Seeking out the wisdom of the ancients [[electronic resource] ] : essays offered to honor Michael V. Fox on the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday / / edited by Ronald L. Troxel, Kelvin G. Friebel and Dennis R. Magary

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910457155703321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Winona Lake, Ind., : Eisenbrauns, 2005
• ISBN: 1-57506-562-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (536 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): TroxelRonald L. <1951->; FriebelKelvin G. <1952->; MagaryDennis Robert <1951->
• Disciplina: 223/.06
• Soggetti: Wisdom literature - Criticism, interpretation, etc; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Observations on Ezekiel as a book prophet / Menahem Haran -- The decrees of Yahweh that are "not good" : Ezekiel 20:25-26 / Kelvin G. Friebel -- Ellipsis involving negation in biblical poetry / Cynthia L. Miller -- Psalm 18 and 2 Samuel 22 : two versions of the same song / Theron Young -- The wisdom of creation in Psalm 104 / Adele Berlin -- "Come, O children ... I will teach you the fear of the Lord" (Psalm 34:12) : comparing Psalms and Proverbs / William P. Brown -- A proverb in the mouth of a fool / James L. Crenshaw -- Genericity, tense, and verbal patterns in the sentence literature of Proverbs / John A. Cook -- Word order in the book of Proverbs / Robert D. Holmstedt -- Exegetical and stylistic analysis of a number of aphorisms in the book of Proverbs : mitigation of monotony in repetitions in parallel texts / Shamir Yona -- Forming "fearers of Yahweh" : repetition and contradiction as pedagogy in Proverbs / Christine Roy Yoder -- Visual metaphors and Proverbs 5:15-20 : some archaeological reflections on gendered iconography / Carole R. Fontaine -- The Instruction of Amenemope and Proverbs 22:17-24:22 from the perspective of contemporary research / Nili Shupak -- The woman of valor and a woman large of head : ; matchmaking in the ancient Near East / Victor Avigdor Hurowitz -- The fly and the dog : observations on ideational polarity in the book of Qoheleth / Tova Forti -- A sense of timing : a neglected aspect of Qoheleth's wisdom / Richard L. Schultz -- The little sister and Solomon's vineyard : Song of songs 8:8-12 as a lovers' dialogue / J. Cheryl Exum -- Answering questions, questioning answers : the rhetoric of interrogatives in the speeches of Job and his friends / Dennis R. Magary -- The mysterious disappearance of Zerubbabel / Theodore J. Lewis -- Textual criticism of the book of Deuteronomy and the Oxford Hebrew Bible project / Sidnie White Crawford -- What's in a name? : contemporization and toponyms in LXX-Isaiah / Ronald L. Troxel -- Characterization in the Old Greek of Job / Karl V. Kutz -- On the influence of Job on Jewish Hellenistic literature / Heidi M. Szpek -- Becoming canon : women, texts, and scribes in Proverbs and Sirach / Claudia V. Camp -- Translating biblical words of wisdom into the modern world / Leonard Greenspoon -- The text-critical value of the Septuagint of Proverbs / Johann Cook -- Christian Aramaism : the birth and growth of Aramaic scholarship in the sixteenth century / Stephen G. Burnett -- Spying out the land : a report from genology / Carol A. Newsom -- What's in a calendar? calendar conformity, calendar controversy and calendar reform in ancient and medieval Judaism / Shemaryahu Talmon -- Competing commentaries / Frederick E. Greenspahn.

Fracture mechanics of electromagnetic materials [[electronic resource] ] : nonlinear field theory and applications / / Xiaohong Chen, Yiu-Wing Mai

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910789345903321
• Autore: Chen Xiaohong
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London, : Imperial College Press; Singapore ; ; Hackensack, NJ, : Distributed by World Scientific, c2013
• ISBN: 1-283-85062-1; 1-84816-664-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (326 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): MaiY. W. <1946->
• Disciplina: 620.1/126; 620.1126
• Soggetti: Fracture mechanics - Mathematics; Nonlinear theories; Magnetic materials - Fracture
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 276-298) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Foreword; Preface; Contents; List of Tables; List of Figures; Chapter 1: Fundamentals of Fracture Mechanics; 1.1 Historical Perspective; 1.2 Stress Intensity Factors (SIF); 1.3 Energy Release Rate (ERR); 1.4 J-Integral; 1.5 Dynamic Fracture; 1.6 Viscoelastic Fracture; 1.7 Essential Work of Fracture (EWF); 1.8 Configuration Force (Material Force) Method; 1.9 Cohesive Zone and Virtual Internal Bond Models; Chapter 2 : Elements of Electrodynamics of Continua; 2.1 Notations; 2.1.1 Eulerian and Lagrangian descriptions; 2.1.2 Electromagnetic field; 2.1.3 Electromagnetic body force and couple; 2.1.4 Electromagnetic stress tensor and momentum vector2.1.5 Electromagnetic power; 2.1.6 Poynting theorem; 2.2 Maxwell Equations; 2.3 Balance Equations of Mass, Momentum, Moment of Momentum, and Energy; 2.4 Constitutive Relations; 2.5 Linearized Theory; Chapter 3 : Introduction to Thermoviscoelasticity; 3.1 Thermoelasticity; 3.2 Viscoelasticity; 3.3 Coupled Theory of Thermoviscoelasticity; 3.3.1 Fundamental principles of thermodynamics; 3.3.2 Formulation based on Helmholtz free energy functional; 3.3.3 Formulation based on Gibbs ; free energy functional; 3.4 Thermoviscoelastic Boundary-Initial Value ProblemsChapter 4 : Overview on Fracture of Electromagnetic Materials; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Basic Field Equations; 4.3 General Solution Procedures; 4.4 Debates on Crack-Face Boundary Conditions; 4.5 Fracture Criteria; 4.5.1 Field intensity factors; 4.5.2 Path-independent integral; 4.5.3 Mechanical strain energy release rate; 4.5.4 Global and local energy release rates; 4.6 Experimental Observations; 4.6.1 Indentation test; 4.6.2 Compact tension test; 4.6.3 Bending test; 4.7 Nonlinear Studies; 4.7.1 Electrostriction/magnetostriction; 4.7.2 Polarization/magnetization saturation4.7.3 Domain switching; 4.7.4 Domain wall motion; 4.8 Status and Prospects; Chapter 5 : Crack Driving Force in Electro-Thermo-Elastodynamic Fracture; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Fundamental Principles of Thermodynamics; 5.3 Energy Flux and Dynamic Contour Integral; 5.4 Dynamic Energy Release Rate Serving as Crack Driving Force; 5.5 Configuration Force and Energy-Momentum Tensor; 5.6 Coupled Electromechanical Jump/Boundary Conditions; 5.7 Asymptotic Near-Tip Field Solution; 5.8 Remarks; Chapter 6 : Dynamic Fracture Mechanics of Magneto-Electro-Thermo-Elastic Solids6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Thermodynamic Formulation of Fully Coupled Dynamic Framework; 6.2.1 Field equations and jump conditions; 6.2.2 Dynamic energy release rate; 6.2.3 Invariant integral; 6.3 Stroh-Type Formalism for Steady-State Crack Propagation under Coupled Magneto-Electro-Mechanical Jump/Boundary Conditions; 6.3.1 Generalized plane crack problem; 6.3.2 Steady-state solution; 6.3.3 Path-independent integral for steady crack growth; 6.4 Magneto-Electro-Elastostatic Crack Problem as a Special Case; 6.5 Summary; Chapter 7 : Dynamic Crack Propagation in Magneto-Electro-Elastic Solids
• Sommario/riassunto: Fracture Mechanics of Electromagnetic Materials provides a comprehensive overview of fracture mechanics of conservative and dissipative materials, as well as a general formulation of nonlinear field theory of fracture mechanics and a rigorous treatment of dynamic crack problems involving coupled magnetic, electric, thermal and mechanical field quantities.Thorough emphasis is placed on the physical interpretation of fundamental concepts, development of theoretical models and exploration of their applications to fracture characterization in the presence of magneto-electro-thermo-mechanical coupl

Identity in Algerian politics : the legacy of colonial rule / / J. N. C. Hill

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910787861403321
• Autore: Hill J. N. C (Jonathan N. C.), <1978->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Boulder, Colorado : , : Lynne Rienner Publishers, , 2009; ©2009
• ISBN: 1-62637-107-5
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (231 p.)
• Disciplina: 320.965
• Soggetti: Postcolonialism - Algeria; Nation-building - Algeria; Group identity - Algeria; Algeria Politics and government 1962-1990; Algeria Politics and government 1990-; Algeria Colonial influence
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Book Title""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""1-Introduction""; ""Notes""; ""2-French Colonial Rule and Its Enduring Legacies""; ""Nationalism and Nation Building in Africa""; ""French Colonial Policy and Doctrine""; ""Invasion, Conquest, and Resistance: The Battle for Algeria""; ""Assimilation and the Mission Civilisatrice: Turning Algerians into Frenchmen""; ""Notes""; ""3-Algerian Nationalism and the War of Liberation""; ""Resistance and Nationalism in the Twentieth Century""; ""The War of Liberation""; ""Notes""; ""4-Independence and the Challenges of Nation Building""; ""Down But Not Out: The Insurgents Endure""""Countering the Insurgency""; ""The Nation-Building Process Under Abdelaziz Bouteflika""; ""Conclusions""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""About the Book""
• Sommario/riassunto: Explores the multiple causes of two decades of political change, social and economic upheaval, and conflict in post-independence Algeria, focusing on the relationship between identity and sociopolitical stability in Algerian nation building.