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Grossman, Herschel I., and Minseong Kim. "Predators, moral decay, and moral revivals." European Journal of Political Economy 16, no. 2 (June 2000): 173–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0176-2680(99)00053-1.

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Lu, Minjie, and Helene H. Fung. "MORAL GAIN OR DECAY? EXAMINING AGE-RELATED CHANGES IN MORAL JUDGMENT." Innovation in Aging 3, Supplement_1 (November 2019): S785. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igz038.2888.

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Abstract The present study investigates age-related changes in moral judgment. In particular, we examined both cognitive and affective dimensions of morality in contributing to moral punishment. One hundred and twenty participants (aged from 22 to 75) recruited from Mturk were presented with 10 moral transgression stories (e.g. lying, harming), and reported their wrongness judgment, moral conviction, emotional experience, and moral punishment. Results revealed divergent patterns on the relationships between age and the evaluations on cognition and emotion. In terms of cognitive evaluation, compared to younger adults, older adults perceived immoral acts as more wrong and considered their stands as more connected to their moral conviction. However, older adults reported less intense negative emotions (anger, disgust, contempt), suggesting they were less aroused by immoral acts. In terms of moral punishment, age was negatively correlated with punishment, and this correlation was mediated by the age-related decrease in negative emotions.
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FAHEY, Carolyn. "URBAN OR MORAL DECAY? THE CASE OF TWENTIETH CENTURY DETROIT." JOURNAL OF ARCHITECTURE AND URBANISM 41, no. 3 (June 14, 2017): 170–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.3846/20297955.2017.1301292.

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This paper provides an alternative narrative of Detroit from one of economic struggle and racial division. It instead discusses other forces at play, focusing on questionable moral standing and its relationship to built form, specifically the city. The paper explores whether a compelling claim on building’s moral use can be established, and in doing so seeks to establish a causal link between moral relationship and the built environment. Moral relationship is established through three main avenues. The first is a brief discussion of Detroit’s history, particularly its history from WWII onward, in order to establish the complex moral context into which this argument is situated. The second avenue provides a concise summary of Stanley Cavell’s moral framework and discusses the conundrum of having moral obligation in the absence of moral relationship. The final avenue is a look to the famous Renaissance Center as emblematic of the moral relationship at play. The resulting form of analysis relies on the premises that buildings can embody the knowledge and agreement required for (moral) relationship, and that buildings are artifacts of moral relationship. The paper concludes that buildings are therefore morally appraisable, which is to say they can be appraised for their moral appropriateness.
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Perren, Rebeca, Kristin Stewart, and Cinthia B. Satornino. "Puritan peers or egoistic entrepreneurs? Moral decay in lateral exchange markets." Journal of Consumer Marketing 36, no. 3 (May 13, 2019): 366–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jcm-03-2018-2625.

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Purpose The purpose of this study is to examine the impact of LEM participation on moral identity. Lateral exchange markets (LEMs) enable ordinary people to monetize idle personal resources such as cars, homes, gadgets and skills. Despite its champions portraying actors in these exchange as moral citizens of society, recent findings suggest that egoistic motives drive participation. A salient moral identity motivates behaviors that show social sensitivity to others and enable cooperative actions. Given that platform-providing firms rely on users’ cooperative behaviors to facilitate lateral exchange, understanding factors that affect moral identity can have important implications for the success of such business models. Design/methodology/approach In this research, the authors move away from the ideological discourse behind actors’ motivations, to provide a pragmatic explanation of how participation erodes moral identity. The authors apply a social cognitive framework to examine how the environment in LEMs impacts behaviors and personal factors in a recursive fashion. Findings Across two studies, findings reveal that prolonged participation in lateral exchange diminishes the centrality of moral identity to the working self-concept. Moreover, the results show that keeping puritan peers moral has positive business outcomes. This research also discerns a boundary condition that determines when peers remain consistent with their moral compasses. Specifically, when engagement is perceived as effortful, the behavior becomes an informative input in the inference of one’s moral disposition reinforcing moral identity. Originality/value Marketers can use this research to design business models in ways that mitigate the decay of moral identity.
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McCrea, Lawrence. "Śāntarasa in the Rājataraṅgiṇī: History, epic, and moral decay." Indian Economic & Social History Review 50, no. 2 (April 2013): 179–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0019464613487099.

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Wirls, Stephen H. "The Moral Imperative." Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies 8, no. 1 (1996): 31–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/jis199681/23.

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This essay explores the relationship between moral community and the principles and practices of liberal individualism. Insofar as these principles afford the widest latitude to the individual's judgment concerning the government of his life, they have contributed to a decay in the rigor and authority of moral and civic codes. Moreover, they and the way of life they foster seem to militate against any political or social solutions to problems of morality and civility, reflecting a disparity between liberal regime principles and the moral preconditions of a decent society. A moral revival may thus have to be founded on the recognition that healthy liberal democracies require policies and practices in tension with liberal principles.
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Wirls, Stephen H. "The Moral Imperative." Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies 8, no. 1 (1996): 31–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/jis199681/23.

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This essay explores the relationship between moral community and the principles and practices of liberal individualism. Insofar as these principles afford the widest latitude to the individual's judgment concerning the government of his life, they have contributed to a decay in the rigor and authority of moral and civic codes. Moreover, they and the way of life they foster seem to militate against any political or social solutions to problems of morality and civility, reflecting a disparity between liberal regime principles and the moral preconditions of a decent society. A moral revival may thus have to be founded on the recognition that healthy liberal democracies require policies and practices in tension with liberal principles.
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SZTOMPKA, PIOTR. "On the decaying moral space. Is there a way out?" European Review 10, no. 1 (February 2002): 63–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1062798702000066.

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The concept of moral space is presented here, in the arguments of classical authors who treated the decay of moral space as an inevitable cost of modernity. Three areas are identified where the decay of moral space is manifested in our period of ‘late modernity’. They are: violent crime, distrust and cynicism, and the vanishing of social capital. Paradoxically, however, opportunities to overcome the current moral void are discovered in the very traits of modernity: reflexiveness and globalization. They allow the process of moral healing through the reconstitution of primordial communities, ethnic, national, religious, in an open, tolerant and ecumenical manner, as well as the constitution of new communities of universalist and global reach.
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The Lancet. "Moral decay at GSK reaps record US$3 billion fine." Lancet 380, no. 9836 (July 2012): 2. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(12)61110-6.

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Hjorth, Ronnie. "Political Decay and Political Arcadianism." De Ethica 5, no. 1 (May 7, 2018): 37–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.3384/de-ethica.2001-8819.185137.

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An account of evil in classical political theory is the concept of evil government. The notion of political decay from good to evil government or to anarchy, the absence of government, among classical political theorists represents both a moral and a political problem. This essay argues that political decay remains a perennial problem because the political condition itself involves the seeds to its own destruction. Moreover, it is claimed that the nostalgic longing to a glorious past for nations or peoples risks turning into what is here labelled ‘political arcadianism’, fostering futile attempts to return to past conditions. The argument is that political arcadianism when focusing on the imagined past rather than the present is a possible cause of political decay.
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Lusenga, Richard Mishack. "School leaders' moral understanding and moral reasoning." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/25322.

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School leaders are faced with serious moral challenges on a daily basis at schools, which often result in them making poor moral choices. In a situation of moral decay in schools, reports in the news media create the impression that school leaders often fail to demonstrate the necessary values advocated by the Moral Regeneration Movement and the Manifesto of Values, Education and Democracy. The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore school leaders’ understanding and reasoning regarding values and morality. For the purposes of the study a number of possible lenses, such as cultural relativism, religious beliefs, ethical subjectivism, classical utilitarian theory, Domain theory, and the ethic of justice, ethic of care, ethic of critique and the ethic of community, were identified and used in analysing the way school leaders reason about moral dilemmas. A design located within hermeneutic phenomenology was used in the study with the aim to understand school leaders’ understanding and reasoning regarding values and morality. A combination of quantitative and qualitative data gathering techniques was used in a concurrent mixed method design using a single questionnaire. The sample for the study consisted of educators enrolled for a formal management training programme. This group was largely homogenous in terms of religion, language, culture and was mainly from rural areas of Mpumalanga. Seventy-three participants took part in the study. It emerged from the data that the espoused theories used by school leaders could be related to the lenses identified in the literature. The school leaders’ espoused theories were mainly based on the ethic of justice and the ethic of care and were aligned to their preferred value orientations. At the espoused theory level, school leaders revealed a strong moral orientation. Further research is indicated to study school leaders’ theory in action.
Dissertation (MEd)--University of Pretoria, 2010.
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Matsane, Molefi Andrew. "Moral regeneration : the role of the church in reviving morality in the society." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/32937.

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This thesis seeks to be an answer, to the unanswered questions. The writer tries to page back, and find out that which is lost in human kind. The writer tries to find out society in which he was born and nurtured. A society characterised by good morals, virtues, good standards and culture. Something is lost in humanity. What is that? - Morality. The present society seems to contradict the latter society. The present lifestyle seemed to have no morals. If they do, they must have inherited from somewhere. They see to have lost respect for other people's property etc. South Africa's, new dispensation seemed to have eroded Ubuntu away. I am trying to recapture, revive, relive, and resuscitate morality back in the agenda of every South African. How? Moral regeneration is the vision or dream of the South African Deputy President. But I believe it has taken a wrong direction. Politicians cannot lead moral regeneration. Instead the church must lead it, because the church has the spirituality. The answer to moral decay is in the church. The church need to teach, rebuke and lead by example on morality. It shall not compromise its gospel of Jesus Christ. Today, South Africa is facing a serious crisis of sexuality, unfaithfulness in marriages, corruption, unemployment, HIV Aids etc. morality is the broad concept,and in this thesis I've confirmed myself In addressing: sexuality, marriage unfaithfulness and corruption. Moral regeneration can be realised in this country, the church can address unfaithfulness in marriages, sexuality and corruption vigorously. Parliament cannot legislate on these issues. But the church can consciously teach people responsibilities coupled with democracy. Zeerust, is the small town in the North West Province. I have chosen to write this thesis from Zeerust context. The reason being, I have pastoral oversight of Methodist people in Zeerust and surrounding villages. Zeerust shares the same problems the country is facing that of corruption, sexuality and unfaithfulness in marriages. Lastly, the church needs to take seriously the cultural factors of its indigenous people. Before we became Christians, we were Africans. The church must be ready to learn from people's cultures, and the way they kept moral uprightness. Dialogue and consultations is a dire need between the church and the culture, between theologians and African healers. This thesis says the church is the answer to moral regeneration.
Dissertation (MA(Theol))--University of Pretoria, 2004.
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Tole, Kristen. "Beyond Vice and Decay: Canadian Women’s Organizations and the Technologies of Sex, 1930-1955." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/41221.

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This thesis utilizes an historical sociology approach to examine women’s organizations in Canada between 1930 and 1955. I consider their responses to changes in women’s lives among three key areas: birth control, sex education and motherhood in the context of macro level events in Canadian society. This research utilizes a moral regulation framework to consider the ways in which the discourses, images and programmes of women’s organizations such as the National Council of Women and the Women’s Institutes created a space for norm-based adaptations to women’s intimate lives during the mid-twentieth century in Canada.
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Sekhaulelo, Motshine Amos. "The calling of the Reformed Churches in South Africa in the moral renewal of the urban community in South Africa." Thesis, University of Pretoria, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/40196.

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The main aim of this study was to investigate the prophetic calling of the Reformed Churches in South Africa (RCSA) in the moral regeneration of the South African urban community. The method of research followed in this study was to study primary and secondary sources, as well as appropriate biblical teachings and theological principles relevant to this study and to systematise the information. An analysis was provided of the main problems regarding moral decay besetting the South African urban community and the main challenges this moral decay poses for the RSCA were identified. A strategy the RCSA should implement in tackling these challenges was devised and a number of practical projects the RCSA could undertake at congregational level to concretise the strategy were discussed. The study confirmed that the Church has an important role to play as the driving agent for moral regeneration of the South African urban community. It was pointed out that the moral regeneration of the urban community in South Africa cannot be left to the government. The main reason is that morality cannot be legislated. However, when the love of God transforms the lives of people, it changes the heart, heals moral decay, provides strength to overcome temptation and gives the desire to reach out to people (friends, relatives’ neighbours, strangers and even enemies) in true love. The congregation’s main task with regard to moral regeneration is therefore to be clear about God’s mission, to discern what God is doing in the community and to serve his mission in practical ways.
Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2013.
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Lama, Bustinza José Andrés. "Concurrent delay: proposed solution to a shared responsibility." THĒMIS-Revista de Derecho, 2018. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/123864.

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Any contractual operation has a risk, which can be assumed by one of the parties, as agreed. In this context, it is common for cases of delays due to concurrent causes imputable to both parties, which can generate a high difficulty when assigning the risk. In this article, the author explains, from a comparative perspective, the different possibilities of solution in front of cases related with the concurrent delay controversies. It analyzes the various doctrines developed both in the Civil Law tradition and in the Common Law.
Toda operación contractual conlleva un riesgo, el cual puede ser asumido por una de las partes según lo convenido. En ese contexto, es habitual que se presenten casos de demora (por causas concurrentes imputable a ambas partes, lo cual puede generar una gran dificultad al momento de asignar el riesgo. En el presente artículo, el autor explica, desde una perspectiva comparada, las diferentes posibilidades de solución frente a las controverisas relacionadas con la mora concurrente. Se analiza las diversas doctrinas desarrolladas tanto en la tradición del Civil Law como del Common Law.
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Espinoza, Espinoza Juan Alejandro. "The requirement for liquidated damages." THĒMIS-Revista de Derecho, 2015. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/109067.

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The requirement for liquidated damages a convention, accessorial  to  the principal obligation, which guarantees the accomplishment of the first one. The penalty clause has received a different treatment in various legal systems; such are the French, Italian, German and Peruvian cases.In this article, the author explains the functions of the requirement for liquidated damages and its differences with similar figures. In addition he explains the relation between the requirement for liquidated damages and precontractual responsibility, as well as its role inthe scheme of contractual responsibility.
La cláusula penal es aquel negocio jurídico,accesorio a la obligación principal, por mediodel cual se garantiza el cumplimiento de dicha obligación. Este mecanismo de garantía delcumplimiento ha recibido un trato legislativodistinto en diversos ordenamientos, como elfrancés, italiano, alemán y peruano.En el presente artículo, el autor establece cuáles son las funciones de la cláusula penal y sus diferencias con figuras afines. Asimismo, explica la relación entre esta y la responsabilidad precontractual; así como su papel dentro del esquema de la responsabilidad contractual.
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Bucci, Eduardo Sadalla. "A análise do controle de constitucionalidade de omissões legislativas pelo Supremo Tribunal Federal na Constituição Federal de 1988." Universidade de São Paulo, 2016. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/2/2134/tde-05022018-075138/.

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A presente dissertação de mestrado, apresentada como exigência parcial para obtenção do título de Mestre em Direito, na área de concentração do Direito do Estado, sob a orientação do Prof. Dr. José Levi Mello do Amaral Júnior, tem como tema análise do controle de constitucionalidade de omissões legislativas pelo Supremo Tribunal Federal na Constituição Federal de 1988. A delimitação da pesquisa empírica é referente aos julgados do Supremo Tribunal Federal, em sede de controle de constitucionalidade, abstrato ou concreto, de omissões legislativas, no período temporal de 05 de outubro de 1988 a 18 de dezembro de 2015. Com o levantamento dos dados chegou-se à divisão entre omissão legislativa total e omissão legislativa parcial. Com a análise dos julgados chegou-se à definição jurisprudencial de omissão legislativa, não sendo exatamente coincidente com a definição externada por parte da doutrina. Por fim, com o contexto de análise traçada, exarou-se conclusão crítica, definindo-se a necessidade de alteração legislativa para que as omissões decididas pelo Supremo Tribunal Federal, ao serem cientificadas ao Congresso Nacional, sejam realizadas com prazo para a colmatação da mora, sob pena de trancamento da pauta.
This dissertation is presented as partial requirement for obtaining the degree of Master in Law in concentration area of state law under the guidance of Prof. Dr. José Levi do Amaral Mello Júnior, has the theme analysis of judicial review of legislative omissions by the Supreme Court on Federal Constitution of 1988. The definition of the empirical research is related to the judgements of Supreme Court in judicial review, abstract or factual, of legislative omissions from 5 October 1988 to 18 December 2015. Hereupon, under this analysis obtained the jurisprudential definition of legislative omissions, which is not exactly coincident with the externalised definition by the doctrine. Ultimately, considering the method analysed, was consigned critical conclusion defining the need of legislative changing thus the omissions decided by the Supreme Court, aware the National Congress, are carried out with a deadline for warping under penalty of locking out the trial.
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Täschner, Dirk. "Untersuchungen der akustischen Wirkung von Tragrollen zur zielgerichteten Lärmminderung an Gurtförderanlagen." Doctoral thesis, Technische Universitaet Bergakademie Freiberg Universitaetsbibliothek "Georgius Agricola", 2017. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:105-qucosa-220185.

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Gurtförderanlagen werden im Bergbau und anderen Industriezweigen zum Transport von Schüttgütern eingesetzt. Der Anlagenbetrieb ist mit Geräuschemissionen verbunden. Dies kann bei Kontrolle und Wartung eine erhöhte Lärmbelastung für betroffene Mitarbeiter hervorrufen. Im Umfeld von Wohnbebauungen oder schutzbedürftigen Objekten kann die Überschreitung von Immissionsrichtwerten zu einer zeitlichen Betriebseinschränkung der hocheffizienten Anlagen führen. Zur Lärmminderung an der Quelle oder deren Nähe erfordert dies technische Schallschutzmaßnahmen. Die Tragrollen im Obertrum der Gurtförderanlagen sind bei der akustischen Wirkung von entscheidender Bedeutung. Mit einem Prüfstand für Tragrollen ist deren Schallleistung bei unterschiedlichen Geschwindigkeiten bestimmbar. Die Ergebnisse lassen Rückschlüsse auf die mechanische Belastung und die Schallemission beim Betrieb in einer Förderanlage zu. Die Arbeit benennt die Ursachen der Geräuschemissionen beim Ablauf der Rollen und stellt diese in Verbindung mit den Eigenschaften der Oberfläche und der Außermittigkeit der Drehachse dar. Die Prüfung beider Parameter basiert auf einer Rundlaufmessung. Die gewonnenen winkelabhängigen Daten erlauben eine Berechnung der Exzentrizität der Drehachse und des Verlaufs der Kreisformabweichung auf dem Rollenmantel. Daraus abgeleitete Kennwerte dienen als Vorgaben zur Anpassung und Entwicklung von Herstellungsverfahren sowie zur gezielten Auswahl geräuscharmer Tragrollen für Gurtförderanlagen
Belt conveyor systems are used in mining operations and other industry sectors to transport bulk material. The plant operation is being linked to noise emissions. During inspections and maintenance this can cause an increased noise exposure for affected employees. In the environment of residential buildings or areas in need of protection the exceedance of immission guideline values can lead to a temporary operational limitation of these highly efficient plants. Noise abatement measures primarily at the source or in the vicinity are required to reduce noise immission. The idlers on the carrying belt side of the belt conveyor systems are of crucial importance to the acoustical properties. Their sound power level is determinable at different belt speeds with a test stand for idlers. The results allow conclusions about the mechanical stress and sound emissions during operation in a belt conveyor system. The thesis identifies the sources of noise during the roll process and places them in conjunction with the properties of the surface and the centre offset of the axis. The examination of these two parameters is based on a total indicator reading (TIR) measurement. The angle-dependent data obtained allow a calculation of the eccentricity of the axis and the curve of the circular deviation of the roller tubes. Therefrom derived characteristic values serve as specifications for the adaptation and development of manufacturing processes as well as for a careful selection of low noise idlers for belt conveyors
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Harvey, Heather. "Seeing it Straight." VCU Scholars Compass, 2007. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/1452.

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This Master of Fine Arts thesis is divided into four main sections:FAITH and DISBELIEF: In which I reckon with the implications of faith versus rationality as a secular nontheistic artist. IDEAS: The central locus of my work is a place of indeterminacy between what is known/familiar and what is just one step outside of that. This has nothing to do with mysticism, science fiction, or anything else unmoored from established fact. Section also touches on the particular vantage of a female artist with working class roots.THE WORK: Selection of work made during graduate school, and the the guiding thoughts behind each.EMPTINESS, STILLNESS, ABSENCE, GHOSTS, DOUBT: A discussion of influential artists and ideas.
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Gardner, Robert Matthew. "A Wide-Area Perspective on Power System Operation and Dynamics." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/26779.

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Classically, wide-area synchronized power system monitoring has been an expensive task requiring significant investment in utility communications infrastructures for the service of relatively few costly sensors. The purpose of this research is to demonstrate the viability of power system monitoring from very low voltage levels (120 V). Challenging the accepted norms in power system monitoring, the document will present the use of inexpensive GPS time synchronized sensors in mass numbers at the distribution level. In the past, such low level monitoring has been overlooked due to a perceived imbalance between the required investment and the usefulness of the resulting deluge of information. However, distribution level monitoring offers several advantages over bulk transmission system monitoring. First, practically everyone with access to electricity also has a measurement port into the electric power system. Second, internet access and GPS availability have become pedestrian commodities providing a communications and synchronization infrastructure for the transmission of low-voltage measurements. Third, these ubiquitous measurement points exist in an interconnected fashion irrespective of utility boundaries. This work offers insight into which parameters are meaningful to monitor at the distribution level and provides applications that add unprecedented value to the data extracted from this level. System models comprising the entire Eastern Interconnection are exploited in conjunction with a bounty of distribution level measurement data for the development of wide-area disturbance detection, classification, analysis, and location routines. The main contributions of this work are fivefold: the introduction of a novel power system disturbance detection algorithm; the development of a power system oscillation damping analysis methodology; the development of several parametric and non-parametric power system disturbance location methods, new methods of power system phenomena visualization, and the proposal and mapping of an online power system event reporting scheme.
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Books on the topic "Moral decay"

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Kalikoff, Beth. Murder and moral decay in Victorian popular literature. Ann Arbor, Mich: UMI Research Press, 1986.

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Grind, Chance E. God's on vacation: Moral decay in the 90's. South Colby, Wash: Colby Press, 1993.

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Keppe, Norberto R. The decay of the American people (and of the United States). São Paulo, Brasil: Proton Editora, 1985.

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Brink, Gabriël. Moral Sentiments in Modern Society. Translated by Gioia Marini. NL Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789089647757.

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Since the time of Adam Smith, scholars have tried to understand the role moral sentiments play in modern life, an issue that became especially urgent during and after the 2008 global financial crisis. Previous explanations have ranged from the idea that modern society is built on moral values to the notion that modernisation results in moral decay. The essays in this interdisciplinary volume use the example of Dutch society and a wealth of empirical data to propose a novel theory about the ambivalent relation between contemporary life and human nature. In the process, the contributors argue for the need to reject simplistic explanations and reinvent civil society.
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A nation of victims: The decay of the American character. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1992.

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Sykes, Charles J. A nation of victims: The decay of the American character. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1992.

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Tom, Badgett, ed. Official Sega Genesis and Game Gear strategies, 2ND Edition. Toronto: Bantam Books, 1991.

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Sandler, Corey. Official Sega Genesis and Game Gear strategies, 3RD Edition. New York: Bantam Books, 1992.

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Cooper, Brian A. The Spiritual, Moral, & Civil Decay of America. Trafford Publishing, 2006.

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Hage, Ghassan, ed. Decay. Duke University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/9781478022039.

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In eleven sharp essays, the contributors to Decay attend to the processes and experiences of symbolic and material decay in a variety of sociopolitical contexts across the globe. They examine decay in its myriad manifestations—biological, physical, organizational, moral, political, personal, and social and in numerous contexts, including colonialism and imperialism, governments and the state, racism, the environment, and infrastructure. The volume's topics are wide in scope, ranging from the discourse of social decay in contemporary Australian settler colonialism and the ways infrastructures both create and experience decay to cultural decay in the aftermath of the Sri Lankan civil war and the relations among individual, institutional, and societal decay in an American high-security prison. By using decay as a problematic and expounding its mechanisms, conditions, and temporalities, the contributors provide nuanced and rigorous means to more fully grapple with the exigencies of the current sociopolitical moment. Contributors. Cameo Dalley, Peter D. Dwyer, Akhil Gupta, Ghassan Hage, Michael Herzfeld, Elise Klein, Bart Klem, Tamara Kohn, Michael Main, Fabio Mattioli, Debra McDougall, Monica Minnegal, Violeta Schubert
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Book chapters on the topic "Moral decay"

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Braun, Jerome. "The Faking of Charisma and Decadence: Cultural Decay Through the Ages." In Democratic Culture and Moral Character, 43–54. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6754-6_3.

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Rosenwasser, Efim N., Bernhard P. Lampe, and Torsten Jeinsch. "Determinant Polynomial Equations and Modal Control Problem for Discrete Processes." In Computer-Controlled Systems with Delay, 85–153. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15042-6_3.

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Rosenwasser, Efim N., Bernhard P. Lampe, and Torsten Jeinsch. "Modal Control and Stabilization of Multivariable Sampled-Data Systems with Delay." In Computer-Controlled Systems with Delay, 157–93. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15042-6_4.

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Young, Alexander, David Brown, and Randall J. Allemang. "Estimating System Modal Parameters Using Free Decay Time Data." In Topics in Modal Analysis & Testing, Volume 10, 381–92. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-30249-2_34.

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Achleitner, Franz, Anton Arnold, and Beatrice Signorello. "On Optimal Decay Estimates for ODEs and PDEs with Modal Decomposition." In Stochastic Dynamics Out of Equilibrium, 241–64. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15096-9_6.

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Carrillo, C. A. G., J. V. Ferreira, and P. S. Meirelles. "The Characterization of the Time Delay Problem in Hardware in the Loop System Applications." In Topics in Modal Analysis, Volume 7, 661–71. New York, NY: Springer New York, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6585-0_64.

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Kawsar, Ferdaus, Md Kamrul Hasan, Tanvir Roushan, Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed, William C. Chu, and Richard Love. "Activity Detection Using Time-Delay Embedding in Multi-modal Sensor System." In Inclusive Smart Cities and Digital Health, 489–99. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39601-9_44.

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Jia, Dongbai, Zhaowei Qu, Xiaoru Wang, Fu Li, Luhan Zhang, and Kai Yang. "Interest Mining Model of Micro-blog Users by Using Multi-modal Semantics and Interest Decay Model." In Communications in Computer and Information Science, 478–89. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-8101-4_43.

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Góes da Costa, Lara Denise. "Is the Moral Decay by Knowledge Possible?" In Proceedings of the XXIII World Congress of Philosophy, 51–55. Philosophy Documentation Center, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/wcp23201847941.

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Kramm, Robert. "Morale." In Sanitized Sex. University of California Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/california/9780520295971.003.0005.

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The global legacy of moral reform, its intersection with social hygienic knowledge, and its impact on the Cold War is the main theme of chapter 4. It analyzes sex education and character-guidance programs, a terrain in which moral reformers and social hygienists clashed but occasionally also cooperated, which incorporated specific ideals of masculinity, middle-class family values, and white community building that American Cold War ideology popularized and military educators propagated to occupation personnel. Secondly, chapter 4 discusses morality concerning sexuality and prostitution among Japanese contemporaries. Moral debates focused especially on the streetwalking prostitute, embodied by the panpan girl. She became a famous symbol, who vividly represented the revolutionary changes of democratizing Japan but was also perceived as incarnation of moral and social decay.
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Conference papers on the topic "Moral decay"

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Sawicki, Jerzy T. "Modal Estimation of Gyroscopic Effect in Rotordynamic Systems." In ASME 2001 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2001. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/detc2001/vib-21393.

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Abstract A new approach for uncoupling the equations of motion typical for rotordynamical systems is presented. The method does not neglect the speed dependent effects, like gyroscopic effects, and can be particularly valuable in the controller design of actively controlled rotors. In the presence of hysteretic type of damping, the resulting uncoupled gyroscopic systems come with an equivalent viscous damping, equivalent in a sense of the same natural frequency and decay rate. The approach is illustrated through the example of technical interest. The generated results demonstrate that the developed approach is correct and straightforward.
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Khodabandelou, Babak, Kaveh Abasi, and Masud Asayesh. "Reliability of Extracted Modal Parameters by Random Decrement of Acceleration Signatures." In ASME 2009 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. ASMEDC, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/imece2009-12304.

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Modal parameters provide important information on dynamic properties of structures. In operating condition, since it is difficult to measure input loadings, methods should be applied where don’t require measuring inputs. Such methods which identify modal parameters of structures by measuring their responses are called Operational- or Output Only- Modal Analysis (OMA) techniques. There are many time and frequency domain operational modal analysis techniques. Generally a form of impulse or free vibration response is required to use most of these techniques. However, in practice structures are usually subjected to some immeasurable or unknown random inputs. In these situations Random Decrement (RD) transformation can reduce these responses to equivalent free decay or correlation functions. Therefore, RD technique coupled with those methods, which require a form of impulse or free vibration response offer a valuable tool for identifying the dynamic characteristics of structures from operational or ambient responses. Unfortunately, in the literature there are some constrains on using random decrement signatures. For example by complicated mathematical relations it is shown that random decrement technique is applicable only if the inputs are uncorrelated zero mean Gaussian white noises. In addition, it is proved that only random decrement of displacement and velocity is equivalent to the corresponding free decay responses or correlation functions the random decrement of acceleration response is never equivalent to the corresponding free decay responses or correlation functions. However, there are many papers which have used random decrement of acceleration responses and extracted modal parameters accurately! In this paper it is tried to show simply and clearly whether it is possible to obtain modal parameters from random decrement acceleration signatures or not. To do that, a numerical simulation of a discrete dynamic system with viscous damping is carried out and the results of numerical methods are compared with those come from analytical solution. Numerical simulation is used since it is completely controllable. Finally, it is tried to identify power and the Applicability cases of random decrement method.
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KIM, HYOUNG, DAVID VANHORN, and HAROLD DOIRON. "Free-decay time-domain modal identification for large space structures." In 33rd Structures, Structural Dynamics and Materials Conference. Reston, Virigina: American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 1992. http://dx.doi.org/10.2514/6.1992-2208.

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Rehman, Syed F., and Jeff D. Eldredge. "Numerical Investigation of a Bias-Flow Perforated Liner for Damping of Thermoacoustic Instabilities." In ASME Turbo Expo 2007: Power for Land, Sea, and Air. ASMEDC, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/gt2007-27319.

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Lean premixed prevaporized (LPP) gas turbine generators are naturally prone to thermoacoustic instabilities. Strategic placement of passive damping devices can provide simple, effective fixes for such unstable behavior. In this work, the thermoacoustic damping characteristics of a perforated liner with mean bias flow are examined. A recently-developed theoretical model, along with accompanying experimental investigation, has demonstrated that a bias-flow liner can very effectively absorb incident acoustic waves. Here, a modular simulation tool is utilized to examine the capability of the liner for stabilizing an unstable ducted flame. The simulation tool represents the acoustic interactions between duct elements in the form of transfer matrices, which can be modularly arranged for exploring a variety of configurations. An unstable thermoacoustic system is produced with a gain-delay flame model in a duct. The frequencies and growth rates of the linear model are examined. It is shown that, by tailoring the liner porosity and the bias flow, unstable modes of the thermoacoustic system can be stabilized. Furthermore, it is found that, for a double liner system, there is an optimal liner porosity for a given choice of bias flow, at which the modal decay rate is maximized.
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Bao, Xingxian, Zhihui Liu, and Chen Shi. "Processing of Ambient Vibration Response for Modal Parameters Identification of a Jacket-Type Offshore Platform: Sea Test Study." In ASME 2018 37th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/omae2018-77018.

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Modal parameters identification of offshore structures is important for many engineering applications, such as damage detection, structural health monitoring, etc. Operational modal analysis has been widely used for large structures. However, measured signals are inevitably contaminated with noise and may not be clean enough for identifying the modal parameters with proper accuracy. The traditional methods to estimate modal parameters in noisy situation are based on over-determined system to absorb the “noise modes” firstly, and then using the stability diagrams to distinguish the true modes from the “noise modes”. However, it is difficult to sort out true modes when the signal noise ratio is low, especially, the “noise modes” will also tend to be stable as the model order increases. This study develops a noise reduction procedure for polyreference complex exponential (PRCE) modal analysis based on ambient vibration responses. In the procedure, natural excitation technique (NExT) is firstly applied to get free decay responses (auto- and cross-correlation functions) from measured (noisy) ambient vibration data, and then the noise reduction method based on solving the partially described inverse singular value problem (PDISVP) is implemented to reconstruct a filtered data matrix from the measured data matrix. In our case, the measured data matrix is block Hankel structured, which is constructed based on the free decay responses. The filtered data matrix should maintain the block Hankel structure and be lowered in rank. When the filtered data matrix is obtained, the PRCE method is applied to estimate the modal parameters. The proposed NExT-PDISVP-PRCE scheme is applied to field test of a jacket type offshore platform. Results indicate that the proposed method can improve the accuracy of operational modal analysis.
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Pappa, Richard S., George H. James, and David C. Zimmerman. "Autonomous Modal Identification of the Space Shuttle Tail Rudder." In ASME 1997 Design Engineering Technical Conferences. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 1997. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/detc97/vib-4250.

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Abstract Autonomous modal identification automates the calculation of natural vibration frequencies, damping, and mode shapes of a structure from experimental data. This technology complements damage detection techniques that use continuous or periodic monitoring of vibration characteristics. The approach shown in the paper incorporates the Eigensystem Realization Algorithm (ERA) as a data analysis engine and an autonomous supervisor to condense multiple estimates of modal parameters using ERA’s Consistent-Mode Indicator and correlation of mode shapes. The procedure was applied to free-decay responses of a Space Shuttle tail rudder and successfully identified the seven modes of the structure below 250 Hz. The final modal parameters are a condensed set of results for 87 individual ERA cases requiring approximately five minutes of CPU time on a DEC Alpha computer.
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Platten, Michael F., Jan R. Wright, and Jonathan E. Cooper. "Identification of a Simulated Continuous Structure With Discrete Non-Linear Components Using an Extended Modal Model." In ASME 7th Biennial Conference on Engineering Systems Design and Analysis. ASMEDC, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/esda2004-58496.

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In this paper a method capable of the identification of non-linear structures with many degrees of freedom is presented. The Non-Linear Resonant Decay Method achieves this by identifying an underlying linear modal model for the system. Force appropriation is then used to apply sinusoidal bursts to the structure at high levels of force. The system responses to these bursts are used in a regression analysis in modal space to yield a limited number of additional non-linear terms. The method is applied to a simulated continuous system representing a wing/engine structure with discrete non-linear components at the engine attachment points. The resulting identified non-linear modal model is used to generate response data which are compared with responses from the original system.
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Pumhössel, Thomas. "Investigating Modal Energy Redistributions in Mechanical Systems With Impulsive Stiffness Excitation by Using Effective Damping Measures." In ASME 2018 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/detc2018-85524.

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In the present contribution, alternating energy transfers across modes of vibration, induced by impulsive stiffness excitation applied at equidistant instants of time are investigated. Therefore, effective damping measures are used, and it is shown that they clearly indicate modal energy transfers and their effect on the decay rate of transient vibrations. It is demonstrated that outstanding values of the time span between adjacent impulses exist, where a strong energy transfer to higher modes, which possess enhanced damping properties, occurs. Hence, the modal redistribution of vibration energy allows the intrinsic structural damping to be more efficient, resulting in a much faster decrease of vibrations compared to the system without impulsive excitation. It is demonstrated that the effective damping measures provide a proper method to investigate mechanical systems with impulsive stiffness excitation.
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De Ridder, Jeroen, Joris Degroote, Jan Vierendeels, Katrien Van Tichelen, and Paul Schuurmans. "Numerical Computation of Modal Characteristics of a Clamped-Clamped Cylinder in Turbulent Axial Pipe Flow." In ASME 2013 Pressure Vessels and Piping Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/pvp2013-97527.

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In this paper the modal characteristics of a flexible cylinder in turbulent axial flow are investigated with partitioned fluid-structure interaction simulations. In these simulations a computational fluid dynamics calculation to resolve the flow field is coupled with a computational structure mechanics calculation to compute the structural behavior. The cylinder is initially deformed according to an eigenmode in vacuo and then released. From this free vibration decay of the cylinder in the turbulent axial flow, modal characteristics are determined. To assess the accuracy of these calculations, the same configuration is computed as in an experiment with a solid brass cylinder mounted in a water-conveying pipe. The natural frequency appears to be relatively insensitive to an increase in flow velocity in this case. Both experiments and computations show the same trend of slightly decreasing natural frequency with increasing flow velocity. The damping, on the other hand, is very sensitive to the flow velocity. A change in flow velocity from 10m/s to 30 m/s results in a modal damping increase from 1.4% to 3.0%. Changes in molecular viscosity due to temperature differences had only a small effect on modal damping.
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Huang, Bin, Nicolas K. Fontaine, Haoshuo Chen, Jin Cang, Roland Ryf, René-Jean Essiambre, Takuji Nagashima, Takashi Sasaki, and Tetsuya Hayashi. "Minimizing the Modal Delay Spread in Coupled-Core Two-Core Fiber." In CLEO: Science and Innovations. Washington, D.C.: OSA, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/cleo_si.2016.stu1f.3.

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