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Globalisation presents the opportunity for universities to have a world-wide presence but newer institutions in developing countries have difficulty in embarking on such a journey. This paper presents a case study of an emerging university in East Africa and explores the challenges of high ambition while responding to globalisation. Interviews with senior administrators and academics showed that much time and effort was spent responding to funding issues and aid conditions, attaining international standards in research and teaching, and managing challenges of digital technologies against a background of limited infrastructure. In response to globalisation, we argue that emerging universities of this type should consider re-directing limited resources to focus on long-term projects for growing human capital through professional development while developing basic infrastructure needs.

In this research, a comparative analysis between two air conditioning systems will be made. One is going to overview an air-air conditioning system and the other one an hydronic system fed by geothermic energy. A protected building has been chosen, placed in the centre of Madrid. It is the old military building Daoiz y Velarde, refurbished into a children¿s theatre and cultural space. The choice made for this building has been made due to the fact that working in a safe building makes it easier to draw comparative analyzes. The structure and the frontage can¿t be modified, therefore the research should start from the conditions found from the beginning. Finally, it has to be adapted to the C.T of the building, taking in consideration some of the specific requirements for cultural and children¿s spaces. For those analyses, we have to take in account the optimal conditions that a building requires in choosing the most appropriate air conditioning system for the environment (e.g. temperature, humidity and different parameters depending on the user). An informatic tool for the analysis of life cycle, materials, energies, waste etc., should be used for both air conditioning systems. The aim of this research is to find out and demonstrate which of the systems has lower pollution, a global view of the whole Life cycle, extraction of raw materials, construction and earthworks, use and also to consider waste. Ultimately, in this research we want to gain a global vision of the whole life cycle, called for the cradle to the grave. This includes, from the production of the raw materials which makes up the machinery, to the transport of equipment. The energetical consumption during the installation, energetic consumption during using face and the last elimination of waste will also be taken into account. Using the software we can collect data and make the graphics more coherent when comparing both systems and measuring them with the same criteria and scale. This graphic will be represented with the same measurement and we ...

The category of intertextuality and playing with the reader have become an integral part of mass literature in the era of postmodernism. The aim of this article is to analyse the intertextual inclusions in Maskerade (1995), a novel by Terry Pratchett, a British writer who achieved success in comic fantasy and is well-known for his book series Discworld and the use of different cultural references which play a crucial role in the construction of the storyline. The research refers to the original text of Maskerade, the primary precedent texts, i.e. The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux and the musical of the same name by Andrew Lloyd Webber, as well as several musical works of the last century. The distinctive features of the novel include a predominance of musical references over literary ones, which can be explained by the primary plot of the book developing on the stage of the Ankh-Morpork Opera House. In the very paratitle of the novel, the writer begins an intertextual game with the reader, hinting at the main narrative line, the duality and masquerade of what happens. All the plot-forming intertextual connections analysed in this article have no attribution and are expressed in the form of marked quotations, quasi-quotations, and allusions. However, taking into consideration "the white knowledge" and the readers' horizon of expectations, Terry Pratchett reconsiders many images of the characters and seemingly well-known plot twists of The Phantom of the Opera. Furthermore, showing the backstage of the theatrical world with its prejudices and difficulties, the author thereby connects the real world with the secondary fictional world which turn out to be hardly distinguishable from each other.