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Robert Williams - the father of exponential imagination drawings, paintings, & sculptures
No full text"This career retrospective showcases the 'lowbrow' artist's 'realistic' oil paintings, drawings, sculptures, and works in other media. This is a comprehensive, career-spanning, collection of the iconic painter's fine art, including every one of his oil paintings, along with a selection of his drawings, sculptures, and multimedia works. Williams pursued a career as a fine arts painter years before joining the art studio of Ed 'Big Daddy' Roth in the mid-1960s. From this position, he moved into the rebellious, anti-war circles of early underground comix, as one of the celebrated Zap cartoonists. Featuring an introductory essay by Coagula Art Journal founder Mat Gleason, along with a new art manifesto and foreword by Williams himself (the former of whom brought the term 'lowbrow' into the fine arts lexicon), as well as tons of rare photos and ephemera. Full-color Illustrations throughout."--Publisher's descriptio
Application of MAT device to characterize the adhesive bonding strength of membrane in orthotropic steel deck bridges
No full textIn order to characterize adequately the adhesive bonding strength of the various membranes with surrounding materials on orthotropic steel decks and collect the necessary parameters for FE modeling, details of the Membrane Adhesion Test (MAT) have been introduced. Analytical constitutive relations of MAT device have been derived on the basis of Williams (1997). Furthermore, on the basis of experimental data obtained from MAT, ranking of the bonding characteristics of various membrane products is demonstrated as well as the role of other influencing factors, such as the types of substrate and test temperatures.Structural EngineeringCivil Engineering and Geoscience
Meditation Awareness Training (MAT) for work-related wellbeing and job performance: a randomised controlled trial
No full textDue to its potential to concurrently improve work-related wellbeing (WRW) and job performance, occupational stakeholders are becoming increasingly interested in the applications of meditation. The present study conducted the first randomized controlled trial to assess the effects of meditation on outcomes relating to both WRW and job performance. Office-based middle-hierarchy managers (n = 152) received an eight-week meditation intervention (Meditation Awareness Training; MAT) or an active control intervention. MAT participants demonstrated significant and sustainable improvements (with strong effect sizes) over control-group participants in levels of work-related stress, job satisfaction, psychological distress, and employer-rated job performance. There are a number of novel implications: (i) meditation can effectuate a perceptual shift in how employees experience their work and psychological environment and may thus constitute a cost-effective WRW intervention, (ii) meditation-based (i.e., present-moment-focussed) working styles may be more effective than goal-based (i.e., future-orientated) working styles, and (iii) meditation may reduce the separation made by employees between their own interests and those of the organizations they work for
Voorlopige resultaten proeven Zinkcon mat
No full textResultaten proeven met de Zinkcon mat in de stroomgoot in Lith op ware grootte.KWP-collectio
Applying the method of fundamental solutions to harmonic problems with singular boundary conditions
No full textThe method of fundamental solutions (MFS) is known to produce highly accurate numerical results for elliptic boundary value problems (BVP) with smooth boundary conditions, posed in analytic domains. However, due to the analyticity of the shape
functions in its approximation basis, theMFS is usually disregarded when the boundary functions possess singularities. In this work we present a modification of the classical MFS which can be applied for the numerical solution of the Laplace BVP with Dirichlet boundary conditions exhibiting jump discontinuities. In particular, a set of harmonic functions with discontinuous boundary traces is added to the MFS basis. The accuracy of the proposed method is compared with the results form the classical MFS.The financial support from Center for Computational and Stochastic Mathematics (CEMAT–IST) through Fundac¸ ˜ao para a Ciˆencia e a Tecnologia (FCT) projects PEst-OE/MAT/UI0822/2014 and EXCL/MAT-NAN/0114/2012 is gratefully acknowledged
Roger Williams, George Washington, and Abraham Lincoln
No full textThree prints mounted in a cream and gold mat and gold frame. Subjects include Roger Williams (1603-1684), George Washington (1732-1799), and Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865).https://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/fvw-prints/1641/thumbnail.jp
Fotoreportage Samenstellen van de mat voor de grote legproef II
No full textFoto’s van het maken van een proefmat (gaasmat verschillende lagen met filtermateriaal), het oprollen van de mat; bij de fabriek in Kats
Original Study Data
No full textOriginal Study data for the Pasta Box Task and Cup Transfer Task. Matlab structures containing means and standard deviations for each participant, as well as overall means and standard deviations are included for each task.
Details on how to navigate the .mat files can be found in the file "Matlab Data Explanations.txt
Development of test method for assessing the bonding characteristics of membrane layers in wearing course laid on orthotropic steel bridge decks
No full textIn order to adequately characterize the adhesive bonding strength of the various membranes with surrounding materials on orthotropic steel decks and collect the necessary parameters for FE modeling, details of the Membrane Adhesion Test (MAT) are introduced. Analytical constitutive relations of the MAT device have been derived using the same methodology as Williams (1997). Furthermore, using the experimental data obtained from MAT, ranking of the bonding characteristics of various membrane products is demonstrated as well as the role of other influencing factors, such as the types of substrate and test temperatures.Structural EngineeringCivil Engineering and Geoscience
The proposed goodyear modular mat type scrap tire floating breakwater
No full textScrap tires are proposed as a construction material for building large floating mat type breakwater devices. The Goodyear scrap tire floating breakwater assemblies are formed by securing together modular bundles of tightly interlocked scrap tires with high strength rope/cable, or special corrosion resistant steel rods. This construction procedure yields an easily installed, readily adaptable breakwater structure which has high energy absorbing capacity for normal loading conditions but which deforms and yields when subjected to overloads. The proposed designs rely on a modular bundle concept where a relatively few tires are secured together to form a small easily assemble de portable building unit which,serves as a basic building block from which giant breakwater devices can be constructed. Flotation is provided by placing a small amount of buoyant material in the crown of each tire or by filling approximately 10%) of the tires with buoyant foam. The design possibilities using scrap tire building modules are virtually limiless. Tires may be laced together to form large flat single or multiple thickness shallow mats. They may be stacked vertically in single or multiple thickness bundles like bricks in a wall to form curtain type barriers. Variutions in breakwater draft are made possible by adding modules above or below to vary the thickness and by combining constructions such as hanging a curtain on a mat structure. Also, mats with varying buoyancy may be moored on an incline for more efficient energy absorption
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