Reactivating Elements

Author : Dimitris Papadopoulos,María Puig de la Bellacasa,Natasha Myers
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781478021674

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Reactivating Elements by Dimitris Papadopoulos,María Puig de la Bellacasa,Natasha Myers Pdf

The contributors to Reactivating Elements examine chemicals as they mix with soil, air, water, and fire to shape Earth's troubled ecologies today. They invoke the elements with all their ambivalences as chemical categories, material substances, social forms, forces and energies, cosmological entities, and epistemic objects. Engaging with the nonlinear historical significance of elemental thought across fields—chemistry, the biosciences, engineering, physics, science and technology studies, the environmental humanities, ecocriticism, and cultural studies—the contributors examine the relationship between chemistry and ecology, probe the logics that render wind as energy, excavate affective histories of ubiquitous substances such as plastics and radioactive elements, and chart the damage wrought by petrochemical industrialization. Throughout, the volume illuminates how elements become entangled with power and control, coloniality, racism, and extractive productivism while exploring alternative paths to environmental destruction. In so doing, it rethinks the relationship between the elements and the elemental, human and more-than-human worlds, today’s damaged ecosystems and other ecologies to come. Contributors. Patrick Bresnihan, Tim Choy, Joseph Dumit, Cori Hayden, Stefan Helmreich, Joseph Masco, Michelle Murphy, Natasha Myers, Dimitris Papadopoulos, María Puig de la Bellacasa, Astrid Schrader, Isabelle Stengers

Author : Dimitris Papadopoulos,María Puig de la Bellacasa,Natasha Myers
Publisher : Elements
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2022-01-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 1478014369

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Reactivating Elements by Dimitris Papadopoulos,María Puig de la Bellacasa,Natasha Myers Pdf

The contributors to Reactiving Elements explore how studying elements--as the foundations of the physical and social world--provide a way to imagine alternatives to worldwide environmental destruction.

Author : Timothy Neale,Courtney Addison,Thao Phan
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-31
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781487563592

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An Anthropogenic Table of Elements by Timothy Neale,Courtney Addison,Thao Phan Pdf

An Anthropogenic Table of Elements provides a contemporary rethinking of Dmitri Mendeleev’s periodic table of elements, bringing together "elemental" stories to reflect on everyday life in the Anthropocene. Concise and engaging, this book provides stories of scale, toxicity, and temporality that extrapolate on ideas surrounding ethics, politics, and materiality that are fundamental to this contemporary moment. Examining elemental objects and forces, including carbon, mould, cheese, ice, and viruses, the contributors question what elemental forms are still waiting to emerge and what political possibilities of justice and environmental reparation they might usher into the world. Bringing together anthropologists, historians, and media studies scholars, this book tests a range of possible ways to tabulate and narrate the elemental as a way to bring into view fresh discussion on material constitutions and, thereby, new ethical stances, responsibilities, and power relations. In doing so, An Anthropogenic Table of Elements demonstrates through elementality that even the smallest and humblest stories are capable of powerful effects and vast journeys across time and space.

Author : J. Paszkowski
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789401110945

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Homologous Recombination and Gene Silencing in Plants by J. Paszkowski Pdf

Higher eukaryotes are characterized by the allocation of distinct functions to numerous types of differentiated cells. Whereas in animals the well-defined, protected cells of the germ line separate early, germ cells in plants differentiate from somatic cells only after many cycles of mitotic division. Therefore somatic mutations in plants can be transmitted via the germ cells to the progeny. There is thus a clear need for somatic tissues to maintain their genetic integrity in the face of environmental challenges, and two types of interactions have been shown to play important roles in the conservation as well as flexibility of plant genomes: homologous recombination of repeated sequences and silencing of multiplied genes. Sensitive methods have been developed that allow greater insights into the dynamics of the genome. This book summarizes current knowledge and working hypotheses about the frequencies and mechanisms of mitochondrial, plastid, nuclear and viral recombination and the inactivation of repeated genes in plants. Despite rapid developments in the field, it is often not possible to provide final answers. Thus, it is an additional task of this book to define the open questions and future challenges. The book is addressed to scientists working on plant biology and recombination, to newcomers in the field and to advanced biology students.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : IICA Biblioteca Venezuela
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Agricultural development projects
ISBN : 9290391596

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Plan of Joint Action for Agricultural Reactivation in Latin America and the Caribbean, Principal Document by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : IICA Biblioteca Venezuela
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Plan of join action for agricultural reactivation in Latin America and The Caribbean. Principal Document by Anonim Pdf

Author : Shen Liu,Yong Liu
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2011-05-17
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780470827802

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Modeling and Simulation for Microelectronic Packaging Assembly by Shen Liu,Yong Liu Pdf

Although there is increasing need for modeling and simulation in the IC package design phase, most assembly processes and various reliability tests are still based on the time consuming "test and try out" method to obtain the best solution. Modeling and simulation can easily ensure virtual Design of Experiments (DoE) to achieve the optimal solution. This has greatly reduced the cost and production time, especially for new product development. Using modeling and simulation will become increasingly necessary for future advances in 3D package development. In this book, Liu and Liu allow people in the area to learn the basic and advanced modeling and simulation skills to help solve problems they encounter. Models and simulates numerous processes in manufacturing, reliability and testing for the first time Provides the skills necessary for virtual prototyping and virtual reliability qualification and testing Demonstrates concurrent engineering and co-design approaches for advanced engineering design of microelectronic products Covers packaging and assembly for typical ICs, optoelectronics, MEMS, 2D/3D SiP, and nano interconnects Appendix and color images available for download from the book's companion website Liu and Liu have optimized the book for practicing engineers, researchers, and post-graduates in microelectronic packaging and interconnection design, assembly manufacturing, electronic reliability/quality, and semiconductor materials. Product managers, application engineers, sales and marketing staff, who need to explain to customers how the assembly manufacturing, reliability and testing will impact their products, will also find this book a critical resource. Appendix and color version of selected figures can be found at www.wiley.com/go/liu/packaging

Author : N. S. Sutherland
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-14
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781317769514

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Tutorial Essays in Psychology by N. S. Sutherland Pdf

First published in 1979. The aim of this series of Tutorial Essays, of which the present book is the second volume, is to enable the specialist in one area to discover in as painless a way as possible what his colleagues in other parts of the field are up to: New discoveries, methods and theories in one speciality often have important implications for work in others. The essays are also intended to be intelligible and useful to graduate students and advanced undergraduates seeking an introduction to a topic. In this volume Bow Lett describes modern work on an old topic, delay learning in animals, and discusses its implications for theories of learning. Mark Georgeson expounds an important new approach to vision, the application of Fourier analysis: His chapter contains an exceptionally clear exposition of the ideas underlying this technique written for the reader with little mathematical knowledge. Dennis Holding provides a synthesis of the many different approaches to the problem of echoic memory, and Gregory Jones presents some new ideas on associative memory which make many previously puzzling results fall into place.

Author : Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent,Sacha Loeve
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781509559213

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Carbon by Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent,Sacha Loeve Pdf

Carbon is much more than a chemical element: it is a polymorphic entity with many faces, at once natural, cultural and social. Ranging across ten million different compounds, carbon has as many personas in nature as it has roles in human life on earth. And yet it rarely makes the headlines as anything other than the villain of our fossil-based economy, feeding an addiction which is driving dangerous levels of consumption and international conflict and which, left unchecked, could lead to our demise as a species. But the impact of CO2 on climate change only tells part of the story, and to demonize carbon as an element which will bring about the downfall of humanity is to reduce it to a pale shadow of itself. In this major new history of carbon, Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent and Sacha Loeve show that this omnipresent element is at the root of countless histories and adventures through time, thanks to its extraordinary versatility. Carbon has a long and prestigious CV: its work and achievements extend far beyond the burning of fossil fuels. The fourth most abundant element in the universe and the second most abundant element in the human body, carbon is the chemical basis of all known life. Carbon chemistry has a long history, with applications ranging from jewellery to heating, underpinning developments in metallurgy, textiles, pharmaceuticals, electronics, nanoscience and green technologies. A biography of carbon transgresses the boundaries between chemical and social existence, between nature and culture, forcing us to abandon the simplified image of carbon as the anti-hero of human civilization and enabling us to see instead the great diversity of carbon’s modes of existence. With scientific precision and literary flair, Bensaude-Vincent and Loeve unravel the surprising ways in which carbon has shaped our world, showing how unrecognizable the earth would be without it. Uncovering the many hidden lives of carbon allows us to view our own with fresh eyes.

Author : Jin Jiang
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-22
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783527831845

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Welded High Strength Steel Structures by Jin Jiang Pdf

Welded High Strength Steel Structures Understand the impact of fatigue on high strength steel joints with this comprehensive overview High strength steels are highly sought after for industrial and engineering applications ranging from armored vehicles to welded engineering components built to withstand considerable stress. The mechanical properties of welded joints made from high strength steel are integrally linked to the specific welding process, which can have an enormous impact on fatigue performance. Welded High Strength Steel Structures: Welding Effects and Fatigue Performance provides a comprehensive analysis of high strength steel joints and the ramifications of the welding process. It guides readers through the process of performing thermal analysis of high strength steel structures and evaluate fatigue performance in the face of residual stress. The result is a volume with innumerable use cases in engineering and manufacture. Welded High Strength Steel Structures readers will also find: An author with decades of experience in research and engineering Numerous studies of various classes of high strength steel joints Studies on tubular structures for welding residual stress Welded High Strength Steel Structures is a must-own for welding specialists, materials scientists, mechanical engineers, and researchers or industry professionals in related fields.

Author : Monika Banaś,Franciszek Czech,Małgorzata Kołaczek
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781040008836

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Universities and Non-Governmental Organisations by Monika Banaś,Franciszek Czech,Małgorzata Kołaczek Pdf

In the opinion of the general public, universities and NGOs would be natural partners for effective collaboration in many fields. They are indeed, but mainly in theory. This book examines the reasons why this is the case and what possible models of cooperation and facilitated dialogue between institutions of higher education system and NGOs could transform this theoretically optimal union into practice. The authors start with Poland and analyse legal, cultural and socio-economic factors, which impact upon the current state of affairs. Subsequently they move on to consider cases from four other European countries: Portugal, Austria, Slovakia and the United Kingdom. Then they propose possible solutions, areas for further research and formulate recommendations for strengthening future cooperation between the two main types of actors which shape education and increase awareness in civil societies. Universities and Non-Governmental Organisations will appeal to scholars across the social sciences with interests in higher education and research, public discourse and civil society.

Author : Mark Dibben,Thomas Kelly
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783110328400

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Applied Process Thought by Mark Dibben,Thomas Kelly Pdf

Concentrating mainly on the process philosophy developed by Alfred North Whitehead, this series of essays brings together some of the newest developments in the application of process thinking to the physical and social sciences. These essays, by established scholars in the field, demonstrate how a wider and deeper understanding of the world can be obtained using process philosophical concepts, how the distortions and blockages inevitably inherent in substantivist talk can be set aside, and how new and fertile lines of research in the sciences can be opened as a result.

Author : Brian Boyd
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 555 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2010-11-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780674057111

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On the Origin of Stories by Brian Boyd Pdf

A century and a half after the publication of Origin of Species, evolutionary thinking has expanded beyond the field of biology to include virtually all human-related subjects—anthropology, archeology, psychology, economics, religion, morality, politics, culture, and art. Now a distinguished scholar offers the first comprehensive account of the evolutionary origins of art and storytelling. Brian Boyd explains why we tell stories, how our minds are shaped to understand them, and what difference an evolutionary understanding of human nature makes to stories we love. Art is a specifically human adaptation, Boyd argues. It offers tangible advantages for human survival, and it derives from play, itself an adaptation widespread among more intelligent animals. More particularly, our fondness for storytelling has sharpened social cognition, encouraged cooperation, and fostered creativity. After considering art as adaptation, Boyd examines Homer’s Odyssey and Dr. Seuss’s Horton Hears a Who! demonstrating how an evolutionary lens can offer new understanding and appreciation of specific works. What triggers our emotional engagement with these works? What patterns facilitate our responses? The need to hold an audience’s attention, Boyd underscores, is the fundamental problem facing all storytellers. Enduring artists arrive at solutions that appeal to cognitive universals: an insight out of step with contemporary criticism, which obscures both the individual and universal. Published for the bicentenary of Darwin’s birth and the 150th anniversary of the publication of Origin of Species, Boyd’s study embraces a Darwinian view of human nature and art, and offers a credo for a new humanism.

Author : Vivienne Bozalek,Michalinos Zembylas
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-23
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783031349966

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Responsibility, Privileged Irresponsibility and Response-ability by Vivienne Bozalek,Michalinos Zembylas Pdf

This book uses the overlapping approaches of political care ethics and feminist posthumanism as a lens to focus on the notions of privileged irresponsibility, responsibility and response-ability within the context of higher education and as it pertains to the issues of colonialism/decolonisation, pandemics and the climate crisis. The book will appeal to scholars in the field of higher education as well as to those in several other fields, such as ecology, gender studies, sociology, philosophy, and political science.

Author : Cymene Howe,Jeff Diamanti,Amelia Moore
Publisher : punctum books
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-22
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781685711146

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Solarities by Cymene Howe,Jeff Diamanti,Amelia Moore Pdf