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Journal articles on the topic "Mere fact"
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Sutton, Mike. "Darwin’s Greatest Secret Exposed: Response to Grzegorz Malec’s De Facto Fact Denying Review of My Book." Filozoficzne Aspekty Genezy 13 (May 24, 2021): 287–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.53763/fag.2016.13.135.
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Grzegorz Malec’s “There Is No Darwin’s Greatest Secret”, a review of my book Nullius in Verba: Darwin’s Greatest Secret, takes one extremely minor finding from my book and, despite his best efforts, manages to disconfirm just one of thirty examples of that minor finding. He then takes that one disconfirmed mere minor example and presents it as evidence that he has disconfirmed all the original major findings in my book. By so doing, his deceptive review goes far beyond the counter-academic deviance of mere cherry picking, it is more a case of gross misrepresentation to the point of de facto fact denial amounting to historic revisionist behaviour.
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Pasnau, Robert. "Medieval Social Epistemology: Scientia for Mere Mortals." Episteme 7, no. 1 (February 2010): 23–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/e1742360009000793.
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ABSTRACTMedieval epistemology begins as ideal theory: when is one ideally situated with regard to one's grasp of the way things are? Taking as their starting point Aristotle's Posterior Analytics, scholastic authors conceive of the goal of cognitive inquiry as the achievement of scientia, a systematic body of beliefs, grasped as certain, and grounded in demonstrative reasons that show the reason why things are so. Obviously, however, there is not much we know in this way. The very strictness of this ideal in fact gives rise to a body of literature on how Aristotle's framework might be relaxed in various ways, for certain specific purposes. In asking such questions, scholastic authors are in effect pursuing the project of social epistemology, by trying to adapt their ideal theory to the circumstances of everyday life.
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Nanay, Bence. "Perceptual Learning, the Mere Exposure Effect and Aesthetic Antirealism." Leonardo 50, no. 1 (February 2017): 58–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/leon_a_01082.
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It has been argued that some recent experimental findings about the mere exposure effect can be used to argue for aesthetic antirealism: the view that there is no fact of the matter about aesthetic value. The aim of this article is to assess this argument and point out that this strategy, as it stands, does not work. But we may still be able to use experimental findings about the mere exposure effect in order to engage with the aesthetic realism/antirealism debate. However, this argument would need to proceed very differently and would only support a much more modest version of aesthetic antirealism.
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Cutting, James E. "Mere Exposure and Aesthetic Realism: A Response to Bence Nanay." Leonardo 50, no. 1 (February 2017): 64–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/leon_a_01081.
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Where does the quality of an artwork reside? Is it in the work or in the perceiver and her culture? Belief in the former can be called aesthetic realism, the latter aesthetic antirealism. Nanay suggests that Cutting is an antirealist because he has found that multiple brief exposures to an artwork enhance viewers’ judgments of it. In fact, Cutting is agnostic on the distinction, but as a scientist is unable to discern how quality might be objectively measured in art.
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Shomova, Svetlana. "Meme literacy in Russia: Perceptions of internet memes by a student audience and issues of critical thinking." Central European Journal of Communication 13, no. 2 (May 18, 2020): 266–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.19195/1899-5101.13.2(26).7.
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Internet memes, which constitute a significant portion of social-media content and an important vector of users’ communicative exchange, have by now turned from mere entertainment to a news source. However, they are still approached rather uncritically by young audiences. A survey was conducted among Russian students (N = 138) at the National Research University Higher School of Economics, and it identified not only the “problem spots” of the Russian memosphere but also a number of skills in decoding information, which are necessary today as part of “Meme Literacy.” These skills range from an adequate assessment of the type of message and verification of the news topic to the fact-checking of the verbal and visual content the meme is based on.
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Marcus, Gary F. "10,000 Just so stories can't all be wrong." Behavioral and Brain Sciences 32, no. 6 (December 2009): 529. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0140525x09991452.
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AbstractThe mere fact that a particular aspect of mind could offer an adaptive advantage is not enough to show that that property was in fact shaped by that adaptive advantage. Although it is possible that the tendency towards positive illusion is an evolved misbelief, it it also possible that positive illusions could be a by-product of a broader, flawed cognitive mechanism that itself was shaped by accidents of evolutionary inertia.
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Reinhardt, Lloyd. "The Words of Others." Philosophy 87, no. 2 (March 14, 2012): 281–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0031819112000058.
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AbstractThe great bulk of what we are pleased to deem knowledge comes to us via the words of others. But such knowledge is limited to (mere) information or plain fact. Theoretical, Ethical and Aesthetic discourse are three regions in which, even when we accept the words of others, we transmit content with what I dub prefaces, not flatly, not in our own voice. Explanation of this is suggested: in these regions assertions claim truth without claiming knowledge. So fact-theory and fact-value differ from plain fact for similar reasons, reasons which alleviate the urge to downgrade ethical discourse to the expressive or prescriptive.
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Campbell, Patricia Shehan. "Music, the universal language: Fact or fallacy?" International Journal of Music Education os-29, no. 1 (May 1997): 32–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/025576149702900105.
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In this era of internationalism and multiculturalism, some music programmes may be hanging by this very thread: the belief that through the mere exposure of students to ‘songs from many lands’, a cultural harmony and a multicultural understanding might be achieved. Yet the question must arise among educators as it has frequently done among ethnomusicologists throughout the twentieth century. Is music, in fact, universally understood? And with little or no formal education to undergird the culture-specific meanings that music may encompass? This paper will review relevant ethnomusicological literature from the turn of the century onward, in an attempt to make sense of the truth or deception behind the statement music, the universal language’, and as a means of seeking out why romantic notions and politically-correct directives may be driving the continuance of the premise that ‘all music is created equal’. Emic and etic views of music, and issues of bimusicality and multimusicality are also addressed relevant to teaching music from the perspective of diversity (culture-specific distinctions) or universality (homogenous properties).
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Khushf, George. "Owning up to Our Agendas: On the Role and Limits of Science in Debates about Embryos and Brain Death." Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics 34, no. 1 (2006): 58–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1748-720x.2006.00009.x.
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”Merely fact-minded sciences make merely factminded people.”“ …the positivistic concept of science in our time is, historically speaking, a residual concept. It has dropped all the questions which had been considered under the now narrower, now broader concepts of metaphysics….all these ‘metaphysical’ questions, taken broadly – commonly called specifically philosophical questions – surpass the world understood as the universe of mere facts. They surpass it precisely as being questions with the idea of reason in mind. And they all claim a higher dignity than questions of fact, which are subordinated to them even in the order of inquiry. Positivism, in a manner of speaking, decapitates philosophy.”Edmund HusserlIn ethical literature associated with controversies at the beginning and end of human life, there is often a two-part structure: first, basic facts about the topic are presented in a more or less descriptive format, then there is the ethics or policy.
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Schmidtz, David. "The Institution of Property." Social Philosophy and Policy 11, no. 2 (1994): 42–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0265052500004428.
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The typical method of acquiring a property right involves transfer from a previous owner. But sooner or later, that chain of transfers traces back to the beginning. That is why we have a philosophical problem. How does a thing legitimately become a piece of propertyfor the first time?In this essay, I follow the custom of distinguishing between mere liberties and full-blooded rights. If I have thelibertyof doingX, then it is permissible for me to doX. But the mere fact that I am at liberty to doXleaves open the possibility that you might be at liberty to interfere with my doingX. Accordingly, liberties are not full-blooded rights, since my having arightto doXhas the additional implication that others are not at liberty to interfere with my doingX. When it comes to mere liberties, interference is not a violation. You can violate rights, but you cannot violate liberties.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Mere fact"
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Lynn, Ann Rouse. "The mere exposure effect for faces : under what conditions does it occur?" Connect to resource, 1986. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1187371027.
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Mabeko, Tali Jean-Michel. "Dissidences et pouvoir d'etat : le mpla face a lui-meme (1962-1977)." Paris 7, 1996. http://www.theses.fr/1996PA070125.
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Entre 1962 et 1977, le m. P. L. A. - mouvement populaire de liberation de l'angola -, organisation anticoloniale nee au terme d'un processus tres controverse, se dote d'une structure politico-militaire plus ou moins coherent, et faiblement theorisee. Cette structure va se caracteriser par des crises et dissidences recurrentes et structurantes, a travers une histoire mouvementee, dont on etudie les principaux "moments". Ces crises et dissidences sont le resultat d'oppositions socioculturelles, ethnolinguistiques et regionales, raciales et politico-ideologiques au sein du mouvement de liberation puis parti-etat. Elles vont se manifester sur fond d'une guerilla laborieuse et fragmentee, et faiblement equipee, puis d'une independance problematique. Apres la chute du regime colonial, et dans un contexte international et regional marque par la guerre froide, le m. P. L. A. Parvient contre toute attente a ecarter ses concurrents (f. N. L. A. Et u. N. I. T. A. ) et a prendre unilateralement le pouvoir. Pour se faire, il va faire jouer des alliances locales et internationales, notamment du bloc socialiste. Celles-ci vont cependant peser sur l'evolution des questions internes (dont la crise dite "nitiste", 19761977), et sur les choix politico-ideologiques ulterieurs (option socialiste et marxiste-leniniste)Between 1962 and 1977, the m. P. L. A. (the popular movement for the liberation of angola), an anticolonial organisation whose creation was marked by many controversies, put into place a more or less coherent political-military structure with a rather weak theoretical base. It was subsequently characterised by numerous crises and recurrent dissensions which led to a strengthening of the structural base, but contributed to a turbulent history whose major points will be discussed in this paper. These crises and dissensions were the result of socio-cultural, ethniclinguistic, regional, racial and ideological oppositions within the movement itself and continued when the m. P. L. A. Became a party-state. These events took place against a background of a difficult and fragmented guerilla struggle, poorly equipped and culminating in a most fragile independence. After the collapse of the colonial regime, within an international and regional context of the cold war, the m. P. L. A. , against all expectations, managed to supplant its rivals (f. N. L. A. And u. N. I. T. A. ) and unilaterally take over power in angola. To do this, the m. P. L. A. Made full use of its local and international alliances, particularly that of the socialist bloc. This, however, influenced internal developments in the country (notably, the so-called "nitiste" cris in 1976-77) as well as its future political-ideological choices on the international
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VOLICH, EISENBRUCH RENATA. "La pathologie organique : mal enigmatique face a la jouissance et au desir de la mere - une clinique de l'angoisse." Paris 7, 1998. http://www.theses.fr/1998PA070069.
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These clinique articulee autour des points d'inflexion de la cure psychanalytique. Ces points sont, entre autres, la levee du symptome et la traversee du fantasme. Cet ouvrage se presente sous la forme de quatre chapitres suivis d'une bibliographie concernant 39 auteurs et reunissant 120 livres ou articles. Le symptome en tant que formation de l'inconscient et le fantasme du point de vue de la verification clinique sont articules par rapport a la problematique inconsciente de l'autre maternel faisant irruption dans le reel du corps de l'enfant par l'effet d'une jouissance deletere qui est la pathologie organique. Le champ balise, le choix se trouve justifie par le terrain clinique a partir duquel l'auteur soumet ses options methodologiques et ses objectifs theoriques aux imperatifs de la cure. Le premier chapitre illustre l'incidence pathogene du fantasme, analysant l'eclosion d'une symptomatologie organique d'asthme infantile. Un deuxieme chapitre intitule + de l'irreductibilite du trauma a l'implication du sujet dans le desir ; expose le cas des lesions amenant le sujet a subir une hysterectomie. Le chapitre suivant consacre a l'intrication du symptome et du fantasme trouve son parallele clinique dans le cas de cecite au cambodge. Une approche des crises d'epilepsie est exposee dans le dernier chapitre qui est consacre a la definition de ce que l'auteur cerne comme + une clinique de l'angoisse ; cette derniere constituant + une dimension non preventive du symptome ;. Fonction mediane entre la jouissance et le desir l'angoisse peut jouer un role operatoire dans la cure analytique. Cette approche d'un au dela de la limite de l'angoisse justifie les hypotheses cliniques qui sous-tendent le travail propose. Cette recherche vise apporter, dans une perspective rigoureusement circonscrite a la clinique psychanalytique, un instrument qui mette au travail un concept capital de l'etre a la croisee d'une clinique des affects et d'une clinique des reppresentationsThis thesis is presented as a volume of 416 pages divided in four chapters followed by a bibliography encompassing 39 authors and assembling 120 books or articles. As a clinical thesis it is articulated around the symptom as a formation of the unconscious and the phantasy from the point of view of the clinical verification. These aspects are articulated to the unconscious question of the maternal other making irruption in the the child's body by the effect of a deleterious source of an unconscious satisfaction that the organic pathology can represent. Having demarcated her area, the choice is justified by the clinical field from which the author submits her methodological choices and her theoretical objectives to the imperatives of the treatment. In the first chapter the pathogenic impact of the phantasy through the irruption of an organic symptomatology of an infantile asthma is illustrated. The second chapter entitled + from the irreducible of the trauma to the implication of the subject in the desire ; presents the case of lesions leading the subject to undergo an hysterectomy. The following chapter is consecrated to the intricacy of the symptom and the phantasy finding its clinical counterpoint in the case of blindness in cambodia. An approach of epileptic seizures is presented in the last chapter dedicated to the definition of what the author defines as + a clinic of anguish ; the latter constituting + a non preventive dimension of the symptom ;. An intermediate function between "jouissance" and desire, anguish can play an operational role in the treatment. This approach of going beyond the limit of the anguish justifies the clinical hypotheses underlying the proposed work. This thesis aims to bring - in a perspective rigorously circumscribed to the psychoanalytical clinic - an instrument that puts at work a fundamental concept of the human being at the crossing of a clinic of affects such as the anguish and a clinic of representations
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Borrillo, Daniel. "L'homme proprietaire de lui-meme : le droit face aux representations populaires et savantes du corps." Strasbourg 1, 1991. http://www.theses.fr/1991STR10004.
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L'evolution des biotechnologies a rendu possible l'utilisation de plus en plus generalisee des organes et des produits du corps humain. L'individu, mais aussi les centres de recherches ou les industries, peuvent disposer du corps d'une facon impensable auparavent. Dans les debats juridiques et ethiques deux points de vue semblent s'opposer. Les auteurs se partagent entre ceux qui accordent un statut objectif au corps (corps object), ce qui permettrait a la personne de faire valoir un droit subjectif sur celui-ci, et ceux pour qui le corps est intouchable et indisponible pour la personne (corps sacre). Mais la complexite du "phenomene corporel" rend insuffisante ce type de division. Le corps est sujet et objet a la fois. Il est sacre en certaines circonstances, instrumental en d'autres. Afin de penser le probleme autrement nous essayons, par une demarche pluridisciplinaire (historique, juridique et philosophique), de mettre en evidence les difficultes auxquelles se heurte le droit mais aussi les obstacles auxquels se voit confrontee la pensee scientifique, ceci en tentant de placer la question dans son historicite et de proposer un point de vue qui integre les differentes dimensions du corps humainBiotechnologies' evolution has allowed for a wider general use of organs and products of the human body. The individual as well as research centres and industries can dispose of the human body in a way unimaginable up to now. Juridical and ethical debates seem to show an opposition betwen two points of view. On one hand there are those who think of the body as object, which allows the person to have a subjective right on it. On the other hand there are those for whom the body is untouchable and unvaluable for the person. The complexity fo the "body question" makes this type of dichotomy insufficient. Indeed, the body is subject and object at the same time. Its is sacred under certain circunst ances and instrumental under others. To think abour the very problem differently we try to underline the difficulties encountered by law as well as the obstacles confronted by scientific thoug, by means of a multidisciplinary approach of the problem (historical, juridical and philosophical); this will be done through inserting the matter within its historical context and offering a perspective that intergrates the different aspects of the human body
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Marsden, Paul. "The Werther Effect : fact or fantasy?; mediate suicide contagion in the age of the Internet; a critical evaluation, theoretical reconceptualisation and empirical investigation." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.323051.
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Serodes, Fabrice. "Au-dela des lieux communs : dirigeants francais et britanniques face a l'anglophobie de Fachoda a Mers el-Kebir." Thesis, University of Salford, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.492388.
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Serodes, Fabrice. "Au-delà des lieux communs : dirigeants français et britanniques face à l'anglophobie de Fachoda à Mers el-Kébir." Tours, 2007. http://www.theses.fr/2007TOUR2019.
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En quoi l'anglophobie joue-t-elle un rôle dans les décisions prises par les dirigeants ? Pour définir l'anglophobie, qui est en fait une attitude particulière, systématique de haine de l'Anglais, la thèse s'appuie sur les archives diplomatiques et militaires françaises et britanniques de 1898 à 1940. L'anglophobie des dirigeants est somme toute assez limitée, restreinte à certains cercles, certaines régions ou certaines personnes, éloignées ou frustrées du pouvoir. La plupart des dirigeants développent plutôt un esprit d'Entente cordiale entre les deux pays par de nombreuses manifestations, qui contibuent à rapprocher les élites, et aboutissent à une alliance de fait. Ces manifestations, formelles, sont néanmoins très nombreuses et diffuses, depuis la capitale jusqu'aux petites villes de province. En somme, les dirigeants n'échappent pas à des images préconçues des Britanniques, mais il s'agit moins d'anglophobie, que d'un héritage historique qu'ils retravaillent"Beyond Anglo-French prejudices. French and British leaders facing anglophobia from Fashoda (1898) to Mers el-Kébir (1940)". Had anglophobia a decisive impact on the policy-making of French and British leaders at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th centuries? This dissertation relies on official and local documents, as a means of testing whether anglophobia, defined as a "systematic" hatred of Britain, had penetrated the elites. Although certain individuals in this period are more anglophobic than others, they do not manage to construct a coherent grouping. At the opposite end of spectrum, a long tradition of anglophilia was rejuvenated by the 1904 Entente cordiale. Many elites tried to develop ever closer ties between France and Britain, throughout the period. The term "anglophobia" is not therefore appropriate to describe relations between Britain and France at this time. It is the view of this thesis that "historical myths" is a more fitting and nuanced descriptor
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Khodjet, El Khil Lilia. "La pollution de la mer Méditerranée du fait du transport maritime de marchandises : régime juridique applicable et pratique des états." Aix-Marseille 3, 2001. http://www.theses.fr/2001AIX32032.
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La mer Méditerranée, mer semi-fermée, est très vulnérable à la pollution. Le transport maritime y contribue de façon non négligeable. Il est la source de rejets polluants accidentels et opérationnels des nombreux pétroliers et chimiquiers, qui la traversent quotidiennement. Au plan international, un régime juridique préventif important a été mis en place dans les années 1970 pour protéger la mer Méditerranée, mais la pollution maritime n'est toujours pas maîtrisée aujourd'hui dans cette zone. L'inefficacité du régime préventif est en grande partie due aux défaillances du contrôle de la conformité des navires par l'Etat du pavillon, trop faiblement contrebalancée par les contrôles de l'Etat du port, encore très insuffisants. L'élimination de la pollution opérationnelle des navires n'est pas assurée du fait du sous-équipement des ports méditerranéens en installations portuaires de réception des résidus des navires. .As a semi-enclosed sea, the Mediterranean sea is particularly vulnerable to pollution. Maritime transport make an handsome contribution to it. It causes accidental discharges and operational ships gener ated wastes due to the numerous tankers and chimical bulks that cross the Mediterranean sea daily. Despite the important preventive policy framework erected in the 1970' in order to protect the Mediterranean sea, maritime pollution is still poorly controlled in this area. This inefficacy of preventive policy framework is largely due to flag states failing to control ship conformity that is too weakly counterbalanced by port states controls. Mediterranean harbors under-equipment of reception facilities for ship residues is likely to contribute to the failure of the elimination of operational pollution. .
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Uroš, Kovačević. "Izražavanje merne nesigurnosti kapacitivnih razdelnika napona sa koncentrisanim parametrima u oblasti visokih frekvencija." Phd thesis, Univerzitet u Novom Sadu, Fakultet tehničkih nauka u Novom Sadu, 2017. https://www.cris.uns.ac.rs/record.jsf?recordId=104228&source=NDLTD&language=en.
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Ova disertacija sadrži analizu mogućnosti merenja brzih impulsnihnapona i izražavanja odgovarajuće merne nesigurnosti. Dokazano je daje moguće izvršiti numeričku simulaciju odziva mernog sistema naimpuls brzine porasta reda veličine pikosekunde. Izražena je mernanesigurnost kapacitivnog razdelnika napona Monte Karlo metodom.Prikazan je način konstruisanja kapacitivnog razdelnika napona satalasovodnim prilagodnim otporom. Konstruisano je više tipovakapacitivnih razdelnika napona izuzetno dobrih karakteristika. Naosnovu dobijenih rezultata je odabran kapacitivni razdelnik naponanajboljih karakteristika i izražena je njegova merna nesigurnostThis thesis contains an analysis of the possibilities for measurement of veryfast pulse voltages and proper expression of measurement uncertainty. It hasbeen proven that it is possible to perform numerical simulation to theresponse of the very fast pulse voltage with rise time at the order ofpicoseconds of the measuring system. Measurement uncertainty ofcapacitive voltage dividers is expressed by Monte Carlo method. The way ofconstructing capacitive voltage dividers with a waveguide resistance isshown in this thesis. The design of four types of capacitive voltage dividerswith extremely good features are shown. Based on these results, capacitivevoltage divider with best characteristics is selected and its measurementuncertainty is expressed.
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Schneider, Frédéric. "Les energies marines renouvelables face au droit." Thesis, Nice, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013NICE0010.
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La question des énergies marines renouvelables dégage des problématiques juridiques complexes qui intéressent le droit tant dans sa dimension internationale, européenne que nationale. L’effervescence des initiatives publiques et privées en ce domaine implique une approche adaptée en vue d’améliorer et de développer les instruments juridiques nécessaires au développement durable des énergies de la mer. Cette approche suppose trois niveaux d’analyse. Au regard du droit international, celle-ci se caractérise par une finalité environnementale qui relève plus globalement de l’intérêt général. En ce sens, la conversion d’énergies marines n’engendre pas d’émission de gaz à effet de serre et son impact sur le milieu marin est généralement minime. Avec le concours des énergies de la mer, les États seront à même de respecter leurs engagements supranationaux, notamment en matière de changements climatiques. De surcroît, le droit de la mer offre une sécurité juridique dans l’utilisation de l’espace maritime en définissant non seulement les droits, mais les obligations des États côtiers. À l’échelle européenne, la sécurité juridique est liée à l’objectif d’une part d’au moins 20 % d’énergie produite à partir de sources renouvelables dans la consommation finale brute d’énergie de l’Union d’ici à 2020 et encouragée par l’initiative des États riverains des mers du Nord en faveur d’un réseau off-shore dans le contexte de l’émergence du marché européen des énergies renouvelables. Au plan national, l’analyse du droit interne met en lumière les meilleures pratiques relatives au développement des énergies marines renouvelables en termes de promotion des investissements et de gestion durable des mers et des océansThe issue of marine renewable energies raises complex legal problems which interest the Law in its International, European and Domestic dimension. The effervescence of public and private initiatives on the matter requires a tailored approach to improve and develop legal instruments to support development of ocean energies. This approach elicits three levels of analysis. According to the International Law, it is marked by an environmental objective resulting from public interest. In this sense, marine energy conversion does not generate greenhouse gas emissions and its impact on the marine environment is generally minimal. With the help of these renewable energies, States will be able to respect their supranational commitments, particularly regarding climate change. In addition, the Law of the Sea provides legal certainty in the use of ocean space, by defining not only rights but obligations to coastal states. At the European level, legal certainty is connected to the target of at least 20 % share of energy from renewable sources in the Union's gross final consumption of energy by 2020, and is especially encouraged by the North Seas Countries' Offshore Grid Initiative in the context of the Europe's emerging renewable energy market. On a National perspective, the analysis of Comparative Law highlights the best practices related to offshore renewable development in terms of promoting investment and sustainable ocean management
Books on the topic "Mere fact"
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Curiger, Bice. Meret Oppenheim: Defiance in the face of freedom. Zurich: Parkett Publishers, 1989.
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1913-, Oppenheim Meret, ed. Meret Oppenheim: Defiance in the face of freedom. Zurich: Parkett Publishers, 1989.
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Curiger, Bice. Meret Oppenheim: Defiance in the face of freedom. Zurich: Parkett, 1989.
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Curiger, Bice. Meret Oppenheim: Defiance in the face of freedom. Zurich: Parkett publishers, 1989.
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Sousa, João Castro e. As pessoas colectivas em face do direito criminal e do chamado "direito de mera ordenação social". [Coimbra]: Coimbra Editora, 1985.
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Der Midrasch zur Eschatologie aus der Qumrangemeinde (4QMidrEschata̳.̳b̳): Materielle Rekonstruktion, Textbestand, Gattung und traditionsgeschichtliche Einordnung des durch 4Q174 ("Florilegium") und 4Q177 ("Catena A") repräsentierten Werkes aus den Qumranfunden. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1994.
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Francesca, Mazza. Ch.9 Assignment of rights, transfer of obligations, assignment of contracts, s.1: Assignment of rights, Art.9.1.7. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/law/9780198702627.003.0176.
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This commentary analyses Article 9.1.7 of the UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts (PICC) concerning a right assigned by mere agreement between the assignor and the assignee. Art 9.1.7 stipulates that a right is assigned by mere agreement between the assignor and the assignee, without notice to the obligor. The consent of the obligor is not required unless the obligation in the circumstances is of an essentially personal character. The fact that an agreement in writing is not required is implied by the reference to a ‘mere’ agreement. However, some formal requirements may apply due to mandatory rules of the applicable domestic law which apply under Art 1.4. Some legal systems distinguish between the effectiveness of the assignment of a right as between the assignor and the assignee (inter partes) and as towards third parties, such as the obligor or creditors (erga omnes). This commentary also considers the burden of proof relating to the essentially personal character of the obligation.
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Richardson, Henry. Ratification of New Moral Norms. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190247744.003.0008.
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Arguing that it is a mistake to understand the moral community’s ratification of new moral norms along the lines of a political community’s adoption of legal norms, this chapter characterizes the ratification stage as involving a broad, inclusive awareness among living persons of the fact of global convergence on what is by hypothesis a new candidate moral norm and of each other’s reflective acceptance of this norm; and a broad and inclusive acceptance of the process whereby a new norm reasonably arose at all three stages (input, convergence, and ratification) and in how they interconnect. Limiting the participants needed for ratification to those presently alive is appropriate in light of the facts that living people anyway do more to influence future generations by establishing mere conventions than by creating new moral norms, and that future generations would have the power to rescind any new moral norm.
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Backman, Jussi. Aristotle. Edinburgh University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474423632.003.0002.
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Homo Sacer, Giorgio Agamben’s transformative twenty-year project in political ontology, is framed at its very outset in terms of Aristotelian philosophy – read, as we will see, from a strongly medieval, Heideggerian and Arendtian perspective. As a locus classicus of the juxtaposition of the two Greek terms for life, zoe (‘the simple fact of living common to all living beings’) and bios (‘the form or way of living proper to an individual or a group’), Agamben (HS 1–2) cites a passage in Aristotle’s Politics that notes that there is a certain ‘natural delight (euemeria) and sweetness’ in the ‘mere fact of being alive itself’ (to zen auto monon), which makes human beings hold on to it for its own sake, provided that the mode of life (bios) that this being-alive amounts to is not fraught with excessive difficulty.
Book chapters on the topic "Mere fact"
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Emeis, Stefan, Thomas Neumann, Richard Foreman, and Beatriz Cañadillas. "Manchmal brodelt‘s fast wie im Spaghetti-Kochtopf." In Meer – Wind – Strom, 151–58. Wiesbaden: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-09783-7_17.
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Mair, Gordon M. "Fact and Fiction Merge in Telepresence and Teleoperation." In Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 97–107. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21067-4_12.
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Francis, Rhys, Ian Mathieson, and Linda Pannan. "A fast, simple algorithm to balance a parallel multiway merge." In Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 570–81. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 1993. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/3-540-56891-3_46.
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Pellegrina, Leonardo, Cinzia Pizzi, and Fabio Vandin. "Fast Approximation of Frequent k-mers and Applications to Metagenomics." In Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 208–26. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-17083-7_13.
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Twain, Mark. "Chapter VI The Eclipse." In A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. Oxford University Press, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/owc/9780199540587.003.0007.
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In the stillness and the darkness, realization soon began to supplement knowledge. The mere knowledge of a fact is pale; but when you come to realize your fact, it takes on color. It is all the difference between hearing of a man...
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Trollope, Anthony. "Melmotte’s Glory." In The Way We Live Now. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/owc/9780198705031.003.0037.
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Augustus Melmotte was becoming greater and greater in every direction,—mightier and mightier every day. He was learning to despise mere lords, and to feel that he might almost domineer over a duke.* In truth he did recognize it as a fact that...
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Tolstoy, Leo. "12." In War and Peace. Oxford University Press, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/owc/9780199232765.003.0383.
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From the time the law of Copernicus was discovered and proved, the mere recognition of the fact that it was not the sun but the earth that moves sufficed to destroy the whole cosmography of the ancients. By disproving that law it might have...
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Renato, Nazzini. "Part III Tests of Abuse, 9 Defences." In The Foundations of European Union Competition Law. Oxford University Press, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/law-ocl/9780199226153.003.0009.
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This chapter explores the defences available to a prima facie case of abuse. Two preliminary issues had to be clarified first: the burden of proof and the thresholds of anti-competitive effects. When a prima facie case of abuse has been established, the dominant undertaking acquires the burden of adducing sufficient evidence to substantiate a defence. This calls for the determination of the degree of probability of the anti-competitive effects that the competition authority or claimant must prove. Defences under Article 102 can be divided into mere defences and objective justification. Mere defences do not plead a new primary fact but are limited to challenging the weight or significance of the evidence adduced by the competition authority or claimant. Objective justification is a defence that pleads a new primary fact consisting of benefits that contribute to long-term social welfare maximization.
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von Falck, Andreas, and Stephan Dorn. "Rule 63: Contents of the Statement for a declaration of non-infringement." In Unified Patent Protection in Europe: A Commentary. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198755463.003.0255.
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The mere fact that an action for a declaration of non-infringement has been brought before the central division despite the fact that an infringement action is already pending at a local or regional division does not have the consequence that the action is inadmissible if the infringement action has not already been served on the defendant. In that case, the Registrar must inform the local or regional division pursuant to Rule 261.2.
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Gelernter, David. "Building Mirror worlds." In Mirror Worlds. Oxford University Press, 1991. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195068122.003.0014.
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we’ve laid the foundations. Now we’ll build the building. But first, let’s take stock. A large bunch of software ideas have paraded gamely past the reviewing stand one-by-one, trumpets blaring; and by this point, it may no longer be easy to keep them all straight. So here is a quick summary. Garden-variety infomachines are (of course) a fact of life. Ensembles are also a fact: Programmers build and run them every day. Linda is a fact; its presence continues (at least for now) to expand, as a research topic and as a practical tool. The roping together of networked computers into a single “hypercomputer” is a new fact— esoteric stuff; but it’s such an obvious and compelling idea, and it’s working so well in practice, that it continues to come on strong. The world Tuplesphere is of course a non-fact. It’s a mere forecast. But—some sort of integrated worldwide communication scheme, based on persistent information objects, will eventually exist. That’s a forecast that is almost inevitable. The Trellis as a working ensemble is a fact. Substantial prototypes are up and running; they perform as advertised. The Trellis as a daily tool is a mere forecast. The Trellis is still a creature of the research lab; but it’s packed and ready to leave home. The FGP infomachine is a fact, too: Real prototypes are up and running. Like the Trellis, it’s still a laboratory creature. Like the Trellis, it will be ready to leave home soon. But the FGP infomachine that leaves home first will be a simple, in some ways primitive version of the system that further research will eventually produce. An FGP machine that can cope with “emotion,” with full-fledged pseudomemories or with human language is a mere forecast. Of course, we don’t need all this fancy stuff for a Mirror world. The FGP software that exists today isn’t far from meeting all of our immediate Mirror world needs. These are the Mirror world’s ingredients—Trellises and FGP machines; above all, ensembles, and the software technology to build them cleanly and support them efficiently. The raw materials are in place.
Conference papers on the topic "Mere fact"
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Narrainen, Gundeea. "When the Massive Open Online Courses, MOOC, become Hybrid at the Open University of Mauritius." In Fourth International Conference on Higher Education Advances. Valencia: Universitat Politècnica València, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/head18.2018.8068.
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With more and more courses being offered online teachers are constantly being asked to change their teaching style. Online courses have taken another turn with the innovation, which are the MOOCs. MOOCs being non-fee paying courses, delivered mostly by recognised universities, course organisation and management was bound to change. With less than 10% successful completion rate for MOOC courses and keeping in mind the Mauritian context, the Open University of Mauritius decided to offer a hybrid MOOC. By hybrid Daniel Peraya suggests blended courses that is online training and face-to-face sessions. It is more about tutoring and guiding students rather than mere teaching. Our main objective is to show the effectiveness of a Hybrid MOOC in terms of organisation and course structure. The methods used in this paper are: a survey questionnaire and data from a Moodle platform. The fact that this course has been organised in a blended mode has helped the participants to reach the end of the training with a higher completion rate, face to face sessions helped students to interact, the use of Moodle as an additional platform accessssed by a restricted number of participants proved to be helpful to get aquainted to online learning.
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Li, Zijia, and Andreas Mueller. "Mechanism Singularities Revisited From an Algebraic Viewpoint." In ASME 2019 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/detc2019-97742.
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Abstract It has become obvious that certain singular phenomena cannot be explained by a mere investigation of the configuration space, defined as the solution set of the loop closure equations. For example, it was observed that a particular 6R linkage, constructed by combination of two Goldberg 5R linkages, exhibits kinematic singularities at a smooth point in its configuration space. Such problems are addressed in this paper. To this end, an algebraic framework is used in which the constraints are formulated as polynomial equations using Study parameters. The algebraic object of study is the ideal generated by the constraint equations (the constraint ideal). Using basic tools from commutative algebra and algebraic geometry (primary decomposition, Hilbert’s Nullstellensatz), the special phenomenon is related to the fact that the constraint ideal is not a radical ideal. With a primary decomposition of the constraint ideal, the associated prime ideal of one primary ideal contains strictly into the associated prime ideal of another primary ideal which also gives the smooth configuration curve. This analysis is extended to shaky and kinematotropic linkages, for which examples are presented.
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Baker, C. E., S. Theodossiades, and H. Rahnejat. "Friction Under Transient Mixed Regime of Lubrication in Conjunction of an Elastic Ring Within a Real Cylinder." In ASME 2012 Internal Combustion Engine Division Spring Technical Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/ices2012-81045.
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Fuel efficiency is now the over-riding engine development objective. With approximately 50–60% of the input fuel energy in an internal combustion engine lost through thermal and mechanical inefficiencies, friction has been targeted as the arch nemesis in any engine development program. A significant portion of the parasitic frictional losses is due to the top compression ring. This suggests that optimization of tribological performance of the compression ring conjunction warrants much more attention that it has been hitherto afforded. Studies reported thus far take into account ring-bore conformance, based on static fitment of the ring within an out-of-round bore, whose out-of-circularity is affected by manufacturing processes, surface treatment and assembly. The various static fitment analyses presume quasi-static equilibrium between ring tension and gas pressure loading with the generated conjunctional pressures. This is an implicit assumption of ring rigidity whilst in situ, which is in fact not the case in practice. The transient nature of combustion variation means that mere static or quasi-static force balance is inappropriate. Furthermore, the bore is not a right circular cylinder. Thus, its radial cross-sectional out-of-roundness and its axial variation introduce further transience in the ring-bore conformance. Consequently, the net force applied to the ring induces its modal behaviour, which accounts for its instantaneous in situ shape within the bore. These considerations are not taken into account in the often idealized ring-bore tribology. The paper provides transient solution of ring-bore conjunction, when subjected to ring in-plane modal behavior, when the conjunction is subjected to a mixed regime of lubrication, comprising hydrodynamic viscous action and boundary interactions.
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Scott, Dane, Erin O’Donnell, Tahir Malik, and Rajesh Jain. "Global Die Ultra-Thin Silicon for Backside Diagnostics and Circuit Edit." In ISTFA 2009. ASM International, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.31399/asm.cp.istfa2009p0110.
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Abstract For more than 10 years, silicon thinning techniques have been relegated to an art form of mere necessity to enable complex optical probing and circuit edit analysis. Silicon thinning is a fundamental aspect of diagnostic analysis and while it is well-understood that limitations in the area of silicon thinning can severely limit high-quality diagnostic results, poor thinning results have generally been accepted as standard environmental operating conditions with which optical probe and circuit edit engineers must cope. Presented here is a scientific approach to thinning silicon to enable predictable high-precision, high-quality results. Remaining silicon thickness (RST) has been debated throughout the years because it was uncertain how much thinning was excessive. Primary perceived limitations included mechanical constraints (package / die warping) and post-thinning thermal control. Adding to the complexity of the discussion has been the fact that RST has been largely uncertain because analysis usually involved determining how much silicon was removed rather than how much silicon remains. All of these challenges have been overcome. A novel process has been developed to ultra-thin bulk Si to as low as 10um remaining Si thickness, eliminating the need for the Laser Chemical Etcher for circuit edit and improving optical emission probing considerably. This sample preparation process has been used on Intel Core2 Duo products with a success rate of 98%. Post FIB unit testing is a critical step in this debug process. A technique was developed to calibrate the change in thermal resistivity of the ultra-thin unit such that it will remain within 100ps of its original FMax performance in 90% of tests.
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Kerroumi, Sanaa, Lanto Rasolofondraibe, and Xavier Chiementin. "Dynamic Classification: A Tool for Fault Detection and Vibration Behavior Monitoring of Bearings." In ASME 2013 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/imece2013-64250.
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The emergence of a defect in a mechanical system is always associated with a change in the vibration’s behavior in the spectral and temporal domains. Fault detection by vibration analysis is based on monitoring the behavior of a mechanical component by examining the evolution of fault indicators in real time. However, mere traditional bearing diagnosis is not sufficient to ensure effective and reliable assessment of the component’s health condition. Coupling several fault indicators extracted by different signal processing technique adds more reliability and accuracy to the diagnostic process. Classifications methods are used to analyze the evolution of fault, yet only static methods are solicited which results in overlooking a great source of useful information. In fact, fault indicators issued from turning machine are evolving; they change constantly over time, particularly when the defect is growing. In such situations, static classification methods are a poor choice that deprives the user of the information conveyed in the evolution of the indicators over time. The dynamic classification of fault indicators in dynamic classes can provide useful information about the behavior of the damaged bearings. This information can also be used to predict the end of life of the components. Unlike the static classification, the dynamic classification introduces a new dimension (time), which allows real-time detection of the fault and better visibility of the bearing behavior revealed by the motion and the temporal evolution of classes formed by the indicators. This paper proposes a dynamic classification method that uses several fault detectors to assure the accuracy of the diagnostic and follow up any changing in the behavior of the bearing by analyzing the classes’ time evolution. The proposed multi-features dynamic classification is a new method for fault detection and health condition monitoring for bearings; this technique utilizes multiple features, including traditional features extracted from the raw signal, two special features extracted by wavelet analysis, and the spectral kurtosis, coupled with a nonlinear principal component analysis. This method of classification clusters the multi-features into several classes, the first class represents the healthy state of the bearing, and the other classes represent different damaging state. Monitoring the evolution of the” defective condition” class allows us to draw several useful information, such as the rate of degradation, the relationship between the cluster’ surface and density and the bearing state. The chosen dynamic classification method will be validated by analyzing several degradation bearings from a fatigue bench of thrust ball bearings SNR51207.
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Hoffmann, Anne. "Teaching Soft Facts in Requirements Engineering Using Improvisation Theatre Techniques." In 2008 Third International Workshop on Multimedia and Enjoyable Requirements Engineering - Beyond Mere Descriptions and with More Fun and Games. IEEE, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/mere.2008.7.
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Papaphilippou, Philippos, Chris Brooks, and Wayne Luk. "FLiMS: Fast Lightweight Merge Sorter." In 2018 International Conference on Field-Programmable Technology (FPT). IEEE, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/fpt.2018.00022.
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Wang, F., Y. Huang, and T. Deng. "Gas Turbine Combustor Simulation With Various Turbulent Combustion Models." In ASME Turbo Expo 2009: Power for Land, Sea, and Air. ASMEDC, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/gt2009-59198.
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Along with the development of computing technology, large-eddy simulation turns to be a useful tool for practical study. For fast estimation, the front line researchers still use the Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) method nowadays. RANS still is the major tool for gas turbine chamber (GTC) designers, but there is not a universal method in RANS GTC spray combustion simulation at present especially for the two-phase turbulent combustion. Usually there are two main steps in two-phase combustion: the liquid fuel evaporation and the gas mixture combustion. Thus, three widely used turbulent combustion models: the Eddy-Break-Up and Arrhenius model (EBU), Laminar Flame-let Model (LFM) and Eddy-Dissipation-Concept (EDC) turbulent combustion models are firstly tested against a methane-air turbulent gas jet flame (Flame D) measured by Sandia Lab and next a two-phase turbulent swirl spray combustion in a complex GTC. The predictions of the LFM model are the best in jet flame simulation to show its ability in gas combustion prediction. The comparison between the simulation results and the experimental results showed that LFM model could properly consider the interaction between turbulence and chemistry in the gas combustion in most regions; EBU model overestimated the turbulent effect in most regions; though EDC model takes the chemistry effect into account, the turbulence seems be overestimated too. The simulated GTC performed well in experiments especially when the fuel-air mixture equivalence ratio (MER) in its main-reaction-zone (MRZ) is 0.7, so the three combustion models are all applied in this case, with the same 90° spray angel, same material properties and the same discrete ordinates (DO) radiation model. In LFM prediction, the high temperature regions are distributed around the margin of the circumfluence zone and the downstream regions after MRZ, which does not agree with the test observation. The LFM model deals well with the gas combustion, so the reason for this poor performance must be of kerosene evaporation. LFM model is a fast-chemistry model, but the kerosene reaction rate is not very fast and the evaporation makes the global reaction slower. Furthermore the mixture fraction is a conservation scalar in FLM model but it is changed by the kerosene evaporation especially in the MRZ where the kerosene was mainly vaporized. Generally, the EBU and EDC results are better: the high temperature regions are mostly in MRZ when MER is 0.7. The EDC model also has good predictions of different MERs in MRZ. When MER is 1.3, the unburned kerosene continue reaction after primary-air-holes; when MER is 0.3, there is nearly no kerosene there. Additionally, effects of the spray angle, material property are studied.
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Watkins, Alex, and Oded Green. "A Fast and Simple Approach to Merge and Merge Sort Using Wide Vector Instructions." In 2018 IEEE/ACM 8th Workshop on Irregular Applications: Architectures and Algorithms (IA3). IEEE, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ia3.2018.00012.
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Cheng, Zhengxue, Heming Sun, Dajiang Zhou, and Shinji Kimura. "Merge mode based fast inter prediction for HEVC." In 2015 Visual Communications and Image Processing (VCIP). IEEE, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/vcip.2015.7457826.
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