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Gregory Lee "Initial Remarks", in part amended by hand 5 June 2001. Amendments added to the original document 28 August 2019.International audienceSee PDF document in German at https://gregorybarrylee.weebly.com/uploads/1/1/4/7/11477410/berlin_lee_dirlik.pd

Fracture, Fatigue, and Structural Integrity of Metallic Materials and Components Undergoing Random or Variable Amplitude Loadings

When quickly reviewing engineering and industrial fields, one often discovers that a large number of metallic components and structures are subjected, in service, to random or variable amplitude loadings. The examples are many: vehicles subjected to loadings and vibrations caused by road irregularity and engine, structures exposed to wind, off-shore platforms undergoing wave-loadings, and so on. Just like constant amplitude loadings, random and variable amplitude loadings can make fatigue cracks initiate and propagate, even up to catastrophic failures. Engineers faced with the problem of estimating the structural integrity and the fatigue strength of metallic structures, or their propensity to fracture, usually make use of theoretical or experimental approaches, or both. Counting methods (e.g., rainflow) provide information on the fatigue cycles in the load, whereas damage accumulation laws (as the celebrated Palmgren–Miner linear rule) establish how to sum up the damage of each counted cycle. In structural integrity, this is named as the “time-domain” approach. Over recent years, the “frequency-domain” approach has also received increasing and widespread use, especially with random loadings; this approach estimates fatigue life based on load statistical properties represented, in the frequency domain, by a power spectral density. Neither of the previous approaches, however, can do without the support of experimental laboratory testing, which provides a means to collect material strength data under specific loading conditions, or to verify preliminary estimations. The purpose of this Special Issue is to collect articles aimed at providing an up-todate overview of approaches and case studies—theoretical, numerical or experimental—on several topics in the field of fracture, fatigue strength, and the structural integrity of metallic components subjected to random or variable amplitude loadings

Türk İş Sisteminin Evrimi: Makro Kurumsal Bir İnceleme

Bu çalışmanın amacı son yıllarda popülerliği artan makro kurumsal kuram çalışmalarının sunduğu kavramsal çerçeve ile, spesifik olarak ulusal iş sistemleri yaklaşımından hareketle Türk iş sisteminin yapısal özelliklerini tanımlamaktır. Çalışmada Türk iş sistemi dönemsel olarak anlatılmıştır. Çalışma esasen devlete bağımlı iş sistemi özellikleri taşıdığı bilinen Türkiye’de, devletin piyasa üzerindeki etkisinin ve piyasadaki kurumsal aktörlerin tepkilerinin tarihsel olarak nasıl farklılaştığını anlatmaktadır. This study aims to describe structural characteristics of the Turkish business system under a conceptual framework presented by the macro-institutional theory, which has gained increasing popularity in recent years. The study is specifically based on the national business systems approach. In the study, the Turkish business system was explained cyclically. The study explains how the effect of the state on the market, and the reactions of the institutional actors in the market in Turkey, which is known to carry state-dependent business system characteristics vary historically

Colonialism, Revolution, Development : A Historical Perspective on Citizenship in Political Struggles in Eastern Asia

Intensified blending of populations through migrations, and the problem of citizenship in different national contexts, in recent years have foregrounded questions of culture and cultural difference in citizenship studies. These questions have been compounded by a pervasive supicion of a universalistic understanding of citizenship for its possible Eurocentric implications. Citizenship studies in Eastern Asia partake of this general problematic of culture. The complication of citizenship through recognition of its cultural dimension is a salutary development, but one that also presents a new predicament: loss of coherence of the concept, as well as a bias to culturalism that disguises the radical challenge the idea of citizenship has presented to inherited notions of political belonging, most importantly, the remaking of subjects into citizens that has accompanied the globalization of the nation-form from the late 19th century. Struggles for citizenship also bear upon questions of democracy and human rights, which also disappear from sight in culturalist readings. This is the problem that is addressed in the essay. I argue that the preoccupation with culture, if unchecked, threatens to erase a century long history of struggles for citizenship, democracy and human rights in Eastern Asian societies. Discussions of citizenship need to be sensitive to these struggles which are still very much issues of Eastern Asian politics

Bakmak ya da Görmek: Türk Yönetim Yazınını İnceleyen Çalışmaların Seyri

Bu çalışmanın temel amacı, Türk yönetim yazınını çeşitli amaçlarla inceleyen 56 adet çalışmaya toplu bir bakış sağlamaktır. Bu çalışmada söz konusu çalışmalar için yeni bir sınıflandırma önerilmiş ve bu sınıflandırma temelinde sözkonusu çalışmaların Türk yönetim yazını hakkında bildiklerimize neler kattıkları değerlendirilmiştir. Çalışmanın bulguları Türk yönetim yazınını inceleyen çalışmaların yazına sağladıkları katkılar çerçevesinde iki ana grupta kategorize edilebileceklerini göstermektedir. İlk grup çalışmalar yazını oluşturan çalışmaları belli özelliklerine bakarak sınıflandıran, derinlemesine bilgi içermeyen çalışmalardır. İkinci grup çalışmalar ise belli kuramsal problematikler çerçevesinde kurgulanan veya bulgularını çeşitli kuramsal bakış açılarına göre yorumlayan yazın taramalarıdır. Çalışmada ayrıca Türk yönetim yazını üzerine yapılabilecek çalışmaları geliştirmeye katkı sağlayacak bazı yaklaşımlar üzerinde durulmuş ve ileriki araştırmalar için bazı öneriler ifade edilmiştir

Theory, History, Culture: Cultural Identity and the Politics of Theory in Twentieth-Century China

This essay inquires into the relationship between theory, culture and history as it appears from a perspective at the end of the twentieth century. The substance of the essay consists of analyses two attempts to sinicize theory: the Maoist effort of the Yan an Period to make Marxism Chinese, and an effort by Chinese sociologists in the early eighties to make sociology Chinese. On this basis, the essay argues that the effort to confront theory by culture is by no means transparent, but has different meanings at different times. Such efforts may produce new theories, but any such production is likely to be quite ambivalent in its confrontation with culture, such changes are likely to qualify received theory but preserve it as the foundation for its modifications. Secondly, where culture acquires a strong voice in theory, the result is likely to be the disintegration of theory rather than its enrichment, or the broadening of its scope. This would seem to be the situation at the end of the century as evidence accumulates of the disintegration of received theories, which is articulated in postmodern/postcolonial questionings not only of theory and culture but of history as well. An idea such as the sinicization of theory may no longer be relevant, the essay suggests, both because it is increasingly difficult to speak of a "Chinese" culture in the face of a proliferation of Chinese societies with different historical trajectories, but also because such an idea is parochial in ignoring other cultural traditions making their claims on theory. History itself has been challenged in recent years as a particularly modern Western way of knowing the past. The essay concludes nevertheless that there is much to be gained from viewing theory, culture, and the interactions between the two, historically