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Zuber : two hundred years of panoramic wallpaper
\"Zuber & Cie wallpapers' fame spreads far and wide (and long) from King Louis Philippe awarding Jean Zuber the Legion of Honor in 1834 to Jackie Kennedy installing Zuber's Vues de l'Amâerique du Nord in the White House. According to France Today, the company still uses the same antique woodblocks, the same paint formulas, and the same time-honored processes to create its stunning wallpapers as it did in Jean Zuber's time. Gorgeous displays of friezes, borders, ceiling roses and architectural trompe l'oeil, photographed in homes in the U.S., France, and the U.K.\"-- Provided by the publisher.
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The tensor Harish-Chandra–Itzykson–Zuber integral I: Weingarten calculus and a generalization of monotone Hurwitz numbers
We study a generalization of the Harish-Chandra–Itzykson–Zuber integral to tensors and its expansion in terms of trace invariants of the two external tensors. This gives rise to natural generalizations of monotone double Hurwitz numbers, which count certain families of constellations. We find an expression of these numbers in terms of monotone simple Hurwitz numbers, thereby also providing expressions for monotone double Hurwitz numbers of arbitrary genus in terms of the single ones. We give an interpretation of the different combinatorial quantities at play in terms of enumeration of nodal surfaces. In particular, our generalization of Hurwitz numbers is shown to count certain isomorphism classes of branched coverings of a bouquet of D 2-spheres that touch at one common non-branch node.
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First two-way laser ranging to a lunar orbiter: infrared observations from the Grasse station to LRO’s retro-reflector array
We present the results of the first series of successful two-way laser ranging experiments from a ground station, the Lunar Laser Ranging (LLR) station in Grasse, France, to a spacecraft at lunar distance, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO). A 15 × 18 × 5 cm, 650-g array of twelve 32-mm diameter solid corner cubes is mounted on its anti-nadir deck. Ranging to this small retro-reflector array onboard a lunar orbiter from a ground station was a challenge compared to ranging to larger lunar surface retro-reflectors. Grasse measured 67 returns in two 6-min sessions on September 4, 2018. Clear returns were also recorded during two additional sessions on August 23–24, 2019 for which active slewing by LRO was performed to bring the array in view of the station. The measured echos yielded range residuals less than 3 cm (two-way time-of-flight RMS < 180 ps) relative to the reconstructed LRO trajectory. This experiment provides a new method of verifying theories of dust accumulation over decades on the lunar surface. It also showed that the use of similar arrays onboard future lunar landers and orbiters can support LLR lunar science goals, particularly with landing sites near the lunar limbs and poles, which would have better sensitivity to lunar orientation.
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Assessment of Permian Zubers as the Host Rock for Deep Geological Disposal
Together with renewable energy sources, nuclear power represents an important contribution to a sustainable energy mix in many countries and has an important impact on sustainable development. Nuclear energy production is also a source of high-level radioactive waste (HLW) and spent nuclear fuel (SNF), which require special concern. Disposal in deep geological formations is one of the solutions for the long-term management of HLW and SNF. It requires the development of a concept ensuring long-term safe isolation of waste and its validation applying the safety case methodology, which is a formal compilation of evidence, analyses and arguments that quantify and justify a claim that the repository will be safe. The results of laboratory testing of a potential repository host rock are an important component of the evidence that helps in the safety assessment of the deep geological disposal concept. This paper presents results of research focused on the physical, geomechanical and sorption properties of the Brown and Red Zuber unit rocks from the Kłodawa Salt Mine in Poland, which together with rock salt are an important component of Polish salt domes. The Brown and Red Zubers are typical evaporite lithostratigraphic units for the Polish part of the Zechstein Basin. They consist of halite (15–85%) and water-insoluble minerals, such as anhydrite, clay minerals, carbonates, quartz and feldspar, which occurred in varying proportions in the tested samples. The properties of the zuber rocks have been compared with those of rock salt, which is considered a suitable host rock for deep geological disposal of radioactive waste.
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Projections of orbital measures for classical Lie groups
In this paper we compute the radial parts of the projections of orbital measures for the compact Lie groups of B, C, and D type, extending previous results obtained for the case of the unitary group by Olshanski and Faraut. Applying the method of Faraut, we show that the radial part of the projection of an orbital measure is expressed in terms of a B-spline with knots located symmetrically with respect to zero.
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Investigation and conservation of a panoramic wallpaper Les Vues du Brésil from 1829
From 1829 the Zuber printing shop at Rixheim, Alsace, France, produced a series of 30 lengths of wallpaper titled Les vues du Brésil, which were based on drawings by the painter J.M. Rugendas. Images and colours were hand-printed in multiple layers on prepared paper. One incomplete issue of this wallpaper had decorated a villa in Großschönau, Saxony, Germany, since the first half of the nineteenth century. Following more than 30 years in very bad storage conditions, the salvaged wallpapers had been kept in the Museum of Ethnology, Dresden, Germany, since 1984. Technical examination was carried out on the paper support and painting materials. The single paper sheets were made from handmade mulberry paper. The unusually large format implies that they could have been made only in Asia. The blue pigment used for the sky was synthetic ultramarine, while the wallpaper was shown to have been made prior to or in 1830. This is a remarkably early use of this pigment for wallpaper, considering the production date. Furthermore, a range of other synthetic pigments typical for the nineteenth century was identified. The water-based binders are vegetable gum and protein. Extensive damage to both paper support and paint layers was observed before conservation. Colour change in the blue paint areas was found to be caused by fading of the pigment and formation of a superficial white layer of gypsum. A conservation treatment was developed, including surface cleaning, consolidation of the painted side, separation from the supporting slab, cleaning of the reverse, cleaning and consolidation on the suction table, completion of the support, retouching using hatching with watercolours, and lining.
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\Re-shaping Documentary Expectations: New Journalism and Direct Cinema.\
An abstract of Re-shaping Documentary Expectations: New Journalism and Direct Cinema by Sharon Zuber is presented. This study argues that new journalism and direct cinema movements developed as a specific response to the shift from a modern to a postmodern aesthetic, a shift away from faith in a coherent reality at a historical moment in the US.
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Purple Bacterial Light-harvesting Complexes: From Dreams to Structures
This paper describes the main stages involved in the research efforts designed to try and understand the structure and function of purple bacterial antenna complexes. Wherever possible the work has been illustrated by pictures of the major people who carried it out.
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