Thefts Behind the Restoration of Dubrovnik After the Great Earthquake of 1667

Analysis of the court proceedings involving thefts of salvaged construction material in the Dubrovnik Republic between 21 June 1667 and end of 1676 allows an insight into the course of restoration on the Republic territory hit by the disastrous earthquake, providing useful data on the state of particular buildings, their location, owners and builders engaged in the reconstruction process. The article examines the impact of the government’s emergency measures on the reconstruction carried out in the urban area and on the postponed restoration of the villas in the countryside, as well as the shifts in the social perception of theft prevailing in the mentioned period. Analysis of the type of stolen construction material contributes to our knowledge of the distribution of earthquake damage on the entire Republic territory

Investigation on Multi-Physics Modelling of Fault Tolerant Stator Mounted Permanent Magnet Machines

This thesis investigates the stator mounted permanent magnet machines from the point of view of fault tolerant capability. The topologies studied are switched flux (and its derivatives C-Core, E-Core and modular), doubly salient and flux reversal permanent magnet machines. The study focuses on fault mode operation of these machines looking at severe conditions like short-circuit and irreversible demagnetization. The temperature dependence of the permanent magnet properties is taken into account. A complex multi-physics model is developed in order to assess the thermal state evolution of the switched flux machine during both healthy and faulty operation modes. This model couples the electro-mechanical domain with the thermal one, thus being able to consider a large range of operating conditions. It also solves issues such as large computational time and resources while still maintaining the accuracy. Experimental results are also provided for each chapter. A hierarchy in terms of fault tolerant capability is established. A good compromise can be reached between performance and fault tolerant capability. The mechanism of the magnet irreversible demagnetization process is explained based on magnetic circuit configuration. It is also found that the studied topology are extremely resilient against the demagnetizing influence of the short-circuit current and the magnet demagnetization is almost only affected by temperature

ROBERT MUGABE’S SIEGE ON JUSTICE: THE DEMISE OF THE SADC TRIBUNAL AND SOUTH AFRICA’S JUDICIAL REPARATIONS FOR ZIMBABWEANS

This research piece investigates how Zimbabwe’s government was successful in rendering a regional court obsolete, with the implicit approval of South Africa. It also tackles how South Africa’s judiciary stepped in to fill the resulting jurisdictional void by enforcing a distinctively detrimental decision on Robert Mugabe’s regime on a particularly controversial subject for both countries: namely, land restitution. In achieving the above, South Africa’s judicial branch managed to repair some of its executive’s missteps in handling Zimbabwe’s descent to authoritarianism – one brimming with human rights infringements and attacks on the rule of law. The article lies at the intersection of two humanities: political science and law, drawing themes and research methods from each. Still, it is not limited to practitioners from the said fields, being specifically constructed to be accessible to any interested reader

The student attention in physical education classes

In the direction to look for a better Knowing of the teaching process, to the level of that we cannot see: the thought, and particulary, the thought of those to which the learning concerns, we direct our study for the attention of the pupils. In fact, it seems not to be doubt that, in education, if the pupils will not be with attention to what they are doing, their learning will leave inevitably compromised. The basic purpose of this research was to know what students were thinking during Physical Education Classes. For data collection we used an instrument with a single question of closed and alternative reply, so that it could be filled in the fastest way. The questionnaire was applied to a large group of 10-13 years old pupils, in the classes observed to pré-service physical Education Teachers. The analysis of the questionnaires allowed us to get a global image of this aspect of the thought of the pupils, to be able to represent the profile of their attention in the lessons of the human movement

Feminist Perspectives on the Brain Drain and Social Reproduction in Transition Economies: Romania's Highly Skilled Post-Communist Migration to Canada

Starting with the 1990s, economies worldwide entered a knowledge-based phase of growth as part of the neoliberal project of development. In order to absorb the best well-trained workforce internationally, Canada re-organized its immigration programs. One of the products of this re-organization was a prioritization, enlargement and increased focus placed on the Federal Skilled Worker Program (FSWP). In my dissertation, I examine the effects and outcomes of the movement of highly skilled individuals on their origin developing and transition countries - Romania, in this case. Insofar as contextualizing Romanias post-communist transition to a capitalist market, the thesis contributes to the understanding of the transnational dimensions of social reproduction through Romanian mothers investment in the migration of their children to Canada, as well as the gendered foundations of certain Canadian immigration policies that make such movements possible. While the existing feminist literature on social reproduction has not made visible enough how womens paid and unpaid work in transition states enables the migration of young people, the brain-drain migration scholarship misses out completely the social reproductive work from developing countries that makes such movements possible. By analyzing Canadas Federal Skilled Worker (FSWP) immigration program and Romanian mothers investment in the migration of their children to Canada (mobility enabled by such programs), my aim is to fill in such gaps in the current literature, in an attempt to expand both the brain-drain migration and social-reproduction literature. In asking these questions, I hope to bring forward arguments about how Canadian neoliberal projects of growth and development are indirectly subsidized by Romanian womens work, and how the overall processes accentuate and intensify inequalities in different parts of the world

The Poetical Discourse as Ideological Subversive Act in the Romanian Totalitarian Age. Mircea Dinescu's Case

AbstractDuring the Romanian communist age, the ideological oppression of the totalitarian state has re-shaped the poetic mechanism in all its functional aspects, especially when looking at the lexical field. Focused on as a revolt-type discourse against the ideologically subjected poetic clichés and stereotypes mirroring exclusively the doctrine of the single Party, Mircea Dinescu's dissident poetry subversively displays stylistic rebellion and semantic re-configuration