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Rozpor ako východisko, láska ako smer u Simone Weilovej (Contradiction as base, Love as direction in writings of Simone Weil)
No full textArticle is explaining contradiction and love, Simone Weil‘s essential terms of hermeneutics of human Being. It introduces close relation of these terms with her understanding of God as well as with her overall concept of religion. Author also mentions Simone Weil‘s inspirations with philosophical and spiritual concepts of the East
Recensione a The Drawings of Raffaaellino Motta da Reggio. Note sul "catalogo" di Marco Simone Bolzoni e alcune proposte per Giovanni Battista Lombardelli
No full textRecensione al catalogo dei disegni di Raffaellino da Reggio pubblicato da Marco Simone Bolzoni sulla rivista "Master Drawings", con alcune note e aggiunte inedite a Giovan Battista Lombardelli disegnatore
“I beg you to tell me what has become of Djamila”: The Political Mobilization of Simone de Beauvoir’s Readers During the Boupacha Affair
No full textBy Sophia Millman This is a condensed version of a Masters thesis dedicated to the political mobilization of Simone de Beauvoir’s readers. The citations from the letters were translated from French by the author. *** On June 2, 1960, the French government ordered all copies of the daily Algiers edition of Le Monde seized and destroyed to suppress the publication of Simone de Beauvoir’s article “Pour Djamila Boupacha.” Beauvoir, a self-professed “woman of letters”, not “of action[1]”, and one ..
LABORATORY AND IN-THE FIELD EXPERIENCES ON THE MEASUREMENT OF SPONTANEOUS POTENTIAL IN MASONRY AFFECTED BY RISING DAMP
No full textRising damp is a severe problem in historic masonry structures all over the world, as it jeopardises the indoor comfort and causes several deterioration processes in building materials, such as frost damage, salt crystallisation cycles, etc.. Among the technologies proposed for fighting rising damp, electro-osmosis has found several applications in real buildings, but its effectiveness can be considered still under investigation. In fact, although this method is based on electrokinetic principles that are already widely exploited in different fields, the electrokinetic processes taking place in historic masonry walls have not been fully elucidated yet.
In this paper the results of the measurement of spontaneous electric potential in fired-clay brick walls affected by rising damp are reported, as a contribution towards a better knowledge of the electrokinetic process in masonry. The testing was performed firstly in small-scale masonry models built in the lab with different bricks and subjected to capillary rise of water and saline solutions. Then, some brick masonry walls of heritage building affected by rising damp were tested with the same methodology used in the lab, in order to detect the presence of spontaneous electric potentials also in real materials and conditions
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
RECYCLING WASTE FOR THE PRODUCTION OF SUSTAINABLE MORTARS FOR BRICK MASONRY
No full textFor many years bedding mortars have been considered a secondary component in structural brick masonry walls and they were classified only on the base of their binder (see, e.g., the Italian law DM 20/11/1987 concerning the Regulation for designing, building, testing and strengthening masonry) rather than characterized for their actual mechanical performance. This approach has recently changed and joint mortars have gained higher and higher attention, as they substantially influence the final mechanical performance of masonry. At the same time, a growing awareness of the sustainability issue has been registered in the field of building materials (Bignozzi, 2011), given the extremely high environmental impact of the construction sector (Franzoni, 2011) and its expected increase due to the global population growth (estimated to pass from 6.5 billion in 2005 to about 9.0 billion in 2035 (Dixit and Fernandez-Solis, 2010)). In this scenario, mitigating the consumption of raw materials and energy the manufacturing of building materials is of paramount importance and recycling waste and by-products appears as a feasible route toward this goal.
Nevertheless, while recycling waste in concrete was widely investigated and has now entered the building practice, even if with some limitations and die-hard prejudices, the use of not hazardous waste and by-products for masonry (and in particular for mortar joints) is much less considered, despite the widespread presence of structural masonry and wall plug all over the word.
In this paper, different mortars with improved sustainability were prepared, partially or totally substituting the fine aggregate with recycled fractions (sand from grounding demolished concrete or end-use tyre rubber) or replacing the cement with a low-carbon binder (alkali-activated binder).
After a first characterization of the mortars in terms of strength and microstructure, some brick masonry triplets were built and characterized to assess their properties, with particular reference to their shear behaviour, in view of their possible use in masonry buildings in seismic zones of the world
Spontaneous electrical effects in masonry affected by capillary water rise: the role of salts
No full textThe investigation of the electrical effects accompanying capillary water rise from ground in old masonries is of great practical interest, as such effects might be exploited for both measurement purposes (determination
of moisture and soluble salts) and for dehumidification purposes (techniques based on electrokinetic principles).
In the present paper, the spontaneous dc voltages arising in a real-scale masonry model subject to a steady-state capillary flux of saline solutions (0.05 M sodium chloride and 0.05 M sodium sulphate in water) were measured. The resulting voltage depends on the amount and distribution of salts, rather than on moisture content in the masonry
Microlinices benthovus Simone 2014
No full textbenthovus, Microlinices Simone, 2014 Microlinices benthovus Simone, 2014: 575–578 (figs 6A–J, 7A–H, 11A–C). Gastropoda, Naticidae Paratypes (22 spc): MZSP 105269. Paratypes 1 (15 spc): MZSP 105270. Paratypes 2 (16 spc): MZSP 105271. Paratypes 3 (7 spc): MZSP 105272. Localities: Brazil, Espírito Santo, off Itaúnas, Abrolhos Slope, 18°59' S, 37°50' W, MD55 sta. DC 73, 637 m depth, 27 May 1987; 1) 19°00' S, 37°48' W, MD55 sta. DC72, 950– 1050 m, 27 May 1987; 2) off Regência, 19°40' S, 37°48' W, MD55 sta. CB77, 790– 940 m depth, 27 May 1987; 3) off Itaúnas, Abrolhos Slope, 19°01' S, 37°47' W, MD55 sta. CB79, 1500–1575 m depth, 28 May 1987. Collectors: P. Bouchet, J.H. Leal and B. Métivier. Preservation: Dry. Remarks: Former MNHN, Paris. The catalogue number MZSP 105250 is mentioned twice in Simone’s (2014) paper, among the paratypes of M. ibitingus Simone, 2014 and M. benthovus. This duplicity was a mistake by the author: the latter is an erroneous designation and should be disregarded. The only valid paratype lots for M. benthovus are the ones shown above.Published as part of Cavallari, Daniel C., Dornellas, Ana Paula S. & Simone, Luiz Ricardo L., 2016, Second annotated list of type specimens of molluscs deposited in the Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil, pp. 1-59 in European Journal of Taxonomy 213 on page 10, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2016.213, http://zenodo.org/record/384012
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