Coupled Dynamic and Static Analysis of Typhoon TLP Accident During Extreme Environmental Conditions

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabriela Joelsas Timerman ◽  
Marcio Araujo de Campos ◽  
Kazuo Nishimoto ◽  
Oscar Augusto Brito
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Conditions ◽  
The Other ◽  
Loss Of Stability ◽  
Failure Investigation ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Hurricane Season ◽  
Good Starting Point ◽  
Offshore Industry ◽  
Recent Project ◽  
The Impact

An important path to reviewing technology is through failure investigation, which enables understanding of appropriate levels of safety and assurance of design criteria. In the occurrence of extreme environmental conditions in which most units respond well or at least satisfactorily, the assessment of exception cases can be taken as a good starting point for the failure investigation mentioned above. Hence, especially on account of hurricanes Rita and Katrina, the 2005 hurricane season, which had a notable impact on offshore industry at Gulf of Mexico region, can be taken as a promising scenario to assess the losses and bring out cases to be more carefully appraised. It is the case of the TLP Typhoon found upside down after the passage of Rita. Being the only unit located at a significant water depth which followed recent project standards, the case naturally came to the fore. This paper addresses an investigative analysis held out in order to establish and analyze the possible causes that resulted on the capsizing of the referred unit. The investigation focuses on two major paths which were selected as being the most probable and also had feasibility to be carried out — one that analyzes a possible lack of displacement due to the passage of a hurricane wave and the consequent loss of stability of the TLP and the other, concentrated on a dynamic analysis of the unit under the impact of the hurricane metocean conditions. This second analysis focuses on obtaining the tension on the tethers stating if either they suffered excessive loads causing them to break or lack of it, causing compression and possible buckling.

scholarly journals Preparation of Innovative Skin Compatible Films to Release Polysaccharides for Biobased Beauty Masks

Cosmetics ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 70 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria-Beatrice Coltelli ◽  
Serena Danti ◽  
Luisa Trombi ◽  
Pierfrancesco Morganti ◽  
Giovanna Donnarumma ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Immune Modulation ◽  
Human Keratinocytes ◽  
In Vitro Tests ◽  
Biobased Materials ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Good Starting Point ◽  
Skin Compatibility ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Fast Release

The preparation and selection of biobased materials compatible with skin is essential for producing innovative and highly eco-friendly beauty masks. The use of a commercial elastomeric poly(hydroxyalkanoate) and starch was fundamental to select materials for bioplastic films with the necessary resistance in wet conditions, skin compatibility and capacity for a fast release of polysaccharides and similar active and functional molecules. Micrometric calcium carbonate was also used to control the stickiness of film during moulding. Starch release in water was investigated by gravimetric and infrared analyses. The compatibility with skin was investigated via two different in vitro tests based on human keratinocytes and human mesenchymal stromal cells. The materials were highly cytocompatible with skin, enabled immune modulation by keratinocytes and starch release in water up to 49% by weight in 30 min. These outcomes are a good starting point for boosting the production of biobased and biodegradable beauty masks, thus decreasing the impact onto environment of cosmetic products that are currently still mainly produced using petrol-based substrates.

The Tolstoy Connection in Bakhtin

PMLA ◽  
1985 ◽  
Vol 100 (1) ◽  
pp. 68-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caryl Emerson
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
The Other ◽  
Good Reader ◽  
Death In Literature ◽  
Binary Model ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Good Starting Point ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

Mikhail Bakhtin's work on Dostoevsky is well known. Less familiar, perhaps, is Bakhtin's attitude toward the other great Russian nineteenth-century novelist, Leo Tolstoy. This essay explores that “Tolstoy connection,” both as a means for interrogating Bakhtin's analytic categories and as a focus for evaluating the larger tradition of “Tolstoy versus Dostoevsky.” Bakhtin is not a particularly good reader of Tolstoy. But he does make provocative use of the familiar binary model to pursue his most insistent concerns: monologism versus dialogism, the relationship of authors to their characters, the role of death in literature and life, and the concept of the self. Bakhtin's comments on these two novelists serve as a good starting point for assessing the strengths and weaknesses of the Bakhtinian model in general and suggest ways one might recast the dialogue between Tolstoy and Dostoevsky on somewhat different, more productive ground.

scholarly journals Artificial moral agents: an intercultural perspective

2007 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 129-134
Author(s):  
Michael Nagenborg
Keyword(s):  
Poor Countries ◽  
Moral Agents ◽  
Artificial Moral Agents ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Good Starting Point ◽  
Cultural Dialogue ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

In this paper I will argue that artificial moral agents (AMAs) are a fitting subject of intercultural information ethics because of the impact they may have on the relationship between information rich and information poor countries. I will give a limiting definition of AMAs first, and discuss two different types of AMAs with different implications from an intercultural perspective. While AMAs following preset rules might raise con-cerns about digital imperialism, AMAs being able to adjust to their user‘s behavior will lead us to the question what makes an AMA ?moral?? I will argue that this question does present a good starting point for an inter-cultural dialogue which might be helpful to overcome the notion of Africa as a mere victim.

It Serves you Right

Philosophy ◽  
1962 ◽  
Vol 37 (142) ◽  
pp. 293-306 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. R. Manser
Keyword(s):  
Death Penalty ◽  
Capital Punishment ◽  
The Other ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Good Starting Point

In this paper I want to examine the notion of desert, which seems to have been neglected by contemporary philosophers. Apartfrom its interest in its own right, it is important to be clear about the meaning of the word if there is to be any understanding of the idea of punishment. And that we are confused over the whole issue of punishment is obvious both from the remarks of professional philosophers and from the comments of the ‘man in the street’. Because of this confusion, the discussion of any actual punishment seems to take place between two parties who never get to grips with the arguments of the other, as in the whole debate over the death penalty. To one set of people, it is obvious that the retention of hanging depends to a large extent on the question of its effectiveness in deterring murderers; to another it is equally obvious that the murderer ‘deserves’ to hang, and that there is no more to be said about the matter. Capital punishment is not a good starting-point for a discussion of punishment in general, for death is clearly unique among penalties; in addition, the topic gives rise inevitably to much sentimentality and resulting muddle-headedness.

scholarly journals Who Wants to Learn English Online for free?

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 53-65
Author(s):  
Rubén Chacón-Beltrán ◽  
Raymond Echitchi
Keyword(s):  
Learning Approaches ◽  
Multiple Choice Questions ◽  
Level Of Education ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Good Starting Point ◽  
And Gender ◽  
University Degree ◽  
Middle Aged Adults ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Insight Into

This study of demographics is aimed to help LMOOC designers develop courses that are more appealing to prospective learners, and thus fight low completion rate which remains one of the main drawbacks of MOOCs. In addition, as the world battles against the COVID-19 pandemic looking for alternative learning approaches is unavoidable. The data presented in this paper were collected between 2016 and 2020 by means of a questionnaire that over 29,000 participants completed upon registration. The questionnaire, which included three multiple-choice questions aimed at obtaining responses regarding age, level of education and gender, revealed that most learners were middle-aged adults who held a university degree. In addition, our findings seemed to indicate that female learners are more likely to take the courses than their male counterparts. The aforementioned findings, which provide an insight into the demographics of EFL MOOCs in Spanish-speaking contexts, is a good starting point for further research which could ultimately help educational authorities know the impact of EFL MOOCs and enable the latter to reach a wider audience.

Activism in a time of pandemic: The impact of COVID-19 in Chilean citizen movement after the uprising of October 2019

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 201-211 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paulina Bronfman
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Ocular Trauma ◽  
The Other ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Social Nature ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Social ◽  
Entire World ◽  
The Cost ◽  
The Impact

Chile, unlike other countries in the region, is facing two major crises: one of a large social nature and the other in public health, which is in its form of the pandemic that is currently affecting the entire world. In October 2019, secondary-school and university students organized a massive evasion of the Santiago metro fare. The reason was to protest the 30 pesos increase in the cost of the ticket. This apparently small issue detonated the greatest protest movement of the last 30 years. By January 2019, the uprising had left 31 dead and 5,558 people who reported human rights violations, including 331 with ocular trauma or injury to their eyes and 21 suffered damage or loss of the eyeball. In March 2019, protests were eradicated from the streets and the development of the movement was slowed down by the powerful action of the Coronavirus. This article explores the impact that the COVID-19 crisis had on citizen movement, and the functionality of the health crisis to establish the de facto authoritarian hyper-controlled state in order to freeze the social crisis. Also, this work identifies the strategy that the Chilean citizen movement developed to survive during 2020, applying Pleyers’s (2020) model of analysis of activism under pandemic as a starting point.

De Covid-19-pandemie kan een gesprek rondom het levenseinde faciliteren

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. VAN DE WIEL ◽  
K. BOMBEKE ◽  
J. WENS ◽  
P. VANCLOOSTER ◽  
V. MERTENS ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
End Of Life ◽  
Healthcare Providers ◽  
The Other ◽  
Do Not Resuscitate ◽  
Early Care ◽  
Good Communication ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Hospital Bed ◽  
Good Starting Point ◽  
The One

The Covid-19 pandemic could facilitate an end-of-life conversation The new “severe acute respiratory syndrome” coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) is testing our health care system in several ways. The need for clear end-of-life conversation is, more than ever, emphasized. The potential overcrowding in health facilities creates an important ethical dilemma about which patient can occupy which hospital bed. Most caregivers understand the importance of good communication and documentation of end-of-life conversations, yet few will conduct those conversations. Often, the emphasis lies on obtaining a “do not resuscitate” code (DNR), rather than exploring the patient’s care goals and values. Early care planning (ECP) focuses on those care goals and values. On the one hand, the COVID-19 pandemic is a good starting point for initiating conversations about end-of-life. On the other hand, there are important practical limitations regarding the adequate execution of those conversations. The current pandemic teaches us that ECP should be a central part of our clinical practice. It is important that healthcare providers take responsibility for identifying and initiating those patients who would benefit from such conversations.

scholarly journals „Gorzkie żale” w odbiorze licealistów

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 ◽  
pp. 355-368
Author(s):  
Danuta Łazarska
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
The Other ◽  
School Students ◽  
Polish Literature ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Analytical Approaches

The starting point of the article is a cluster of reflections on the interdisciplinary potential of 'Lenten Lamentations' (Gorzkie żale). Subsequently, the text moves on to present the arrangement, methodology and foundations of empirical studies conducted in the year 2017 among a group of high school students from grades 1–3, who were put in charge of two tasks. In the first one they were supposed to say what the service of 'Lenten Lamentations' meant to them. The other one, which was an analysis of specific hymns from the liturgy, examines the impact of their lyrics on the students. The gathered material, which is very rich, makes it possible to assume a number of analytical approaches. The present article concentrates only on discussing a handful of selected results. The conclusions concern methods and ways of reading texts of culture in Polish literature classes.  

scholarly journals MIGRATORY MOBILITY AND DRUG TRAFFICKING. EXCLUSION AND POVERTY AS SPACES OF CONVERGENCE

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (13) ◽  
Author(s):  
Javier Urbano Reyes
Keyword(s):  
Drug Trafficking ◽  
The Other ◽  
Socioeconomic Impact ◽  
Social Fabric ◽  
Documentary Sources ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Social ◽  
Relevant Role ◽  
State Public Policy ◽  
The Impact

The purpose of this article is to identify those processes that converge as common roots in the interaction and strengthening of drug trafficking and migratory mobility. These two issues were not born in contemporary times, but they do acquire the characteristics and socioeconomic impact on the system of nations at the same time as the reaffirmation of the consequences of the current economic model. The aim is to recognize, through those directly affected, the impact of these two phenomena on the weakening of the social fabric at the same time as the consolidation of actors parallel to the State, who to a large extent become social competitors of State public policy, hence the need to propose strategies for managing these two problems from an integral perspective, under the premise that attention to one issue must run parallel to the management of the other, as synergistic and not dissociated phenomena. To this end, a qualitative analysis based on the search for documentary sources and statistics on migratory mobility and poverty, among others, has been used as a starting point, along with the organization and systematization of life testimonies, which give support and a relevant role to the experience of the actors

Modernism, Empiricism, and Rationalism

2016 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-47
Author(s):  
Geoffrey Squires
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
The Other ◽  
Modern Poetry ◽  
Philosophical Perspective ◽  
Irish Poetry ◽  
Dimensional Spectrum ◽  
Culture History ◽  
The World ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Rule Out

Modernism is usually defined historically as the composite movement at the beginning of the twentieth century which led to a radical break with what had gone before in literature and the other arts. Given the problems of the continuing use of the concept to cover subsequent writing, this essay proposes an alternative, philosophical perspective which explores the impact of rationalism (what we bring to the world) on the prevailing empiricism (what we take from the world) of modern poetry, which leads to a concern with consciousness rather than experience. This in turn involves a re-conceptualisation of the lyric or narrative I, of language itself as a phenomenon, and of other poetic themes such as nature, culture, history, and art. Against the background of the dominant empiricism of modern Irish poetry as presented in Crotty's anthology, the essay explores these ideas in terms of a small number of poets who may be considered modernist in various ways. This does not rule out modernist elements in some other poets and the initial distinction between a poetics of experience and one of consciousness is better seen as a multi-dimensional spectrum that requires further, more detailed analysis than is possible here.

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