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Metals and alloys continue to play a paramount role in the design and construction of load-bearing structures and mechanical components. Ferrous and nonferrous alloys find countless applications in various industrial areas, including automotive, aerospace, marine, construction, and manufacturing fields. When it comes to guaranteeing the structural integrity and safety of critical parts, a variety of protection and strengthening mechanisms may be used both at the bulk level and the surface level. Manufacturing processes and heat treatments can be used to tailor the microstructure to possess the desired combination of mechanical properties, while surface engineering processes can modify the outermost part of a component for prolonging further its service life. Aside from material properties, analysis methods are also relevant tools for evaluating the structural integrity and assessing the probability of failure of structures in service. This Special Issue gathered articles that present up-to-date methods and approaches for analyzing, preserving, and improving the structural integrity of metallic components. Attention is also paid to the phenomena occurring at the bulk and surface level while also considering the role of the manufacturing process as it correlates to the material microstructure, as well as advanced methods for reliability analysis. The outcomes of experimental, numerical, and theoretical approaches are also considered.

Die Devotio moderna als semireligiose wie monastische Kirchenreformbewegung breitete sich seit dem späten vierzehnten Jahrhundert über ganz Mitteleuropa aus. Aber wie funktionierte sie in ihrem Nukleus Deventer en détail? Wann vollzogen sich Aufstieg und Niedergang? Welche Topographie wiesen die Gemeinschaften auf? Wer waren die Mitglieder? Wie strukturierte sich die Verfassung? Was waren die ökonomischen Grundlagen? In welchen Formen gestaltete sich die Spiritualität zwischen Norm und Praxis? Entlang dieser Fragen wird die Anatomie der Devotio moderna in ihrem Zentrum Deventer multiperspektivisch und präzise kartiert.

Examines the politics of decarbonization in Sweden to explore how states collaborate with societal actors to achieve it. Providing policy insights for other countries intending to decarbonize, it is a useful reference for graduate students, researchers and policymakers in climate governance, political science, and international relations.

The flowering thorn expresses the dual nature of the ballad: at once a distinctive expression of European tradition, but also somewhat tricky to approach from a scholarly perspective, requiring a range of disciplines to illuminate its rich composition. Most of this latter quality has to do with the very features that characterize ballads... or narrative songs. These include an appearance of fragmentation; a wide range of cultural and social referents; complex, evocative symbolic language; and variation. The notable multiformity of meaning, text and tune is mirrored in scholarship, too. The Flowering Thorn is therefore wide ranging, with articles written by world authorities from the fields of folklore, history, literature, and ethnology, employing a variety of methodologies

What is the connection between the tempo of audiovisual images and the audience`s emotional experience? Examining the screwball comedy of the 30s and 40s, this study looks at comedy and hilarity as temporal structures. Exchanges of blows, puns, and verbal acrobatics are embedded in a complex composition of voices, facial expressions, gestures, and visual constructions. The audience experiences and enjoys combat and rage as an elegant pas de deux.

This volume draws its inspiration from perspectives that have developed over the last few decades in media anthropology. These include seminal works such as Bourdieu’s (1993 ) analysis of cultural production, Larkin’s (2008 ) study of the impact of media technologies on cultural form and Ginsburg’s (1995a , 2002 ) work on indigenous media. Methodologically, the volume relies heavily on ethnography; each of the contributions is grounded in qualitative research. Most of the chapters are based upon data that their authors collected while doing long-term research. Typically, such research involves building up lasting relationships with one’s interlocutors, learning about their ideas, attitudes and practices by accompanying them in everyday life. Taken together, the various contributions explore how media that is made for audiences deemed indigenous is produced, shared, and viewed or ‘consumed’. The chapters explore the social and political impact of old and new media technologies and media content in relation to the (re)formulation, contestation and (re)defi nition of mediatised representations of indigeneity, and how this bears upon perceptions and conceptualisations of nation in South Asia.

Przedstawiona w tej książce antropografia jest propozycją atrakcyjną, chociaż – jako dzieło-tekst – nietypową. Autor kieruje ją, jak łatwo się domyślić, do czytelników chętnie poznających podejścia niestandardowe, przełamujące swojską badawczą „normalność”, podporządkowaną starym wspólnotowym paradygmatom. Takich odbiorców nie powinno odstraszyć złożone teoretyczne ugruntowanie antropografii, za to powinna zauroczyć tworzona w jej ramach opowieść o doświadczeniu i opisywaniu miasta, kontynuująca wcześniejsze „badawczo-pisarskie” próby Autora. Poszukiwanie antropografii to poszukiwanie czegoś, co właściwie w antropologii kulturowej i dziedzinach pokrewnych w istocie pod tą nazwą nie istniało. Przy ścisłych i pełnych porównaniach, brak dla publikacji Krystiana Darmacha antropologicznej albo antropograficznej konkurencji – czy to w naukowej literaturze krajowej, czy zagranicznej.

In the higher power range, three-phase inductive power transfer is an auspicious option to supply electric vehicles for local public transport. Decreases in efficiency and power transfer capability caused among others by positional misalignment and temperature cannot be completely avoided during operation. An automatic retuning of the system directly faces the remaining effects of these disturbing ascendancies and ensures continuous operation in the optimal operating point.

Excavations on the Magdalensberg in Carinthia, Southern Austria brought to light a huge amount of common wares that have to be divided for study. No parameters to be followed have as yet been fixed and therefore in a first chapter definitions are given on what type of material is used in the book. Red or buff fired liquid containers, mostly wheel turned in Italian workshops out of pretreated clays are dealt with. The chapter chronology approaches the problem form the 40 well defined contexts on different spots of the site, which in 100 years of life offers a division into 7 phases, to be regrouped in 3 periods between 50 BC and 50 AD. A discussion on the possibilities and limits of dating common or utilitarian pottery is included. Typological analysis distinguishes 5 groups, the main one being the Italic shapes and their Hellenistic predecessors. Next come the small transport containers, basically two handled jugs followed by the forms of Celtic inspiration, while a separate chapter combines the single and rare shapes. Some 25 pages are dedicated to the study of results and point out the rare stamps, inscriptions and marks. The plates show drawings and photographs in a typological catalogue as well as a chronological synoptic. A 2012 paper is intended to integrate the Magdalensberg jugs and pitchers into she state of the art. SCHINDLER-KAUDELKA, E., Céramiques communes du Magdalensberg. Un cas exceptionnel dans le Norique. – C. BATIGNE VALLET, Les céramiques communes dans leur contexte régional. Faciès de consommation et mode d’approvisionnement (Lyon 2012), 185-218.

Sentiment analysis is a branch of natural language processing concerned with the study of the intensity of the emotions expressed in a piece of text. The automated analysis of the multitude of messages delivered through social media is one of the hottest research fields, both in academy and in industry, due to its extremely high potential applicability in many different domains. This Special Issue describes both technological contributions to the field, mostly based on deep learning techniques, and specific applications in areas like health insurance, gender classification, recommender systems, and cyber aggression detection.

In a three-wave longitudinal study, we investigated the role of mentoring on calling development. The results suggest that the mere presence of a mentor is associated with higher levels of calling and the development of a calling is fostered by the mentors’ calling orientation, yet it is restrained by mentors’ job and career orientation

Worldwide attention to environmental issues combined with the energy crisis force us to reduce greenhouse emissions and increase the usage of renewable energy sources as a solution to providing an efficient environment. This book addresses the current issues of sustainable growth and applications in renewable energy sources. The fifteen chapters of the book have been divided into two sections to organize the information accessible to readers. The book provides a variety of material, for instance on policies aiming at the promotion of sustainable development and implementation aspects of RES.

L'histoire des villes et des cités de l'Occident romain ne doit plus être écrite comme celle d'un déclin progressif entre le Haut-Empire et l'Antiquité tardive. Néanmoins, l'image laissée par ces communautés civiques et la cellule administrative fondamentale de l'Empire se trouble progressivement entre les iie et ive siècles. La documentation tardive, peu abondante, souvent de nature juridique ou ecclésiastique et de portée générale, rend compte de la permanence globale de la vie municipale, mais la disparition progressive des donnés épigraphiques ne permet plus de cerner sa diversité et sa richesse. Or, les vestiges archéologiques livrent un tableau contrasté de l'évolution des espaces civiques. Si leur occupation semble se pérenniser sans changement significatif dans quelques grandes villes, ailleurs la dégradation de monuments et de lieux publics ou leur occupation par des activités privées, voire leur abandon pur et simple, signalent des processus de changement dans l'activité civique qui tranchent avec la perception actuelle de la pérennité de la vie des cités. Comment faut-il interpréter cette évolution ? Faut-il y voir le témoignage d'une crise urbaine ou seulement la transformation de la pratique civique et un changement dans l'utilisation des espaces dédiés à la vie de la communauté ? S'agit-il de phénomènes diffus ou localisés ? Afin de fournir des éléments de réponse à ces questions, ce livre fondé sur un bilan mais également sur des découvertes récentes croise les Histoires provinciales, les trajectoires singulières et les destins trasversaux des villes et de l'urbanisme civique en Occident entre le Haut-Empire et l'Antiquité tardive.

No time in the history, consumption is considered to be as important as in today's world. It defines who we are, how well/perfect we perform our multiroles within the society (buying the most expensive clothes means being the best mom for instances), what symbolic meanings we attribute to our belongings, and how rich/clever/fashion conscious or innovative we are. Due to multidisciplinary and multimethod character of the concept of consumer behavior, it is appropriate to study it accordingly in order to understand the subject with its different aspects and holistically. Especially with the cultural, social, and technological changes within today's world, this issue becomes prominent. This book is a modest try for that end.

Lahore in Motion provides a portrait of the Pakistani metropolis by tracing the path of the city's first metro rail corridor. Construction for this major piece of public infrastructure began in 2015 and, over subsequent years, the nascent ‘Orange Line’ rapidly reconfigured Lahore’s urban landscape – displacing residents and slicing through existing structures along its route, all while offering Lahoris the promise of ‘world-class’ public transportation. The volume collects stories from a series of walks along the metro’s 27-kilometre path, bringing together a wide variety of authors – including academics and activists, architects and artists – to reflect on the relationship between urban change and belonging in a historic city. Each chapter is organised around a particular station on the metro, but the volume moves far beyond the neighbourhoods shadowed by the train’s elevated track. Contributors navigate the friction generated by the Orange Line’s construction and reflect on how this project of connection both responds to and produces fragmentation in the urban environment. The book brings together critical insights on the politics of infrastructure in South Asia and the desires and dispossessions fuelling projects of development in the Global South, assessing how they unevenly inflect the intimate rhythms of everyday life in one of the world’s most populous cities. Praise for Lahore in Motion ‘This brilliant collection of essays written by a stellar bunch of academics and practitioners is a critical addition to the expanding knowledge frontier on infrastructure and cities in Pakistan. Anchored in the mega-infrastructure project the Orange Line, the stories unfold at multiple scales and bring to life the contradictory effects of infrastructure's longstanding promise of a better urban future.’ Nausheen Anwar, author of Infrastructure Redux: Crisis, Progress in Industrial Pakistan and Beyond ‘A lovely, mind-boggling tapestry of a book. Lahore in Motion gives us sharp, short glimpses into how Lahore lives, dies, plays, goes to work, prays, celebrates, resists and surrenders. Intimate forays into how a city reinvents itself, struggles to breathe and remembers that other imagined Lahore of legends.’ Mohammed Hanif, author of Rebel English Academy ‘Unfolding the personal and neighbourhood frictions lived along the Orange Line, a sensitive, accessible and scholarly portrait of contemporary city life emerges in these pages as a choir of discordant voices ruminate on the practical and symbolic logics of urban infrastructure.’ Caroline Knowles, author of Serious Money: Walking Plutocratic London ‘A compelling journey with electric insights about Lahore’s old and new geographies one metro station at a time. Each author provides an intricate and personal gateway into the city to muse and reflect on how people live, aspire and remember.’ Rashmi Sadana, author of The Moving City: Scenes from the Delhi Metro and the Social Life of Infrastructure