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T.J. Stiles: “The Commodore’s Patriotism: Cornelius Vanderbilt’s Path to the Founding of Vanderbilt University”
No full textIncludes descriptive metadata provided by producer in MP4 file: "Chancellor's Lecture Series - Videos - T.J. Stiles: 'The Commodore’s Patriotism: Cornelius Vanderbilt’s Path to the Founding of Vanderbilt University'." By Vanderbilt University. T.J. Stiles, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and historian, speaks Sept. 29, 2010 as part of the Chancellor's Lecture Series. Stiles wrote the 2009 biography The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt. Chancellor Nicholas Zeppos introduces Stiles. Stiles takes questions after his lecture
Cwbr Author Interview: Custer\u27s Trials: A Life On The Frontier Of A New America
No full textInterview with T.J. Stiles, author of Custer\u27s Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America Interviewed by Tom Barber
Civil War Book Review (CWBR): The Civil War Book Review is pleased to speak with T.J. Stiles, winner of multiple awards for biography and author of Jesse James: Last Rebel of the Civil War and The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt. Today we get to discuss his most recent work Custer\u27s Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America. Mr. Stiles, thank you for joining us today. T.J. Stiles: Thanks very much for interviewing me...
Learning from the transformation of Dutch museums:lessons for the future
No full textOne of the premises of this research is that museums are among the most complex building types in the architectural landscape today. Museum buildings contain a wide variety of functions (conservation, research, exhibition, education, etc.), they symbolise a wide variety of meanings (history, culture, art, community, science etc.), and their functioning is evaluated by a wide variety of stakeholders (the intelligentsia, policy makers, politicians, local visitors, tourists, etc.). As no other, the museum building must represent the complexity and diversity of our society. The study of the recent and current transformations of museum buildings can show both students and professionals what significant current social changes will mean for the field of architecture. This contribution presents the conclusions of the research, visualized in the data sheets containing the analysis of the museums. An answer to the following question will be given: What are the lessons we can learn from this transformation history?</i
Learning from the transformation of Dutch museums:lessons for the future
No full textOne of the premises of this research is that museums are among the most complex building types in the architectural landscape today. Museum buildings contain a wide variety of functions (conservation, research, exhibition, education, etc.), they symbolise a wide variety of meanings (history, culture, art, community, science etc.), and their functioning is evaluated by a wide variety of stakeholders (the intelligentsia, policy makers, politicians, local visitors, tourists, etc.). As no other, the museum building must represent the complexity and diversity of our society. The study of the recent and current transformations of museum buildings can show both students and professionals what significant current social changes will mean for the field of architecture. This contribution presents the conclusions of the research, visualized in the data sheets containing the analysis of the museums. An answer to the following question will be given: What are the lessons we can learn from this transformation history?</i
The Gospel on the Margins: The Ideological Function of the Patristic Tradition on the Evangelist Mark
No full textIn spite of the virtually unanimous patristic opinion that the evangelist Mark was the interpreter of Peter, one of the most prestigious apostolic founding figures in Christian memory, the Gospel of Mark was mostly neglected in the patristic period. Not only is the text of Mark the least well represented of the canonical Gospels in terms of the number of patristic citations, commentaries and manuscripts, the explicit comments about the evangelist Mark reveal some ambivalence about its literary or theological value. In my survey of the reception of Mark from Papias of Hierapolis until Clement of Alexandria, I will argue that the reason why the patristic writers were hesitant to embrace the Gospel of Mark was that they perceived the text to be amenable to the Christological beliefs and social praxis of rival Christian factions. The patristic tradition about Mark may have little historical basis, but it had an important ideological function in appropriating the text in the name of an apostolic authority from the margins or periphery
Global Biodiversity Governance: What Needs to Be Transformed?
No full textThe Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) (the Post-2020 Framework) is expected to embody transformative change through the adoption of the framework’s “Theory of Change” (CBD, 2020). Its implementation must recognize that the global biodiversity governance architecture needs to transform to lead the required personal and social transformations, including shifts in values, beliefs and patterns of social behaviors (Chaffin et al., 2016), necessary to successfully tackle biodiversity loss. Against this backdrop, the overarching goal of this chapter is to analyze what needs to be transformed in global biodiversity governance, including institutional structures that shape values, beliefs and behavioral change. The chapter examines obstacles and opportunities for transformation, with the indirect objective of informing implementation of the Post-2020 Framework; at the time of writing, the CBD is expected to adopt the Post-2020 GBF in 2022
Flow patterns around longitudinal training dams
No full textWith the intention to reduce the negative effects of ongoing bed erosion, as well as to improve several other river functions such as protection against floods, provision of safe and efficient navigation and ecology, a ‘pilot project longitudinal training dams’ was initiated. The training dams have recently been implemented in the Waal between Tiel and Sind Andries. In this project, river groynes have been completely removed and replaced by dams that lie parallel to the river bank. With help of the longitudinal training dams, a two-channel river system is created in which the river is divided into a main and side channel. The dams are placed in a continuous manner with openings in between that are relatively small compared to the dam length. At the beginning and end of the dam an inlet and outlet region is situated, as shown in Fig. 1. The combination of inlet and openings allows for water and sediment to be divided between the main and the side channel. Both inlet and openings are constructed with the help of a porous rock-layer. The crest heights can be altered by adding or removing stones. This is expected to influence the amount of water and sediment entering the side channel and can therefore be used as a regulation tool. A.J.F. Hoitink, T.V. de Ruijsscher, T.J. Geertsema, B. Makaske, J. Wallinga, J.H.J. Candel, J. Poelman (Eds.) NCR days 2017, Febr. 1-3, 2017. Book of abstracts, NCR publication 41-2017.Rivers, Ports, Waterways and Dredging EngineeringHydraulic Structures and Flood RiskEnvironmental Fluid Mechanic
The museum as a social performance
No full textThis book investigates the architectural and organisational transformations that Dutch museums have gone through since 1990. In order to ensure that this is done from the viewpoint of the museum visitor, a theoretical framework is used in which architectural interventions, organisational changes and audience experiences are combined. The museum is seen as a social performance; a concept and theory introduced by the American cultural sociologist Jeffrey Alexander.8 This contribution will explain how museums can be researched as social performances and how this theoretical framework will return in the case studies
A computer-based justification for using the simple bend test as the basis for predicting the performance of steel hooked-end fibres in reinforced concrete
No full textDissertation (MEng)--University of Pretoria, 2019.The classical test to confirm the performance of a given fibre design for use in reinforced concrete is the pull-out test. While attempts have been made to simulate the performance of such pull-out tests, in practice it has been found that there is a significant disparity between prediction and real-life performance.
The high strength of steel reinforcing fibres is a consequence of the cold wire drawing process and subsequent fabrication. Residual stresses exist in cold drawn wire as a consequence of the elastic response to a non-uniform distribution of plastic strain. This also introduces a yield strength profile where yield strength varies radially through the wire. The question arises as to whether fibre design should use a starting material model that considers these properties.
This thesis examines whether the tensile test, simple bend test and pull-out test provide enough information to define a starting material model that may be used for further design and simulation of such fibres.
Since the details of the wire drawing process and material specification are proprietary and therefore unknown, a sensitivity study was conducted to determine which aspects of the wire drawing process have the greatest effect on the pull-out curve and the following were established as being significant:
• Plastic strain due to wire drawing was shown to be the most important factor.
• The bilinear curve was shown to be a suitable approximation for the stress-strain curve.
• Replacing the plastic strain profile with a single value of average equivalent plastic strain is practical.
The following were established as having negligible effect:
• The consequences of the hooked-end forming process.
• The residual stress profiles due to wire drawing provided that the above was also excluded.
• The hardening law
While inverse analysis demonstrated that all tests provide sufficient information to determine the required properties for this bilinear material model, the pull-out test was shown to provide more accurate approximations of the maximum pull-out force at the first and second peaks and the bend test was shown to produce more accurate approximations of the energy associated with pull-out. Good correlation with the baseline pull-out curve was found for both the isotropic and the kinematic hardening laws and it is concluded that behaviour during pull-out is insensitive to the hardening law.
Sensitivity analysis and characterisation of the material model using an experimental pull-out curve demonstrated the importance of the coefficient of friction. Full characterisation using the pull-out curve therefore requires the solution to a three-variable problem: yield strength, tangent modulus and coefficient of friction. This was a suggested topic for further study.Mechanical and Aeronautical EngineeringMEng (Mech)Unrestricte
The museum as a social performance
No full textThis book investigates the architectural and organisational transformations that Dutch museums have gone through since 1990. In order to ensure that this is done from the viewpoint of the museum visitor, a theoretical framework is used in which architectural interventions, organisational changes and audience experiences are combined. The museum is seen as a social performance; a concept and theory introduced by the American cultural sociologist Jeffrey Alexander.8 This contribution will explain how museums can be researched as social performances and how this theoretical framework will return in the case studies
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