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I problemi del fondamento e della genesi delle azioni collettive nel sistema filosofico di John Searle.Zucatti, Tommaso 26 July 2022 (has links)
La presente tesi ha come oggetto due problemi della filosofia di John Searle, entrambi definibili come problemi del fondamento. Il primo è il problema del fondamento vero e proprio, e cioè il problema del tentativo di Searle di ancorare la mente umana (con la sua irriducibilità ontologica) alla realtà fisica e naturale, attraverso un’inedita soluzione del problema mente-corpo che prende il nome di naturalismo biologico. Il secondo è, invece, il problema del fondamento della realtà sociale, e cioè il problema del tentativo di Searle di collocare tanto l’origine ontologica quanto il principio esplicativo della realtà sociale e istituzionale dentro la coscienza (ogni singola coscienza) e, in particolare, nell’intenzionalità collettiva. In questo senso, la presente tesi ha lo scopo di mostrare che i tentativi di Searle non sembrano essere andati del tutto a buon fine. Per quanto riguarda il primo – e cioè il problema del fondamento vero e proprio – si cercherà di mostrare che a) il naturalismo biologico sembra essere fondato su una metafisica a livelli non adeguatamente sviluppata per sorreggerlo e giustificarlo, e che, di conseguenza, b) il naturalismo biologico non sembra essere quella soluzione semplice al problema mente-corpo che pretende di essere. Per quanto riguarda il secondo – e cioè il problema del fondamento della realtà sociale – si cercherà di mostrare che a) il costruttivismo sociale di Searle sembra sfociare in una forma di solipsismo apparentemente incompatibile con qualsiasi concetto di intenzionalità collettiva, ma che, ciononostante, b) sembra esserci una soluzione per questo problema non solo interna alla filosofia della mente di Searle, ma anche in grado di svilupparne le potenzialità inespresse.
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Inked women: narratives at the intersection of tattoos, childhood sexual abuse, gender and the tattoo renaissanceArmstrong de Almeida, Ana-Elisa 04 May 2009 (has links)
This study explores how heavily tattooed women with a history of childhood sexual abuse give meaning to their tattooing practices in view of the recent appropriation of tattooing by the mainstream. Embodied feminist poststructuralist theory revealed the ways that dominant discourses on gender, beauty, painful body modifications, and childhood sexual abuse intersect and interact in attempts to shape the identities of the participants. These intersections also reveal the participants’ resistance strategies and the process of identity transformation they engage in as they get tattoos. The constitution of identities through discourses offers alternative ways of seeing this population, challenging dominant discourses regarding female survivors of childhood sexual abuse tattooing practices. The research methodology used was a qualitative approach based on ‘interpretive interactionism.’ This approach makes visible and accessible to the reader, the problematic lived experiences of the participants through their narratives. The research methods involved several in-depth interviews with three heavily tattooed women who were survivors of childhood sexual abuse. The analysis involved interpreting the meanings participants gave to their tattooing practices in relation to how they construct their identities as they negotiate gender ideology, the tattoo renaissance, self-injury practices as related to tattooing, healing from childhood sexual abuse and oppressive beauty ideals. This study unearthed alternative ways of conceptualizing painful practices, female aesthetics, tattooing, women’s body reclamation projects, emotional trauma release, embodied domination, and bodily learning. It also offered insights into how the participants fragment their subjectivities and actively take over the authorship of their identities as they also try to positively influence their environments, challenge beauty norms and seek healing outside of traditional therapeutic environments.
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Resolution-aware Slicing of CAD Data for 3D PrintingOnyeako, Isidore January 2016 (has links)
3D printing applications have achieved increased success as an additive manufacturing (AM) process. Micro-structure of mechanical/biological materials present design challenges owing to the resolution of 3D printers and material properties/composition. Biological materials are complex in structure and composition. Efforts have been made by 3D printer manufacturers to provide materials with varying physical, mechanical and chemical properties, to handle simple to complex applications. As 3D printing is finding more medical applications, we expect future uses in areas such as hip replacement - where smoothness of the femoral head is important to reduce friction that can cause a lot of pain to a patient. The issue of print resolution plays a vital role due to staircase effect. In some practical applications where 3D printing is intended to produce replacement parts with joints with movable parts, low resolution printing results in fused joints when the joint clearance is intended to be very small. Various 3D printers are capable of print resolutions of up to 600dpi (dots per inch) as quoted in their datasheets. Although the above quoted level of detail can satisfy the micro-structure needs of a large set of biological/mechanical models under investigation, it is important to include the ability of a 3D slicing application to check that the printer can properly produce the feature with the smallest detail in a model. A way to perform this check would be the physical measurement of printed parts and comparison to expected results. Our work includes a method for using ray casting to detect features in the 3D CAD models whose sizes are below the minimum allowed by the printer resolution. The resolution validation method is tested using a few simple and complex 3D models. Our proposed method serves two purposes: (a) to assist CAD model designers in developing models whose printability is assured. This is achieved by warning or preventing the designer when they are about to perform shape operations that will lead to regions/features with sizes lower than that of the printer resolution; (b) to validate slicing outputs before generation of G-Codes to identify regions/features with sizes lower than the printer resolution.
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Beitrag zur Entwicklung eines hochdynamischen variothermen Temperiersystems für SpritzgießwerkzeugeDeckert, Matthias H. 20 April 2012 (has links)
Für die Verarbeitung von thermoplastischen Polymeren im Spritzgießprozess ist die Wahl der Werkzeugwandtemperatur entscheidend für die Formteileigenschaften und die optimale Zykluszeit. Das Spritzgießwerkzeug wird standardmäßig bei einer konstanten Werkzeugwandtemperatur betrieben, die bei speziellen Anwendungen, wie zum Beispiel die Abformung von nanostrukturierten Oberflächen, kaum eingesetzt werden kann. Dafür muss die Werkzeugwandtemperatur aktiv über die Dauer eines Spritzgießzyklus variiert werden.
Für die variotherme Temperierung wird im Rahmen der vorliegenden Arbeit eine neue Technik auf Basis einer elektrischen Widerstandsheizung entwickelt und untersucht.
Ziel der Arbeit ist die Entwicklung eines hochdynamischen Temperaturwechsels auf einer formgebenden Werkzeugwand, unter Vorgabe der Temperaturverteilung und ohne die Maschinennebenzeit zu verlängern. Dazu werden verschiedene elektrische Heizelemente konzipiert und untersucht. / For the processing of thermoplastic polymers in an injection molding process is the choice of the cavity temperature a critical property and a shape of the optimum cycle time.
The standard injection molding process with a quasi constant mold wall temperature cannot be used in the case of special applications, such as the replication of nanostructured surfaces.
For this the mold wall temperature has to be varied actively over the duration of an injection molding cycle. These variothermal temperature process is within the scope of the present study especially using a new developed technique based on an electrical resistance heating device. The aim of this work is to develop a highly dynamic temperature change on an injection mold wall by a defined temperature destribution and without an extended machine idle time. Various electric heating elements are designed and tested.
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Beitrag zur Entwicklung eines hochdynamischen variothermen Temperiersystems für SpritzgießwerkzeugeDeckert, Matthias H. 20 April 2012 (has links)
Für die Verarbeitung von thermoplastischen Polymeren im Spritzgießprozess ist die Wahl der Werkzeugwandtemperatur entscheidend für die Formteileigenschaften und die optimale Zykluszeit. Das Spritzgießwerkzeug wird standardmäßig bei einer konstanten Werkzeugwandtemperatur betrieben, die bei speziellen Anwendungen, wie zum Beispiel die Abformung von nanostrukturierten Oberflächen, kaum eingesetzt werden kann. Dafür muss die Werkzeugwandtemperatur aktiv über die Dauer eines Spritzgießzyklus variiert werden.
Für die variotherme Temperierung wird im Rahmen der vorliegenden Arbeit eine neue Technik auf Basis einer elektrischen Widerstandsheizung entwickelt und untersucht.
Ziel der Arbeit ist die Entwicklung eines hochdynamischen Temperaturwechsels auf einer formgebenden Werkzeugwand, unter Vorgabe der Temperaturverteilung und ohne die Maschinennebenzeit zu verlängern. Dazu werden verschiedene elektrische Heizelemente konzipiert und untersucht. / For the processing of thermoplastic polymers in an injection molding process is the choice of the cavity temperature a critical property and a shape of the optimum cycle time.
The standard injection molding process with a quasi constant mold wall temperature cannot be used in the case of special applications, such as the replication of nanostructured surfaces.
For this the mold wall temperature has to be varied actively over the duration of an injection molding cycle. These variothermal temperature process is within the scope of the present study especially using a new developed technique based on an electrical resistance heating device. The aim of this work is to develop a highly dynamic temperature change on an injection mold wall by a defined temperature destribution and without an extended machine idle time. Various electric heating elements are designed and tested.
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Variotherme Spritzgießtechnologie zur Beeinflussung tribologischer Eigenschaften thermoplastischer FormteileBleesen, Christoph A. 22 April 2016 (has links)
Im Rahmen der vorliegenden Arbeit wurde ein Spritzgießwerkzeug mit einem neuartigen Mehrschichtverbundheizsystem zur dynamischen Temperierung entwickelt und umgesetzt. Dabei wurde das ausgewählte Heiz‐ und Kühlsystem unter theoretischen und praktischen Gesichtspunkten betrachtet und für den variothermen Fertigungsprozess verifiziert. Aus den ersten durchgeführten praktischen Versuchen zeigte sich, dass dieses Heizsystem zur dynamischen Temperierung von Formwerkzeugen geeignet ist.
Anschließend wurden mit dem realisierten Spritzgießwerkzeug Versuchskörper mit spezieller Oberflächenstrukturierung und variierenden Werkzeugwandtemperaturen angefertigt und untersucht. Ziel war es, über diese Strukturierung eine Beeinflussung der Glasfaserverteilung im Formteilrandbereich zu erreichen und die tribologischen Eigenschaften bei Kunststoff‐Kunststoff‐Gleitpaarungen hinsichtlich Reibung und Verschleiß
zu verbessern. Mit einer kleinen Auswahl an Strukturen und entsprechenden thermoplastischen Polymermaterialien wurden praktische Versuche zur tribologischen Prüfung durchgeführt. / In the present work an injection mould was developed and implemented with a novel multilayer composite heating system for dynamic temperature control. Here the selected heating and cooling system was considered from a theoretical and practical point of view and verified for the variothermal manufacturing process. The first practical tests showed that this heating system is suitable for the dynamic temperature control of tools.
Subsequently, with this injection mould, test specimens with a special surface structure and varying mould wall temperatures were produced and examined. The aim was to achieve through this structuring an impact on the distribution of glass fibres in the edge region of mouldings and improve the tribological properties of plastic‐plastic‐pairings in terms of friction and wear. With a small selection of structures and corresponding thermoplastic polymeric materials practical experiments for tribological testing were performed.
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Plasmonic properties and applications of metallic nanostructuresZhen, Yurong 16 September 2013 (has links)
Plasmonic properties and the related novel applications are studied on various
types of metallic nano-structures in one, two, or three dimensions. For 1D nanostructure,
the motion of free electrons in a metal-film with nanoscale thickness is confined in
its normal dimension and free in the other two. Describing the free-electron motion at
metal-dielectric surfaces, surface plasmon polariton (SPP) is an elementary excitation
of such motions and is well known. When further perforated with periodic array of
holes, periodicity will introduce degeneracy, incur energy-level splitting, and facilitate
the coupling between free-space photon and SPP. We applied this concept to achieve
a plasmonic perfect absorber. The experimentally observed reflection dip splitting
is qualitatively explained by a perturbation theory based on the above concept. If
confined in 2D, the nanostructures become nanowires that intrigue a broad range of
research interests. We performed various studies on the resonance and propagation
of metal nanowires with different materials, cross-sectional shapes and form factors,
in passive or active medium, in support of corresponding experimental works. Finite-
Difference Time-Domain (FDTD) simulations show that simulated results agrees well
with experiments and makes fundamental mode analysis possible. Confined in 3D,
the electron motions in a single metal nanoparticle (NP) leads to localized surface
plasmon resonance (LSPR) that enables another novel and important application:
plasmon-heating. By exciting the LSPR of a gold particle embedded in liquid, the
excited plasmon will decay into heat in the particle and will heat up the surrounding
liquid eventually. With sufficient exciting optical intensity, the heat transfer from NP
to liquid will undergo an explosive process and make a vapor envelop: nanobubble.
We characterized the size, pressure and temperature of the nanobubble by a simple
model relying on Mie calculations and continuous medium assumption. A novel
effective medium method is also developed to replace the role of Mie calculations.
The characterized temperature is in excellent agreement with that by Raman scattering.
If fabricated in an ordered cluster, NPs exhibit double-resonance features and
the double Fano-resonant structure is demonstrated to most enhance the four-wave
mixing efficiency.
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Settling-Time Improvements in Positioning Machines Subject to Nonlinear Friction Using Adaptive Impulse ControlHakala, Tim 31 January 2006 (has links) (PDF)
A new method of adaptive impulse control is developed to precisely and quickly control the position of machine components subject to friction. Friction dominates the forces affecting fine positioning dynamics. Friction can depend on payload, velocity, step size, path, initial position, temperature, and other variables. Control problems such as steady-state error and limit cycles often arise when applying conventional control techniques to the position control problem. Studies in the last few decades have shown that impulsive control can produce repeatable displacements as small as ten nanometers without limit cycles or steady-state error in machines subject to dry sliding friction. These displacements are achieved through the application of short duration, high intensity pulses. The relationship between pulse duration and displacement is seldom a simple function. The most dependable practical methods for control are self-tuning; they learn from online experience by adapting an internal control parameter until precise position control is achieved. To date, the best known adaptive pulse control methods adapt a single control parameter. While effective, the single parameter methods suffer from sub-optimal settling times and poor parameter convergence. To improve performance while maintaining the capacity for ultimate precision, a new control method referred to as Adaptive Impulse Control (AIC) has been developed. To better fit the nonlinear relationship between pulses and displacements, AIC adaptively tunes a set of parameters. Each parameter affects a different range of displacements. Online updates depend on the residual control error following each pulse, an estimate of pulse sensitivity, and a learning gain. After an update is calculated, it is distributed among the parameters that were used to calculate the most recent pulse. As the stored relationship converges to the actual relationship of the machine, pulses become more accurate and fewer pulses are needed to reach each desired destination. When fewer pulses are needed, settling time improves and efficiency increases. AIC is experimentally compared to conventional PID control and other adaptive pulse control methods on a rotary system with a position measurement resolution of 16000 encoder counts per revolution of the load wheel. The friction in the test system is nonlinear and irregular with a position dependent break-away torque that varies by a factor of more than 1.8 to 1. AIC is shown to improve settling times by as much as a factor of two when compared to other adaptive pulse control methods while maintaining precise control tolerances.
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Temporal Variations in the Compliance of Gas Hydrate FormationsRoach, Lisa Aretha Nyala 20 March 2014 (has links)
Seafloor compliance is a non-intrusive geophysical method sensitive to the shear modulus of the sediments below the seafloor. A compliance analysis requires the computation of the frequency dependent transfer function between the vertical stress, produced at the seafloor by the ultra low frequency passive source-infra-gravity waves, and the resulting displacement, related to velocity through the frequency. The displacement of the ocean floor is dependent on the elastic structure of the sediments and the compliance function is tuned to different depths, i.e., a change in the elastic parameters at a given depth is sensed by the compliance function at a particular frequency. In a gas hydrate system, the magnitude of the stiffness is a measure of the quantity of gas hydrates present. Gas hydrates contain immense stores of greenhouse gases making them relevant to climate change science, and represent an important potential alternative source of energy. Bullseye Vent is a gas hydrate system located in an area that has been intensively studied for over 2 decades and research results suggest that this system is evolving over time.
A partnership with NEPTUNE Canada allowed for the investigation of this possible evolution. This thesis describes a compliance experiment configured for NEPTUNE Canada’s seafloor observatory and its failure. It also describes the use of 203 days of simultaneously logged pressure and velocity time-series data, measured by a Scripps differential pressure gauge, and a Güralp CMG-1T broadband seismometer on NEPTUNE Canada’s seismic station, respectively, to evaluate variations in sediment stiffness near Bullseye. The evaluation resulted in a (- 4.49 x10-3± 3.52 x 10-3) % change of the transfer function of 3rd October, 2010 and represents a 2.88% decrease in the stiffness of the sediments over the period. This thesis also outlines a new algorithm for calculating the static compliance of isotropic layered sediments.
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Temporal Variations in the Compliance of Gas Hydrate FormationsRoach, Lisa Aretha Nyala 20 March 2014 (has links)
Seafloor compliance is a non-intrusive geophysical method sensitive to the shear modulus of the sediments below the seafloor. A compliance analysis requires the computation of the frequency dependent transfer function between the vertical stress, produced at the seafloor by the ultra low frequency passive source-infra-gravity waves, and the resulting displacement, related to velocity through the frequency. The displacement of the ocean floor is dependent on the elastic structure of the sediments and the compliance function is tuned to different depths, i.e., a change in the elastic parameters at a given depth is sensed by the compliance function at a particular frequency. In a gas hydrate system, the magnitude of the stiffness is a measure of the quantity of gas hydrates present. Gas hydrates contain immense stores of greenhouse gases making them relevant to climate change science, and represent an important potential alternative source of energy. Bullseye Vent is a gas hydrate system located in an area that has been intensively studied for over 2 decades and research results suggest that this system is evolving over time.
A partnership with NEPTUNE Canada allowed for the investigation of this possible evolution. This thesis describes a compliance experiment configured for NEPTUNE Canada’s seafloor observatory and its failure. It also describes the use of 203 days of simultaneously logged pressure and velocity time-series data, measured by a Scripps differential pressure gauge, and a Güralp CMG-1T broadband seismometer on NEPTUNE Canada’s seismic station, respectively, to evaluate variations in sediment stiffness near Bullseye. The evaluation resulted in a (- 4.49 x10-3± 3.52 x 10-3) % change of the transfer function of 3rd October, 2010 and represents a 2.88% decrease in the stiffness of the sediments over the period. This thesis also outlines a new algorithm for calculating the static compliance of isotropic layered sediments.
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