3,096 research outputs found
Building robustness research during World War II
No full textThis study reviews research carried out in the U.K. to understand and improve the robustness of buildings when subject to blast from high explosive bombs. The work concentrates on the performance of ordinary civilian buildings, with particular emphasis on multi-storey buildings framed in either reinforced concrete or structural steelwork. At the time, some of the data was used to enhance conventional building construction, principally on Government buildings, and some was used to aide post-war hardened building construction. The two main UK researchers whose work is the basis of this paper (Professor Sir Dermot Christopherson and Professor Lord Baker) identified a number of building weaknesses that led to local or progressive collapse, including connections in steel framed buildings, as well as detailing weaknesses in reinforced concrete constructions. This paper reviews these features, as well as those that added resilience to bomb damage, with particular emphasis to the use of masonry infill panels in framed buildings. Much of the information on building performance is relevant to today's engineers engaged in the design of buildings to survive blast from terrorist attacks involving the vehicle borne improvised explosive device
Henri Temianka Correspondence; (p.p. chiu)
No full textThis collection contains material pertaining to the life, career, and activities of Henri Temianka, violin virtuoso, conductor, music teacher, and author. Materials include correspondence, concert programs and flyers, music scores, photographs, and books.https://digitalcommons.chapman.edu/temianka_correspondence/3693/thumbnail.jp
Installatierede van de Technische Commissie voor de Waterkeringen
No full textRede uitgesproken bij de installatie van de Technische Adviescommissie voor de Waterkeringen door de Minister van Verkeer en Waterstaat, J.G. Suurhoff, en het antwoord van de voorzitter van de TAW op deze rede, prof.ir. P.P. Jansen. De commissie werd ingesteld naar aanleiding van de overstromingen in Tuindorp-Oostzaan in 1960. De commissie is officieel ingesteld op 31 mei 1965, maar de installatierede is in Augustus van dat jaar uitgesprokenTAW/EN
Famous Stories from Panchatantra
No full textI just wrote a few hours ago, a propos of Selected Stories from Panchatantra, that it was curious that the same publisher put out two Panchatantra books by the same author but different illustrators within about four years of each other. Then again, there is yet another Panchatantra book within this series pictured on the back cover of this book! And this is that book pictured on that back cover! It matches its series mate in format: 7 x 9¼. It has the same author, illustrator, and length of 120 pages. It offers 38 numbered fables. There is again a T of C on 3-4. Among many old friends, I have enjoyed reading Jackal Remains Jackal (13). A lioness brings up a jackal with her cubs but notices that the jackal hangs back while the cubs attack an elephant. The lioness tells the jackal what he is and tells him that her cubs will never tolerate the company of a coward. The talkative tortoise here flies with swans (58). The foolish monkeys blow on their non-fire with bamboo pipes (66). La Fontaine's cunning old cat judges between the squirrel and the mouse on 115-18. The curious monkey on 118 loses his tail in the split log. The cover proclaims Illustrated in Colour, and there are one or two larger-than-half-page colored illustrations for each of the stories. Most curious of them may be the detailed presentation of the bedbug and the mosquito on the fat king's bed (29). The most dramatic may be the crab's throttling of the crane in mid-air on 91.Retold by Rashmi Jaiswa
Revealed likelihood and knightian uncertainty
No full textexpected utility theory;uncertainty;revealed preference
Copyright, Creativity, Big Media and Cultural Value: Incorporating the Author by Kathy Bowrey
No full textKathy Bowrey, Copyright, Creativity, Big Media and Cultural Value: Incorporating the Author. London and New York: Routledge. 2021. p.p.218, ISBN: 9780367192068. £120 Hardback; £36.99 E-book
Selected Stories from Panchatantra
No full textIt is curious that the same publisher put out two Panchatantra books by the same author but different illustrators within about four years of each other. Then again, there is yet another Panchatantra book within this series pictured on the back cover of this book! This slightly smaller-format (7 x 9¼) paperback is like Alka's Panchatantra Stories, for which I guessed a date of 2001. It offers 31 numbered fables on 120 pages. There is a T of C on 3-4. This collection features standard Panchatantra stories. New to me is a story prominently pictured on the book's cover: Greed and the Strange Wheel (16) has four friends searching for wealth. The last of them, too greedy to want to share the others' wealth, encounters a man who like him had been searching for diamonds. This man has a wheel revolving around his bloody head. Finding this new searcher at last relieves him of his burden, and now the new victim must wait for another greedy searcher to come. Again here, GGE appears as a Panchatantra story (23), as does MSA (39), again with a washerman as protagonist. On 73, a weaver with a wish to be granted is prevailed upon by his wife to ask for two more hands; the villagers think he is some evil spirit and beat him to death. The second-to-last story involves an iron bar that is allegedly eaten by mice (111). The cover proclaims Illustrated in Colour, and there are one or two larger-than-half-page colored illustrations for each of the stories.Retold by Rashmi Jaiswa
P.P. Bazhov’s style in his fairy tales’ English translations
No full textМагистерская диссертация посвящена анализу англоязычных переводов сказов П.П. Бажова. В работе рассматриваются особенности языка автора (экспрессивная, просторечная, профессиональная лексика, диалектизмы, намеренные нарушения речевых норм, активное использование уменьшительных суффиксов). Выделяются основные переводческие приемы и способы их передачи на английский язык.The master’s thesis presents an analysis of the English translations of P.P. Bazhov’s fairy tales. It describes the author’s language peculiarities (namely colloquial, expressive and original local vocabulary, professional mining vocabulary, advised deviances, using diminutives). The author highlights the main translation techniques being used in the fairy tales’ English translations
Academic authorship: who, why and in what order?
No full textWe are frequently asked by our colleagues and students for advice on authorship for scientific articles. This short paper outlines some of the issues that we have experienced and the advice we usually provide. This editorial follows on from our work on submitting a paper1 and also on writing an academic paper for publication.2 We should like to start by noting that, in our view, there exist two separate, but related issues: (a) authorship and (b) order of authors. The issue of authorship centres on the notion of who can be an author, who should be an author and who definitely should not be an author, and this is partly discipline specific. The second issue, the order of authors, is usually dictated by the academic tradition from which the work comes. One can immediately envisage disagreements within a multi-disciplinary team of researchers where members of the team may have different approaches to authorship order
Birth of pouch young after artificial insemination in the tammar wallaby (Macropus eugenii)
No full textTiming of artificial insemination (AI) in marsupials is critical because fertilization must occur before mucin coats the oocyte during passage through the oviduct. In this study, timing and the site of insemination were examined to develop AI in the tammar wallaby (Macropus eugenii). Birth and postpartum (p.p.) estrus was synchronized in 46 females. Epididymal spermatozoa (n=4) or semen collected by electroejaculation (n=42) were inseminated early (4-21 h p.p.) into the urogenital sinus (n=7), the anterior vaginal culs de sac (n=7), the uterus by transcervical catheter (n=5), or the uterus by injection (intrauterine artificial insemination, IUAI) (n=5). A further 16 females were inseminated late (19-48 h p.p.) by IUAI. All females were monitored for birth. A third group of six females was inseminated late (21-54 h p.p.) by IUAI and 0.4-6.6 h later, sperm had reached the oviduct in all animals. In total, an oocyte to which spermatozoa were attached was recovered and two young were born after IUAI using epididymal (n=1) or electroejaculated (n=2) spermatozoa, but no young resulted from insemination at other sites. Two females were successfully inseminated at 43 and 47 h p.p., later than most other animals, and the third was inseminated much earlier (18 h p.p.) but with highly motile spermatozoa. These young represent the first macropodids born by AI and the first marsupials conceived using epididymal spermatozoa.Damien B.B.P. Paris; David A. Taggart; Geoff Shaw; Peter D. Temple-Smith and Marilyn B. Renfre
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