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Electrochemical and Resonance Raman Studies of Nitridomanganese(V) Porphyrins in Nonaqueous Solution
No full textA Review on Automatic Generation of Architectural Space Layouts with Energy Performance Optimization
No full textGreen Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository 'You share, we take care!' - Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.Climate Design and SustainabilityDesign InformaticsBuilding ServicesArchitectural Engineering +Technolog
Les Fables de La Fontaine et Hitler
No full textI had known several of the designs in this book for years and despaired of ever finding them. Then I found them in the 2010 facsimile reproduction of the 1939 original by Nouvelles Editions Latines. I wrote when I catalogued that edition that I was all the more eager to find an original. I had never had one in my hand. I was amazed to find this copy on eBay and even more amazed when I won the auction. This original was published shortly before the German conquest of France and the consequent destruction of materials like this, materials critical of Nazis. Ten fables are presented with their La Fontaine texts utterly intact. The blurb on the back cover of the reproduction has it right: Cet album, textes et dessins, dénonçait la férocité et la mégalomanie du chancelier allemand. In this book it is the satirical illustrations that make the difference! Several seem to me to apply less well. Among those that may seem to stretch La Fontaine in order to criticize Hitler, I would list FC and GA. Who is that asking Hitler the crow to drop the cheese that is Poland? And I would never have envisioned Hitler as the artist grasshopper needing to ask the ants for shelter…. Several illustrations, though, hit the mark perfectly! Those that seem made for criticizing Hitler have the representations that I have seen and remembered, particularly WL and MM. Hitler as a milkmaid is a riot! Notice the doll or girl lying near the lamb in WL's illustration. The Wolf Become a Shepherd portrays the shepherd as the angel of peace sleeping in the pasture. One that seems more a prophecy than a critique is OR. Who is that goddess that sends the lightning down to uproot the Hitler-oak? OF similarly looks forward to Hitler's self-explosion.Language note: FrenchJean de La Fontain
Correction to: Graft immaturity and safety concerns in transplanted human kidney organoids
No full textAfter online publication of this article, the authors noticed an error in the Affiliation section. The correct statement of this article should have read as below. © 2020, The Author(s).11Nsciescopuskc
Remembering Corporal J.Y. Joyner : An Historical Fiction
No full textThis is a creative nonfiction narrative about the farm life and military service of a Nash County resident J.Y. Joyner. This narrative will be a combination of real-life facts reality-based situations and settings derived from extensive research and will be told from a fictional point-of-view. This style is influenced and inspired by the work of author/historian Stephen Ambrose (Band of Brothers Citizen Soldiers) Phillip Gerrard (Cape Fear Rising) William Faulkner (As I Lay Dying) and the books of Jeff and Michael Shaara (Killer Angels Gods & Generals The Last Full Measure). The work of these authors takes carefully researched time periods and settings factual events and in some cases -- particularly with the Shaaras -- uses a fictional character/observer/narrator to tell the story relate the events while adding interest and color. The projected length of this manuscript is approximately 50 pages. I will present this narrative in this format for several reasons. Joyner was killed in World War II and I first came across his name on a plaque at the Nash County Courthouse in Nashville NC listed along with other natives who died in wars. Years ago as part of an ongoing series of Memorial Day columns for the local newspaper I discovered I could find very little information about him. While working on a research project I discovered a headstone -- relatively new -- at Oakwood Cemetery in Spring Hope NC. As part of that project I was able to find out his unit where it was in action and where he was most likely killed -- just before the Battle of the Bulge. By using first person I will be able to disjoint time and present a unique approach and perspective to the narrative through the eyes of a detached observer. I want to use the first-person narrative to move Joyner from a name on a plaque to an identity of a young boy who was sent to war on a continent on the other side of the world. By closing the distance between the story and the narrator I intend to hold the reader's interest and involve them more deeply into the story. The narrative will cover the present in the form of finding this stone in the cemetery and seeing Joyner's name on a plaque at the Courthouse in Nashville; the time and place where Joyner was killed in action; and how his farm family back home dealt with the loss and also how it affected daily life on the farm -- which was very reliant on labor over machines at that point in history. The first part of the manuscript will be first-person from the point of view of the narrator who finds the marker in the cemetery; the second part of the manuscript will be from the viewpoint of Joyner's younger brother. The majority of my research will come from newspaper accounts websites unit records and books written about the war and the 1940s in America. Additional material will come from personal interviews of people who grew up on farms in southern Nash County era during this time. My interest in this project is to create a narrative that blends nonfiction and fiction but is researched based. By blending these genres filling in blanks where facts cannot be located I will create a narrative that will hopefully push boundaries and offer uncommon viewpoints and less stereotypical presentation of history -- especially with topics that have been written about so much: war the South and rural farm life
Remembering Corporal J.Y. Joyner : An Historical Fiction
No full textThis is a creative nonfiction narrative about the farm life and military service of a Nash County resident, J.Y. Joyner. This narrative will be a combination of real-life facts, reality-based situations and settings derived from extensive research and will be told from a fictional point-of-view. This style is influenced and inspired by the work of author/historian Stephen Ambrose (Band of Brothers, Citizen Soldiers), Phillip Gerrard (Cape Fear Rising), William Faulkner (As I Lay Dying) and the books of Jeff and Michael Shaara (Killer Angels, Gods & Generals, The Last Full Measure). The work of these authors takes carefully researched time periods and settings, factual events and in some cases -- particularly with the Shaaras -- uses a fictional character/observer/narrator to tell the story, relate the events while adding interest and color. The projected length of this manuscript is approximately 50 pages. I will present this narrative in this format for several reasons. Joyner was killed in World War II, and I first came across his name on a plaque at the Nash County Courthouse in Nashville, NC, listed along with other natives who died in wars. Years ago, as part of an ongoing series of Memorial Day columns for the local newspaper, I discovered I could find very little information about him. While working on a research project, I discovered a headstone -- relatively new -- at Oakwood Cemetery in Spring Hope, NC. As part of that project, I was able to find out his unit, where it was in action and where he was most likely killed -- just before the Battle of the Bulge. By using first person, I will be able to disjoint time and present a unique approach and perspective to the narrative through the eyes of a detached observer. I want to use the first-person narrative to move Joyner from a name on a plaque to an identity of a young boy who was sent to war on a continent on the other side of the world. By closing the distance between the story and the narrator, I intend to hold the reader's interest and involve them more deeply into the story. The narrative will cover the present, in the form of finding this stone in the cemetery and seeing Joyner's name on a plaque at the Courthouse in Nashville; the time and place where Joyner was killed in action; and how his farm family back home dealt with the loss and also how it affected daily life on the farm -- which was very reliant on labor over machines at that point in history. The first part of the manuscript will be first-person from the point of view of the narrator who finds the marker in the cemetery; the second part of the manuscript will be from the viewpoint of Joyner's younger brother. The majority of my research will come from newspaper accounts, websites, unit records and books written about the war and the 1940s in America. Additional material will come from personal interviews of people who grew up on farms in southern Nash County era during this time. My interest in this project is to create a narrative that blends nonfiction and fiction, but is researched based. By blending these genres, filling in blanks where facts cannot be located, I will create a narrative that will hopefully push boundaries and offer uncommon viewpoints and less stereotypical presentation of history -- especially with topics that have been written about so much: war, the South and rural farm life.M.A
Highly reproducible alkali metal doping system for organic crystals through enhanced diffusion of alkali metal by secondary thermal activation
Full text linkIn this paper, we report an efficient alkali metal doping system for organic single crystals. Our system employs an enhanced diffusion method for the introduction of alkali metal into organic single crystals by controlling the sample temperature to induce secondary thermal activation. Using this system, we achieved intercalation of potassium into picene single crystals with closed packed crystal structures. Using optical microscopy and Raman spectroscopy, we confirmed that the resulting samples were uniformly doped and became K2picene single crystal, while only parts of the crystal are doped and transformed into K2picene without secondary thermal activation. Moreover, using a customized electrical measurement system, the insulator-to-semiconductor transition of picene single crystals upon doping was confirmed by in situ electrical conductivity and ex situ temperature-dependent resistivity measurements. X-ray diffraction studies showed that potassium atoms were intercalated between molecular layers of picene, and doped samples did not show any KH- nor KOH-related peaks, indicating that picene molecules are retained without structural decomposition. During recent decades, tremendous efforts have been exerted to develop high-performance organic semiconductors and superconductors, whereas as little attention has been devoted to doped organic crystals. Our method will enable efficient alkali metal doping of organic crystals and will be a resource for future systematic studies on the electrical property changes of these organic crystals upon doping. © 2018 The Author(s
Automated discrete element method calibration using genetic and optimization algorithms
No full textThis research aims at developing a universal methodology for automated calibration of microscopic properties of modelled granular materials. The proposed calibrator can be applied for different experimental set-ups. Two optimization approaches: (1) a genetic algorithm and (2) DIRECT optimization, are used to identify discrete element method input model parameters, e.g., coefficients of sliding and rolling friction. The algorithms are used to minimize the objective function characterized by the discrepancy between the experimental macroscopic properties and the associated numerical results. Two test cases highlight the robustness, stability, and reliability of the two algorithms used for automated discrete element method calibration with different set-ups.Transport Engineering and LogisticsComputational Design and Mechanic
Postphenomenology and Ethics
No full textIn this chapter, the author explains the post-phenomenological approach to ethics of technology. He introduces post-phenomenology itself, as a specific way to analyze technology and its role in society and discusses the various dimensions of the moral significance of technology that become visible from the post-phenomenological approach. The author explains how technologies mediate moral actions and decisions, how they help to shape value frameworks, and how they challenge the concepts. He moves the discussion from theoretical philosophy to practical philosophy, by explaining the approach of Guidance Ethics, which grew out of post-phenomenological ethics of technology. Post-phenomenology leaves the romantic opposition of humans and technologies behind, and approaches technology as constitutive for human existence. Instead of taking ‘Technology’ as its object of investigation, it focuses on actual technologies and the ways in which they help to shape the relations between human beings and their world. The Guidance Ethics Approach derives its normative content from the people who follow the approach
Business Jet Design Using Laminar Flow
No full textFor conceptual aircraft design to include accurate laminar flow prediction, a link between modern computational tools to determine laminar-to-turbulent boundary layer transition and fast sizing methods is required. For swept wings, it is crucial to include the highly unstable three-dimensional crossflow component of the boundary layer. These topics were connected to judge the impact of laminar flow on business jets, deemed suitable for laminar design considering their relatively low Reynolds number compared to commercial transport.Aerospace EngineeringAerodynamics, Wind Energy & PropulsionFlight Performance & Propulsio
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