Search results
May 12, 2024 · Abstract. Humboldt embodies the wide-ranging curiosity and fascination with nature shared by eminent nature writers of the late eighteenth and nineteenth century. In fact, he greatly influenced British and North American writers such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Charles Darwin, George Perkins Marsh, Clarence King, and John Muir ...
May 12, 2024 · This chapter proposes a reading of Peter Handke’s 1979 novel Langsame Heimkehr [Slow Homecoming] through the lens of new nature writing.With its origins in the United States as well as Great Britain, new nature writing expands the genre’s aesthetic vocabulary to include fiction as well as non-fiction, moving beyond the solitary individual exploring his subjectivity in a pristine natural ...
22 hours ago · Feminist philosophy. Judith Pamela Butler [1] (born February 24, 1956) is an American philosopher and gender studies scholar whose work has influenced political philosophy, ethics, and the fields of third-wave feminism, [2] queer theory, [3] and literary theory. [4]
May 12, 2024 · Skin simulants are materials designed to mimic the properties of human skin for various applications in industries such as medicine, cosmetics, forensics, and product testing. The development and use of skin simulants have become essential for research, training, and testing purposes (see Fig. 3.3 ).
22 hours ago · Social Darwinism is the study and implementation of various pseudoscientific theories and societal practices that purport to apply biological concepts of natural selection and survival of the fittest to sociology, economics and politics. [1] [2] Social Darwinists believe that the strong should see their wealth and power increase, while the weak ...
May 12, 2024 · Velocity: The rate of change of distance over time (i.e., millimetres per second, mm/s). Vibration: The variation with time of the magnitude of a quantity which is descriptive of the motion or position of a mechanical system, when the magnitude is alternately greater and smaller than some average value.
May 12, 2024 · Abstract. Working and/or living on board offshore installations imposes a series of generally low-frequency mechanical vibration, as well as single-impulse shock loads on the human body. Low-frequency vibrations are also imposed by the installation’s motions, which are produced by the various sea states. These motions can result in motion ...
