Modernism’s Rubber Sole

Comparative Modernisms: the Global South (ccs 3356/wcl 3397)

Sand – rubber mixtures ( large rubber chips )

Mixtures of small rigid sand particles Ds and large soft rubber particles Dr are prepared at different volume fractions and tested to investigate their small-strain and zero-lateral strain responses (Dr /Ds & 10). Both data sets are simultaneously gathered in an oedometer cell instrumented with bender elements. Data are analyzed in the context of mixture theory and with the aid of numerical sim...

Sole voices: experiences of non-home-owning sole mother renters

Housing is both a key indicator of, and contributor to, social advantage/disadvantage. Opportunities for wealth creation, affordability, sense of security and belonging to community and place, level of choice, self-esteem and self-determination are all linked to housing and, more specifi cally, to tenure type with its resulting (and often hidden) inequity. Issues relating to affordability and a...

Nil nove sub sole ?

Pricing schemes for Internet services have turned out to be of crucial influence for the competitiveness of Internet Service Providers (ISP). Despite of this urgent demand, there is still no standard tariff scheme that solves the so-called “feasibility problem”, i.e. ensures simultaneously technical feasibility, economic efficiency and user acceptance. This paper investigates the reason for the...

Rubber production in guayule: determination of rubber producing potential.

Optimum conditions for the rapid, efficient, nondestructive determination of rubber producing potential in guayule (Parthenium argentatum) were established. The rubber producing potential may be defined as the ability of the plant material to synthesize rubber from a precursor under specified conditions. To achieve this, stem slices taken from the first 5 centimeters of branches were incubated ...