3,866 research outputs found
New Roads for Patron-Driven E-books:Collection Development and Technical Services Implications of a Patron-Driven Acquisitions Pilot at Rutgers
No full textCollection development librarians have long struggled to meet user demands for new titles. Too often, required resources are not purchased, while some purchased resources do not circulate. E-books selected through patron-driven plans are a solution but present new challenges for both selectors and catalogers. Radical changes to traditional technical services workflows are required, and selectors must modify the selection process to give more choice to the user. Rutgers University librarians have adopted an innovative new technical services workflow and collection-development model to manage a successful, patron-driven acquisitions project for e-books in the fields of math and computer science.This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis Group in Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship on 13/12/2011, available online at: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/1941126X.2011.627043
The politics of fashion: perceptions of power in female clothing and ornamentation as reflected in the sixteenth-century Chinese novel Jin Ping Mei
No full textThis thesis examines issues of female power and influence in sixteenth-century China focusing on how women and their roles were perceived in the changing social environment of the mid-late Ming dynasty. Using aspects of a New Historicist approach, information from contemporary literary and historical sources are analysed alongside each other. With its emphasis on the lives of women and preoccupation with the description of material objects, the late Ming novel Jin Ping Mei forms an important element in the thesis. China in the sixteenth century saw expanding urbanisation, the emergence of a new wealthy merchant class, increasing visibility of women and a questioning of traditional morality. Fashion consciousness, as one of the most conspicuous aspects of the new material culture, is a possible indicator of these trends. Traditional Western theories contend that fashion began in the particular context of Renaissance Europe. However, this study argues that a similar fashion awareness existed in China too, and was manifested in a competitive striving for social status, in this case specifically among women. In contrast to previous studies which downplayed the impact women had on defining traditional Chinese culture, this thesis demonstrates how women and their sartorial choices began to redefine the boundaries of material culture, influencing literati discourse which, in turn, re- influenced female behaviour
Dynamics of Liquid Crystals in a Magnetic Field: Phenomena Near Equilibrium
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157703.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)RU Radboud Universiteit, 13 mei 2016Promotores : Christianen, P.C.M., Maan, J.C.93 p
Supramolecular aggregates in high magnetic fields
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76516.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)Creating new well-defined structures with a nanometer or micrometer length scale is of great importance, which can lead to new devices, new materials, and allows the study of fundamental physical phenomena. A promising approach for creating such structures is the use of organic molecules that spontaneously form higher dimensional structures in solution.
With this process, extremely small self-repairing structures can be created in a relatively cheap and easily processable way. Almost any shape and size is possible, ranging from large spherical aggregates with a diameter in the micrometer range, to small wires of only a few nanometers thin. There are many applications, for example in the transport of light through narrow channels, as miniature gas sensors or as small capsules in drug delivery systems.
In this thesis, we use magnetic fields to improve our understanding of the formation of supramolecular self-assemblies. Due to the anisotropic magnetic properties of the molecules, a supramolecular aggregate can be oriented in a magnetic field. The way it aligns, parallel or perpendicular to the magnetic field, and the field strength required for the alignment, depends on the size, degree of order, and the intermolecular organization of the aggregate.
We investigate the relation between environmental aspects (like temperature and solvent) and the shape and internal structure of the resulting aggregates, we influence the shape with a magnetic field, we compare the growth process with theoretical models and we describe the kinetics of an aggregate system. Understanding these aspects leads to a better understanding of the formation process, which will allow us to build aggregates with the desired size, shape and functionality.RU Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, 28 mei 2010Promotor : Maan, J.C. Co-promotor : Christianen, P.C.M.X,115 p
Review of Mayer, R.; Knothe, F.; Shuo, H. (2022) Reflected beauty: Chinese reverse glass paintings from the Mei Lin Collection
No full textIn this well-documented, bilingual, and richly illustrated catalogue, published for the long-anticipated exhibition Reflected Beauty: Chinese Reverse Glass Paintings from the Mei Lin Collection at the University Museum and Art Gallery of the University of Hong Kong (September 2021-January 2022), the authors give us a profound insight into the phenomenon of reverse painting on glass and mirror paintings, with a particular focus on those from the Mei Lin Collection assembled by the Sinologist, author, and translator Rupprecht Mayer and his wife Haitang Mayer-Liem. Composed of over one hundred works acquired in East Asia between 1968 and 2012, this is one of the world's most important collections of Chinese reverse glass paintings from the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries.Modern and Contemporary Studie
Spazi pubblici e luoghi condivisi. Progetti architettonici per le città europee
No full textSotto la responsabilità intellettuale e supervisione diretta dell'autore, il volume raccoglie i contributi scritti dai relatori che hanno partecipato al ciclo di conferenze Spazi pubblici e luoghi condivisi. Progetti architettonici per le città europee, ideato da Guya Bertelli e coordinato dal sottoscritto. Il symposium è stato promosso dal Dipartimento di Architettura e Studi Urbani (DAStU) e le conferenze hanno avuto luogo, tra il 2012 e il 2013, presso la sede centrale del Politecnico di Milano e presso il Campus Arata del Polo Territoriale di Piacenza.
Le quattro giornate di studio sono state organizzate in modo tale che il dibattito prendesse in esame, nell’ambito della stessa giornata, una coppia di città europee, rendendo possibile un fertile confronto. I contributi dei relatori - Enric Massip Bosh e Carlos Garcia Vazquez; Hervé Dubois e Gill Novarina; Stefan Vieths e Michele Giovanni Caja; Francisco Arqués Soler e Maria Vittoria
Capitanucci - sono articolati in quattro diversi capitoli. Ciascun capitolo presenta gli interventi della relativa giornata di studio ed è aperto da un’introduzione, e seguito da una conclusione a firma del coordinatore della giornata. I quattro capitoli sono inoltre preceduti da un’introduzione di Gabriele Pasqui e dai saggi di Guya Bertelli, Michele Roda e del sottoscritto che riflettono, attraverso uno sguardo critico, sul ruolo e sul significato dello spazio pubblico nella città contemporanea.Under the intellectual responsibility and direct supervision of the author, the publication collects contributions by the lecturers in the series of conference Public spaces and shared places. Architectural projects for the European cities created by Guya Bertelli and coordinated by Pasquale Mei. The symposium was sponsored by the Department of Architecture and Urban studies (DAStU) and the conferences have been organized in 2012 and 2013 at Politecnico di Milano, Campus Leonardo, and at Arata Campus, in the Territorial Campus of Piacenza. The debates were part of the four working days; each one was dedicated to an interesting comparison between two European cities. The contributions of the lecturers - Enric Massip Bosh and Carlos Garcia Vazquez; Hervé Dubois and Gill Novarina; Stefan Vieths and Michele Giovanni Caja; Arqués Francisco Soler and Maria Vittoria Capitanucci - are divided into four different chapters. Each chapter presents the intervention of a specific day and is opened by the introduction, and followed by a conclusion by the coordinator of the same day. The four chapters are introduced by a forward by Gabriele Pasqui and essays by Guya Bertelli, Michele Roda and Pasquale Mei, reflecting a critical view on the role and the meaning of the public space in the contemporary city
Debietmeting (ADCP) Roompot-Veerse Dam, 29 mei 1997
No full textDebietmeting (ADCP) Roompot-Veerse Dam 29 mei 1997.Deltawerken, Oosterscheld
Stroom- en sedimentmeting Veerse Dam - Roompot, 24 mei 1993
No full textStroom- en sedimentmeting Veerse Dam - Roompot 24 mei 1993.Deltawerken, Oosterscheld
Infrastrutture di terra, di ferro e di acqua. Nuovi modelli e strumenti per la ridefinizione delle strategie di ri-generazione, ri-uso e ri-ciclo urbano
No full textIl contributo scritto, presentato a, convegno: "Ricerche e progetti dal mondo universitario", tenutasi in occasione della Mostra "Architetture del Mondo. Infrastrutture, mobilità, nuovi paesaggi", presso la triennale di Milano, ripercorre le esperienze di ricerca condotte dal gruppo di cui fanno parte J.C. Dall'Asta, P. Mei, M. Roda S. Rolla e coordinato da G. Bertelli, attivo presso il Polo Territoriale di Piacenza -Politecnico di Milano-.
Lo scritto descrive le ricerche progettuali condotte attraverso azioni di recupero e di riuso di tre diversi tracciati e manufatti infrastrutturali (di terra, di ferro e di acqua) non più adatti alle loro esigenze d'uso:
- il viadotto autostradale della A21 Torino-Piacenza-Brescia -infrastruttura di terra- che, in corrispondenza dell'attraversamento della città emiliana, esplicita una forte criticità. I progetti definiscono possibili strategie di "ri-uso" del tratto autostradale, a ridosso del nucleo urbano, definendo tre azioni alternative: la demolizione dell'elemento viabilistico con una ricomposizione paesaggistica; il suo declassamento come luogo di una mobilità leggera, la sua radicale trasformazione come funzioni a carattere pubblico.
- La High Line di New York -infrastruttura di ferro- tra i progetti simbolo dell'ultimo decennio, luogo globale perché collocato nel cuore della città globale per eccellenza -sta dispiegando in questi anni gli impatti enormi che una rigenerazione "slow" ha avuto la forza di provocare nel tessuto edilizio circostante. I progetti elaborati dal gruppo di ricerca definiscono un'architettura, delle relazioni per nuovi usi dello spazio aperto. Materiali, forme e tecniche specifiche vengono coinvolte simultaneamente nel processo trasformativo.
- La Darsena di Milano -infrastruttura d'acqua- i cui esperimenti progettuali elaborati si sono confrontati con il tema del rapporto tra "dispositivo architettonico" e spazio urbano, tra spazio pubblico e infrastruttura d'acqua, tra spazio naturale e spazio artificiale. Il programma ha come obiettivo l'interpretazione dello spazio in funzione delle diverse modalità di aggregazione delle forme e degli ambienti
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