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This book is about the invisible or subtle nature of food and farming, and also about the nature of existence. Everything that we know (and do not know) about the physical world has a subtle counterpart which has been scarcely considered in modernist farming practice and research. If you think this book isn't for you, if it appears more important to attend to the pressing physical challenges the world is facing before having the luxury of turning to such subtleties, then think again. For it could be precisely this worldview - the one prioritises the physical-material dimension of reality - that helped get us into this situation in the first place. Perhaps we need a different worldview to get us out? This book makes a foundational contribution to the discipline of Subtle Agroecologies, a nexus of indigenous epistemologies, multidisciplinary advances in wave-based and ethereal studies, and the science of sustainable agriculture. Not a farming system in itself, Subtle Agroecologies superimposes a non-material dimension upon existing, materially-based agroecological farming systems. Bringing together 43 authors from 12 countries and five continents, from the natural and social sciences as well as the arts and humanities, this multi-contributed book introduces the discipline, explaining its relevance and potential contribution to the field of Agroecology. Research into Subtle Agroecologies may be described as the systematic study of the nature of the invisible world as it relates to the practice of agriculture, and to do this through adapting and innovating with research methods, in particular with those of a more embodied nature, with the overall purpose of bringing and maintaining balance and harmony. Such research is an open-minded inquiry, its grounding being the lived experiences of humans working on, and with, the land over several thousand years to the present. By reclaiming and reinterpreting the perennial relationship between humans and nature, the implications would revolutionise agriculture, heralding a new wave of more sustainable farming techniques, changing our whole relationship with nature to one of real collaboration rather than control, and ultimately transforming ourselves.
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Traditionally fatigue, fracture, damage mechanics are predictions are based on empirical curve fitting models based on experimental data. However, when entropy is used as the metric for degradation of the material, the modeling process becomes physics based rather than empirical modeling. Because, entropy generation in a material can be calculated from the fundamental equation of thematerial. This collection of manuscripts is about using entropy for "Fatigue, Fracture, Failure Prediction and Structural Health Monitoring". The theoretical paper in the collection provides the mathematical and physics framework behind the unified mechanics theory, which unifies universal laws of motion of Newton and laws of thermodynamics at ab-initio level. Unified Mechanics introduces an additional axis called, Thermodynamic State Index axis which is linearly independent from Newtonian space x, y, z and time. As a result, derivative of displacement with respect to entropy is not zero, in unified mechanics theory, as in Newtonian mechanics. Any material is treated as a thermodynamic system and fundamental equation of the material is derived. Fundamental equation defines entropy generation rate in the system. Experimental papers in the collection prove validity of using entropy as a stable metric for Fatigue, Fracture, Failure Prediction and Structural Health Monitoring.
fatigue --- system failure --- degradation analysis --- entropy generation --- stress strain --- plastic strain --- thermodynamics --- health monitoring --- copula entropy --- measure --- dependence --- multiple degradation processes --- physics of failure --- prognosis and health management --- entropy as damage --- acoustic emission --- information entropy --- thermodynamic entropy --- Jeffreys divergence --- MaxEnt distributions --- fatigue damage --- low-cycle fatigue --- satellite --- dynamic health evaluation --- fuzzy reasoning --- entropy increase rate --- creep strain --- damage mechanics --- metallic material --- mechanothermodynamics --- tribo-fatigue entropy --- wear-fatigue damage --- stress-strain state --- limiting state --- damage state --- dangerous volume --- interaction --- irreversible damage --- degradation-entropy generation theorem --- dual-phase steel --- fatigue crack growth rate --- spectrum loading --- entropy --- unified mechanics --- Ti-6Al-4V --- medium entropy alloy --- deformation twinning --- dislocation slip --- surface nano-crystallization --- shot peening --- n/a
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"Kabbalah and the Founding of America explores the use of Jewish esoteric thought in colonial America by Quaker theologian George Keith, Puritan ministers Increase and Cotton Mather, the first Hebrew instructor at Harvard Judah Monis, and the seventh president of Yale Ezra Stiles, in shaping new Protestant American religious sensibilities"--
Protestantism --- History --- United States --- United States. --- États-Unis --- Civilization --- Jewish influences. --- Vie intellectuelle. --- Civilisation --- Influence juive. --- Intellectual life. --- Adam Cadmon. --- American Exceptionalism. --- American Identity. --- American Studies. --- Biblical Studies. --- Christian Kabbalah. --- Christian Quakerism. --- Colonial America. --- Congregationalism. --- Conversion. --- Cotton Mather. --- Daniel Leeds. --- Ezra Stiles. --- George Keith. --- Historiography. --- Increase Mather. --- Intellectual History. --- Jacob Boehme. --- Jewish Thought. --- Jewish-Christian Exchange. --- Jewish-Christian dialogue. --- John Adams. --- Judah Monis. --- Judeo-Christian. --- Kabbalistic hermeneutics. --- Lee Max Friedman. --- Messianism. --- Multi-culturalism. --- New Torah. --- Perry Miller. --- Protestantism. --- Puritanism. --- Quakerism. --- Religious polemics. --- Sabbateanism. --- Sefer Yetzirah. --- Shabbetai Tzevi. --- Shema’. --- Textual exegesis. --- Thomas Jefferson. --- Universalization. --- Zohar.
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Was it the Titanic of its age?Christened by an optimistic King James I in December 1609, the Trades Increase was the greatest English merchant vessel of the Jacobean era—a magnificent ship embodying the hopes of the nascent East India Company to claim a commanding share of the Eastern trade. But the ship's launch failed when it proved too large to exit from its dock, an ill-fated start to an expedition that would end three years later, when a dangerously leaking Trades Increase at last reached the shores of Java. While its smaller companion vessel would sail home with handsome profits for investors, the rotting hull of the great ship itself was beyond repair. The Trades Increase and nearly all who sailed it perished wretchedly on the far side of the world.The terrible pattern proven by this voyage, with profits to an elite few in London stained by catastrophic losses in equipment and personnel abroad, ignited rancorous controversy in England over the human, moral, and economic costs of such commerce. In The Loss of the "Trades Increase" Richmond Barbour has written an engrossing account of the tragic expedition and of global capitalism at its hour of emergence.Its sources fragmented among journals, minutes, and letters in the archives of the East India Company, the full story of the Trades Increase is told here for the first time. Earlier writers minimized the loss as a temporary setback and necessary sacrifice on the road to empire. In a work informed by corporate history and postcolonial theory, Barbour sees the saga of the voyage, and all that produced and justified it, differently: as an expression of the structural conflicts, operational risks, and material incapacities that haunted and ultimately unraveled the British Empire—and that destabilize multinational corporations, global markets, and our common biosphere to this day.
Commerce. --- Trade --- Traffic (Commerce) --- Economics --- Business --- Merchants --- Transportation --- Trades Increase (Ship) --- East India Company --- Governor and Company of Merchants of London, Trading into the East Indies --- United Company of Merchants of England, Trading to the East Indies --- English East India Company --- East India Company (English) --- East India Tea Company --- East-India Companie --- United East India Company --- Compagnie des Indes orientales d'Angleterre --- Compagnie unie de marchands d'Angleterre commerçans aux Indes orientales --- Tung Yin-tu kung ssu --- Honourable East-India Company --- Sharikat al-Hind al-Sharqīyah al-Barīṭānīyah --- Engelse Oost-Indische Maatschappy --- Kumpanī-i Hind-i Sharqī --- کمپنى هند شرقى --- Īsṭa Iṇḍiyā Kampanī --- English Company Trading to the East-Indies --- History --- Great Britain --- Commerce --- American History. --- American Studies. --- E-books
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Traditionally fatigue, fracture, damage mechanics are predictions are based on empirical curve fitting models based on experimental data. However, when entropy is used as the metric for degradation of the material, the modeling process becomes physics based rather than empirical modeling. Because, entropy generation in a material can be calculated from the fundamental equation of thematerial. This collection of manuscripts is about using entropy for "Fatigue, Fracture, Failure Prediction and Structural Health Monitoring". The theoretical paper in the collection provides the mathematical and physics framework behind the unified mechanics theory, which unifies universal laws of motion of Newton and laws of thermodynamics at ab-initio level. Unified Mechanics introduces an additional axis called, Thermodynamic State Index axis which is linearly independent from Newtonian space x, y, z and time. As a result, derivative of displacement with respect to entropy is not zero, in unified mechanics theory, as in Newtonian mechanics. Any material is treated as a thermodynamic system and fundamental equation of the material is derived. Fundamental equation defines entropy generation rate in the system. Experimental papers in the collection prove validity of using entropy as a stable metric for Fatigue, Fracture, Failure Prediction and Structural Health Monitoring.
History of engineering & technology --- fatigue --- system failure --- degradation analysis --- entropy generation --- stress strain --- plastic strain --- thermodynamics --- health monitoring --- copula entropy --- measure --- dependence --- multiple degradation processes --- physics of failure --- prognosis and health management --- entropy as damage --- acoustic emission --- information entropy --- thermodynamic entropy --- Jeffreys divergence --- MaxEnt distributions --- fatigue damage --- low-cycle fatigue --- satellite --- dynamic health evaluation --- fuzzy reasoning --- entropy increase rate --- creep strain --- damage mechanics --- metallic material --- mechanothermodynamics --- tribo-fatigue entropy --- wear-fatigue damage --- stress-strain state --- limiting state --- damage state --- dangerous volume --- interaction --- irreversible damage --- degradation-entropy generation theorem --- dual-phase steel --- fatigue crack growth rate --- spectrum loading --- entropy --- unified mechanics --- Ti-6Al-4V --- medium entropy alloy --- deformation twinning --- dislocation slip --- surface nano-crystallization --- shot peening --- n/a
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Traditionally fatigue, fracture, damage mechanics are predictions are based on empirical curve fitting models based on experimental data. However, when entropy is used as the metric for degradation of the material, the modeling process becomes physics based rather than empirical modeling. Because, entropy generation in a material can be calculated from the fundamental equation of thematerial. This collection of manuscripts is about using entropy for "Fatigue, Fracture, Failure Prediction and Structural Health Monitoring". The theoretical paper in the collection provides the mathematical and physics framework behind the unified mechanics theory, which unifies universal laws of motion of Newton and laws of thermodynamics at ab-initio level. Unified Mechanics introduces an additional axis called, Thermodynamic State Index axis which is linearly independent from Newtonian space x, y, z and time. As a result, derivative of displacement with respect to entropy is not zero, in unified mechanics theory, as in Newtonian mechanics. Any material is treated as a thermodynamic system and fundamental equation of the material is derived. Fundamental equation defines entropy generation rate in the system. Experimental papers in the collection prove validity of using entropy as a stable metric for Fatigue, Fracture, Failure Prediction and Structural Health Monitoring.
History of engineering & technology --- fatigue --- system failure --- degradation analysis --- entropy generation --- stress strain --- plastic strain --- thermodynamics --- health monitoring --- copula entropy --- measure --- dependence --- multiple degradation processes --- physics of failure --- prognosis and health management --- entropy as damage --- acoustic emission --- information entropy --- thermodynamic entropy --- Jeffreys divergence --- MaxEnt distributions --- fatigue damage --- low-cycle fatigue --- satellite --- dynamic health evaluation --- fuzzy reasoning --- entropy increase rate --- creep strain --- damage mechanics --- metallic material --- mechanothermodynamics --- tribo-fatigue entropy --- wear-fatigue damage --- stress-strain state --- limiting state --- damage state --- dangerous volume --- interaction --- irreversible damage --- degradation-entropy generation theorem --- dual-phase steel --- fatigue crack growth rate --- spectrum loading --- entropy --- unified mechanics --- Ti-6Al-4V --- medium entropy alloy --- deformation twinning --- dislocation slip --- surface nano-crystallization --- shot peening --- n/a
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