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    Cultures of Citizenship in the Twenty-First Century: Literary and Cultural Perspectives on a Legal Concept

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    In the early twenty-first century, the concept of citizenship is more contested than ever. As refugees set out to cross the Mediterranean, European nation-states refer to "cultural integrity" and "immigrant inassimilability," revealing citizenship to be much more than a legal concept. The contributors to this volume take an interdisciplinary approach to considering how cultures of citizenship are being envisioned and interrogated in literary and cultural (con)texts. Through this framework, they attend to the tension between the citizen and its spectral others - a tension determined by how a country defines difference at a given moment

    Systemic Circular Economy Solutions for Fiber Reinforced Composites

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    This open access book provides an overview of the work undertaken within the FiberEUse project, which developed solutions enhancing the profitability of composite recycling and reuse in value-added products, with a cross-sectorial approach. Glass and carbon fiber reinforced polymers, or composites, are increasingly used as structural materials in many manufacturing sectors like transport, constructions and energy due to their better lightweight and corrosion resistance compared to metals. However, composite recycling is still a challenge since no significant added value in the recycling and reprocessing of composites is demonstrated. FiberEUse developed innovative solutions and business models towards sustainable Circular Economy solutions for post-use composite-made products. Three strategies are presented, namely mechanical recycling of short fibers, thermal recycling of long fibers and modular car parts design for sustainable disassembly and remanufacturing. The validation of the FiberEUse approach within eight industrial demonstrators shows the potentials towards new Circular Economy value-chains for composite materials

    The Digital Transformation Roadmap

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    (b2023 to 2014) The UNBELIEVABLE similarities between the ideas of some people (2006-2016) and my ideas (2002-2008) in physics (quantum mechanics, cosmology), cognitive neuroscience, philosophy of mind, and philosophy (this manuscript would require a REVOLUTION in international academy environment!)

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    (b2023 to 2014) The UNBELIEVABLE similarities between the ideas of some people (2006-2016) and my ideas (2002-2008) in physics (quantum mechanics, cosmology), cognitive neuroscience, philosophy of mind, and philosophy (this manuscript would require a REVOLUTION in international academy environment!

    Publicacions científiques de l'Escola Politècnica Superior d'Enginyeria de Vilanova i la Geltrú (EPSEVG) 2017-2021

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    La motivació que origina l’elaboració d’aquest informe va néixer l’any 2021 quan l’equip directiu de l’EPSEVG va sol·licitar conèixer el posicionament científic de la comunitat investigadora del Campus UPC Vilanova per tal d’identificar la seva recerca més rellevant. Aleshores es va realitzar l’informe Publicacions científiques de l'Escola Politècnica Superior d'Enginyeria de Vilanova i la Geltrú (EPSEVG) en el període 2015-2020 que s’actualitza en el present informe dins el període 2017-2021, ja que interessa mantenir una visió per blocs de 5 anys. La informació de base s’ha extret del portal de la producció científica FUTUR que fa visibles les publicacions introduïdes al sistema d’informació DRAC (Descriptor de la Recerca i l’Activitat Acadèmica) de la Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. També s’ha utilitzat la base de dades Scopus d’Elsevier i Web of Science per identificar els quartils de les revistes recuperades (JCR) i per elaborar el mapa de matèries. La consulta d’aquestes fonts i recollida d’indicadors s’ha realitzat durant els mesos gener a abril 2023 en base a la producció científica del personal amb activitat de recerca de l’EPSEVG, signada amb l’afiliació UPC. El llistat de personal objecte d’aquest estudi s’ha elaborat a partir dels resultats que genera FUTUR en la cerca de ”EPSEVG” al botó d’Organitzacions. Així doncs, és de vital importància mantenir actualitzats els perfils a FUTUR, base d’informació d’aquest treball. Les publicacions científiques que s’han considerat per presentar en aquest informe són els articles de revista, les tesis doctorals, projectes competitius i no competitius i les patents. S’han exclòs els treballs presentats a congressos perquè no tenen un pes important en els processos d’avaluació i acreditació. La metodologia es basa en la recollida de diversos indicadors bibliomètrics de la producció científica del personal docent i investigador (PDI) adscrit als grups de recerca de l'Escola Politècnica Superior d'Enginyeria de Vilanova i la Geltrú (EPSEVG) durant els anys 2017-2021 per tal d’oferir una visió qualitativa global. Els indicadors que s’han tingut en compte són: nombre d’articles, indexats a Scopus; nombre de revistes amb indicació de quartil, segons WOS; nombre de cites (exclusió d’autocites), segons Scopus; nombre de projectes R+D+I competitius i no competitius; nombre de tesis dirigides i nombre patents, segons Futur. L’estructura d’aquest informe es desplega des d’una visió general a una més específica. En el primer apartat s’analitzen les dades generals i globals, seguidament aquests dades es mostren en relació als grups de recerca. Existeix PDI vinculat a l’EPSEVG, sense assignació a cap grup de recerca o amb assignació a grups amb seu a altres campus o universitats, que no formen part d’aquest estudi.Postprint (author's final draft

    Engineering for a changing world: 60th Ilmenau Scientific Colloquium, Technische Universität Ilmenau, September 04-08, 2023 : programme

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    In 2023, the Ilmenau Scientific Colloquium is once more organised by the Department of Mechanical Engineering. The title of this year’s conference “Engineering for a Changing World” refers to limited natural resources of our planet, to massive changes in cooperation between continents, countries, institutions and people – enabled by the increased implementation of information technology as the probably most dominant driver in many fields. The Colloquium, supplemented by workshops, is characterised but not limited to the following topics: – Precision engineering and measurement technology Nanofabrication – Industry 4.0 and digitalisation in mechanical engineering – Mechatronics, biomechatronics and mechanism technology – Systems engineering – Productive teaming - Human-machine collaboration in the production environment The topics are oriented on key strategic aspects of research and teaching in Mechanical Engineering at our university

    Keynes from below : a social history of Second World War Keynesian economics

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    The macroeconomic agenda known as Keynesianism was highly contentious when it was introduced to Australia during the Second World War. Using a ‘history from below’ approach – correctly understood as a society-wide analysis – this thesis reveals the debates and the participants in the social nexus that considered the work of the British economist John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946). It shows that the populous willed a break from the status quo, ranging in favour of socialism to a non-capitalist third way. Support for Keynesianism was isolated to capital and the political right wing, with labour, centrists, the left and far-left strongly opposed. As the war progressed, apathy set in and Keynesianism came to be seen by opponents as either a non-capitalist third way or as the triumph of the possible over the desirable socialist “new order”. From 1936, Keynes had popularised a new economics based on full employment planning that quickly displaced ‘laissez faire capitalism’ in the minds of economists and policymakers. As war broke out, Keynes submitted a war finance plan for public consideration in the United Kingdom. Essentially, the plan addressed the practical aspects of managing an economy experiencing full employment. It contained measures to reduce wage growth to counter rising inflation, welfare for mothers and children to protect their well-being – but also the population growth essential to future economic growth – and the partial repayment of seized wages at the end of the war that would form the basis of post-war “reconstruction”. The Keynes plan generated interest in Australia which rapidly turned to speculation about its applicability. A fierce debate raged, divided on broad political lines, for two years that would shift public opinion and contribute significantly to the rise of the Curtin government (1941-45). However, once enthusiasm for reconstruction waned, it was this government that brought about post-war Keynesianism.Doctor of Philosoph

    Magnetic Material Modelling of Electrical Machines

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    The need for electromechanical energy conversion that takes place in electric motors, generators, and actuators is an important aspect associated with current development. The efficiency and effectiveness of the conversion process depends on both the design of the devices and the materials used in those devices. In this context, this book addresses important aspects of electrical machines, namely their materials, design, and optimization. It is essential for the design process of electrical machines to be carried out through extensive numerical field computations. Thus, the reprint also focuses on the accuracy of these computations, as well as the quality of the material models that are adopted. Another aspect of interest is the modeling of properties such as hysteresis, alternating and rotating losses and demagnetization. In addition, the characterization of materials and their dependence on mechanical quantities such as stresses and temperature are also considered. The reprint also addresses another aspect that needs to be considered for the development of the optimal global system in some applications, which is the case of drives that are associated with electrical machines

    Effectual Urban Governance: The Effectuation of Cities for Systems Change Under Uncertainty

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    Three key drivers create the imperative for a new approach to urban governance. Firstly, scientists around the world agree that global ecological systems are at risk of collapse if current development trajectories continue. Secondly, decision-makers are facing a heightened level of uncertainty, due to factors including climate risk, ecosystem changes and geopolitical tensions – and since 2020, the COVID-19 global pandemic. And thirdly, given these complexities, current models of forecasting and prediction for strategic decision-making are increasingly constrained and unreliable, particularly for informing urban infrastructure governance decisions with multi-decade legacies. While urban infrastructure decision-makers find uncertainty challenging, for entrepreneurs uncertainty is the basis for opportunity. Entrepreneurs are agents of systems change, especially under conditions of heightened uncertainty. As a result, this thesis turns to the entrepreneurship domain to inform a new approach to urban governance, specifically the entrepreneurial decision-making logic of ‘effectuation’ developed by Saras Sarasvathy through her study of expert entrepreneurs’ approaches to new venture creation. Effectual urban governance includes establishing design principles, beginning with available means, establishing partnerships, and taking effectual action to iteratively increasing the structuration of innovations. In Part 1 - the thesis develops this model by reviewing and synthesizing the literature on sustainability transitions, urban governance, and entrepreneurship, with a historical analysis illustrating the role of entrepreneurship in industrial systems change. Building on a novel taxonomy of urban governance along the axes of uncertainty and systems change, the dynamic model of effectual urban governance combines entrepreneurship theory with sustainability transitions theory and is demonstrated through an illustrative civil infrastructure case study of the Willunga Basin Water Company informed by semi-structured research interviews. Part 2 of the thesis justifies the applicability of this model through focus on four key elements of effectual urban governance with application to urban transport, elaborating the theoretical rationale for each element and providing insights from effectuation literature and supporting complementary academic theories and research conducted during this thesis. In doing so, the thesis makes theoretical and practical contributions to urban governance and the development of civil infrastructure in the 21st century. At a time of heightened uncertainty, when global industrial and economic transformation to avert ecological collapse is imperative, this thesis begins a new conversation by demonstrating how adopting an entrepreneurial approach to civil infrastructure development can help government and civil actors proactively address the world’s shared and complex challenges. Effectual urban governance is this approach.Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Adelaide, School of Architecture and Civil Engineering, 202
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