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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"Technics"”.
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Maintaining NASTRAN: the politics and technics of aerospace computing
This thesis describes a process of how NASA maintained the NASTRAN (NASA Structural Analysis) computer program. Chapter one addresses my theoretical concern and suggests to learn from both critical theorists and social constructivists. Chapters Two and Three tell the story of NASA and NASTRAN, a …
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French Philosophy and New Media: Sartre, Foucault and Stiegler on the Technics of Existence
This thesis examines Bernard Stiegler’s revivification of the technologies of the self as an alternative to technologies of psychopower. It discusses the relevance of care as the exercise of freedom in the age of new media, which is seemingly reinforcing structures of control and …
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Exploring the technics of computer representation : three 'prepared' instruments for plotting, meshing and rendering
In Translations from Drawing to Building, Historian Robin Evans draws attention to the "blind spot between the drawing and its object" as a productive site in architecture. Instead of a "uniform space through which meaning may glide without modulation", the "substratum" of this "gap" is uneven and …
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Palimpsest and the Architecture of Time
… of Khronographics, Kairographics, and the Technics, Architecture can be used as a means of expressing and revealing time.
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Outline of a Subversive Technopoetic: for a Libertarian Pedartgogy
… research was established in the hypothesis that technics have tertiarised memory (Stiegler B., 1994), that knowledge is always founded on an ontological pessimism (Queneau R., 1933, Lyotard F., 1979) and on a perpetual process of the generation of meaning (Gadda C., 1923-29, Foucault M., 1966). …
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Vibrações de estruturas aporticadas espaciais estaiadas
… The numerical procedures and modelling technics are developed towards near future analysis of long span stayed bridges. The developed approach mapes use of well established procedures of the finite element method. Several test examples plus a 3-D model of a three spans multi-stayed …
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Projeto de um vagão gondola em alumínio para o transporte de minério
… a gondola car in aluminum using modern computer technics. This wagon aims to the transportation of ore and uses aluminum alloys capable to obtain less weight in its structure comparatively to a similar wagon in steel. There are in this work a general description of freight car types, the …
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Dialogic Praxes in Gabriel Marcel’s Philosophy: Hope for Being in a Technological World
… Marcel’s reflections on relationships between technics and persons in changing environments, in relations to technics, and in interactions between persons. Technology presents human persons with a metaproblem, a problem beyond scientific solution. Chapter Six proposes Marcel’s philosophy of …
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The Political Economy of CDM Market in China: Business Actors in the Governance of Carbon Offset
… China are wielding their unique capabilities and technics to affect policy making and implementing process both at the national and local level. It is based on a qualitative case study strategy to investigate and reveal the detailed context and causes for some worrying problems around CDM in …
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Jednoduchý elektrochemický DNA biosenzor pro detekci poškození DNA způsobeného UV zářením
… using a combination of several electrochemical technics: square-wave voltammetry (SWV) for direct monitoring of DNA base oxidation and cyclic voltammetry (CV) and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS), as non-direct methods, using redox-active indicator [Fe(CN)6]4-/3- . CV and EIS, which …
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LESSONS FROM FILMIC SPACE
… characters within the films, dictated by filmic technics that structures cinema.
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Security in Petri nets sharing and storage: subnets, privacy, integrity, authentication and non repudiation
… subnets allow to apply several security technics that offers encryption, data integrity, authentication and non repudiation
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Neutron Activation Analysis of Zinc in Biological Samples
… are given by Hicks. These involve precipitation technics or precipitation in conjunction with ion exchange separations. All procedures must be carried out after irradiation and the required precautionary protective measures must be provided for the chemists. | However, the sensitivity attained by …
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Science and the press: nascent institutions in colonial America
… for articles on natural philosophy, naturalism, technics, medicine, and husbandry, among others. I approach several concerns: the role of the Gazette in the 'popularization' and accessibility of science, the image of natural philosophy that was promoted in the Gazette, how the Gazette served the …
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Optimization of new semi-automatic TIG welding process for surface quality through taguchi method
… future study other parameters and optimization technics need to be considered. The parameter combination must reflect safety, environment issue and reasonable factors.
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“My people seem to be falling to bits”: impotence, memory, and the co-possibility of body and mind in Samuel Beckett’s works
… the supplement and Bernard Stiegler’s theory of technics, it discusses how the relationship between physical body and mind is defined by an essential supplementarity that is revealed even (or especially) in their apparent separation. Furthermore, the impotence that marks both elements in …
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Pilar - PB: uma pequena cidade economicamente dependente.
… constitutes itself in the named research technics. It is shown, so, that in this stage of the research, it was made a large fieldwork based on a series of interviews, and also with the application of questionnaires to the local community.
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Manometric determination of the biochemical oxygen demand of sulfite paper mill wastes
… technic used in conjunction with direct Warburg technics. High concentrations of washed cells were prepared and small amounts of the waste added. A control was prepared with distilled water. The effects of waste concentration, bacterial concentration, and temperature were studied. The wastes …
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The generation mechanisms of acoustic emission in metal cutting
… data using the most appropriate data processing technics, i.e. AE mode and mean frequency, respectively. In addition, a semi-empirical metal cutting theory was utilized to predict basic metal cutting parameters. As the experimental results are in close agreement with the predictions provided by …
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Fabrication and Characterization of Torsional Micro-Hinge Structures
… the micro-hinge actuators were tested using a Technics turntable arm with a built in micrometer that applied a constant force while measuring the displacement of the actuator. The rotation of the hinge was measured by reflecting a Helium-Neon (HeNe) laser beam off a mirror, which is attached to …
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