179 research outputs found
Freight impacts on Ohio's roadway system : final report
No full text"Author(s), Daniel Beagan, Lance Grenzeback"--Tech. rept. doc. p.; "June 2002."; Includes bibliographical references.; State job no. 14766 (0).; Harvested from the web on 3/1/06The Ohio Department of Transportation is developing a comprehensive, statewide, travel demand forecasting model, which will include sophisticated freight-planning capabilities; however, the model will not be fully functional until 2005. The purposes of this research study are to determine how readily available freight databases could: provide information on freight flows; forecast freight truck flows on Ohio's roadways; and be used to assess its impact on those roadways. The research study obtained Reebie Associates' 1998 TRANSEARCH' database of freight shipments traveling to, from or through Ohio. Forecasts of Ohio’s economy were obtained from the firm of DRI-WEFA and used to estimate freight flows for the year 2025. Methods were developed to assign the flow of freight shipments to Ohio's major roadway using database queries within TRANSEARCH. The resulting network flows were then mapped as a roadway network using the ArcView GIS software. The research study found that the Origin-Destination tonnage information could be converted to daily trucks and mapped to Ohio’s roadways. The resulting assigned freight truck volumes agreed with the pattem of observed truck counts and screenlines. The methods used, county-to-county assignments and all-or-nothing assignments, produced flows that are accurate for corridors, not for individual facilities. The study conducted four case studies using the freight data to determine the value of the freight data and forecasts. The Highway Economic Requirements System (HERS) model, the analysis tool developed by the Federal Highway Administration to assist in the preparation of the biennial Conditions and Performance Report, was used to assess the impact of future freight-truck travel on Ohio's roadway system. The study examined the freight data and forecast for the I-75 Corridor. The freight-truck forecasts provide detailed information about the industries served/commodities carried now and in the future on I-75. The study examined the potential to divert truck traffic from the Ohio Turnpike to parallel railroad lines. The study examined the use of freight data to support travel demand forecasting models used by Metropolitan Planning Organizations
‘The Churchillian Paradigm and the “Other British Isles”: An Examination of Second World War Remembrance in Man, Orkney, and Jersey’
No full textThis dissertation studies Second World War ‘sites of memory’ in the islands of Jersey, Orkney and the Isle of Man, to determine if each island celebrates the war’s events as Britain does, or if they have charted their own mnemonic course. It builds on the work of Angus Calder, Malcolm Smith, and Mark Connelly, who have explored how popular conception of the Second World War in Britain has been structured around a certain set of commemorative motifs, most of which centre on Winston Churchill and the events of 1940. The British war narrative is now commonly referred to as the ‘Churchillian paradigm’ or ‘finest-hour myth’, and continues to be the driving force in commemoration and memorialization on the British mainland. The three islands in this study are culturally and historically distinct from Britain, and each has strong notions of its own ‘island identity’. Each also possesses a tangential and divisive domestic experience of war, one which is often minimized in the iconography of the Churchillian paradigm. Jersey was occupied by Nazi Germany from 1940 to 1945, Orkney was home to several thousand Italian POWs who built important infrastructure in the island, and the Isle of Man was home to 14,000 German, Finnish, Japanese, and Italian internees in what one critic has called ‘a bespattered page’ in the nation’s history. By examining ‘sites of memory’— museums, heritage sites, commemorations, celebrations, philately, and use of public space—this dissertation shows that each island simultaneously accepts and rejects elements of the finest-hour myth in their collective memory. Each island displays its unique (though often quite negative) heritage in order to differentiate itself from Britain, while at the same time allowing them, at certain events, to participate in celebration of Britain’s ‘greatest victory’. In this way, islands’ use ‘Britishness’ pragmatically, by basking in traditionally ‘British’ commemorative tropes, while at the same time deepening their own cultural and historical sovereignty
La Possession dans la grammaire « pohétique » de Gellu Naum / Possession in Gellu Naum’s “pohetic” grammar
No full textRésumé : Cet article est censé attirer l’attention sur le Surréalisme poétique roumain et sur son représentant le plus important, Gellu Naum qui, ayant assimilé les expériences pré-surréalistes, rimbaldiennes et apollinariennes, donne une réplique vigoureuse au grand Surréalisme français inauguré par Breton, et se lance, à travers les champs magnétiques de la langue roumaine, cette fois-ci, à la recherche d’un anti-langage, ou d’un sur-langage, qui puisse exprimer au mieux sa notion favorite de « pohème » surréel et plus vrai que la réalité. Pour y parvenir, il recourt à la perturbation voulue, ludique et onirique de la grammaire, aux confins de l’absurde infusé de l’humour amer du type ionescien, et avec une forte volonté programmatique de « crétiniser le langage ».Mots clés : Naum ; surréalisme ; crise du langage ; poésie ; littérature roumaine.Abstract: This article aims to draw attention to Romanian Poetic Surrealism and its most important author, Gellu Naum who, having assimilated the pre-surrealist Rimbaud’s and Apollinaire’s experiences, gives a vigorous replay to the great French surrealism inaugurated by Breton, and launches, through the magnetic fields of the Romanian language, this time, in search of an anti-language, or an over-language, which can best express its favorite notion of “poheme” surreal and more real than the reality itself. To achieve this, he resorts to the desired, playful and subconscious disturbance of grammar, on the edge of the absurd infused with the Eugène Ionesco type of bitter humor, and with a strong and programmatic will to “cretinize the language”.Keywords: Naum; surrealism; language crisis; poetry; Romanian literature
Sastra Atjeh: Hikajat Robinson Crusoe
No full textEnglish translation of book title: 'Aceh Literature: The Epic of Robinson Crusoe' (novel originally by Daniel Defoe). The original story by Defoe is translated into the Acehnese language and presented as a Hikayat epic in couplet verse. The work includes a foreword by the author and an introduction by Prof. Dr. Hadji Aboebakar Atjeh, both in the Indonesian language. Published in Djakarta by Teukoe Mansoer Foundation in 1970. This book is held by the Music Archive of Monash University (MAMU) as part of their Lance Castles Collection. Please contact MAMU to view the book.</div
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Writing and the rights of reality: usurpation and potentiality in Derrida, Plato, Nietzsche, and Beckett
No full textThe thesis critically evaluates Jacques Derrida's conferral of the rights of reality on writing, focussing on his theory of an arche-text in light of the speculative nature of this theory. The theory is initially considered in the context of Derrida's elucidation of the usurpatory status of writing within the Platonic and Nietzschean texts. This consideration reveals an admission of writing's usurpatory status by both writers while at the same time demonstrating their awareness of the intrinsically speculative nature of this view, the significance of writing lying in its ability to exteriorise the radically indeterminate status of consciousness m relation to reality rather than its ability to displace consciousness or reality The analyses, therefore, not only bring the Derridean hypothesis of a repressive or phonocentric metaphysical episteme into question but also exhibit the historical and philosophical role of potentiality in relation to writing, writing's ultimate significance lying in its capacity to exteriorise our existence as a mode of potentiality. Accordingly, in the second half of the thesis the Derridean theory of writing is countered with a specifically Aristotelian theory of the text as it is exhibited in the prose of Samuel Beckett, an author whose significance lies in his close alignment with Derridean theory within contemporary criticism. It is demonstrated that this identification has obviated an awareness of the significance of potentiality within the Beckettian text, his work consequently being appraised in the previously neglected context of Aristotelian metaphysics
Intangibles, Global Networks & Corporate Social Responsibility
No full textNetwork organisations emphasise the importance of corporate and product intangible assets. In global competition, the managerial economics of intangibles imposes new network policies of corporate social responsibility, dominated by global social issues such as economic sustainability, eco-responsibility, worker protection and so on.Intangible Assets; Network; Global Competition; Corporate Social Responsibility DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.4468/2010.2.02brondoni
Materials discovery using in situ reduction and X-ray diffraction
No full textMaterials discovery is important for pushing new and existing technologies forward. In this thesis, a systematic approach to materials discovery is presented that highlights the combined use of in situ reduction reactions and X-ray diffraction to quickly explore compositional space. Reduction reactions provide a synthesis route that has been shown to gently traverse a compositional space. Traditional synthesis at high temperatures tends to only favor the formation of thermodynamically stable compounds, however, with a more controlled synthesis route, kinetically stable and metastable compounds may be easier to discover.
By coupling reduction reactions with in situ X-ray diffraction, intermediate and metastable phases can be observed. Once a phase is observed using in situ X-ray diffraction, attempts can be made to stabilize the phase ex situ in order to solve the structure and understand the material's properties. In this thesis, an in situ cell is described that can be used to perform these in situ reduction reactions using a laboratory X-ray diffractometer. Since the technique can now be performed on a laboratory scale, rapid phase exploration can be performed.
This combined approach will be discussed with regard to two different materials systems, K-Sn-O and Fe-S. In the K-Sn-O system, in situ and ex situ studies are performed in order to search for new p-type transparent conducting oxides. In the Fe-S system, in situ reduction is used to solve a highly debated question of whether or not pyrite FeS2 is a non-stoichiometric compound and to quantify the possible extent of non-stoichiometry.Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2020-12-01The student, Rebecca McAuliffe, accepted the attached license on 2018-11-15 at 00:47.The student, Rebecca McAuliffe, submitted this Dissertation for approval on 2018-11-16 at 12:26.This Dissertation was approved for publication on 2018-11-16 at 16:26.DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #13086 on 2019-02-08 at 11:38:48Made available in DSpace on 2019-02-08T18:39:45Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 3
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An Assessment of How Urban Crime and Victimization Affects Life Satisfaction
No full textWe assess the effect of the homicide rate, individual´s perception of security in their neighborhood of residence, and of the effect of their having been victimized, on life satisfaction. We find a negative effect of the homicide rate on life satisfaction for the subsample of individuals living in their current houses for at least 10 years or more, who had moved to that place at some point in the past. We also find a positive and robust effect of the perception of security in the households´neighborhood for the whole sample, and for different subsamples considered. Having been victim of an offense is also robustly negatively related to life satisfaction, in particular in the cases where the offense was robbery.Quality of Life, Life Satisfaction, Crime. Classification JEL: I32, K40, K42.
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