As research continues for the habitation of the Lunar and Martian surfaces, the need for materials for construction of structural parts, mechanical components, and tools remains as a major milestone. The use of in-situ resource utilization (ISRU) techniques is critical due to the financial, physical, and logistical burdens of sending supplies beyond low-Earth orbit. The Bosch process is currently in development as a life support system at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) to regenerate oxygen (O2) from metabolic carbon dioxide (CO2) with the byproduct of elemental carbon (C). The Bosch process presents a possible way of regenerating O2 without the disposal of hydrogen (H2) like the Sabatier. Ionic liquids (ILs) are also studied at MSFC as a means to harvest metallic elements from regolith oxides and meteorites. IL technology provides an energy efficient method of extracting critical manufacturing materials, such as iron (Fe) that could be used for ferrous alloy production. This dissertation seeks to explore the use of Bosch C and IL-Fe for ferrous alloy production through a series of studies. These studies included individually using Bosch C with commercial elements to cast low carbon steel and gray cast iron, investigating as-produced IL-Fe in a laser-based powder bed fusion (PBF-LB) printer to determine IL-Fe metallurgical characteristics, using the IL-Fe composition to design a ductile iron (DI) alloy of similar performance to a commercially available DI alloy, and lastly, refining this DI alloy to produce a DI alloy more representative of an alloy producible from IL-Fe and Bosch byproduct C in a Martian environment. The results presented here suggest that with advances in production rate and control of IL-Fe oxidation, and by providing a sufficient energy grid to operate equipment, a range of high quality DI materials could be manufactured with IL and Bosch process ISRU feedstocks.

Thesis (MTh)--Stellenbosch University, 2013. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The missio Dei is understood as the initiative, movement and sending love of the triune God to the world for the purpose of establishing his kingdom. When the phrase “missional” is used within the context of the church, it describes a congregation that finds her identity within this theological framework, and understands that her calling lies in collaborating with the missio Dei. The human response to the missio Dei can be described by the concept “spirituality”. Trends within the macro-context of our time show spirituality is subject to subjective interpretation. It is therefore necessary to define and frame Christian spirituality within the context of faith, and more specifically, within the context of missional theology. For this reason this study poses the following research question: What is the essence and nature of missional spirituality? What would a spirituality that uses the missio Dei as its theological epistemological core look like? The study found that the essence of missional spirituality lies therein that the initiative of man’s search for and connection to God, belongs to God himself. The Trinity provides the landscape in which missional spirituality can be described and understood. Missional spirituality insists, though, that a believer’s knowledge of God (theology) is meant to be fully embraced in life as response to God (spirituality). It thus invites a believer towards participation in the missio Dei, within the following three spheres: - A process of spiritual formation: God takes the initiative in the salvation of man and restores Him, through the atonement of Christ, to a relationship with Him. God further invites and enables the believer in becoming a participant in a process of spiritual formation, which is meant to impact his life holistically. A way of life, characterised by faith and love, becomes the measure of an adequate response to the missio Dei. - A community of faith: God also takes the initiative in the formation of a faith community. Communion with Christ assumes communion with the body of Christ. Missional spirituality invites believers towards mutual relationships within the community of faith that strives towards reflecting the unity and love of the Trinity. - Social transformation: It is distinctive of missional spirituality that God takes the initiative in the transformation of society. There is an underlying connection between the agenda of God’s kingdom and the transformation of reality. A call to Christ involves believers in a call towards social transformation, incarnate to the conditions of time and place. The study shows that a reciprocal interiority exists between these spheres of participation, which is characteristic to missional spirituality. The embrace thereof opens the door to the believer towards finding meaning in life. A believer can further his participation in the missio Dei by engaging in spiritual practices, which grows his capacity for a greater awareness of God’s movement and the discernment of his will. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die missio Dei word verstaan as die inisiatief, beweging en gestuurdheid van die Drie-enige God na die wêreld met die oog op die vestiging van sy koninkryk. “Missionaal” is ’n term wat gebruik word om aan te dui dat ’n gemeente haar roeping as medewerker van die missio Dei verstaan en haar identiteit binne hierdie teologiese raamwerk vind. Die menslike respons op die missio Dei kan beskryf word deur die begrip “spiritualiteit”. Tendense binne die makro-konteks van ons tyd dui aan spiritualiteit word onderwerp aan subjektiewe interpretasie. Dit is daarom nodig om Christelike spiritualiteit te definieer en te begrens binne die konteks van geloof, en meer spesifiek, binne die konteks van missionale teologie. Hierdie studie werk dus met die volgende navorsingsvraag: Wat is die aard en karakter van missionale spiritualiteit? Hoe lyk ’n spiritualiteit wat vertrek vanuit die missio Dei as teologiese epistemologiese basis? Die studie het bevind dat die hart van missionale spiritualiteit daarin lê dat die inisiatief van ’n mens se soeke na en verhouding met God, by God self lê. Die Drie-eenheid bied die landskap waarbinne missionale spiritualiteit beskryf en verstaan kan word. Missionale spiritualiteit dring egter daarop aan dat ’n gelowige se kennis van God (teologie) bedoel is om ten volle omhels te word binne die lewe as respons tot God (spiritualiteit). Daarom nooi dit ’n gelowige tot deelname aan die missio Dei op drie terreine: - ’n Proses van geloofsvorming: God neem die inisiatief in die verlossing van die mens en herstel hom, deur die versoeningswerk van Christus, in ’n verhouding met Hom. God nooi en bemagtig dan die gelowige as deelnemer aan ’n proses van geloofsvorming, wat gemik is daarop om die gelowige se lewe op ’n holistiese wyse te deurweek. ’n Lewenswyse van geloof en liefde word die maatstaf vir ’n gepaste respons op die missio Dei. - Geloofsgemeenskap: God neem ook die inisiatief neem in die vorming van geloofsgemeenskap. ’n Verbondenheid met Christus impliseer ’n verbondenheid aan die liggaam van Christus. Missionale spiritualiteit nooi gelowiges tot wederkerige verhoudings binne ’n geloofsgemeenskap, wat daarna streef om die eenheid en liefde van die Triniteit te reflekteer. - Sosiale transformasie: Dit is kenmerkend van missionale spiritualiteit dat God die inisiatief neem in die transformasie van die werklikheid. Daar bestaan ’n onlosmaaklike verband tussen die bedoeling van die koninkryk van God en die transformasie van die wêreld. Die roeping tot die navolging van Christus betrek gelowiges, binne die konteks van hul tyd en plek, as deelnemers van sosiale transformasie. Die studie dui aan dat daar ’n wederkerige, interafhanklike verhouding bestaan tussen hierdie drie areas van deelname binne spiritualiteit, waardeur missionale spiritualiteit gekenmerk word. Die omarming hiervan bied aan ’n gelowige ’n sleutel tot ’n lewe wat iets beteken. Gelowiges kan groei in hul deelname aan die missio Dei deur die beoefening van geloofsgewoontes, wat die kapasiteit bou vir ’n groter bewustheid van God se beweging en die onderskeiding van sy wil.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-25T19:21:02Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Lilian Wurzba Ioshimoto.pdf: 23831056 bytes, checksum: 6472c63b8fcf38f92ba1b90cfc696173 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-10-29 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / This research deals with religious melancholy and its symbolical expressions in the Hieronymus Bosch s pictorial work. Starting from Robert Burton s definition, it investigates the appropriateness of the concept of religious melancholy as a description of the paradox of human condition. Going all the way from the first definitions of the phenomenon, in the Hippocratic corpus or in philosophy, through its presence in medieval theology, until reaching as far as modern psychiatry, it claims, based on the categories of Carl Gustav Jung analytical psychology, that it can be best understood as a symbol expressing the soul s most typical process, a psychic state representative of the duality of human existence, rather than as mere pathology. Severed from its original ontological state of identify to become something a being in time and space, the soul must recognize itself as fragment of what is real rather than as an unreal whole; it must accept that it is a creature, not the creator. This process, going as it were beyond rational grasp (since it is representative of the relation of the I with the depths of the psyche), can only translate into images, from the sublime and incomprehensible to the perverse and grotesque. Fantastic images like the ones found in the figurative universe of Bosch s work, which, apart from its open satirical and pedagogical purpose, displays not the fear of death or man s lack of foundation, but the on-going tension between the I, the world and God the angst of living. The present work is, thus, a symbolic analysis of Hieronymus Bosch based on the many commentators of his ground-breaking body of work, on the theoretical views on melancholy developed throughought history and Jungian concepts, with the purpose of identifying religious melancholy in Bosch s labyrinthic landscapes as an essential feature of the human condition / Esta pesquisa aborda a melancolia religiosa e suas expressões simbólicas na obra pictórica de Hieronymus Bosch. A partir da definição de Robert Burton, investiga a pertinência do conceito de melancolia religiosa como descrição da paradoxal condição humana. Percorrendo desde suas primeiras definições, na medicina hipocrática ou na filosofia, passando pela teologia medieval, até a psiquiatria moderna, e apoiada nos aportes da psicologia analítica de Carl Gustav Jung, verifica que, para além de uma patologia, pode-se entendê-la como um símbolo que expressa o processo típico da alma, um estado psíquico que marca a dualidade da existência humana: separada de sua identidade ontológica, para se tornar realidade no tempo e no espaço, deve-se reconhecer como um fragmento real e não um todo irreal, deve aceitar que é criatura e não Criador. Tal processo, ultrapassando a compreensão racional, pois significa a relação do eu com as profundezas abissais da psique, só pode ser traduzido em imagens que vão desde o sublime e incompreensível até o perverso e grotesco. Imagens fantásticas como as encontradas na trama figurativa da obra bosquiana que, ademais de uma sátira ou predicação, revela não o medo da morte ou a falta de fundamento do homem, mas a permanente tensão eu-mundo-Deus, a angústia de viver. Este trabalho, assim, configura-se como uma análise simbólica das pinturas de Hieronymus Bosch, apoiado em seus comentadores, nas teorias sobre melancolia desenvolvidas ao longo da história e no referencial junguiano, com o objetivo de identificar, nas paisagens labirínticas bosquianas, a melancolia religiosa, característica essencial do humano

My project examines the pictorial and theoretical dimensions of the concept of melancholy as they were understood, expressed, and, most importantly, figured by Renaissance artists. By focusing on the figural pose traditionally associated with the melancholic state and humor, it presents a hitherto unexplored connection between Northern and Southern Europe, considering the different ways in which artists self-identified as melancholics and expressed this understanding in their art. In both Italy and the North, the basic figural structure is appropriated for somewhat different ends. The relationship of the isolated figure to its cultural context varies, either declaring a special creative status, responsive to a higher inspiration, or setting the figure apart as an outsider with special insight into the follies of this lower world. Chapter One serves as an introduction to the pose of melancholy, its historical weight and the visual meaning carried by the isolated, brooding figure, generally wth lowered head supported by a hand and often with legs crossed. This is the figure epitomized in Dürer's Melancolia I. Chapter Two considers Michelangelo as the exemplar of a melancholic and addresses the cultural and personal identification of him as such. The relevance of the melancholy pose to the identification of the artist in sixteenth-century Italy is demonstrated by Raphael's depiction of the melancholy Heraclitus in The School of Athens, which I accept as portrait of Michelangelo; articulated in his poetry, the artist's self-identification as melancholic is visually declared in his Last Judgment. Chapter Three addresses the works of Hieronymus Bosch, in whose art the figure of melancholy runs as something of a leitmotif, although it has remained generally unobserved; the figure serves as a running comment on the thematic concerns of the paintings--such as The Garden of Earthly Delights and Death and the Miser--at once participant and outsider. Chapter Four explores the role of melancholics in specific paintings by Bruegel, especially The Triumph of Death, and the relationship between melancholics and fools in the artist's oeuvre. Chapter Five has at its focus Titian's Flaying of Marsyas and the artist's self-inclusion in the guise of the melancholy Midas. As a conclusion, this chapter reflects on the personal significance of melancholy for Renaissance artists.

The concept of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is the main theme of this diploma thesis. In the theoretical part of the diploma thesis the concept of CSR is presented together with its role in the corporate governance and the need for cooperation between different firm units to meet the pre-defined business goals. The practical part is dedicated to the analysis of the current state of fulfillment of the requirements of CSR in the social, environmental and economic field in the company Robert Bosch GmbH.

The diploma thesis deals with design of an experimental test bench for recovery energy simulation at machines with hydrostatic energy transmission. This work describes choice of connection and selection of hydrostatic and other components. A first part of the thesis deals with calculation and design of the flywheel whose is its rotational kinetic energy corresponds in a certain scale to translational kinetic energy of the experimental vehicle. The thesis outlines the efficiency of transformation of rotational kinetic energy to pressure energy its accumulation and subsequent conversion back to rotational kinetic energy. Precise determination of the effectiveness of hydrostatic recovery is one of the objectives of experiments that will be implemented at the test bench. The task of the measurement and physical-technical analysis to be conducted at the manufactured test bench is primarily to obtain data at for the precise control of the hydrostatic energy recovery system to maximize its efficiency.

This thesis covers the design and the construction of vehicle, which is powered by pressured fluid. The vehicle has driving system based on mechanical – hydraulic recuperation of kinetic energy during braking of vehicle. Her secondary part is used only by the start of vehicles. The thesis describes possibilities of kinetic energy recovery and in more detail explaines kinetic energy recovery with use of hydraulic systems and their practice use. The main part of the thesis contains a design of hydromobil with demonstration of individual options in outline. The selection of the whole hydraulic connection and transmission is described in detail as well as the construction of particular components of the vehicle.

This diploma thesis deals with the structural design of a vehicle powered by pressure fluid that is stored in a hydraulic-pneumatic accumulator. The first part described the types of energy recovery, especially hydraulic recovery. Furthermore there are outlined basic parameters of the design of the vehicle driving mechanism. The second part describes the design of hydromobile with emphasis on the chassis, especially the driving and braking system. Additional information on the individual parts of the chassis, that are put through the stress analysis. The final part deals with the actual manufacturing of the hydromobile and is followed by the resume of the thesis.

The meditation Sinner and beggar of Noordmans is used as a heuristic instrument to conduct a critical theological inquiry into the relationship between standard of living and the forgiveness of sins in the Reformed tradition. According to Noordmans the beggar (Lazarus in Luke 16:19-31) unlike the sinner (the tax collector in Luke 18:9-14) repents not only in a brief moment, but testifies with the totality of his existence to his heavenly inheritance. The intimate relation between physical suffering and salvation that Noordmans deducts from the parables, is compared with the parable interpretations of a few selected commentators. The content of his meditation is analysed against the background of his theological thought in general. Noordmans’s critique on the views of Pierson and the Heidelberg Catechism, Sunday 10, on Providence is placed in perspective by Calvin’s general guidelines on the correct use of earthly comforts. The connection between Calvin and contemporary society is brought about by examining exponents of neo-Calvinism (Kuyper) and Liberation theology (Gutiérrez). The perspectives on the relation between standard of living and the forgiveness of sins of Heyns, Bosch and Mofokeng are investigated to verge upon the Southern African situation. The particular angles of interlocutors on creation, eternal life and responsibility with regard to the relationship between standard of living and forgiveness of sins are systematically scrutinized. From this analysis a B&S-SCHEME (beggar-and-sinner-scheme) evolves – an aid to a more nuanced reflection on theological propositions concerning the relationship between standard of living and the forgiveness of sins. / Thesis (DD)--University of Pretoria, 2005. / Dogmatics and Christian Ethics / unrestricted

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