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Condensed matter group holds 1-day RS-DFID
No full textThe Condensed Matter group of the Department of Physics held a one day RS-DFID consortium workshop in Nairobi on 2nd February 2015 to discuss phase 2 bid after having won phase one worth £25000. The meeting comprised of Prof Jenny Nelson (UK Principal Investigator) of Imperial College London, Prof. Ernest van Dyke (South Africa Principal Investigator ) of Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, South Africa and Dr. Murape (Zimbabwe Principal Investigator) of National University of Science and Technology, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. The hosts were Prof. Bernard Aduda (CMG group leader and Kenya Principal investigator) and Dr. Justus Simiyu (CMG member and co-PI, Kenya). Dr. Dube Nokuthula, the UK co-PI participated via conference call as she was unable to travel to Nairobi.
The first bid comprised of scientific networking while the second phase comprise of five years support towards research collaboration. In the workshop, the participants presented their respective ongoing research programmes, the students involved and the equipment available. After deliberations, the team toured the Department of Physics and held discussions with the Chairman, Department of Physics and had the opportunity of a brief encounter with Prof. Lucy Irungu, the DVC Research and Extension who was giving a lecture at the Department. Prof Ernest later on interacted with some of the MSc students in Solid State Laboratory who were carrying out their research. During the interaction, the students talked about what research they were carrying out and the challenges and successes they have gone through while on the other hand Prof Ernest shared with them the areas of research he is heading at NMMU. He also hinted on possible collaboration with his university in capacity building through advanced University of Nairobi Solar Academy commonly known as T3 Solar academy
Justus von Liebig
No full textThis is a short overview of the life and achievements of Justus von Liebig. Clearly, this can only be an incomplete and somewhat personal view of the author, who has been a professor of inorganic chemistry at Justus Liebig University since 2002. Having already been interested in the work of Liebig for many years, and with a strong connection to the Liebig Museum in Giessen, the author hopes to provide some useful information about this great chemist, one of the founders of modern chemistry. The reader should find many interesting, probably new, facts about Liebig’s major impact on chemistry, agriculture, nutrition, and pharmacology
Justus Lipsius and Neostoicism
No full textFinal book published.Jacqueline Lagre's, 'Justus Lipsius and Neostoicism' translated from French by Dr. Elliot Rossiter
De metamorfoses van het Justus van Effencomplex
No full textDe Justus van Effencomplex in Spangen, dat architect Michiel Brinkman in 1918 ontwierp, werd in 1985 bijgeschreven in het monumentenregister. Een ingrijpende renovatie vondplaats tussen 1983 en 1989 in het kader van de Rotterdamse stadsvernieuwing. In 2010 was het complex echter opnieuw in zo een slechte conditie dat werd besloten tot een tweede verbetering, ditmaal een restauratie. Het complex dat in 1922 werd opgeleverd als een experimenteel en modern staal van volkshuisvesting, was een verouderd wooncomplex geworden. De eigenaar, Woonstad Rotterdam, hoopt met de restauratie het Justus van Effencomplex zijn waarde als een monument van volkshuisvesting te hebben teruggegeven.Architectural Engineering +TechnologyArchitectur
Referral of Iranian President Ahmadinejad on the charge of incitement to commit genocide
No full text... principal author: Justus Reid WeinerParallel als Buch-Ausg. erschiene
Justus Lipsius and the Post-Machiavellian Prince
No full textThis chapter studies the political thought of Justus Lipsius, a moral and political thinker as well as the author of the two-volume philosophical dialogue De constantia (1583) and the six-volume Politica (1589). The chapter explores the scholarship surrounding Lipsius and the historical significance of his works and investigates his connections to Neostoicism. It then embarks on a discussion of the connection between Lipsius's political thought and that of Machiavelli, particularly as revealed in the latter's The Prince (1532). The chapter argues that Machiavelli and Lipsius disagree on the ends of political action: Lipsius's prince aims at serving the common good, understood in terms of the security and welfare of the subject population; Machiavelli's prince acts to secure his own glory.</p
Referral of Iranian President Ahmadinejad on the charge of incitement to commit genocide / ... principal author: Justus Reid Weiner
No full textParallel als Buch-Ausg. erschiene
Expired Experiment - Modern Monument: The Heritage Significance of the Justus van Effen Housing Complex as Driver for Urban Regeneration and Social Sustainability
No full textThis paper presents the Justus van Effen housing complex in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, as an illustration of the way heritage can act as a driver for urban regeneration. Special attention will be given to the role that the transformation of image and the construction of cultural-historical significance have played in this process. It will show how a once expired experiment of modern housing is reclaiming its identity as modern monument, and consequently functions as a catalyst for further urban renewal projects and social developments in the surrounding residential district of Spangen.Architectural Engineering +TechnologyArchitectur
Modeling Human Motor Skills to Enhance Robots’ Physical Interaction
Full text linkThe need for users’ safety and technology acceptability has incredibly increased with the deployment of co-bots physically interacting with humans in industrial settings, and for people assistance. A well-studied approach to meet these requirements is to ensure human-like robot motions and interactions. In this manuscript, we present a research approach that moves from the understanding of human movements and derives usefull guidelines for the planning of arm movements and the learning of skills for physical interaction of robots with the surrounding environment.Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository 'You share, we take care!' - Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.Learning & Autonomous Contro
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