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Purposeto introduce the Innovative Electronics Manufacturing Research Centre (IeMRC) Flagship Project: Integrated Optical and Electronic Interconnect PCB Manufacturing (OPCB), its objectives, its consortium of 3 Universities and 10 companies and to describe the university research being carried out. This paper briefly reviews the motivation for developing novel polymer formulations, fabrication techniques, layout design rules and characterisation techniques for hybrid electronic and optical printed circuit boards using multimode polymer optical waveguide interconnects.

The death of a loved one can create a tear in the fabric of meaning. Grieving involves remaking meaning. In therapy, events can be emplotted into stories, which can return some sense of coherence to the bereaved. In this paper, I present a way of narrating loss through a narrative therapy approach of retelling. This involved writing found poems, known as rescued speech poems, from the conversations of people who had lost a loved partner. The found poetry sought to bring an order to grieving and to polish the beauty of key moments following loss. For one participant, the found poetry amplified a narrative of the biography of the loved one. For another, the poems added beauty to a memory of her deceased partner. Thus, rescued speech poems-judiciously selected from speech, and sensitively arranged on the page-can provide another way to facilitate vibrant meaning-making of life after loss.

A set of procedures and corresponding methodologies for probabilistic safety assessment (PSA) in chemical installations is presented. State-of-the-art methodology for PSA in nuclear power plants is tested for suitability and applicability to chemical installations and applied on a refrigerated ammonia storage facility. The procedural steps comprise hazard identification, accident sequence modelling, data acquisition and parameter estimation, accident sequence quantification, hazardous substance release categories assessment, consequence assessment and integration of results. The results of the application indicate that the methodology applied is adequate from the procedural and completeness point of view and that no major aspect of PSA of a chemical installation is overlooked.

A number of models have been proposed to calculate overpressure and impulse from accidental industrial explosions. When the blast is produced by ignition of a vapour cloud, the TNO Multi-Energy model is widely used. From the curves given by this model, data are fitted to obtain equations showing the relationship between overpressure, impulse and distance. These equations, referred herein as characteristic curves, can be fitted by means of power equations, which depend on explosion energy and charge strength. Characteristic curves allow the determination of overpressure and impulse at each distance.

The purpose of the present study was to investigate the efficacy of compassion-focused therapy on Depression and Rumination after a romantic breakup. The present study was carried out using the single-case quasiexperimental method and a simple baseline method. For this purpose, three female participants were selected through targeted sampling and they were treated through an individual Compassion-focused Therapy (CFT) during eight 90-min sessions. Participants completed the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI-II) and Rumination (RRS) questionnaires in the baseline stage (pretreatment) during the second, fourth, sixth and eighth sessions, and in the onemonth follow-up stage. Moreover, in the pre-treatment stage, the participants completed the Love Trauma Inventory (LTI) and the MMPI-2RF questionnaires to identify the severity of disturbance after breakup and to detect the serious disorder in axis, respectively. Then they were interviewed in order to identify their personality disorder. Fo...

Loss is an inevitable experience that all people will deal sometime in their lives. Loss is linked with death (death of a partner, loss of a child, losing a parent, losing a pet, losing a friend), but loss can also refer to the loss of a job, a divorce, loss of health, loss of friendship, loss of freedom. It applies in everything that someone had and it is taken away. Loss is accompanied by grief, which is the emotional response to loss. Depending on the personality and the nature of the loss each person experiences, there are several stages in the grieving process that all individuals must go through in order to recover, adapt to the new facts and continue their lives. The effects of bereavement but also the way counseling is helping through this process will be presented in this article.

Until recently, resilience among adults exposed to potentially traumatic events was thought to occur rarely and in either pathological or exceptionally healthy individuals. Recent research indicates, however, that the most common reaction among adults exposed to such events is a relatively stable pattern of healthy functioning coupled with the enduring capacity for positive emotion and generative experiences. A surprising finding is that there is no single resilient type. Rather, there appear to be multiple and sometimes unexpected ways to be resilient, and sometimes resilience is achieved by means that are not fully adaptive under normal circumstances. For example, people who characteristically use self-enhancing biases often incur social liabilities but show resilient outcomes when confronted with extreme adversity. Directions for further research are considered.

Death is a central part of Harry Potter’s story and appears in many ways across the seven books. Two different reactions to death, which occur in the years preceding the incidents in the Philosopher’s Stone, precipitate the story itself. The first is Lord Voldemort’s fear of death and preoccupation to overcome it; here, mortality is linked with weakness and living forever is the ultimate form of power. The second is Lily Potter’s sacrifice of herself to save Harry’s life, where her life and love then form a shield to protect Harry; here, death is accepted, not battled with, and carries power that goes beyond dying. In a sense, these are two diametrically opposite ideas about death, which find fruition in the final volumes in the motifs of Horcruxes and Hallows. This paper intends to explore both of these as two entirely different attempts to conquer or destroy death, through an examination of loss, mourning and grief in the Harry Potter books. It is argued in this paper that each book brings Harry back to connect with his parents. Indeed, it is when he is put in touch with his parents’ memories that his journey to Hogwarts and learning about himself begins. This creates to explore grief, a process of healing and growth. In this paper, then, Harry's search for the pieces of Voldemort's soul, the Horcruxes, and his eventual mastery of the three Deathly Hallows, will be connected with his internal journey of grieving the people he loses along the way, starting with his parents. This will also be connected with other key characters and their respective relationships with death

The experience of sensing the presence of the deceased is a common occurrence following bereavement. Although this experience tends to be reported as positive and meaningful by perceivers, for most of the twentieth century it has been described in pathologising terms in the bereavement literature. Recent decades have seen the publication of numerous studies that point to normality of this experience and its potential benefits for the bereaved perceivers' wellbeing. However, there is an ongoing debate within bereavement scholarship regarding the nature and healthiness of this experience. This chapter critically examines the extant literature concerning 'sense of presence' experiences and draws attention to the diversity of definitions and conceptualisations within which this experience can be interpreted. Research from a variety of perspectives, including attachment theory and the continuing bonds perspective, is discussed and emerging evidence is reported which suggests that those who can make sense of their experience within culturally-sanctioned (spiritual) conceptual frameworks enjoy greater benefits as a result. The discussion then focuses on meaning-making concerns with regard to this phenomenon and concludes with relevant practice recommendations.

The domain of military bereavement is the ultimate expression of national-republican values in the nation state. The fallen in battle are deeply engraved in the public memory, 1 and their families possess a special status in the public discourse. By following this discourse of bereavement, which is especially prominent in the statements and public conduct of its official and unofficial "spokespeople," one can elucidate ethical processes in the general society that have to do with citizenship, nationalism, and political culture. This is because processes taking place in what is regarded as the societal "Holy of Holies" penetrate deeply into society's most conservative and mythical locus, and thus not only reflect the spirit of the era and its public discourse, but play an important leading role in it as well.

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The probability of thermal risk may be described by the time to maximum rate under adiabatic conditions (TMR,,). In this paper a screening method based on dynamic differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) measurements was studied in order to show that, when using the TMRad criterion, no process would be assessed as safe when it could, in fact, be critical. The method of investigation was based on dynamic simulation. In this, the DSC measurement equipment and five different reaction types (simple nth order, consecutive, branched and autocatalytic reactions) were described in mathematical terms and simulated using MATLAB. The reliability of the estimation was checked by comparing the simulated TMRad with the estimated TMRad based on dynamic DSC measurements and isothermal assessment procedures. The TMRad values calculated from simulation of dynamic DSC runs were always found to lie in the range of IO-70% of those obtained by dynamic simulation of the adiabatic case. Owing to some uncertainties with regard to autocatalytic reactions, a method was developed to identify them. The application of the total method to experimental measurements showed a good correspondence to the results obtained by simulation. The estimation method is therefore a good tool for preliminary screening and may be applied at the early stages in process design to save both time and money and without loss of safety.

The research was conducted in Ada'a district of the Eastern Shoa Zone, Ethiopia. This study was undertaken to investigate the major causes of chicken mortality under village production system and the intervention measures by farmers against the major causes of chicken mortality under village conditions. Data were collected through structured questionnaire from 180 households. Simple random sampling method was used to select the peasant associations and the households. The majority of the respondents put predation (91.9%) and disease (86.4%) as major causes of mortality in chicken older than 7 days. More than half of hatched chicks are lost due to mismanagement (29.4%), predation (67.8%) and other causes were also mentioned by less than 10% of the respondents. Significant proportion of the respondents (48.3%) did not provide modern medicine and those using, utilize mainly broad spectrum medicines without consulting veterinarians. The traditional medicaments included different medicinal plant species. As a conclusion, chicken in the study areas are highly affected by mortality due to predation and diseases. Appropriate management should be taken, therefore, to control the incidence of disease and reduce the loss of chicken kept under village chicken production systems due to predation and mismanagement.

This study aimed to examine the psychological long-term effects of social peer rejection (SPR) experienced during adolescence as retrospectively perceived by young adults. A convenient sample of 387 undergraduate university students were administered self-report questionnaires consisting of the following measures: demographic variables, traumatic life events, SPR, PTSD, depression, potency and the belief in the existence of social support. Results indicated that about one-third of the participants reported having experienced SPR during adolescence. They perceived it as their most traumatic event. SPR and the belief in the existence of social support determined the PTSD severity, whereas the SPR, potency, and PTSD determined the level of depression.

who has kindly provided much valuable information in the form of interviews and family photographs about the site of displacement, is thanked with appreciation. Mr Dawie Malan, the subject librarian at the UNISA library, is thanked for his competent guidance to access the endless information sources available. The staff members of the Department of Art History, Visual Arts and Musicology of UNISA are acknowledged for their help and input.

Chemical process safety was not a major public concern prior to 1984. As far as chemical hazards were concerned, public fears focused on disease (cancer) and environmental degradation. Even a series of major process incident tragedies did not translate into widespread public concerns about major incidents in chemical plants that might disastrously affect the public. This situation changed completely after the December 1984 disaster at the Union Carbide plant in Bhopal. Not only was the public's confidence in the chemical industry shaken, the chemical industry itself questioned whether its provisions for protection against major incidents were adequate.

There is always a song that reminds us of a place, a moment or of someone. A song takes us to the past, inspires, excites, transforms, or calms us down. A song drags our memory and body together, through our encounters with a space, through being lost or resilient. What does a song remind us of? Can a song reconcile or heal us from a loss of someone or something? Does a song make it possible to reclaim a public space we have lost? Which song makes you feel comfortable or secure in a public space?

ste análisis de la poesía de Jaime Siles (Valencia 1951) se concentra en los poemarios, Himnos tardíos (1999) y Pasos en la nieve (2004), considerados por el autor mismo como su madurez poética. Su poesía temprana, de alta calidad estética, culta e intelectual, se orienta hacia la búsqueda de esencias y absolutos de la poesía pura. Los poemarios de su madurez revelan a un nuevo yo poético que toma conciencia de su humanidad. Su nueva poesía, intensamente lírica y rica en recursos estilísticos, ahonda en el misterio del tiempo, el ayer perdido y recobrado por la memoria, la nostalgia y la incertidumbre del ser en el mundo.

The  focal point of this essay on the poetry of Jaime Siles (Valencia 1951) is the analysis of two books of poetry, Himnos tardios (1999) and Pasos en la Nieve (2004), which the author himself considers his mature work. In his early poetry, Siles seeks purity of form through a learned and intellectual poetic expression of high aesthetic quality and originality. His mature work reveals a new poetic identity concerned with his own human condition. His new poetic voice becomes a lyrical meditation on the perils of humankind, the mystery of time, nostalgia and uncertainty, the loss of the past, death and the beyond.

In this article, we take as a starting point the novel Le sommeil d’Eve (Eve’s Sleep) in order to examine Mohammed Dib’s thoughts on femininity and love. His input on those issues is remarkable and pervades all his work. The novel Le sommeil d’Eve reveals how some romantic encounters entail such trauma that the perceived love pushes the protagonists over into another universe, one where irrational phenomena reign: oddness, strangeness, hallucinations, loss of the sense of reality. This transition from one universe to another intertwines mystical with traumatic insanity, couples loss with devastation, and links birth to death.

Creative class workers are highly mobile, yet the struggles, disruptions and inequalities that emerge in their new, trans-local, experiential geographies are usually erased in the upbeat, Florida-inflected narrative on creative work and creative class mobility. This article aims to break open discussions of creative class mobility with the insertion of affect. It argues for the inclusion of personal, affective experiences to complicate the fluidity, the ease, the resolve that are usually assumed in the imaginary of being mobile. Furthermore, the article builds on the increasing volume of scholarship on affective labour – conceptualized as the affective dimensions of labour – but via a different route. I argue that any examination of affective labour may expand from the affect in labour, to how labour affects; from affective labour to labour affects. This inquiry brings to mobility studies the resonances between moving (geographically) and being moved (affectively), supplementing cultural studies’ critique of creative work with precarity of a different category, that of the affective. The empirical section presents the affective accounts of three re-located creative workers. They show us that mobility is never as frictionless as it sounds, and doing what people love may well come at the cost of losing those whom they love. I tease out three themes for further connections with affect: ethos and values, gender, and technology.

Next to a hand-coloured etching showing a naked woman, Louise Bourgeois writes in pencil: “I Give everything Away”. The statement could be interpreted as being consistent with the revelatory nature ascribed to her art, that of a woman without secrets. For Bourgeois, as is well documented, life and art merged, and often the discussion of her art has focused on its subject matter – core themes of femininity, sexuality, childhood trauma, abandonment and isolation. In turn, this has led to the circulation of narratives mined from her biography, especially of her vocalised fears and traumas. Critical discourses have proceeded to (re)narrate the events of her life, attempting to create a precise symbolic relationship between subject matter, form and matter. Sadly, the narratives have also given rise to reductive commentary that infantilises the artist, and portrays her as the neurotic, if not insane, ‘spider-woman’. This kind of ‘biographical criticism’, with its emphasis on the artist’s life, can also detract from the encounter with her work.  In the case of the ‘fabric works’, (psycho)biographical readings tend to have nostalgic overtones, or to overemphasise the correspondence between her experience in the parents’ tapestry workshop and the symbolic repair of psychic damage. But how to account for the affective force of the work? I suggest this stems from an encounter with loss – the artist’s and ours; her work as a form of staging loss.

Through my research on her late work with textiles, I explore how its materiality may offer us a way to approach the question of loss in her life and art, the relationship between loss and artistic practice, and consider the viewer’s response to the work. By concentrating on this late body of work, on its materials and processes, whilst trying to avoid psychobiographical interpretation, I suggest that her choice of material is not purely experimental from a formal perspective, nor simply a nostalgic way of recovering the past. Rather a way of dealing with memories more akin to mourning and melancholia. The fabric works emerge from her encounter with past and future losses – separation, exile, death and her own mortality are woven into the textiles she kept over a lifetime. She transforms them into artworks that carry the traces of the lost objects; they carry the trace of the Other and the Other as trace. For a woman who never threw anything away, who accumulated a lifetime’s worth of beautiful clothes, house linen and old rags, late in her life and practice she finally gives everything away.

The present paper deals with the establishment of a new methodology in order to evaluate the inherently safer characteristics of a continuous intensified reactor in the case of an exothermic reaction. The transposition of the propionic anhydride esterification by 2-butanol into a new prototype of “heat-exchanger/reactor”, called open plate reactor (OPR), designed by Alfa Laval Vicarb has been chosen as

Sociology and anthropology in the space of community and psychoanalysis in the space of the individual
have shown that mourning is a performance which the deprived subject must carry out in order to recover
from the dangerous state in which he finds himself after the death of the beloved person. In the continuous
play of immedesimation as introjection and projection, the subject has to act not only in his mind but also in
the world, not only on psychic objects but also on physical ones. In collections of poems written for the death
of a beloved person, this performance is carried out within the space of the text – the whole collection, not a
single poem – and literature, in the double role of substitute satisfaction of desire and reparation, becomes
the space devoted and the space to devote to the elaboration of the loved and lost object. Obviously, what we
see on the page-stage is not the direct self-representation of the psychic work of the author, but a work that
takes shape within literature and its laws, anyway some relations with the real subject cannot be excluded.
Analyzing some contemporary cases: Montale’s Xenia (in Satura, 1971), Douglas Dunn’s Elegies (1985),
Mark Doty’s Atlantis (1995) and Ted Hughes’ Birthday Letters (1998), the paper is meant to show how the
speaking subject performs his mourning, at the same time private and public, both on the level of content and
the level of form, and within the community that he creates in the text.

Many research reports and scholarly articles based on survey data show that public opinion in Turkey towards Syrians has become more negative in recent years. Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in four research sites in Izmir, Saraçoğlu and Bélanger show that anxiety about losing a preconceived notion of status is constitutive of the local Turkish population’s attitudes towards the inflow of Syrian refugees. The perception of loss that frames xenophobic attitudes against the Syrians appears in three different but related forms: (1) loss of economic gains; (2) loss of urban space; and (3) loss of national cohesion. By focusing on the ways in which this sense of loss is constructed in urban social relations, Saraçoğlu and Bélanger aim to unpack some embedded political, ideological and economic conditions that provide fertile ground for the formation of anti-Syrian xenophobia. Their analysis contributes to and goes beyond the relevant literature that descriptively demonstrates the extent to which anti-Syrian xenophobia is prevalent across Turkey.

The formation and release of dangerous substances as a consequence of the deviation of a process from the normal operating conditions was found to be the cause of severe accidents, the more important being that of Seveso, that took place in 1976. The present study was dedicated to the definition of specific experimental protocols for the identification of the possible products formed in the loss of control of a chemical industrial process. A set of reference experimental techniques was defined to obtain experimental data on the products formed in ''out of control'' conditions. The application to several case studies provided useful information on the decomposition products that may be formed in accidental scenarios. The comparison of the experimental data obtained by the application of the reference protocols with information reported in MSDS evidenced that detailed experimental information is of fundamental importance to correctly evaluate the hazard due to the unwanted formation and release of hazardous substances in ''out of control'' conditions. The analysis of the case studies also evidenced the severity that scenarios due to the formation and release of hazardous products in ''out of control'' conditions may have for some industrial processes. r

This paper uses Bayesian analysis tools for the stochastic evaluation of work time losses due to occupational accidents in a workplace. Models are developed for accident frequencies, duration of recovery from an accident, and the worker unavailability. The unavailability statistics are hereby derived considering a two state stochastic model, to provide estimates for the expected work time losses over a base period of workplace operation. The above models are applied on real multiyear accident data collected from the Greek Petrochemical Industry.

"What is Stress? Stress is not a new phenomenon; it has been experienced throughout history. Stress is a biological
response to some stimulus. Fear, panic, anger, tragedy and competitiveness can trigger stress. Stress can result in the competitiveness needed to succeed in business, achieve an education, foster social relationships, and win at sports. (Holmes 1994). Stress is a body condition that occurs in response to actual or anticipated difficulties in life. Stress can also be defined as the sum of physical and mental responses our bodies experience in relationship to any change. There are many causes of stress and many different ways to handle stress. Stress can also be harmful to one’s health, both physically and mentally. There are two main
types of stress, which are distress and Eustress. Unfortunately, stress and distress are used all too often as though they are interchangeable terms. Perhaps this is because the common sense view of stress is weighted to the negative side. Distress is the bad stress. It is much the same as a state of anxiety, fear, worry, or agitation. Distress is a negative, painful experience and is something to avoid. On the other hand, there is a good stress, Eustress. Eustress is pleasurable and satisfying experiences that
people encounter. Participation in a wedding ceremony, anticipation of competing in a major sports event, or performing in a theatrical production are examples of Eustress. Eustress can heighten awareness, increase mental alertness, and can sometimes lead to superior cognitive and behavioural performances. "

Regional seismic scenarios for Venezuelan school buildings are presented, based on a simplified methodology that develops fragility curves to characterize the seismic vulnerability, assess damages, losses and risk levels. The basic hypothesis is that buildings were designed and built in compliance with the seismic code in force at the time of the construction. Adopting a bilinear capacity curve five damage states were defined. The proposed methodology was calibrated by means of comparing the predicted damage with the observed damaged in an
ensemble of school buildings affected by the 1997 Cariaco earthquake. A computational tool based on GIS to estimate damages and losses associated with a particular seismic event was developed, using modern seismic attenuation relationships. Seismic risk based on seismic hazard maps is also determined, which facilitates the task of prioritization for structural retrofitting decisions. The computational tool was applied to the evaluation of three regional scenarios.

Maximising the yield of the second order reaction (2-butanol + propionic anhydride) by manipulating the inlet flow rate is considered for an isothermal semi-batch process. First a procedure for the determination of the kinetic parameters using coupled spectroscopic and calorimetric methods is presented. Then an optimisation of the considered reaction is performed numerically and verified experimentally. Constraints on the amount of heat produced and on the temperature attainable in case of a cooling failure are imposed for safety consideration.

Safety in modern organizations, comprised of many nested levels with different types of coupling between them, must be managed by a control structure embedded in this adaptive sociotechnical system. The resilience of sociotechnical critical systems still relies on human ability to handle unexpected events adequately. In this study, based on a schematic view of a nuclear power plant control system composed of three structural system layers, planning, operation, and hardware, we present a framework to analyze micro incidents during nuclear power plant operation. The analysis show operators' control actions used to solve small conflicts that arose at the operational layer, and how they marshaled the resources required for their action/cognition, i.e. the material, social, and cultural characteristics of the environment. The micro incident framework enables an anticipated view of operators' control actions, providing processes for systemic analysis and critical thinking about the possibility that relatively small problematic situations in the loosely coupled system layers may lead to negative outcomes at some future time. r

Safety Management System (PSMS) audit tool at six major hazard sites in four European countries. The tools provide quantitative measures of safety attitudes and PSMS performance respectively. The work compares these quantitative measures with accident performance data for the six sites. The work also considers the use of generic failure rate data used in quantified risk assessment for major hazards within the context of land-use planning around the major hazard sites, and the variation in accident performance data and safety attitudes of different sites.

In industrial explosions, various models have been proposed to calculate overpressure and impulse at specified distances. When the explosion is attributed to vessel burst, the Baker method is widely used. From the curves given by this model, data are fitted to obtain equations showing the relationship between overpressure and impulse. These curves, referred to as characteristic curves, can be fitted by potential equations, which depend on explosion energy and geometry of the tank. If several characteristic curves (corresponding to different explosion energies) are represented in the same overpressure-impulse diagram, including distances to the explosion center, determination of overpressure and impulse at each distance is simple and fast.

This work introduces an optimization-based approach to the simultaneous consideration of process safety and process scheduling during the design phase. Expected variations in production schedule and associated environmental constraints are included early enough in the design phase. Additionally, safety metrics are used in screening and selecting design alternatives. The Dow Fire and Explosion Index is used as the safety-evaluation metric. An optimization formulation is developed to account for potential design and scheduling options while incorporating safety and environmental objectives. The proposed approach optimizes the process by establishing Pareto curves that demonstrate the tradeoff between the safety metrics and the economic objectives of the process. A case study on NO x removal in a refinery is solved to illustrate the applicability of the devised procedure.