Stage loading of a highway embankment on tidal flats

1981 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 535-542
Author(s):  
W. J. Burwash ◽  
M. A. J. Matich
Keyword(s):  
Nova Scotia ◽  
Case History ◽  
Tidal Flats ◽  
Economic Advantage ◽  
The Other ◽  
Sufficient Time ◽  
East River ◽  
History Of ◽  
Porewater Pressure ◽  
Predicted Values

The approach embankment to the eastern extremity of a bridge across the East River near Trenton, Nova Scotia involved construction of a 6.4 m high embankment on tidal flats. Very soft to soft slightly organic marine silts were found to underlie the tidal flats to a depth of 6–9 m where bedrock was encountered. Construction of an embankment of this height on the tidal flats would require very flat sideslopes to ensure stability. Alternatively, all or part of the silt could be removed or the embankment could be built slowly using the stage loading technique and allow the silt to consolidate and gain strength during construction of the embankment. Stage loading had a considerable economic advantage over the other alternatives and since sufficient time was available, this method was adopted.The case history of this project is presented including results of the settlement performance of the embankment and porewater pressure response in the silt. These results are compared with predicted values and conclusions are drawn regarding the stage loading technique for this particular type of application.

Dickens and the Wolf Man: Childhood Memory and Fantasy in David Copperfield

PMLA ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 124 (2) ◽  
pp. 406-420 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert E. Lougy
Keyword(s):  
Case History ◽  
The Other ◽  
History Of Psychoanalysis ◽  
History Of ◽  
David Copperfield ◽  
The One ◽  
Childhood Memory ◽  
Wolf Man

This essay draws on Freud's case history of the Wolf Man (From the History of an Infantile Neurosis; 1918), which presents one of the most famous dreams in the history of psychoanalysis, in order to consider a moment in David Copperfield (1850) that constitutes the earliest childhood memory in Dickens's fiction. These two moments in Freud and Dickens occupy problematic sites that seem to slide between fantasy on the one hand and dreams on the other, and an examination of them helps open up the question of how texts remember—or fantasize—childhood and its power to structure adult experience.

Theodor W. Adorno

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Colby Dickinson
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
History Of Thought ◽  
History Of ◽  
The One

In his somewhat controversial book Remnants of Auschwitz, Agamben makes brief reference to Theodor Adorno’s apparently contradictory remarks on perceptions of death post-Auschwitz, positions that Adorno had taken concerning Nazi genocidal actions that had seemed also to reflect something horribly errant in the history of thought itself. There was within such murderous acts, he had claimed, a particular degradation of death itself, a perpetration of our humanity bound in some way to affect our perception of reason itself. The contradictions regarding Auschwitz that Agamben senses to be latent within Adorno’s remarks involve the intuition ‘on the one hand, of having realized the unconditional triumph of death against life; on the other, of having degraded and debased death. Neither of these charges – perhaps like every charge, which is always a genuinely legal gesture – succeed in exhausting Auschwitz’s offense, in defining its case in point’ (RA 81). And this is the stance that Agamben wishes to hammer home quite emphatically vis-à-vis Adorno’s limitations, ones that, I would only add, seem to linger within Agamben’s own formulations in ways that he has still not come to reckon with entirely: ‘This oscillation’, he affirms, ‘betrays reason’s incapacity to identify the specific crime of Auschwitz with certainty’ (RA 81).

The World after the End of the World

2017 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 265-276 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kas Saghafi
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Absolute ◽  
End Of The World

In several late texts, Derrida meditated on Paul Celan's poem ‘Grosse, Glühende Wölbung’, in which the departure of the world is announced. Delving into the ‘origin’ and ‘history’ of the ‘conception’ of the world, this paper suggests that, for Derrida, the end of the world is determined by and from death—the death of the other. The death of the other marks, each and every time, the absolute end of the world.

Med. Dr. Adalbert Wraný (1836–1902) – doctor of medicine, mineral collector and donor to the National Museum in Prague

2019 ◽  
Vol 188 (1) ◽  
pp. 95-146
Author(s):  
Martin Bohatý ◽  
Dalibor Velebil
Keyword(s):  
Natural Science ◽  
Natural Sciences ◽  
The Other ◽  
National Museum ◽  
Industrial Chemistry ◽  
Pediatric Pathology ◽  
Geological Institute ◽  
History Of ◽  
Precious Stones

Adalbert Wraný (*1836, †1902) was a doctor of medicine, with his primary specialization in pediatric pathology, and was also one of the founders of microscopic and chemical diagnostics. He was interested in natural sciences, chemistry, botany, paleontology and above all mineralogy. He wrote two books, one on the development of mineralogical research in Bohemia (1896), and the other on the history of industrial chemistry in Bohemia (1902). Wraný also assembled several natural science collections. During his lifetime, he gave to the National Museum large collections of rocks, a collection of cut precious stones and his library. He donated a collection of fossils to the Geological Institute of the Czech University (now Charles University). He was an inspector of the mineralogical collection of the National Museum. After his death, he bequeathed to the National Museum his collection of minerals and the rest of the gemstone collection. He donated paintings to the Prague City Museum, and other property to the Klar Institute of the Blind in Prague. The National Museum’s collection currently contains 4 325 samples of minerals, as well as 21 meteorites and several hundred cut precious stones from Wraný’s collection.

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