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VAN DER VEEN, A. Maurits; "Ideas, Interests and Foreign Aid"; Cambridge University Press; New York, United States of America; 2011; pp. 290. ISBN: 978-0-521-26409-9 Paperback
No full textAuthor: VAN DER VEEN, A. Maurits; "Ideas, Interests and Foreign Aid"; Cambridge University Press; New York, United States of America; 2011; pp. 290. ISBN: 978-0-521-26409-9 Paperbac
Een pleidooi voor verdediging: Maurits Dekker en de retoriek van 'Waarom ik niet krankzinnig ben' (1929)
No full textIn the twenties and thirties of the twentieth century, the Dutch author Maurits Dekker (1898-1962) published a number of psychological novels in which madness plays a significant role. One of those novels, Waarom ik niet krankzinnig ben (Why I am not insane, 1929), was originally published as a mystification. As Dekker explains in the preface to the second edition, he wanted to lead his critics up the garden path and presented himself as a Russian author. Conspicuously, the rhetoric of his preface resembles the rhetoric of the allegedly mad narrator of Waarom ik niet krankzinnig ben. In the final section of the article, the opening paragraph of the novel will be analysed precisely in terms of rhetoric and speech acts. This enables us to specify the way in which the narrator accuses himself in his excuses, the way in which he verbally attacks the narratee even though he claims he is only defending himself against the judgments of the psychiatrists
A distributed amplifier system for bilayer lipid membrane (BLM) arrays with noise and individual offset cancellation
Get PDFLipid bilayer membrane (BLM) arrays are required for high throughput analysis, for example drug screening or advanced DNA sequencing. Complex microfluidic devices are being developed but these are restricted in terms of array size and structure or have integrated electronic sensing with limited noise performance. We present a compact and scalable multichannel electrophysiology platform based on a hybrid approach that combines integrated state-of-the-art microelectronics with low-cost disposable fluidics providing a platform for high-quality parallel single ion channel recording. Specifically, we have developed a new integrated circuit amplifier based on a novel noise cancellation scheme that eliminates flicker noise derived from devices under test and amplifiers. The system is demonstrated through the simultaneous recording of ion channel activity from eight bilayer membranes. The platform is scalable and could be extended to much larger array sizes, limited only by electronic data decimation and communication capabilities
Att ta spjärn mot glömskan
No full textThis book is a Festschrift to Maurits Nyström with nine texts chosen from his extensive publications. The selection reflects his broad and deep knowledge of the history of Norrbotten, as well as his ability to popularize research results. The articles deal with the region’s development from a rural farming society to a modern industrial society. The texts describe the distinctive character of Norrbotten, with its many small freeholders, few and small cities with small-scale capitalist enterprises and an industrialization based mainly on the exploitation of raw materials. In some of the articles, the author deals with these features in a broad sense and in others in more detail, with examples from individual trading houses, coaching inns and small farms. Norrbotten has experienced a wave of out-migration during the past decades, and in a couple of articles Nyström studies how the local population has dealt with preserving the memories of a bygone era. What has been preserved, by whom and why? Fighting Against Forgetfulness draws attention to events, processes and contexts that are unknown to many people in our own time and that have been forgotten, neglected or dealt with sparingly by professional historians. </p
Design and evaluation of carbon fibre-reinforced launch packages with segmented, copper and molybdenum fibre armatures
No full textFibre armatures have been studied both dynamically and statically to gain insight in their electrothermal and mechanical behaviour. In the first part of this paper, the results of launch experiments with single and multi-segment copper and molybdenum fibre armatures integrated in carbon-fibre reinforced launch packages are discussed. The launch experiments with Cu fibre armatures showed an improved reproducibility and a higher transition velocity. The poor results of the launch experiments with the Mo fibre armatures thus far, are explained with results of armature compliance and resistance measurements. In the second part, results are presented which are obtained from static experiments in an armature test bed. Using miniature B-dot probes and Rogowski coils, the magnetic field diffusion into monobloc and fibre armatures with identical geometry has been studied. The results show a significant difference in diffusion behaviour between the two types of armatures. It appears that the magnetic field diffuses faster into the fibre armature. The experimental data are compared with the results of calculations of the magnetic field distribution in both armatures based on 2D- and 3Dfinite element computer simulations. The results of the ID-simulations appear to confirm the measured results for monobloc and fibre armatures only qualitatively. The experimental results obtained with monobloc armatures agree with the results of the 3D-simulations in a quantitative sense. © 1997 IEEE
Sewing the Body of Christ : Eucharist wafer souvenirs stitched into fifteenth-century manuscripts, primarily in the Netherlands
No full textBooks of hours in the fifteenth century occupied several social and devotional roles. People used them to store small objects, including metal badges. Although the cultural practice of sewing in badges was widespread in the late Middle Ages, nearly all of the badges were removed (by later collectors). This article examines the practice by considering needle holes and offsets in the soft parchment, which indicate the shape of the badges and where they were attached. Noting that vast majority of metal offsets in books of hours are round, the author posits that these were not impressed by pilgrims’ badges, as is often repeated in the scholarly literature, but rather by tokens that commemorate having taken the Eucharist. The round badges are the same size and shape and bear the same imagery as host wafers. Owners stitched such badges into their books’ margins at locations relevant to Eucharistic piety. When they were sewn into books, Eucharist badges reconfigured the book as a shrine that recorded a votary’s pursuit of Communion.Peer reviewe
Performance predictions for electromagnetic launching with multi-fibre solid brush armatures and resistively layered rail accelerators
No full textIn the literature on EML research, a number of proposals have been made to suppress the negative influence of the velocity skin effect on the performance of solid armatures during electromagnetic launch. In this paper, the results of a study of two of these methods, i.e. the application of multi-fibre solid brush armatures and the use of accelerator rails with a resistive layer, are presented. This study is performed by means of two-dimensional finite element computer simulations of the electrothermal behaviour of the armature and the rails during the launch process. A description of the electrothermal model used in the simulations is given. Here, the fibre armatures are regarded as made of materials with an anisotropic electrical and thermal conductivity. The results for the current distribution in a rectangular multi-fibre solid brush armature obtained from the simulations agree with the results of an analytical method. It is shown that fibre armatures have a more homogeneous current distribution during the acceleration process than monobloc armatures. U-shaped molybdenum multi-fibre solid brush armatures are good candidates for arc erosion-free launching if the electrical insulation of the fibres can be maintained at increasing temperature. Simulations also show that the skin depth in monobloc and fibre armatures can be increased by using rails with a resistive layer with suitable material properties
Een beeld van een kust: Inspiratie voor de Kustnota
No full textDe kust als spiegel / Maurits Groen De levende kust / Govert D. Geldof Integraal beleid : te kust en te keur? / Gerrit Hagelstein en Philip Idenburg De nieuwe kusten van Noordzee en IJsselmeer / Wouter van Dieren De kust als menselijke gradiënt / Reinier Jan Scheele Duinen in een levende kust / Helias Udo de Haas Het verlangen naar de kust : de kust als toeristisch-recreatief domein / Theo Beckers De kust over 25 jaar : een normatief gezichtspunt / Karel Soudijn Een beeld van kust / Anne van der Meidenkustnot
Questions in Luke 1:5-2:52:Their Function in the Communication between the Text-internal Author and the Text-internal Reader
Get PDFMy dissertation studies the questions that are found in Luke 1:5–2:52. It does so in order to find out how they function in the communication between the author and the reader of the text.To analyse the text, I employ the Communication-Oriented Method. This method makes two assumptions. Firstly, it holds that the syntax of the text forms the basic structure in which all communication takes place. This means that the ‘grammar’ of the text is first scrutinised before the meaning of words and the communication itself are investigated. Secondly, this method makes a strict distinction between the text-external (or historical) author/reader, and the text-internal author/reader. The text-internal author/reader are textual constructs and, therefore, found only within the text. In my dissertation I focus only on the communication between the text-internal author and the text-internal reader. In other words, I only analyse the communication within the text, leaving the historical author/reader to other fields of research. Regarding the text-internal communication, the text-internal author can communicate with the text-internal reader directly, or indirectly (via the characters in the narrative).After having first determined the basic structure of the text, I go on to identify the questions that are found in the text. Questions can usually be identified by words such as ‘why’, ‘what’, and ‘how’. Sometimes, the meaning of the text points at questions that are not explicitly mentioned in the text.I then make a communication analysis of the text, focussing on the identified questions. My analysis leads me to the following conclusions. In the communication with the text-internal reader, the text-internal author uses questions to focus this reader’s attention on the character John, to stimulate the reader to identify with the character Mary, to emphasise the relation between the character Jesus and the temple in Jerusalem, and to prepare this reader for further misunderstandings regarding Jesus’ identity in the narrative to come.Generally, the questions found in Luke 1:5–2:52 function at the level of the characters as a communication ‘motor’, with the goal of promoting, prolonging, and intensifying the communication between the characters. At the level of the text-internal author/reader, the questions in Luke 1:5–2:52 function as a narrative ‘motor’, driving the text-internal author’s narrative by setting further action and communication in motion._Mijn dissertatie onderzoekt de vragen die in Lucas 1:5–2:52 voorkomen om te ontdekken hoe zij functioneren in de communicatie tussen auteur en lezer.Om de tekst te analyseren gebruik ik de Communication-Oriented Method. Deze methode heeft twee uitgangspunten. Ten eerste: de basisstructuur waarbinnen alle communicatie plaatsvindt, wordt gevormd door de syntaxis van de tekst. Dit betekent dat de ‘grammatica’ van de tekst eerst bestudeerd wordt, voordat de betekenis van de woorden en de communicatie zelf worden onderzocht. Ten tweede: deze methode maakt een strikt onderscheid tussen de tekst-externe (of historische) auteur/lezer en de tekst-interne auteur/lezer. De tekst-interne auteur/lezer zijn tekstuele constructen en worden dus alleen binnen de tekst aangetroffen. In mijn dissertatie focus ik uitsluitend op de communicatie tussen de tekst-interne auteur en de tekst-interne lezer. Met andere woorden: ik analyseer alleen de communicatie binnen de tekst, en laat de historische auteur/lezer over aan andere onderzoeksvelden. Wat de tekst-interne communicatie betreft, kan de tekst-interne auteur ofwel direct ofwel indirect (via de characters in het verhaal) communiceren met de tekst-interne lezer.Nadat ik eerst de basisstructuur van de tekst heb vastgesteld, identificeer ik vervolgens de vragen die in de tekst voorkomen. Vragen kunnen meestal geïdentificeerd worden aan de hand van woorden zoals ‘waarom’, ‘wat’ en ‘hoe’. Soms verwijst de betekenis van de tekst naar vragen die niet expliciet verwoord worden in de tekst.Daarna maak ik een communicatieve analyse van de tekst, toegespitst op de door mij geïdentificeerde vragen. Mijn analyse biedt mij de volgende conclusies. In de communicatie met de tekst-interne lezer maakt de tekst-interne auteur gebruik van vragen om de aandacht van deze lezer te focussen op het character Johannes, om de lezer te stimuleren zich te identificeren met het character Maria, om de relatie tussen het character Jezus en de tempel in Jeruzalem te benadrukken, en om deze lezer voor te bereiden op verdere miscommunicaties ten aanzien van de identiteit van Jezus in het verdere verhaal.Over het algemeen functioneren de vragen in Lucas 1:5–2:52 op het niveau van de characters als een communicatieve ‘motor’, met als doel de communicatie tussen de characters onderling te bevorderen, te verlengen en te intensiveren. Op het niveau van de tekst-interne auteur/lezer, functioneren de vragen in Lucas 1:5–2:52 als een narratieve ‘motor’, die het verhaal van de tekst-interne auteur aandrijft door verdere actie en communicatie in gang te zetten
Dutch Irrigation Engineers and Their (Post-) Colonial Irrigation Networks
No full textThis chapter traces the career steps and decisions of Dutch irrigation engineer De Gruyter between 1920 and 1961 to discuss how the Dutch irrigation engineering network managed to emerge and continue by defining what its members considered ‘good practice’. Irrigation education in Delft permitted entrance to working practice. Only those working procedures that had proven themselves in actual irrigation practice became accepted solutions, both in colonial times and after 1945, when colonial irrigation knowledge was made into international expertise. This redefinition of colonial engineering allowed engineer De Gruyter and many of his colleagues to become active in the international field of irrigation and development.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.Water Resource
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