Surging from the ontopoietic vital timing of life, human self-consciousness prompts the innermost desire to rise above its brute facts. Imaginatio creatrix inspires us to fabulate these facts into ...events and plots with personal significance attempting to delineate a life-course in life-stories within the ever-flowing stream – existence. Seeking their deep motivations, causes and concatenations, we fabulate relatively stabilized networks of interconnecting meaning – history. But to understand the meaning and sense of these networks’ reconfigurations call for the purpose and telos of our endless undertaking, they remain always incomplete, carried onwards with the current of life, while fluctuating with personal experience in the play of memory. Facts and life stories, subjective desires and propensities, the circumambient world in its historical moves, creative logos and mythos, personal freedom and inward stirrings thrown in an enigmatic interplay, prompt our imperative thirst for the meaning of this course, its purpose and its fulfillment – the sense of it all. To disentangle all this animates the passions of the literary genius. The focus of this collection is to isolate the main arteries running through the intermingled forces prompting our quest to endow life with meaning. Papers by: Jadwiga Smith, Lawrence Kimmel, Alira Ashvo-Munoz, William D. Melaney, Imafedia Okhamafe, Michel Dion, Franck Dalmas, Ludmila Molodkina, Victor Gerald Rivas, Rebecca M. Painter, Matti Itkonen, Raymond J. Wilson III, Christopher S. Schreiner, Bruce Ross, Bernadette Prochaska, Tsung-I Dow, Jerre Collins, Cezary Jozef Olbromski, Victor Kocay, Roberto Verolini
This paper presents the hardened properties of a high-performance fibre-reinforced fine-aggregate concrete extruded through a 9mm diameter nozzle to build layer-by-layer structural components in a ...printing process. The printing process is a digitally controlled additive method capable of manufacturing architectural and structural components without formwork, unlike conventional concrete construction methods. The effects of the layering process on density, compressive strength, flexural strength, tensile bond strength and drying shrinkage are presented together with the implication for mix proportions. A control concrete (mould-cast specimens) had a density of approximately 2250kg/m3, high strength (107MPa in compression, 11MPa in flexure) and 3MPa in direct tension, together with a relatively low drying shrinkage of 175μm (cured in water) and 855μm (cured in a chamber at 20°C and 60% relative humidity) at 184days. In contrast well printed concrete had a density of 2350kg/m3, compressive strength of 75–102MPa, flexural strength of 6–17MPa depending on testing direction, and tensile bond strength between layers varying from 2.3 to 0.7MPa, reducing as the printing time gap between layers increased. The well printed concrete had significantly fewer voids greater than 0.2mm diameter (1.0%) when compared with the mould-cast control (3.8%), whilst samples of poorly printed material had more voids (4.8%) mainly formed in the interstices between filaments. The additive extrusion process was thus shown to retain the intrinsic high performance of the material.
This comprehensive compilation which is composed of 86 international and regional instruments on the regulatory framework of maritime work fills a gap by constituting an extensive practical reference ...tool with fully updated developments and more than 1000 references from international bibliography and case-law. The work is divided into four Chapters each one of which includes both legal instruments and comments: the first one addresses the ILO maritime instruments, including the new consolidated convention on maritime labour of February 2006, the second one addresses major IMO instruments which present an impact on the human element, including the STCW Convention as amended in 1995, the ISM Code and extracts from the ISPS Code, the third one deals with three leading Memoranda of Understanding on Port State Control (Paris MOU, Tokyo MOU and Black-Sea MOU), the fourth one tackles the European Community law on seafarers' protection and shipowners' obligations (including relevant Directives).
Assessment continues to take center stage in contemporary education, not merely for the data themselves, but for what they can tell us about students and their instructors - and even more important, ...about educational domains that need upgrading. Success in the technology-driven modern world increasingly depends on new competencies (many of which have yet to be fully identified), requiring new methods for their accurate measurement. The book asks readers to rethink the way assessment is conducted and competencies are defined, placing the process in the context of lifelong learning across subject domains. This forward-looking dialogue between contributors in education research, practice, and policy examines a range of specific assessment issues, technologies to address these needs, and larger policy concerns. Chapters focus on the most pressing goals and challenges facing the field today, including: - Using assessment to strengthen learning. - Recognizing the "natural" role of assessment in everyday life. - Creating an assessment culture in the schools. - Improving assessment through evidence-based methods. - Assessing competencies based in new media and technologies. - Making assessment relevant to students and faculty. It is a finely detailed blueprint for researchers in education and cognition, as well as for psychometricians in private and government agencies. (DIPF/Orig.).
Thirteen common susceptibility loci have been reproducibly associated with cutaneous malignant melanoma (CMM). We report the results of an international 2-stage meta-analysis of CMM genome-wide ...association studies (GWAS). This meta-analysis combines 11 GWAS (5 previously unpublished) and a further three stage 2 data sets, totaling 15,990 CMM cases and 26,409 controls. Five loci not previously associated with CMM risk reached genome-wide significance (P < 5 × 10(-8)), as did 2 previously reported but unreplicated loci and all 13 established loci. Newly associated SNPs fall within putative melanocyte regulatory elements, and bioinformatic and expression quantitative trait locus (eQTL) data highlight candidate genes in the associated regions, including one involved in telomere biology.
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DOBA, IJS, IZUM, KILJ, NUK, PILJ, PNG, SAZU, SBMB, UILJ, UKNU, UL, UM, UPUK
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