The SPIRAL2 linear accelerator [1] will produce entirely new particle beams enabling exploration of the boundaries of matter. Coupled with the existing GANIL machine this new facility will produce light and heavy exotic nuclei at extremely high intensities. The field deployment of the Control System relies on Linux PCs and servers, VME VxWorks crates and Siemens PLCs; equipment will be addresse...

The Canadian Light Source (CLS) is a 2.9 GeV synchrotron that recently went into service. This paper presents some of the choices made in the design of this facility control system, and lessons learned from the CLS project. Some of the more novel technology choices in the design of the CLS include: (1) fully open source based operating system (RTEMS and Linux); (2) extensive use of fibreoptics ...

Being easy to learn and well suited for a selfcontained desktop laboratory setup, many casual programmers prefer to use the National Instruments LabVIEW environment to develop their logic. An ActiveX interface is presented that allows integration into a plant-wide distributed environment based on the Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System (EPICS). This paper discusses the design dec...

Abstract This review article of Joseph Farrell’s 2021 monograph on Virgil’s Aeneid ( Juno’s Aeneid: A Battle for Heroic Identity , Princeton and Oxford) takes the cue from analysis intertextuality with Homeric epics provides a methodological re-assessment in Virgilian studies Latin literature more broadly. It attempts to retrace theoretical history some main applications intertextual suggests p...

In this article, I bring five recent, substantial novels by Eastern African women writers together for the first time in a study regarding texts as modern ‘national epics’, analysing some of their shared characteristics foregrounding local participation making East ethnonational histories. trace novelists’ implicit, open-eyed moral evaluation leaders and peoples, neither sentimentalising nor de...

Several large-scale Bible epics have been produced in the decade after revival of epic cinema at turn millennium. Yet, while many biblical films this period were primarily aimed religious audiences, Darren Aronofsky’s Noah (2014) and Ridley Scott’s Exodus:Gods Kings stand out due to their broader appeal skepticism. Using Gilles Deleuze’s concepts impulse-image action-image as framework, article...