTWPA typically necessitates precise processing equipment.To guide the fabrication process and further improve the design for manufacturability,it is necessary to understand how each electronic component affects the amplifier.In this paper,we use the harmonic balance method to conduct a comprehensive study on the impact of nonuniformity and fabrication yield of the electronic components on the performance of a JTWPA.The results provide insightful and scientific guidance for device design and fabrication processes.

Multiscale Characteristics and Connection Mechanisms of Attraction Networks:A Trajectory Data Mining Approach Leveraging Geotagged Data

Urban tourism is considered a complex system,and multiscale exploration of the organizational patterns of attraction networks has become a topical issue in urban tourism,so exploring the multiscale characteristics and connection mechanisms of attraction networks is important for understanding the linkages between attractions and even the future destination planning.This paper uses geotagging data to compare the links between attractions in Beijing,China during four different periods:the pre-Olympic period(2004–2007),the Olympic Games and subsequent‘heat period’(2008–2013),the post-Olympic period(2014–2019),and the COVID-19(Corona Virus Disease 2019)pandemic period(2020–2021).The aim is to better understand the evolution and patterns of attraction networks at different scales in Beijing and to provide insights for tourism planning in the destination.The results show that the macro,meso-,and microscales network characteristics of attraction networks have inherent logical relationships that can explain the commonalities and differences in the development process of tourism networks.The macroscale attraction network degree Matthew effect is significant in the four different periods and exhibits a morphological monocentric structure,suggesting that new entrants are more likely to be associated with attractions that already have high value.The mesoscale links attractions according to the common purpose of tourists,and the results of the community segmentation of the attraction networks in the four different periods suggest that the functional polycentric structure describes their clustering effect,and the weak links between clusters result from attractions bound by incomplete information and distance,and the functional polycentric structure with a generally more efficient network of clusters.The pattern structure at the microscale reveals the topological transformation relationship of the regional collaboration pattern,and the attraction network structure in the four different periods has a very similar importance profile structure suggesting that the attraction network has the same construction rules and evolution mechanism,which aids in understanding the attraction network pattern at both macro and micro scales.Important approaches and practical implications for planners and managers are presented.

Appropriate Combination of Crossover Operator andMutation Operator in Genetic Algorithms for the Travelling Salesman Problem

Genetic algorithms(GAs)are very good metaheuristic algorithms that are suitable for solving NP-hard combinatorial optimization problems.AsimpleGAbeginswith a set of solutions represented by a population of chromosomes and then uses the idea of survival of the fittest in the selection process to select some fitter chromosomes.It uses a crossover operator to create better offspring chromosomes and thus,converges the population.Also,it uses a mutation operator to explore the unexplored areas by the crossover operator,and thus,diversifies the GA search space.A combination of crossover and mutation operators makes the GA search strong enough to reach the optimal solution.However,appropriate selection and combination of crossover operator and mutation operator can lead to a very good GA for solving an optimization problem.In this present paper,we aim to study the benchmark traveling salesman problem(TSP).We developed several genetic algorithms using seven crossover operators and six mutation operators for the TSP and then compared them to some benchmark TSPLIB instances.The experimental studies show the effectiveness of the combination of a comprehensive sequential constructive crossover operator and insertion mutation operator for the problem.The GA using the comprehensive sequential constructive crossover with insertion mutation could find average solutions whose average percentage of excesses from the best-known solutions are between 0.22 and 14.94 for our experimented problem instances.

A Novel Insertion Solution for the Travelling Salesman Problem

The studypresents theHalfMax InsertionHeuristic (HMIH) as a novel approach to solving theTravelling SalesmanProblem (TSP). The goal is to outperform existing techniques such as the Farthest Insertion Heuristic (FIH) andNearest Neighbour Heuristic (NNH). The paper discusses the limitations of current construction tour heuristics,focusing particularly on the significant margin of error in FIH. It then proposes HMIH as an alternative thatminimizes the increase in tour distance and includes more nodes. HMIH improves tour quality by starting withan initial tour consisting of a ‘minimum’ polygon and iteratively adding nodes using our novel Half Max routine.The paper thoroughly examines and compares HMIH with FIH and NNH via rigorous testing on standard TSPbenchmarks. The results indicate that HMIH consistently delivers superior performance, particularly with respectto tour cost and computational efficiency. HMIH’s tours were sometimes 16% shorter than those generated by FIHand NNH, showcasing its potential and value as a novel benchmark for TSP solutions. The study used statisticalmethods, including Friedman’s Non-parametric Test, to validate the performance of HMIH over FIH and NNH.This guarantees that the identified advantages are statistically significant and consistent in various situations. Thiscomprehensive analysis emphasizes the reliability and efficiency of the heuristic, making a compelling case for itsuse in solving TSP issues. The research shows that, in general, HMIH fared better than FIH in all cases studied,except for a few instances (pr439, eil51, and eil101) where FIH either performed equally or slightly better thanHMIH. HMIH’s efficiency is shown by its improvements in error percentage (δ) and goodness values (g) comparedto FIH and NNH. In the att48 instance, HMIH had an error rate of 6.3%, whereas FIH had 14.6% and NNH had20.9%, indicating that HMIH was closer to the optimal solution. HMIH consistently showed superior performanceacross many benchmarks, with lower percentage error and higher goodness values, suggesting a closer match tothe optimal tour costs. This study substantially contributes to combinatorial optimization by enhancing currentinsertion algorithms and presenting a more efficient solution for the Travelling Salesman Problem. It also createsnew possibilities for progress in heuristic design and optimization methodologies.

Drone systems for delivering defibrillators for sudden cardiac arrests

Unmanned aerial vehicles(UAVs),or drones,that were initially developed for military use during World War I[1],have evolved into highly sophisticated aircraft that can be navigated remotely using global positioning systems.With constant improvements,drones have become more efficient,and cost-effective,with longer battery life and greater loading capacity.Today,UAVs have proven to be an effective and affordable solution for enhancing healthcare accessibility for patients who face geographical or infrastructural barriers.Using drone networks can greatly reduce the time transporting life-saving equipment,such as delivering automated external defibrillators(AEDs),to cardiac arrest victims,and can provide quick assistance to reduce travel time for the patients.

Multi-Branch Fault Line Location Method Based on Time Difference Matrix Fitting

The distribution network exhibits complex structural characteristics,which makes fault localization a challenging task.Especially when a branch of the multi-branch distribution network fails,the traditional multi-branch fault location algorithm makes it difficult to meet the demands of high-precision fault localization in the multi-branch distribution network system.In this paper,the multi-branch mainline is decomposed into single branch lines,transforming the complex multi-branch fault location problem into a double-ended fault location problem.Based on the different transmission characteristics of the fault-traveling wave in fault lines and non-fault lines,the endpoint reference time difference matrix S and the fault time difference matrix G were established.The time variation rule of the fault-traveling wave arriving at each endpoint before and after a fault was comprehensively utilized.To realize the fault segment location,the least square method was introduced.It was used to find the first-order fitting relation that satisfies the matching relationship between the corresponding row vector and the first-order function in the two matrices,to realize the fault segment location.Then,the time difference matrix is used to determine the traveling wave velocity,which,combined with the double-ended traveling wave location,enables accurate fault location.

Just 19: Love on the Beijing Subway

Travel through Chinese culture on Beijing’s latest subway line and learn all about China.MANY foreign visitors to Beijing never travel on the city’s subway.This is a sad fact because they will never truly understand the Chinese character.They will not meet the grandmother temporarily lost in memories of childhood back in a time when dreams were impossible since everyone was still poor and hungry.Her grandson sees things differently.He fears that if he does not make it rich in modern China,his life will be considered a failure.

Panda Cup Qingtian Tour: Home Away from Home

In November 26 and 27,more than 30 winners of the Panda Cup Foreign Student Essay Contest traveled to Qingtian County,Lishui City,which is located in the mountainous region of southern Zhejiang Province.During the trip,young students from more than 20 countries experienced the cultural charm of Qingtian,acquired a better understanding of the ecological system of rice-fish symbiosis,and gained greater appreciation for the economic and trade development prospects of the county,a well-known ancestral home of overseas Chinese.