Bridge on a motorway

Předmětem diplomové práce je návrh silničního mostu na Rychlostní silnici R1, v km 1,293 nad cestou III/51311. Hlavní náplní je statický výpočet nosné konstrukce o čtyřech polích. Byli zpracované čtyři studie a první varianta dvoutrámové monolitické konstrukce byla vybrána. Rozpětí polí se pohybuje v rozmezí od 25 m - 30 m. Dvoutrám se skládá ze dvou dodatečně předpjatých betonových trámů a železobetonové desky. Statické modely a účinky zatížení jsou řešeny v programu Scia Engineer. Most se nachází v půdorysném oblouku, nicméně, byl zvolen kompromis (z důvodu malého zakřivení), posuzování napřímené konstrukce. Byly zanedbány účinky zatížení teplotou, větrem a vodorovné síly od dopravy.The subject of Diploma’s thesis is the design of a road bridge on the R1 expressway, at km 1,293 above the road III/51311. The main content is static calculation of supporting structure consisting of four spans. Four studies were processed and the first variant of double-girder monolithic structure was chosen. The range of spans is ranging from 25 m - 30 m. Double-girder consists of two post-tensioned concrete beams and reinforced concrete slab. Static models and load effects are solved in Scia Engineer. Bridge is located in the horizontal curvature, however, compromise was elected (because of small curvature), assessing the upright design. Calculation is made without effects of temperature, wind loads and horizontal forces causing by traffic.

Your Discourse or Mine?

As scholars we speak frequently in public and are confronted with various interpretations of our work by others who at times do not share our own viewpoints. Though this often brings with it excitement at the opportunity to form bridges between academic and other discourses, reaching audiences beyond our own disciplines and engaging a wider public still remains a challenge for many of us. We look at these conversations as opportunities for further debate, for mutual learning, and for being introduced to different perspectives on our work. At times, how one’s work finds resonance elsewhere surprises, illuminating the scholar’s responsibility to engage with institutional and political actors that might appropriate our work to accomplish their own goals. Being a young scholar, my first encounter with such an experience came in late April of this year, when China Daily correspondent Kelly Chung Dawson reported about a conference panel on Internet technology in China that I participated in

Google.cn & Beyond: Politics of Digital Media

A bit more than two months ago, on January 12, 2010, Google released an official statement on its corporate blog that described the company’s plan to push back over censorship of search results on Google.cn. The following is an excerpt from that statement, which was inspired in large part by sophisticated cyber attacks against Gmail users that originated from within China

Young women’s agency to negotiate condom use in sexual relationships: Compromising factors leading to condom use inconsistency among young South African women

Postponed access: the file will be accessible after 2021-05-29Background. South Africa experiences a high prevalence of HIV, and women are disproportionately affected. Promoting condom use in heterosexual relationships has been one attempt to constrain the spread of HIV. However, significant obstacles such as gender norms and gender inequalities are found to be the primary drivers of HIV transmission. Gendered divisions of labour and power act as barriers to South African women’s sexual and reproductive health and rights. Women’s ability to use a condom requires negotiation, promotion and acceptance by the other partner towards actual usage. Women engage in transactional sex to gain access to social and financial resources, and end up in power-imbalanced relationships where their partner has the behavioural control of condom use. Research objective. The literature calls for a critical examination of the gendered determinants of HIV transmission. The objective of this study is to explore young South African women’s sexual agency and their ability and desire to use condoms in heterosexual relationships. Data material and methods. This study is a 60-credit thesis with a qualitative approach to inquiry. Thirteen in-depth, semi-structured interviews were conducted in Atteridgeville, South Africa. The participants are young South African women between 19-30 years of age. During data analysis, thematic themes emerged and were identified based on the existing literature on condom negotiation, the analytical framework (the theory of gender and power, and agency), and concepts shared by participants. Findings. Participants in this study disclosed various reasons as to why the majority of them were unable to promote and negotiate condom use with their sexual partners. A consistent finding was that all participants engaged in transactional sex. The economic incentive and transaction in their relationships profoundly affected participants ability to use condoms with their sexual partners, in particular those who engaged in multiple sexual partnerships. With one exception, all participants preferred to use condoms, but the majority were unsuccessful due to the financial contributions and favours from their partners. The nature of the participants’ relationships influenced the likelihood of them promoting condom use. Gendered power-imbalanced positions in their relationships were found to be determinants of condom use. Findings show that there are many condom negotiation strategies, and they are mostly condom-avoidant and performed by men. Most men do not want condoms, and one of their strategies was to question their partner’s trust and fidelity. Conclusion. This study sought to explore women’s perception of their sexual agency with condom use, and further explore sociocultural, structural and collective components which influenced their agency and their ability to use condoms. Women in this study engaged in condomless sex because of partner dependency, low self-efficacy, power-imbalanced relationships, partner disapproval of condom use, and cultural and social factors and norms. Overall, the findings of this study suggest that women’s sexual and reproductive health is highly compromised by economic transactions in sexual relationships and gendered power-imbalances, and so is their sexual agency.Master's Thesis in Global DevelopmentGLODE36

Travelling Girlhood: Feminist Discourses as Narrative Resources for the American Adaptation of the Norwegian High-School Drama SKAM

In the American adaptation of the Norwegian youth drama SKAM (2015-2017), the translation of feminist discourse informing the plot shifts the conflict from a social, political, and democratic level to a question of liberation from within. This shift – from the familiarized interrelational conflict of filmic melodrama to a conflict within the protagonist’s inner landscape – comes with some interconnected dramaturgical implications that change the invited audience’s opportunities to make sense of the plot at the same time as they complicate the interpretation process. Drawing particularly on theories of melodrama and youth fiction, our analysis indicates that the conflict level might particularly problematize the issue of engagement when the medium is filmic.publishedVersio

Designed in Shenzhen: Shanzhai Manufacturing and Maker Entrepreneurs

We draw from long-term research in Shenzhen, a manufacturing hub in the South of China, to critically examine the role of participation in the contemporary discourse around maker culture. In lowering the barriers of technological production, “making” is being envisioned as a new site of entrepreneurship, economic growth and innovation. Our research shows how the city of Shenzhen is figuring as a key site in implementing this vision. In this paper, we explore the “making of Shenzhen” as the “Silicon Valley for hardware.” We examine, in particular, how maker-entrepreneurs are drawn to processes of design and open sharing central to the manufacturing culture of Shenzhen, challenging conceptual binaries of design as a creative process versus manufacturing as its numb execution. Drawing from the legacy of participatory design and critical computing, the paper examines the social, material, and economic conditions that underlie the growing relationship between contemporary maker culture and the concomitant remake of Shenzhen.

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