bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Experimentelle und numerische Untersuchungen an Hochleistungsverbindungen mit Zahnleisten
Authors: Tandler Jens , Schmid Volker 
Published: August 2016

AbstractDer vorliegende Beitrag befasst sich mit der konzentrierten Tangentialkrafteinleitung von Stahlbauteilen in Betonkonstruktionen mittels Zahnleistenverbindungen. Verbindungen mit Zahnleisten bestehen aus einem dicken Stahlblech mit Stahlzähnen, welche sich über Druckkräfte im Beton abstützen. Zur Klärung der Traglast und des Last‐Verformungsverhaltens wurden experimentelle und numerische Untersuchungen durchgeführt.Als erster Schritt wurden experimentelle Untersuchungen zur Tragfähigkeit der Verzahnung zwischen Beton und Stahl unter verschiedenen Druckfeldwinkeln durchgeführt. Der Beton im Verbindungsbereich zeigte eine vergleichbare Tragfähigkeit wie ungestörter Beton. Weiterhin wurde ein Bauteilversuch mit Zahnleistenverbindung entworfen und durchgeführt. Damit konnten die Traglast und die Last‐Verformungseigenschaften für druckgestützte innenliegende Zahnleistenverbindungen in einer realitätsnahen Einbausituation untersucht werden. Mit einem neu entwickelten numerischen Modell ließen sich die Versuchsergebnisse interpretieren. Anhand der gewonnenen Erkenntnisse wurde das Bemessungskonzept ergänzt.High capacity saw tooth connectors – experimental testing and numerical studies. The presented paper describes the transfer of concentrated loads from structural steelwork into concrete structures using saw tooth connectors. Saw tooth connectors consists of a thick steel plate with steel teeth which transfer forces into the surrounding concrete via compressive action. Experimental and numerical investigations have been undertaken in order to clarify the ultimate load and the load deflection behaviour. Firstly, experimental studies on the load carrying capacity of the steel teeth/concrete interface have been conducted. The compressive forces onto the teeth have been applied at varying angles of action. The concrete at the connection has a similar load capacity as an undisturbed concrete section. Secondly, a test of a complete connection within a concrete slab has been designed. The saw tooth connector used, was a two sided connector in a situation with compressive reaction. With this, load capacity and load deflection tests in a real live situation have been undertaken. In combination with the also developed numerical model, the tests were interpreted. The investigation concluded in an addition to the structural design concept.
Analyzing the Aesthetics of Dance Instructional Design: An Example from Greek Traditional Dance Teaching
Authors: Dania Aspasia 
Published: August 2016

Within the context of dance education, the quality of students’ learning experiences during instruction affects their ability to coordinate body and mind effectively. The more these experiences are invested with emotionally motivated expectation, the more pervasive will students’ occupation with dance be. On this premise, the learning of dance is realized as a continuous process of aesthetic understanding, appreciation, and evaluation of the form of dance, as a learning object per se. Such a perspective upgrades instructional design to the level of art making, where every dancer can experience the aesthetically acceptable and “beautiful” while participating in dance lesson activities. The review of relevant literature shows that the application of solely reproductive practices in dance teaching cannot support the establishment of a learning environment that is rich in aesthetic experiences.The aim of this paper is to analyze those principles that should govern dance lesson design so that dance teaching can have the impact of an aesthetically elevated experience on every student dancer. With Greek traditional dance at the background and under the prism of modern socio-cognitive and aesthetic theories, the attributes of aesthetic teaching practices are reviewed. The design and implementation of a newly established method, the Laban Notation method for Teaching Dance, is used as an example. The author's objective is to add a new perspective to the design of dance teaching-a perspective that will balance student dancers' potential between passion for performance, conceptual appraising and personal identity.
Brussels and Contemporary Dance: Artistic Labor in a Creative City
Authors: Van Assche Annelies 
Published: August 2016

Within my contribution, I present the research project “Choreographies of Precariousness. A Transdisciplinary Study of the Working and Living Conditions in the Contemporary Dance Scenes of Brussels and Berlin” (supervisors: Katharina Pewny, Rudi Laermans, Christel Stalpaert; UGent and KULeuven; sponsored by FWO). For this conference, I would like to concentrate on the specificity of the contemporary dance profession and to elaborate the landscape of working in Brussels.Working formats in contemporary dance revolve around internationalization, mobility, transnationalism, and collaboration. Contemporary dance therefore requires an appropriate social security system taking into account the specificity of the profession.Brussels attracts many foreign dancers, as it offers prominent training possibilities, and hosts several reputable companies and workspaces. Flanders has established a unique social security system for the performing arts professions; however I will elucidate where the system collapses when it comes to contemporary dance. I will demonstrate how dance artists question the working conditions they are confronted within Flanders by analyzing their performances of precaritiousness. Flemish dancer Benjamin Vandewalle uses his pieceCo-Productie(2011) to advert to the socio-economic situation, through abruptly stopping his performance in the middle of the piece, clarifying to the audience that he will not continue since the Minister of Culture decided to downsize project subsidies in the middle of the season. He calls for the investment of 2,500 euros by the audience so he can finish the piece. The latter tactic can be seen as one of many ways dance artists are bound to work collaboratively against their precariousness.
Strong pure infiniteness of crossed products
Authors: KIRCHBERG E. , SIERAKOWSKI A. 
Published: August 2016

Consider an exact action of a discrete group $G$ on a separable C*-algebra $A$. It is shown that the reduced crossed product $A\rtimes _{\unicode[STIX]{x1D70E},\unicode[STIX]{x1D706}}G$ is strongly purely infinite—provided that the action of $G$ on any quotient $A/I$ by a $G$-invariant closed ideal $I\neq A$ is element-wise properly outer and that the action of $G$ on $A$ is $G$-separating (cf. Definition 5.1). This is the first non-trivial sufficient general criterion for strong pure infiniteness of reduced crossed products of C*-algebras $A$ that are not $G$-simple. In the case $A=\text{C}_{0}(X)$, the notion of a $G$-separating action corresponds to the property that two compact sets $C_{1}$ and $C_{2}$, that are contained in open subsets $C_{j}\subseteq U_{j}\subseteq X$, can be mapped by elements $g_{1},g_{2}$ of $G$ onto disjoint sets $\unicode[STIX]{x1D70E}_{g_{j}}(C_{j})\subseteq U_{j}$, but satisfy not necessarily the contraction property $\unicode[STIX]{x1D70E}_{g_{j}}(U_{j})\subseteq \overline{U_{j}}$. A generalization of strong boundary actions on compact spaces to non-unital and non-commutative C*-algebras $A$ (cf. Definition 7.1) is also introduced. It is stronger than the notion of $G$-separating actions by Proposition 7.6, because $G$-separation does not imply $G$-simplicity and there are examples of $G$-separating actions with reduced crossed products that are stably projection-less and non-simple.
A mid-Cretaceous angiosperm-dominated macroflora from the Cedar Mountain Formation of Utah, USA
Authors: Harris Elisha B. , Arens Nan Crystal 
Published: August 2016

AbstractAngiosperms first appeared in the fossil record as pollen during the Valanginian–Hauterivian; they spread out of the tropics in the Aptian and Albian, and radiated in the Late Cretaceous. Despite these general patterns, details of the taxonomic, geographic, and ecological evolution of Cretaceous angiosperms are relatively poorly known because only a handful of Early and mid-Cretaceous macrofloras have been reported. This is the first detailed report of a fossil leaf flora from the Cedar Mountain Formation from the mid-Cretaceous of the Western Interior. We describe a flora that is overwhelmingly dominated by angiosperms (152 of 153 identified specimens are angiosperms) from the Albian–Cenomanian transition that is preserved in a clay- and carbonate-rich, lacustrine mudstone from the uppermost Cedar Mountain Formation of Emery County, Utah. We recognize 18 leaf morphotypes, all of which are dicotyledonous angiosperms. The majority of the Cedar Mountain morphotypes have taxonomic affinities with forms of similar age described from the Atlantic and Gulf coastal plains and other localities from the Western Interior. From this, we infer that a relatively diverse angiosperm flora grew along the margins of a small pond on the coastal plain. Palynological preparations of the fossil matrix were barren; however, previous studies of other facies within the formation showed that both conifers and ferns were important components of the regional vegetation during Cedar Mountain time. The effective absence of conifers and ferns in this macroflora and low leaf mass per area values among the angiosperms measured suggests that even at the Early–Late Cretaceous transition, angiosperms had come to dominate some sites, particularly those that were disturbed or seasonally ephemeral, where fast-growth or seasonal deciduousness would have been favored.
Performance of statistical methods to correct food intake distribution: comparison between observed and estimated usual intake
Authors: Verly-Jr Eliseu , Oliveira Dayan C. R. S. , Fisberg Regina M. , Marchioni Dirce Maria L. 
Published: August 2016

AbstractThere are statistical methods that remove the within-person random error and estimate the usual intake when there is a second 24-h recall (24HR) for at least a subsample of the study population. We aimed to compare the distribution of usual food intake estimated by statistical models with the distribution of observed usual intake. A total of 302 individuals from Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) answered twenty, non-consecutive 24HR; the average length of follow-up was 3 months. The usual food intake was considered as the average of the 20 collection days of food intake. Using data sets with a pair of 2 collection days, usual percentiles of intake of the selected foods using two methods were estimated (National Cancer Institute (NCI) method and Multiple Source Method (MSM)). These estimates were compared with the percentiles of the observed usual intake. Selected foods comprised a range of parameter distributions: skewness, percentage of zero intakes and within- and between-person intakes. Both methods performed well but failed in some situations. In most cases, NCI and MSM produced similar percentiles between each other and values very close to the true intake, and they better represented the usual intake compared with 2-d mean. The smallest precision was observed in the upper tail of the distribution. In spite of the underestimation and overestimation of percentiles of intake, from a public health standpoint, these biases appear not to be of major concern.
Phenomenology and De Re Interpretation: A Critique of Brandom's Reading of Hegel
Authors: Houlgate Stephen 
Published: August 2016

At first sight Robert Brandom's two essays on Hegel in his book Tales of the Mighty Dead appear barely to be about Hegel at all. The first essay on holism and idealism, for example, talks of ‘sense dependence’ and ‘reference dependence’, and even invokes a point in logic made by Gilbert Harman (TMD 191-2, 194). Scarcely normal fare for the average commentator on Hegel. Brandom himself is acutely conscious of the impression his work on Hegel (and on the other philosophers discussed in Tales of the Mighty Dead) might have on his readers. ‘I am aware’, he writes, ’that the relations between the stories told here and my own philosophical views [ … ] may seem to some particularly problematic’ (TMD 90). In the section of his book called ‘Pretexts’, however, Brandom provides a subtle defence of his approach and makes it clear that he is by no means simply ‘foisting’ his ideas on the helpless dead (TMD 91; see also 389). He does so by distinguishing between two different modes of interpretation: de dicto and de re.Brandom states that interpretation of a philosophical text seeks to establish the claims made in it and to determine what follows from them. This task, however, presupposes a ‘context’ of interpretation (TMD 95).When a text is given a de dicto interpretation, the context is supplied by the author's own commitments. The aim is thus to determine what the author himself would have said in response to questions of clarification, given those commitments (TMD 99).
Metaphysics without Pre-Critical Monism: Hegel on Lower-Level Natural Kinds and the Structure of Reality
Authors: Kreines James 
Published: August 2016

Recent debates about Hegel's theoretical philosophy are marked by a surprising lack of agreement, extending all the way down to the most basic question: what is Hegel talking about? On the one hand, proponents of ‘metaphysical’ interpretations generally read Hegel as aiming to articulate the overall structure or organisation of reality itself, and the nature of a highest or most fundamental being. Particularly influential is the idea that Hegel is reviving and modifying a form of Spinoza's metaphysical monism, according to which the organised whole of everything is the highest being, providing a ground or reason for everything real. On the other hand, proponents of ‘non-metaphysical’ interpretations argue Hegel's topic is something else entirely. The idea is that Hegel agrees with Kant in finding pre-critical forms of metaphysics to be uncritical or dogmatic. And the topic of Hegel's positive project is supposed to be not the nature of reality itself, nor any most fundamental being, but rather ‘forms of thought’ akin to Kant's categories and the objectivity, legitimacy, or normative authority of those forms of thought.This is of course only a rough sketch of the most basic recent debate, about which there is more to say than can fit in this paper. My focus here is on what Hegel has to say about nature and natural kinds, in ‘Observing Reason’ from the Phenomenology, and also in similar material from the Logic and Encyclopedia. I intend to argue that this material suggests a surprising way of stepping beyond the fundamental debate sketched above. There can of course be no question of elaborating and defending here a complete interpretation of Hegel's entire theoretical philosophy. I will have to restrict myself to arguing for the unlikely conclusion that there is an approach that can combine and integrate the strongest points made by both sides in the most basic debate shaping recent Hegel interpretation.
On A Philosophical Model of Hegel's Phenomenological Method: A Reply to Kenneth Westphal
Authors: Fulkerson-Smith Brett A. 
Published: August 2016

Hegel's Phenomenology is among the most difficult, if it is not in fact the most difficult, philosophical treatise ever published. Owing to its opacity of form and content, the Phenomenology, which Hegel quite accurately describes as the highway of despair upon which natural consciousness travels to its absolute knowing, has had its share of hitchhikers (§78). In their efforts to comprehend the scenery along this highway, many readers of this text rely on any number of analytical commentaries and expositions. Westphal (2003) offers a welcomed contribution to this kind of secondary literature.As its title suggests, Westphal's text seeks to introduce Hegel's Phenomenology in a novel way, namely with explicit reference to the epistemological issue at its core. This is the Dilemma of the Criterion from Sextus Empiricus' Outlines of Pyrrhonism. (Benson 1996). In addition to introducing the central features and characteristics of the epistemological aim of the Phenomenology, Westphal devotes considerable effort to showing how, that is by what method, Hegel responds to at least Pyrrhonian skepticism.Westphal's examination of Hegel's method is framed by two questions. The first question is: what is Hegel's method? The answer that Westphal offers, namely that Hegel employs a phenomenological method, agrees with a host of classic and contemporary commentators, including Ivan Iljin (1946:126), Alexandre Kojève (1980: Ch. 7), Kenley R. Dove (1969-70), William Maker (1982), Wendy Lynn Clark and J.M. Fritzman (2002). Nevertheless, Westphal does offer a detailed, sophisticated, and novel account of the characteristics of Hegel's phenomenological method that is unrivaled in the extant literature.
G. W. F. Hegel: Geometrical Studies Introduction
Authors: Paterson Alan L. T. 
Published: August 2016

Throughout his life, Hegel showed great interest in physics and mathematics. His most sustained, surviving treatment of Euclidean geometry is his early work ‘Geometrische Studien’, which he completed while he was a private tutor [Hoffmeister] in Frankfurt, shortly before leaving for Jena to join Schelling. GS is not easy reading, but despite that, it seems to me that Hegel presents in it a remarkably erudite as well as interesting and insightful critique of geometry. He investigates some of the themes from the foundations of geometry, in particular from the first book of the Elements of Euclid. Like the mathematical philosophies of Kant and Frege, Hegel's understanding of geometry is conceptually based, but unlike them, it is also grounded in the classical Greek philosophy of mathematics, which achieved its definitive expression in Proclus's great commentary on Euclid 1. Much of this classical philosophy of geometry is forgotten nowadays, under the influence of the great modern mathematical philosophers (in particular, Cantor, Frege and Gödel). In my view, it well deserves reconsideration, especially since, as illustrated by Gödel's incompleteness theorems, modern mathematical philosophy has failed in its attempt to ground mathematics within the framework of formal systems.Much of GS has not survived, and what remains is condensed and fragmentary. It seems that originally, Hegel covered all of the propositions of Euclid 1 rather than just the 14 propositions (1-12, 26, 29) that are covered in what remains of the original GS. I have given detailed treatment of GS together with related material in Hegel's Jena dissertation elsewhere (Paterson 2004/2005). The objective of the present paper is to introduce the translation of GS.
Hegel on Historical Meaning: For Example, The Enlightenment
Authors: Pippin Robert B 
Published: August 2016

“Reading the morning paper is a kind of realistic morning prayer”Hegel's best known treatment of the European Enlightenment (in his Phänomenologie des Geistes) singles out the problem of religious faith, or the new, modern struggle between insight and faith, between enlightenment and what its defenders saw as mere “superstition”.This treatment is distinctive and on the face of it highly controversial. For one thing, while the topic is simply announced as die Aufklärung, Hegel makes no attempt at a comprehensive survey. Bacon, Swift, Smith and the British seem to play no discernable role; oddly, neither do Lessing or Mendelssohn or the German, “Berlin” Enlightenment. If there is a focus in these highly typological and categorial distinctions, it is clearly le siècle du lumière, not die Aufklärung or the Battle of the Books; if there is a representative figure, it is unquestionably Diderot; if there is a theme, it is ethical and broadly normative, not scientific or even political.
Concept, Individuality and Truth
Authors: Winfield Richard Dien 
Published: August 2016

Philosophers may disagree with unmatched zeal, but no philosophical controversy can free them from their common dependence upon the concept as a privileged vehicle of truth. Even when embracing the most radical empiricism or the most unyielding scepticism, philosophers cannot help but make conceptual arguments. All their efforts may aim at curing themselves of addiction to the concept, but so long as they reason on behalf of experience or the suspension of judgment, thinking remains the element in which their claims live and die.Philosophers' perennial use of conceptual argument might seem a double curse, subverting all of philosophy's equally perennial aspirations to seize the truth. To begin with, if philosophical investigation constitutively employs concepts, how can it possibly establish the validity of conceptual determination? If philosophy cannot fail to use concepts to legitimate reason as a midwife of truth, will philosophical investigation not fall into the vicious circularity of relying upon an instrument that can never be certified without taking its reliability for granted? Secondly, if philosophy must always utilize concepts to arrive at truth, must philosophers not presuppose that the object of true knowledge is what is conceptually determinate? Besides being beyond philosophical justification, will this assumption not limit objectivity to a mortuary of changeless universals from which all becoming, all particulars, and indeed, all actual existence are excluded as some inconceivable illusions? Will the only objectivity that philosophy can conceive be a phantom realm of ideas that can never correspond to genuine reality?