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Author Interview with Novelist Esther Laforce
No full textNovelist\u27s Corner:
Author Interview with novelist Esther Laforce, author of: In the Early Days of the Anthropocene (Aux premiers temps de l’Anthropocène). Ottawa, CA: Leméac Editeur, 201
The Esther Forbes Papers
No full textThe Esther Forbes Papers contain original manuscripts written by Forbes during her childhood and college years. They also contain manuscripts for The Running of the Tide, Rainbow on the Road, and Paradise. With the papers are housed bibliographic material about Esther Forbes collected by Jack Bales and published as: Esther Forbes: A Bio-Bibliography of the Author of Johnny Tremain, by The Scarecrow Press, Inc., Lanham, Md., 1998, Scarecrow Author Bibliographic Series, No. 98
Swedish Landmarks in the Delaware Valley
No full textThis is an English-language edition of Dr. Esther Chilstrom Meixner's book, "Svenska spar vid Delaware." It was published in 1960, and printed by The Chancellor Press, Inc., Bridgeport, CT. The cover shows the Kalmar Nyckel Monument in Fort Christina State Park, Wilmington, Delaware
Walter Benjamin's legacy - Esther Leslie and Stuart Jeffries
No full textTo celebrate Verso’s new edition of The Storyteller by Walter Benjamin, Esther Leslie (writer and translator of many books including The Storyteller, and Professor of Political Aesthetics at Birkbeck, London) and Stuart Jeffries (journalist and author of many books including Grand Hotel Abyss) discuss the life and legacy of Walter Benjamin. From his relationship with his peers, the other members of the Frankfurt School, and his cultural heritage, to his use of, and feelings about, technological advancements, to his approach to storytelling, writing and language more broadly, join Esther and Stuart for this fascinating and wide-ranging discussion of one of Western Marxism's most important philosophers
Stimuli-responsive materials: Definition, classification and descriptions
No full textStimuli-responsive materials: definition, classification and descriptions
Stimuli-responsive materials have the particularity to change one or more of their properties under a defined stimulus: through a transition phenomenon, they will turn an input, or stimulus, into an output, or response. To make a selection of these materials, a designer will consider first of all the main functionality of these materials, which is their transition phenomenon, as it gives them a capacity to process information.
To get a perspective on stimuli-responsive materials and the possibilities they offer, the first step has been to class them according to their transition phenomenon. This has been done in the form of a graph where transition phenomena are represented as a link between their associated input and output.
A second representation has been made starting from the first graph, but adding a link to the user of a product which use a stimuli-responsive material. To do so, the inputs of the materials has been differentiated by the fact that they can be activated by the user, the environment or by an intermediary system; the outputs has been linked to the achievable behaviors of a product and with the sensory modality the user will engage to notice these behaviors.
After having proposed this classification of stimuli-responsive materials, the next step of the work is to get more detailed information about their behavior, and to organize and represent this information in a coherent and efficient way. To do so, we proposed a description for each type of transition phenomenon, which shows its most important characteristics in a visual way. This information is now being summed up in a database, which is organized with different tables and tree-structures that will describe stimuli-responsive materials, transition phenomena and the link between them. A first prototype of the database will be proposed
SMARTDESIGN: A WORKSHOP ON SHAPE MEMORY ALLOYS
No full textLearning by doing is an efficient way to teach design students intuitive and durable knowledge about
materials. By experimenting and experiencing materials, students get a prospective on the properties
of the materials they use and are able to learn which possibilities are given by them. Having an up-todate
knowledge of materials, from technical and engineering properties to expressive-sensorial
perceptions is essential for designers to produce an aware design and exploit the potentials and limits
of materials. In this perspective, the workshop “SMArtDesign” focused the attention on the application
of Shape Memory Alloys (SMAs) in design concepts. The workshop has been conducted in
collaboration with a leader in the SMA industry and it was dedicated to students of the Product Design
course at the School of Design of the Politecnico di Milano.
SMAs are stimuli-responsive materials, in the sense that they are able to change shape when heated.
More precisely, they are able either to return to a pre-set shape when they are heated over their
transition temperature. This property makes SMAs particularly interesting for designers, since it will
allow them to design new kinds of interactions between users and products. Nevertheless, it also
brings some difficulties in finding a way to use them. The strategy of learning by doing can be very
effective here, to teach materials and to help designers implementing SMAs in their projects.
During the workshop, students get the opportunity to study and develop a concept using SMAs. The
workshop last for five days, with a launch presentation taking place the week before. The first step of
the workshop consisted of a presentation of the SMAs and their properties, followed by examples of
applications. The focus has been on applications in the automotive, ITC, home-appliances, lighting,
rehabilitation, sports, security, and jewellery fields. After this presentation, groups of four students
were asked to choose one of the previous application fields, to analyze it and research other existing
applications of SMAs. Then they have developed a concept of a product using SMAs. They presented
briefly some propositions of concepts on the third day, and then developed one of them more in detail,
presenting the result during the last day of the workshop.
The participation of the industry leader has allowed a good communication between the future
designers and the materials supplier, and offered the possibility for the students to get full information
about SMAs, since they had at their disposition samples to experiment with, and technical information
and support to implement the SMAs in an efficient way. This paper presents the results of the
workshop. The aim of this study was to allow the students to get a hand-on appropriation of shape
memory alloys and of their possible uses
[343b] Esther Morris Monument [back]
No full textEsther Morris Monument, South Pass City, Wyo. Home \u26 Office Site of Esther Hobart Morris First Woman Justice of the Peace in the World Feb. 14, 1870 Author with W. H. Bright of the First Equal Suffrage Law Dec. 10, 1870https://scholarworks.uni.edu/suffrage_images/1691/thumbnail.jp
[343a] Esther Morris Monument [front]
No full textEsther Morris Monument, South Pass City, Wyo. Home \u26 Office Site of Esther Hobart Morris First Woman Justice of the Peace in the World Feb. 14, 1870 Author with W. H. Bright of the First Equal Suffrage Law Dec. 10, 1869https://scholarworks.uni.edu/suffrage_images/1690/thumbnail.jp
Esther Irene Nelson - a Bio-Essay: Esther's Song
No full textBooklet - 'The Story - Book 7' - Biography of Esther Nelson, compiled by her niece, Nancy Vose (161 pages)Bi
Guide to the Esther LaPorta Donor Relations records
No full textEsther LaPorta collected these records during her tenure at the University of San Diego. LaPorta gathered historical records about the founding of USD to provide context during donor events. Correspondence between Bishop Charles Buddy and Mother Rosalie Hill, for example, were used to construct the narrative for the 1999 President\u27s Dinner. Correspondence between Bishop Charles Buddy and members of the Nolan family, articles and manuscripts written about the founding of the San Diego College for Women and the early history of the University of San Diego, and records pertaining to President Author Hughes are also included. Of particular significance are interview transcripts of Author and Marge Hughes. These interviews were conducted in March of 1995 as the Hughes\u27 were preparing to retire from the University.
Documents pertaining to the University of San Diego Capital Campaign, as well as artifacts used to recognize significant donors are also included in these records. Capital Campaign records include reports and evaluations of the campaign.
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