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Analysis of the embodied energy in selected building product
No full textThesis presents an energy analysis of selected building products, particularly thermal insulation materials. Efficient use of energy has gained importance over years, accordingly also rehabilitation of energy-intensive buildings in Slovenia. Most of current research in the field is focused on financial savings from measures of rehabilitation. Only few are focusing on embodied energy in comparison to the energy consumed in the amortization period of the thermal envelope.\ud
Aim of the thesis is to determine the reasonableness behind using building materials with high embodied energy with an intention to save the energy in the amortization period of the thermal envelope over thirty years. Our reference is a non-isolated object, where we defined the most important construction products for analysis and located the object into three different climatic zones with different duration of the heating season. On the basis of the statutory thermal transmittance of each building element, we calculated the energy consumed for heating per one square meter of the construction set. Using obtained data of embodied energy, densities and thermal characteristics of the material we calculated the amount of embodied energy. Later, we tensed limited heat transfers to such an extent that the ratio between embodied energy represented about a third of all consumed energy in the amortization period of the thermal envelope.\ud
The results showed that the majority of organic thermal insulation materials with the exception of cork, and most of the inorganic thermal insulation materials with the exception of foamed glass are reasonable to use in the thermal envelope of the building. The analysis has also shown that the terrace as a structural assembly of a mile statutory limits heat transfer, as it experiences excessive heat loss in the amortization period. The main finding is that the cork as insulating material from the perspective of energy is not suitable for the manufacture of thermal envelope as it never meets the desired requirements
Jack Alive / Martin Dead : The Location of the "Author" in Jack London\u27s Martin Eden
No full textThis essay is an attempt to read Martin Eden, Jack Londonʼs autobiographical novel, in terms of the inextricable relationship between the author and the protagonist. Critics have often taken the unbalanced plot and the lack of ironic distance between narrator and character in Martin Eden as the technical weakness of London, but this paper argues that the achievement of this novel owes a great deal to the attachment of London to Martin. The unbalanced structure is a necessary product of the severe struggle of the author to kill his romantic alter ego. // Martin, who aspires to win Ruth Morse, tries to cross class boundaries by making a career of a writer. Even after realizing the emptiness of Ruth, who turns out to be nothing but a typical figure of the bourgeoisie, he somehow persists in loving her. The notion underlying here is that, for Martin, love, career and art are fundamentally inseparable. He objects to the aestheteʼs view of Brissenden on account of his separation of art from career. Martinʼs identity and life consist only in the triunity of love/career/art; the alternative is the repudiation of life. Thus, the unnatural delay of his disappointment in love can be regarded as Londonʼs strategy to set the suicide of Martin as the necessary consequence of the story. // By finishing the story and killing Martin, London finally detaches himself from Martin, reconstructs his self, and, unlike Martin, survives as a professional writer. In this sense, Martin Eden is a story about “writerʼs self-reconstruction.
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Letter from Martin Chizzick
No full textCongratulations to Duane Pearsall for receiving the Enterpreneur of the Year award; note on the letter was written by Pearsall and it mentions that Martin, the author of the letter, died in a airplane accident
L'apporto delle fonti martiniane alla storiografia della spiritualità cristiana aquileiese, incunabolo riscoperto del monachesimo occidentale fra i secoli III e V - Prispevek martinovih virov k zgodovinopisju oglejske krščanske duhovnosti, ponovno odkriti kot inkunabula zahodnega meništva med 3. in 5. stoletjem
No full textLa dimensione aquileiese-illirica della spiritualità di S. MartinoSaint Martin of Savaria, the Bishop of Tours; testimony of the beginnings of the Occidental monasticism in the metropolis of Aquileia. A lot of research has been done on St. Martin, an important historical personality and extremely popular saint in Europe. Perhaps so much so that it takes away the courage to search for new perspec-
tives that would modernise his portrait. Notwithstanding, I have ac-
cepted the challenge and I am convinced the so-called Aquileian panorama bears fruit of the so far undiscovered view of this man.
Insufficient attention is paid to Martin's birth in Pannonia, a region,
which had a natural reference point for its Christian spirituality in
Aquileia. When BishopTheodore planned and laid the astonishing mosaic carpet in the cathedral of Aquileia, Martin's childhood and early youth took piace in Sabaria (Szombathely), the piace where
martyr Quirinus from Sisak had been burried. There, a wish sprang inside him very early on to follow Christ's call and he soon sensed a longing for a consecrated life in the Church, for an adventure of one of the free forms of monastic life.
In a humble, painful, yet stubborn search of the sequela Christi personal cali, Martin ascended to a reachable ideai of living according to the gospel; he became a pioneer of western monasticism and a perfect saint bishop. Along with a better and better understanding of a character which is so well known it seems there is nothing
more to add, one can clearly identify in the sources related to St. Martin traits of genuine testimonies of spirituality that flourished
intensely in the Christian Aquileia of the 3rd and 4th century on the sound basis of church tradition. One cannot ignore the fact that this 'man full of God' formed as a person in the early years of his life in places, which fell under the missionary influence of Aq-
uileia, and that he wanted to return to his homeland in his mature years. It was his homeland that gave birth to his cali to monastic life and Martin left his birthplace determined to put it into practice. There is no doubt that he - as other exiled 'Aquileian people'
(Jerome, Rufinus, Venantius Fortunatus) - in certain aspects also remained the son of his homeland in far away places.Saint Martin de Savaria, évéque de Tours: témoignage sur les débuts du monachisme occidental dans la métropole
d'Aquilée. II existe un grand nombre de recherches sur saint Martin, person-
nalité importante de I'histoire et saint extrémement populaire en
Europe. Ces recherches sont tellement nombreuses qu'on perd parfois courage pour chercher des perspectives nouvelles qui moderniseraient son portrait. Malgré tout, j'ai accepté ce défi; et je suis convaincu que le panorama d'Aquilée remportera du
succès en donnant une vision nounvelle de saint Martin. On attire trop peu I'attention sur la naissance de saint Martin en Pannonie, c.-à.-d. dans la région qui possédait le point naturel et référentiel de sa spiritualité chrétienne en Aquilée. L'enfance et la jeunesse de saint Martin se sont déroulées à Sabaria (Szombathely) où
on trouve la tombe du martyr Quirinus de Sisak, à I'époque où I'évéque Théodore faisait poser I'étonnante mosaique de la cathédrale d'Aquilée. C'est là que le désir de suivre I'appel du Christ s'est éveillé en saint Martin, c'est là qu'il a commencé à désirer ardemment la vie consacrée à l'Église, autrement dit c'est l'aventure d'une des formes libres de la vie monacale.
De la recherche humble, pénible, mais entétée de l'appel personnel sequela Christi, saint Martin s'est élevé vers l'idéal accessible de la vie évangélique, il est devenu pionnier de la moinerie occidentale et évéque. La compréhension de cette figure tellement
connue devient de plus en plus claire, nous pouvons identifier ses qualités de témoin authentique de la spiritualité qui a prospéré fortement au III e et au IV e siècles en Aquilée chrétienne, sur les fondements fermes de la tradition ecclésiastique. Nous ne pouvons pas omettre le fait que "cet homme plein de
Dieu" s'est formé dans les premières années de sa vie dans les lieux qui sont sous l'influence d'Aquilée. Parallèlement à cela, il a voulu retourner dans sa patrie dans son àge mùr. Saint Martin s'était senti une vocation pour la vie monacale, et il a ainsi abandonné son lieu de naissance dans le but d'atteindre son idéal.
Sans doute, comme les autres exilés d'Aquilée (Hieronimus, Rufinus, Venantius Fortunatus) est-il resté le fils de ce pays, méme dans des lieux lointains
Robert Martin Tiffin's Mystery Man Newspaper Articles
No full textAdvertiser-Tribune newspaper clippings featuring a story about Robert Martin (written by Nancy Kleinhenz), a local author from Tiffin (Ohio) who wrote under the pseudonym of Lee Roberts, and two of his short stories. Martin wrote mystery novels in his spare time, creating more than 22 mystery novels. For more information about Robert Martin and a list of books go to http://www.mysteryfile.com/RMartin/JBennett.html
Experiences Using Large Scale Video Walls for Distance Education
No full textWe describe our experiences building and using the Rutgers Videowall, a low-cost telepresence system that has been used teaching 15 courses and colloquia. By relaxing typical spatial telepresence features, such as background continuity, we greatly reduced costs and gained flexibility in the rooms it could be deployed in. The lower costs and room flexibility enabled academic departments to use the wall, in contrast to traditional telepresence systems which remained inaccessible. We found that the Videowall’s spatial distortions did not have a significant impact on useability, as our initial survey results show that students had an overall positive experience.Technical report DCS-tr-72
Hans Martin Schwarz Collection 1934 - 1938
No full textThis collection contains clippings of articles by Hans Martin Schwarz (1917, Hamburg – 2006, New York, better known as Martin Ebon), published between 1934 and 1938 in German-Jewish newspapers on a wide variety of subjects such as sports, emigration, the political situation in Germany, and religious attitudes of the young. It also contains reviews of his books "Einer wie Du und Ich" and "Heiteres, Besinnliches, Nachdenkliches."digitizedHans Martin Schwarz (1917, Hamburg – 2006, New York, better known as Martin Ebon), was a journalist and author. In Germany during the 1930s, he published in a variety of German-Jewish periodicals, primarily the Israelitisches Familienblatt. After immigrating to the United States in 1938, he changed his name to Martin Ebon, and published dozens of books in the areas of world affairs and parapsychology.Processe
Interview with Father James Martin
No full textIn May 2011, the Ignatian Faculty Scholars at Regis University conducted a Skype interview with Father James Martin, S. J., author of The Jesuit Guide to Almost Everything. The Scholars had used Father Martin’s book as a text for their year of study, which focused on Ignatian Spirituality, the Ignatian Pedagogical Paradigm, and teaching and learning at a Jesuit university. The interview was transcribed and is printed below. Father Martin reflects on the book, and responds to questions about the book itself, about finding God in all learners, and about the Church
Benefits of a Classification Scheme of Granitic Pegmatites Based on Petrogenetic Considerations.
No full textOral presentation-
Communicating author: Martin RF
WHY IS AMAZONITIC K-FELDSPAR AN EARMARK OF NYF-TYPE GRANITIC PEGMATITES?
No full textOral presentation- Communicating author: Martin R
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