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Photograph of a bust of the author Tasma
No full textPhotograph of a bust of the author Tasma (Jessie Catherine Couvreur). Pencilled on verso of photo 'Tasma - enlargement of an original lent to H.M. Green? by Mrs Erdos, a neice of Tasma
Fountain in perpetuity: a historical examination of Islamic fountain design from the ninth to the sixteenth centuries and a contemporary interpretation
No full textA thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements of the University of Wolverhampton for the degree of Doctor of PhilosophyThis thesis is an examination of the development of fountain design in the work of selected key Muslim engineers, covering the period from the ninth to the sixteenth centuries lt first introduces, translates and examines a previously undocumented fifteenth -century manuscript, Al-Riv. %a/r a! -Qudsiya fi Amel a! -Shadriºw-ßu»1 wal Fisgit'u (The Qudsiya Treatise in Constructing a Cascade and a Fountain), which was discovered by the researcher'. Since the manuscript describes a self-operated fountain, the notion of perpetual motion in philosophical and engineering concepts is analysed and presented with an attention to historical accounts, and in the light of practical experiments The investigation of the design of eighteen fountains designed at the high point of Islamic civilisation by the renowned engineers: Banu Musa (9th century), alJazari (13`s century) and Taqi al-Din (161h century) is also characterised by my discovery of two manuscripts-. These appear to be originally contemporary copies but have clearly been copied by hand many times with a resulting lack of clarity. The works of these engineers have been studied, in modem times, by prominent Western historians and engineers The evidence for the existence of the 18 fountains takes the form of descriptions and simple diagrams. However, these studies have not been carried out in any depth, and therefore have not resulted in any greater understanding of the nature of such engineering design. In my study, design, manufacture and operation of these fountains are studied as a specialised and specific branch of Islamic engineering Furthermore, a historical understanding of the significant nature of the fountain as a cultural, artistic and engineering product of the Islamic civilisation is brought into focus, and subjected to a practical verification. A major aspect of this study has been to interpret these accounts and through practical experiments verify the original claims and present an account through drawings and video-tape of their original working formats. This, together with the translation of the hitherto unrecorded document has allowed me to present fuller and more comprehensible account of Islamic fountain design with special reference to the roles of the identified engineers. From the experimental work carried out on specific engineering designs, remarkable result are documented which may introduce, as this thesis suggests, a new concept of designing fountain based on the new application of medieval techniques. The investigative and experimental works in this study have enhanced the statement the researcher has tried to deliver in a form of a contemporary fountaindesign. The development of the fountain mechanism as well as the concept of design, the researcher introduces, allows for a fruitful interplay between art, science and particularly engineering, of the past with their counterparts of the present
Isogeometric analysis for multi-patch structured Kirchhoff–Love shells
No full textWe present an isogeometric method for Kirchhoff–Love shell analysis of shell structures with geometries composed of multiple patches and which possibly possess extraordinary vertices, i.e. vertices with a valency different to four. The proposed isogeometric shell discretisation is based on the one hand on the approximation of the mid-surface by a particular class of multi-patch surfaces, called analysis-suitable G1 (Collin et al., 2016), and on the other hand on the use of the globally C1-smooth isogeometric multi-patch spline space (Farahat et al., 2023). We use our developed technique within an isogeometric Kirchhoff–Love shell formulation (Kiendl et al., 2009) to study linear and non-linear shell problems on multi-patch structures. Thereby, the numerical results show the great potential of our method for efficient shell analysis of geometrically complex multi-patch structures which cannot be modelled without the use of extraordinary vertices.Funding Information: The authors wish to thank the anonymous reviewers for their comments that helped to improve the paper. A. Farahat and M. Kapl have been supported by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) through the project P 33023-N. H.M. Verhelst is grateful for the funding from Delft University of Technology. J. Kiendl has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program (grant agreement No 864482). Additionally, the authors are grateful for the support from the developers of the Geometry + Simulation Modules, in particular from A. Mantzaflaris (Inria Sophia Antipolis-Méditerranée). Funding Information: The authors wish to thank the anonymous reviewers for their comments that helped to improve the paper. A. Farahat and M. Kapl have been supported by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) through the project P 33023-N . H.M. Verhelst is grateful for the funding from Delft University of Technology . J. Kiendl has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program (grant agreement No 864482 ). Additionally, the authors are grateful for the support from the developers of the Geometry + Simulation Modules, in particular from A. Mantzaflaris (Inria Sophia Antipolis-Méditerranée).Numerical AnalysisShip Hydromechanics and Structure
Samuel H.M. Byers; Poet; Author; Diplomat; Oskaloosa; Iowa; Mahaska County; Iowa
No full textThis is a photograph taken of Samuel H.M. Byers at the onset of the Civil War in 1861. Byers served in the Union Army during the Civil War and gained a great deal of inspiration for his poetic writing during the war. Byers's most famous work is a poem entitled "Sherman's March to the Sea" recapping events that took place during this famous piece of American history. Byers is also credited with writing the state song of Iowa, played to the melody of "O, Christmas Tree". After gaining fame and fortune from his writing, Byers pursued a career in diplomacy, serving in the U.S. Consulate in Switzerland and Italy. Byers then came back to the U.S., living out the remainder of his days in Los Angeles, California. Byers died in 1933, at the age 95
L'Image Du Buddha Dans L'Art Lao
No full textText and photos of Buddha images in LaosL'Image Du Buddha Dans L'Art Lao. Vientiane: H.M. Demain, 197
Thermally-enhanced oil recovery from stranded fields: Synergy potential for geothermal and oil exploitation
No full textAccepted author manuscriptReservoir EngineeringApplied Geolog
Cure of codfish and herrings; Extracts for a work on the cure of codfish and herring
No full textUseful Hints on the Cure of Codfish and HerringsAt head of title: Official; "(Extracts from), reprinted, by permission, by H.M. inspectors for Irish Fisheries", "... having obtained the permission from Newfoundland Fisheries Commission ..." --page
Trustworthy 100-Year Digital Objects: Durable Encoding for When It's Too Late to Ask
No full textHow can an author store digital information so that it will be reliably intelligible, even years later when he is no longer available to answer questions? Methods that might work are not good enough; what is preserved today should be reliably intelligible whenever someone wants it. Prior proposals fail because they generally confound saved data with irrelevant details of today’s information technology—details that are difficult to define, extract, and save completely and accurately.
We use a virtual machine to represent and eventually to render any data whatsoever. We focus on a case of intermediate difficulty—an executable procedure—and identify a variant for every other data type.
This solution might be more elaborate than needed to render some text, image, audio, or video data. Simple data can be preserved as representations using well-known standards. We sketch practical methods for files ranging from simple structures to those containing computer programs, treating simple cases here and deferring complex cases for future work. Enough of the complete solution is known to enable practical aggressive preservation programs today.
Questioning the Borders of Contemporary US Fiction: H.M. Naqvi’s “Home Boy”, 9/11 and the American Novel
No full textThis essay investigates the margins of twentieth-century American novel in the light of the increasingly deterritorialized status of US culture and literature – a literature whose borders need to be reconfigured not only in terms of reception, but of creation as well. In particular, the essay focuses on the Pakistani-born author H.M. Naqvi and his first novel, Home Boy (2009) – part immigrant narrative, part Bildungsroman, part 9/11 novel. Rooting Home Boy deep in the American grain and at the same time investigating the construction of Otherness through the protagonist’s “inoutsider” status and perspective, Naqvi explores the potential and the limits of what can be considered as “performative Americaness,” defined not by genealogic or geographical belonging, but by cultural and literary affiliations in the politically and socially unstable scenario of the post-national worl
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