Bending of inhomogeneous curved bars

AbstractThe stress distribution across an inhomogeneous circular beam subjected to pure bending is considered. In previous treatments the spatial variation of the elastic stiffness has been modeled by a power law and here a slight generalization for the form of the elastic stiffness is given. It is shown that the standard curved beam approximation exhibits excellent agreement with the exact results. A method of engineering the stiffness gradient to produce a specified stress profile is presented

The United States Navy and scientific exploration, 1837-1860.

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The feeling of faith : a Thomistic account of religious emotions.

This dissertation is a philosophical analysis of religious emotions. It draws upon Thomas Aquinas’s theory of the passions to build and apply a framework for thinking about religious emotions and their role in the spiritual life. The first two chapters are dedicated to building the theoretical framework. Chapter one outlines Aquinas’s theory of emotions in a very general way and compares this account to recent versions of cognitivism. By placing Aquinas in conversation with contemporary accounts, I show that his theory is able to capture the central insights of this mainstream philosophical view. According to the Thomistic account that emerges in this chapter, emotions are psychosomatic forms of concern. In the second chapter, I begin to outline what makes an emotion a religious emotion. Drawing on Robert Neville’s theory of religious symbols, I suggest that religious emotions are emotions that have religious symbols interpreted in a devotional context1 as their object. With this account of religious emotions in hand, the next two chapters are dedicated to illustrating and applying this framework in a phenomenological and comparative mode. In chapter three, I apply the framework to illustrate its promise in highlighting common emotional patterns across religious traditions. In chapter four, I show how this account can also illuminate the diversity of emotional religious life both across and within religious traditions. In the final chapter, I use this model to explore the role of religious emotions in the religious life, particularly the relationship among religious emotion, cognition, and practice

The problem of religious diversity : a study and critique of the philosophy of John Hick.

This thesis is a study and critique of John Hick\u27s pluralistic hypothesis as presented in his book An Interpretation of Religion. I primarily focus on two issues: Hick\u27s epistemology of religious beliefs and the pluralistic hypothesis itself. These are two separate issues, but for Hick they prove to be inextricably linked. Hick uses his epistemological stance to argue that there is an epistemological problem of religious diversity. After he argues that there is a problem, he presents his solution, i.e. the pluralistic hypothesis. After explaining these issues, my critique focuses upon the connection between the two. I first critique Hick\u27s epistemological stance and in so doing argue that his hypothesis is unwarranted. I then argue that even if Hick\u27s epistemological position is correct, the problem of religious diversity is much broader than Hick presents it and his hypothesis is much too limited in scope to adequately deal with the problem

Dutch Elm Disease Resistant Cultivars for Campus Environmental Sustainability

Dutch Elm Disease Resistant Cultivars for Campus Environmental Sustainability John Dryden, Dept. of Civil Engineering & Construction Management ($3,135.00) 100 Dutch Elm Disease (DED) Resistant elm cultivar seedlings were grown to sapling size, then planted around campus by student groups and GS Landscape Services, and serve as campus landmark trees during Arbor Day plantings. These saplings also serve as propagation ‘parents’, thus ensuring a steady future supply of DED resistant elm trees for GS. As there has been virtually no research into the performance of these cultivars in Georgia, the long-term performance of these cultivars was reported to the National Elm Trial as part of their continuing research

A COMPUTER SIMULATION OF CREEP IN CERTAIN TWO-PHASE MATERIALS.

Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Paper copy at Leddy Library: Theses & Major Papers - Basement, West Bldg. / Call Number: Thesis1978 .D794. Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 39-05, Section: B, page: 2445. Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Windsor (Canada), 1978

Interactive Regulation of Dissolved Copper Toxicity by an Estuarine Microbial Community

Cultured marine microorganisms under copper stress produce extracellular compounds having a high affinity for copper (copper-complexing ligands). These ligands are similar in binding strength to those found in natural waters, but few studies have examined the relationship between copper, copper-complexing ligand concentrations, and natural microbial populations. A series of in situ experiments in the Elizabeth River, Virginia, revealed that an intact estuarine microbial community responded to copper stress by production of extracellular, high-affinity copper-complexing ligands. The rate of ligand production was dependent on copper concentration and resulted in a reduction of the concentration of free cupric ions, Cu2+, by more than three orders of magnitude during a 2-week period in one experiment. We believe that this interactive response to copper stress represents a feedback system through which microbial communities can potentially buffer dissolved Cu2+ ion concentrations, thereby regulating copper bioavailability and toxicity

Discussion of "Geodesic Monte Carlo on Embedded Manifolds"

Contributed discussion and rejoinder to "Geodesic Monte Carlo on Embedded Manifolds" (arXiv:1301.6064)Comment: Discussion of arXiv:1301.6064. To appear in the Scandinavian Journal of Statistics. 18 page