scholarly journals Special Issue Dedicated to the Memory of Professor Hussein Zbib

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-4
Author(s):  
David Field ◽  
Hamid Garmestani ◽  
Tariq Khraishi ◽  
Mohammed Zikry
Keyword(s):  
Dislocation Dynamics ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Research Areas ◽  
Mechanics Of Materials ◽  
Engineering Materials

Abstract This special issue of the Journal of the Engineering Materials and Technology is dedicated to the memory of our friend and colleague Professor Hussein Zbib who passed away in February 2020. Hussein was a past editor of this journal and was an internationally recognized research leader and innovator in numerous aspects of mechanics of materials, such as dislocation dynamics, plasticity, and irradiated materials. The papers in this special issue, through the different contributions of his collaborators, colleagues, students, and friends, truly reflect the different research areas he impacted. Furthermore, these contributions underscore how his research interests, collaborations, and achievements fundamentally influenced the experimental and modeling accomplishment.

scholarly journals Light, mind and spirit: Paul Willis’s Learning to Labour revisited on and beyond its 40th anniversary

Ethnography ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 433-445 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mats Trondman ◽  
Anna Lund
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Cultural Production ◽  
Social Reproduction ◽  
Significant Contribution ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
40Th Anniversary ◽  
Cultural Autonomy ◽  
Research Areas ◽  
Educational Sciences

This article is an introduction to a Special Issue dedicated to Paul Willis’s classic Learning to Labour at its 40th anniversary, and beyond. His theoretically informed and theorizing ethnographic study is read, explored, and utilized all around the globe. Its use also stretches across the borders of social, cultural and educational sciences and to manifold research areas and settings. Besides laying out its main content, that is, the answers to the question of how working-class kids let themselves get working-class jobs, this article argues that the most significant contribution of Willis’s study is the way it illuminates, both theoretically and empirically, the meaning of cultural production and cultural autonomy in the midst of ongoing social reproduction of class. This introduction ends by presenting the eight contributions to the actual Special Issue, and with an invitation to Paul Willis himself to take issue with cultural production and cultural autonomy.

Combined Mechanical Engineering Materials Lecture and Mechanics of Materials Laboratory: Cross-Disciplinary Teaching

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael D. Nowak
Keyword(s):  
Biomedical Engineering ◽  
Mechanical Engineering ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Soft Tissues ◽  
Materials Science ◽  
Tensile Shear ◽  
Engineering Programs ◽  
Mechanics Of Materials ◽  
Engineering Materials ◽  
Selection Of

We have developed a course combining a Mechanical Engineering Materials Laboratory with a Materials Science lecture for a small combined population of undergraduate Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering students. By judicious selection of topic order, we have been able to utilize one lecture and one laboratory for both Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering students (with limited splitting of groups). The primary reasons for combining the Mechanical and Biomedical students are to reduce faculty load and required resources in a small university. For schools with medium or small Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering programs, class sizes could be improved if they could include other populations. The heterogeneous populations also aid in teaching students that the same engineering techniques are useful in more than a single engineering realm. The laboratory sections begin with the issues common to designing and evaluating mechanical testing, followed by tensile, shear, and torsion evaluation of metals. To introduce composite materials, wood and cement are evaluated. While the Mechanical Engineering students are evaluating impact and strain gauges, the Biomedical Engineering students are performing tensile studies of soft tissues, and compression of long bones. The basic materials lectures (beginning at the atomic level) are in common with both Mechanical and Biomedical student populations, until specific topics such as human body materials are discussed. Three quarters of the term is thus taught on a joint basis, and three or four lectures are split. Basic metal, plastic and wood behavior is common to both groups.

Introduction: Negotiation in intergroup conflict

2010 ◽  
Vol 13 (6) ◽  
pp. 675-683 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stéphanie Demoulin ◽  
Carsten K.W. de Dreu
Keyword(s):  
Conflict Management ◽  
Intergroup Relations ◽  
Intergroup Conflict ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Intergroup Relation ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Systematic Analysis ◽  
Research Areas ◽  
Affective Processes ◽  
Current Special Issue

Although conflicts most often occur between groups, research and theory on conflict management and negotiation have largely focused on the interpersonal system and ignored how groups negotiate a solution to their intergroup conflict. Thus we have a thorough understanding of the motivational, cognitive, and affective processes underlying the development of high quality solutions in interpersonal negotiation, but we know little about the extent to which these insights can be comfortably generalized to intergroup settings. Likewise, the large volume of work on intergroup perceptions and intergroup relations has much to say about intergroup negotiation, but these research areas have rarely been connected and produced systematic analysis. The current Special Issue presents research on these topics and aims at promoting cross-talk between negotiation researchers and social psychologists in the intergroup relation domain.

scholarly journals An introduction to Crafting Sustainability – exploring the interconnections between sustainability and craft

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 3-7
Author(s):  
Roger Andre Søraa ◽  
Håkon Fyhn
Keyword(s):  
Science And Technology Studies ◽  
Focal Point ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Critical Issue ◽  
The Other ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Technology Studies ◽  
Research Areas ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Problems And Solutions

Sustainability has become a critical issue, calling for new conceptualizations of both problems and solutions. This special issue of the Nordic Journal of Science and Technology Studies,  explore the concept of “Crafting Sustainability”. Sustainability is a hot topic in contemporary scholarly debates, with methodological, theoretical, and conceptual contributions from a wide array of research areas, also from Science and Technology Studies. Craft on the other hand has been less of a focal point, although all humans relate to craft on some level.

scholarly journals Special Issue on the Theory and Practice of Differential Privacy

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marco Gaboardi ◽  
Chris J. Skinner
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Programming Languages ◽  
Differential Privacy ◽  
International Workshop ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Release Mechanism ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Research Areas ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Definition Of

This special issue presents papers based on contributions to the first international workshop on the “Theory and Practice of Differential Privacy” (TPDP) held in London, UK, 18 April 2015, as part of the European joint conference on Theory And Practice of Software (ETAPS). Differential privacy is a mathematically rigorous definition of the privacy protection provided by a data release mechanism: it offers a strong guaranteed bound on what can be learned about a user as a result of participating in a differentially private data analysis. Researchers in differential privacy come from several areas of computer science, including algorithms, programming languages, security, databases and machine learning, as well as from several areas of statistics and data analysis. The workshop was intended to be an occasion for researchers from these different research areas to discuss the recent developments in the theory and practice of differential privacy. The program of the workshop included 10 contributed talks, 1 invited speaker and 1 joint invited speaker with the workshop “Hot Issues in Security Principles and Trust” (HotSpot 2016). Participants at the workshop were invited to submit papers to this special issue. Six papers were accepted, most of which directly reflect talks presented at the workshop

A Special Issue on Advanced Engineering Materials

2010 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 439-440
Author(s):  
Chunhui Yang ◽  
Pengjian Zuo
Keyword(s):  
Special Issue ◽  
Engineering Materials
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