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Relation of Bulk‐to‐Shear Loss Factors in Viscoelastic Auxetic Metamaterials

open access: yesphysica status solidi (b), EarlyView.
This article examines the dynamic behavior of isotropic auxetic viscoelastic materials, highlighting how negative Poisson's ratios affect energy dissipation, damping, and the interplay between bulk and shear moduli. By extending established viscoelastic theories to the auxetic range, it defines bound limits and underscores how dynamic Poisson's ratio ...
Simon Preston   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Greek Gods and Heroes in Contemporary Global Literature: Repetition or Reinterpretation of Myths?

open access: yesLiteratura i Kultura Popularna
Stephen Fry, Madeline Miller, Jenifer Sait, Conn Iggulden, Natalie Haynes, Valerio Massimo Manfredi, and other household names in contemporary popular literature write stories paraphrasing Greek mythology.
Martin Kasarda
doaj   +1 more source

The The Politics of the Plinth: Notes on a Latent Ocularcentrism in Aureli’s Theory of an Absolute Architecture

open access: yesJoelho, 2017
According to Pier Vittori Aureli, architectural form becomes political by being a clearly defined limit. These defining effects of architectural form are also what allow a civic and political space to exist.
Kasper Lægring
doaj   +1 more source

Isolation, Insularity and Resilience: A Review of the Geophysical, Socioeconomic, and Environmental Vulnerabilities of Gran Canaria and Lesvos Islands for Policy Interventions to Global Change

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The dynamic nature of small islands being geographically isolated and their perceived connectedness with global networks complicates research attempts to draw general conclusions on whether insularity leads to marginalization or strengthens their resilience for sustainable development.
Toheeb Lekan Jolaosho   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

(Dis)information Systems: a Systemic View of Disinformation

open access: yesSystems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Disinformation is an ancient social phenomenon that has found a favourable environment for dissemination in internet‐based social networks. While the scientific community seeks to address the problem by creating specific tools to detect and classify the various types of false information, we argue that systems thinking is necessary to ...
Herbert Laroca   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Landscape and reality in Apuleius' Metamorphoses [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Postprin
König, Jason Peter
core  

The contribution of the humanities to the theory and practice of public administration in the 21st century

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Public Administration, EarlyView.
Abstract This Forum Article integrates a range of four contributions which are all underpinned by the conviction that the rediscovery of the humanities may be beneficial to the field of public administration. The first piece examines the contribution that philosophy, as a key discipline of the humanities, can provide to the field of public ...
Edoardo Ongaro   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

concept BEAUTY, narrative technique, ancient Greek novel, Longus

open access: yesThe Journal of V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, Series "Philology", 2018
This article is an attempt to determine the concept BEAUTY in Longus’ novel as a complex by structure and content verbalized concept of human consciousness. As the text analysis of the novel „Daphnis and Chloe” testified the concept BEAUTY is frequently used in connection with such key concept for any culture as HUMAN, because the whole culture concept
openaire   +1 more source

“It was not Death” : The Poetic Career of the Chronotope [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
As Bakhtin noted, chronotopes arise from the density and fusion of temporal and spatial indicators. In prose narrative, the density of temporal and spatial indicators arises as a natural consequence of setting scenes and explaining action, and those ...
Ladin, Joy
core  

GRK 26: Herodotus and Thucydides [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Syllabus and bibliography for an advanced Greek seminar taught at Dartmouth in Winter ...
Michael Lurie
core   +1 more source

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