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Lord Lonsdale and his proteges: William Wordsworth and John Hardie
No full textKey Ingredient in Army Leader Development: Graduate School
No full textThe author analyzes the levels of education achieved by Army senior officers to better understand the results of the Army’s current graduate school policy and to identify how to better leverage graduate school to develop leaders who can then be more effective in strategic-level positions
How to create a sustainable customer growth strategy for a small brand: to leverage branding and design for sustainable customer growth
No full textIn order to realize sustainable customer growth, a company could adopt different strategies: opening up a new market, developing new products, etc. Based on the SWOT analysis, No Label is small and lacking capital, while its main target group (middle-class men, aged 25-45) is growing rapidly. Thus, No Label’s biggest opportunity lies in focusing on the current market and attract more potential customers within the market. After several interviews with its potential customers, the designer found the main challenge for converting its potential customers to real customers is that those people don’t hold a strong belief that No Label is a “relevant brand” and “My kind of product”. The believes that the brand is relevant could result in higher brand loyalty and positive responses to brand-driven activities such as their willingness to pay a premium price, keep purchasing the same brand, adopt new products and so on. This project focuses on leveraging branding and design to elicit the belief of "relevant brand" and "My kind of product", thus converting potential customers of No Lable.Strategic Product Desig
Realizing topological stability of magnetic helices in exchange-coupled multilayers for all-spin-based system
No full textTopologically stabilized spin configurations like helices in the form of planar domain walls (DWs) or vortex-like structures with magnetic functionalities are more often a theoretical prediction rather than experimental realization. In this paper we report on the exchange coupling and helical phase characteristics within Dy-Fe multilayers. The magnetic hysteresis loops with temperature show an exchange bias field of around 1.0 kOe at 10 K. Polarized neutron reflectivity reveal (i) ferrimagnetic alignment of the layers at low fields forming twisted magnetic helices and a more complicated but stable continuous helical arrangement at higher fields (ii) direct evidence of helices in the form of planar 2π-DWs within both layers of Fe and Dy. The helices within the Fe layers are topologically stabilized by the reasonably strong induced in-plane magnetocrystalline anisotropy of Dy and the exchange coupling at the Fe-Dy interfaces. The helices in Dy are plausibly reminiscent of the helical ordering at higher temperatures induced by the field history and interfacial strain. Stability of the helical order even at large fields have resulted in an effective modulation of the periodicity of the spin-density like waves and subsequent increase in storage energy. This opens broad perspectives for future scientific and technological applications in increasing the energy density for systems in the field of all-spin-based engineering which has the potential for energy-storing elements on nanometer length scales
Notes on the bibliography of Rainerius de Pisis
No full textTHE Pantheologia of Rainerius de Pisis, the Dominican who died in 1351, must be one of the longest books ever composed in the Middle Ages. Although the author was an Italian, it is noticeable that of the six editions printed in the fifteenth century the first five appeared in Germany, suggesting that the manuscripts quickly found their way to Nuremberg, where it is quite possible that the celebrated humanist, physician and bibliophile Hartmann Schedel had something to do with seeing the formidable tomes of Rainerius de Pisis into print. The first edition, dated 8 April 1473, was produced by Johann Sensenschmidt, and this is the only book at Nuremberg which also contains the name of Heinrich Kefer, who had been one of Gutenberg's servants and testified in the lawsuit with Fust
Realizing topological stability of magnetic helices in exchange-coupled multilayers for all-spin-based system
No full textTopologically stabilized spin configurations like helices in the form of planar domain walls (DWs) or vortex-like structures with magnetic functionalities are more often a theoretical prediction rather than experimental realization. In this paper we report on the exchange coupling and helical phase characteristics within Dy-Fe multilayers. The magnetic hysteresis loops with temperature show an exchange bias field of around 1.0 kOe at 10 K. Polarized neutron reflectivity reveal (i) ferrimagnetic alignment of the layers at low fields forming twisted magnetic helices and a more complicated but stable continuous helical arrangement at higher fields (ii) direct evidence of helices in the form of planar 2-DWs within both layers of Fe and Dy. The helices within the Fe layers are topologically stabilized by the reasonably strong induced in-plane magnetocrystalline anisotropy of Dy and the exchange coupling at the Fe-Dy interfaces. The helices in Dy are plausibly reminiscent of the helical ordering at higher temperatures induced by the field history and interfacial strain. Stability of the helical order even at large fields have resulted in an effective modulation of the periodicity of the spin-density like waves and subsequent increase in storage energy. This opens broad perspectives for future scientific and technological applications in increasing the energy density for systems in the field of all-spin-based engineering which has the potential for energy-storing elements on nanometer length scales
红楼梦结构研究
No full textThis is a study of the structure of the great classical Chinese novel Honglou Meng, or The Dream of the Red Chamber. The author begins with a concise definition of the term "structure" and clears the confusion over the terms jiegou and xiezuo zonggang . The former, when interpreted correctly, means "structure." But in the use of many Chinese scholars, the term refers rather to a draft or outline of plots. Xiezuo zonggang, on the other hand, should mean "a draft or outline of plots," though many scholars use it loosely as a synonym of "structure." With a clear distinction of the terms in mind, the author continues with an analysis of the fourth and fifth chapters as well as the fust five chapters as a whole, looking into their function in the structure of the novel, and pointing out the typical mistakes that scholars made. In Chapter Three, the author explores into the possible influence of traditional modes of thinking on the structure of the novel. She begins with a critique of the studies of such major scholars as Andrew Plak and Zhou Ruchang. She argues that Plak's theory that traditional ideas of yinyang and five-elements has structured the novel is not tenable. She also refutes Zhou Ruchang's theory that the novel has been structured by the belief in the importance of the number "nine". The author proposes that the idea of "gross constituent units" that Claude Levi-Strauss has used to analyse structures of myths can be utilised as a better theoretical framework in analysing the structure of the Dream of the Red Chamber. Her thesis is that the belief of le ji sheng bei (joy/ happiness will lead in the end to tragedy), a pervasive traditional concept, is a major structural element that underlies a number of significant incidents of the novel
El artista y la creación de imágenes digitales
No full textIn a analysis of the relationship between creativity and fluency of expression, the author stresses that the distance between the two is growing shorter due to the specific characteristics and the fust development of digital technologies. Delgado Guitart makes a connection between the use of this tool for expressing creativity and the archaic ones and also analyses the benefits of working in an intimate environment without interferences of any kind. In this way the image comes from the inner depths of the artist into ciberspace from where it can be manipulated or changed to other forms. The article ends with it call to artists to open to new technologies and participates in what is the beginning of a form of expression in the the 21st century.L'auteur analyse la relation entre créativité et fluidité de l'expression, en soulignant comment la distance entre les deux diminue merci aux caractéristiques propres des technologies digitales et à leur rapide développement, Delgado Guitart embraye cette façon de créer avec l'archaïque et considère le bénéfice obtenu par l'artiste quand il se trouve dans une ambiance intime et sans angoisse. L'image surgit alors de la dernière profondeur seuleument par un geste de la main et se manifeste dans l'espace cybernétique ou elle pourra être manipulée ou transformée en d'autres sensations différentes aux visuelles. L'article finit avee un appel aux artistes pour qu'il suivent ces chemins et qu'ils participent al naissance d'un mode d'expression du XXIème siècle.Publicad
Historical Panorama of the Constitution of the Society of Jesus
No full textThe Constitutions of the Society of Jesus are the fruit resulting from the thought and work of Ignatius of Loyola and the first Jesuits, under the gui¬dance of the Holy Spirit The author presents an analysis of the most important moments of the birth, formation and reception of the Constitutions in five stages. The fust stage -1539-1541 - was characterized by the common work on the »Exerciiia Spiritualia«, the »Summa Instituta«, and »Quinque Capitula«, as well as by the clear definition of poverty in the Society of Jesus. The second stage -1542-1547 - comprises the text of Ignatius of Lo¬yola on missions. The third stage - 1548-1550 - is mainly marked by the diligence and perseverance of Father Polanco, Ignatius' secretary, who prepared texts for two papal bulb which confirm the privileges already granted to the Society of Jesus and adding new ones. In the fourth stage -1550-1551 - Ignatius presented the text of the Constitutions he had prepared to the gathering odprofessus for their appraisal The fifth stage -1552-1559 - com¬prises Ignatius' elaboration of the so-called A text of the Constitutions. De¬finitive publication of the B text of the Constitutions took place 1558-1559. According to Father Kolvenbach, the present General of the Society of Je¬sus, »Our Jesuit life arui the Constitutions themselves are not a book of laws although they comprise normative elements. Their aim is to provide the So¬ciety with a dynamical survey of the work to be done in the Lord for 'the aid of souls'.
Three chapters from the late aeneolithic and the early bronze age transition in the Central Europe
No full textAnotaceEN Petr Limburský: Tři kapitoly z problematiky konce eneolitu a počátku starší doby bronzové ve střední Evropě. / Three chapters from the Late Aeneolithic and the EarlyBronze Age Transition in the Central Europe/ Encompassing the inconsistence of period of the Late Aenelithic and beginnings of the Early Bronze Age that has been widely discussed in its entirety in the literature is limited on one side by the detailed analyses of archaeological materia! at the levels of regions or find collections, and by the existence of supra-regiona! models and interpretative schemes on the other. By using detailed insights into the above-mentioned issues, the submitted thesis can draw its attention mainly to the topics of chronology based on Radiocarbon dating, testimony of change of the grave equipment in the observed period of time, and properties of burial inventories. Moreover, results of field excavations conducted by the author of so-far the most extensive cemetery of the Bell- Beaker culture in Bohemia at Vlíněves, Mělník district, have been a!so introduced and utilized in this thesis. Three distinct milestones can be highlighted in development of the Radiocarbon dating method. Without questions, the fust one is represented by the enforcement of credibility, applicability, and relative universality of this..
