Indenter Shape Characterization for the Nanoindentation Measurement of Nanostructured and Other Types of Materials

This chapter offers a new reading of Catullus’ Lesbia by examining the poet’s spatial poetics. These poetics play a crucial role in shaping the worlds created in the poems. Catullus’ collection features three distinct poetics of place: topical, neoteric, and abstracted, clustered in specific groups of poems: the polymetrics, the carmina maiora, and the elegiac epigrams, respectively. As Lesbia is the only character (apart from the ‘Catullus’ persona) who appears in each group, she presents the ideal subject for examining how Catullus’ distinct poetics of place shape characterization in different genres of poetry. Furthermore, as a woman whose gender is frequently thematized, Lesbia presents a fulcrum for investigating how gendered ideologies of certain spaces might have shaped Catullus’ spatial poetics. This chapter offers close readings of three ‘Lesbia’ poems: 37, 68b, and 70, to highlight the importance of place and space to Lesbia’s role in each poem.

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Cell shape characterization and classification with discrete Fourier transforms and self-organizing maps

Cytometry Part A ◽

10.1002/cyto.a.23279 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 93 (3) ◽

pp. 323-333 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Fabian L. Kriegel ◽

Ralf Köhler ◽

Jannike Bayat-Sarmadi ◽

Simon Bayerl ◽

Anja E. Hauser ◽

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Keyword(s):

Cell Shape ◽

Fourier Transforms ◽

Self Organizing Maps ◽

Discrete Fourier Transforms ◽

Shape Characterization ◽

Self Organizing

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Effects of Annealing on Enthalpy Recovery and Nanomechanical Behaviors of a La-Based Bulk Metallic Glass

Metals ◽

10.3390/met11040579 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 11 (4) ◽

pp. 579

Author(s):

Ting Shi ◽

Lanping Huang ◽

Song Li

Keyword(s):

Glass Transition ◽

Transition Temperature ◽

Glass Transition Temperature ◽

Metallic Glass ◽

Bulk Metallic Glass ◽

Structural Relaxation ◽

Supercooled Liquid ◽

Supercooled Liquid Region ◽

Liquid Region ◽

Nanoindentation Measurement

Structural relaxation and nanomechanical behaviors of La65Al14Ni5Co5Cu9.2Ag1.8 bulk metallic glass (BMG) with a low glass transition temperature during annealing have been investigated by calorimetry and nanoindentation measurement. The enthalpy release of this metallic glass is deduced by annealing near glass transition. When annealed below glass transition temperature for 5 min, the recovered enthalpy increases with annealing temperature and reaches the maximum value at 403 K. After annealed in supercooled liquid region, the recovered enthalpy obviously decreases. For a given annealing at 393 K, the relaxation behaviors of La-based BMG can be well described by the Kohlrausch-Williams-Watts (KWW) function. The hardness, Young’s modulus, and serrated flow are sensitive to structural relaxation of this metallic glass, which can be well explained by the theory of solid-like region and liquid-like region. The decrease of ductility and the enhancement of homogeneity can be ascribed to the transformation from liquid-like region into solid-like region and the reduction of the shear transition zone (STZ).

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Investigation into Hardness and Young’s Modulus of Thin Films of Lead Germanium Telluride

Advanced Materials Research ◽

10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.455-456.8 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 455-456 ◽

pp. 8-12 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Bin Li ◽

Ping Xie ◽

Su Ying Zhang ◽

Ding Quan Liu

Keyword(s):

Thin Films ◽

Young’S Modulus ◽

Ferroelectric Phase ◽

Young's Modulus ◽

Strength Loss ◽

Electron Beam Evaporation ◽

Silicon Substrates ◽

Strain Fields ◽

Germanium Telluride ◽

Nanoindentation Measurement

A mechanically robust infrared high-index coating material is essential to the infrared interference coatings. Lead germanium telluride (Pb1-xGexTe) is a pseudo-binary alloy of IV-VI narrow gap semiconductors of PbTe and GeTe. In our investigation, the hardness and Young’s modulus of thin films of Pb1-xGexTe, which were deposited on silicon substrates using electron beam evaporation, were identified by means of nanoindentation measurement. It is demonstrated that layers of Pb1-xGexTe have greater hardness and Young’s modulus compared with those of PbTe. These mechanical behaviors of layers can be linked to a ferroelectric phase transition from a cubic paraelectric phase to a rhombohedral, ferroelectric phase. Moreover, the strength loss in the layers of Pb1-xGexTe can be also explained in light of strong localized elastic-strain fields in concentrated solid solutions.

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Sustenance and Survival in Biblical Narrative

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199967728.013.42 ◽

2015 ◽

Author(s):

Jennifer L. Koosed

Keyword(s):

Religious Identity ◽

Food Production ◽

Biblical Narrative ◽

Adam And Eve ◽

Early Judaism ◽

The Bible ◽

Ancient Israel ◽

Class Status ◽

Cultural Code ◽

Shape Characterization

Food is a comprehensive cultural code. In ancient Israel and early Judaism, food production and preparation structured lives; what one did in the process was determined by gender and class status and sometimes even marked by ethnic and religious identity. Food also serves to structure narrative, shape characterization, and add layers of symbolic signification to story. In the Bible, the drama of the first few chapters revolves around proper versus improper eating, and the final book portrays God as a lamb sacrificed for the Passover meal. Between picking and tasting the forbidden fruit, and slaughtering and eating God, a whole host of food-related plots, characters, and images proliferate, many of which revolve around the most important of foodstuffs: bread. This chapter explores the centrality of bread in the story of Adam and Eve, the book of Ruth, and the gospels of Jesus.

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