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A Crowning Achievement. Carolingian Imperial Identity in the Chronicon Moissiacense
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Solution of the problem of composite charge using R.D.38
No full textIn this paper the author has solved the problem of internal ballistics of composite charge using 'R.D.38' method which is based upon the usual isothermal approximation. A linear law of burning has been assumed
Author index
No full textThe articles have been scanned in colour with a HP Scanjet 5590; 300dpi.
Adobe Acrobat XI Pro was used to OCR the text and also for the merging and conversion to the final presentation PDF-format.This is a continuation of the "Author and Subject Index to the Onderstepoort Journal
of Veterinary Science and Animal Industry (1933- l950)" and the "Onderstepoort Journal
of Veterinary Research (1951 - 1968)" which appeared in June 1969 and covers the period
1969 to 1973, i.e. Volumes 36 to 40.
As from 1974 (Volume 41) it is intended to furnish an Author and Subject Index
in Number 4 of each volume covering all four numbers for that particular year
Noise due to unsteady flow past trailing edges
No full textThis paper presents two-dimensional direct numerical simulations (DNS) of noise generated at trailing edges (TE) with zero thickness. The simulations are conducted specifying either no-slip or slip walls in order to investigate viscous effects. In both cases, small amplitude disturbances are introduced close to the inflow boundary that serve as pressure disturbances at the TE. DNS data reveals that the unsteady Kutta condition is not satisfied, irrespective of the wall boundary condition. However, it appears that the validity of the unsteady Kutta condition is not essential for making an accurate prediction of the far field noise. The far field pressure is predicted as a function of the surface pressure difference using a 2-D modification of Amiet's classical theory, and compared with the far field pressure computed directly. Directivity plots provide evidence that the presence of boundary layers and noise generated by an unsteady wake in the no-slip cases lead to smearing of individual lobes, and that the downstream pointing lobes in no-slip wall cases are probably due to nonlinear noise generation in the wake. The simulations are conducted using a high-order accurate numerical method which is free of upwinding, artificial dissipation or any form of explicit filtering, and employs a novel boundary treatment
Characteristic distribution and scale interaction of turbulence in a boundary layer
No full textThis work revisits the concept of turbulent boundary layers from a novel perspective on scale transfer. Turbulence production and dissipation together with the energy budgets are analyzed in the velocity gradient invariant phase space. In combination with filtering, the mechanism of scale coupling is investigated and illustrated for different characteristic flow topologies. The understanding of the scale coupling is important to model turbulence. Turbulence models describe the complex interaction of the scales of motion in a simplified form. The essential task of turbulence modeling is to capture the coupling of the modeled and unmodeled scales as well as the evolution of the modeled scales within the unmodeled flow. This work characterizes the scale coupling by focusing on the interfaces between modeled and unmodeled flow such as production and dissipation. The mechanisms that govern the evolution of the modeled quantities are investigated for their core properties and universal features. Direct numerical simulation (DNS) is carried out to obtain data of a compressible zero pressure-gradient flat plate turbulent boundary layer flow. This flow topology allows to unveil the effect of a wall on the coupling of scales and evolution of turbulence
La lotta delle due nature in Guglielmo d'Aquitania, ovvero quel che resta di un aristocratico carolingio
No full textItem does not contain fulltextThe Struggle of the Two Natures of William of Aquitaine: The Legacy of a Carolingian Aristocrat
Rutger Kramer, Nuova Rivista Storica 104.1 (2020), 397-409.
This article presents an impression of the different ways in which count William of Toulouse (c. 750-814) is remembered in the medieval source record. Focusing on his two “natures” – the saint and the warrior – this article analyses how William earned his place in history, and how his reputation is not built upon any historical reality, but on the development of the stories that emerged in his wake. These narrative “ideal types” show the complexities shaping the memory of any famous individual. Their deeds, in the end, are less important than the stories about them: it is through the evolution of these stories that we can trace the development of a legacy that, in the eyes of modern historians, should be the kernel of a single personality – but which over the centuries has become multiple actors, vying for attention and struggling to make a mark on subsequent historiography.12 p
Learning from One's Mistakes
No full textCreated by R.D. Lee for the Royal Statistics Society, this article describes an exercise, which highlights the effect of sampling without replacement in small populations, and leads to consideration of the relative importance of sample and population size when examining standard error. The author provides a number of exercises, an explanation of statistical errors and the importance of sample size. This is a brief, yet fine resource for those in the field of statistics
Mad to be Normal: Thoughts on Psychiatrist R.D Laing and Connections to Liberation Psychology
No full textThis article uses the film Mad to be Normal, about R.D. Laing, as an opening into the liberation psychology approaches of Martin-Baro. Examples from the author\u27s own clinical practice as well as personal experiences from life in a Catholic Worker community are included
R.D. Laing's language of experience
No full textThe radical psychiatrist R.D. Laing (1927-1989) was an accomplished author with an extensive philosophical knowledge that informed his ideas on reading, writing, and interpretation. Laing argues that psychiatry should be modeled on skilful textual exegesis rather than scientific explanation. The exegesis of a psychotic’s words and actions is difficult, he infers, because the impoverishment of our experience cuts us off from the sense that lies within seeming madness. Like philosophers such as Edmund Husserl, Laing therefore criticizes the way in which the natural sciences have invalidated subjective experience. He consequently employs a rhetoric designed to disclose with renewed vigor its complexity, variety and reality. Laing fails, however, to find an alternative to scientific reason: "experience", in his weakest work, is an irrational realm of mystical and self-validating certainty that closely parallels Heidegger’s later accounts of "Being"
Dead Men Tell No Trauma: The Construction of a Traumatic Narrative in Audita Tremendi (1187).
No full textThe loss of the Battle of Hattin constituted an immense shock for Christian society. Pope Gregory VIII issued an immediate response in the papal bull Audita Tremendi (1187). To better understand this bull, this study discusses how the notion of cultural trauma in the wake of the Battle of Hattin can explain the narrative strategies employed by Pope Gregory VIII. To this end, the sociological models of cultural trauma of Piotr Sztompka and Jeffrey Alexander are employed to examine the role of trauma in the causa scribendi of, and the narrative and rhetoric strategies in this bull. By connecting modern sociological theory to Audita Tremendi, the rhetorical strategies displayed by Pope Gregory VIII are uncovered and it is argued that he succeeded in crafting a narrative that could convey the traumatic nature of the Battle of Hattin to his audience and furthermore spur this audience into action
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