Fatigue stiffness loss and life prediction technique development of a real rubber automotive component by means of Finite Element Analysis by Isasi Iriondo, Mikel

“…An industrialization of procedures has been carried out in our facilities for a complete material characterization, with high automation on test executions and data processing. Fatigue life prediction methods are studied by means of computer aided analytical techniques. …”
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Heightened risk of disease as a means of terrorism, say international security experts by Shang, Lijun, Dando, Malcolm

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The life project by French, Fiona, Camille, Baker, Raskob, Evan, Rothwell, Nick

“…The Life Project explores issues of psychological projection into technology by diving into the convoluted relationship between practical purpose and emotional attachment, through both the creative act of designing and making robot entities with artificial emotions, and the social act of engaging with them. …”
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Questioning ‘the public’: exploring the meanings of public engagement in higher education by Gabriel, John, Harding, Jennifer

“…It critically examines the meanings of public, engagement and public good created through the project in relation to neoliberalism. …”
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Collective writing: the continuous struggle for meaning-making by Jandrić, Petar, Luke, Timothy W., Sturm, Sean, McLaren, Peter, Jackson, Liz, MacKenzie, Alison, Tesar, Marek, Stewart, Georgina Tuari, Roberts, Peter, Abegglen, Sandra, Burns, Tom, Sinfield, Sandra, Hayes, Sarah, Jaldemark, Jimmy, Peters, Michael A., Sinclair, Christine, Gibbons, Andrew

“…Collective writing is a continuous struggle for meaning-making, and our research insights merely represent one milestone in this struggle. …”
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Predicting transformer end of life using transformer thermal life simulation technique by Muftah Saad, Ferass A.

“…Load and ambient temperatures are two important factors that influence the life of insulation in transformers. The estimated load factors and ambient temperatures are input to the IEC life consumption models to assess the consumed life of insulation. …”
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'She loved this place': memorial benches as death writing, life writing and life siting by Karpf, Anne

“…I explore some reasons for their increasing popularity, their very materiality valued as a way of marking a life in a digital age. Memorial benches are also a reminder of the ways in which public spaces are stitched into daily routines, of the quiet value and meaning attached to local public squares, parks and beaches, increasingly encroached upon by privatisation. …”
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Schopenhauer and Gotama on life's suffering by Ryan, Christopher

“…This chapter defends the view that Arthur Schopenhauer and Siddhattha Gotama were unquestionably pessimistic philosophers, insofar as they converged in locating the source of life’s suffering within the person rather than the external world. …”
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The secret to a good life by Smith, Bob, Smith, Roberta, Patrick, Brill, Jessica, Voorsanger

“…The Secret to a Good Life was commissioned by the Royal Academy (RA) to mark its 250th anniversary. …”
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Is the right to life adequately protected in Georgia? by Khidasheli, Tamar

“…This article considers whether Georgian domestic legislation complies with the standards of the European Convention on Human Rights as to the right to life.…”
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Financial literacy education and Skills for Life by Lee, Nirmala, Coben, Diana, Dawes, Margaret

“…This report presents a review of the provision and accreditation of financial literacy education in England at the levels covered by Skills for Life (i.e. up to and including Level 2), not including financial advice and information. …”
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The possible in the life and work of Henri Bergson by Brown, Steven D., Lundy, Craig

“…In its place, Bersgson offers an account of life as dynamic, autopoietic emergence. In the final part of the entry we describe how an engagement with Bergson can afford social science approaches to memory, imagination, and lived experience as emergent patternings of life responding to life.…”
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"What was the meaning of this theatre of absurdity": public shaming meetings in the late USSR by Stephenson, Svetlana

“…The splitting of the public into opposing groups, the fury of the accusations, the severe consequences of stigmatization for social status, the reputation of a person, the often revealed interest of the state and certain institutions in unleashing or using stigmatization - all this makes it an important phenomenon of modern public life. Stephenson’s article examines the practice of prorabotka, a ritual of public shaming that took place in schools, universities and workplaces in the Soviet Union. …”
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Enhancing the governance of dual-use life science research through effective implementation of codes of conduct for life scientists by Novossiolova, Tatyana, Whitby, Simon, Shang, Lijun, Dando, Malcolm

“…This presentation focuses on the role that life science stakeholders can play in addressing the dual-use potential of modern biotechnology, in order to ensure that the life sciences are used only for peaceful, prophylactic, and protective purposes. …”
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The use of statement banks as a means of assessing large groups in accounting by Sandhu, Sucha

“…One possible strategy is considered in this paper, which reports on an evaluation of the effectiveness of statement banks as a means of assessing large groups of students.…”
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The value and meaning of temporality and Its relationship to identity in Kunming City, China by Gao, Yun, Temple, Nicholas

“…The study seeks to establish whether the traditional meanings of temporality in building, as manifested within the particular urban grain of Kunming, still inform contemporary urban and architectural practice, given that such relationships are often concealed beneath the homogeneous image of the temporal city.…”
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Fuzzy random based mean variance model for agricultural production planning by Othman, Mohammad Haris Haikal, Arbaiy, Nureize, Che Lah, Muhammad Shukri, Pei-, Chun Lin

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Development of a new device to measure finger's mean arterial pressure by Chellathurai, Bumaran

“…Hence, a new development of the Finger Mean Arterial Pressure (Finger M.A.P) device is proposed as an alternative measurement device. …”
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Festival cities - culture planning and urban life by Gold, John Robert, Gold, Margaret

“…Festivals have always been part of city life, but their relationship with their host cities has continually changed. …”
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Blade faults diagnosis in multi stage rotor system by means of wavelet analysis by Abdelrhman Ahmed, Ahmed Mohammed

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