165 research outputs found
Brief and Appendix of Appellant A.Z.
No full textBrief of Appellant A.Z. in A.Z. v. Higher Education Student Assistance Authorit
Exploring Overarching PSS Design in B2B Industrial Manufacturing
No full textPurpose: The objective of this study is to explore PSS design approaches for product-service innovation in the B2B manufacturing industry. This paper builds on current research within the Delft University of Technology, researching the role of design as a driver for change and servitization.Design/Methods/Approach: We studied 13 product-service design cases of ten weeks, carried out by students industrial design engineering. We collected the case data, observed their process and analysed the outcome of the project. We mapped the product-service proposals and built frameworks categorising levels of innovation and the applied strategic design elements and methods.Findings: Taking an overarching innovation approach, creating a broader perspective on the value chain, exploring new business contexts without being hindered by conventions and limitations and using state-of-art design methods, increase the innovation level of product-service propositions.Originality/Value: This study draws attention to the importance of strategic design processes in PSS innovation.Methodologie en Organisatie van DesignMarketing and Consumer Researc
Whose story is it anyway? The ethics of narration and the narration of ethics in Summertime and Die Sneeuslaper
No full textIncludes bibliographical references.This dissertation analyses and compares the narrative strategies in J.M. Coetzee’s Summertime and Marlene van Niekerk’s Die sneeuslaper and considers the implications of these strategies for the authors’ exploration of the ethics of writing. Much has been written about the literary oeuvres of both Coetzee and Van Niekerk, including studies of the translations of Van Niekerk’s Afrikaans novels into English. There are few “interlingual” comparative studies of contemporary works in Afrikaans and English, however, and certainly none to my knowledge which compares the work of Coetzee and Van Niekerk. My contribution to the conversation about Coetzee’s and Van Niekerk’s work, but also to an increasingly multilingual and interconnected South African literary criticism, will be a comparison of one recent work by each of these two authors, written in English and Afrikaans respectively. I draw on the theories of Bakhtin, Barthes and Levinas to consider the ethical dimension of texts in which “double-voicedness”, a questioning not only of existence, but of the self is fore grounded in the content and narrative structure; where there is a shift in focus from the author to the reader (“the birth of the reader”) and “utterances” are made with the response of “the other” in mind
Plant introduction. Terminology
No full textThis reference book issued by the Donetsk Botanical Garden includes the main terms, concepts, definitions widely used in research and applied activities of plant introduction. While compiling this book the author kept in mind the traditional and modern approaches to solving the problems of this biological field of knowledge. The reference is intended for a wide range of specialists in Botany, Ecology and related fields of knowledge, as well as amateurs involved in plant introduction activities. Teachers, post-graduates and students of the Biology and Earth Science departments of higher education institutions are the intended audience and can use this edition as a reference and manual
Knowledge, memory, and the boundaries of subject [ЗНАНИЕ, ПАМЯТЬ И ГРАНИЦЫ СУБЪЕКТА]
No full textThis article is dedicated to the question: may the subject who uses an artificial device for storing information and consulting it literally know the information contained in this device and got by the subject by way of consulting it? Some philosophers claim the thesis of extended mid, i.e. they consider human mind as a system some parts of which may be external to human body. From this point of view the subject may know the information which is stored not in his memory, but in some computer implanted in him or even in some external storage. The author does not agree with this thesis and think that we don't have sufficient reasons for its statement. But the hypothesis that someone may know what is stored outside of his memory might seem more justified if it could be shown that at least a system consisting from human brain and computer could have the same knowledge as that which corresponding human being would have. Unlike systems consisting from human beings and some external storages working as substitutes of human memory, systems with human brains is based on the same biological processes which provide the work of normal human memory. Can such system have normal human knowledge? The author critically analyzes this hypothesis and shows that we don't have sufficient reasons to answer this question positively. © 2019 RAS Institute of Philosophy. All rights reserved
Towards OMPs Removal: Application of Visible Light Driven Heterojunction Based BiVO4/BiOI Photoanode for the Degradation of Paracetamol Demineralized Water
No full textCurrently, organic micropollutants (OMPs) are continuously and uncontrollably released into the water environment worldwide, as the reason for their special properties, OMPs removal has been a global challenge. This study focuses on acetaminophen degradation by photo-electrolysis (PEC) activities, which is one of the promising advanced oxidation processes (AOP) technologies. First, we report the fabrication methods of the BiVO4/BiOI heterojunction on FTO glass, then characterised the prepared photoanodes with XPS, XRD, SEM, EDS, UV-vis and IPCE. The results demonstrated the BiVO4/BiOI p-n heterojunction had been successfully electrodeposited on the FTO glass. Further, the LSV and EIS analysis in this study showed the BiVO4/BiOI photoanode had less photocurrent density than BiVO4 when carried out in the solution of acetaminophen. Even if the heterojunction did not improve the photocurrent, it significantly enhance the acetaminophen removal efficiency in the PEC degradation process. BiVO4/BiOI photoanode achieved 99% degradation efficiency in 3 hours and obtained 0.019 mi n−1 of the reaction rate constant. Overall, these results indicate that BiVO4/BiOI heterojunction has a great application potential for the degradation of OMPs in the wastewater treatment plants secondary effluent.Civil Engineering | Environmental Engineerin
Photoelectrocatalytic degradation of organic micropollutants with BiVO<sub>4</sub>/(TiO<sub>2</sub>/GO)<sub>mix</sub> ternary composite photoanodes
No full textIn the recent decade, a wide range of emerging contaminants (ECs) has been regularly detected in the wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) effluent, surface water and even groundwater. Among all these ECs, organic micropollutants (OMPs) are receiving increasing attention due to their characteristics of low concentration, difficulty in degradation and their harmful effects on humans and the environment. Nineteen OMPs have been included on the contaminant watch list of the European Union Water Framework Directive since 2015 and efficient and reliable methods to eliminate them are researched worldwide. Therefore, in this study, five of these 19 OMPs (benzotriazole (BTA), carbamazepine (CBZ), diclofenac (DIC), ketoprofen (KET) and caffeine (CAF)) were selected as target OMPs. And the research objective is to fabricate a ternary composite photoanode and to investigate its photoelectrocatalytic degradation performance for all five target OMPs.BiVO4/(TiO2/graphene oxide (GO))mix ternary composite thin films were successfully deposited on fluorine-doped tin oxide (FTO) glass substrates using ultrasonic spray paralysis (USP) method to form a ternary heterojunction structure and to improve the photoelectrocatalytic performance for degradation of the five target OMPs. The morphology, crystal phase, surface chemical composition, optical and electrochemical properties of this ternary composite photoanode were analyzed by scanning electronic microscopy (SEM), energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDS), X-ray diffraction (XRD), X-Ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), UV-vis spectroscopy, incident photon-to-electron conversion efficiency (IPCE), linear sweep voltammetry (LSV) and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS), respectively. The results of these analyses showed that TiO2 P25 nanoparticles and GO sheets were distributed uniformly on the brain-shaped BiVO4 structure which indicated that the ternary heterojunction structure was formed successfully. From the UV-vis analysis, it could be estimated that the band gap energy for BiVO4/(TiO2/GO)mix ternary composite photoanodes is 2.43 eV. Further, the LSV and EIS analysis showed that the photocurrent of the ternary composite photoanodes is lower than pure BiVO4 photoanodes.The degradation experiments were divided into five stages. The optimal photoanode type was first determined in the pre-experiment stage using methylene blue (MB) as indicator organic pollutant and then the effect of initial concentrations of target OMPs and initial pH on the degradation efficiency were studied in stage II and III, respectively. The highest removal efficiency of the five target OMPs was obtained with initial OMPs concentration at 10 μg·L-1 and initial pH range of 3.5-4.0. The degradation experiments were triplicated under this optimal condition in stage IV. It was noticed from the results that the degradation efficiency of different OMPs after 3 hours of reaction time varied from 31.1 % to 99.5 %. To further confirm that there is competition between the five target OMPs during the photoelectrocatalytic degradation process, experiments were carried out in which individual OMPs were degraded independently. The reusability and stability of the photoanodes were evaluated in stage V. Trapping experiments using scavengers were also included in this stage, which showed that superoxide anions was the most active species during the degradation process.Civil Engineering | Environmental Engineerin
Denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula: forgotten aspects
No full textWhen discussing various issues of denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, Western politicians and experts focus exclusively on finding ways to force the DPRK to abandon its nuclear and missile capabilities. At the same time, the US is employing all the sorts of inducements to persuade the DPRK to move to the American security zone in NEA. Meanwhile, the joint statement of the leaders of the United States and North Korea, adopted at the end of their summit in June 2018 in Singapore, refers to the denuclearization of the entire Peninsula (not only North Korea, but South Korea as well). The author offers his vision of these aspects of denuclearization of Korea, almost untouched by experts
KNOWLEDGE AND LUCK
No full textThere is a widely shared belief in contemporary epistemology that propositional knowledge is incompatible with certain kinds of luck, most of all with so called veritic luck. A subject is veritically lucky in his or her belief that p if this belief is true not due to its foundations (for example, reasons which an agent has to believe that p) but by mere accident. The acceptance of the thesis of incompatibility of knowledge with this kind of luck led to significant modifications of a popular modern epistemological tripartite analysis of propositional knowledge according to which subject knows that p if and only if he or she believes that p is true, p is actually true, and an agent's belief that p is true is justified. In his famous paper "Is True Justified Belief Knowledge" E. Gettier demonstrated that true justified belief may not be knowledge. The core of the problem is that in the cases described by Gettier and the like an agent's belief, though justified, is true by accident. This gave rise to a set of theories introducing additional conditions of knowledge which could exclude veritic luck. In this paper the author critically discusses main modifications of the tripartite concept of knowledge aimed at making it independent on veritic luck, and show that they are unable to solve this problem. He agrees with those who think that the very thesis of incompatibility of knowledge with veritic luck is wrong. But he disagrees that all kinds of veritic luck are compatible with knowledge: the author supposes that good veritic luck is compatible with knowledge only when it compensates some negative effect of antecedent bad epistemic luck. According to this view original Gettier examples are not cases of knowledge whereas brokenclocks case and fake-barns case are. This account allows treating many classic cases of dependence of knowledge on luck as cases of knowledge-acquirement, but in the same time it excludes the inclusion into the class of knowledge such intuitively irrelevant outcomes as lucky guess and wishful thinking
Знание, память и границы субъекта
No full textThis article is dedicated to the question: may the subject who uses an artificial device for storing information and consulting it literally know the information contained in this device and got by the subject by way of consulting it? Some philosophers claim the thesis of extended mid, i.e. they consider human mind as a system some parts of which may be external to human body. From this point of view the subject may know the information which is stored not in his memory, but in some computer implanted in him or even in some external storage. The author does not agree with this thesis and think that we don't have sufficient reasons for its statement. But the hypothesis that someone may know what is stored outside of his memory might seem more justified if it could be shown that at least a system consisting from human brain and computer could have the same knowledge as that which corresponding human being would have. Unlike systems consisting from human beings and some external storages working as substitutes of human memory, systems with human brains is based on the same biological processes which provide the work of normal human memory. Can such system have normal human knowledge? The author critically analyzes this hypothesis and shows that we don't have sufficient reasons to answer this question positively.В данной статье рассматривается вопрос о том, может ли субъект, использующий искусственное устройство как аналог своей памяти, в буквальном смысле знать то, что храниться в этом устройстве и что он из него извлекает, подобно тому, как нормальный человек знает то, что хранится в его памяти. Некоторые философы утверждают, что человеческий разум не ограничен рамками человеческого тела, они рассматривают разум человека как систему, некоторые части которой могут находиться вне самого человека. С этой точки зрения субъект может знать то, что храниться не в его собственной памяти, а в имплантированном в него компьютере или даже во внешнем хранилище. Автор не согласен с этим тезисом и разделяет ту точку зрения, согласно которой у нас недостаточно оснований для подобного вывода. Но предположение, что человек может в обычном смысле знать то, что хранится не в его памяти, а в искусственно созданном устройстве, могло бы приобрести больший вес, если бы было убедительно показано, что, по крайней мере, система, состоящая из человеческого мозга и компьютера, может иметь те же знания, какие имел бы соответствующий человек. В отличие от системы, состоящей из человека и искусственного устройства, выполняющего роль его памяти, в системе с человеческим мозгом в своем составе работа памяти может обеспечиваться теми же биологическими процессами, которыми она обеспечивается в обычном человеке. Может ли такая система иметь обычные человеческие знания? Автор критически разбирает эту гипотезу и показывает, что у нас все же недостаточно оснований для положительного ответа на этот вопрос
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