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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Material Forces"”.
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Producing *Class: Indie Rock and Cultural Studies
… operational logic (the complex articulation of forces that organize cultural formations) of indie rock produces class elitism in its participants. Chapter one introduces indie rock as a cultural formation and cultural studies as an interdisciplinary intellectual practice. Chapter two critiques …
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On the design of a kinetic adaptive structural surface with reference to nature, form and simplicity
… to look. In Nature, shape is cheaper than material. Forces and form are continuously linked and the concept of adaptability is central to survival. Many of our designs, in contrast, have been over-designed, unresponsive and unchangeable. This thesis covers how well thought through form can …
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Discontinuities, Balance Laws, and Material Momentum
… itself with a non-classical entity called the ``material momentum''. The balance of material momentum is studied in a variational context, where both the local and singular forms of it are derived from an action principle. A distinguishing aspect of discontinuities propagating in continua is …
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Diplomatic Agency and Contested Loyalties: The Yemeni Foreign Service after 2011
… interplay of socio-political, personal, and material forces that informed the maintenance and partial reworking of Yemeni foreign policy institutions at a time of crisis. It argues that the coexistence of institutional endurance and change constitutes a paradox that can only be grasped by …
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ΘΑΛΗΣ Ο ΜΙΛΗΣΙΟΣ-ΑΠΟ ΤΗΝ ΑΡΧΑΙΑ ΠΑΡΑΔΟΣΗ ΩΣ ΤΗ ΣΥΓΧΡΟΝΗ ΕΡΕΥΝΑ
… ENTITIES AND TREATED THESE CONCEPTS TO INDICATE MATERIAL FORCES CONTAINED WITHIN THE THINGS. HIS RATIONALITY AND HIS TENDENCY TOWARD GENERALIZATION BECOMES ALSO APPARENT IN HIS ATTAINMENTS ATTRIBUTED TO HIM IN THE FIELD OF GEOMETRY AND ASTRONOMY. THEN THERE IS NO DOUBT THATTHALES'S THOUGHT …
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CONFIGURATIONAL FORCES IN STRUCTURAL AND CONTINUUM OPTIMISATION
… The approach makes use of the generated material force method in mesh optimisation and the so-called imposed material force method in shape optimisation. To this end, the appropriate spatial and material continuum mechanic Equations will be developed in hyperelastic, hyperelastodynamic …
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The unworlding and worlding of agoraphobia
… 'unworlding' disintegration, as well as the wild material forces, agencies and passions at loose in the world that carry the unlimited potential to wreck the integrity of our worlds. This dissertation dedicates itself to critically thinking through the human experience of suffering to live …
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Conflicting forms of use: the potential of and limits to the use of the internet as a public sphere
… construction tends to meet the needs of dominant material forces in society; that is, technologies are not neutral or autonomous but neither are they necessarily completely controllable. A technology is rarely onedimensional, for the basic technology may contain a variety of potential uses. …