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The Iconic Essence of Sovereignty

This essay aims to investigate the relation between the dawn of the National State in the early Renaissance and the concepts of crysis/apocalypse on one side and visible power on the other. The hypothesis is that without representation there is no State at all. Furthermore we will suggest that the role of the visibility of the state is related to its capability to be the “cement of society”, that is to say to face the risk of the anomy. This study is based on the research of one of the most important Italian philosophers, Massimo Cacciari and on the work of the well-known german historian Ernst Hartvig Kantorowicz, and in particular of his masterpiece, The King’s Two Bodies

Development and evaluation of asphalt technologies utilizing renewable resources and innovative pavement systems

As the cost of construction materials continues to rise and place financial constraints on transportation agencies, engineers are looking for innovative technologies that minimize construction costs and optimize the selection of materials used in asphalt pavements. This dissertation includes a selection of four papers that advance the development, application, and utilization of innovative asphalt pavement technologies. Among the four papers, three subject areas in asphalt materials are examined to cultivate the use of newly-developed technologies in the asphalt industry. These include: the robust evaluation of hot mix asphalt from multi-state sources that utilize recycled asphalt shingles (RAS), the application and evaluation of a crack-relief interlayer asphalt mix design using new polymer technology, and the development of a bio-based thermoplastic elastomeric block-copolymer as a modifier for asphalt binder. In the case of the bio-based polymer, polymerized triglycerides from soybean oil serve as the rubbery block to replace butadiene in butadiene-based styrenic block co-polymers, thereby creating a new thermoplastic elastomeric polymer that is more renewable and biodegradable than its petroleum based counterparts. For each subject area, laboratory experiments were conducted on experimental asphalt materials to determine the performance characteristics for the development and/or evaluation of new technologies. The results of each study show the advantage of implementing the technologies in pavement applications. Asphalt formulations developed with the bio-based block-copolymer demonstrate the block-copolymer\u27s effectiveness in improving the rheological properties of asphalt binder; crack-relief interlayer mixes utilizing an improved polymer modified binder formulation are effective in delaying reflective cracking in overlay pavement systems; and a variety of asphalt pavements that incorporate RAS alone or in combination with other cost saving technologies can be successfully produced and meet laboratory performance testing standards

A Corpus-Based Study on the Portuguese Translations of English Adversative Coordinating Conjunctions and Adverbs in News Texts

The present study examines how adversative coordinating conjunctions and conjunctive adverbs are translated from English into Brazilian Portuguese through a parallel corpus built specifically for this research. The corpus is composed of 59 news articles extracted from the online versions of the British magazine The Economist and the Brazilian newspaper O Estado de São Paulo. While the former contains the original source texts, the latter consists of their respective translations. This research aims to verify if the translations of the adversative coordinating conjunctions and adverbs provided by four online bilingual dictionaries are the same or different from the ones used in the corpus. Another objective of the present investigation is to check if the positions of the conjunctions and adverbs vary between source and target segments. Finally, this study also intends to examine if there are omissions and additions of the words in question through a quantitative analysis. The results show that there are some incidences of translated adversative conjunctions and adverbs that differ from the translations drawn from the four online resources. Moreover, there are few occurrences of position shifting of these words when source and target texts are compared. Instances of omissions and additions of the adversative conjunctions and adverbs were also confirmed. The qualitative analysis explores numerous facets of the findings, including some unexpected translations of but, and how some of these results can be interpreted in the light of one of the most important translation theories — the notion of “equivalence.

Impact of Nanomaterials in Biological Systems and Applications in Nanomedicine Field

The increasingly widespread use of engineered nanomaterials in many applications increases the need to understand the mechanisms behind their toxicity [...]