36,124 research outputs found
Simone Weil and Judaism
No full textThis essay argues that Simone Weil’s fraught relationship with Judaism reveals the ethical and political dimensions of her wider philosophy. It examines Weil’s denunciation of Jewish theology—particularly her critiques of idolatry, nationalism, and the worship of power—and situates these within Weil's broader rejection of force and collective identity. The discussion traces how Weil’s views have provoked accusations of antisemitism while also inspiring nuanced reassessments by thinkers such as Levinas, Chenavier, and Rose. The essay contends that, although Weil’s judgments are often partial and severe, they expose enduring tensions between religion, nationalism, and universal justice. In its final sections, the piece reconsiders Weil’s relevance in the context of Israel’s war on Gaza, arguing that her thought unsettles assumptions about the relationship between Judaism and Zionism. Ultimately, the essay presents Weil’s radical universalism as a challenge to all forms of moral exclusion and political idolatry
Active material utilization and capacity of fiber-based battery electrodes
No full textThis study presents a three-dimensional computational model to evaluate effective conductivity and capacity of fiber-based battery electrodes. We employ electrodes composed of conductive and active material nanofibers dispersed in an electrolyte matrix. The effective conductivity is calculated by means of an equivalent resistor network model, while capacity evaluation is based on the identification of active material fibers that are accessible to electrons (i.e., those connected with the electronically conductive network). When a constraint is applied to the total fiber content, an optimal active-conductive material ratio is determined that maximizes the active material utilization and the electrode capacity. We also study fiber orientation effects on the electrode electrochemical properties. It is found that fiber orientation has a strong impact on the percolation threshold, and this impact also reflects on the active material utilization: the more the fiber orientation deviates from the ideal isotropic distribution, the lower the utilization of active material fibers. This is of special interest for practical applications where geometrical constraints on fiber orientation arise, as in the case of electrospun fibers deposited on a substrate. The results of this study are therefore meant to give an insight into how a fibrous electrode architecture performs and suggest effective design solutions.Applied Mechanic
Art. 28 - Trasformazione dell'ente - Profili societari (Commento all'art. 28 del d. lgs. 8 giugno 2001, n. 231)
No full textIl lavoro costituisce un commento all'art. 28 del d. lgs. 231/2001 (relativo alla responsabilità da reato degli enti collettivi), cercando di analizzare quali sono le conseguenze dell'operazione di trasformazione su un ente: a) già responsabile per illecito amministrativo dipendente da reato; b) la cui responsabilità non è stata ancora accertata; c) il cui giudizio di accertamento non è ancora iniziato. Il contributo cerca di dare una chiave di lettura di una norma (l'art. 28) scritta (o) prima della riforma del diritto societario del 2003 e, quindi, in un contesto normativo in cui l'operazione di trasformazione era ben diversa da quella risultante dopo la ricordata riforma
Profili societari. Commento all'art. 28 del d. lgs. 8 giugno 2001, n. 231
No full textIl lavoro costituisce un commento (aggiornato rispetto alla precedente edizione) all'art. 28 del d. lgs. 231/2001 (relativo alla responsabilità da reato degli enti collettivi), cercando di analizzare quali sono le conseguenze dell'operazione di trasformazione (sia interna che trasfrontaliera) su un ente: a) già responsabile per illecito amministrativo dipendente da reato; b) la cui responsabilità non è stata ancora accertata; c) il cui giudizio di accertamento non è ancora iniziato. Il contributo cerca di dare una chiave di lettura di una norma (l'art. 28) scritta (o) prima della riforma del diritto societario del 2003 e dell'introduzione della trasformazione trasfrontaliera del 2023: quindi pensata per un contesto normativo in cui l'operazione di trasformazione era ben diversa da quella attuale
Tensorial effective transport properties of Li-ion battery separators elucidated by computational multiscale modeling
No full textExisting battery modeling works have limitations in addressing the dependence of transport properties on local field variations and characterizing the response of anisotropic media.
These limitations are tackled by means of a nested finite element (FE2) multiscale framework in which microscale simulations are employed to comprehensively characterize an anisotropic medium (macroscale).
The approach is applied to the numerical simulation of transport processes in lithium ion battery separators.
From the microscale solution, homogenized fluxes and their dependence on the downscaled macroscale variables are upscaled, thereby replacing otherwise assumed macroscale constitutive laws.
The tensorial nature of macroscale effective transport properties stems from the numerical treatment.
The proposed approach is verified against full-scale simulations. Several numerical examples are used to demonstrate the perils associated with accepted procedures, leading in some cases to severe discrepancies in the prediction of field quantities (from differences in the potential drop across the separator of about 27% for a fixed microstructure to more than 100% in the case of an evolving microstructure). Despite the use of simplified assumptions (e.g., synthetic microstructures), the numerical results demonstrate the importance of a tensorial description of transport properties in the modeling of battery processes
A comparative study of form and theology in the works of Flannery O'Connor and Simone Weil
No full textIn this comparative study of the form and theology of Flannery O'Connor and Simone Weil I interrogate how Weil's philosophical writings and her theology illuminate O'Connor's use of both narrative and non-fictional forms, and her Catholicism. The Introduction analyses how Weil's concept of superposed reading provides a new method of approaching both O'Connor, her writings, and O'Connor
studies, and focuses on how such apparently different women interconnect. Chapter One explores how both Weil and O'Connor attempt to write their theologies on the
souls of their readers yet are each subject to constraints imposed by form. Weil's concept of locating equilibrium between incommensurates is discussed, and her
distinctively philosophical approach to fictions and fictionality is used to investigate O'Connor's notion of prophetic fictions and the writer's role. Chapter Two assesses how both writers revivify Christian paradoxes. Weil's monstrous concept of affiiction, and O'Connor's use of the grotesque genre to jolt secular man into an
awareness of the sacred are scrutinised. Chapter Three studies how both writers consider an encounter between God and man is possible through the action of grace. My Conclusion interrogates how Weil's work can deepen our understanding of O'Connor's writings, and examines how successful O'Connor is at realising a truly
Christian literature. I conclude that despite being a writer of powerful fictions, O'Connor can not be totally successful in her mission as writer-prophet because
ultimately fiction escapes orthodoxy
A Metaethical Study of Simone Weil’s Notion of Attention Through Critical Practical Analogy
No full textThis research provides an example of art practice employed within a metaethical framework by addressing Simone Weil‘s ethical notion of attention. In this thesis, 'metaethics‘ is defined as a second order inquiry into first order questions of normative ethics, more specifically, an inquiry into the metaphysical and epistemological premises of Weil‘s discourse on the ethical value of attention.
On one hand, I demonstrate how Weil‘s notion of attention can expand the scope of art so as to include metaethics. On the other hand, I use art to widen the current knowledge of Weilian attention.
The research projects described and analysed in this thesis are predicated on a method which I designate 'critical practical analogy‘; this is an analogy which includes art practical operations for the purpose of critical investigation. This method subsumes both theoretical and practical inquiries. I used two analogies:
– Normative analogy compares (a) the dualistic relation that Weil postulates between agent and reality in her discourse on attention to (b) the relation that I postulate between my agency through observational drawing and the object of observation. The analogy operates by using Weil‘s assertions on attention normatively in observational drawing.
– Imaginal analogy compares (a) Weil‘s use of tautology and contradiction in her arguments for ethical attention to (b) tautology and contradiction considered as argument forms. The analogy operates by giving aesthetic presence to these forms, i.e. by turning them into images through artworks.
The analogies obtained the following outcomes:
– The normative projects afford a practical knowledge of Weilian attention by interpreting it as an ethical practice of detachment. The projects also demonstrate that, notwithstanding Weil‘s transcendent view of truth, such a practice of detachment is compatible with a subjective notion of truth.
– By capitalising on the non-propositional mode of representation which is typical of visual art, the imaginal projects engender a scepticism which favours dialogue and values questions as positive research results.
The outcomes indicate the following implications for visual arts practice:
– The outcomes of the normative projects demonstrate how contemporary artists who regard notions of universal truth with scepticism need not necessarily disavow ethical intentions in their practice.
– Due to its propositional character, theoretical metaethics can reach an impasse from which it can only point discursively to the limits of language. The outcomes of the imaginal projects evidence that art can move beyond these limits non-propositionally.
The use of critical practical analogy also indicates a methodological implication for art practical, interdisciplinary research. Critical practical analogy could provide artists with both a heuristic research tool and a template for articulating a discursive representation of art practice which both acknowledges the non-linearity and indirectness of practice-led research and the need for
interdisciplinary intelligibility
Low energy vs. high energy depositional settings related sedimentary bodies in early Senonian rudist bearing carbonate shelves (central-southern Italy)
No full textCarannante Gabriele, Laviano A., Ruberti D., Simone Lucia, Sirna G., Sirna M., Tropeano M. Low energy vs. high energy depositional settings and related sedimentary bodies in early Senenian rudist bearing carbonate shelves (central-southern Italy). In: Géologie Méditerranéenne. Tome 28, numéro 1-2, 2001. Anatomy of Carbonate Bodies / Anatomie des corps carbonates. International Meeting / Colloque international. Marseille, 9-12 mai 2001, France, sous la direction de Marc Floquet, Jérôme Hennuy et Jean-Pierre Masse. pp. 37-40
Free and total vitamin D in psoriatic patients treated with biological drugs
No full textData regarding the association between psoriasis and vitamin D lev- els are controversial, may be due to the choice of dosing serum total 25(OH)D in order to assess the vitamin D nutritional state both at its basal levels and after supplementation. In the present study, we used the direct immunometric mea- surement of the levels of free 25(OH)D as a biomarker of the basal vitamin D status. In our study, the low free vitamin D levels reg- istered in psoriatic patients support the evidences of the pleiotropic effect of vitamin D and its likely pathogenetic role in psoriasis. Lower levels of the free fraction of vitamin D in psoriatic patients could be at least partially responsible for the altered control of kera- tinocytes proliferation and differentiation, as well as for the modu- lation of the inflammatory and immune processes. In conclusion, our study demonstrates that free 25(OH)D levels, measured with an ac- curate direct analytic method, can be a useful biomarker of vitamin D status in psoriatic patients treated with biological drugs
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