298 research outputs found
Our Mythical Nature: The Classics and Environmental Issues in Children's and Young Adults' Culture
No full textMaterials from the international conference "Our Mythical Nature: The Classics and Environmental Issues in Children’s and Young Adults’ Culture" organized online by the Faculty of “Artes Liberales” of the University of Warsaw, Poland in 29-30 Sepetember 2021 as part of the project "Our Mythical Childhood".
This Project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under grant agreement No 681202 (2016–2021), "Our Mythical Childhood... The Reception of Classical Antiquity in Children’s and Young Adults’ Culture in Response to Regional and Global Challenges", ERC Consolidator Grant led by Katarzyna Marciniak.
Project’s Website www.omc.obta.al.uw.edu.pl
Materials available at http://omc.obta.al.uw.edu.pl/our-mythical-natur
Mechanics, Fatigue, and Fracture of Structural Joints
No full textFor centuries, engineering structures have been made for people’s life everyday needs, such as buildings, transportation, construction equipment, infrastructures, and plants. To achieve the desired functionality, usually simple individual members are connected with each other to get the final complex desired structure. Depending on the design requirements, the structural elements can be connected in a nonpermanent or permanent manner. To ensure an adequate safety level and optimal structural joints durability, construction node tests and simulations are required to determine the effect of the various factors influencing the durability and strength of the joints. The types of different connections that have been developed and proposed to date is very huge; joints represent a crucial part of complex structures, and the consequence of their collapse can be the loss of human lives and economic resources.
Studies and research outcomes carried out in this field are necessary to guide the development of new and advanced standards for a better design and improved safety level of structural joints, leading to beneficial effects in all the technologies where connection of structural elements is required.
This special issue aims to gather the most recent research advancements in the field of structural joints, with particular emphasis on their safety and reliability. In the analysis of joints, the study of initiation and fatigue crack growth in metallic permanent structural connections is of primary interest, but studies related to any other engineering material employed in bearing joint applications are also well fitted with the aim and scope of this special issue.
Over the last year, we have received and analyzed 39 submitted research works by outstanding international scientists. The papers submitted by the authors have been subjected to the rigorous journal peer-review process. During the intensive process of reviews and in-depth discussions, 8 articles were accepted for the publication, while other documents were rejected mainly due to the discrepancy to the topic of the special issue. Accepted papers, after passing the positive review process as well as the editorial processes, will be published in this special issue of Advances in Materials Science and Engineering entirely devoted to the mechanics of structural joints.
The topics considered in the accepted papers include several aspects influencing the performance of structural joints such as the effects of factors affecting the fatigue life and crack initiation in welded joints, the influence of geometric effects (notches, fillets, etc.) on the fatigue crack growth, mechanical properties optimization, the effect of all the various factors (physical, chemical, and environmental) on the lifetime of welds, mechanics of joints made of nonmetallic materials such as concrete and polymers, whose investigation has been performed by adopting theoretical, numerical, and experimental approaches
Our Mythical History: Children's and Young Adults' Culture in Response to the Heritage of Ancient Greece and Rome
No full textA short movie from the international conference Our Mythical History: Children’s and Young Adults’ Culture in Response to the Heritage of Ancient Greece and Rome held at the Faculty of "Artes Liberales", University of Warsaw, May 22-26, 2019
available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVeEjWSCXD8
Music: Brave by WildKitty Tunes, Video: Mirosław Kaźmierczak, Coordination: Katarzyna Marciniak
Art works used in the movie: Matylda Tracewska, Zbigniew Karaszewski</p
Ryszard Marciniak (1939–2009) — bibliotekarz i historyk doskonały
No full textRyszard Marciniak (1939–2009) — a perfect librarian and historian A medievalist by profession, Ryszard Marciniak was associated with two research libraries in Wielkopolska: the Kórnik Library of the Polish Academy of Sciences 1965–1980 and the Library of the Poznań Science Society 1980–2009 where he was director. He also took part in the teaching of librarians at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań and was a distinguished manuscript expert, author of manuscript catalogues, historian of libraries and historian of the region. The authors of the article present the figure and achievements of Ryszard Marciniak set against the background of the situation of Polish libraries, referring to his own opinions. The article includes bibliography of Marciniak’s selected publications on book and library science.Ryszard Marciniak (1939–2009) — a perfect librarian and historian A medievalist by profession, Ryszard Marciniak was associated with two research libraries in Wielkopolska: the Kórnik Library of the Polish Academy of Sciences 1965–1980 and the Library of the Poznań Science Society 1980–2009 where he was director. He also took part in the teaching of librarians at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań and was a distinguished manuscript expert, author of manuscript catalogues, historian of libraries and historian of the region. The authors of the article present the figure and achievements of Ryszard Marciniak set against the background of the situation of Polish libraries, referring to his own opinions. The article includes bibliography of Marciniak’s selected publications on book and library science
Our Mythical Hope in Children's and Young Adults' Culture ... The (In)efficacy of Ancient Myths in Overcoming the Hardships of Life. Conference Booklet
No full textA set of materials for the conference and workshops Our Mythical Hope in Children’s and Young Adults’ Culture... The (In)efficacy of Ancient Myths in Overcoming the Hardships of Life (conference and workshops booklet, experimental schools project poster, conference programme leaflet, conference and workshops poster). We focus on role of ancient myths as sources of Hope during vital, often very difficult experiences that young people face on their way into adulthood: We are examining how the authors of works for youth make use of ancient myths to help their audience in crucial moments of life, in face of both global and regional challenges. During the conference in May 2017 we are presenting our first research results in this field. Typesetting of the materials by Michał Kucharski and Zbigniew Karaszewski.
For more information see the conference materials
45' Reception, Jacek Bocheński Divine Julius: Episode 10
No full text"Divine Julius" by Jacek Bocheński, the author of the "Roman Trilogy".
Video prepared by Olga Strycharczyk and Marta Pszczolińska.
"45 Seconds Reception" series was created as part of the European Research Council (ERC) funded project: Our Mythical Childhood... The Reception of Children's and Young Adults' Culture in Response to Regional and Global Challenges (Grant Agreement 681202; ERC Consolidator Grant led by Prof Katarzyna Marciniak).Information about "Our Mythical Childhood..." is available at http://omc.obta.al.uw.edu.pl
The YouTube channel of the project is available at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6zvu9EXsI0gK5rSvgnQse
REPELLENT ACTIVITY OF SOLENACEAE ALKALOIDS AGAINST SPODOPTERA EXIGUA MOTHS
No full textEffect of alkaloid-containing extracts obtained from the leaves of potatoes were tested against Spodoptera exigua moths. The following effects were checked: effect of alkaloids in substratum on the number of eggs laid by females, hatching success, preferences of insects in choosing the soaked or
control substratum. We noticed significantly decreased egg-laying and limited hatching. When females had to chose between alkaloids-soaked substratum and the control ones, they preferred control ones. The observed changes
show concentration-dependence, too. Therefore, we assume, that these extracts
can have repellent and (limited) ovicidal activity. Our data suggest,
that the research on the effects of these substances on insects should be continued, with a wide variety of substances and techniques used
All Is (Not) Lost: Myth in the Shadow of the Holocaust in "Bezsenność Jutki" [Jutka's Insomnia] by Dorota Combrzyńska-Nogala
No full textThe article is a case study of Bezsenność Jutki [Jutka’s Insomnia] by a Polish author Dorota Comrzyńska-Nogala (2012). The eponymous character is closed in the Łódź ghetto, where the only way to forget about the horror of the Holocaust is by listening to her grandfather’s bedtime stories, including the Cretan myth about the Daedalus, Minotaur, Theseus, and Ariadne. Drawing on bibliotherapy, I argue that these stories serve as therapeutical tools for Jutka and give her hope for a better future. Simultaneously, Bezsenność Jutki may be seen as a book granting the young readers hope, despite representing the Holocaust and atrocities of WWII.Book chapter in the volume: Katarzyna Marciniak, ed., Our Mythical Hope: The Ancient Myths as Medicine for Hardships of Life in Children's and Young Adults' Culture, in the series "Our Mythical Childhood", Warsaw: University of Warsaw Press, 2021, 836 pp.
Open Access https://www.wuw.pl/product-eng-16830-Our-Mythical-Hope-The-Ancient-Myths-as-Medicine-for-the-Hardships-of-Life-in-Childrens-and-Young-Adults-Culture-PDF.html
This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under grant agreement No 681202 (2016–2022), Our Mythical Childhood... The Reception of Classical Antiquity in Children's and Young Adults' Culture in Response to Regional and Global Challenges, ERC Consolidator Grant led by Katarzyna Marciniak.
Project's Website: www.omc.obta.al.uw.edu.pl.
The publication is licensed under (CC BY 3.0 PL) (full license available at: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/pl/legalcode)
Kotick the Saviour: From Inferno to Paradise with Animals
No full textRudyard Kipling’s short story “The White Seal”, published in 1893 and incorporated into his Jungle Book a year later, is amenable to multiple interpretations. Today, the dominating approach to this story is influenced by criticism of postcolonial literature. The author offers a different insight by considering an underexploited layer of the text. He proposes to unravel the web of mythological/religious references and radical ecological demands – a web that determines the story’s originality and makes its animal protagonist, Kotick the White Seal, a bearer of hope for the readers also in our times.Book chapter in the volume: Katarzyna Marciniak, ed., Our Mythical Hope: The Ancient Myths as Medicine for Hardships of Life in Children's and Young Adults' Culture, in the series "Our Mythical Childhood", Warsaw: University of Warsaw Press, 2021, 836 pp.
Open Access https://www.wuw.pl/product-eng-16830-Our-Mythical-Hope-The-Ancient-Myths-as-Medicine-for-the-Hardships-of-Life-in-Childrens-and-Young-Adults-Culture-PDF.html
This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under grant agreement No 681202 (2016–2022), Our Mythical Childhood... The Reception of Classical Antiquity in Children's and Young Adults' Culture in Response to Regional and Global Challenges, ERC Consolidator Grant led by Katarzyna Marciniak.
Project's Website: www.omc.obta.al.uw.edu.pl.
The publication is licensed under (CC BY 3.0 PL) (full license available at: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/pl/legalcode)
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