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Anthropocene [PDF]

, 2022
The chapter focuses on the notion of Anthropocene. This appeared around the year 2000, quickly raising its status from a technical term and a scientific hypothesis to a keyword – or catchword – of major import in the public debate worldwide.
Pellizzoni, Luigi
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Cooperative Evolution [PDF]

, 2021
Cooperative Evolution offers a fresh account of evolution consistent with Charles Darwin's own account of a cooperative, inter-connected, buzzing and ever-changing world.
Brown, Valerie A., Bryant, Christopher
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Framing Social Theory [PDF]

, 2022
This book proposes a reconstruction of contemporary social theory, focusing on thematic issues rather than on authors or schools of thought. In so doing, it endeavours to bridge epistemological approaches and locate critical claims shared by the main ...

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Solar thermal integration in a waste-to-energy cogeneration plant: proposal and analysis [PDF]

, 2023
LAUREA MAGISTRALEIl lavoro di tesi si propone di analizzare, sia da un punto di vista tecnico che da un punto di vista economico, una potenziale integrazione di un campo solare termico di grossa taglia all'interno di un sistema di cogenerazione gia ...
LUCIANI, JACOPO GIUSEPPE
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The universe without us: a history of the science and ethics of human extinction [PDF]

, 2023
This dissertation consists of two parts. Part I is an intellectual history of thinking about human extinction (mostly) within the Western tradition. When did our forebears first imagine humanity ceasing to exist?
Torres, Phillip
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Comprehensive Analysis of Performance of Air Cooled Multistage Thermoelectric Cooler

Shanghai Jiaotong Daxue xuebao
The multistage thermoelectric cooler can provide a larger temperature difference, but its refrigeration and economic performance decreases rapidly with the increase of stages.
SUN Yuetong, MENG Fankai, ZHOU Lin, XU Chenxin
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Thermodynamics of perfect plasticity

Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - S, 2013
Viscoelastic solids in Kelvin-Voigt rheology at small strains exhibiting also stress-driven Prandtl-Reuss perfect plasticity are considered quasistatic (i.e. inertia neglected) and coupled with heat-transfer equation through dissipative heat production by viscoplastic effects and through thermal expansion and corresponding adiabatic effects ...
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Engineering science in Glasgow: W.J.M. Rankine and the motive power of air [PDF]

, 2021
This thesis analyses the construction of academic engineering education in Glasgow University during the tenure of the first two professors of civil engineering and mechanics, concentrating on the second, William John Macquorn Rankine (1820-72).
Marsden, Ben
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The tragedy of utopia in the age of the Anthropocene: Beyond dystopia, despair and catastrophic futures [PDF]

My key objective in this article is to explore the history of the concept of utopia and its application in really existing social, political, economic and cultural forms.
Featherstone, Mark
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Pessimism and the Affirmation of Life: Nietzsche's Tragic Philosophy [PDF]

, 2023
This dissertation maintains that Nietzsche’s thought amounts to an immanent critique of culture by way of an intellectual seduction targeting the gullibility of human desire.
Stewart-Kroeker, Peter
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