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Ritual archery has a long and vital history in Chinese civilization. This chapter examines the current reenactment and digital reconstruction of the specific tradition of the Archery Rites embedded in the Confucian tradition, ritual practice and cosmology ...

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PE-UHPFRC is a new Ultra High-Performance Fiber Reinforced Concrete (UHPFRC), which is developed to reduce the environmental impact of conventional UHPFRC by replacing the steel fibers with synthetic ones and reducing the clinker content in the mix. The de ...

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Towards a Global Ritual: Diffusion of Culture in Unsettled Times

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Can we speak of a society without rituals? Rituals create a group's identity by way of collective categories, emotion, and beliefs. The many extensions to the concept of the ritual often have focused on local and national contexts. Given that scholars of r ...

2020

Cast aluminium single crystals cross the threshold from bulk to size-dependent stochastic plasticity

Andreas Mortensen, William Curtin, Csilla Mikó, Jérôme Krebs, Suzanne Godelieve Alphonsine Verheyden, Satish I Rao

Metals are known to exhibit mechanical behaviour at the nanoscale different to bulk samples. This transition typically initiates at the micrometre scale, yet existing techniques to produce micrometre-sized samples often introduce artefacts that can influen ...

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Southern echoes in a Swedish Wanderer. The urban complex Stockholm Town hall-Committee building of Ragnar Östberg (1909-1940)

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Towards the end of the 19th century travels were still marking a rite de passage in the education and self- development of architects’ idiom, especially for Norden countries. Albeit manifesting significant German influences, their condition of a seemingly ...

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Since their introduction, Micro-Electrode Arrays (MEAs) have been exploited as devices providing distributed information about learning, memory and information processing in a cultured neuronal network, thus changing the field of view from single cell leve ...

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