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Journal articles on the topic "Composite first name"
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Karpenkо, Olha. "The possible and the impossible in the diachronous oykonymy on the example of the Kyiv region." Ukrainska mova, no. 2 (2020): 89–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.15407/ukrmova2020.02.089.
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The example of the Kyiv region’s oykonyms illustrates the difficulties faced by the linguist in the study of the names of settlements. The problems that arise in the analysis of chronicle oykonyms are illustrated by the example of Pereyaslav. In formal terms, the oykonym Pereyaslavl’ is appropriate to be considered as a possessive of *-j(ь) on the first name Pereyaslav. The first component is motivated by the verb ‘to adopt’, the second is ‘a glory’, which is productive of composite names. Chronicle form ‘Russkiy Pereyaslavl’ gave rise to a version of the name transfer of Pereyaslavl’ from Bulgaria. The designation of Russkiy ‹ Rus performed a distinctive function with respect to other oykonyms, including the Bulgarian Preslav the Great. The coherence of the names of the new city with the Bulgarian Preslav does not prove the common origin of the oykonyms. For most archaic oykonyms, one can only speak of anthroponyms, without specifying a particular person. The settlement of Mutizhir, known from the chronicles, initially disappeared and was subsequently rebuilt and renamed: Motyzhir, Motyzhyn, Borisov and again Motyzhyn. The name Mutizhyr does not pass over the XII century, and the settlement of Motyzhyn is mentioned only at the end of the XV century. The chronicle anthroponym-composite Mutizhir could not be a motivator in the new conditions of the oykonyms formation. The name Motyzhyn has changed so much in comparison with the chronicle of primary sources that it became perceived as an independent possessive formation. Oykonimikon of XVII century allows one to define an etimon-anthroponym, often without specifying its carrier. For example, the oykonym Karapyszi is a specific Slavic plural form from the nickname Karapysz which is a derivative formation with dialectic implementation of the root morpheme, the initial base *tort-. Only certain names attract the written information about its owner and founder. It is correctly to include Dytyatky in the Kyiv region to such oykonyms. Keywords: oykonym, oykonym in chronicles, word-forming model, anthroponim, appellative, etymology.
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Srujana Hemmanur, Pradeep S, and Sowmya K. "Comparative evaluation on the number of increments of composites used for restoring disto-occlusal cavities of maxillary and mandibular molars - A retrospective analysis." International Journal of Research in Pharmaceutical Sciences 11, SPL4 (2020): 734–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.26452/ijrps.v11ispl4.4056.
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Over time and with the advancement of dental materials, a shift in the paradigm of how lost tooth structure can be restored has occurred. It is not very surprising to notice that many of the traditional amalgam restorations have been replaced with dental composites in the name of aesthetics. The factors that usually contribute to the failure of the composite restorations are secondary caries, pulpal irritation, post-operative sensitivity and marginal discoloration, all indicating microleakage being the cause. Microleakage, in turn, is caused by polymerization shrinkage, which is inherent to the material because of its composition. Amongst a few strategies to minimise polymerization drinking shrinkage is the use of the incremental technique. The aim of the present study was to evaluate and compare the number of increments of composites used for restoring disto-occlusal cavities of maxillary and mandibular molars in the South Indian population. It is a retrospective analysis. Data from 86,000 patient records were sieved and a total of 101 case sheets that presented with disto-occlusal composite restorations in maxillary and mandibular molars were included. The number of increments used to restore the cavity was assessed and tabulated in Microsoft Excel along with details like age, gender and tooth number. Frequency analyses and Chi-Square test was performed. Two increments of composite resin were reported to be used maximum in the restoration of the DO cavities in molars. The association of the number of increments to tooth number is found to be significant (p <0.05). Within the limitations of the study, the number of increments of composite used to restore a DO cavity was more in a mandibular first molar. Thus to conclude that all the teeth were restored in a conservative approach.
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Fadai, Alireza, Matthias Rinnhofer, and Wolfgang Winter. "Development of Timber-Wood Lightweight Concrete-Glass Composite for Multi-Story Façades." Applied Mechanics and Materials 887 (January 2019): 30–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.887.30.
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Within several research projects and with the aim to optimize structural performance, energy efficiency and ecological characteristics of structural building components the Department of Structural Design and Timber Engineering (ITI) at the Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien) developed several wood-based composite systems, which combine timber products with other conventional building materials and components. As a representative example for these developments, this paper illustrates the results of the joint research project “Wood-based concrete: building construction with composite elements of wood-concrete compounds and timber (WooCon)”. The objective of the research project “WooCon” is to develop a multi-layer wall system composed of wood lightweight concrete (WLC), connected timber sections, textile reinforcement as well as glass layers on the exterior to gain and use advantages of each used material - lightweight, structural, thermal storage and insulation, ecological and economic benefits - to name the most important ones. In order to assess the structural physical properties of wood-based composite wall elements, in a first step measurements of the thermal properties with respect to thermal-insulating properties and thermal storage capacity are carried out. In following step, the results obtained are used further to simulate the thermodynamic and hygrothermal building behavior. The aim of the simulations is to investigate the effect of the wood-based composite wall elements to the annual heating demand as well as to the operative room temperature of a typical south-orientated living space.
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Fabre, Thierry, Dominique Chauveaux, Maryse Moinard, et al. "Pilot Study of Safety and Performance of a Mixture of Calcium Phosphate Granules Combined with Cellulosic-Derived Gel after Tunnel Filling Created during Surgical Treatment of Femoral Head Aseptic Osteonecrosis." Key Engineering Materials 361-363 (November 2007): 1295–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/kem.361-363.1295.
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The biomaterial studied here is a composite associating a mineral phase of an intimate nanoscale melting of hydroxyapatite and beta tri calcium phosphate and an aqueous phase containing a synthetic polymer derived from cellulose HPMC (hydroxyl propyl methyl cellulose), marketed under name MBCP Gel (FDA approval, Biomatlante manufacturer). The present exploratory study aim was to study the safety of MBCP-gel, and to determine in the osseous healthy area the performance of MBCP gel. We expected to prove bone ingrowth into the osseous cavities created during drilling biopsy of the aseptic osteonecrosis of femoral head. The current results obtained in the first two patients with 1 year follow up demonstrate the resorption and bone ingrowth with trabecular bone architecture in the hole created into the femoral neck.
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Alhathlool, Khalid. "Hybridity: A Privilege of a Few or the Necessity for All in Amin Maalouf's In the Name of Identity." Somatechnics 6, no. 1 (2016): 24–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/soma.2016.0172.
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This paper critically engages with Amin Maalouf's understanding of identity in his book In the Name of Identity (1997). Maalouf's intervention in the contentious discussion of identity consists of four principle points. Firstly, identity is composite. Secondly, identity is constructed through dialogic process. Thirdly, the understanding of identity today is predominately ‘tribal.’ Finally there is a need for the prevalence of the universal in the ‘era of globalization’. Maalouf's analysis rightly transcends the limitation of essentialist and singular conceptions of identity—in particular- cultural identity—in today's ‘postcolonial’’ world; however, his proposed alternative, and the assumptions upon which it rests, are equally problematic, especially for ‘postcolonial’ societies and immigrants/migrants in ‘Western’ countries. Maalouf's perspective on hybridity is riddled with contradictions: above all, the contradiction between understanding hybridity as a foundational position and as a deconstructive force of fixed identities and naturalised categories. This confusion arises when, on the one hand, cultures are understood as bounded and territorialised and, on the other, individuals are thought to belong simultaneously to these different, bounded cultures in full composite terms. In the first place there is an argument for sustaining purity, while the subsequent stage of identity formation advocates hybridity. Maalouf rejects purity as well as hybridity by appearing to sustain the two simultaneously. He cannot maintain this contradiction except through individualising the conception of identity. This paper argues that while Maalouf is able to problematise notions of ‘essentialist’ identities—what he dubs as ‘murderous identities’—and presents a moderately plausible case for ‘hybridity’, he fails to depart from a hegemonic and reified notion of a ‘universal’ or ‘cosmopolitan’ definition of identity which in effect operates as a code for Eurocentric ideas of identity and being. Thus, Maalouf's ‘speaking for’ postcolonial and migrant people/cultures and ‘speaking back’ against neo-conservative world-view is never quite able to escape the latter's ideological moorings.
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Belyaev, Andrey G., and Elena I. Shubnitsina. "On the Origin of Russian-Language Hydronyms of the Shchugor River Basin." Вопросы Ономастики 17, no. 1 (2020): 95–112. http://dx.doi.org/10.15826/vopr_onom.2020.17.1.005.
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The article discusses the history of the hydronyms Shchugor, Patok, Glubnik, Torgovaya, Volokovka, Pyatidyrka, and Semidyrka, i.e. the names of the Shchugor River and its several tributaries of the first and second orders. Presently, these names mostly have a “Russian” phonetic appearance, however, their historical variants suggest that some of them may be a result of semantic adaptation of pre-Russian names. The authors suggest that the hydronyms Pyatidyrka and Semidyrka originated from Nenets names with a composite determinant -dyrma, expressing recurrence and place of action. In other examples, there is a parallel coexistence of several similar versions of one hydronym belonging to different languages, cf.: Russian Torgovaya, Komi-Zyryan Törgövöy-yu, Nenets Menyaylava. This can be regarded as a testimony to the past and current contacts of the Russian population with indigenous peoples — speakers of Finno-Ugric and Samoyedic languages. In some cases, the older pre-Russian form of a hydronym might be missing, i.e. replaced by a Russian-language variant without any trace of the substrate name. For example, the Komi-Zyryan hydronym Pyzhenyuts (from Komi-Zyryan pyzh ‘boat,’ literally “River on which boats can sail”) was replaced in the Old Russian period by the name Padun and, later, by the name Patok, both of the latter hydronyms being originally Russian. The article also analyzes native Russian names for which the most probable motivation can be established based on geographic data. Incidentally, the traditional interpretation of the name of the river Glubnik as “deep river” or “river with deep places” is called into question, since such an interpretation does not correspond to physical and geographical features of the river, the authors interpret the name as “River flowing from the depths of the taiga.” All linguistic observations and etymological interpretations of hydronyms presented in the article are based on the analysis of a large array of cartographic sources of the 16th–20th centuries; finally examples are given of the distortion of the spelling of the hydronyms of the Shchugorsk area of the Urals on the maps of various times.
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Beaux, Nathalie. "King, lion and falcon at Deir el-Bahari: from Rw.ty to Horus. A study of the ramp newel posts in the Temple of Hatshepsut." Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean XXIV, no. 2 (2016): 61–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0010.0174.
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The newel posts of the first ramp had lion representations, those of the second one were decorated with composite falcon statues. It is the purpose of this article to study the surviving architectural elements of the ramp newel posts in detail and to explore the function of these elements in Hatshepsut’s temple cosmology. Rw.ty, the four seated lions of the first ramp, are guarding the passage from land to the intermediate level of the temple, “begetting” Horus the king, allowing him to rise in life like the sun in its daily resurrection trip, and this forever and ever. In turn, the falcon god of the second ramp hovers in protection, as witness and helper in the passage to the third and highest level of the temple, where the king will achieve full resurrection through the Amun sanctuary and fly up to the sky as a falcon in its name of MAa.t-kA-Ra. The cartouche raised by the anx sign on the first ramp finds an echo in the Sn sign held by the falcon on the second ramp: they both tie and establish the king into his solar renewal destiny, helped by the Dual-lions and Horus of Behedet, lion and falcon from earth to heaven.
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Mortimer, Kate, Kirk Fitzhugh, Ana Claudia dos Brasil, and Paulo Lana. "Who’s who in Magelona: phylogenetic hypotheses under Magelonidae Cunningham & Ramage, 1888 (Annelida: Polychaeta)." PeerJ 9 (September 21, 2021): e11993. http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11993.
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Known as shovel head worms, members of Magelonidae comprise a group of polychaetes readily recognised by the uniquely shaped, dorso-ventrally flattened prostomium and paired ventro-laterally inserted papillated palps. The present study is the first published account of inferences of phylogenetic hypotheses within Magelonidae. Members of 72 species of Magelona and two species of Octomagelona were included, with outgroups including members of one species of Chaetopteridae and four of Spionidae. The phylogenetic inferences were performed to causally account for 176 characters distributed among 79 subjects, and produced 2,417,600 cladograms, each with 404 steps. A formal definition of Magelonidae is provided, represented by a composite phylogenetic hypothesis explaining seven synapomorphies: shovel-shaped prostomium, prostomial ridges, absence of nuchal organs, ventral insertion of palps and their papillation, presence of a burrowing organ, and unique body regionation. Octomagelona is synonymised with Magelona due to the latter being paraphyletic relative to the former. The consequence is that Magelonidae is monotypic, such that Magelona cannot be formally defined as associated with any phylogenetic hypotheses. As such, the latter name is an empirically empty placeholder, but because of the binomial name requirement mandated by the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, the definition is identical to that of Magelonidae. Several key features for future descriptions are suggested: prostomial dimensions, presence/absence of prostomial horns, morphology of anterior lamellae, presence/absence of specialised chaetae, and lateral abdominal pouches. Additionally, great care must be taken to fully describe and illustrate all thoracic chaetigers in descriptions.
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Yu, Jinxia, Guanghui He, Xixi Yan, Yongli Tang, and Rongxia Qin. "Outsourced ciphertext-policy attribute-based encryption with partial policy hidden." International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks 16, no. 5 (2020): 155014772092636. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1550147720926368.
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Attribute-based encryption is an efficient and flexible fine-grained access control scheme. However, how to realize the attribute privacy concerns in the access policy and optimize the heavy computing overhead have been not adequately addressed. First, in view of the open-access policies formulated by data owners in the cloud environment and the linear growth of bilinear pairing operations with the number of attributes in the decryption process, a verifiable outsourced attribute-based encryption with partial policy hidden scheme is proposed, in which the attribute name of access policy can be sent while attribute value involving sensitive information can be hidden, so nobody can infer information from the access policy. Second, the bilinear pairing operation and modular power operation are outsourced to the cloud server, then users only need to perform constant exponential operation to decrypt. In addition, the proposed scheme is based on the composite order bilinear group and satisfies full secure under the standard model. Finally, compared with other schemes in term of function and performance, it shows that this scheme is more efficient and suitable for resource-constrained mobile devices in outsourcing environment.
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TETA, PABLO, ULYSES F. J. PARDIÑAS, and GUILLERMO D’ELÍA. "On the composite nature of the holotype of Loxodontomys pikumche Spotorno et al., 1998 (Rodentia, Cricetidae, Sigmodontinae)." Zootaxa 3135, no. 1 (2011): 55. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3135.1.3.
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Central Chilean populations of the mouse Loxodontomys Osgood were traditionally (e.g., Pine et al., 1979) included as part of the single species recognized in the genus, L. micropus (Waterhouse). Later, Spotorno et al. (1998) considered that they belong to an up to then undescribed species for which they coined the name L. pikumche. This taxon, with type locality in “... Cajón del Río Maipo, sector Cruz de Piedra (34º 10’ S 69º 58’ W, 2.450 msnm), a 55 km S de la Central Hidroeléctrica de Las Melosas... en la Cordillera de la Región Metropolitana” is characterized by a 2n = 32 (NF = 34) and some subtle morphological differences with L. micropus (that, in turn, has a 2n = 34, NF = 36; Spotorno et al., 1998; Teta et al., 2009). More recently, Novillo et al. (2009) reported the first record of L. pikumche in the Argentinean province of Mendoza and added some putative morphological differences with L. micropus to those previously listed by Spotorno et al. (1998). As discussed by Cañon et al. (2010), the morphological characters documented as differences by Novillo et al. (2009) have some degree of variation within populations of L. micropus s.s. (e.g., zygomatic plate morphology, lateral profile of nasals, development of posterior palate process; see Hershkovitz, 1962; Steppan, 1995) or were based on misinterpretation of some features (e.g., both specimens studied by Novillo et al. [2009] has posteriorly divergent toothrows, and not only that of micropus). Indeed, the distinction of L. pikumche was recently put in interdict by Cañon et al. (2010) on the base of molecular and morphological evidence. These authors remarked that several putative diagnostic characters (e.g., molar root numbers, incisor orientation, shape of upper incisor dentine fissure) vary within and among populations of L. micropus s.s. Further, Cañon et al. (2010) suggested that L. pikumche may be a junior synomyn of L. m. alsus (Thomas, 1919).
Books on the topic "Composite first name"
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Beal, Amy C. Walking Woman. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252036361.003.0002.
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This chapter looks at Bley's first few years in New York. She was most likely eighteen years old when she arrived in the city but it is not clear exactly when Bley first got there. New to the city, she slept temporarily in Grand Central Station and then paid for an inexpensive hotel room near Times Square. She then began working at the jazz clubs Basin Street and Birdland. Shortly after turning twenty-one, during the summer of 1957, she officially changed her name to Carla Borg and started composing regularly. Carla Bley was further encouraged by musicians in Los Angeles. But perhaps most important, her encounter with Charlie Haden marked the start of a lifelong friendship, one that has resulted in some of the most innovative recordings ever made by large jazz ensembles, namely, the Liberation Music Orchestra projects beginning in 1969.
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Beal, Amy C. Escalator over the Hill. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252036361.003.0006.
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This chapter looks at Bley's most ambitious work to date: Escalator over the Hill (1971). Though the work is colloquially referred to as a “jazz opera,” its creators called it a “chronotransduction.” Widely considered Bley's greatest achievement, the musically unclassifiable Escalator over the Hill is an epic, somewhat impenetrable work of art, one that nourished Bley's proclivity toward musical boundary crossing and her genuinely collaborative nature. It was the first record released in her own name, and every aspect of this production belonged to Bley, from composing, arranging, playing, singing, and conducting to editing and mixing the tapes and preparing the master. Ultimately, the elaborate instrumentation of Escalator over the Hill reflects Bley's eclectic tastes, as well as the serendipity and haphazardness of her casting; having little money to pay performers, Bley notoriously drew in everyone she could, plus their relatives and roommates.
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Pelli, Giuseppe. Against the Death Penalty. Princeton University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691209883.001.0001.
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In 1764, a Milanese aristocrat named Cesare Beccaria created a sensation when he published On Crimes and Punishments. At its centre is a rejection of the death penalty as excessive, unnecessary, and pointless. Beccaria is deservedly regarded as the founding father of modern criminal law reform, yet he was not the first to argue for the abolition of the death penalty. This book presents the first English translation of the Florentine aristocrat Giuseppe Pelli's critique of capital punishment, written three years before Beccaria's treatise, but lost for more than two centuries in the Pelli family archives. The book examines the contrasting arguments of the two abolitionists, who drew from different intellectual traditions. Pelli was a devout Catholic influenced by the writings of natural jurists such as Hugo Grotius, whereas Beccaria was inspired by the French Enlightenment philosophers. While Beccaria attacked the criminal justice system as a whole, Pelli focused on the death penalty, composing a critique of considerable depth and sophistication. The book explores how Beccaria's alternative penalty of forced labour, and its conceptualisation as servitude, were embraced in Britain and America, and delves into Pelli's voluminous diaries, shedding light on Pelli's intellectual development and painting a vivid portrait of an Enlightenment man of letters and of conscience. With translations of letters exchanged by the two abolitionists and selections from Beccaria's writings, the book provides new insights into eighteenth-century debates about capital punishment and offers vital historical perspectives on one of the most pressing questions of our own time.
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Cantor, Brian. The Equations of Materials. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198851875.001.0001.
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This book describes some of the important equations of materials and the scientists who derived them. It is aimed at anyone interested in the manufacture, structure, properties and engineering application of materials such as metals, polymers, ceramics, semiconductors and composites. It is meant to be readable and enjoyable, a primer rather than a textbook, covering only a limited number of topics and not trying to be comprehensive. It is pitched at the level of a final year school student or a first year undergraduate who has been studying the physical sciences and is thinking of specialising into materials science and/or materials engineering, but it should also appeal to many other scientists at other stages of their career. It requires a working knowledge of school maths, mainly algebra and simple calculus, but nothing more complex. It is dedicated to a number of propositions, as follows: 1. The most important equations are often simple and easily explained; 2. The most important equations are often experimental, confirmed time and again; 3. The most important equations have been derived by remarkable scientists who lived interesting lives. Each chapter covers a single equation and materials subject. Each chapter is structured in three sections: first, a description of the equation itself; second, a short biography of the scientist after whom it is named; and third, a discussion of some of the ramifications and applications of the equation. The biographical sections intertwine the personal and professional life of the scientist with contemporary political and scientific developments. The topics included are: Bravais lattices and crystals; Bragg’s law and diffraction; the Gibbs phase rule and phases; Boltzmann’s equation and thermodynamics; the Arrhenius equation and reactions; the Gibbs-Thomson equation and surfaces; Fick’s laws and diffusion; the Scheil equation and solidification; the Avrami equation and phase transformations; Hooke’s law and elasticity; the Burgers vector and plasticity; Griffith’s equation and fracture; and the Fermi level and electrical properties.
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Monga, Célestin, and Justin Yifu Lin, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Structural Transformation. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198793847.001.0001.
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This book examines a variety of topics relating to structural transformation, such as why such transformations are associated with persistently high unemployment; the ‘flying-geese’ theory introduced by Japanese economist Kaname Akamatsu in the mid-1930s; mutual, two-way dependence of structural transformation and food security; a competitiveness-based view of structural transformation; the link between world trade and structural change from 1800 to present; the relationship between financial reforms, financial development, and structural change; sustainable structural change in the context of global value chains; and the commonly used strategies to build effective clusters and industrial parks. The book also discusses the specific problems that arise when composing an index of structural change and development, and suggests ways to address them; how structural change can be formally modelled in New Structural Economics (NSE); and some of the key elements of the knowledge accumulated in development economics. Furthermore, it identifies three key economic forces that drive structural transformation: the first emphasizes income effects, while the other two both emphasize relative price effects. The experiences of regions and countries such as Latin America, the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU), India, Egypt, Viet Nam, China, Korea, Taiwan, Ethiopia, and Tanzania with respect to structural transformation are also analysed. Finally, the book considers what is harmful in the existing structures, what goals we want any new structures to serve, and what structures would serve the chosen goals.
Book chapters on the topic "Composite first name"
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Oktarina, Sachnaz Desta, Ratnawati Nurkhoiry, Rizki Amalia, and Zulfi Prima Sani Nasution. "Stakeholder Perception and Empirical Evidence: Oil Palm Biomass Utilization as Climate-Smart Smallholder Practice." In Interlocal Adaptations to Climate Change in East and Southeast Asia. Springer International Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-81207-2_16.
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AbstractThe smallholder perception and adaptation of climate-smart practice has been rarely addressed. More precisely, on oil palm smallholder whose plot was frequently accused as driving force of ecosystem service depletion. The study to reveal stakeholder perception and its implementation towards biomass utilization was performed in the case study of North Sumatera Province. The Labuhan Batu, Batu Bara, Langkat, and Serdang Bedagai District was selected as the sample cases where the oil palm concessions were highly overlaid. The first phase of the study was conducted by text mining analysis to decode smallholder, practitioner, and expert’s perception and sentiment against oil palm biomass products within the SMEs scheme. The next phase of implementation was operated by introducing biomass-driven oil palm products such as empty fruit bunch briquette, oil palm fronds pellet, midrib handicraft, oil palm based-livestock feed, empty fruit bunch oyster mushrooms, oil palm juice brown sugar, oil palm-laminated wood, and empty fruit bunch-compost. The feasibility and preferences among those eight alternatives were then assessed by multi-criteria decision-making tools named Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) based on its benefit, opportunity, cost, and risk features. The text mining analysis discovered that initially, the smallholders were perceived to have a lower interest in making use of biomass products as they presumed that it still marginalize farmers. It was also still unclear whether they realize and understand the potential of biomass utilization to ameliorate nature. After the time of implementation, they were enlightened and chose oil palm midrib handicraft over other alternatives as their pluri-activity. Having said that, it is necessary to keep promoting climate-smart adaptation practices at the local level for the sustainability of people, profit, and the planet.
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Hazlitt, William. "My First Acquaintance with Poets." In Selected Writings. Oxford University Press, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/owc/9780199552528.003.0024.
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My father was a Dissenting Minister at W—m* in Shropshire; and in the year 1798 (the figures that compose that date are to me like the ‘dreaded name of Demogorgon’)* Mr Coleridge came to Shrewsbury, to succeed Mr Rowe in...
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Hazlitt, William. "My First Acquaintance with Poets." In The Spirit of Controversy, edited by Jon Mee and James Grande. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/owc/9780199591954.003.0025.
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My father was a Dissenting Minister at W — m* in Shropshire; and in the year 1798 (the figures that compose that date are to me like the ‘dreaded name of Demogorgon’*) Mr. Coleridge came to Shrewsbury, to succeed Mr. Rowe* in the spiritual charge of a Unitarian Congregation there. He did not come till late on the Saturday afternoon before he was to preach; and Mr. Rowe, who himself went down to the coach in a state of anxiety and expectation, to look for the arrival of his successor, could find no one at all answering the description but a round-faced man in a short black coat (like a shooting-jacket) which hardly seemed to have been made for him, but who seemed to be talking at a great rate to his fellow-passengers. Mr. Rowe had scarce returned to give an account of his disappointment, when the round-faced man in black entered, and dissipated all doubts on the subject, by beginning to talk.
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Haroutounian, Joanne. "Talent as Giftedness." In Kindling the Spark. Oxford University Press, 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195129489.003.0012.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart began composing at the age of four. He toured as a prodigy for three years before the age of ten, astounding audiences with his ability to perform on the harpsichord, voice, organ, and violin. He would compose on sight in different styles and on different instruments. He could “most accurately name from a distance any notes that may be sounded for him either singly or in chords, on the clavier or on every imaginable instrument, including bells, glasses, and clocks.” When his father was recovering from an illness, eight-year-old Wolfgang was not allowed to play the piano. He filled his time by composing his first symphony (K.16) for all instruments of the orchestra. When we hear the word “gifted” in connection with music, the musical prodigy immediately comes to mind. The arguments of recognizing talent through performance, creative endeavors, or music aptitude tests seem incidental in comparison to the possibilities and accomplishments of the musical prodigy. There is no question that these young musicians show incredible levels of musical talent, often exhibiting musical capabilities equal to those of a highly trained adult. Mozart remains the preeminent example of the prodigy, described by his father and teacher as a “God-given miracle,” knowing “in his eighth year what one would expect from a man of forty. Indeed, only he who sees him can believe it.” A prodigy is a child who displays extraordinary talent at an early age. Prodigies occur most often in the field of music, exceeding the total of all other fields combined. Musical prodigies show outstanding abilities at a younger age than other prodigies, with some as young as three or four years old. The field of chess is a distant second place in number, with prodigious achievement often seen at five or six years of age. Relatively few prodigies are identified in the natural sciences, philosophy, dance, or plastic arts. Even the field of mathematics, whose young calculating wonders gain media recognition, have few true prodigies capable of original mathematical reasoning prior to their teen years. The literature offers differing opinions concerning age and prodigious talent.
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Davis, Ellen F. "Settling the Land a Second Time—Ezra–Nehemiah." In Opening Israel's Scriptures. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190260545.003.0042.
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IN SOME WAYS, Ezra–Nehemiah is a companion piece to Esther, another story of Jews living as vassals of the Persian Empire, although it has none of the patent absurdity of Esther. Nehemiah’s story, like Esther’s, starts in a Persian court, but most of the composite story takes place in Jerusalem. Cyrus “the Great,” the first ruler from the Achaemenid dynasty, in the first year after his conquest of the Neo-Babylonian Empire in 539 BCE issued a decree that allowed Jews to rebuild the temple (Ezra 1:1–4). The decree marked a policy of granting provinces a greater measure of local and regional control in exchange for cooperation with imperial economic and political goals. The book covers a period that exceeds the life of the two individuals for whom Ezra–Nehemiah is named. Four or five Persian kings are mentioned—Cyrus, Darius, Ahasuerus/Xerxes, Artaxerxes I, and maybe Artaxerxes II (Ezra 4:5–7; 6:14)—whose reigns span more than a century (c. 538–400 BCE). The book makes no consistent attempt to specify the chronology. The so-called Nehemiah memoir is considered by some the oldest and most accurately historical part of the book, recording the experience of a highly placed imperial agent. It suggests that some twenty years into the reign of Artaxerxes I (445 BCE), Jerusalem was still largely in ruins (Neh 2:3), even if the temple had been reconstructed two or three generations earlier (c. 515 BCE) at the urging of the prophet Haggai....
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Beris, Antony N., and Brian J. Edwards. "Incompressible Viscoelastic Fluids." In Thermodynamics of Flowing Systems: with Internal Microstructure. Oxford University Press, 1994. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195076943.003.0013.
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In Part I, we discussed in detail the foundations of the bracket description of dynamical behavior, demonstrating how the generalized bracket is linked to the theories of both Hamiltonian mechanics and irreversible thermodynamics. Now it is time to discuss the various applications towards seemingly complex systems which are the main focus of this book. Specifically, we want to look at a variety of microstructured media of immediate concern in science and industry, and to illustrate the advantages of using the generalized bracket formalism over traditional techniques when developing system-particular models. As we shall also see, there are certain advantages to be gained even when we are simply expressing existing models in Hamiltonian form. The first subject that we wish to address is that of viscoelastic fluid dynamics. As the name implies, viscoelasticity characterizes the materials that possess properties intermediate to those of an elastic solid and a viscous fluid. The most characteristic property is that of limited (“fading”) memory: viscoelastic materials partially resume their previous deformation state upon removal of the externally applied forces; the smaller the duration of the application of the forces, the better the recovery. Materials of this type contain a certain degree of internal microstructure (e.g., polymeric solutions and melts, advanced composites, liquid crystals, etc.), and are very important in the processing industry where one wishes to combine the “processability” of the medium's fluidity with the “structural quality” of the internal architecture to obtain high strength/ low-weight final products. We can distinguish two types of viscoelasticity: viscoelastic solids and viscoelastic fluids characterized by the ability or lack of ability respectively, to support shear stresses at finite deformations. In the following we shall focus on the analysis of viscoelastic fluids although the approach followed applies and/or can be extended in a straightforward fashion to viscoelastic solids as well. For a description of solid viscoelasticity, the interested reader may consult one of the many excellent monographs in the area [Eringen, 1962, chs. 8, 10; Ferry, 1980; Sobotka, 1984; see also Tschoegl, 1989].
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Robinson, Marin S., Fredricka L. Stoller, Molly Constanza-Robinson, and James K. Jones. "Writing the Introduction Section." In Write Like a Chemist. Oxford University Press, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195367423.003.0012.
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This chapter focuses on the Introduction, the first formal section of the journal article. The Introduction is often the first section to be read (by readers) but the last section to be written (by writers). This is because the Introduction must tell readers “where the article is going and why”, a mission that is most easily accomplished after the rest of the sections have been completed. By the end of this chapter, you should be able to do following: Write an Introduction following its conventional organizational ■ structure ■ Compose the all-important opening sentence of an Introduction ■ Cite and summarize others’ works in concise and appropriate ways ■ Conclude your Introduction in an effective manner As you work through the chapter, you will write an Introduction section for your own paper. The Writing on Your Own tasks throughout the chapter guide you step-by step as you do the following: 6A Read and paraphrase the literature 6B Prepare to write 6C Draft your opening paragraph 6D Identify a gap 6E Draft your full Introduction 6F Practice peer review 6G Fine-tune your Introduction The Introduction, as its name implies, sets the stage for the rest of the journal article by introducing the research area, describing its importance, and hinting at what new knowledge and insights the authors have gained. The Introduction is also where authors summarize others’ works; this involves several important writing skills such as paraphrasing, writing concisely, and correctly citing the literature. Paraphrasing and writing concisely are addressed in this chapter; citing the literature is addressed in chapter 17. At long last, we ask you to read the Introduction to the aldehydes-in-beer article (excerpt 6A). If you have progressed through these textbook chapters sequentially, you have already read the Methods, Results, and Discussion sections. Admittedly, this order may seem a bit unusual. Remember, however, we want you to read the Introduction through the eyes of the writer, not the reader. As authors write their Introduction, they already know what unfolds in the rest of their paper; now you, too, have this perspective.
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Skinner, H. Catherine W., Malcolm Ross, and Clifford Frondel. "What Is an Inorganic Fiber?" In Asbestos and Other Fibrous Materials. Oxford University Press, 1989. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195039672.003.0004.
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Fibers are everywhere around us. They are essential parts of the human body, our hair, for example; the threads in our clothing, natural or synthetic; the insulation in our houses. Natural fibers have been useful to humans for more than ten thousand years. They were mixed with clay before firing to strengthen and reinforce pottery vessels, making them more durable. Textiles that combined the fibers of flax and asbestos were known in ancient times for their seemingly magical resistance to fire and decay. It was industrialization, however, that caused a dramatic increase in the use of natural inorganic or mineral fibers. By the late nineteenth century asbestos had become an important commodity with a variety of commercial applications. It served as insulation to control heat generated by engines and, because of its incombustibility, as a fire retardant in its more recent general use as building insulation. Asbestos fibers are found worldwide in many products: as reinforcement in cement water pipes and the inert and durable mesh material used in filtration processes of chemicals and petroleum, for example. However, asbestos is not the only inorganic fiber in use today. Synthetic inorganic fibers abound. Glass fibers have replaced copper wire in some intercontinental telephone cables. Fiberglas (a trade name) has become the insulation material of choice in construction. Carbon and graphite fiber composites are favored materials for tennis racket frames and golf clubs. Fibrous inorganic materials have become commonplace in our everyday lives. As the use of inorganic fibers increased, there were some indications that fibers might be hazardous to our health. Since the first century A.D. it was suspected that asbestos might be the cause of illness among those who mined and processed the material. Asbestosis, a debilitating and sometimes fatal lung disorder, was documented and described in the nineteenth century. Within the last 25 years, lung cancer and mesothelioma have also been linked to asbestos exposure among construction and textile workers, as well as others exposed to dusts containing asbestos fibers. Although the etiology and specific mechanisms that give rise to these two cancers are not yet understood, concern for the health of exposed workers led the governments of the United States and other countries to specify the maximum allowable concentrations of asbestos in the ambient air of the workplace.
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Dasgupta, Subrata. "Language Games." In It Began with Babbage. Oxford University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199309412.003.0017.
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It must have been entirely coincidental that two remarkable linguistic movements both occurred during the mid 1950s—one in the realm of natural language, the other in the domain of the artificial; the one brought about largely by a young linguist named Noam Chomsky (1928–), the other initiated by a new breed of scientists whom we may call language designers; the one affecting linguistics so strongly that it would be deemed a scientific revolution, the other creating a class of abstract artifacts called programming languages and also enlarging quite dramatically the emerging paradigm that would later be called computer science. As we will see, these two linguistic movements intersected in a curious sort of way. In particular, we will see how an aspect of Chomskyan linguistics influenced computer scientists far more profoundly than it influenced linguists. But first things first: concerning the nature of the class of abstract artifacts called programming languages. There is no doubt that those who were embroiled in the design of the earliest programmable computers also meditated on a certain goal: to make the task of programming a computer as natural as possible from the human point of view. Stepping back a century, we recall that Ada, Countess of Lovelace specified the computation of Bernoulli numbers in an abstract notation far removed from the gears, levers, ratchets, and cams of the Analytical Engine (see Chapter 2, Section VIII ). We have seen in the works of Herman Goldstine and John von Neumann in the United States, and David Wheeler in England that, even as the first stored-program computers were coming into being, eff orts were being made to achieve the goal just mentioned. Indeed, a more precise statement of this goal was in evidence: to compose computer programs in a more abstract form than in the machine’s “native” language. The challenge here was twofold: to describe the program (or algorithm) in such a language that other humans could comprehend, without knowing much about the computer for which the program was written—in other words, a language that allowed communication between the writer of the program and other (human) readers—and also to communicate the program to the machine in such fashion that the latter could execute the program with minimal human intervention.
Conference papers on the topic "Composite first name"
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Anders, Mark, Daniel Zebrine, Timotei Centea, and Steven R. Nutt. "In-Situ Observations and Pressure Measurements for Autoclave Co-Cure of Honeycomb Core Sandwich Structures." In ASME 2017 12th International Manufacturing Science and Engineering Conference collocated with the JSME/ASME 2017 6th International Conference on Materials and Processing. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/msec2017-2887.
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In this paper we describe an experimental method for investigating the autoclave co-cure of honeycomb core composite sandwich structures. The design and capabilities of a custom-built, lab-scale “in-situ co-cure fixture” are presented, including procedures and representative results for three types of experiments. The first type of experiment involves measuring changes in gas pressure on either side of a prepreg laminate to determine the prepreg air permeability. The second type involves co-curing composite samples using regulated, constant pressures, to study material behaviors in controlled conditions. For the final type, “realistic” co-cure, samples are processed in conditions mimicking autoclave cure, where the gas pressure in the honeycomb core evolves naturally due to the competing effects of air evacuation and moisture desorption from the core cell walls. The in-situ co-cure fixture contains temperature and pressure sensors, and derives its name from a glass window that enables direct in-situ visual observation of the skin/core bond-line during processing, shedding light on physical phenomena that are not observable in a traditional manufacturing setting. The experiments presented here are a first step within a larger research effort, whose long-term goal is to develop a physics-based process model for autoclave co-cure.
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Galmarini, G., M. Gobbi, and G. Mastinu. "A Quadricycle for Urban Mobility." In ASME 2012 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/detc2012-70906.
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The need to decrease pollution in urban zones has pushed toward severe regulations in term of low-emission limits. The effect of this “environmental awareness” is an increased interest in electric vehicles (EV). The construction of a EV is presented in the paper. This vehicle has been designed specifically to be powered by electric motors, the suspension system and the general layout have been developed accordingly. According to the European technical regulations, the vehicle has been designed for a city use. The main features of GreenFun, (this is the name of the prototype), are an extensive use of composite and lightweight materials, a special suspension system layout, a 4WD powertrain realized by means of 4 electric motor hubs and the use, for the first time in a production vehicle, of 4 measuring wheels that are able to measure the forces acting between the pneumatic tires and the road. These information are used as input for the vehicle control systems in order to enhance performance and safety. In the paper, the most relevant vehicle subsystems are described in detail (chassis, wheel, suspensions, powertrain, energy management, control system, …).
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Tan, Ganchao, Daqing Liu, Meng Wang, and Zheng-Jun Zha. "Learning to Discretely Compose Reasoning Module Networks for Video Captioning." In Twenty-Ninth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Seventeenth Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence {IJCAI-PRICAI-20}. International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence Organization, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2020/104.
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Generating natural language descriptions for videos, i.e., video captioning, essentially requires step-by-step reasoning along the generation process. For example, to generate the sentence “a man is shooting a basketball”, we need to first locate and describe the subject “man”, next reason out the man is “shooting”, then describe the object “basketball” of shooting. However, existing visual reasoning methods designed for visual question answering are not appropriate to video captioning, for it requires more complex visual reasoning on videos over both space and time, and dynamic module composition along the generation process. In this paper, we propose a novel visual reasoning approach for video captioning, named Reasoning Module Networks (RMN), to equip the existing encoder-decoder framework with the above reasoning capacity. Specifically, our RMN employs 1) three sophisticated spatio-temporal reasoning modules, and 2) a dynamic and discrete module selector trained by a linguistic loss with a Gumbel approximation. Extensive experiments on MSVD and MSR-VTT datasets demonstrate the proposed RMN outperforms the state-of-the-art methods while providing an explicit and explainable generation process. Our code is available at https://github.com/tgc1997/RMN.
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Scigliano, Roberto, Marika Belardo, Mario De Stefano Fumo, and Salvatore Celentano. "Numerical Model Set-Up and Virtual Testing of a CMC Flap for Re-Entry Vehicle." In ASME 2017 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/imece2017-70390.
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CIRA has recently set up a research and development project with Italian industrial partners, with the aim of develop hot structures based on ceramic matrix composites technology (C-C/SiC), code named SHS-CMC project. The project focuses on the application of the technology on the control surface of a re-entry vehicle, with the final objective of reaching TRL 5/6, to be spent in more challenging projects such as ESA SPACE RIDER. Thanks to CIRA heritage on ESA EXPERT flap plasma wind tunnel testing, the demonstrator of SHS-CMC project technology will be based on the EXPERT flap geometry, to be tested for final TRL assessment, in more demanding environment such as those of ESA-SPACE RIDER atmospheric re-entry phase. Besides the manufacturing process development it is of paramount importance to have robust and reliable thermal-mechanical models for design, in which both the material anisotropy and the most representative heat transfer phenomena are modelled and validated through test. In the present work the thermal model of the technological demonstrator has been set up. The validation of the model has been obtained trough numerical experimental correlation of PWT test on a similar test article developed in the frame of ESA EXPERT project. The virtual test shows good agreement with experiments in terms of temperature maps. This is the first step to be accomplished before the final qualification test and numerical-experimental validation of the SHS-CMC technology demonstrator, and subsequent TRL assessment.