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Strain gradient elasticity within the symmetric BEM formulation

2014

The symmetric Galerkin Boundary Element Method is used to address a class of strain gradient elastic materials featured by a free energy function of the (classical) strain and of its (first) gradient. With respect to the classical elasticity, additional response variables intervene, such as the normal derivative of the displacements on the boundary, and the work-coniugate double tractions. The fundamental solutions - featuring a fourth order partial differential equations (PDEs) system - exhibit singularities which in 2D may be of the order 1/ r 4 . New techniques are developed, which allow the elimination of most of the latter singularities. The present paper has to be intended as a resear…

An energy residual-based approach to gradient effects within the mechanics of generalized continua

2012

AbstractGeneralized continua exhibiting gradient effects are addressed through a method grounded on the energy residual (ER)-based gradient theory by the first author and coworkers. A main tool of this theory is the Clausius-Duhem inequality cast in a form differing from the classical one only by a nonstandard extra term, the (nonlocality) ER, required to satisfy the insulation condition (its global value has to vanish or to take a known value). The ER carries in the nonlocality features of the mechanical problem through a strain-like rate field, being the specific nonlocality source, and a concomitant higher-order long-range stress (or microstress) field. The thermodynamic restrictions on …

Oracion panegirica de San Pio V / que en su fiesta, transferida al dia veinte y dos de Mayo del presente año 1747 segundo de Pascua de Pentecostès,…

1747

Caplletres ornades, fris, vinyeta Sign.: *3, A-D4, E3 Notes a peu de pàg. Reclams

Dertonen Beatificationis, & Canonizationis san. mem. Pij Papae V

Vniuersis eiusdem Ordinis Religiosos Patribus, Fratribus, ac Sororibus Salutem, piumque iubilum in B. Pii Iubilaeo

Sign.: A2 Caplletra historiada

Vniversis Patribus, Fratribus, Sororibus totius Ordinis Praedicatorum F. Io. Thomas de Rocaberti, eiusdem Ord. humilis Magister Generalis & Seruus Sa…

Caplletra historiada

Oracion panegirica de San Pio V

Caplletres ornades, fris, vinyeta Sign.: *3, A-D4, E3 Notes a peu de pàg Reclams

Amulet, Cure and Ornament. Red Coral in Trapani during the Plague Epidemics of 1575 and 1624

2023

Among the numerous epidemic episodes that have affected western Sicily in modern times, sadly famous are the plague of 1575 and 1624. The latter was the most serious occurred in Trapani and the one of which the most dramatic testimonies are preserved. Trapani quickly assumed the role of the starting point of the plague epidemic that raged in Sicily until 1626. The documents of the time testify to the coexistence of popular and religious beliefs of a superstitious nature with embryonic policies to contain the contagion on a scientific basis. The most famous doctor of the time in Trapani, Pietro Parisi, as it is known also linked to Malta, among other things recommended a coral-based therapy …

The Attention Schema Theory: A Foundation for Engineering Artificial Consciousness

2017

The purpose of the attention schema theory is to explain how an information-processing device, the brain, arrives at the claim that it possesses a non-physical, subjective awareness, and assigns a high degree of certainty to that extraordinary claim. The theory does not address how the brain might actually possess a non-physical essence. It is not a theory that deals in the non-physical. It is about the computations that cause a machine to make a claim and to assign a high degree of certainty to the claim. The theory is offered as a possible starting point for building artificial consciousness. Given current technology, it should be possible to build a machine that contains a rich internal …