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Quantification of the Relationship Poverty-Education in Algeria: A Multinomial Econometric Approach
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A Layered-Manufacturing Process For the Fabrication of Glass-Fiber-Reinforced Composites
In this paper, we present a rapid manufacturing process for the layered fabrication of
polymer-based composite parts using short discontinuous fibers as reinforcements. In the recent
past, numerous research efforts, similar to ours, have been made to produce fiber-reinforced
plastic parts via layered manufacturing methods. However, most of these attempts have not
resulted in the development of an effective commercially-viable manufacturing process. Our
proposed fabrication process on the other hand has been experimentally verified to yield
composite parts comparable in quality to pure polymer parts manufactured on a commercial
stereolithography system.Mechanical Engineerin
The 'Parekh Report' - national identities with nations and nationalism
‘Multiculturalists’ often advocate national identities. Yet few study the ways in which ‘multiculturalists’ do so and in this article I will help to fill this gap. I will show that the Commission for Multi-Ethnic Britain’s report reflects a previously unnoticed way of thinking about the nature and worth of national identities that the Commission’s chair, and prominent political theorist, Bhikhu Parekh, had been developing since the 1970s. This way of thinking will be shown to avoid the questionable ways in which conservative and liberal nationalists discuss the nature and worth of national identities while offering an alternative way to do so. I will thus show that a report that was once criticised for the way it discussed national identities reflects how ‘multiculturalists’ think about national identities in a distinct and valuable way that has gone unrecognised
Discourse or dialogue? Habermas, the Bakhtin Circle, and the question of concrete utterances
This is the author's accepted manuscript. The final publication is available at Springer via the link below.This article argues that the Bakhtin Circle presents a more realistic theory of concrete dialogue than the theory of discourse elaborated by Habermas. The Bakhtin Circle places speech within the “concrete whole utterance” and by this phrase they mean that the study of everyday language should be analyzed through the mediations of historical social systems such as capitalism. These mediations are also characterized by a determinate set of contradictions—the capital-labor contradiction in capitalism, for example—that are reproduced in unique ways in more concrete forms of life (the state, education, religion, culture, and so on). Utterances always dialectically refract these processes and as such are internal concrete moments, or concrete social forms, of them. Moreover, new and unrepeatable dialogic events arise in these concrete social forms in order to overcome and understand the constant dialectical flux of social life. But this theory of dialogue is different from that expounded by Habermas, who tends to explore speech acts by reproducing a dualism between repeatable and universal “abstract” discursive processes (commonly known as the ideal speech situation) and empirical uses of discourse. These critical points against Habermas are developed by focusing on six main areas: sentences and utterances; the lifeworld and background language; active versus passive understandings of language; validity claims; obligation and relevance in language; and dialectical universalism
Struggles over access to the Muslim public sphere: Multiple publics and discourses on agency, belonging and citizenship (Introduction to the Themed Section)
Abstract This introductory essay provides the context for the articles in this Themed
Section. Despite the diversity in locations, historical backgrounds and contemporary
processes of change, all contributors to this Themed Section focus on the struggle of
Muslim groups over access to an emergent Muslim public sphere. They highlight the
contestations of and shifts in the notions of agency, belonging, and citizenship in
nation-states with Muslim communities within its borders. The introduction consists
of two parts. The first part reviews the notion of the public sphere as conceptualized by
Habermas and critiqued by scholars of a diversity of backgrounds. In relation to the
concept of the Muslim public sphere, three aspects of critique are given closer
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Finite-element analysis for photoelastic tactile sensors
Abstract -In this paper, a photoelastic tactile transducer is modelled and analyzed using Finite-Element Analysis (F'EA). The effects of both normal and tangential forces are considered. Two different boundary conditions are examined for a transducer whose compliant protective layer has different mechanical properties from the photoelastic layer
Global citizenship as the completion of cosmopolitanism
A conception of global citizenship should not be viewed as separate from, or synonymous with, the cosmopolitan moral orientation, but as a primary component of it. Global citizenship is fundamentally concerned with individual
moral requirements in the global frame. Such requirements, framed here as belonging to the category of individual cosmopolitanism, offer guidelines on right action in the context of global human community. They are complementary
to the principles of moral cosmopolitanism – those to be used in assessing the justice of global institutions and practices – that have been emphasised by cosmopolitan political theorists. Considering principles of individual and moral cosmopolitanism together can help to provide greater clarity concerning individual duties in the absence of fully global institutions, as well as clarity on individual obligations of justice in relation to emerging and still-developing trans-state institutions
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