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    Inter-reciprocity applied to electrical networks

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    Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Scienc

    'Twas on the beach at Brighton one fine Summer day, I met this handsome man who stole my heart away [first line of chorus]

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    strophic with choruspiano and voiceTo Wm. Lingard, Author & Singerads on inside back cover for J.L. Peters stock353-3Johns Hopkins University, Levy Sheet Music Collection, Box 053, Item 027W.D. Raphaelson.Sung by LingardPaleri[?

    'Twas on the beach at Brighton one fine Summer day, I met this handsome man who stole my heart away [first line of chorus]

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    strophic with choruspiano and voiceTo Wm. Lingard, Author & Singerads on inside back cover for J.L. Peters stock353-3Johns Hopkins University, Levy Sheet Music Collection, Box 053, Item 027W.D. Raphaelson.Sung by LingardPaleri[?

    Feasibility Study of a Balanced Upper Arm Orthosis based on Bending Beams

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    People with neuromuscular diseases request an orthosis close to the body for assistance with their arm movements. This paper proposes a concept for a passive arm support that is close to the body and is based on bending beams. Simulations resulted in the final configuration and dimensions of the beams, optimised to balance an arm. One Carbon-fibre-reinforced polymer beam with dimensions 0.22x0.0041x0.0027m at the medial side and one at the lateral side of the upper arm delivers the required energy for balancing the arm. Experimental evaluation of a prototype demonstrated the technical principle; more than 87% of the moment around the shoulder was balanced between 0 and 1.1rad. A second prototype was built for preliminary evaluation of the concept in relation to the body. The width of the elastic and structural elements was more than four times smaller than in present arm supports. From this it was concluded that bending beams have the potential to make an orthosis that is closer to the upper arm than current orthoses.BMEBioMechanical EngineeringMechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineerin

    J.L. Brierly and The Modernization of International Law

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    In this Article, the author provides an analysis of a classic of international law, The Law of Nations, by J.L. Brierly. The author describes Brierly as an international legal scholar whose modernization of international law involves an emphasis on fact and complexity, an emphasis that is ultimately little more than a gesture. The author then examines the narrative structure of The Law of Nations and indicates the normative messages disclosed in Brierly\u27s telling of the story of international law. Finally, the author describes Brierly\u27s effort to describe international law as occupying a political realm while Brierly\u27s evolutionary optimism made him anything but a political realist. In short, the author sees in Brierly\u27s promises of complexity and realism a thinly veiled simplicity that would be subsumed into the orthodoxies of international legal thought

    The use of MPM to estimate the behaviour of rigid structures during landslides

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    In geotechnical engineering, proper design of retaining structures is of great importance, since failure of these structures can lead to catastrophic consequences. Nowadays, the finite element method is seen as a reliable numerical technique to analyze soil behaviour and is widely used to assess the interaction be-tween soil and rigid structures. However, a disadvantage of this method is the difficulty of simulating contact between separate bodies. Because of this, the event of a slope failing and colliding with a rigid body cannot be analyzed, so that the additional forces acting against the rigid body caused by the motion of the ground are neglected. With the recent development of the material point method (MPM), this limitation has been over-come and problems involving large deformation and multiple bodies in contact can be analyzed. In this paper, the effect of a landslide colliding with a rigid wall has been studied, and multiple initial conditions have been considered in order to identify the critical case.Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.Geo-engineeringGeoscience and Engineerin

    Experimental application of a dynamic observer to capture and predict the dynamics of a flat-plate boundary layer

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    The recent approach, proposed by Guzman-Inigo et al. \cite{GuzmanInigo2014}, using System Identification to derive a Reduced Order Model from snapshots of a flow is applied to a transitional boundary layer growing over a flat-plate. It is shown that such an approach can indeed be applied to experimental PIV snapshots. Using a proper learning dataset and a proper local sensor, it is shown that the evolution of boundary layer can be properly estimated from the time evolution of the local probe and with no more than ten POD modes for the Reduced Order Model. The influence of the various parameters on the efficiency of the system identification technique is discussed

    Biophysical modelling of larval dispersal and population connectivity of a stalked barnacle: implications for fishery governance

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    Nolasco, R., Dubert, J., Acuña, J.L., Aguión, A., Cruz, T., Fernandes, J.N., Geiger, K.J., Jacinto, D., Macho, G., Mateus, D., Rivera, A., Román, S., Thiébaut, E., Vazquez, E., Queiroga, H

    Interoperability in the networked design infrastructure

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    Interoperability, the ability of different software applications to communicate with each other, is one of the biggest challenges for efficient and effective use of advanced software technology in structural design and engineering. In practice, the problem of interoperability exists very much for the end-user since agreement on common standards does not exist despite the many efforts over the years. This paper discusses an approach to interoperability based on the assumption that one final common standard will probably never exist and that a more practical federated approach needs to be taken. In this paper the author demonstrates the concepts which a new conceptual infrastructure, called NetworkedDesign, provides to address the challenges of interoperability. The infrastructure contains a rich set of concepts for the user to express information through lightweight open objects and logical constructs which can be used as a basis for an ad hoc standard between applications.Structural EngineeringCivil Engineering and Geoscience
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