Thirteenth Bjerrum Memorial Lecture: A case history of mysterious settlements in a building

1992 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
J. M. Duncan
Keyword(s):  
Key Words ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
Case History ◽  
Memorial Lecture ◽  
Pile Driving ◽  
Technical Aspects ◽  
History Of ◽  
The One

This lecture describes the investigation of large and damaging settlements in the One Lombard Building in San Francisco Calif. The cause of the settlements was a mystery. Although it was known that settlement began during construction of a major new sewer near the building, it was not clear how the settlements could be related to the sewer construction activities. The paper explains the cause of the settlements and describes the technique used to remedy the problem. The legal and insurance aspects of the case, in some ways more mysterious than the technical aspects, are also described. Key words : settlement, foundations, clay, dewatering, pile driving, underpinning.

Movement and stability analysis of the Beaver Creek landslide, Saskatchewan, Canada

1985 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 277-285 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. T. Yoshida ◽  
J. Krahn
Keyword(s):  
Stability Analysis ◽  
Key Words ◽  
Residual Strength ◽  
Case History ◽  
Single Unit ◽  
Slip Surface ◽  
Friction Angle ◽  
Slide Mass ◽  
History Of ◽  
Residual Values

This paper presents a case history of a multiblock landslide where the blocks move at varying rates along a common horizontal slip surface which follows the contact between stratified drift and underlying till. Movement measurements indicate that the blocks towards the toe move at a higher rate than blocks towards the scarp. Stability analyses show that the entire slide mass can be analyzed as a single unit as opposed to considering each block separately. This finding is compared with the analysis of other multiblock slides. The friction angle mobilized along the horizontal slip surface falls within the range of residual values measured in the laboratory. Key words: landslides, stability, analysis, translational slides, residual strength.

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.

scholarly journals Internal vs. external explanations: A new perspective on the history of economic thought

2021 ◽  
pp. 35-132
Author(s):  
Walter Block ◽  
Christopher Westley ◽  
Alexandre Padilla
Keyword(s):  
Key Words ◽  
Majority Rule ◽  
Jel Classification ◽  
Economic Thought ◽  
History Of Economic Thought ◽  
History Of ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
The One

The present paper is devoted to showing, via a reductio as absurdum argument, that all externalist explanations for truth in economics are false, but that if any are used, it should not be the democratic one utilized by Rosen (1997). Rather, even though it is equally fallacious, it should the one proposed in the present paper: the last publication in a debate indicates the substantive winner. Key words: truth, economics, majority rule, democracy, debate, argument. JEL classification: B0, B1, B2, B4.

From Conflict to Constructive Engagement

2017 ◽  
pp. 590-603
Author(s):  
Beth Roy
Keyword(s):  
San Francisco ◽  
Case History ◽  
Public Art ◽  
Local Resident ◽  
Local Branch ◽  
Long Time ◽  
History Of ◽  
Constructive Engagement ◽  
The Impact

After many years of divisive controversy over a mural on the local branch library's walls, a San Francisco neighborhood elected to mediate the dispute. Participants faced the task of getting beyond wounds of battle in order to work collaboratively to create a solution acceptable to the community. Through that process, community was redefined as a protected and welcoming space for both long-time neighbors and newcomers. The mediator, a local resident, presents a case history of the process, the impact on the community, and the significance for dynamics of engagement in other places around issues of public art.

Preloading thick compressible subsoils: a case history

1995 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 465-480
Author(s):  
Charles F. Ripley
Keyword(s):  
Key Words ◽  
Case History ◽  
Construction Control ◽  
History Of ◽  
Settlement Analysis ◽  
Settlement Behaviour

A case history of preloading and surcharging a more than 300 ft (1 ft = 0.3048 m) thick compressible subsoil is presented, with data on the settlement analysis, the fill design, other measures used for control of settlements, and the 24 year postconstruction performance. The essential factors for successful application of preloading to thick compressible subsoils are discussed. Key words : preloading, settlement analysis, construction control, settlement behaviour.

Power politics and religious faith: the fifth Martin Wight Memorial Lecture

1980 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald M. MacKinnon
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
Religious Faith ◽  
Diplomatic History ◽  
Memorial Lecture ◽  
Human Society ◽  
Power Politics ◽  
Life Styles ◽  
Important Sense ◽  
History Of ◽  
The One

In choosing a subject for this lecture, my mind turned to two books: both published during the war years, the first in 1941, Aldous Huxley's Grey Eminencel: the second at its very end, Arthur Koestler's The Yogi and the Commissar The titles of both have been incorporated into the language. The former was not its author's invention; but his use of it as the title of his study of Father Joseph won it a near universality of currency. So Lindemann is still spoken of as Churchill's scientific éminence grise. But the title of Koestler's essay, though less heard to-day, advertises dramatically a very important bifurcation of approach to the problems of human life and society, the one typified by the devotee in his ashram, the other by the commissar, the dedicated ‘social surgeon’ serving the cause of the total transformation of a given human society in the light of the directives of the party to which he belongs. But of course there is an important sense in which in Father Joseph, the subject of Huxley's book (which was incidentally a very well researched piece of work), the two life-styles are to a considerable extent conjoined. Father Joseph is at one and the same time the devoted fanatical Capuchin, the father-founder of the Calvarian order of nuns and the skilled, ruthless agent of Richelieu's purposes. He was no yogi, still less a commissar, but a man whose spiritual teachings rate an admittedly short and critical reference in Bremond's famous history of 17th century French spirituality, and one who played an unquestionably important part in the diplomatic history of a period, wherein diplomacy might well be characterized as war carried on by other means.

Guardians at the gate: quarantine and racialism in two Pacific Rim port cities, 1870–1914

Urban History ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 255-274
Author(s):  
ALAN MAYNE
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
The Other ◽  
Free Flow ◽  
Port Cities ◽  
Asian Immigration ◽  
History Of ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Ambivalent Relationship ◽  
The One

ABSTRACTThis article examines the ambivalent relationship that San Francisco and Darwin developed with Asia during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. On the one hand they presented themselves as gateways that facilitated trade with Asia. On the other hand they acted as sentinels that protected Europeans from Asian immigration. This quirky behaviour is encapsulated in the quarantine regulations that were applied in both ports to Asian commodities and people. The two case studies suggest a broader paradox in the history of port cities. Their prosperity and vitality rested upon the free flow of goods and people, but those flows generated enormous frictions.

scholarly journals The ecology of herd immunity

2021 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 79-85
Author(s):  
Fernando Dias de Avila-Pires
Keyword(s):  
Key Words ◽  
Case History ◽  
Herd Immunity ◽  
Sleeping Sickness ◽  
Short History ◽  
Herd Effect ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Recurrent Theme

The COVID-19 pandemic that began in early 2020 is currently the subject of thousands of articles on the various aspects of its epidemiology. One recurrent theme is the phenomenon of herd immunity or herd effect. In this article, I present a short history of the concept, the arguments around its nomenclature, and the ecologist’s view of the herd effect, using the case history of the sleeping sickness control in Africa. KEY WORDS: Herd immunity; convergence; ecology; sleeping sickness.

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