1.

Record Nr.

UNINA990008545500403321

Autore

Gelfand, Michael

Titolo

Diagnostic procedures in medicine / Michael Gelfand

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : Butterworth & Co., 1974

ISBN

0-407-52680-3

Descrizione fisica

XI, 374 p. ; 21 cm

Locazione

DMECM

Collocazione

616-07 GEL

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910717000703321

Autore

Artmont Frank A.

Titolo

Influence of material toughness on fracture reliability in steel bridges

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Washington, D.C.] : , : U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration, , November 2018

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xii, 28 pages) : illustrations (some color)

Soggetti

Iron and steel bridges - Design and construction

Iron and steel bridges - Testing

Fracture mechanics - Mathematical models

Load factor design - Mathematical models

Strains and stresses - Mathematical models

Steel - Fracture

Iron and steel bridges - Specifications

Technical reports.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



Note generali

"November 2018."

"FHWA-HIF-18-047."

"Authors: Frank A. Artmont [and four others]"--Technical report documentation page.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (page 27).

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910821800103321

Autore

Agelarakis Anagnostis P. <1956->

Titolo

Execution by Styrax in ancient Thasos / / Anagnostis P. Agelarakis

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, England : , : Archaeopress Publishing Limited, , [2019]

©2019

ISBN

1-78969-213-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (50 pages)

Disciplina

939.11

Soggetti

Capital punishment - Greece - Thasos Island - Antiquities

Funeral rites and ceremonies - Greece - Thasos Island - Antiquities

Excavations (Archaeology) - Greece - Thasos Island

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Information -- Copyright Information -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Graphs -- Introduction -- Figure 1. Map of the geographic region, Paros and Thasos Islands in the Aegean Sea, within the Eastern Mediterranean basin and the adjoining context of the Black Sea. -- Figure 2. Silver tetradrachm of Thasos. Obverse: Ivy crowned Head of Dionysus, facing left -- Obverse: ΘΑΣΙΟΝ  (THASION) [plural genitive form of Thasios], right kneeling Herakles, facing right, right-handed shooting arrow through recurve bow, with rose in -- Figure 3. Amphora handle stamped ΘΑΣΙΩΝ  (THASION) [plural genitive form of Thasios], right kneeling Herakles, facing right, right-handed shooting arrow through recurve bow (courtesy of late Dr. Marina Sgourou, Hellenic Archaeological Service, Chief Archa -- Archaeo-anthropological research in Thasos island -- Figure 4. In Thasos Agora region with collaborator, late Dr. Marina Sgourou, Hellenic Archaeological Service, Chief Archaeologist for the Ancient City



of Thasos -- offering a guided tour to the Adelphi student field team through the archaeological landmarks -- Figure 5. Myroni site field map with plotted burial features -- arrows point to the topographic locus of burial feature No. 138, the cyst grave of the Thasian male, and the cluster of its adjoining graves. -- Figure 6. View of the ancient commercial harbor of Thasos, still in use by fishermen and seafarers in Limenas the modern capital city of Thasos Island. -- Figure 7. Wooden boat repair activities taking place in the Limenas harbor of Thasos. -- Aspects of the human condition decoded through analysis of the osteological record.

Figure 8. Image of  burial feature No. 138, the cyst grave with uncovered thick stone slab, showing the Thasian male individual in situ, laying in an extended supine position and facing SW (courtesy of excavator, Dr. Eustratios Papadopoulos, Ephor of Hell -- Figure 10. Public symphysis, right side component, showing surface changes relative to aging process -- delineated by the redlined shape. -- Figure 9.  Mandibular ramus right side fragment with retained condyle (component of the temporomandibular diarthrosis) showing most advanced manifestations of osteoarthropathic changes -- delineated by the redlined oblique shape. -- Figure 11. Forearm bones (radius, and distally incompletely preserved ulna) of left side. -- Figure 12. Superior view of lumbar vertebrae: small arrows identify advanced spondyloarthropathic in nature osteophytic growths, marginal to the vertebral bodies -- dotted arrows indicate spondyloarthropathic lipping at superior articular processes -- ovoid s -- Figure 13. Left femoral proximal third component focusing on anterior neck changes -- delineated by the ovoid shape. -- Figure 14. Left femoral distal third component focusing on intercondylar osteoarthropathic lipping (arrows), and subchondral condylar bone osteoarthropathic changes compounded by sclerotic, eburnated, loci. -- Palaeopathological differential diagnosis: Not a sternal foramen -- Figure 15. Illustration of sternal anatomic components. -- Figure 16. Illustration of demi-macerated thoracic cavity to illustrate a rendering of an approximate position and size of a sternal foramen. -- Figure 17. Sternal manubrium, corpus, and xiphoid process of Thasian male, ventral view. -- Figure 18. X-ray image of sternal manubrium, corpus, and xiphoid process of Thasian male, ventral view. -- Figure 19. Sternal corpus and xiphoid process of Thasian male, ventral view.

Figure 20. X-ray image of sternal corpus and xiphoid process of Thasian male, ventral view. -- Figure 21. Focus on the ventral surface of manubrium sterni and the heptagonal styrax' base of sharp tip  hedra imprint and its metrics. -- Figure 22. Focus on the ventral surface of manubrium sterni and the styrax' heptagonal sharp tip penetration impact and its metrics. -- Figure 23. Focus on the dorsal surface of manubrium sterni and the styrax' heptagonal sharp tip penetration 'exit' impact. -- Identification and reproduction of the weapon type and component which was used to pierce through the corpus sterni -- Figure 24. Technical drawing, rendering of styrax' base and sharp tip component based on retrieved and reconstructed metrics. -- Figure 25. Illustration, rendering of the stryrax component cast in bronze. -- Figure 26. Projections of the mesial line and of a transversal directional on the 'entry' and 'exit' wound imprints caused by the 'through and through' corpus sterni stabbing. -- The anatomic consequences of the trauma impact by the thrusting of the styrax into the mediastinum, and assessment on the cause of death -- Figure 27. Illustration of a generic sternocostal component with emphasis on the delineated mesial traces of the right pleural and lung domains, as well as of the cardiac position. -- Experimental archaeometry through



Physics, testing for data relevant to a styrax thrusting into the thorax -- Figure 28. Dr. Bentley in area of the Physics Department laboratories with student assistants in preparations for the archaeometric tests (courtesy of Dr. Sean Bentley). -- Figure 29. Ballistic model penetrated by the sharp tip of the styrax in the rib case (broken rib) -- jabbed through an 'overhand' striking, by the author.

Figure 30. Two replicated styrax component models, with an elongated based component so that hafting to a wooden spear shaft would be possible (one with the sharp styrax tip broken off due to heavy handling) used in the Physics lab for the archaeometric t -- Figure 31. The 4th sternebra of the ballistic model penetrated by the sharp styrax tip -- jabbing by contact thrusting, by Dr. Bentley (courtesy of Dr. Sean Bentley). -- Figure 32. Close up of the 'through and through' jabbing of the 4th sternebra by contact thrusting (courtesy of Dr. Sean Bentley). -- Trauma interpretation and discussion of causes for the execution of the Thasian -- Epilogue -- Figure 33.  Mute stones of ancient Thasos, witnesses to Lysander's atrocities. -- Acknowledgements.

Sommario/riassunto

This essay presents a unique forensic / bioarchaeological investigation of the traumatised remains of an older male from Thasos, exploring the nature of the executing weapon reconstructed in bronze, the archaeometry on the trajectory and factors of speed and force at the deliverance of the deadly strike.



4.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910255444603321

Autore

Klinger Julie Michelle <1983->

Titolo

Rare Earth Frontiers : From Terrestrial Subsoils to Lunar Landscapes / / Julie Michelle Klinger

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ithaca : , : Cornell University Press, , 2017

©2017

ISBN

1-5017-1459-7

1-5017-1461-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Disciplina

553.4/94

Soggetti

Lunar mining

Rare earth metals - Brazil - Amazonas

Rare earth metals - China - Inner Mongolia

Rare earth metals - Political aspects

Rare earth metals - Social aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : welcome to the rare earth frontier -- What are rare earth elements? -- Placing China in the world history of discovery, production, and use -- Welcome to the hometown of rare earths : 1980-2010 -- Rude awakenings -- From the heartland to the head of the dog -- Extraglobal extraction.

Sommario/riassunto

Rare Earth Frontiers is a work of human geography that serves to demystify the powerful elements that make possible the miniaturization of electronics, green energy and medical technologies, and essential telecommunications and defense systems. Julie Michelle Klinger draws attention to the fact that the rare earths we rely on most are as common as copper or lead, and this means the implications of their extraction are global. Klinger excavates the rich historical origins and ongoing ramifications of the quest to mine rare earths in ever more impossible places. Klinger writes about the devastating damage to lives and the environment caused by the exploitation of rare earths. She demonstrates in human terms how scarcity myths have been conscripted into diverse geopolitical campaigns that use rare earth



mining as a pretext to capture spaces that have historically fallen beyond the grasp of centralized power. These include legally and logistically forbidding locations in the Amazon, Greenland, and Afghanistan, and on the Moon. Drawing on ethnographic, archival, and interview data gathered in local languages and offering possible solutions to the problems it documents, this book examines the production of the rare earth frontier as a place, a concept, and a zone of contestation, sacrifice, and transformation.