Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-29T14:27:22Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Mauro Negro.pdf: 3229473 bytes, checksum: f4219e92f211a6db7c4babd8ed8e7dfb (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-05-23 / The text of Genesis 18,1 5 is important within the cycle of Abraham. Literary and theological analysis of this sense of perícope demonstrates very patriarchal reports. The goal of this dissertation is to do this analysis, especially demonstrating his "literary movement" or, as it is appropriate to say, his "literary beauty". This research takes the theological and ethi-cal considerations that relates with the other patriarchal traditions of Genesis. It is the study of Genesis 18.1 15 for his literary position in all the patriarchal ac-counts and especially with regard to Abraham. It is in half his life narrated in the text. Until that time, exposed in the text, he just waited for the fulfillment of promises, but nothing actu-ally happened. The end of life approaches with the accumulation of years. When least expec-ted the old promises, behold, the Lord, your God, appears and all is happening. The text is a moment of great expressiveness and narrative raises ethical perspective, using a sign lan-guage. The fundamental hypothesis is the centrality of literary text and its gestural expressi-veness that value the character Abraham, the other cited characters and their actions. The fundamental methodological theoretical aspect was used to read the text careful-ly, synchronous to its movement, always from the grammatical forms and guessing what the fundamental hypothesis suggested its expressiveness. She was always outstanding. The literary analysis of this short text leads to all the patriarchal narratives, especially Abraham cycle as part of the written traditions of Israel identity founders. The gestures of the same characters, often not valued in a theological analysis, are the expression of the beauty of this text. The three mysterious figures visiting the elderly Patriarch leave the divine mark of fulfilment of promises and assurance of joy that the birth of Isaac symbolizes / O texto de Gênesis 18,1 15 é importante dentro do ciclo de Abraão. A análise literária e teológica desta perícope demonstra muito do sentido dos relatos patriarcais. O objetivo desta dissertação é fazer esta análise, especialmente demonstrando seu movimento literá-rio ou, como é oportuno dizer, sua beleza literária . Esta investigação leva a considerações teológicas e éticas que se relacionarão com as demais tradições patriarcais de Gênesis. Justifica-se este estudo de Gênesis 18,1 15 pela sua posição literária no conjunto dos relatos patriarcais e de modo especial no que diz respeito a Abraão. Ele está na metade de sua vida narrada no texto. Até aquele momento, exposto no texto, ele apenas esperou o cumprimento das promessas, mas nada efetivamente aconteceu. O fim da vida se aproxima com o acúmulo dos anos. Quando menos se esperava das antigas promessas, eis que o Senhor, seu Deus, aparece e tudo passa a acontecer. O texto é um momento narrativo de muita expressividade e gera perspectivas éticas, usando de uma linguagem gestual. A hipótese fundamental é a centralidade literária do texto e sua expressividade gestual que valorizam o personagem Abraão, os outros personagens citados e suas ações. O aspecto teórico metodológico fundamental usado foi a leitura sincrônica do texto, com atenção ao seu movimento, sempre a partir das formas gramaticais e supondo o que a hipótese fundamental sugeria: sua expressividade. Ela foi destacada sempre. A análise literária deste pequeno texto conduz ao conjunto das narrativas patriarcais, especialmente ao ciclo de Abraão como parte das tradições escritas fundadoras da identi-dade de Israel. Os gestos dos mesmos personagens, muitas vezes não valorizados em uma análise teológica, são a expressão da beleza deste texto. As três figuras misteriosas que vi-sitam o idoso patriarca deixam a marca divina do cumprimento das promessas e da certeza da alegria que o nascimento de Isaac simboliza

Assessment of concrete buttress dams today consists of using analytical methods to investigate the stability in different failure modes. However, they simplify the problem at hand and neglect certain important features linked to geometry and thus not truthfully appraise the structures real stability.  This could be economically costly in assessments of both existing dam structures as this would eventually lead to unwarranted rehabilitation. The same can be said for dams under design.   Kalhovd dam is a concrete buttress dam that has recently undergone assessment where certain sections proved unstable in either failure mode. This study focused specifically on a buttress, numbered 49, of said dam which was deemed in the assessment to be unstable in the overturning and sliding failure mode.   The methodology used was to assess and compare stability for different methods of calculation, meaning analytical versus numerical analysis. The numerical analysis was performed with two-dimensional finite element analyses in a commercial FEM-software called ATENA which focuses on reinforced concrete structures. The numerical models made, were then probabilistically analysed by randomizing various material parameters to see their effect on stability. Some FEA models discarded the conventional way of modelling loads, as required by standards, to more realistically portray load actions on dams based on historical measurement.   Results from this study showed dissimilarity of stability for buttress 49 depending on which method of analysis was performed. Analytical methods proved to yield the most conservative results and concluded the structure unsafe, while including an accurate representation of the geometry in FEA models improved the stability such that it can be considered stable against load actions stated in guidelines.   Furthermore, material parameters randomized in the probabilistic analysis substantiated that various concrete variables had relatively little effect on structural overall strength in the most common failure modes.

<p>Examensarbetet har innefattat att utforma ett inredningsförslag till restaurangen Down Town i Eskilstuna. Förslaget har anpassats till den primära målgruppen studenter i åldersgruppen 18 – 35, på Mälardalens högskola i Eskilstuna. Vår uppdragsgivare har en vision om att restaurangen i framtiden ska bli en naturlig mötesplats, där studenter till förmånliga priser kan äta lunch och umgås. Utifrån en enkätundersökning, intervju med uppdragsgivaren, resultatet av rums analysen, inspirationsresan och litteraturstudier har vi arbetat fram ett helhetskoncept anpassat till målgruppen.</p>

<p>Produktutveckling, produktvård eller produktuppdatering har länge förekommit inom alla olika typer av branscher, den ter sig olika vilket speglar resultatet. Ett exempel på detta är att bruksföremål ersätts av den produktutvecklade modellen tillskillnad från möbelområdet där utvecklingen oftast resulterar i nya produkter jämte deras förlagor.</p><p>Produktutveckling är väsentlig oavsett designområde och gynnar såväl producent som konsument. Ur konsumentens perspektiv kan produktutveckling innebära trygghet, något man tidigare trivts med har utvecklats till något förhoppningsvis ännu bättre. Sakerna vi känner igen och har en relation till har effektiviserats, förbättrats och förskönats efter samtidens rådande ideal. För producenter kan produkt-utveckling ge upphov till effektiviserade och mer miljöanpassade tillverkningstekniker samt mindre ekonomiskt risktagande i förhållande till att lansera en helt ny produkt.</p><p>Syftet med den här rapporten är att på ett undersökande och analyserande sätt beskriva begreppet produktutveckling över tid. Vad blir följderna och konsekvenserna av en aktiv produktutveckling och hur ter sig produktutvecklingen inom olika designområden, hur kan den spegla vår samtid kontra dåtid. Som underlag till detta beskrivs dels tre olika exempel av tidigare genomförda produktutvecklingar inom olika ämnesområden. Dels undersöks begreppet produktutveckling i examensarbetets projektdel som genomförts i samarbete med Gemla Fabrikers AB och formgivare Åke Axelsson.</p> / <p>Product development, product care or product updates has for a long time been part of all branches involving a product and the result show variations in how this take form. One example is that utility goods become replaced throw product development, unlike the field concerning furniture wheredevelopment reflects a result of new products beside its precursor</p><p>Product development is important regardless the field of design and benefits both the producer and the consumer. Throw a consumer perspective product development could result in feeling a secure emotion towards a known product that has evolved into something new and hopefully better product. Products we recognize and have a relation towards have been improved, become more effective and embellished to modern ideals. For producers product development can result in more effective and environment friendly manufacturing and result in taking less of a finically risk in introducing a new product.</p><p>The purpose of this rapport is to investigate, analyze, and describe product development in aperspective over time. What are the consequences of product development and what form does product development take in different fields of design, how will product development reflect the past in the present. As basis I will use three different examples of product development that has been carried out in different product fields. I will also investigate the concept of product development as part of my graduation work and part of my graduation project which has been done in collaboration with Gemla Fabrikers AB and the designer Åke Axelsson.</p> / Produktutveckling tillsammans med Gemla Fabrikers AB

A studie about a male ideal in Sara Lidman''s novels Tjärdalen and Hjortronlandet, based on saga literature from Iceland.

In this thesis, four different crude oil samples and their saturate, aromatic and resin fractions were analyzed by two different thermoanalytical methods, thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) and differential scanning calorimetry (DSC). The experiments were performed at three different heating rates (5, 10 and 15 &deg / C/min) under air atmosphere. Same gas flow rate and same pressure were applied to all samples. The aim is to determine the kinetic analysis and combustion behavior of crude oils and their fractions and also determining the effect of heating rate on all samples. For all samples two main reaction regions were observed in thermogravimetry (TG), differential thermogravimetry (DTG) and DSC curves due to the oxidative degradation of crude oil components. It was deduced that the free moisture, volatile hydrocarbons were evaporated from the crude oils, light hydrocarbons were burned and fuel was formed in the first reaction region. The second reaction region was the main combustion region where the fuel was burned. From the TGA curves, it was detected that the heavier fraction, resins, lost considerable amounts of their initial mass, approximately 35%, while saturates lost only approximately 3% of their initial mass in the second reaction region. DSC curves of the samples were also examined and observed that as the sample got heavier, the heat of the reaction increased. Saturates, lightest part of the crude oil fractions, gave minimum heat of reaction. As the heating rate increased, shift of peak temperatures to high values and higher reaction regions were observed. The kinetic analysis of crude oils and their fractions were also performed using different kinetic methods. Activation energies (E), mean activation energies (Emean) and Arrhenius constants were found for crude oils and fractions. It was deduced that the resins gave the highest activation energy and Arrhenius constant for both reaction regions. Moreover, it was encountered that heating rate has no effect on activation energies.

Asphalt mixtures or asphalt concrete are used to pave about 93% of about 2.6 million miles paved roads and highways in the US. Asphalt concrete is a composite of aggregates and asphalt binder; asphalt binder works as a glue to bind the aggregate particles. The mechanical response of the asphalt binder is dependent on the time/rate of loading, temperature and age. An asphalt concrete mixture inherits most of these characteristics from the asphalt binder. Also the asphalt binder plays a critical role in providing the asphalt concrete the ability to resist tensile stresses and relaxing thermally induced stresses that can lead to fatigue and low temperature cracking, respectively. Hence, it is very important (but not sufficient) to ensure that asphalt binders used in the production of asphalt concrete are inherently resistant to cracking, rutting and other distresses that a pavement may undergo. Current binder specification (AASHTO M-320) to evaluate its fatigue cracking is based on the stiffness of the binder and not on its tensile strength. Also, measurements following current specifications are made on test specimens subjected to a uniaxial mode of loading that does not produce the same stress state in the binder as in the case of asphalt concrete. Another challenge in being able to produce binders with inherently superior performing characteristics is the fact that the asphalt binders produced in a refinery do not have a consistent chemical composition. The chemical composition of asphalt binder depends on the source and refining process of crude oil. There is a need to better quantify the tensile strength of asphalt binder and understand the relationship between the chemical composition of asphalt binders and its mechanical properties. The knowledge from this study can be used to engineer asphalt binders that have superior performance characteristics. The objective of this research was to quantify the tensile strength of asphalt binder, develop a metric for the tensile strength and identify the relationship between chemical composition and mechanical properties of asphalt binder. Laboratory tests were performed on binders of different grades using a poker chip geometry to simulate confined state by varying the film thickness, rate of loading and modes of loading. The chemical properties of asphalt binder were studied based on SARA fractionation. The findings from this research showed that the modified correspondence principles can unify and explain the rate and mode dependency of asphalt binder. This study also quantified the relationship between chemical composition, and rheological and mechanical properties of asphalt binder. Finally, a composite model was developed based on the individual properties of chemical fractions which could predict the dynamic modulus of the asphaltenes doped and resins doped binder. / text

Produktutveckling, produktvård eller produktuppdatering har länge förekommit inom alla olika typer av branscher, den ter sig olika vilket speglar resultatet. Ett exempel på detta är att bruksföremål ersätts av den produktutvecklade modellen tillskillnad från möbelområdet där utvecklingen oftast resulterar i nya produkter jämte deras förlagor. Produktutveckling är väsentlig oavsett designområde och gynnar såväl producent som konsument. Ur konsumentens perspektiv kan produktutveckling innebära trygghet, något man tidigare trivts med har utvecklats till något förhoppningsvis ännu bättre. Sakerna vi känner igen och har en relation till har effektiviserats, förbättrats och förskönats efter samtidens rådande ideal. För producenter kan produkt-utveckling ge upphov till effektiviserade och mer miljöanpassade tillverkningstekniker samt mindre ekonomiskt risktagande i förhållande till att lansera en helt ny produkt. Syftet med den här rapporten är att på ett undersökande och analyserande sätt beskriva begreppet produktutveckling över tid. Vad blir följderna och konsekvenserna av en aktiv produktutveckling och hur ter sig produktutvecklingen inom olika designområden, hur kan den spegla vår samtid kontra dåtid. Som underlag till detta beskrivs dels tre olika exempel av tidigare genomförda produktutvecklingar inom olika ämnesområden. Dels undersöks begreppet produktutveckling i examensarbetets projektdel som genomförts i samarbete med Gemla Fabrikers AB och formgivare Åke Axelsson. / Product development, product care or product updates has for a long time been part of all branches involving a product and the result show variations in how this take form. One example is that utility goods become replaced throw product development, unlike the field concerning furniture wheredevelopment reflects a result of new products beside its precursor Product development is important regardless the field of design and benefits both the producer and the consumer. Throw a consumer perspective product development could result in feeling a secure emotion towards a known product that has evolved into something new and hopefully better product. Products we recognize and have a relation towards have been improved, become more effective and embellished to modern ideals. For producers product development can result in more effective and environment friendly manufacturing and result in taking less of a finically risk in introducing a new product. The purpose of this rapport is to investigate, analyze, and describe product development in aperspective over time. What are the consequences of product development and what form does product development take in different fields of design, how will product development reflect the past in the present. As basis I will use three different examples of product development that has been carried out in different product fields. I will also investigate the concept of product development as part of my graduation work and part of my graduation project which has been done in collaboration with Gemla Fabrikers AB and the designer Åke Axelsson. / Produktutveckling tillsammans med Gemla Fabrikers AB

In the later decades of the nineteenth century and the early decades of the twentieth, large numbers of Canadian women were stepping out of the shadows of private life and into the public world of work and political action. Among them, both a cause and an effect of these sweeping social changes, was the first generation of Canadian women to work as professional authors. Although these women were not unified by ideology, genre, or date of birth, they are studied here as a generation defined by their time and place in history, by their material circumstances, and by their collective accomplishment. Chapters which focus on E. Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake), the Eaton sisters (Sui Sin Far and Onoto Watanna), Joanna E. Wood, and Sara Jeannette Duncan explore some of the many commonalities and interrelationships among the members of this generation as a whole. This project combines archival research with analytical bibliography in order to clarify and extend our knowledge of Johnson’s and Duncan’s professional lives and publishing histories, and to recover some of Wood’s “lost” stories. This research offers a preliminary sketch of the long tradition of the platform performance (both Native and non-Native) with which Johnson and others engaged. It explores the uniquely innovative ethnographic writings of Johnson, Duncan, and the Eaton sisters, among others, and it explores thematic concerns which relate directly to the experiences of working women. Whether or not I convince other scholars to treat these authors as a generation, with more in common than has previously been supposed, the strong parallels revealed in these pages will help to clarify and contextualize some of their most interesting work. / Thesis (Ph.D, English) -- Queen's University, 2011-10-14 20:59:21.45

Sara Lidman’s first novel, Tjärdalen (The Tar Pit, 1953), addresses ethical issues in a remote village in the north of Sweden. This essay discusses the novel’s narrative technique and the ethical aspects implied by the narration and aesthetic design. The approach is based on Adam Zachary Newton’s narrative ethics, which links narrative theory and method with an ethical perspective. Mikhail Bakhtin’s literary theory and Gérhard Genette’s concept of focalization are starting points for the analysis. The ethical framework is drawn both from Bakhtin and from philosophers Martin Buber and Emmanuel Levinas. This means that responsibility is a more important concept than the collective and individual guilt that has been the focus of some interpretations of the novel. Furthermore, in the essay, the concept of dialogue is both a narrative technique and an ethical position, thus knitting together the different parts of the essay: how ideas, voices, faces and eyes meet and how the village interacts with the outside world. Tjärdalen’s design opens to a polyphonic analysis and the essay examines how the text’s ethical and intersubjective emphasis grows out of the composition – out of the arrangement of scenes and viewpoints. The dialogue between multiple voices continues in the representation of the characters’ inner life. Petrus’ character is constructed as open and questioning, inviting discussion, persuading and arguing rather than dictating. In the essay this way of life is defined as dialogic, as opposed to the monologic positions of characters like Blom and Albert. The essay finds, however, that the strong position of the narrator dilutes the polyphonic pattern. The examination of the narrator explores both her loyalties and the attitudes and worldviews that she rejects. Particular emphasis is placed on the analysis of Jonas’ character, as the plot starts and ends with his eyes. The symbolism of the eyes and of the face forms a parallel structure in the text, giving the ethical discussion a depth not achieved by rational dialogue and reflection. In the essay, this level is interpreted by Levinas’ ethics, where the face and the eyes represent a call to responsibility. At the end of Tjärdalen, the ethical questions are transferred to the wider society outside the village. The analysis explores two lines in this shift: One is how the spatial organisation of the narrative and the unchanging quality of the village life leads to a circular composition. The other is how the text brings social criticism back to its origin in interpersonal relationships: to meetings face to face and to the responsibility for the “other” that, according to Levinas, Buber and Bakhtin, is the basis of these encounters.