1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910700745603321

Titolo

Engaging foreign audiences [[electronic resource] ] : assessment of public diplomacy platforms could help improve State Department plans to expand engagement : report to the Chairman, Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Washington, D.C.] : , : U.S. Govt. Accountability Office, , [2010]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (ii, 43 pages) : illustrations, maps

Soggetti

Diplomacy

Overseas information libraries, American

International libraries

Library outreach programs

Social media

United States Foreign relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from PDF cover (GAO, viewed Mar. 29, 2011).

"July 2010."

"GAO-10-767."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Letter -- Background -- State Utilizes a Broad Range of External Outreach Platforms around the World -- State Faces Various Challenges to Using Overseas Platforms, but Officials Have Identified Several Opportunities for Leveraging These Platforms -- State Intends to Expand Its Use of Outreach Platforms through Varying Plans for Individual Platforms -- Despite Plans to Expand Engagement with Foreign Audiences, State Has Not Evaluated Its Outreach Platforms, Making It Difficult to Assess Their Relative Effectiveness -- Conclusions -- Recommendations for Executive Action -- Agency Comments and Our Evaluation -- Appendix I. Objectives, Scope, and Methodology -- Appendix II. Maps of Overseas Public Diplomacy Platforms -- Appendix III. Comments from the Department of State -- Appendix IV. GAO Contact and Staff Acknowledgments.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910557594903321

Autore

Armstrong Ronald W

Titolo

Dislocation Mechanics of Metal Plasticity and Fracturing

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Basel, Switzerland, : MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2020

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (188 p.)

Soggetti

Research and information: general

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

The modern understanding of metal plasticity and fracturing began about 100 years ago, with pioneering work; first, on crack-induced fracturing by Griffith and, second, with the invention of dislocation-enhanced crystal plasticity by Taylor, Orowan and Polanyi. The modern counterparts are fracture mechanics, as invented by Irwin, and dislocation mechanics, as initiated in pioneering work by Cottrell. No less important was the breakthrough development of optical characterization of sectioned polycrystalline metal microstructures started by Sorby in the late 19th century and leading eventually to modern optical, x-ray and electron microscopy methods for assessments of crystal fracture surfaces, via fractography, and particularly of x-ray and electron microscopy techniques applied to quantitative characterizations of internal dislocation behaviors. A major current effort is to match computational simulations of metal deformation/fracturing behaviors with experimental measurements made over extended ranges of microstructures and over varying external conditions of stress-state, temperature and loading rate. The relation of such simulations to the development of constitutive equations for a hoped-for predictive description of material deformation/fracturing behaviors is an active topic of research. The present collection of articles provides a broad sampling of research accomplishments on the two subjects.



3.

Record Nr.

UNICAMPANIAVAN00082577

Autore

Dandolo, Francesco Carlo

Titolo

Lo Stato feudale dei Carafa di Maddaloni : genesi e amministrazione di un ducato nel regno di Napoli (sec. XV.-XVIII) / Francesco Dandolo, Gaetano Sabatini

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Napoli, : Giannini, 2010

ISBN

978-88-7431-439-3

Descrizione fisica

296 p. ; 23 cm.

Altri autori (Persone)

Sabatini, Gaetano

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia