89 research outputs found
Corrosion of concrete structures due to climate change
No full textConcrete is clearly one of the most predominant-used material in both residential and non-residential structures across Europe (Peled and Fishman, 2021). A reinforced concrete (RC) structure is expected to satisfy criteria for serviceability, structural integrity, and stability over its designed operational lifespan, without significant loss of utility or excessive unforeseen maintenance (for general requirements see also EN 1990). Comprehending the degradation mechanisms that impact these structures is essential for accurately estimating their service life and formulating cost-effective maintenance strategies. The main mechanisms responsible for concrete degradation include corrosion caused by carbonation and the presence of chloride ions, freeze-thaw cycles, sulphate attack and erosion due to high-velocity water flow, ice, or wind-blown sand.Integral Design & Managemen
Adaptation strategies
No full textIn addressing the impact of climate change on the corrosion of RC buildings, it is crucial to distinguish between two adaptation strategies. The first refers to measures integrated during the design phase for new structures. The second involves strategies implemented during the service phase to enhance the resilience of existing structures. This differentiation ensures that both new and existing buildings are equipped to withstand the challenges posed by a changing climate. This section focuses on the first while the strategies implemented during the service life of the existing buildings are discussed in the following section.Integral Design & Managemen
Nonstandard potential well method and application to sixth order Boussinesq equation with Bernoulli type nonlinearity
No full textThe problem of the „male“ language (on works by Miglena Nikolchina and Irena Ivanova)
No full textThe paper is devoted to the problem of the „male“ language which can be found in the works of two Bulgarian poets – Miglena Nikolchina and Irena Ivanova (better known by her pseudonym Rene Karabaš). The author associates them with the change that happens in literary criticism and the literary production itself after the 1990s. The author considers the synthesis of poetry and prose, poetry and theory as an intertextual „dialogue” through which is possible to analyze the texts of both poets. Thematically, the article focuses on the ways in which the woman gains „a right to have a voice“ rejecting her gender to take up the poet’s word and on how man appears to be a „quotation” in their works
Failing Grade: 89% of Introduction-to-Psychology textbooks that define or explain statistical significance do so incorrectly
No full textNull-hypothesis significance testing (NHST) is commonly used in psychology; however, it is widely acknowledged that NHST is not well understood by either psychology professors or psychology students. In the current study, we investigated whether introduction-to-psychology textbooks accurately define and explain statistical significance. We examined 30 introductory-psychology textbooks, including the best-selling books from the United States and Canada, and found that 89% incorrectly defined or explained statistical significance. Incorrect definitions and explanations were most often consistent with the odds-against-chance fallacy. These results suggest that it is common for introduction-to-psychology students to be taught incorrect interpretations of statistical significance. We hope that our results will create awareness among authors of introductory-psychology books and provide the impetus for corrective action. To help with classroom instruction, we provide slides that correctly describe NHST and may be useful for introductory-psychology instructors
What 80 percent of textbooks won’t tell you: The rate of p-value fallacies and effect size inclusion across introductory psychology textbooks
No full textIn psychology, null hypothesis significance testing (NHST) is the most commonly-used method for assessing quantitative research results. Despite its pervasiveness NHST is not well-understood by either psychology professors or their students; previous research suggests that up to 89 percent of psychology professors (and 100 percent of psychology undergraduate students) hold at least one false belief about what NHST can tell a researcher about their data (Heller & Krauss, 2002). Given the ubiquity of these errors, there is reason to examine the ways in which NHST is taught at the undergraduate level.
The present study used a content analysis approach to code the latest available editions of 23 different North American introductory psychology textbooks. Each textbook’s definition of p-values was coded for the presence of five interpretation errors (drawn from Kline, 2009), as well as for the presence of an alternative statistical index (namely, effect size). The results indicated that 80 percent of textbooks included a p-value definition that contained at least one major interpretation error. Moreover, only 30 percent of textbooks included a definition of effect size. The implications of these findings are discussed with regard to addressing rising concerns around ‘p-hacking’ and the misuse of NHST in psychological research
“ONTOLOGICAL SCANDAL”: GAMES WITH BOUNDARIES BETWEEN WORLDS AND TEXTS
No full textStarting from the theoretical premises for the ontological dominant of postmodern prose, this text interprets these premises in the novel The Symmetry Teacher by Russian author Andrei Bitov. The interpretation is focused on two levels: first, interpretation of ontological themes and metafictional devices through which these themes are articulated in the Bitov’s novel; secondly, the function of those themes and devices, regarding the illustration of ontological games with the boundaries between the worlds (literature-reality, art-life, fiction-fact), between texts (original and translated texts and meta-texts) and between genres
WHERE THERE IS A VOICE, THERE IS A SPEAKER!
No full textThe starting point of the research is the thesis of the interpretive potential of the historical novel about history and its historiographical verifications. The theoretical framework of the study is based on Linda Hutcheon\u27s, Brian McHale\u27s, and Elizabeth Wesseling\u27s conceptions of the historical novel, which will be applied interpretatively to the novel Accused: Viera Gran by Polish author Agata Tuszynska. The interpretive focus is on the narrative procedures that articulate Tuszynska\u27s novel\u27s (re)interpretative relations to history and (meta)interpretative relations to existing textualizations of history, as well as their epistemological and (post)memorial implications
THROUGH THE FORESTS OF HISTORY WITH THE BINOCULARS OF FICTION
No full textStarting from the premise about the actuality of the interdiscursive relations between literature and history in the contemporary Macedonian novel, the purpose of this text is to elaborate and confirm that thesis through the interpretation of the novel Marko Krale by the Macedonian author Slobodan Mickovic. The theoretical framework of the research is related to the concepts of Brian McHale\u27s postmodernist revisionist historical novel that will be interpretatively applied to Mickovic\u27s novel. The interpretive focus is placed on the epistemological and ontological themes and the narrative procedures (intertextuality as dominant) through which those themes are articulated in the novel.
Кеywords: postmodernist revisionist historical novel; intertextuality; Macedonian novel; Slobodan Mickovik
HISTORY AS AN INTERTEXT
No full textThe subject of this text is the novel History of the World in 10 ½ Chapters by the British author Julian Barnes, interpreted through the prism of some of the constitutive features of historiographic metafiction. Specifically, interpretative focus is on a novelistic interest in history, seen as intertext, and consequently, over the interpretation of intertextual procedures and their functions not only in the context of this novel, but in the wider context of meta - historiographical trends in historiographic metafiction and in the context of the postmodern poetics characteristics
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