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    Fundamentals of continuum mechanics : with applications to mechanical, thermomechanical, and smart materials / Stephen E. Bechtel, Robert L. Lowe.

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    "Transferred to digital printing in 2014"--T.p. verso.Includes bibliographic references (pages 321-324) and index.xv, 330 pages :"Fundamentals of Continuum Mechanics provides a clear and rigorous presentation of continuum mechanics for engineers, physicists, applied mathematicians, and materials scientists. This book emphasizes the role of thermodynamics in constitutive modeling, with detailed application to nonlinear elastic solids, viscous fluids, and modern smart materials. While emphasizing advanced material modeling, special attention is also devoted to developing novel theories for incompressible and thermally expanding materials. A wealth of carefully chosen examples and exercises illuminate the subject matter and facilitate self-study"--Page [4] of cover

    Intentional Action in Folk Psychology: An Experimental Investigation

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    Four experiments examined people’s folk-psychological concept of intentional action. The chief question was whether or not evaluative considerations — considerations of good and bad, right and wrong, praise and blame — played any role in that concept. The results indicated that the moral qualities of a behavior strongly influence people’s judgements as to whether or not that behavior should be considered ‘intentional.’ After eliminating a number of alternative explanations, the author concludes that this effect is best explained by the hypothesis that evaluative considerations do play some role in people’s concept of intentional action

    L<sup>p</sup>-estimates for the square root of elliptic systems with mixed boundary conditions II

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    We show Lp-estimates for square roots of second order complex elliptic systems L in divergence form on open sets in Rd subject to mixed boundary conditions. The underlying set is supposed to be locally uniform near the Neumann boundary part, and the Dirichlet boundary part is Ahlfors–David regular. The lower endpoint for the interval where such estimates are available is characterized by p-boundedness properties of the semigroup generated by −L, and the upper endpoint by extrapolation properties of the Lax–Milgram isomorphism. Also, we show that the extrapolation range is relatively open in (1,∞).Analysi
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