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Esame della fascia costiera Adriatica (settore italiano). Studio di dettaglio sulle aree che presentano le condizioni migliori per avviare lo studio avanzato sulla fattibilità del “sand engineering”. FASE 2
No full textConvenzione di ricerca tra Eni s.p.a. e il Dipartimento di Fisica e Scienze della Terra dell'Università di Ferrara (responsabile scientifico prof. Paolo Ciavola) - Le ben note problematiche legate ai processi di erosione costiera mantengono alta l’attenzione sulle aree litorali, spesso investite da fenomeni di arretramento della linea di riva. Molteplici sono gli interventi adottati per ridurne l’impatto negativo, ma non sempre l’esito è risultato essere quello atteso o, altrimenti, un mero palliativo. Per questo motivo ultimamente è stata concepita l’idea di realizzare sulla costa emiliano-romagnola un ripascimento artificiale caratterizzato da quantitativi di sabbia molto maggiori rispetto a quelli effettuati sinora, secondo caso in Europa dopo quello sulla costa olandese: il cosiddetto Sand Engine. Dopo un primo studio di fattibilità volto alla selezione dei siti idonei all’attuazione del progetto, il presente lavoro è finalizzato a produrre una piena caratterizzazione delle dinamiche sedimentarie e morfologiche dei due tratti di litorale scelti come potenziali Sand Motors, ovvero Lido di Spina – Bellocchio a nord e Lido di Dante – Lido di Classe a sud. Report finale
Arthur William Upfield: a biography
No full textThis dissertation is an exhaustive account of the life and work of Arthur William Upfield (1890-1964). It is presented as a critical biography and narrates the life of the writer, in his socio-cultural milieu, from birth. It also positions Upfield as a writer who dealt with issues of Aboriginality at a time when this was a singularly polemical subject. My work is informed by the theory of Zygmunt Bauman and others and is posited in the context of late-modern biography theory.
English-born, Upfield arrived in Australia in 1911 and took work in the bush, serving overseas with the Australian army at the outbreak of World War I and marrying an Australian army nurse in Egypt. Returning with his wife and son to Australia in 1921 he intermittently carried his swag until he was employed patrolling the Western Australian number 1 rabbit-proof fence for three years to 1931. By that time he had published four novels, including two crime novels featuring his fictional creation, the part-Aboriginal, part-European, Detective-Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte ('Bony'), arguably the first fully-developed character in Australian popular fiction.
Leaving the fence, Upfield settled with his family in Perth and wrote full-time until joining the Melbourne Herald in 1933. Retrenched, he resumed career writing to be further interrupted by a war-time intelligence posting in 1939. In 1943 the first Bony mysteries were published in America, where Upfield's critical success was maintained until his death. In 1945 he left his wife for Jessica Uren, to whom he remained devoted.
Upfield's in all twenty-nine Bony novels, many of which have been translated across eleven languages, afforded him notable success both at home and abroad, in good part due to his descriptive gifts and the uniqueness of his fictional character, the part-Aboriginal Bony
The Beat of the Economic Heart: Joseph Schumpeter and Arthur Spiethoff on Business Cycles
No full textThe paper discusses the relationship between Arthur Spiethoff and Joseph A. Schumpeter, the men and their works. Had it not been for Spiethoff Schumpeter would in all probability have forever been lost to scientific work. It was Spiethoff who brought the Austrian back to academia and research after a sequence of serious mishaps in politics and banking. Spiethoff's contribution to an analysis of business cycles is then summarized and important similarities and some differences between it and Schumpeter's are pointed out. The view of Spiethoff and Schumpeter that cycles are endogenous and cannot possibly be eliminated without at the same time eliminating the dynamism of the capitalist economy is then couterposed with views of some of their contemporaries and particularly modern mainstream macroeconomics that this is not so.Schumpeter; Spiethoff; business cycles; innovations; creative destruction
Mapanga, Arthur
No full textTitle: DR Name and Surname: ARTHUR MAPANGA Position: Senior Lecturer ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9115-7000 Web of Science Researcher ID C-2809-2018 Scopus Author ID: Scopus Author ID: 57200992129 Faculty and Department: Business Sciences, Management & Governance Office Number and Building: Campus / Site: Buffalo City Campus/Potsdam Phone : +27 84 048 2207 Fax: Email: [email protected]/[email protected] Qualification: PhD(NWU), MBA(Nust,Zw), BSc.Mgt (WuA, Zw) Expertise: Business strategy, Operations Management, Supply/Value chain analysis, Project management, Enterprise management, Corporate governance, HE Teaching & Research methodology My website / social media: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Arthur-Mapanga , https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=57200992129 https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=s6yTjs8AAAAJ https://www.linkedin.com/in/arthur-mapanga-ph-d-b87b86b9
Arthur Green (1941- ) papers, undated, 1965, 1978-2003
No full textProfessor Arthur Green is a Reconstructionist rabbi, author, and teacher. He is the former president of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College (RRC) and currently is dean of the Hebrew College Rabbinical School. The collection contains personal and professional correspondence, articles, and manuscripts. Some student work and correspondence is included but is currently restricted.The bulk of this collection contains correspondence between Arthur Green and friends, publishers, students, and employers. It also contains articles and manuscripts written by Arthur Green as well as publishing agreements and book reviews. Class notes, materials, and work done by students are also included. All information pertaining to students is restricted for 75 years from the date of the latest materials in the collection.This collection is located at the American Jewish Historical Society located in Boston. For information on accessing collections at AJHS Boston please visit their website at: http://www.ajhsboston.org/index.htm.Published citations should take the following form: Identification of item, date (if known); Arthur Green (1941-) Papers; P-963; box number; folder number; American Jewish Historical Society, Boston, MA and New York, NY.Professor Arthur Green,Professor Arthur Green is an authority on Jewish spirituality and mysticism. He was ordained at the Jewish Theological Seminary in 1968 and cofounded the Havurat Shalom movement in the same year. Green earned his doctorate at Brandeis University in 1975 and taught at the University of Pennsylvania for eleven years until he became the Dean of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College (RRC). A few years later, he became president of the RRC. His primary focus has been in study, work, and teaching students, and as a result, he resigned from the presidency and was appointed Philip D. Lown Professor of Jewish Thought at Brandeis University in 1993. He is currently Dean of the Hebrew College Rabbinical School and Professor Emeritus of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies at Brandeis University.Chronology: 1968 - Ordained at the Jewish Theological Seminary. 1968 - Cofounds Havurat Shalom. 1974 - Becomes Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. 1975 - Earns Ph.D. from Brandeis University. 1978 - Receives Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching. 1980 - Appointed Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. 1984 - Appointed Dean of Reconstructionist Rabbinical College. 1986 - Appointed President of Reconstuctionist Rabbinical College. 1993 - Appointed Lown Professor of Jewish Thought at Brandeis University. 2003 - Appointed Dean of the Hebrew College Rabbinical School.Finding Aid available in Reading Room and on Internet.far031
Kids Can Read!
No full textTen fables are presented with one illustration adapted from Arthur Rackham for each. One can hear the text read in English. One can also click on objects or words for names, sound effects, syllables, Spanish, or more explanation. Included are The Crab & his Mother, FG, GA, The Travellers & the Plane Tree, CP, DS, TMCM, The Cat & the Birds, The Quack Frog, and FC. Technology moves quickly enough that this disk may have some compatibility problems with computers younger than it. I had to go to Start, Run, and D: install with a double click on Discis.exe to get it going in my new machine.Language note: Bilingual: English/Spanis
High-resolution mapping of mines and ripples at the Martha's Vineyard Coastal Observatory
No full textAuthor Posting. © IEEE, 2007. This article is posted here by permission of IEEE for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering 32 (2007): 133-149, doi:10.1109/JOE.2007.890953.High-resolution multibeam sonar and state-of-the- art data processing and visualization techniques have been used to quantify the evolution of seafloor morphology and the degree of burial of instrumented mines and mine-shapes as part of the U.S. Office of Naval Research (ONR, Arlington, VA) mine burial experiment at the Martha's Vineyard Coastal Observatory (MVCO, Edgartown, MA). Four surveys were conducted over two years at the experiment site with a 455-kHz, Reson 8125 dynamically focused multibeam sonar. The region is characterized by shore-perpendicular alternating zones of coarse-grained sand with 5?25-cm-high, wave orbital-scale ripples, and zones of finer grained sands with smaller (2?5-cm-high) anorbital ripples and, on occasion, medium scale 10?20-cm-high, chaotic or hummocky bedforms. The boundaries between the zones appear to respond over periods of days to months to the predominant wave direction and energy. Smoothing and small shifts of the boundaries to the northeast take place during fair-weather wave conditions while erosion (scalloping of the boundary) and shifts to the north-northwest occur during storm conditions. The multibeam sonar was also able to resolve changes in the orientation and height of fields of ripples that were directly related to the differences in the prevailing wave direction and energy. The alignment of the small scale bedforms with the prevailing wave conditions appears to occur rapidly (on the order of hours or days) when the wave conditions exceed the threshold of sediment motion (most of the time for the fine sands) and particularly during moderate storm conditions. During storm events, erosional ?windows? to the coarse layer below appear in the fine-grained sands. These ?window? features are oriented parallel to the prevailing wave direction and reveal orbital-scale ripples that are oriented perpendicular to the prevailing wave direction. The resolution of the multibeam sonar combined with 3-D visualization techniques provided realistic looking images of both both instrumented and
noninstrumented mines and mine-like objects (including bomb,
Manta, and Rockan shapes) that were dimensionally correct and
enabled unambiguous identification of the mine type. In two
of the surveys (October and December 2004), the mines in the
fine-grained sands scoured into local pits but were still perfectly
visible and identifiable with the multibeam sonar. In the April
2004 survey, the mines were not visible and apparently were
completely buried. In the coarse-grained sand zone, the mines
were extremely difficult to detect after initial scour burial as the
mines bury until they present the same hydrodynamic roughness
as the orbital-scale bedforms and thus blend into the ambient
ripple field. Given the relatively large, 3-D, spatial coverage of the
multibeam sonar along with its ability to measure the depth of the
seafloor and the depth and dimensions of the mine, it is possible
to measure directly, the burial by depth and burial by surface
area of the mines. The 3-D nature of the multibeam sonar data
also allows the direct determination of the volume of material
removed from a scour pit.The work of L. A. Mayer, R. Raymond, G. Glang,
P. Traykovski, and A. C. Trembanis was supported by the U.S. Office of Naval
Research (ONR) under the Grants N00014-01-1-0847, N00014-01-10564,
and N00014-03-1-0298. The work of M. D. Richardson was supported by
the U.S. Office of Naval Research (NRL) under the Core funding. The work
of L. A. Mayer, R. Raymond, and G. Gland was also supported by the
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the Grant
NA17OG2285
Arthur Danto's philosophy of art
No full textThe thesis is a critical examination of Danto's philosophy of art. It begins with his
article 'The Artworld' where he proposes a special is of artistic identification to
distinguish artworks. Danto's idea of the artworld is discussed, a historical and
contextual theory of art, which arose from his attempt to explain the difference
between Warhol's Brillo Boxes sculpture and an indiscernible stack of everyday
Brillo boxes. It is argued that Danto unsuccessfully attempts to shore up his artworld
concept with the special is.
The technique of comparing indiscernible counterparts, from Danto's
book The Transfiguration of the Commonplace, is examined. It is argued that the
technique is philosophically redundant, but it is a redundant premise which has been
added to a valid inference (Danto's historical and contextual view of art: his artworld
theory) therefore, this does not make the original inference invalid.
Danto's treatment of metaphor, expression, and style is shown to result
in four claims. First, artworks embody rhetorical ellipsis. Second, artworks share
features of metaphor: they are intensional (with an s) in structure and cannot be
paraphrased. Third, a work of art expresses what it is a metaphor for by the way it
depicts its subject. Fourth, artworks embody style.
The conclusion, has two parts. The first part gives a summary of the
criticism of Danto's theory of art: (1) there are logical inconsistencies in his concept
of the is of artistic identification and in his use of indiscernible counterparts, (2) his
theory suffers by being over-inclusive and (3) he uses circular arguments. The
second part is based on a response to the criticism: it provides a definition of art.
This has three elements. First, an argument is proposed for a spectrum of artistic
presence in which all human activity and artefacts can be placed. Second, there is an
acceptance of Danto's view of art (or artistic presence) being both intentional (with
a t) and intensional (with an s); however, by applying these concepts to a spectrum,
the problem of over-inclusiveness is avoided. Finally, it is argued there can he no
wholly non-circular account of art
Versioni del narrativismo. Arthur C. Danto e Frank R. Ankersmit
No full textThe author takes into account Danto's and Ankersmit's versions of narrativism. The former develops a theory of historical meaning «as propositional construction», in the frame of a strumentalistic approach to knowledge. The letter, following Mink and White, develops a theory of historical meaning «as textual construction», in the frame of an aesthetic conception of representation. Through an analytical reconstruction of their intellectual itineraries, the author discusses the consistence of their answers to the «objectivity question» and to the problem of relativism. In the conclusion the author considers the concept of a persistent asymmetry between present and past and proposes an appraisal of the theoretical problems disclosed in those narrativistic perspectives
COURT TUDOR AUTHORS’ POLEMICS ON KING ARTHUR: POLYDORE VERGIL AND JOHN LELAND
No full textThe article focuses on the problem of interpretation of the image of king Arthur, the legendary leader of Britons, during the Tudor reign. Particular attention is paid to the debates on this issue of the two court authors - Polydor Vergil and John Leland. Оn the basis of English-language historiography the author makes a conclusion that the ruling dynasty needed works of both authors, and they therefore gained widespread popularity and support from the state
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