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Journal articles on the topic "Pushed forward"
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Sagiv, Amir. "The Wasserstein distances between pushed-forward measures with applications to uncertainty quantification." Communications in Mathematical Sciences 18, no. 3 (2020): 707–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.4310/cms.2020.v18.n3.a6.
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Muckle, Andy, and John Oliver. "Frederick Charles Ball." Veterinary Record 186, no. 9 (March 5, 2020): 293. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/vr.m909.
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van der Voet, Joris, Ben Kuipers, and Sandra Groeneveld. "Held back and pushed forward: leading change in a complex public sector environment." Journal of Organizational Change Management 28, no. 2 (April 13, 2015): 290–300. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jocm-09-2013-0182.
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Purpose – Public organizations often need to implement organizational change. Several authors have argued that the specific characteristics of public organizations make the implementation of organizational change in public organizations distinct or even more difficult. However, this issue has received little empirical investigation in both public management and change management research. Public organizations typically operate in an environment characterized by checks and balances, shared power, divergent interests and the political primate. The purpose of this paper is to advance knowledge about how the implementation of change and its leadership is affected by the complex environment in which public organizations operate. Design/methodology/approach – A case study approach is adopted. A merger of three government departments in a Dutch city is selected as a case. This merger took place in an environment that became increasingly complex as the implementation process advanced. The main method of data collection was interviewing the managers that were involved in the organizational change. In all, 23 interviews were conducted and fully transcribed. The interviews were then coded using Atlas.ti software. Findings – The analysis indicates that a high degree of environmental complexity forces public organizations to adopt a planned, top-down approach to change, while the effectiveness of such an approach to change is simultaneously limited by a complex environment. In addition, typical change leadership activities, such as defining the need for change, role modeling and motivating employees to implement the change, are not sufficient to implement change in a complex environment. In order to overcome environmental dependencies and maintain momentum in the change process, public managers must engage in more externally oriented leadership activities. Originality/value – The paper provides empirical evidence about the relevant and rapidly growing research topic of organizational change in public organizations. The paper concludes with hypotheses that can be tested in follow-up research, and as such provides a starting point for future research concerning change management in public organizations.
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Okamoto, Hisashi, and Mayumi Shōji. "Trajectories of fluid particles in a periodic water wave." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences 370, no. 1964 (April 13, 2012): 1661–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2011.0447.
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We compute trajectories of fluid particles in a water wave that propagates with a constant shape at a constant speed. The Stokes drift, which asserts that fluid particles are pushed forward by a wave, is proved using a new method. Numerical examples with various gravity and surface tension coefficients are presented.
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Wilss, Wolfram. "Translation Studies – The State of the Art." Meta 49, no. 4 (January 13, 2005): 777–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/009781ar.
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Abstract Translation has spoken with growing impact and urgency to mankind for more than two millennia. Not only has it facilitated the understanding of sociocultural structures, economico-political systems, and technological/technical processes; it has also pushed forward our knowledge of the world (including our awareness of “otherness”) and widened our (inter-) linguistic and (inter-)cultural horizon.
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Varma, J. R., and V. Raghunathan. "Impact of the Budget on the Capital Markets." Vikalpa: The Journal for Decision Makers 22, no. 2 (April 1997): 19–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0256090919970204.
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This was a budget that carried reforms forward in all the main areas – fiscal correction, tax reforms, and tariff reforms. Most importantly, the budget broke the vicious cycle of worsening expectations that had put the stock markets into a bear grip and pushed business confidence to an all time low. According to J R Varma and V Raghunathan, the budget ought to go a long way in reviving the stock market and restoring business confidence.
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Han, Ming, Chang Yun Miao, and Jing Min Chang. "The Application of Motion Control Technology to Textile Production." Advanced Materials Research 331 (September 2011): 433–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.331.433.
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With the development of science and technology, Control Theory has been updating and progressing constantly. Motion Control Technology is continually going into all fields and in which it is pushed forward rapidly. It is playing a more and more important role and has found an increasingly wide utilization in the textile production. This paper expounds Motion Control Theory and its application, as well as some living examples of the application of Motion Control Technology to the textile production.
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Turner, Linda, Rongjing Zhang, Nicholas C. Darnton, and Howard C. Berg. "Visualization of Flagella during Bacterial Swarming." Journal of Bacteriology 192, no. 13 (April 2, 2010): 3259–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/jb.00083-10.
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ABSTRACT When cells of Escherichia coli are grown in broth and suspended at low density in a motility medium, they swim independently, exploring a homogeneous, isotropic environment. Cell trajectories and the way in which these trajectories are determined by flagellar dynamics are well understood. When cells are grown in a rich medium on agar instead, they elongate, produce more flagella, and swarm. They move in coordinated packs within a thin film of fluid, in intimate contact with one another and with two fixed surfaces, a surfactant monolayer above and an agar matrix below: they move in an inhomogeneous, anisotropic environment. Here we examine swarm-cell trajectories and ways in which these trajectories are determined by flagellar motion, visualizing the cell bodies by phase-contrast microscopy and the flagellar filaments by fluorescence microscopy. We distinguish four kinds of tracks, defining stalls, reversals, lateral movement, and forward movement. When cells are stalled at the edge of a colony, they extend their flagellar filaments outwards, moving fluid over the virgin agar; when cells reverse, changes in filament chirality play a crucial role; when cells move laterally, they are pushed sideways by adjacent cells; and when cells move forward, they are pushed by flagellar bundles in the same way as when they are swimming in bulk aqueous media. These maneuvers are described in this report.
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Delbosc, Alexa, and Laura McCarthy. "Pushed back, pulled forward: Exploring the impact of COVID-19 on young adults’ life plans and future mobility." Transport Policy 107 (June 2021): 43–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tranpol.2021.04.018.
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Coufal, Hans, and Lisa Dhar. "Materials for Optical Data Storage." MRS Bulletin 31, no. 4 (April 2006): 294–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1557/mrs2006.67.
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AbstractThe development of recording materials has been a critical component in the advancement of optical data storage. The continual need for improved performance in both consumer and business applications has pushed forward the capabilities of optical storage. In this issue of MRS Bulletin, we review some of the important developments in the materials behind established technologies such as compact discs, digital versatile discs, and magneto-optical recording; the emerging technology of blue recording; and two technologies that seek to extend the performance roadmap for optical storage, multilayer and holographic recording.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Pushed forward"
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Lundfelt, Ingrid. "Pushing Literacy Forward : How to use the novel Push in the English language classroom." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Avdelningen för humaniora, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-12841.
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This is an essay in the field of English literature didactics. It argues for the use of authentic texts in literacy acquisition. Specifically, the aim of this essay is to justify the use of the novel Push in an English language classroom in Sweden by presenting a literature lesson plan and validating it by three intrerview responses from teachers at a senior high school. I believe students may find the theme of the novel engaging and motivating. The lesson plan is outlined as a student writing project. In this writing project, students will practice reading, speaking and writing skills. The project also includes peer- response which is an activity mentioned in the Englsih 5 syllabus. The lesson plan aims to achieve the learning outcomes of what the Swedish curriculum and syllabus state. The project is validated by a questionnaire, sent by e-mail to teachers at a senior high school in Gävle, regarding the relevance of the proposed lesson plan. Since only three teachers found it possible to participate this essay should be considerate as a pilot case study. However their answers and my analysis provide practical teaching guidelines and indicate the relevance of this particular lesson plan.
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Rodrigues, Fagner Bernardini. "Estudo das propriedades de algumas dinâmicas em P(X) : o push forward e a convolução." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/61208.
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Este trabalho contitui-se de duas partes: na primeira consideramos X, espaço métrico compacto e uma aplicação T : X ->X. Esta induz uma aplicação (1) : P(X) P(X) dada por (I)(p,) = Tt (p,), e chamada de push forward de T. Temos então que (I) é contínua, e assim, obtemos um sistema dinâmico. Nosso objetivo então &estudar as propriedades topológicas desta dinâmica, assim como as propriedades ergódicas. Na segunda parte passamos a estudar dinâmicas que não são do tipo push forward. Os nossos principais resultados são a respeito da dinâmica dada pela convolução de medidas em um grupo topológico. Mais precisamente, dado G grupo topológico e v E P(G) temos uma aplicação ez, : P(G) r(c) dada por = v. pt. Nossos principais resultados concentram-se no caso em que G é um grupo abeliano finito. De fato, caraterizamos as órbitas da dinâmica.This work is about two dynamics: the first one is the dynamic given by the push forward of a continuous map T : X —> X on a compact metric space. The push forward map is a map on P(X) and is given by V(μ) = 7-¡(//,). The mai) (I) is continuous, theri we have a topological dynamical system. 1) : P(X) P(X). We studied the properties of this dynamic and proved, for example, we proved that if the entropy of the map T is positive the the'entropy of (1. is infinity. We also studied the ergodic properties of the map The second dynarnic is given by the convolution of measures on a topological group G. The main results were obtained when G is a finite abelian group. The dynamic is defined as follows: take v E P(G) and define the map p, E.P(G) 1-4 v * u. When G is a finite abelian group is possible to characterize completely the orbits of this dynamic.
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Jaša, Jakub. "Výkonový měnič pro svařování elektrickým obloukem." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta elektrotechniky a komunikačních technologií, 2014. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-220894.
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This thesis deals with the peripheral design, construction design and implementation welder DC arc. The concept of welder is based on the use of two single action forward converter working-pull. Converters operate at a frequency of 60 kHz. Output current can be adjusted in the range from 0 to 140 A. After switching function the welder can operate as a battery charger. Charging current can be adjusted in the range of 0-70 A. The device is powered from a single phase supply 230 V.
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Russo, Daniele. "Introduzione alla Teoria del Trasporto Ottimale e Dualità di Kantorovich." Bachelor's thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2020. http://amslaurea.unibo.it/21788/.
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In questa tesi viene introdotta la teoria del trasporto ottimale a partire dal problema originale di Monge, che consiste nel trovare la strategia ottimale per trasportare una certa quantità di massa da uno scavo a una fortificazione. Si cerca cioè una mappa tra due spazi di probabilità che “trasporta” una misura nell’altra (quest’ultima viene detta quindi misura “push-forward”) e minimizza un funzionale detto “costo”. Dopo alcuni esempi, si introduce il caso discreto, coincidente con un problema di programmazione lineare; successivamente vengono dati alcuni risultati su funzioni semicontinue e spazi polacchi; vengono inoltre introdotte le nozioni di c-convessità e c-ciclica monotonia che permettono di enunciare e dimostrare il risultato principale della tesi: il teorema di Kantorovich, grazie al quale è possibile cercare il minimo del funzionale risolvendo un problema duale. Si danno quindi alcuni cenni di analisi convessa per poi applicare il teorema e costruire una mappa ottimale per una funzione costo quadratica e, in generale, strettamente convessa. Infine, si nota che dalla costruzione della mappa ottimale si può dedurre la cosiddetta decomposizione polare di un campo vettoriale, da cui si ricava una versione non lineare della decomposizione di Helmholtz; come ultima applicazione si risolve un problema di minimo riguardo un modello che descrive la configurazione di equilibrio di un gas utilizzando una misura “push-forward”.
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Michálek, Pavel. "Měnič pro umělou síť 230 V napájený z fotovoltaických panelů." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta elektrotechniky a komunikačních technologií, 2016. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-242111.
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In this thesis is presented detail design of power part of DC/DC converter and output inverter. This device will serve for creating an artificial network in a family house where it will be used for supplying selected household appliances which are designed for use in AC network. The converter will be supplied with DC voltage. This tension will be obtained from a system of photovoltaic panels. The output voltage will have alternate character and it will be close to the network voltage 230 V/50 Hz. In the introductory part of thesis are discussed possible topologies of converters and output inverters. Subsequently are designed individual parts of supply inverter. In the final part there are shown waveforms of important values and is given a thesis evaluation.
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Her, Lin Chin, and 林慶和. "An Action Research On Elementary School and Community Cooperate to Push Forward for Community Total Buildup." Thesis, 2008. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/fapt7e.
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碩士國立臺東大學
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Fuyuan Branch of Fushan Elementary School in Taidong County being taken as the research subject, this research is to seek the common points between community total buildup activities and education policies from governing educational institutes, to find out the starting points where schools may participate in community total buildup, and to approach by means of action research, which is to use interview, observation and paper analysis as the primary way for this research to gather information. The main target is to explore the process that elementary school and community cooperate to push forward for community total buildup, to explore the establishment and functioning mode of the partner relationship team between community and school, and to explore the satisfactory elements that affect school teachers who take part in community total buildup. In accordance with the target and questionnaires in this research, the research conclusions are as follows: I. The benefits in community total buildup held by school and community in cooperation: A. School benefits: 1. Obtain the resources for the school to develop education objectives. 2. Promote school achievements so to attract students to study in the school. 3. Improve the care and assistance from the community for the school to develop. 4. Help to better the activity achievements in community total buildup. B. Community benefits: 1. Taking advantage of learning opportunities in cooperation with the school for community total buildup activities, the leadership and ability of local officials can be promoted. 2. In common study and training with school teachers, the chances of learning for community residents are increased. 3. By means of the opportunities to participate in public affairs, the democratic and legal disposition of the residents is therefore upgraded. 4. Those visits of other institutes and groups can promote the capability to push forward development in the community. 5. Become more confident and energetic in seeking different funding for community total buildup. II. The factors that affect the cooperation plan for school and community: A. Weather there is funding in cooperation plan provided for the school to push forward education policies. B. Time that school teacher can use. C. Time to hold community total buildup activities. D. The implementation of education policies. E. Fairness and execution ability in assignments of cooperation plan. F. Weather plan content can be combined with education activities. G. Weather the cooperation mechanism in the system is solid. H. Length of cooperation plan schedule and continuation of the content. III. Assistance provided by school in community total buildup: A. Professional expertise of teachers B. School hardware In accordance with above-mentioned conclusions, the research presents substantial suggestions as the reference in following researches for the school, the community and the partner relation team between school and community.
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Chiu, Yu-Shan, and 邱于珊. "A Study on Hualien County Nou-Li Intercommunity Association Push Forward Shou-Fong Community Safety Promotion Program." Thesis, 2010. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/87199641952127102446.
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In 1997 the “Act Governing the Punishment of Violations of Road Traffic Regulations” was revised by the Ministry of Transportation and Communication required that all operators of motorcycles must wear a helmet. The result has been a reduction of the annual traffic accident mortality rate. The accident mortality rate has seen a gradual reduction from 57.93 in 1996 to 36.8 in 2005 and to 30.8 in 2008 per hundred thousand populations based on information provided by the Department of Health, Executive Yuan. This Act has succeeded in reducing injuries. According to Coggan and Peter’s opinion (2005), the most effective policy looks at the environment, education and behavior when trying to reduce the injury rate. Injuries have inflicted a huge number of social, medical, and financial costs that have been lost on the world. The policy, “All human beings have an equal right to health and safety”was proposed by Health for All and accordingly, the World Health Organization has organized the WHO Collaborating Centre on Community Safety Promotion. It is designed to assist the municipality, county, City or district of a city working with safety promotion, by coordinating es training courses in injury prevention and safety promotion and organizes networks for community programs. The concept of “Safe Communities” was formulated more than 20 years ago. There are more than 180 communities that have become a certifying centre for safe community programs. Whether they push forward their local community safety promotion program by “bottom-up” or “top-down”, all of them are requested to find out their local injury induced factors and plan the suitable prevention program and progress it by themselves. Shou-Fong Township became a certifying centre for safe community programs on 2008. The Shoufong Community Empowerment Center is Hualien County’s Nou-Li Intercommunity Association (NLICA). It is responsible for collaborating with local resources and pushing forward the safety promotion programs. The main working subjects of NLICA are creating a green environment, offering humane education, and developing community standards for a better living environment before receiving the concepts of safety promotion. For this reason, the NLICA became a certifying centre for safe community programs after receiving short-term guidance from the Eastern Support Center, Taiwanese Community Safety Promotion Center (TCSPC). This study analyzes the past accomplishment reports and publications of NLICA to determine the relationship between local safety promotional programs and indicators for WHO international Safe Communities. Second, we attempted to understand the members of NLICA, local population, and the eastern support center and how they localized the indicators of international safe communities through the conversation. In the end, we check that if the management of the Shou-Fong safety promotion program possesses sustainability with Sweden’s experience.
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Lyu, You-Cian, and 呂有虔. "Research on local government holds festival activitieswhich push forward the industrial development--the contest of baking Mung Bean Pastries in Kaohsiung." Thesis, 2017. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/8k67k2.
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碩士義守大學
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This study focused on discussing industrial development through the festival activities held by government in order to a guire an in-depth understanding of how local government activates assisted in the development of the baking industry in Kaohsiung and to create economic benefits through the festival marketing strategy associated with “Kaohsiung Green-Bean Cake Baking Contest.” Study, conducd an in-depth interview with contestants of the “Kaohsiung Green-Bean Cake Baking Contest” and representatives of the “Kaohsiung Bakery Industry Association” for a total of 9 persons with a SWOT analysis performed according to the results of the interview. According to the results, Kaohsiung green-bean cake has an excellent brand name established through the green-bean cake baking contests promoted by the Kaohsiung City Government for many years. However, in the future, we can further enhance the promotional activity, cultural connection, brand differentiation, citizen involvement, and international development to improve the effectiveness of festival marketing and expand the development of the industry through the integration of resources. Therefore, suggestions are made on three aspects to help shape the city souvenir successfully and to promote the development of local industries: (I) cultural aspect: Enhancing the connection between Kaohsiung and green-bean cake; (II) policy aspect: Continuing to shape the green-bean cake as a general souvenir with product innovation and planned R&D; (C) Promotion aspect: Deepening international connection and constructing a digital platform to promote excellent trademark certification.
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JHEN-CHANG, Tsai, and 蔡禎昌. "To push forward flood programs in flood prone communities so that they can independently protect against such natural disasters as occurred in Fengbin Township in Feng Village." Thesis, 2014. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/acba62.
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碩士高苑科技大學
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The unique topography condition of Taiwan where steep slopes and short, narrow rivers causes the rain precipitation to flow from upstream to downstream to within a few hours, resulting in massive flooding everytime a typhoon or heavy rainstorm occurs. In addition, the greenhouse effect from global warming increases the frequency and levels of rainfall which increases the flooding that occurs having a serious impact to people’s lives and property. For example, the combination of the northeast monsoon and typhoon season brings forth heavy rainstorms in Hualien city every year resulting in loss of life and extensive property damages from the flooding and mudslide. This is mainly due to the climate change from the greenhouse effect. In 2009, Taiwan was devastated by typhoon Morakot, that left a trail of destruction and a strong imprint in people’s mind. Consequently, the “Potential Hazardous Flood Prevention Program” was created with high importance. The programs mandate is to investigate and find high risk flooding areas so that a comprehensive, save and feasible plan can be put in place to protect the lives of people and their properties. The program also plans evacuation routes and procedures, designate safe buildings, devise emergency procedures and to integrate local resources to effectively utilize them to limit the scope of the disaster. Although these engineering measures have limitations, the hope is that they can help to raise awareness in disaster prevention in the communities, to implement national disaster centres and coordinate emergency procedures. The objective of this paper is to prevent and reduce the loss of life and property.
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Roque, Sónia de Jesus Carvalho. "Push forward: O papel do Conselho de Direitos Humanos das Nações Unidas na evolução do Direito Internacional Humanitário no que concerne à proteção da população civil nos conflitos armados no século XXI." Doctoral thesis, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10316/95248.
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Tese no âmbito do Doutoramento em Relações Internacionais —
Política Internacional e Resolução de Conflitos, apresentada à Faculdade de Economia da
Universidade de Coimbra.Esta tese analisa o papel e o contributo do Conselho de Direitos Humanos das Nações Unidas (Conselho) para a evolução do Direito Internacional Humanitário (DIH) especificamente no que diz respeito à proteção da população civil no contexto dos conflitos armados internos atuais. Em especial, procuramos perceber de que forma o Conselho, órgão criado para promover os direitos humanos, tem evoluído desde a sua institucionalização em 2006 até 2016 no sentido de contribuir também para a evolução do DIH através do estudo dos mecanismos e procedimentos internos mais pertinentes nesta temática. O principal argumento deste trabalho é o de que o Conselho, órgão mandatado para a proteção e promoção dos direitos humanos em todo o mundo, pode influenciar e fazer evoluir o conceito de proteção da população civil nos conflitos armados internos atuais através dos mecanismos não-vinculativos (soft law). Este argumento permite-nos fazer uma análise mais ampla da atuação do Conselho, que nos permitirá inferir, igualmente, sobre as suas potencialidades e limitações no que se refere à evolução do DIH nesta área de atuação, que constituiu uma das áreas mais problemáticas em termos de proteção do ser humano. Ao tratar-se de um órgão, simultaneamente intergovernamental e quase-legislativo, pretendemos perceber de que forma o Conselho tem contribuído para dar resposta aos desafios da proteção da população civil nestes contextos, aprofundando o conhecimento sobre a forma como os mecanismos não-vinculativos operam no campo do DIH, assim como que limitações têm. Esta análise permite-nos também contribuir para o debate sobre a inter-relação existente entre o Direito Internacional Público (DIP) e as Relações Internacionais (RI) que está extremamente patente na sua atuação, ao nível dos seus mecanismos de tomada de decisão no que se refere às normas de direitos humanos, tal como no trabalho dos seus Peritos Independentes que emitem relatórios e pareceres (soft law). Esta constatação denota a influência que estes mecanismos podem ter na política internacional de direitos humanos e, por consequência, no DIH, e de como poderão ter impacto na evolução das normas e influenciar o comportamento dos atores, instituições ou órgãos. Através das suas decisões “quase-legislativas” que vão para além dos sistemas de decisão judicial e dos tratados internacionais considerados instrumentos vinculativos, o Conselho pode contribuir igualmente para fazer avançar a cooperação internacional, com novas possibilidades de resolução de conflitos e de avanço do DIH no que concerne à proteção da população civil. Em termos teóricos, esta investigação é enformada pelos pressupostos do Construtivismo social relativamente à construção da realidade social e os princípios ideacionais que estão na base do funcionamento de organizações internacionais como a Organização das Nações Unidas (ONU), através do Conselho e da interação que permitem entre os diversos atores que podem influenciar a sua atuação e redefinir os seus interesses. Esta constatação denota a importância da abordagem construtivista na análise do papel de organizações como a ONU, através do Conselho, na promoção e evolução de normas com vista à proteção do ser humano, permitindo-nos compreender como o significado do DIH pode ser ou não partilhado e mesmo alterado em determinadas circunstâncias, o que pode influenciar o seu processo de evolução de acordo com diversas circunstâncias e interesses. Em termos metodológicos, a tese recorre principalmente à análise documental, em especial de fontes primárias do Conselho, mas também de fontes documentais secundárias e entrevistas qualitativas semiestruturadas realizadas em primeira-mão com indivíduos diretamente envolvidos no trabalho do Conselho. A combinação entre estas abordagens teórica e metodológica adotadas permitem-nos melhor compreender o funcionamento das organizações internacionais, em particular da ONU através do Conselho, destacando a importância dos aspetos não-materiais a par dos aspetos materiais e da agência dos indivíduos na promoção dos direitos e na proteção da população civil nas circunstâncias mais difíceis e desafiadoras que correspondem às situações de conflito armado. Os principais contributos desta tese vão, assim, no sentido de aprofundar os debates contemporâneos sobre o conceito de proteção da população civil nos conflitos armados internos atuais, principalmente ao nível do alargamento do espetro do artigo 3.º comum às Convenções de Genebra, bem como a inter-relação entre o DIP e as RI através do trabalho do Conselho, ambos subanalisados no quadro dos debates dominantes sobre estas matérias. This thesis analyzes the role and contribution of the United Nations Human Rights Council (Council) to the evolution of International Humanitarian Law (IHL) specifically with regard to the protection of the civilian population in current internal armed conflicts. In particular, we seek to understand how the Council, a body created to promote human rights, has evolved from its institutionalization in 2006 to 2016 in order to contribute to the evolution of IHL through the study of the most relevant internal mechanisms and procedures of the Council in this area. The main argument of this thesis is that the Council, a body created to promote and protect human rights worldwide, can influence and move forward the protection of the civilian population in current internal armed conflicts through its non-binding mechanisms (soft law). This argument allows us to make a broader analysis of this concept throughout the Council’s work, and makes us infer, equally, on its potentialities and limitations regarding the evolution of IHL in this realm, one of the most problematic areas of the protection of human beings. As an intergovernmental and quasi-legislative body, we seek to understand how the Council has contributed to address the challenges facing the protection of civilians in these contexts, by deepening our understanding on how non-binding mechanisms operate in IHL and its limitations. This analysis also allows us to contribute to the debate regarding the interrelationship between Public International Law (PIL) and International Relations (IR). This interrelationship is extremely evident in the Council’s action, in what concerns to its decision-making mechanisms regarding human rights standards, as well in the work of its Independent Experts that issue reports and opinions (soft law). These findings show us the influence that these mechanisms can have on international human rights policies and, consequently, on IHL, and how they may impact on the evolution of norms and influence the behavior of actors, institutions or bodies. Through its “quasi-legislative” decisions that go beyond judicial decision-making systems and international treaties as binding instruments, the Council can also help to advance international cooperation and IHL, with new possibilities for conflict resolution. In theoretical terms this research is shaped by the assumptions of Social Constructivism regarding the construction of social reality and the ideational principles that underlie the functioning of international organizations such as the United Nations (UN), through the Council and the interaction allowed between the various x actors which can influence their performance and redefine their interests. This finding demonstrates the importance of the constructivist approach in analyzing the role of organizations such as the UN, through the Council, in promoting and evolving norms aimed at protecting human beings. This allows us to understand how the meaning of IHL can be shared and even changed in certain circumstances, which may influence its evolution process according to various circumstances and interests. Methodologically this thesis is based mainly on documentary analysis in particular of primary sources of the Council, but also of secondary documentary sources and semi-structured qualitative interviews with individuals directly involved in the work of the Council. The theoretical and methodological approaches adopted allows us to better understand the functioning of international organizations, in particular the UN through the Council, highlighting the importance of non-material alongside with material aspects and the agency of individuals in promoting human rights and the protection of the civilian population in the most difficult and challenging circumstances – armed conflict situations. The main contributions of this research are, therefore, the deepening of the contemporary debates about the concept of the protection of the civilian population in current internal armed conflicts, mainly regarding the wideness of the spectrum of Article 3 common to the Geneva Conventions, as well as to the interrelationship between the PIL and IR throughout the Council’s work, both under-analyzed in the dominant debates on these matters.
Books on the topic "Pushed forward"
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Montorrahman. Pushed forward far: A novel of knowledge, forgetfulness, and faith. Kuala Lumpur: A.S. Noordeen, 1995.
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Graves, Joseph L. Biological Theories of Race beyond the Millennium. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190465285.003.0002.
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This chapter provides historical contextualization of the crisis faced by the social construction approach of race. It reveals that anatomically modern humans are a young species that spent the majority of their existence living in a narrow range of eastern Africa. Indeed the exit of our species has been pushed forward in time from previous estimates. Evolutionary forces of natural selection and genetic drift have differentiated human populations, but this differentiation has been small. Most of the signal of human differentiation occurs in noncoding loci that do not face the force of purifying selection. Within the coding loci, some adaptation to local conditions has occurred. This adaptation does not allow the unambiguous classification of human populations into biological races.
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Gračanin, Asmir, Lauren M. Bylsma, and Ad J. J. M. Vingerhoets. The Communicative and Social Functions of Human Crying. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190613501.003.0012.
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Why do humans produce emotional tears? We propose that the answer to this question can be found in the interindividual functions of emotional crying. The basic assumption is that emotional tears represent a means of communication, which has evolved from distress or separation calls displayed by other animals as well. The reactions of others are the crucial factor that pushed forward the evolution of this phylogenetically new behavior. We substantiate this claim by discussing the ontogenetic development of crying, which sets the stage for explaining the ways this signal could have evolved. We further evaluate the signal value of tears in the context of the events and emotional states that precede or accompany crying, as well as of the consequences of crying for the crying individual. This allows us to conclude that tears predominantly represent a signal of helplessness and prosocial intentions.
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Woloch, Nancy. A Class by Herself: Muller v. Oregon (1908). Princeton University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691002590.003.0004.
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This chapter assesses Muller v. Oregon (1908), its significance, and the law it upheld: Oregon's ten-hour law of 1903. Convicted of violating Oregon's law of 1903 that barred the employment of women in factories and laundries for more than ten hours a day, Curt Muller—the owner of a Portland laundry—challenged the constitutionality of the law, which he claimed violated his right of freedom to contract under the due process of the Fourteenth Amendment. On February 24, 1908, the Supreme Court unanimously upheld the Oregon law. This decision marked a momentous triumph for progressive reformers and a turning point in the movement for protective laws. At the same time, by declaring woman “in a class by herself,” the Supreme Court embedded in constitutional law an axiom of female difference. The Muller decision thus pushed public policy forward toward modern labor standards and simultaneously distanced it from sexual equality.
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Usai, Donatella. A Picture of Prehistoric Sudan. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199935413.013.56.
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The physiographic setting of the Nile valley, in Sudan as well as in Egypt, provides a nearly homogenizing factor in the cultural and socioeconomic development of Mesolithic and Neolithic prehistoric populations. Unfortunately, a dearth of prehistoric research has hindered the recognition of regional differences and our comprehension of the complexity of such development. Furthermore the past fifty years of archaeological investigations in prehistoric Sudan have not, paradoxically, pushed forward our understanding beyond A. J. Arkell excavations at the Khartoum Hospital site (1949) and Shaheinab (1953), the first prehistoric sites excavated in this region. This premise is necessary in order to advise of thevolatilityof thepicturethat can be drawn with the currently available data. The Mesolithic populations of the Sudanese Nile valley are characterised by their pottery production and associated with a hunter-gatherer-fishers economy. The Neolithization of the region is rooted in these groups, but the contribution of foreign influences cannot be ruled out.
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Psygkas, Athanasios. The United Kingdom. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190632762.003.0005.
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The influence of EU law on the United Kingdom was different from that in France and Greece. The United Kingdom had been at the forefront of the privatization revolution, and the British regulators had engaged in public consultations before the advent of the EU participatory mandates. However, this chapter puts forward a narrative that spans the last two centuries and demonstrates that EU law did indeed lead to consequential changes in institutional structures and practices in the United Kingdom. Public participation in administrative policymaking had been inconsistent with the prevailing perception of the British state in the 19th and early 20th centuries. The New Right and New Labour governments introduced important regulatory reforms but it was EU mandates that pushed significantly in the direction of formalized and institutionalized open public participation, adding impetus to and consolidating previous domestic initiatives. This chapter concludes by looking beyond the telecommunications sector and beyond national borders.
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Pucci, Molly. Security Empire. Yale University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.12987/yale/9780300242577.001.0001.
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The secret police were one of the most important institutions in the making of communist Eastern Europe. Security Empire compares the early history of secret police institutions, which were responsible for foreign espionage, domestic surveillance, and political violence in communist states, in Poland, Czechoslovakia, and East Germany after the Second World War. While previous histories have assumed that these forces were copies of the Soviet model, the book delves into the ways their origins diverged due to local social conditions, languages, and interpretations of communism. It illuminates the internal tensions inside the forces, between veteran agents who had fought in wars in Spain and Germany, and the younger, more radical agents, who pushed forward the violence, arrests, and show trials inside Eastern European communist parties in the late 1940s and early 1950s. In doing so, the book traces the role of political violence, ideological belief, and surveillance in building communist institutions in Europe by the mid-1950s.
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Corsino, Louis. Conclusion. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252038716.003.0006.
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This concluding chapter presents a more general discussion of the interrelationships between ethnicity, organized crime, and social capital, especially as it may apply to the contemporary context in Chicago Heights. This study connected the decades-long ‘success’ of the organized crime operation in Chicago Heights to the persistent balancing act between the resources of closure, violence, and brokerage. Too much or too little of one or another would be potentially damaging to this long-term success. Closure brings value to the organization because it promotes a familiarity and assumed level of trust between individuals. However, when there are strong ties binding groups together, certainty and predictability triumph over variability and innovation. Individuals are unaware of or reluctant to think through or even see new opportunities because the social networks place a premium on routine beliefs and behaviors. An antidote to the excesses of closure is violence. New ideas and new approaches were pushed forward by force and the elimination of opposition. Today, although Italian organized crime presence in Chicago Heights has significantly diminished, organized crime in Chicago Heights persists. African Americans and Latinos have largely taken over the vice operations.
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Nyman, Jonna. Contesting Energy Security in China. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198820444.003.0006.
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Chapter 6 challenges common sense energy security practices in China. It looks at power in the energy security system, to try to understand how and why the common sense has emerged, while exploring who resists, and how. It begins by examining who has power to frame the narrative, discussing vested interests and the ways in which they push the debate in particular directions. It then surveys ‘alternative’ visions of energy security, highlighting the range of actors that contest the common sense—including official and elite actors as well as non-state interest groups, and what different interpretations of energy security they forward. As part of this, it explores how these different actors contest the common sense, and what alternative visions of energy security they forward.
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Shoemaker, Stephen P. Unitarians, Shakers, and Quakers in North America. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199683710.003.0011.
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The American Revolution inspired new movements with a longing to restore what they believed was a primitive and pure form of the church, uncorrupted by the accretions of the centuries. Unlike most Canadians, Americans were driven by the rhetoric of human equality, in which individual believers could dispense with creeds or deference to learned ministers. This chapter argues that one manifestation of this was the Restorationist impulse: the desire to recover beliefs and practices believed lost or obscured. While that impulse could be found in many Protestant bodies, the groups classified as ‘Restorationist’ in North America emerged from what is today labelled the Stone-Campbell movement. They were not known explicitly as Restorationists as they identified themselves as ‘Christian Churches’ or ‘Disciples of Christ’ in a bid to find names that did not separate them from other Christians. The roots of this movement lay in the Republican Methodist Church or ‘Christian Church’ founded by James O’Kelly on the principle of representative governance in church and state. As its ‘Christian’ title implied, the new movement was supposed to effect Christian unity. It was carried forward in New England by Abner Jones and Elias Smith who came from Separate Baptist congregations. Smith was a radical Jeffersonian republican who rejected predestination, the Trinity, the divinity of Christ, and original sin as human inventions and would be rejected from his own movement when he embraced universalism. The Presbyterian minister Barton W. Stone was the most important advocate of the Christian movement in Kentucky and Tennessee. Stone was a New Light Presbyterian who fell out with his church in 1803 because he championed revivals to the displeasure of Old Light Presbyterians. With other ministers he founded the Springfield Presbytery and published an Apology which rejected ‘human creeds and confessions’ only to redub their churches as Christian Churches or Churches of Christ. Stone’s movement coalesced with the movement founded by Alexander Campbell, the son of an Ulster Scot who emigrated to the United States after failing to effect reunion between Burgher and Anti-Burghers and founded an undenominational Christian Association. Alexander embraced baptism by immersion under Baptist influence, so that the father and son’s followers were initially known as Reformed (or Reforming) Baptists. The increasing suspicion with which Baptists regarded his movement pushed Alexander into alliance with Stone, although Campbell was uneasy about formal terms of alliance. For his part, Stone faced charges from Joseph Badger and Joseph Marsh that he had capitulated to Campbell. The Stone-Campbell movement was nonetheless successful, counting 192,000 members by the Civil War and over a million in the United States by 1900. Successful but bifurcated, for there were numerous Christian Churches which held out from joining the Stone-Campbell movement, which also suffered a north–south split in the Civil War era over political and liturgical questions. The most buoyant fraction of the movement were the Disciples of Christ or Christian Churches of the mid-west, which shared in the nationalistic and missionary fervour of the post-war era, even though it too in time would undergo splits.
Book chapters on the topic "Pushed forward"
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Fortney, Jon Pierre. "Push-Forwards and Pull-Backs." In A Visual Introduction to Differential Forms and Calculus on Manifolds, 189–228. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96992-3_6.
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Sabbah, Claude. "Push-Forward of Stokes-Filtered Local Systems." In Lecture Notes in Mathematics, 195–206. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31695-1_13.
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Grieser, Daniel, and Michael J. Gruber. "Singular Asymptotics Lemma and Push—Forward Theorem." In Approaches to Singular Analysis, 117–30. Basel: Birkhäuser Basel, 2001. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-8253-8_4.
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Darondeau, Lionel, and Piotr Pragacz. "Flag Bundles, Segre Polynomials, and Push-Forwards." In Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics, 17–25. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-7451-1_2.
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Woon, Eden Y. "Post-COVID-19: A Time of Opportunity for Asian Universities." In The Promise of Higher Education, 383–89. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-67245-4_57.
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AbstractBy the end of 2019, IAU member universities were already grappling with a variety of issues and knew that 2020 was going to be a challenging year. But many of them were still optimistic and looked forward to IAU’s 70th Anniversary Year when universities would continue to push forward the frontiers of knowledge and play an increasing role of providing young people an understanding of the world beyond their hometown. And the key of this optimism was based on increased internationalization.
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Woll, Anita. "Introduction of Telecare Mediated Home Care Services Pushes Forward a Re-Delegation of the Cooperative Care Work." In Human Aspects of IT for the Aged Population. Healthy and Active Aging, 133–44. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39949-2_13.
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Williams, Shereene, and Laura Skippen. "Strengthening existing healthcare systems for sustainable animal welfare." In Changing human behaviour to enhance animal welfare, 161–77. Wallingford: CABI, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1079/9781789247237.0011.
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Abstract More can be achieved by working with what is already in place, compared with creating new systems that undermine local systems and traditions. However, creating lasting improvements in animal health systems at a national level is an ambitious task. Last-mile human healthcare is a key issue in the drive to achieve universal health coverage for all people and looking to the ways that humanitarian agencies are trying to achieve this will be key in driving this forwards for all animals in the future. To push animal welfare up the global agenda and create a catalyst for change, referencing solely animal welfare is not enough. Drawing on linkages between people, the planet and animals is essential.
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"Together Forward?" In The Last Card, edited by Timothy Andrews Sayle, Jeffrey A. Engel, Hal Brands, and William Inboden, 74–88. Cornell University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501715181.003.0004.
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This chapter examines debates over US policy in the summer of 2006, focusing particularly on the unhappy results of military efforts to tamp down violence in Baghdad. Two major military operations—Operations Together Forward I and II—were launched, intended, as the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Peter Pace, recalled, to “begin the process of turning over the battlefield responsibilities to the Iraqi armed forces.” Both were clear disappointments, however, revealing how unprepared Iraqi forces were to assume responsibility for their country's security. Iraqi forces themselves were, in the words of the National Security Council's Meghan O'Sullivan, “perpetuating acts of sectarian violence” and were “as much part of the problem as they are a solution to the problem.” Throughout the summer, NSC staff thus sought to press the Iraq country team for a review of Iraq strategy, and pushed the president to ask General George Casey, commander of Multi-National Force Iraq (MNF-I), harder questions about where the current approach was leading. However, MNF-I and the US Embassy in Iraq continued to champion existing plans, believing that the existing strategy merely required more time.
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Scott, Sir Walter. "Chapter XXI “To-morrow? O that’s sudden!—Spare him, spare him”." In Waverley. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/owc/9780198716594.003.0072.
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Shakspeare* Edward, attended by his former servant Alick Polwarth, who had re-entered his service at Edinburgh, reached Carlisle while the commission of Oyer and Terminer* on his unfortunate associates was yet sitting. He had pushed forward in haste, not, alas! with...
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Tolstoy, Leo. "4." In War and Peace. Oxford University Press, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/owc/9780199232765.003.0114.
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Prince Andrei arrived in Petersburg in August 1809. It was the time when the youthful Speransky was at the zenith of his fame* and his reforms were being pushed forward with the greatest energy. That same August the Emperor was thrown from...
Conference papers on the topic "Pushed forward"
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Oppenheimer, Nat. "Mass Timber: Looking Back to Effectively Look Forward." In IABSE Congress, New York, New York 2019: The Evolving Metropolis. Zurich, Switzerland: International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering (IABSE), 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.2749/newyork.2019.0650.
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<p>The use of mass timber as a structural element is not a new phenomenon. For example, within almost every major city in the world, there are upscale enclaves centered around the adaptive reuse of factories and warehouses from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. These former industrial structures are almost always constructed from masonry and mass timber.</p><p>Within the past decade, the building industry has seen a renewed interest in mass timber structures. This resurgence has been fueled by several trends, including the mass production of Cross Laminated Timber (CLT) and a growing awareness of mass timber’s sustainable advantages. A number of high-profile heavy timber structures have found commercial success in the United States and abroad. Leading architectural practices such as Skidmore Owings & Merrill (SOM) have used research initiatives like the Timber Tower Research Project to jump-start a fertile debate within the design industry. On the demand side, building owners have pushed the design community to find innovative ways to incorporate mass timber into their projects.</p><p>This interest has often driven designers and builders to aggressively distinguish their projects from predecessors, pushing for pure mass timber structures while giving less consideration to hybrid structures (mass timber and masonry/concrete structures). This bias towards material purity risks ignoring important lessons from the past and may in some cases lead to inefficient structural choices and structures with less durability and sustainability than their hypothetical hybrid counterparts.</p><p>This paper posits that some of the energy generated by a resurgence in mass timber construction would be well spent on understanding, celebrating, and rediscovering the elegance and importance of hybrid structures.</p>
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Linnerud, Blake, and Gregory Mocko. "Factors That Effect Motivation and Performance on Innovative Design Projects." In ASME 2013 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/detc2013-12758.
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For engineering companies striving to be competitive in today’s economy, it is essential that innovation is the crux of their strategy and decision making process. Engineering designers are constantly pushed to develop new and innovative solutions to design problems yet there has been little research on what actually motivates these designers, both intrinsically and extrinsically, to be innovative. Similarly, engineering students working on their capstone design project are pushed to develop solutions to innovative design problems. The purpose of this paper is to present the initial findings of an innovation survey of Mechanical Engineering students at Clemson University. This paper will discuss the importance of innovation, the current state of innovation, the surveys that were created, the results of said survey, and how this information will be used going forward to improve performance and motivation in capstone design classes. The purpose of this survey is to determine which motivational factors engineering students perceive to be the most effective when working on innovative design projects. The initial results showed that (1) making an “A” grade in the class, (2) developing an “elegant” solution, and (3) making professional contacts with the industry sponsors were the three factors that most effectively promoted innovative design. Conversely, (1) impressing peers, (2) making professional contacts with the fellow students, and (3) winning cash prizes were the three factors that least effectively promoted innovative design.
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Tsuda, Yasuhisa. "A Consideration of Applying QFD to Concurrent Engineering Processes of Automobile Development." In ASME 1995 Design Engineering Technical Conferences collocated with the ASME 1995 15th International Computers in Engineering Conference and the ASME 1995 9th Annual Engineering Database Symposium. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 1995. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/detc1995-0206.
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Abstract As a tool to present the systematic application of QFD to product development, a “two-storied quality chart” model is conceived which the project team prepares with the support of functional departments. To consider the progress of time, this chart is further developed to contain two parts, one to be provided for the new development and the other relying on data accumulated in the past. Furthermore a “parallel flow quality chart” is conceived, considering the job sharing between the project team and functional departments. By means of these concept models it is made clear that the development activities pushed forward simultaneously by many departments can be separately treated as individual quality deployment in each department. In this way the application of QFD to a complicated product development, in which many departments are involved, is made much easier.
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Zeverte-Rivza, Sandija, and Ina Gudele. "Digitalisation in times of COVID-19 - the behavioural shifts in enterprises and individuals in the Sector of Bioeconomy." In 22nd International Scientific Conference. “Economic Science for Rural Development 2021”. Latvia University of Life Sciences and Technologies. Faculty of Economics and Social Development, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.22616/esrd.2021.55.004.
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Although our daily life within a modern society is unimaginable without the use of information and communication technologies (ICT), the COVID-19 crisis really highlighted the ways we can maximise the use of digital technologies in optimising our work in distance working conditions with limited ability to contact each other physically, make direct sales and ensure the physical document rotation. All these limitations have pushed the governmental organisations, enterprises, and households to utilize numerous means of digital services and digital transformation aspects that had been started to be used, but the last year has rapidly pushed forward such aspects of digitalisation as digital sales, distance work using co-working platforms and cloud storage, electronic signature of documents and others. This study aims to assess the trends in online sales and use of e-tools from the perspective of enterprises and individuals in Europe in the sector of bioeconomy with the focus of the Baltic States and Latvia that could be used to strengthen the digitalisation component during and post COVID-19. In this paper, the authors have reviewed the scientific literature, policy planning documents, analysed relevant statistical data, performed statistical analysis, and estimated the tendency of the use of eSignatures in Latvia by applying the Holt's two-parameter model of exponential smoothing. The main results indicate a significant increase in motivation towards digitalisation that has increased rapidly in line with the necessity for an online shopping and distance work setting. Authors suggest supporting this tendency also in the after-COVID life, which would have a great impact on the overall digital transformation and potential to unlock new markets for bio-based products.
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Kidwell, J. R., L. J. Lindberg, and R. E. Morey. "ATTAP/AGT101: Year 2 Progress in Ceramic Technology Development." In ASME 1990 International Gas Turbine and Aeroengine Congress and Exposition. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 1990. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/90-gt-305.
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In the second year of a five-year Department of Energy (DOE) funded program, the Advanced Turbine Technology Applications Project (ATTAP) pushed ceramic automotive gas turbine technology state-of-the-art forward in: • Ceramic materials assessment and characterization • Ceramic impact damage assessment • Ceramic combustor evaluation • Turbine inlet particle separator development • Impact-tolerant turbine designs • Net-shape ceramic component fabrication Materials characterization progressed from specimens to cut-up components. Impact damage threshold velocities were measured, using graphite projectiles against specimens and full-size rotors. Lean-burn ceramic combustor evaluations included ignition and carbon formation tests with DF-2, JP-4, and ethanol fuels. A third-generation ceramic turbine inlet particle separator demonstrated 97.5-percent effectiveness against rotor-damaging graphite particles. Improved ceramic component design capabilities are providing lower-stress components for incorporation into the critical hot flow path. Component fabrication development focussed on net-shape forming techniques, using Taguchi experiments. ATTAP is funded by DOE and administered by NASA under Contract DEN3-335.
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Çiftçi, Hakkı. "A Summary of Eurasia and Turkey as Selected Economic Indicators." In International Conference on Eurasian Economies. Eurasian Economists Association, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.36880/c08.01891.
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Turkey aiming to be the production base of Eurasia for medium and high technology products; Abbreviated terms of SME support, sectoral policies, infrastructure studies, incentive schemes, or other harmonization of various areas such as regional differences. It plays an important role in the sales and marketing of medium and high-tech sectors, such as the number of SMEs, population structure, geographical and strategic location as well as innovation, technology and value economy. Increasing their share in production and exports, pushing molds come out of the branded industry concept and within the framework of a new industrial structural transformation; The global economy has quickly pushed forward the swift, flexible and practical industry in terms of improving the structure and texture of the Eurasian countries and Turkey; The need to increase the competitiveness of the new investment should increase the efficiency of the company, facilitate the financing of the financial statements, deepen financial markets and increase the financing instruments should gain importance and priority by targeting selective policies for our economy.
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Shi, Ke, Song Fu, and Scott C. Morris. "IDDES Study of the Shock Induced Flow Separation in a Transonic Compressor Rotor at Near Stall Condition." In ASME Turbo Expo 2014: Turbine Technical Conference and Exposition. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/gt2014-27275.
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The IDDES (Improved Delayed Detached Eddy Simulation) method was applied to simulate the highly unsteady flow in a transonic compressor at near-stall operating condition. Shock induced separated flow on the casing wall in front of the blade leading edge and the flow separation induced by the shock impinging on the blade suction surface were investigated in detail with the help of IDDES. The 3D separation in the corner of blade suction side surface and the casing wall in the front portion of the blade was shown to be a vortex-like separation spiraling out from the blade suction surface, connecting to the blade suction wall and the casing wall. Blade tip leakage flow also contributed to the formation of the separation vortex. At near stall condition, shock wave was pushed forward out of the blade passage. The upstream propagation of the separation vortex and the related high entropy region were considered to be a characteristic phenomenon of the flow at near stall condition in this transonic compressor rotor. The results of the present study explain the origin and the formation of the high entropy region in a transonic compressor rotor near the blade leading edge, which can be closely related to the spike type stall inception observed by other researchers in the transonic case.
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Malkamäki, Matti, Ahti Jaatinen-Värri, Antti Uusitalo, Aki Grönman, Juha Honkatukia, Jari Backman, and Toni Hartikainen. "Three Spool High Efficiency Small Scale Gas Turbine Concept." In ASME Turbo Expo 2017: Turbomachinery Technical Conference and Exposition. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/gt2017-64361.
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Decentralized electricity and heat production is a rising trend in small-scale industry. There is a tendency towards more distributed power generation. The decentralized power generation is also pushed forward by the policymakers. Reciprocating engines and gas turbines have an essential role in the global decentralized energy markets and improvements in their electrical efficiency have a substantial impact from the environmental and economic viewpoints. This paper introduces an intercooled and recuperated three stage, three-shaft gas turbine concept in 850 kW electric output range. The gas turbine is optimized for a realistic combination of the turbomachinery efficiencies, the turbine inlet temperature, the compressor specific speeds, the recuperation rate and the pressure ratio. The new gas turbine design is a natural development of the earlier two-spool gas turbine construction and it competes with the efficiencies achieved both with similar size reciprocating engines and large industrial gas turbines used in heat and power generation all over the world and manufactured in large production series. This paper presents a small-scale gas turbine process, which has a simulated electrical efficiency of 48% as well as thermal efficiency of 51% and can compete with reciprocating engines in terms of electrical efficiency at nominal and partial load conditions.
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Hansen, Michael R., and Torben O. Andersen. "Robustness Evaluation of Mapping Techniques for Automated Servo Robot Design." In ASME 2006 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. ASMEDC, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/imece2006-14545.
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Work has been carried out to investigate some of the important design parameters and performance criteria that should be addressed when designing servo mechanisms and, subsequently, to put forward a computationally efficient design procedure. Emphasis is put on the handling of the discrete design variables. A two-stage approach is presented that uses dimensionless parameters that maps data bases of commecially available components. At the first stage the dimensionless parameter are allowed to assume any value. At the second stage the dimensionless parameters are pushed towards integer values by means of penalization techniques. A three-degree of freedom open chain spatial mechanism is used as the fixed mechanism topology of the study. Each drive consists of an inverter driven servo motor attached to a planetary gear. In the optimization the design are evaluated based on a typical working cycle involving the positioning of a certain payload. The design criteria include costs of drives and structural components, tool point precision, fatigue in welded details, over heating and stalling of the motors and gears as well as time of operation. The work is a continuation of previous work and emphasis in this paper is on the robustness of the method and the organization of the data bases.
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Tsuda, Yasuhisa. "QFD Models for Research and Development of Future Car." In ASME 1997 Design Engineering Technical Conferences. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 1997. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/detc97/eim-3723.
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Abstract In succession to Tsuda (1995) in which 2 QFD models were proposed for Concurrent Engineering (CE) development of a complicated product such as an automobile, this report treats a study of QFD models for research and development of a future car. First it is discussed, how to approach a future car concept. As customers can not forecast the future, the market quality requirements do not exist which were the very starting point of the 2 QFD models proposed in Tsuda (1995). Instead, experts must find future quality requirements, which then need to be accepted by customers, together with their backgrounds. These circumstances are considered for modification of the 2 QFD models proposed in Tsuda (1995) into new QFD models. These models will then be compared with a research and development case of a future car which was pushed forward on the same basic concept as these models. This real case aimed at the research of both a future car and the methodology of its research and development. It included not only planning and development of a future car, but also customer researches using this concept car. As a result the 2 new QFD models are proven valid for the research and development of a future car.
Reports on the topic "Pushed forward"
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Riley, Mark, and Akis Pipidis. The Mechanical Analogue of the "Backbending" Phenomenon in Nuclear-structure Physics. Florida State University, May 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.33009/fsu_physics-backbending.
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This short pedagogical movie illustrates an effect in nuclear physics called backbending which was first observed in the study of the rotational behavior of rapidly rotating rare-earth nuclei in Stockholm, Sweden in 1971. The video contains a mechanical analog utilizing rare-earth magnets and rotating gyroscopes on a turntable along with some historic spectra and papers associated with this landmark discovery together with its explanation in terms of the Coriolis induced uncoupling and rotational alignment of a specific pair of particles occupying high-j intruder orbitals. Thus backbending represents a crossing in energy of the groundstate, or vacuum, rotational band by another band which has two unpaired high-j nucleons (two quasi-particles) with their individual angular momenta aligned with the rotation axis of the rapidly rotating nucleus. Backbending was a major surprise which pushed the field of nuclear structure physics forward but which is now sufficiently well understood that it can be used as a precision spectroscopic tool providing useful insight for example, into nuclear pairing correlations and changes in the latter due to blocking effects and quasi-particle seniority, nuclear deformation, the excited configurations of particular rotational structures and the placement of proton and neutron intruder orbitals at the Fermi surface.
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Mooney, Henry, David Rosenblatt, Cloe Ortiz de Mendívil, Gralyn Frazier, Ariel McCaskie, Victor Gauto, Elton Bollers, Jason Christie, Jeetendra Khadan, and Nazera Abdul-Haqq. Caribbean Quarterly Bulletin: Volume 10: Issue 2, August 2021. Inter-American Development Bank, August 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0003573.
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For more than a year, the Caribbean economics team at the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has focused on the potential implications of the COVID-19 pandemic for lives and livelihoods across the region. The pandemic is still with us, but there is hope that the cycles of lockdowns and containment measures will eventually come to an end as vaccination programs progress, even if unevenly, across the region. However, the availability of vaccine supply remains a concern, and the pandemic continues to pose a constraint for the recovery of key sectors such as tourism and local services sectors. This edition of the Caribbean Quarterly Bulletin focuses on two topics: (1) forecasts of key macroeconomic variables, based on the April 2021 WEO, and (2) financial sector risks. In general, regional economies are embarking on a fragile path to recovery. Continued progress with vaccination programs, credible medium-term fiscal programs, and continued attention to financial vulnerabilities will be needed to push that path to recovery forward.