A method for calculation of finite fatigue life under multiaxial loading in high-cycle domain

A method for fatigue life assessment in high-cycle domain under multiaxial loading is presented in this paper. This approach allows fatigue assessment under any kind of load history, without limitations. The methodology lies on the construction - at a macroscopic level - of an “indicator” in the form of a set of cycles, representing plasticity that can arise at mesoscopic level throughout fatigue process. During the advancement of the loading history new cycles are created and a continuous evaluation of the damage is made

Understanding the influence of social responsibility educational interventions on the empowerment of female student-athletes : a case study using consensual qualitative research

"May 2014."Dissertation Supervisor: Dr. Alex Waigandt.Includes vita.At a time when socially irresponsible behavior, alcohol abuse, and relationship and sexual violence are particularly prevalent on college campuses, empowering female student-athletes to live their best lives regardless of societal expectations is a vital pursuit for intercollegiate athletic departments and academic service professionals. Therefore, female student-athletes who participated in a social responsibility educational intervention were interviewed to explore their experiences of the program and to understand its influence on their experiences of empowerment. Using consensual qualitative research, five domains were revealed: perception of psychological empowerment, perception of social empowerment, perception of physical empowerment, perception of biggest takeaways, and experience of program. Findings illustrate the importance and value of lighting a fire within a woman who believes in herself, who can act upon those beliefs, and who can build community around those beliefs. Findings also reveal a medium through which athletic department leaders can advance their efforts to empower female student-athletes through educational and personal development opportunities.Includes bibliographical references (pages 81-88)

Moving the Library: Bringing Resources to Students (Using a Learning Management System)

Students are increasingly finding library resources online due to the explosion in online courses and the use of course management software for all courses, whether fully online, hybrid, or traditional face-to-face courses. Librarians from Union County College (a two-year community college) and Montclair State University (a large research library) discussed the various approaches used to promote and market library services and resources using their institutions’ library management system (LMS). A representative from Gale Cengage presented how Gale is connecting library content to the classroom while helping libraries raise their profile on campus

Il meglio è nemico del bene

The aim of this paper is to accurately and realistically describe the condition of the archives in which the documentation of excavations and, more in general, of the intervention related to archaeology in Italy should be kept. It is clear that, because of the backwardness of the regulations and the lack of personnel in the Archaeology Superintendencies, every project of data sharing and data advertising needs to start from an absolutely matter-of-fact evaluation of the state of affairs. Additionally, the author notes that the Bray-Franceschini reform, which separates Museums from the Archaeology Superintendencies, has worsened the situation adding cumbersome and almost insurmountable bureaucracy

User-Customizable Web Components for Building One-Page Sites

Most of online website builders work by combining and customizing reusable HTML modules. This approach could rise the risk of conflicts among modules. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is writing the specification of Web Components. This standard provides a browser-native solution in order to realize encapsulated Document Object Model (DOM) elements, in which the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and JavaScript scope is locally bound and the interaction with the document is strictly designed by the component author. Upon this standard, libraries have been built, Google’s Polymer being an example, which provide a declarative and easy way to realize Components. In this paper, we provide a solution to the module approach limit in website builders by using Web Components as modules that are customizable by the end user. Our approach uses standard web technologies that modern browsers are natively supporting. We describe how a customizable Web Component is designed and how to bind their options with the generator UI. Furthermore, we will show an application of this approach in a Landing Page generator. We demonstrate that the generator could import again the generated HyperText Markup Language (HTML) and edit it, without any intermediary data structure (i.e., eXtensible Markup Language, XML or JavaScript Object Notation, Json). Finally, we outline further future development of this approach

Experiencing indoor navigation on mobile devices

Recently, indoor navigation on mobile devices has received attention from both startups and large vendors, since it has many relevant practical and commercial applications. User positioning and navigation using GPS signals is becoming more and more popular, mainly due to the increasing availability of acceptable quality sensors into low-cost consumer devices as smartphones. However, indoor GPS-navigation is highly unreliable because of the poor communication with satellites and the lack of detailed maps. In this paper we discuss the technologies allowing the indoor computation of accurate location and orientation data, as well as other issues and challenges that indoor navigation apps should cope with. In particular, we present and make explicit reference to a system for indoor navigation (running on a smartphone), which has been designed by the Authors, including the main problems that have been tackled during its implementation

Do Miramar ao Monumento: a reconstrução do "velho trapiche"

The aim of this article is to analyze the building process of the former bar and the pier Miramar, which can be considered one of the major symbols of ancient Florianópolis, since the city hall’s initial suggestion of rebuilding it in 1988 until the conclusion of the work on the Memorial ao Miramar, in 2001. In order to this, articles from the newspaper O Estado will be analyzed, and Jacques Le Goff will be used as the theoretical background.Este artigo pretende analisar o processo de construção do antigo bar e trapiche Miramar – que pode ser considerado um dos grandes símbolos da antiga Florianópolis – desde a proposta inicial da prefeitura de reconstruí-lo, em 1988, até a conclusão das obras do Memorial ao Miramar, em 2001. Para isso, serão analisadas reportagens do jornal O Estado e, como suporte teórico, os escritos de Jacques Le Goff

Revisiting X-ray-Bright-Optically-Normal-Galaxies with the Chandra Source Catalog

X-ray bright optically normal galaxies (XBONGs) are galaxies with X-ray luminosities consistent with those of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) but no evidence of AGN optical emission lines. Crossmatching the Chandra Source Catalog version 2 (CSC2) with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) sample of spectroscopically classified galaxies, we have identified 817 XBONG candidates with LX > 1042 erg s-1 and X-ray to optical flux ratio FXO > 0.1. Comparisons with WISE colors and NIR, optical, UV, and radio luminosities show that the loci of XBONGs are in-between those of control samples of normal galaxies and quasars and are consistent with low-luminosity quasars. We find that 43% of the XBONG sample have X-ray colors suggesting NH > 1022 cm-2, double the fraction in the QSO sample, suggesting that a large fraction of XBONG are highly obscured AGNs. However, ~50% of the XBONGs are not obscured and have X-ray colors harder than those of normal galaxies. Some of these XBONGs have spatially extended X-ray emission. These characteristics suggest that they may be unidentified galaxy groups and clusters. Using the X-ray luminosity functions of QSOs and galaxies/groups/clusters, we estimate the approximate fraction of extended XBONGs to be < 20%. We also assess the approximate fraction of XBONGs whose AGN signatures are diluted by stellar light of host galaxies to be ~30%, based on their redshift and deviation from the extrapolation of the QSO LX-Lr relation.Comment: Submitted ApJ. 29 pages, 17 figure