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Nonlinear Viscoelastic Analysis of a Pneumatic 2D-Structure Interposed Between a Couple of Rigid Moving Planes
No full textNonlinear viscoelastic analysis of a cylindrical balloon squeezed between two rigid moving plates
No full textA nonlinear model of visco-elastic balloon, interposed between a couple of moving rigid bodies, is formulated. The pneumatic structure is modeled as a thin, infinitely long cylindrical membrane, pre-stressed by an internal pressure. External pressure is assumed to be zero. The pushing bodies are modeled as a couple of frictionless rigid parallel plates, approaching each other normally, and causing squeezing of the pneumatic body. Motion is assumed to be slow, in such a way that any inertial effects are negligible. Both cases of long and short plates are considered, the latter entailing the possibility of puncture of the deformable body. A thermoplastic polyurethane material behavior is considered, and proper constitutive relationships adopted. Several models are formulated, which differ for constitutive laws (inextensible, elastic, linearly or non linearly visco-elastic) and/or for kinematic description (small strains and displacements or finite kinematics). The governing mixed differential-algebraic equations are analytically or numerically integrated for several impressed motion time-histories and the main features of the phenomenon are investigated
Marketing Metrics in the Wine Retailing Industry
No full textOver the years, many companies integrated the Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) tools, into their reporting activities, leading to a deep transformation of the business models and marketing strategies. This study has dual aims: first, to recognize and validate the studies on Marketing Performance Measurement (MPM) in the wine retailing industry; second, to examine the relationships among the firm’s efforts to apply marketing metrics and some characteristics of the competitive environment. To reach these research aims, data on the overall 31 wineries were collected and analyzed in three different countries. The main research tool is the structured questionnaire that considers three different marketing metrics dimensions, that is transactional, attitudinal and web customer metrics. Subsequently, by a structural equation method (PLS-PM), it will be statistically estimated the weight of marketing metrics in the wine retailing industry
Rozpor ako východisko, láska ako smer u Simone Weilovej (Contradiction as base, Love as direction in writings of Simone Weil)
No full textArticle is explaining contradiction and love, Simone Weil‘s essential terms of hermeneutics of human Being. It introduces close relation of these terms with her understanding of God as well as with her overall concept of religion. Author also mentions Simone Weil‘s inspirations with philosophical and spiritual concepts of the East
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No full text“I beg you to tell me what has become of Djamila”: The Political Mobilization of Simone de Beauvoir’s Readers During the Boupacha Affair
No full textBy Sophia Millman This is a condensed version of a Masters thesis dedicated to the political mobilization of Simone de Beauvoir’s readers. The citations from the letters were translated from French by the author. *** On June 2, 1960, the French government ordered all copies of the daily Algiers edition of Le Monde seized and destroyed to suppress the publication of Simone de Beauvoir’s article “Pour Djamila Boupacha.” Beauvoir, a self-professed “woman of letters”, not “of action[1]”, and one ..
A comparative study of form and theology in the works of Flannery O'Connor and Simone Weil
No full textIn this comparative study of the form and theology of Flannery O'Connor and Simone Weil I interrogate how Weil's philosophical writings and her theology illuminate O'Connor's use of both narrative and non-fictional forms, and her Catholicism. The Introduction analyses how Weil's concept of superposed reading provides a new method of approaching both O'Connor, her writings, and O'Connor
studies, and focuses on how such apparently different women interconnect. Chapter One explores how both Weil and O'Connor attempt to write their theologies on the
souls of their readers yet are each subject to constraints imposed by form. Weil's concept of locating equilibrium between incommensurates is discussed, and her
distinctively philosophical approach to fictions and fictionality is used to investigate O'Connor's notion of prophetic fictions and the writer's role. Chapter Two assesses how both writers revivify Christian paradoxes. Weil's monstrous concept of affiiction, and O'Connor's use of the grotesque genre to jolt secular man into an
awareness of the sacred are scrutinised. Chapter Three studies how both writers consider an encounter between God and man is possible through the action of grace. My Conclusion interrogates how Weil's work can deepen our understanding of O'Connor's writings, and examines how successful O'Connor is at realising a truly
Christian literature. I conclude that despite being a writer of powerful fictions, O'Connor can not be totally successful in her mission as writer-prophet because
ultimately fiction escapes orthodoxy
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