bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Urban and Rural Narratives of Female Relocation in Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s Novels Queen of Dreams and The Mistress of Spices
Authors: Alexandru Maria-Sabina Draga 
Published: May 2013

Abstract
In today’s global world, the urban/ rural opposition is increasingly becoming a more relevant marker of the acculturation of foreigners whose adoption of national values is reflected by the spaces they inhabit. As they bring with them traditions related to the healing and balancing forces of the earth, immigrants prompt a reconsideration of the urban/ rural dichotomy in the metropolitan spaces they come to inhabit. Rural landscape in American culture has a long tradition of acting as a source of an alternative symbolic imaginary, responsible for boosting people’s feelings of patriotic commitment that are crucial to national integration. Diasporic American fiction has increasingly combined this tradition with symbolic magic and natural elements brought over from the “other” cultural backgrounds their authors come from. This paper aims to study the socio-political negotiations in a few instances of cultural translation within the urban/ rural dialectic in Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s novels The Mistress of Spices and Queen of Dreams. I will suggest that Divakaruni’s female protagonists work their initial experience of dislocation into a discourse of nature and the earth free from boundaries, based on a rejection of urban alienation and the discovery of the reconciliatory potential of America’s nature.
Aesthetic and Methodologic Resources of Ezra Pound’s Poetry
Authors: Gherasim Gabriel C. 
Published: May 2013

Abstract
The study of The Cantos, one of the most complex and difficult works belonging to literary modernism makes possible, precisely due to this observation, the exploration of a series of characteristics and dimensions of Pound’s work that have either remained in a programmatic stage or should be revisited more closely in order for their meanings to be discerned. ‘Analyticity’ and ‘scientism’ can be considered relevant characteristics of Pound’s work, with both aesthetic and methodologic meanings. The present study aims at investigating these two dimensions of Pound’s poetry as they appear in the second and the fourth decades of the 20th century. In conclusion the question is whether Pound’s analyticity and scientism could still be considered valuable from an aesthetic or methodologic point of view.
The Relevance of the Rotational Speed of Roadheader Cutting Heads According to the Energy Consumption of the Cutting Process / Znaczenie prędkości obrotowej głowic urabiających kombajnu chodnikowego ze względu na energochłonność procesu urabiania
Authors: Dolipski Marian , Cheluszka Piotr , Sobota Piotr 
Published: May 2013

The article presents the outcomes of extensive computer investigations the purpose of which was to identify the impact of cutting heads’ rotational speed on the load applied on the cutting heads drive as well as on the efficiency and energy consumption of the cutting process. The investigations were performed based on a simulation of the rock cutting process within a wide range of rocks’ compressive strength with a roadheader transverse head equipped with 80 conical picks. Variations were taken into consideration in the rotational speed of the cutting heads and variations in the factors connected with the properties of the drives driving the cutting heads on the load condition of the cutting system and on the energy consumption of the cutting process.
The computer simulations carried out indicate that a reduction is possible in the energy consumption of cutting the rocks with low workability by decreasing the cutting heads’ rotational speed thus preventing also the excessive load on the cutting heads drive. Possibilities are presented along with a concept of the heads‘ automatic speed adjustment according to the power utilised in the cutting process.
Selected Aspects of Numerical Modelling of the Salt Rock Mass: The Case of the “Wieliczka” Salt Mine / Wybrane aspekty modelowania numerycznego masywu solnego na przykładzie kopalni soli „wieliczka”
Authors: D’Obyrn Kajetan , Hydzik-Wiśniewska Joanna 
Published: May 2013

Each excavation or excavation complex intended to be backfilled or secured requires an individual approach, and conducting a detailed geomechanical analysis which will allow the selection of the appropriate manner of securing or backfilling or liquidation, and the order of performing mining works. The numerical model of the selected chamber or group of chambers must accurately reflect the reality and have an appropriately selected calculation model.
The paper presents the selected aspects of numerical modelling of the “Wieliczka” salt rock mass. There are method of selection of geotechnical and rheological parameters of salt, the geometrization of the excavations continues and selection calculation model.
Doing Hirsch proud; shaping H-index in engineering sciences
Authors: Czarnecki L. , Kaźmierkowski M.P. , Rogalski A. 
Published: May 2013

Abstract
The h-index concept has been analysed in aspects of a contemporary tendency of parameterisation of everything and as the potential measure of the knowledge progress, which recognises individuals, institutions and Engineering sub-disciplines that best generate new knowledge. Considerations have been presented at the level of universality of knowledge which implies permanent progress and on the base of careful thoughts of the domestic experience. The h-nature of things has been described, and several axiomatic characterisations of the Hirsch index have been gathered. The mechanism how to increase the h-index has been presented. Some similarities between h-index and the journal impact factor (JIF) have been stressed. Also the universal role of H-index in ranking countries in all areas and in Engineering has been exampled in extended tables.
The Glänzel’s model which connects the h-index with two fundamental scientometric indicators: number of publications and the rate of citation, has been analysed. Following the Microsoft Academic Search, the lists of 15 top scientists from various academic disciplines and separately in Engineering have been composed. It has been found that the population of the best keeps basically the same relations between the h-index and a number of publication, and between the h-index and a citation number. However, even the best in Engineering should publish 2 times a year or more papers to receive the same h-index as top scientists in overall domains.
The h-index distribution of domestic Engineering sub-disciplines has been presented and analysed in statistic categories. The suitable hhistograms and the cumulative probability density function (CPDF) have been elaborated for 21 sub-disciplines and thereupon the Engineering sub-disciplines have been arranged into three clusters. It has been demonstrated that Engineering as the whole and Engineering sub-disciplines are underestimated, compared to other academic disciplines. The adequate normalisation factors have been suggested.
Several other conclusions considered the h,H-indices as the measure of the knowledge progress addressed to individual researchers and to collective, e.g., journals, institutions, organisations, countries, adequately have been written. The h,H-indices are the general measure of the position of the given subject (person or organisation) but cannot be universal.
Smoothed particle hydrodynamics versus finite element method for blast impact
Authors: Jankowiak T. , Łodygowski T. 
Published: May 2013

Abstract
The paper considers the failure study of concrete structures loaded by the pressure wave due to detonation of an explosive material. In the paper two numerical methods are used and their efficiency and accuracy are compared. There are the Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) and the Finite Element Method (FEM). The numerical examples take into account the dynamic behaviour of concrete slab or a structure composed of two concrete slabs subjected to the blast impact coming from one side. The influence of reinforcement in the slab (1, 2 or 3 layers) is also presented and compared with a pure concrete one. The influence of mesh density for FEM and the influence of important parameters in SPH like a smoothing length or a particle distance on the quality of the results are discussed in the paper
Uncertainties in the building process
Authors: Nowak A.S. , Rakoczy A.M. 
Published: May 2013

Abstract
Load and resistance have to be treated as random variables because of natural and man-made uncertainties. Statistical parameters, i.e. bias factors and coefficients of variation, are presented for natural effects of dead load, live load for buildings and bridges, and environmental loads. Man-made effects are more difficult to quantify as they include also human errors. For resistance, the uncertainties are considered as a combination of three factors: material, fabrication and professional. The statistical parameters are shown for structural steel, reinforced concrete, and prestressed concrete. These parameters allow for calculation of the reliability indices for structural components and assessment of the effect of uncertainties in load and resistance on the structural safety
Stability criteria for a class of stochastic distributed delay systems
Authors: Ficak B. , Klamka J. 
Published: May 2013

Abstract
In the paper linear distributed delay stochastic systems are considered. Using theory of stochastic differential equations sufficient conditions for different kinds of stability are formulated and proved. The article attempts to generalise results presented in the paper [1] and thus theorems proved in [1] become a special case of a generalised approach. The considered class is wider - the function that influence dynamics of a problem can be a real solution of N-degree linear deterministic differential equation. Therefore the generalised reduction technique of distributed delay to lumped delay has to be applied. Criteria for numerous properties of the aforementioned class followed Mao theory designed for point delay systems [2, 3]
The study of thermal connecting of telecommunication optical fibers (SiO2: GeO2) and EDF (SiO2: Al2O3, Er) fibers
Authors: Ratuszek M. , Ratuszek M.J. , Hejna J. 
Published: May 2013

Abstract.
This paper presents the research on optimization of the splicing process in the electric arc of telecommunication optical fibers and erbium doped EDF fibers. The results of the calculations of diffusion coefficients GeO2 in telecommunication optical fibers and diffusion coefficients Er and Al2O3 (together) in the fiber EDF are presented. Diffusion coefficients were determined for the fusion temperature in the electric arc ≈2000°C, on the basis of changes, along the splice, of spliced thermoluminescence intensity profiles of the fibers. On the basis of knowledge of diffusion coefficients simulation calculation of loss joints of MC SMF fiber (Matched Cladding Single Mode Fiber - SiO2: GeO2) and NZDS SMF (Non Zero Dispersion Shifted - Single Mode Fiber - SiO2: GeO2) with EDF (Erbium Doped Fiber - SiO2: Al2O3, Er) was performed and presented as a function of diffusion time. Experimental studies of optimization of thermal connected MC SMF and NZDS SMF with EDF were presented and compared with theoretical results. This paper presents the results of microscopic observations of defects and diffusion, and X-ray microanalysis in the spliced areas of single-mode telecommunication optical fibers: MC SMF, NZDS-SMF and erbium doped active single mode optical fibers. Studies were performed with the use of the scanning electron microscope JSM5800LV and JSM6610A microscope equipped with EDS X-ray spectrometer. Results showing the influence of heating time on the diffusion of core dopants and the formation of deformations in the splice areas were presented.
An adaptive finite element method for Fredholm integral equations of the first kind and its verification on experimental data
Authors: Koshev Nikolay , Beilina Larisa 
Published: May 2013

AbstractWe propose an adaptive finite element method for the solution of a linear Fredholm integral equation of the first kind. We derive a posteriori error estimates in the functional to be minimized and in the regularized solution to this functional, and formulate corresponding adaptive algorithms. To do this we specify nonlinear results obtained earlier for the case of a linear bounded operator. Numerical experiments justify the efficiency of our a posteriori estimates applied both to the computationally simulated and experimental backscattered data measured in microtomography.
Electrode polarization and interface effects in liquid crystal systems with mobile ions: development of a model of bipolar diffusion
Authors: Ganea Constantin 
Published: May 2013

Abstract
The influence of mobile ions on the results of impedance spectroscopy (dielectric spectroscopy) measurements performed on a liquid crystal cell using the new mathematical model recently described was investigated. This mathematical model reformulates the fundamental equation system of continuity for mobile charge carriers and the Poisson equation using new variables. One makes the following assumptions: ions have different mobilities and diffusion coefficients, there is no generation-recombination process, the equilibrium carrier concentrations are uniform and equal each other, the electrodes are either completely blocking or blocked with adsorption-desorption processes. The final result is the analytical expression of the equivalent admittance for the system, allowing to have a clearer picture of the mobile ions and of the processes that occur at the electrode interface influencing the dielectric behavior.
An Approach to Damage Detection in the Aircraft Structure with the Use of Integrated Sensors – The Symost Project
Authors: Dragan Krzysztof , Dziendzikowski Michał , Leski Andrzej , Dworakowski Ziemowit , Uhl Tadeusz 
Published: May 2013

Abstract
This paper presents an approach to damage growth monitoring and early damage detection in the structure of PZL - 130 ORLIK TC II turbo-prop military trainer aft using the statistical models elaborated by the Polish Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT) and the network of the sensors attached to the structure. Drawing on the previous experiences of the AFIT and AGH in structural health monitoring, the present research will deploy an array of the PZT sensors in the structure of the PZL -130 Orlik TC II aircraft. The aircraft has just started Full Scale Fatigue Test (FSFT) that will continue up to 2013. The FSFT of the structure is necessary as a consequence of the structure modification and the change of the maintenance system - the transition to Condition Based Maintenance. In this paper, a novel approach to the monitoring of the aircraft hot-spots will be presented. Special attention will be paid to the preliminary results of the statistical models that provide an automated tool to infer about the presence of damage and its size. In particular, the effectiveness of the selected signal characteristics will be assessed using dimensional reduction methods (PCA) and the so-called averaged damage indices will be delivered. Moreover, the results of the signal classification based on the neural network will be presented alongside the numerical model of the wave propagation. The work contains selected information about the project scope and the results achieved at the preliminary stage of the project
Introduction of Fatigue Markers in Full Scale Fatigue Test of an Aircraft Structure
Authors: Leski Andrzej , Kłysz Sylwester , Lisiecki Janusz , Gmurczyk Gabriel , Reymer Piotr , Bochenek Dariusz , Zasada Dariusz 
Published: May 2013

Abstract
Air Force Institute of Technology participates in the service life assessment programme SEWST. The aim of this programme, funded by the Polish Ministry of Defense, is to modify the operation system of PZL-130 "Orlik" TC-II turbo propelled trainer aircraft. The structural part of the programme is focused on the Full Scale Fatigue Test of the whole airframe to be conducted at the VZLU in the Czech Republic. The load spectrum for the test was developed by the AFIT based on the flight test results. The basic load block represents 200 simulated flight hours and consists of 194 flights showing different levels of severity.
At the end of the Full Scale Fatigue Test a teardown inspection is planned during which it would be most beneficial to be able to determine crack propagation rate by means of a crack surface inspection. Markers are usually visible on most fatigue crack surfaces, however they occur randomly therefore it is almost impossible to conclude anything about the crack history. Since the preliminary load block consisted of separate flights (flight loads together with landing and taxing loads) showing significantly different levels of severity, the easiest way to modify the load block was to change the order of flights within the block. Hence a pilot programme was started at the AFIT which was focused on the determination of the influence of flight sequence on crack appearance. Several load blocks were determined using various techniques of rearranging the order of flights within the preliminary load spectrum.
This approach ensured the preservation of the initial severity of the load block and simultaneously enabled a significant increase in the probability of the markers occurrence introducing neither artificial underloads nor overloads that would most probably affect the crack propagation rate.
Fatigue crack surfaces were inspected using Scanning Electron Microscope. As a result of the investigations a series of images were obtained showing the specimen microstructure with visible markers arranged in the desired sequences. Based on the obtained pictures the most promising load block arrangements were chosen for the Full Scale Fatigue Test.
Preliminary Verification of Selected Solutions for Crack Detection
Authors: Kurnyta Artur , Reymer Piotr 
Published: May 2013

Abstract
Throughout its service life an aircraft is subjected to varying loads. Because of those periodically appearing stresses, undesirable and irreversible changes in structure may occur. As a consequence, cracks are formed, which reduce aircraft structural strength, significantly affecting structural integrity. For that reason, intensive research works are carried out around the world to develop innovative and reliable methods for detection of cracks initiation and propagation. This paper presents two methods of crack detection. One of them uses wireless polymer gages for determining deformation in a test region. The other one uses electrical, resistive ladder sensors for detection of cracks and their length determination.
Qui sont les jeunes ruraux ?
Authors: Lambert Yves , Roudet Bernard 
Published: May 2013

Wer sind die Jugendlichen auF dem Lande ?
Nach der Volkszählung von 1990 repräsentiert die Landjugend 23,4 % der Altersklasse der 15-24 jährigen. Wenn man die auf dem Land lebenden Jugendlichen mit der Gesamtheit der Jugend vergleicht, stellt man fest, dass die Landjugend sich definiert als eine Jugend, die mehr den unteren Volksschichten dem Bauernstand natürlich und besonders dem Arbeiterstand angehört. Dieser Artikel prüft die Gemeinsamkeiten und die Unterschiede Zwischen der land-und der Stadtjugend auf mehreren Gebieten : die Ausbildung und die Arbeitstellen, die Lebensweise, die Religion und die Politik. Er analysiert danach die Haltung der Landjugend im Vergleich mit den Jugendlichen in den Städten. Es Stellt sich heraus, dass die Jugendlichen auf dem Lande im wesentlichen dieselben Gesichtspunkte und Lebensformen haben wie die jungen Städter, selbst wenn sie sie den Besonderheiten der ländlichen weit angleichen. Die Tatsache, dass man auf dem Land lebt, ist nicht mehr an eine starke Kulturelle identitätgebunden. Sie wird vor allem als eine Lebensweise empfunden, die durch die steigende Bedeutung der Lebensqualität charakterisiert ist. Bezeichnend in diesem Sinne ist die Anziehung, die Landgemeinden in städtischer Peripherie ausüben.
Delphes et les « Pythioniques » d'Aristote
Authors: Bousquet Jean 
Published: May 2013

On n'a rien retrouvé du catalogue des vainqueurs aux concours des Pythia de Delphes, rédigé par Aristote et Callisthène. Les comptes des Trésoriers indiquent toutefois le prix payé pour leur gravure sur de grandes stèles de calcaire, lors de quatre sessions de l'Amphictionie : 140 drachmes pour 14.000 (ou 21.000) lettres la première fois, entre 327 et 324. On n'a donc pas tort d'imaginer un énorme volumen de pierre, déroulé colonne par colonne au voisinage du Temple : rare et coûteuse publication, datée avec précision, pour un livre ancien.
Un fragment du décret rendu à cette époque en l'honneur des auteurs, si la teneur en est précisée, paraît rédigé avec plus de goût littéraire que d'habitude, par un homme cultivé qui rendait ainsi hommage à l'auteur de la Rhétorique (Fouilles de Delphes, III 1, 400).
Dušan Kovačević : Monde « virtuel » et monde « réel » dans la dernière décennie du XXe siècle.
Authors: Radulović Ksenija 
Published: May 2013

Dušan Kovačević : «virtuelni» i «realni» svet tokom poslednje decenije XX veka

Od kada je 1973. god. izvedena prva Kovačevićeva drama Maratonci trče počasni krug u beogradskom Ateljeu 212, njegovo ime je stalno prisutno na pozorišnim scenama. Centralni predmet istraživanja su dramski komadi Urnebesna tragedija, Lari Tompson, tragedija jedne mladosti i Kontejner s pet zvezdica, svi napisani i realizováni na pozornici tokom poslednje dekade.
Najvažnije osobenosti Kovačevićevih dramskih tekstova, nastalih u jednom izrazito turbulentnom i dramatičnom periodu srpskog društva, bi bile sledeće: autor se primetno udaljava od realističkog obrasca i približava duhu apsurda koji karakteriše komedije iz njegove rane faze; u preplitanju različitih nivoa realnosti, briše se oštra granica između normalnog i nenormalnog, uobičajenog i grotesknog, što je savršeni odraz događaja iz neposrednog društvenog okruženja; likovi počinju da žive simulirane živote, udaljeni od svojih stvarnih problema i nespremni da sagledaju realnost onakvom kakva ona zaista jeste. Nekada vitalni junaci sve više postaju duhovno i mentalno obogaljeni; nastavljeno je gorko viviseciranje mentalitetskog obrasca, ali su istovremeno prisutne i apriorističke teze-metafore komada.
Espaces mimétique, diégétique et géopolitique dans les drames sur les guerres balkaniques des années 1990
Authors: Andjelkovic Sava 
Published: May 2013

Mimetski, diegetski i geopolitički prostor u dramama o ratu na Balkanu

Na korpusu od devet tekstova devet autora iz Bosne i Hercegovine, Hrvatske i Srbije i Crne Gore koji govore о nedavnim ratovima na Balkanu (Isidora Bjelica, Saga o UNPROFORU, Igor Bojović, Happy End / Divče, Ljubomir Đurković, Otpad, Almir Imširević, Kad bi ovo bila predstava..., Goran Markovic, Turneja, Biljana Srbljanović, Porodične priče, Slobodan Šnajder, Zmijin svlak, Damir Šodan, Zaštićena zona i Filip Šovagović, Cigla) ispituje se «svoj », «tuđ » i «ničiji » prostor koji se u tekstovima javlja kao zatvoren i otvoren mimetski prostor, kao savremeni diegetski i mimetski prostor (sa posebnim osvrtom na geopolitiku mimetskog prostora).
U zatvorenom mimetskom prostoru rat utiče na likove običnih građana i njihove postupke. Osnovni dramaturški izbor za prikazivanje rata u zapadnobalkanskoj drami je diegetski prostor. On pothranjuje dramaturgiju zatvorenog mimetskog prostora u kom se rat oglašava putem svedočenja ili izveštavanja, ali se i neudaljeni diegetski prostor uvlači u njega zvukom ili svetlom, ponekad sposoban i da ga povredi. Postoje i scene na otvorenom mimetskom prostoru ratišta, kao i ratne akcije koje su predstavljene u takvom istom prostoru. Bez obzira što su malobrojne i samo u dve drame iz korpusa (Bjelica, Marković), one svedoče o specifičnosti nove dramaturgije koja se bavi nedavnim balkanskim ratovima.