An Insight into Mediterranean Naval Architecture in the Sixteenth Through the Texts of (1538–1571). A Comparative Perspective with

2022 ◽  
pp. 147-197
Author(s):  
Arnaud Cazenave de la Roche ◽  
Fabrizio Ciacchella ◽  
Cayetano Hormaechea
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Perspective ◽  
Naval Architecture ◽  
Insight Into

Conclusion

2019 ◽  
pp. 217-228
Author(s):  
Richard Togman
Keyword(s):  
Population Growth ◽  
The State ◽  
Comparative Perspective ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Insight Into

Chapter 11 concludes the book and reflects on the lessons that can be learned from a holistic overview of the past three hundred years of governments’ attempts to manipulate the fertility of their populations. Reiterating the fundamentally discursive nature of the meaning of birth, fertility, and population growth to our societies allows for reflective insight into the nature of state attempts to manipulate the decision by millions of individuals about whether to reproduce. The global comparative perspective in both time and space, the identification and typologization of the five main discursive frames, and the rooting of the analysis in the discursive terrain allow the major questions of who, what, when, where, and why regarding government efforts to control the reproductive powers of the population and the creation of a sexual duty to the state to be answered.

African Patrimonial Régimes in Comparative Perspective

1980 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 657-673 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victor T. Le Vine
Keyword(s):  
Max Weber ◽  
Comparative Perspective ◽  
Rich Variety ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Insight Into

In 1968, Guenther Roth perceptively argued the utility of using the concept of patrimonialism to analyse rulership in developing states.1 Roth described two principal types: ‘the historical survival of traditionalist regimes’, of which he saw Ethiopia as the foremost example; and the ‘personal rulership on the basis of loyalties that do not require any belief in the ruler's unique personal qualifications, but are inextricably linked to material incentives and rewards’.2. His distinction remains apt and serves to focus our attention on two modal political forms that continue to find expression in post-independence Africa. However, these useful categories are not mutually exclusive, and need further amplification if they are to provide much insight into the rich variety of political experimentation that still goes on throughout the continent. Moreover, since the terminology is self-consciously borrowed from Max Weber, both the traditional and modern matrices of African patrimonialism need to be explored briefly lest the reference to the Weberian connection constricts rather than enlarges the analysis.

Conclusion

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Castellino Joshua ◽  
Keane David
Keyword(s):  
International Cooperation ◽  
Indigenous Rights ◽  
Minority Rights ◽  
Comparative Perspective ◽  
Minority Protection ◽  
State Practice ◽  
Insight Into

This concluding chapter reiterates some of the main arguments presented, and comments, from a comparative perspective, on how minority rights regimes are evolving in the specific settings selected. Rather than arriving at a definitive insight into a unifying theory for the protection of minority and indigenous rights in the region, it aims to identify nuances and principles that have emerged from state practice. The book concludes with a series of concrete recommendations and suggestions with a view to enhancing regional and international cooperation, with a special emphasis on models for indigenous and minority protection.

Slovakia’s Communist successor parties in comparative perspective

2008 ◽  
Vol 41 (4) ◽  
pp. 497-519 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marek Rybář ◽  
Kevin Deegan-Krause
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Perspective ◽  
Electoral Success ◽  
Party Ideology ◽  
Communist Successor Parties ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Considerable Insight

The contrast between Slovakia’s primary Communist successor party—the Party of the Democratic Left—and its own successor—Smer—offers considerable insight into the interaction between party ideology, organization and electoral success in post-Communist Europe. The Party of the Democratic Left and Smer offered relatively similar programmatic positions, but Smer managed to replace—and far outpace—its predecessor by offering a more charismatic public face, a smaller and more tightly centralized organization and an ideological flexibility that permitted it to take advantage of a shifting electoral environment.

Structural failures in early large passenger ships

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
William H. Garzke ◽  
Richard Woytowich ◽  
Roy Mengot
Keyword(s):  
Structural Analysis ◽  
Computer Hardware ◽  
Additional Insight ◽  
Naval Architecture ◽  
Significant Growth ◽  
Specialized Software ◽  
Computer Technologies ◽  
Passenger Ships ◽  
Structural Failures ◽  
Insight Into

During the period since Titanic’s discovery in 1985 there have also been significant improvements in naval architecture hydrostatic calculations and structural analysis capabilities through advances in computer technologies that include better specialized software as well as improvements in computer hardware. Combining these advances in computer technologies with recent knowledge gained from the scientific expeditions to the wreck site has provided additional insight into the sinking of the RMS Titanic as well as other famous ship losses and hull failures The significant growth in size of these early passenger ships led to high stresses in the upper decks and deck houses and subsequent hull cracking.

On the Dynamics of Ships in Heavy Seas

1981 ◽  
Vol 195 (1) ◽  
pp. 175-187
Author(s):  
R E D Bishop ◽  
W G Price
Keyword(s):  
Structural Dynamics ◽  
Systematic Study ◽  
Narrow Band ◽  
Present Position ◽  
Naval Architecture ◽  
Ship Dynamics ◽  
Open Sea ◽  
University College London ◽  
The Waves ◽  
Insight Into

When a ship encounters waves, it moves bodily and it distorts. The structure being elastic and the waves being random, this behaviour is in the nature of a narrow-band response. A systematic study of linear ship structural dynamics in which this standpoint is adopted was started in University College London about ten years ago and an attempt is made here to explain the present position. Far from putting a largely unnecessary gloss on traditional techniques of naval architecture, this approach to ship dynamics appears to promise much greater insight into ship behaviour at a time when apparently well found and competently handled ships continue to be lost in the open sea.

Calibration problems in hydrogen luminosities

1966 ◽  
Vol 24 ◽  
pp. 322-330
Author(s):  
A. Beer
Keyword(s):  
Galactic Structure ◽  
B Stars ◽  
Insight Into

The investigations which I should like to summarize in this paper concern recent photo-electric luminosity determinations of O and B stars. Their final aim has been the derivation of new stellar distances, and some insight into certain patterns of galactic structure.

Stochasting modeling of planetary ring systems

1984 ◽  
Vol 75 ◽  
pp. 461-469 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert W. Hart
Keyword(s):  
Maximum Entropy ◽  
Ring System ◽  
The Sun ◽  
Ultimate State ◽  
Interparticle Interactions ◽  
Ring Systems ◽  
First Order ◽  
Planetary Ring ◽  
Insight Into

ABSTRACTThis paper models maximum entropy configurations of idealized gravitational ring systems. Such configurations are of interest because systems generally evolve toward an ultimate state of maximum randomness. For simplicity, attention is confined to ultimate states for which interparticle interactions are no longer of first order importance. The planets, in their orbits about the sun, are one example of such a ring system. The extent to which the present approximation yields insight into ring systems such as Saturn's is explored briefly.

Skeletal elements of crinoid echinoderms: High-resolution structural and microanalytical results

1983 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
pp. 194-195
Author(s):  
D. F. Blake ◽  
L. F. Allard ◽  
D. R. Peacor
Keyword(s):  
High Resolution ◽  
Marine Invertebrates ◽  
Sea Urchins ◽  
Structural Features ◽  
Sea Stars ◽  
High Resolution Tem ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Insight Into

Echinodermata is a phylum of marine invertebrates which has been extant since Cambrian time (c.a. 500 m.y. before the present). Modern examples of echinoderms include sea urchins, sea stars, and sea lilies (crinoids). The endoskeletons of echinoderms are composed of plates or ossicles (Fig. 1) which are with few exceptions, porous, single crystals of high-magnesian calcite. Despite their single crystal nature, fracture surfaces do not exhibit the near-perfect {10.4} cleavage characteristic of inorganic calcite. This paradoxical mix of biogenic and inorganic features has prompted much recent work on echinoderm skeletal crystallography. Furthermore, fossil echinoderm hard parts comprise a volumetrically significant portion of some marine limestones sequences. The ultrastructural and microchemical characterization of modern skeletal material should lend insight into: 1). The nature of the biogenic processes involved, for example, the relationship of Mg heterogeneity to morphological and structural features in modern echinoderm material, and 2). The nature of the diagenetic changes undergone by their ancient, fossilized counterparts. In this study, high resolution TEM (HRTEM), high voltage TEM (HVTEM), and STEM microanalysis are used to characterize tha ultrastructural and microchemical composition of skeletal elements of the modern crinoid Neocrinus blakei.

Structure and function of neural networks in the retina

1988 ◽  
Vol 46 ◽  
pp. 26-27
Author(s):  
Peter Sterling
Keyword(s):  
Ganglion Cells ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Structure And Function ◽  
Synaptic Connections ◽  
Visual Axis ◽  
One Dimensional ◽  
Cat Retina ◽  
Ultrathin Sections ◽  
And Function ◽  
Insight Into

The synaptic connections in cat retina that link photoreceptors to ganglion cells have been analyzed quantitatively. Our approach has been to prepare serial, ultrathin sections and photograph en montage at low magnification (˜2000X) in the electron microscope. Six series, 100-300 sections long, have been prepared over the last decade. They derive from different cats but always from the same region of retina, about one degree from the center of the visual axis. The material has been analyzed by reconstructing adjacent neurons in each array and then identifying systematically the synaptic connections between arrays. Most reconstructions were done manually by tracing the outlines of processes in successive sections onto acetate sheets aligned on a cartoonist's jig. The tracings were then digitized, stacked by computer, and printed with the hidden lines removed. The results have provided rather than the usual one-dimensional account of pathways, a three-dimensional account of circuits. From this has emerged insight into the functional architecture.

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