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APTMC: AN INTERFACE PROGRAM FOR USE WITH ANSYS FOR THERMAL AND THERMALLY INDUCED STRESS MODELING/SIMULATION OF LEVEL 1 AND LEVEL 2 VLSI PACKAGING
No full textANSYS Packaging Thermal/Mechanical Calculator (APTMC) is an interface program developed for use with ANSYS and specially designed to handle thermal and thermally induced stress modeling/simulation of Level 1 and Level 2 VLSI packaging structures and assemblies. APTMC is written in PASCAL and operates in an interactive I/O format mode. This user-friendly tool leads an analyst/designer through the process of creating appropriate thermal and thermally induced stress models and other operations necessary to run ANSYS. It includes such steps as the following: (1) construction of ANSYS commands through the string process; (2) creation of a dynamic data structure which expands and contracts during program execution based on the data storage requirements of the program sets to control model generation; (3) access of material data and model parameters from the developed INTERNAL DATABANK which contains: (a) material data list; (b) heat transfer modes; and (c) library of structures; (4) forming ANSYS PREP7 and POSTn command files. (Abstract shortened with permission of author.
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No full textFossil fuels, global warming and democracy: a report from a scene of the collision
No full textWhat happens to democracy when the fossil fuel industry collides with global warming?
Introduction
Democracy is caught in a collision between two forces: the need to respond to global warming by cutting carbon emissions, and the demands of the fossil fuel industry to increase carbon use and production. This is a slow motion collision that will take decades to conclude, though its ending seems inevitable: coal, and then oil and natural gas, will be replaced by more sustainable energy sources, but only after great damage to the environment.
In this paper I explore the question, What happens to democracy when the fossil fuel industry collides with global warming?
This collision is already making its marks on democratic practices. The fossil fuel industry is using every tool it can to preserve its wealth and power by pressuring governments, political parties, universities, regulators, courts, and voters. It is a process of tough, aggressive, and sophisticated politics that ultimately depends on denying the evidence that global warming poses a danger that needs to be urgently confronted.
Without a theoretical framework to focus this inquiry, it could easily produce little more than a list of anecdotes about politics and influence. The value of good theory is that it reveals the patterns in the evidence, showing how the disparate pieces are connected to one another, and to larger historical, social, and economic factors. In this paper, I drew theory from (among others) Valerie Bunce, Timothy Mitchell, and most importantly Terry Lynn Karl.
I use the work of these scholars to focus on the Canadian province of Alberta. Alberta provides an example of what can happen to democracy in places where fossil fuel production predominates. From time-to-time I link the paper to Australia, which depends even more than Canada on mineral extraction, and which is on the burning edge of global warming.
This paper should be read as a warning to people everywhere who are concerned about fossil fuel dependence, global warming, and democracy. Those who value democracy must ask, Can democracy as we know it survive global warming
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Organoid cell fate dynamics in space and time
No full textOrganoids are a major new tool to study tissue renewal. However, characterizing the underlying differentiation dynamics remains challenging. Here, we developed TypeTracker, which identifies cell fates by AI-enabled cell tracking and propagating end point fates back along the branched lineage trees. Cells that ultimately migrate to the villus commit to their new type early, when still deep inside the crypt, with important consequences: (i) Secretory cells commit before terminal division, with secretory fates emerging symmetrically in sister cells. (ii) Different secretory types descend from distinct stem cell lineages rather than an omnipotent secretory progenitor. (iii) The ratio between secretory and absorptive cells is strongly affected by proliferation after commitment. (iv) Spatial patterning occurs after commitment through type-dependent cell rearrangements. This "commit-then-sort" model contrasts with the conventional conveyor belt picture, where cells differentiate by moving up the crypt-villus axis and hence raises new questions about the underlying commitment and sorting mechanisms.BN/Sander Tans La
SOME REFLECTIONS ON CLIMATE CHANGE, GREEN GROWTH ILLUSIONS AND DEVELOPMENT SPACE
No full textMany economists and policy makers advocate a fundamental shift towards “green growth” as the new, qualitatively-different growth paradigm, based on enhanced material/resource/energy efficiency and drastic changes in the energy mix. “Green growth” may work well in creating new growth impulses with reduced environmental load and facilitating related technological and structural change. But can it also mitigate climate change at the required scale (i.e. significant, absolute and permanent decline of GHG emissions at global level) and pace? This paper argues that growth, technological, population-expansion and governance constraints as well as some key systemic issues cast a very long shadow on the “green growth” hopes. One should not deceive oneself into believing that such evolutionary (and often reductionist) approach will be sufficient to cope with the complexities of climate change. It may rather give much false hope and excuses to do nothing really fundamental that can bring about a U-turn of global GHG emissions. The proponents of a resource efficiency revolution and a drastic change in the energy mix need to scrutinize the historical evidence, in particular the arithmetic of economic and population growth. Furthermore, they need to realize that the required transformation goes beyond innovation and structural changes to include democratization of the economy and cultural change. Climate change calls into question the global equality of opportunity for prosperity (i.e. ecological justice and development space) and is thus a huge developmental challenge for the South and a question of life and death for some developing countries (who increasingly resist the framing of climate protection versus equity).
Intelligent student systems : an application of viewpoints to intelligent learning environments
No full textIntelligent Student Systems are a class of Intelligent Learning Environments that place the learner in the role of a tutor rather than a student. In an analogy with the educational practice of peer tutoring users learn by teaching the computer -- inverting the predominant `computer as tutor' metaphor. Intelligent Student Systems emphasize the learner's viewpoint in educational interactions in preference to the system's conception of the domain. These systems are considered to be less complex than Intelligent Tutoring Systems and to have the potential to generate novel human-computer educational interactions. Viewpoints also have an integral part in knowledge representation in Intelligent Learning Environments and they are utilised in the design and implementation of an Intelligent Student System in economics. Testing of the system produced insights into the future application of Intelligent Student Systems
La Rochefoucauld : héroisme et idéologie noble
No full textThe influence of Saint-August in on the moral literature of the seventeenth-century cannot be overlooked. The thinking of Port-Royal and the Jansenists influenced the works of Pascal and La Rochefoucauld. In the writings of La Rochefoucauld which will be considered in this study, the theme of self-love in the Maximes tends to confirm the important role of Augustinian philosophy. However, the Maximes and Reflexions Diverses brought to light other currents of thought Less known texts such as l'Apologie du Prince de Marcillac and the Memoires strongly represent the heroic mind based on the chivalry. This study will show the importance of aristocratic ideology, heroism, and social prejudice on the moral thinking of La Rochefoucauld.
First, the different cultures will be defined by using examples from the Maximes. In Augustinism, "wordly" culture appears as a mixture of the religious of the secular cultures. Hence, obvious humour appears in the Maximes. Moreover, a criticism of the monarchy under Louis XIV appears in some maxims. Even the political involvement of the author finds its way into the genre of the maxim itself.
The second chapter will examine the links between the aristocratic ideology and Augustinism philosophy. The heroic tone found in some maxims and the author's Memoires is closely related to that of Corneille. Indeed, some maxims concerning self-interest, the passions, nature, moral superiority and courage retain stoic overtones. Thus the concept of Cornelian heroism as formulated in the XIVth century and in the first half of the XVIIth by Du Vair, Montaigne, Charron, and Juste Lipse is still very much alive in the works of La Rochefoucauld.Arts, Faculty ofFrench, Hispanic, and Italian Studies, Department ofGraduat
