title: Minding the aesthetic: The place of the literary in education and research.

authors: Locke, Terry

subjects: aesthetics

abstract: The article discusses the significance of aesthetic as a mode of cognition and means of social cohesion. It notes the relation of aesthetic knowledge with the perception or intuition, the emergence of such awareness into something durable and the response to the embodiment. It describes the evolution of aesthetic delight in the human species, the sense of sense of beauty arising on one's realization of the formal qualities of something, through the poem presented by the author on achievement.

text: Minding the aesthetic: The place of the literary in education and research. The article discusses the significance of aesthetic as a mode of cognition and means of social cohesion. It notes the relation of aesthetic knowledge with the perception or intuition, the emergence of such awareness into something durable and the response to the embodiment. It describes the evolution of aesthetic delight in the human species, the sense of sense of beauty arising on one's realization of the formal qualities of something, through the poem presented by the author on achievement.

year: 2010

title: A Seabased wave energy device: An experimental investigation

authors: Zhu, Haofeng

subjects: wave energy converters

abstract: Ocean waves are a largely untapped treasure-house of renewable energy resource, and the potential renewable energy harvested from ocean waves is considerable around the world. Abundant research and development on this field have been conducted to accomplish the aims in different stages, and the technology has been undergoing all the time. However, despite tremendous energy potential, technologies of ocean wave, the wave energy converter (WEC), are still relatively immature compared to other renewable technologies.
This thesis presents basic motion character of a WEC device that the performance of one of WECs in relationship between power take off (PTO) part and buoy. The device is a simple 1:50 scaled model which referred to a point absorber buoy device like the device of the Seabased project that the buoy connected with PTO by a wire reacts the water surface to respond excited waves, and drives the PTO with a spring.
The tests were conducted in a small water tank. In order to investigate the relationship between buoy performance and PTO part, two different springs were used respectively in PTO, which one spring is stiff and the other one is softer, and model device experienced irregular and regular wave conditions. The softer spring case indicated that the buoy was sensitive to the passing waves but it was hard to provide a restoring force, so the period of one heave motion of buoy was relatively long, which was totally opposed to that of the stiffer spring case. Moreover, the natural frequency of model device was also calculated by mathematical model, and this theoretical value was less than that of experimental value from test.
This model device could be improved and perfected and subjected to small scaled water tank tests for offshore device to investigate the basic characters for motion with methods of mathematical model or simulation and experimental results.

text: A Seabased wave energy device: An experimental investigation Ocean waves are a largely untapped treasure-house of renewable energy resource, and the potential renewable energy harvested from ocean waves is considerable around the world. Abundant research and development on this field have been conducted to accomplish the aims in different stages, and the technology has been undergoing all the time. However, despite tremendous energy potential, technologies of ocean wave, the wave energy converter (WEC), are still relatively immature compared to other renewable technologies.
This thesis presents basic motion character of a WEC device that the performance of one of WECs in relationship between power take off (PTO) part and buoy. The device is a simple 1:50 scaled model which referred to a point absorber buoy device like the device of the Seabased project that the buoy connected with PTO by a wire reacts the water surface to respond excited waves, and drives the PTO with a spring.
The tests were conducted in a small water tank. In order to investigate the relationship between buoy performance and PTO part, two different springs were used respectively in PTO, which one spring is stiff and the other one is softer, and model device experienced irregular and regular wave conditions. The softer spring case indicated that the buoy was sensitive to the passing waves but it was hard to provide a restoring force, so the period of one heave motion of buoy was relatively long, which was totally opposed to that of the stiffer spring case. Moreover, the natural frequency of model device was also calculated by mathematical model, and this theoretical value was less than that of experimental value from test.
This model device could be improved and perfected and subjected to small scaled water tank tests for offshore device to investigate the basic characters for motion with methods of mathematical model or simulation and experimental results.

year: 2020

title: The Debate over 'Kai Tangata' (Maori Cannibalism): New Perspectives from the Correspondence of the Marists

authors: Jennings, William

subjects: cannibalism

abstract: French Marist missionaries working in New Zealand from 1838 sometimes mentioned Maori cannibalism in their correspondence. This article finds that the Marists considered cannibalism to be a cultural practice of minor interest, not a defining point of difference between Maori and Europeans. The article also finds some evidence of ritual cannibalism, but not of mass battlefield cannibalism or of the eating of people for food.

text: The Debate over 'Kai Tangata' (Maori Cannibalism): New Perspectives from the Correspondence of the Marists French Marist missionaries working in New Zealand from 1838 sometimes mentioned Maori cannibalism in their correspondence. This article finds that the Marists considered cannibalism to be a cultural practice of minor interest, not a defining point of difference between Maori and Europeans. The article also finds some evidence of ritual cannibalism, but not of mass battlefield cannibalism or of the eating of people for food.

year: 2011