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Bell, Stuart. "The Novel Theology of H. G. Wells." Journal for the History of Modern Theology / Zeitschrift für Neuere Theologiegeschichte 26, no. 2 (October 25, 2019): 104–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/znth-2019-0018.
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Abstract “Lambeth Palace is my Washpot. Over Fulham have I cast my breeches.” So declared the novelist and secularist H. G. Wells in a letter to his mistress, Rebecca West, in May 1917. His claim was that, because of him, Britain was “full of theological discussion” and theological books were “selling like hot cakes”. He was lunching with liberal churchmen and dining with bishops. Certainly, the first of the books published during Wells’s short “religious period”, the novel Mr. Britling Sees It Through, had sold very well on both sides of the Atlantic and made Wells financially secure. Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy (“Woodbine Willie”) wrote that, “Everyone ought to read Mr. H. G. Wells’s great novel, Mr. Britling Sees It Through. It is a gallant and illuminating attempt to state the question, and to answer it. His thought has brought him to a very real and living faith in God revealed in Jesus Christ, and has also brought relief to many troubled minds among the officers of the British Army.” Yet, Wells’s God was explicitly a finite God, and his theology was far from orthodox. How can we account for his boast and for the clerical affirmation which he certainly did receive? This article examines and re-evaluates previous accounts of the responses of clergy to Wells’s writing, correcting some narratives. It discusses the way in which many clergy used Mr. Britling as a means by which to engage in a populist way with the question of theodicy, and examines the letters which Wells received from several prominent clerics, locating their responses in the context of their own theological writings. This is shown to be key to understanding the reaction of writers such as Studdert Kennedy to Mr. Britling Sees It Through. Finally, an assessment is made of the veracity of Wells’s boasting to his mistress, concluding that his claims were somewhat exaggerated. “Lambeth Palace is my Washpot, Over Fulham have I cast my breeches.” Mit diesen Worten erklärte der literarisch außergewöhnlich erfolgreiche und entschieden säkular denkende, kirchenkritische Schriftsteller und Science-Fiction-Pionier Herbert George Wells seiner Geliebten, dass seinetwegen Großbritannien “full of theological discussion” sei. Nicht ohne Eitelkeit schrieb er es seinem im September 1916 mit Blick auf den Krieg geschriebenen und stark autobiographisch gefärbten Roman Mr. Britling Sees it Through von knapp 450 Seiten zu, dass theologische Bücher reißenden Absatz fänden. Auch war er stolz darauf, liberale Kleriker zum Lunch zu treffen und von Bischöfen zum abendlichen Dinner eingeladen zu werden. In einer kurzen Phase seines Lebens war – oder inszenierte sich – Wells als ein frommer, gläubiger Mensch. Sein damals veröffentlichter Roman Mr. Britling Sees It Through verkaufte sich sowohl in Nordamerika als auch im Heimatland so gut, dass der Autor nun definitiv finanziell gesichert war. Der anglikanische Priester und Dichter Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy, der im Ersten Weltkrieg Woodbine Willie genannt wurde, weil er verletzten und sterbenden Soldaten in den Phasen der Vorbereitung auf den Tod Woodbine-Zigaretten anbot, empfahl die Lektüre von Wells’ “great novel” Mr. Britling mit den Worten: “It is a gallant and illuminating attempt to state the question, and to answer it. His thought has brought him to a very real and living faith in God revealed in Jesus Christ, and has also brought relief to many troubled minds among the officers of the British Army.” Allerdings war H. G. Wells’ Gott ein durchaus endlicher Gott, und seine Theologie war alles andere als orthodox. Wie lassen sich dennoch seine evidente Prahlerei und die emphatische Zustimmung zu seinem Roman in den britischen Klerikereliten erklären? Im Aufsatz werden zunächst einige ältere Deutungen der Zustimmung führender Kleriker zu Wells’ Roman untersucht und einige der dabei leitenden Deutungsmuster kritisch infrage gestellt. Deutlich wird, dass nicht wenige anglikanische Geistliche Mr. Britling dazu nutzten, um höchst populistisch das umstrittene Theodizeeproblem anzusprechen. Auch werden die Briefe prominenter Geistlicher an Wells analysiert, mit Blick auf ihre eigenen Publikationen. Diese Reaktionen haben stark Studdert Kennedys Haltung zu Mr. Britling Sees It Through beeinflusst. Besonders aufrichtig war Wells mit Blick auf sich selbst allerdings nicht. Die Selbstinszenierung gegenüber seiner Geliebten war einfach nur peinliche Übertreibung.
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Haridas, Rajesh P., and Peter J. Stanbury. "A Brief Account of Mr Valentine Greatraks." Anaesthesia and Intensive Care 47, no. 3_suppl (September 2019): 44–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0310057x19854451.
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Jha, R. K., S. Bharal, and B. Saha. "A Brief Account of Two Decades of Farmer Field School Implementation in Nepal." Journal of the Plant Protection Society 6 (December 1, 2020): 65–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/jpps.v6i0.36473.
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Ahmad, I., S. Kirimani, M. Rashid, and K. Ahmad. "MR Imaging of the Adnexal Masses: A Review." Nepalese Journal of Radiology 1, no. 1 (June 16, 2012): 54–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/njr.v1i1.6326.
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MR (magnetic resonance) imaging is a non invasive technique for evaluation of female pelvic masses. Due to its high spatial resolution and excellent tissue contrast, various masses of adnexal origin can be imaged and a confident diagnosis can be made. MRI helps to delineate normal anatomical structures and elucidate the pathological lesions. It has high sensitivity and specificity for differentiating benign adnexal masses from malignant ones. This review article gives a brief account of approach to adnexal masses based on tissue characterization on MR imaging.DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/njr.v1i1.6326 Nepalese Journal of Radiology Vol.1(1): 54-60
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Pletcher, R. H. "Progress in Turbulent Forced Convection." Journal of Heat Transfer 110, no. 4b (November 1, 1988): 1129–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/1.3250615.
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This paper presents a brief account of some recent progress toward the understanding and prediction of turbulent forced convection. The impact of technological advances in electronics and optical methods is pointed out. Coverage includes observations on structure, measurement techniques, experimental results, numerical strategies, turbulence modeling, and large eddy and full simulation.
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Fishman, Marlene, Alan F. Cathers, and Deborah Stamp. "Brief Report: Needle Punctures—Documentation and Incidence Rate Calculation." Infection Control 6, no. 1 (January 1985): 35–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0195941700062470.
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Potential hazards of puncture wounds have been well-defined and include transmission of hepatitis B virus, acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, syphilis, malaria, and other infectious diseases. Yet, standard methodology has not been used for statistical comparison. Attack rates have been expressed as needlesticks per full-time equivalents, needlesticks per employee per year, punctures per number of personnel, or punctures per number of hospital beds. These calculations do not account for the amount of time during which an employee is at risk of receiving a needle puncture. Also, numbers alone cannot account for intensity of care, potential exposures, or hours at risk. Nor can numbers provide an estimate of potential risk. A rate is more valuable than numbers because it measures the probability of occurrence. A meaningful incidence rate would be based on uniform data collection and would provide the number of puncture wounds per year for a standardized work period. This is similar in concept to nosocomial infections per patient-days of exposure. We propose the application of standard labor statistics methodology which accounts for man-hours worked, can be readily obtained in health care facilities, and can be modified as described here.
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Mann, Ruth E., and Stephen Rollnick. "Motivational Interviewing with a Sex Offender Who Believed He Was Innocent." Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy 24, no. 2 (April 1996): 127–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1352465800017392.
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Motivational Interviewing (Miller, 1983; Miller and Rollnick, 1991) is an approach originally developed for problem drinkers but assumed to have wider applications. This paper describes one such application through the case of Mr D, an imprisoned sex offender who was identified under the procedures of the Prison Service Sex Offender Treatment Programme. Mr D was convicted of rape but did not believe that he had committed an offence, although he admitted having had sexual intercourse with the complainant. A full assessment of his offending suggested that he had made cognitive and behavioural errors prior to the act of intercourse and so motivational interviewing was employed to help him decide whether or not to participate in the treatment programme. As a result he decided that he would attend a treatment group. The case study concludes with a brief description of his progress whilst in the group and summarizes the results of the follow-up assessment. The application of motivational interviewing to this particular client group is discussed.
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Jonas, Saran, Giacinto Grieco, Robert Norman, Surah Grumet, and Ilan Kedan. "Mortality, ethnicity, and education in an occupational cohort." Ethnicity and Inequalities in Health and Social Care 7, no. 3 (September 9, 2014): 137–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/eihsc-11-2013-0050.
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between occupational degree requirement and mortality between ethnic groups in a cohort of urban workers. Design/methodology/approach – The study included 118,606 health-insured full-time workers from the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation (HHC). Mortality rates (MR) and mortality rate ratios (MRR) were calculated for major ethnic categories. Estimates were adjusted for age, sex, and occupational degree requirement. Findings – Prior to adjustment for degree requirement, mortality rates (MRs) by ethnic groups in the Health and Hospitals Corporation were in line with national estimates: highest for blacks, followed by whites, Hispanics, and Asian/Pacific Islander (APIs). After adjustment, the MR for blacks became comparable to whites (mortality rate ratio (MRR)=1.02). The low-Hispanic MR did not change; the Hispanic advantage persisted (MRR=0.66), as did the API advantage (MRR=0.50). Research limitations/implications – Higher education may not substantially change the MR for Hispanics, and it may only account for a portion of the survival advantage among APIs. The findings also suggest that without reducing the disparity in higher education attainment between blacks and whites, equality in other socioeconomic factors may not abolish the disparity in mortality between these groups. Originality/value – This study bypassed common limitations of ethnic mortality studies, with intrinsic parity for certain socio-economic status factors (full-time employment and health care access) across cohort members and consistent ethnic classification across time-points. This includes a cohort of API workers with complete self-identification of ethnicity, which has not been accomplished by previous investigations.
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Sun, Bingqiang, George Kattawar, Ping Yang, and Xiaodong Zhang. "A Brief Review of Mueller Matrix Calculations Associated with Oceanic Particles." Applied Sciences 8, no. 12 (December 19, 2018): 2686. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/app8122686.
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The complete Stokes vector contains much more information than the radiance of light for the remote sensing of the ocean. Unlike the conventional radiance-only radiative transfer simulations, a full Mueller matrix-Stokes vector treatment provides a rigorous and correct approach for solving the transfer of radiation in a scattering medium, such as the atmosphere-ocean system. In fact, radiative transfer simulation without considering the polarization state always gives incorrect results and the extent of the errors induced depends on a particular application being considered. However, the rigorous approach that fully takes the polarization state into account requires the knowledge of the complete single-scattering properties of oceanic particles with various sizes, morphologies, and refractive indices. For most oceanic particles, the comparisons between simulations and observations have demonstrated that the “equivalent-spherical” approximation is inadequate. We will therefore briefly summarize the advantages and disadvantages of a number of light scattering methods for non-spherical particles. Furthermore, examples for canonical cases with specifically oriented particles and randomly oriented particles will be illustrated.
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Huang, Qiang, Yinglei Yu, Tian Wen, Jianwei Zhang, Zhangjing Yang, Fanlong Zhang, and Hui Zhang. "Segmentation of Brain MR Image Using Modified Student’s t-Mixture Model." Journal of Medical Imaging and Health Informatics 11, no. 10 (October 1, 2021): 2683–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1166/jmihi.2021.3860.
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In conventional brain image analysis, it is a critical step to segment brain magnetic resonance (MR) image into three major tissues: Gray Matter (GM), White Matter (WM) and Cerebrospinal Fluid (CSF). The main difficulties for segmenting brain MR image are partial volume effect, intensity inhomogeneity and noise, which result in challenging segmentation task. In this paper, we propose a novel modified method based on the basis of the conventional Student’s t-Mixture Model (SMM), for segmentation of brain MR image and correction of bias field. The advantages of our model are introduced as follows. First, we take account of the influence on the probabilities of the pixels in the adjacent region and take full advantage of the local spatial information and class information. Second, our modified SMM is derived from the traditional finite mixture model (FMM) by adding the bias field correction model; the logarithmic likelihood function of traditional FMM is revised. Third, the noise and bias field can be easily extended to combine with the SMM model and EM algorithm. Last but not least, the exponential coefficients are employed to control the results of segmentation details. As a result, our effective and highly accurate method exhibits high robustness on both simulated and real MR image segmentation, compared to the state-of-the-art algorithms.
Books on the topic "Brief and full account of Mr"
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Flavel, John. Mr. John Flavell's remains: Being two sermons composed by that reverend and learned divine, the former preached at Dartmouth in Devon, on the day of the happy coronation of Their Majesties King William and Queen Mary, the latter intended to be preached at Taunton in Somerset, at the meeting of the united ministers of several counties to be held there, September 2. 1691 : with a brief account of the life and death of the reverend author. London: Printed for Tho. Cockerill ..., 1986.
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A brief account of Mr. Valentine Greatrak's, and divers of the strange cures by him lately performed. Dublin: Printed for by Samuel Dancer ..., 1985.
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The Full and true account of the barbarous and cruel usage of Mr. George Willington, midshipman on board the Faulkland man of war: Which having taken a prize call'd the Lascine, richly la[d]en from the West-Indies with several persons of quality and passengers on board : the leiutenant, George Titsdon, Mr. Willington, and several others were put on board the said prize, who for some secret grudge toward the said Mr. Willington beat and bruis'd him so barbarously ... London: Printed and so[ld] ..., 1985.
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A brief account of the formation and proceedings of the Prince Edward Island Auxiliary Colonial Church Society: Instituted at Charlottetown, November 16, 1840, under the patronage of His Excellency the lieut. governor : together with an address delivered on the occasion by Mr. Cavie Richardson ... to which is added a list of office bearers, subscribers and benefactors. [Charlottetown, P.E.I.?: s.n.], 1987.
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Mr. John Flavell's remains: Being two sermons composed by that reverend and learned divine, the former preached at Dartmouth in Devon, on the day of the happy coronation of Their Majesties King William and Queen Mary, the latter intended to be preached at Taunton in Somerset, at the meeting of the united ministers of several counties to be held there, September 2. 1691 : with a brief account of the life and death of the reverend author. London: Printed for Tho. Cockerill ..., 1986.
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Johnson, Daniel. Mayo Clinic Gastrointestinal Imaging Review. Oxford University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199862153.001.0001.
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This resource provides an atlas of common abnormalities that affect the gastrointestinal tract and includes all imaging modalities used within GI radiology, as well as plain radiographs, fluoroscopy, ultrasound, CT, MR, angiography, and nuclear medicine. Focusing solely on adult conditions, it features 13 chapters covering a separate organ within the gastrointestinal system and a final exam chapter reviewing all chapter content. Each organ-focused chapter is subdivided into sections related to diseases or findings of that organ. Large, high-quality images are presented so that they can be reviewed as unknowns. A discussion of the cases is presented as if it were a consultation— with a description of the findings, differential diagnosis, and final diagnosis. A brief discussion of the disease is included. The end of each chapter lists differential diagnoses for the chapter's specific organ. Full-color composite anatomical illustrations show the immediately obvious appearance of common conditions that correlate with major radiologic findings.
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Stoneman, Richard. The Greek Experience of India. Princeton University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691154039.001.0001.
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When the Greeks and Macedonians in Alexander's army reached India in 326 BCE, they entered a new and strange world. They knew a few legends and travelers' tales, but their categories of thought were inadequate to encompass what they witnessed. The plants were unrecognizable, their properties unknown. The customs of the people were various and puzzling. While Alexander's conquest was brief, ending with his death in 323 BCE, the Greeks would settle in the Indian region for the next two centuries, forging an era of productive interactions between the two cultures. This book explores the various ways that the Greeks reacted to and constructed life in India during this fruitful period. From observations about botany and mythology to social customs, the book examines the surviving evidence of those who traveled to India. Most particularly, it offers a full and valuable look at Megasthenes, ambassador of the King Seleucus to Chandragupta Maurya, and provides a detailed discussion of Megasthenes' now-fragmentary book Indica. The book considers the art, literature, and philosophy of the Indo-Greek kingdom and how cultural influences crossed in both directions, with the Greeks introducing their writing, coinage, and sculptural and architectural forms, while Greek craftsmen learned to work with new materials such as ivory and stucco and to probe the ideas of Buddhists and other ascetics. The book is an account of the encounters between two remarkable civilizations.
Book chapters on the topic "Brief and full account of Mr"
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Lippert, Barbara. "Turkey as a Special and (Almost) Dead Case of EU Enlargement Policy." In EU-Turkey Relations, 267–93. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-70890-0_11.
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AbstractThis chapter analyzes the relationship between the EU and Turkey from the perspective of the EU’s enlargement policy. It sets out to explain the extent to which Turkey represents a special and difficult case for EU enlargement policy and addresses the following aspects of the relationship. First, the overall concepts, motives, and criteria of EU enlargement are introduced. The second section deals with critical questions that Turkey poses for the EU in this respect. The third section outlines how specific features of the EU–Turkey relationship have played out from the onset and during accession negotiations. While no full or detailed account of the history of relations is given, the focus is on those issues that make Turkey a special and (almost) dead case of EU enlargement policy. Finally, a brief outlook on the future of bilateral relations is presented which shows the persistent ambivalences that characterize Brussels’ relationship with Ankara.
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Dickens, Charles. "Which contains a brief account of the Progress of the Action of Bardell against Pickwick." In The Pickwick Papers. Oxford University Press, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/owc/9780199536245.003.0036.
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Having accomplished the main end and object of his journey by the exposure of Jingle, Mr. Pickwick resolved on immediately returning to London, with the view of becoming acquainted with the proceedings which had been taken against him, in the mean time, by ...
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Dickens, Charles. "Chapter XXIX has an introductory account of the inmates of the house, to which oliver resorted." In Oliver Twist. Oxford University Press, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/owc/9780199536269.003.0031.
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In a handsome room: though its furniture had rather the air of old-fashioned comfort, than of modern elegance: there sat two ladies at a well-spread breakfast-table. Mr. Giles, dressed with scrupulous care in a full suit of black, was in attendance upon them. He...
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Dickens, Charles. "Chapter V: Containing a full Account of the Installation of Mr. Pecksniff’s new Pupil into the Bosom of Mr. Pecksniff’s Family. With all the Festivities held on that Occasion, and the great Enjoyment of Mr. Pinch." In Martin Chuzzlewit. Oxford University Press, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/owc/9780199554003.003.0007.
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The best of architects and land surveyors kept a horse, in whom the enemies already mentioned more than once in these pages, pretended to detect a fanciful resemblance to his master. Not in his outward person, for he was a raw-boned, haggard horse, always...
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Godwin, John. "Introduction." In Juvenal: Satires Book V, viii—45. Liverpool University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781789622171.003.0001.
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A brief description of satire as a genre and its history in Latin before Juvenal: then an account of what little we know about the poet himself and the problems of using text and history to assist each other in interpretation of the poetry. The style of Juvenal’s poetry is then discussed with examples from the text in this volume, followed by a discussion of the degree to which the text might be in any sense serious rather than simply a bravura performance of a satirical persona. A short guide to Juvenal’s use of the hexameter metre is followed by a history of the textual transmission and a full bibliography of all titles cited in the course of the book.
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Allen, Aaron. "Introduction." In Building Early Modern Edinburgh, 1–32. Edinburgh University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474442381.003.0001.
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The introduction explores the context in which the Incorporation of Mary’s Chapel developed. The phenomenon of the craft guild is an important part of the Europe’s urban social structure, from the largest capital city, to many of the smaller aspiring towns. Whether composite, with numerous trades, or granted to a single occupation, the feudalistic structures of urban work often favoured this protectionist institution, though corporate privileges and exclusivity were far from uniform, and always contested. In this chapter, a brief narrative of the Incorporation’s history sets the scene for the later chapters, followed by an account of how historians have viewed the process of incorporating Edinburgh’s building trades, from the eighteenth century to present day, demonstrating the need for a full study of such an important urban institution.
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Morsi, Yos, Zhang Li, and Sheng Wang. "Heart Valve Diseases in the Elderly." In Medical Advancements in Aging and Regenerative Technologies, 240–60. IGI Global, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-2506-8.ch011.
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This chapter gives an overview of heart valve diseases, their diagnostics techniques, and current and future treatments with particular emphasis on the elder generation. It starts with a brief presentation of anatomy of the heart and its valves and the effect of aging on the function of the heart. Subsequently the projection of the global older population is given, and the most common and frequently occurring valvular heart diseases including aortic regurgitation, aortic stenosis, and aortic sclerosis are presented and discussed. Moreover, the current heart valve replacement techniques using mechanical or bio-prosthetic valves and the complications associated with the use of these artificial heart valves are presented and discussed. The chapter ends with a full account of the risk of mortality associated with the operation of heart valve replacement for older patients and the future directions for heart valve implementation using the tissue engineering concept.
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Watkin, Christopher. "Alain Badiou: Formalised Inhumanism." In French Philosophy Today. Edinburgh University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474414739.003.0002.
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This chapter probes the limits of Badiou’s “formalised inhumanism”, arguing that it is wrong to characterise the figure of the human that emerges in Badiou’s thought as radically new. For both Badiou and his antagonists the human is irreducibly composite: it cannot be what it is without a constitutive relation to an instance of inhumanity or non-humanity outside itself. Badiou’s split anthropology of the “human animal” and the “immortal” faces a major structural and ethical problem, arising from the way in which he seeks to understand the relation between the animal and immortal: he makes fidelity to a truth, and therefore humanity in its full sense, contingent upon an individual’s possession of the capacity for affirmative thought. Such thought functions for Badiou as a ‘host capacity’, a boundary marker of the uniqueness of humanity among animal, organic and non-organic entities. Despite exploring several creative ways to overcome the problems caused by this ‘host capacity’ account of humanity, the chapter concludes that it casts a shadow over his claim that “several times in its brief existence, every human animal is granted the chance to incorporate itself into the subjective present of a truth”.
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Gross, Alan G. "Isn’t Science Sublime?" In The Scientific Sublime. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190637774.003.0004.
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For over a half century, popular science books have been embraced enthusiastically by the welcoming public, from Richard Dawkins on evolution to Brian Greene on string theory. But while shelf upon shelf of books of popular science exist, only one book exists on these books, Elizabeth Leane’s Reading Popular Physics. Perhaps that’s because no other book is needed; perhaps there is no more mystery to solve, no conundrum to unravel. Take A Brief History of Time: it is selling far better than Gone with the Wind, apparently with good reason: it is a better read. A reviewer on Amazon opines: “Stephen Hawking is an established scientific genius, but this book establishes him as a brilliant writer—an extremely rare, yet valuable combination.” A blog critic pronounces his verdict: “A Brief History of Time is far more than a science book. It’s one of the renaissance books that is so seminal to the notion of who we are, and where we might be in the next 50 years, that it should be required reading for every person from high school on. If that seems like a big ask you’ve got the wrong idea about this book. It’s light and easy and fun, full of subtle humor and provocative notions.” These are views about a book chock-full of abstruse ideas strenuously avoided in their school years by all but future physicists. The universal attraction of such books is the mystery I would like to solve, the conundrum I would like to unravel. Jon Turney, a scholar of popular science and former editor of Penguin Books, questions whether such a book can be written: “At some point,” he says, “one must ask if it is possible . . . to consider the whole ensemble of books. I have my doubts. Even books on the same topic, quantum physics say, are tremendously diverse, in style, level, approach, and in which genres they draw on.” Turney is not totally despairing of success; he suggests that potential authors see popular science books as symptoms of larger forces in our culture. I intend to act on Turney’s suggestion. I acknowledge the diversity of style, level, and approach that Turney sees as an obstacle to a comprehensive account. But I attribute this diversity not to a difference in goals but to differing literary talents and to different takes on what science is and what it can accomplish. However different their skills and their subject matter, these writers are in the business of generating in their readers a sense of wonder at a nature whose workings science, and only science, can comprehend.
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Daly, Blánaid, Paul Batchelor, Elizabeth Treasure, and Richard Watt. "Fluoride and fi ssure sealants." In Essential Dental Public Health. Oxford University Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199679379.003.0018.
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Fluoride has made an enormous contribution to declines in dental caries (Kidd 2005; Murray and Naylor 1996). Fissure sealants are a proven preventive agent. This chapter provides a brief overview of the history of fluoride and presents a brief synopsis of the mode of action, method of delivery, safety, and controversies in the use of fluoride. A public health perspective on fissure sealants will also be presented. An account of the history of fluoride can be found in Kidd (2005) and Murray et al. (2003) and is summarized in this section (see Box 12.1 for key dates). In 1901, Frederick McKay, a dentist in Colorado Springs, USA, noticed that many of his patients, who had spent all their lives in the area, had a distinctive stain on their teeth known locally as ‘Colorado stain’. McKay was puzzled and called in the assistance of a dental researcher G.V. Black. They found that other communities in the USA had the characteristic mottling. Their histological examination of affected teeth showed that the enamel was imperfectly calcified, but that decay in the mottled teeth was no higher than in normal teeth. McKay suspected that something in the water supply was producing the brown stain, and more evidence came from Bauxite, a community formed to house workers of a subsidiary of the Aluminium Company of America (ALCOA). A local dentist noticed that children in Bauxite had mottled teeth, whereas children in nearby Benton did not. McKay investigated the problem but was unable to find a cause for the staining when the water supply was tested. In 1933, Mr H.V. Churchill, Chief Chemist for ALCOA (anxious that aluminium would not be blamed for the mottling), analysed the water and found that the fluoride ion concentration in the water supply of the Bauxite community was abnormally high (13.7 ppm). He tested other communities affected by mottling which had been previously identified by McKay and found that they too had high levels of fluoride present in the water supplies.
Conference papers on the topic "Brief and full account of Mr"
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Jiang, B. T., and Y. N. Liu. "A Brief Review of Computational Intelligence Techniques for Critical Heat Flux Prediction." In 2018 26th International Conference on Nuclear Engineering. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/icone26-82325.
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Critical heat flux (CHF) is one of the important design criteria of water cooled nuclear reactors and plays a key role for the safety and economics of nuclear power plants (NPPs). One of the goals of nuclear reactor design is to receive maximum efficiency under full power and its efficiency would be improved when the core exit temperature increases. From this perspective, the design of a nuclear reactor needs to take into account the appropriate thermal margin to ensure that the fuel design limits are within acceptable limits for any normal operating conditions. However, in general, CHF limits the heat flux from the fuel rods and the power capacity of the nuclear reactor. CHF refers to the transition from nucleate boiling to film boiling and causes an abrupt rise of the fuel rod surface temperature. Therefore, prediction of CHF is vital to the design and safety analysis of water cooled nuclear reactors. During the last five decades, large efforts have been carried out on the CHF prediction by many researchers. Generally, CHF prediction can be achieved in three main ways: empirical correlations, look-up tables and phenomenological models. Due to the complex nature of CHF, there is no deterministic theory for the prediction of CHF. Even the look-up tables and the empirical correlations have their own application ranges and limitations. To overcome these limitations, some computational intelligence (CI) techniques have been developed for the prediction of CHF by many researchers in the last two decades. This paper provides a brief overview of CI techniques for prediction of CHF. In this paper, the reviewed CI techniques mainly include artificial neural networks (ANNs), genetic algorithms (GAs), support vector machines (SVMs), and their hybrid models. This review also compares the strengths and weaknesses of several CI techniques and provides basic technical support for future selection of appropriate methods by those involved in the field.
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Li, Han, and Brent C. Houchens. "Numerical Issues Associated With the Full-Zone Model of the Optically Heated Floating-Zone Used in Semiconductor Processing." In ASME 2008 Fluids Engineering Division Summer Meeting collocated with the Heat Transfer, Energy Sustainability, and 3rd Energy Nanotechnology Conferences. ASMEDC, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/fedsm2008-55169.
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Recent models of the thermocapillary driven liquid bridge or full-zone (FZ) have highlighted numerical difficulties in the system, associated with the large velocity gradients near the free surface and the geometric singularity at r = 0. High resolution spectral solutions have been developed to account for these issues. These result in complex representations and highly specialized numerical procedures. After a brief review of these methods, a simplified formulation for the FZ model with strong form boundary conditions is proposed and discussed. Comparisons are made using base flows and stability analyses. Existing solutions have overcome the geometric singularity either by moving the grid away from the r = 0 axis, or by maintaining the correct Taylor series expansion in the representation of each dependent variable. The former has the weakness that an important constraint is not applied. The later formulation is rigorous, but results in complex expressions for the governing equations. To decrease the load associated with the mathematical manipulation and numerical implementation of this method, here a more general Chebyshev polynomial representation of the stream function is applied to the axisymmetric base flow. This removes the need to maintain the proper expansion and instead offers a set of equations in strong form by treating the axis as a boundary known from the spatial symmetry of the model. However, this does not guarantee that momentum is conserved at the internal symmetry boundaries. Various applications of the other boundary conditions are also studied. In the most accurate representation, all boundary conditions except the thermocapillary condition are cast in the strong form via orthogonality. These strong equations must be chosen carefully to avoid introducing redundant conditions. However, the result is a mathematically simpler representation that mimics the accuracy of previous methods.
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Qian, Dong, and Qingjin Zheng. "Coarse-Grained Modeling and Simulation of Nanoscale Systems Based on Discrete Hyper-Elastic Model." In ASME 2008 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. ASMEDC, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/imece2008-68088.
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The subject of developing equivalent continuum models from the atomistic models has attracted significant attention in recent years. An outstanding issue in extending the continuum model to smaller scales is the size effect. Such a size effect is intimately related to the discrete nature of the atomic structure and nonlocal interaction among the atoms. In many of the existing continuum approaches, discrete variables are introduced in the constitutive model to account for these non-continuum effects. In this paper, we present a discrete hyperelasticity model as an alternative. Our approach, however, is fundamentally different from the conventional approach in that it treats the concept of deformation mapping in the discrete sense. The resulting deformation measure is referred to as spatial secant and the corresponding material model is called the spatial secant model. We then formulate the potential energy density functional and derive stress-like measure based on the spatial secant. After a brief description on the formulation and its comparison with the classical hyper-elastic model, we show the application of this model to both low-dimensional carbon nanostructures and general three-dimensional nanostructures. The concept of geometric-exact mapping is discussed through the examples. Comparisons with full-scale molecular mechanics simulations are made to illustrate the robustness of this approach.
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Sedlacek, Germán, Alina Miehe, Ana Libreros, and Yousef Heider. "Geotechnical Stability of Gravity Base Foundations for Offshore Wind Turbines on Granular Soils." In ASME 2012 31st International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/omae2012-83085.
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Offshore wind energy farms have gained much attention during the last years in Germany and all over the world. In the construction of offshore wind turbines, piled foundations have been mostly used so far. However, gravity base foundations represent a good alternative as they minimize the typical high risks of the offshore works, such as weather-dependent installation, operational safety, construction sequence and performance. The whole wind energy turbine is assembled onshore and promptly transported to the planned location. In the design of the gravity foundation under cyclic loading conditions, it is essential to avoid inadmissibly large reductions of the subsoil bearing capacity due to the excess pore-water pressure (loss of stability) and tilting of the foundation caused by the accumulation of settlements (loss of serviceability). This paper provides a description of the soil-mechanical behaviour of gravity base foundations and gives an account of the current available rules and standards for dimensioning foundations of this type. In this regard, a procedure for the geotechnical design of a gravity base foundation is laid out, where this work points out that the existing standards for designing gravity base foundations need to be further developed. Moreover, a brief summary of the results at a full-scale model test, according to the present state of testing and knowledge, are given.
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Liessem, Andreas, Ulrich Marewski, Johannes Groß-Weege, and Gerhard Knauf. "Methods for Collapse Pressure Prediction of UOE Linepipe." In 25th International Conference on Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering. ASMEDC, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/omae2006-92147.
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Line pipe intended for deep water applications has to be designed predominantly with regard to external pressure in order to avoid plastic collapse. As a consequence of cold forming during UOE pipe manufacture and the subsequent application of anticorrosion coating, the characteristic stress strain behavior has to be taken into account for a reliable prediction of the collapse pressure. Verification of collapse resistance of large diameter pipes against external pressure requires adequate and reliable component testing using a sufficient number of pipe samples. These samples have to be subjected to test conditions, which closely simulate the situation in service. As the test results may depend significantly on its boundary conditions, the results needs to be thoroughly analysed and compared with existing prediction methods. It is for these reasons that such full-scale testing is time-consuming and costly. The work presented in this paper aims at clarifying and quantifying the effect of existing test boundary conditions on the results of collapse tests (collapse pressures). Correlations will be established between material properties found in laboratory tests and associated component behavior. In this context it had been necessary to develop an accurate and reproducible compression test method. The actual collapse pressures and those predicted using current available equations are compared and verified by Finite Element calculations. The paper concludes with a discussion of the major findings and with a brief outlook to future research issues.
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Fernando, Upul S., Michelle Davidson, Iwan Harries, Andrew Thompson, and Terry Sheldrake. "Assessment of Loading on the Carcass and Pressure Armour due to Environment Swelling of Polymer." In ASME 2013 32nd International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/omae2013-11238.
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Flexible pipes consist of multi-layer structures comprising polymer extrusions, tapes and insulation that are trapped between layers of helically-wrapped steel wires. Under certain pressure and temperature service conditions, and when the polymers are in contact with certain chemicals (such as supercritical CO2), these polymer layers may experience significant volumetric changes caused by permeation, solubility and absorption of chemicals into the polymer structure. The swelling of the polymer barrier can result in a significant increase in load on the carcass and pressure armour that may compromise the integrity of the pipe. This paper investigates the effect of the volumetric changes in the barrier and how that can influence the extra loading exerted on carcass and pressure armour under service conditions. A simple analytical model has been proposed to predict the extra loading acting on the carcass and the pressure armour. The proposed procedure has been validated using FE results. Experiments have been performed using a three-layer simulated setup and full-scale pipe to investigate the load acting on the carcass and pressure armour. A brief description of the test program and the results are presented. Tests clearly show that there is only a limited increase in hoop stress in the carcass or the pressure armour in pipes immersed in acetone, although the barrier swelled considerably under unconstrained conditions. An empirical procedure has been proposed to account for this swelling retardation behavior. The effect of the PVDF barrier swelling in pressurized supercritical CO2 environments is discussed.
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Underwood, John H. "Kendall Analysis of Cannon Pressure Vessels." In ASME 2012 Pressure Vessels and Piping Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/pvp2012-78377.
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Engineering mechanics analysis of cannon pressure vessels is described with special emphasis on the work of the late US Army Benet Laboratories engineer David P. Kendall. His work encompassed a broad range of design and analysis of high pressure vessels for use as cannons, including analysis of the limiting yield pressure for vessels, the autofrettage process applied to thick vessels, and the fatigue life of autofrettaged cannon vessels. Mr. Kendall’s work has become the standard approach used to analyze the structural integrity of cannon pressure vessels at the US Army Benet Laboratories. The methods used by Kendall in analysis of pressure vessels were simple and direct. He used classic results from research in engineering mechanics to develop descriptive expressions for limiting pressure, autofrettage residual stresses and fatigue life of cannon pressure vessels. Then he checked the expressions against the results of full-scale cannon pressure vessel tests in the proving grounds and the laboratory. Three types of analysis are described: [i] Yield pressure tests of cannon sections compared with a yield pressure expression, including in the comparison post-test yield strength measurements from appropriate locations of the cannon sections; [ii] Autofrettage hoop residual stress measurements by neutron diffraction in cannon sections compared with expressions, including Bauschinger corrections in the expressions to account for the reduction in compressive yield strength near the bore of an autofrettaged vessel; [iii] Fatigue life tests of cannons following proving ground firing and subsequent laboratory simulated firing compared with Paris-based fatigue life expressions that include post-test metallographic determination of the initial crack size due to firing. Procedures are proposed for Paris life calculations for bore-initiated fatigue affected by crack-face pressure and notch-initiated cracking in which notch tip stresses are significantly above the material yield strength. The expressions developed by Kendall and compared with full-scale cannon pressure vessel tests provide useful first-order design and safety checks for pressure vessels, to be followed by further engineering analysis and service simulation testing as appropriate for the application. Expressions are summarized that are intended for initial design calculations of yield pressure, autofrettage stresses and fatigue life for pressure vessels. Example calculations with these expressions are described for a hypothetical pressure vessel.
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Crespo, Javier, and Jesús Contreras. "On the Development of a Synchronized Harmonic Balance Method for Multiple Frequencies and its Application to LPT Flows." In ASME Turbo Expo 2020: Turbomachinery Technical Conference and Exposition. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/gt2020-14952.
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Abstract The aim of this paper is to describe the development and application of a multi-frequency harmonic balance solver for GPUs, particularly suitable for the simulation of periodic unsteadiness in nonlinear turbomachinery flows comprised of a few dominant frequencies, with an unsteady multistage coupling that bolsters the flow continuity across the rotor/stator interface. The formulation is addressed with the time-domain reinterpretation, where several non-equidistant time instants conveniently selected are solved simultaneously. The set of required frequencies in each row is driven into the governing equations with the help of almost-periodic Fourier transforms for time derivatives and time shifted boundary conditions. The spatial repetitiveness inside each row can be exploited to perform single-passage simulations and the relative circumferential positioning of the rotors or stators and the different blade or vane counts is tackled by means of adding fictitious frequencies referring to non-adjacent rows therefore taking into account clocking and indexing effects. Existing multistage row coupling techniques of harmonic methods rely on the use of non-reflecting boundary conditions, based on linearizations, or time interpolation, which may lead to Runge phenomenon with the resulting numerical instabilities and non-preserving flux exchange. Different sets of time instants might be selected in each row but the interpolation in space and time across their interfaces gives rise to robustness issues due to this phenomenon. The so-called synchronized approach, developed in this work, consist of having the same time instances among the whole ensemble of rows, ensuring that flux transfer at sliding planes is applied more robustly. The combination of a set of shared non-equidistant time instances plus the use of unequal frequencies (real and fictitious) may spoil the Fourier transforms conditioning but this can be dramatically improved with the help of oversampling and instants selection optimization. The resulting multistage coupling naturally addresses typical numerical issues such as flow that might reverse locally across the row interfaces by means of not using boundary conditions but a local flux conservation scheme in the sliding planes. Some examples will be given to illustrate the ability of this new approach to preserve accuracy and robustness while resolving them. A brief analysis of results for a fan stage and a LPT multi-row case is presented to demonstrate the correctness of the method, assessing the impact in the modeling accuracy of the present approach compared with a time-domain conventional analysis. Regarding the computational performance, the speedup compared to a full annulus time-domain unsteady simulation is a factor of order 30 combining the use of single-passage rows and time spectral accuracy.