170 research outputs found
Directive speech acts in the New Testament
No full textDanuta Pytel-Pandey, WrocławThis article discusses the directive speech acts in the New Testament. The
author presents examples of such acts from the New Testament Scriptures, and
then carries out their pragmalinguistic [email protected]
Między Homerem a św. Antonim - poezja Jana Lechonia przez pryzmat antroponimów czytana
No full textThe article deals with proper nouns in Jana Lechoń’s poetry with particular emphasis on anthroponyms, which are important means in the unwritten poetics of the author of Karmazynowy poemat [The Poem in Scarlet] because of being timeless and because their meaning is constantly expanding. The author of the
article notes that under the mask of propria are hidden the events from the poet’s life as well as the tragic fate of the Skamander poet’s contemporary Poland. Moreover, it has been indicated that using proper names related to different traditions and cultural orders can be perceived as a manifestation of being at a loss
and searching for the sense of belonging. Since propria carry broad connotative associations, Kiszka-Pytel argued that their analysis might be one of the interpretative paths of poetry
Stability analysis of Embankments located within A-8 interstate motorway Wroc?aw by-pass
No full textRoads support our daily life, and play crucial role in supporting the infrastructure for economic activities. However, road disaster can be caused by different natural conditions of slope failures such as rainfall, steep topography, brittle geology, etc. Road disaster occurrences do not only cause the primary disaster from the infrastructure point of view; but also the secondary disaster, hindrance to the society and the economic activity by traffic stops. In order to prevent or mitigate such road disasters caused by diverse reasons; measures should be taken in every phases of road engineering practices, usually mainly thorough investigation about the surface geology, the subsurface conditions of the foundation and the careful testing of the construction materials principally. Hence detailed investigation about the site is compulsory before commencing the design and construction phases. In addition, post construction phases mainly regular monitoring and maintenance must be undertaken to give the intended service of the highway. Limit equilibrium method is one of the most widely used stability analysis in practice due to its reliability for most practical cases. Its simplified approach can be used in the preliminary assessment only while more complex analysis that gives more accurate results can be carried out with computer programs. This research presents results of stability analysis of A-8 motorway Wroclaw bypass on selected embankments under construction founded on heterogeneous soft soil layers. Different methods of limit equilibrium analysis adopted in computer analysis program SLIDE 2D was used to calculate the Factor of Safety of each embankment. The discussion was based on the results of the computation carried out for cross-sections of A-8 motorway characterized by variability of height and reinforcement conditions. The limit equilibrium method which satisfies both force and moment equilibrium give better prediction on the stability of the slope. In addition to that the method whose assumption mimics the slope condition is preferred. The assessment was executed by referring to the slope stability requirement by Polish regulations.Geo-EngineeringApplied Earth SciencesCivil Engineering and Geoscience
Temperature effect on the rock salt instant strength characteristics
No full textThe mechanical behavior of rock salt has been studied for many decades. Early engineering studies were driven largely by the need to design safe salt mines. In recent times more of the study is concerned to understand the long term behavior of the rock salt to develop and assess the safety of rock salt deposits for the storage of radio active waste. The physical and mechanical characteristics of salt are evidenced in its compact texture, low porosity, low permeability and strong rheological properties (creep behavior). These properties are however necessary for stability analysis and the design of engineering structures in salt mines. Long term effect of the temperature on rock salt mechanical behavior has been documented by various researchers. Temperature also has pronounced effect on short term behavior like instant strength of the rock salt. Generally the trend is that as the temperature increases the instant strength decreases. For the stability of structures like solution-mined caverns, dry salt mines, storage and disposal caverns and boreholes used in the exploration and production of oil and gas comprehensive study of the instant strength of the rock salt is also vital. The objective of this research was to study the temperature effect on the instant strength of the rock salt obtained from Polkowice - Sieroszowice mine in the Lower Selicia. After laboratory tests using uniaxial compressive strength test method, it was observed that the at the given range of temperature applied in the test (10 degree C to 80 degree C) the rock salt instant strength does not show any correlation with the temperature. In other words the instant strength of the rock does not decrease as temperature increase. This kind of unanticipated behavior towards the temperature in terms of strength which is rare for the rock salt could be due to the reason that the range of temperature used in the test was not sufficient for the rock salt to show any alteration in its strength value. Since there was no significant effect of given temperature range on the strength values of the rock salt, classical failure criterion like Mohr-Coulomb criterion was considered as the suitable criterion to justify the strength changes on the rock salt samples. On the other hand density emerges out as a crucial factor that influences the instant strength of the rock salt. Higher uniaxial compressive strength values can be observed for the samples having higher density. This research work is useful to understand the mechanical behavior of the rock salt which behaves in a complex manner when there are lots of factors involved like geology, temperature, density, loading history, maturity of the crystals etc. are involved. It is therefore deemed necessary that more through studying and testing is required.Geo-engineeringApplied Earth SciencesCivil Engineering and Geoscience
Nearness and revealing : The edible veil of the sensible being.
No full textTaking cues from the fragility and grace enfolded within Asian cuisine, this paper explores recent experimentation of an edible rice paper veil. The veil fashions a 'secondary skin', what Jeffery Schnapp the author of 'The Fabric of Modern Times', calls an "object for prosthetic shelf extension...bearing a uniquely intimate and direct relation to the human body" (Schnapp, 1997:197). The process reveals a layered material mutable to moisture and humidity, changing its elastic state in relation to body and surroundings. The moving, breathing, sweating surface of the body further modifies both veil and bodily experience drawing forth deeper emotional responses. The implications here offer a reciprocal affect, a revealing, where new materiality evokes the threshold to a new sensible being, one aware of the depth of material consciousness and inter-corporeal engagement, and which extends the relations between thinking and being of Heidegger and Shklovsky's seminal works
Mining sequence for Lappberget 1250
No full textCivil Engineering and GeosciencesApplied Earth Science
Wśród gruzów
No full textAmong the rubble
Abstract
Terremoto is a literary documentary devoted to earthquakes that have struck Italy in recentyears. The author mixes accounts from travels to places affected by the disaster, interviewswith experts on various aspects of the phenomenon and thought on cultural methods oftaming the constant threat. One of the main characters of the text is Luca Cari, a spokespersonfor Italian fire department and civil-protection services who accompanies the author in histravels Mikołajewski’s book is one of the very few Polish publications that do not replicatethe stereotypical view on the Italians. It is also an important base for a discussion on therelationship of Poles towards the Mediterranean culture.
Keywords: earthquake, Italy, sentimentalism, natural disasters, Polish-Italian relation
Tilting at windmills: Data augmentation for deep pose estimation does not help with occlusions
No full textOcclusion degrades the performance of human pose estimation. In this paper, we introduce targeted keypoint and body part occlusion attacks. The effects of the attacks are systematically analyzed on the best-performing methods. In addition, we propose occlusion specific data augmentation techniques against keypoint and part attacks. Our extensive experiments show that human pose estimation methods are not robust to occlusion and data augmentation does not solve the occlusion problems
Komunikacyjna charakterystyka aktów rady, ostrzeżenia i groźby
No full textCommunicative characteristics of the acts of advice, warning and threatIn this article the author deals with speech acts: advice, warning, threat. The author analyzes the communication intentions of the speaker in these speech acts, and their structure and features. The analysis is performed on the materials of the Polish, Russian and German languages.Communicative characteristics of the acts of advice, warning and threatIn this article the author deals with speech acts: advice, warning, threat. The author analyzes the communication intentions of the speaker in these speech acts, and their structure and features. The analysis is performed on the materials of the Polish, Russian and German languages
Children Are Not Small Adults: Importance of Molecular Analysis for Diagnosis, Prognosis, and Treatment of Pediatric CNS Tumors
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