The examination of a smart beam is presented in the paper. Experimental investigations were carried out for flexible beam with one fixed end and free opposite end. Piezoelectric strips were glued on both sides of the beam. One strip works as a sensor, and the second one as an actuator. It is a single input and single output system. The study focuses on the analysis of natural frequencies and modes of the beam in the relation to the position of the piezo-elements. The natural frequencies, mode shapes, generated control forces, and levels of the measured signals are considered and calculated as a functions of the piezo-element locations. We have found correlations between mode shapes, changes of natural frequencies, control forces and measured signals for the lowest four modes. In this way, we can find the optimal localization of the distributed sensors and actuator on the mechanical structure directly by the using of the finite elements method (FEM).
In this article, the author will try to conditionally transform the energy capacities of NNEGC
Energoatom by converting a liability into an asset using the example of bitcoin. With a surplus of
nuclear power generation, one of the modern tools for using excess electricity is directing it to cryptocurrency
mining. The author of the article will try to calculate the possibilities of Ukrainian NPPs
in the cryptoindustry market by analyzing the competitiveness, market trends and the approximate
profitability of this kind of activity. The essence of the article lies in the intervention of the state
energy giant in completely new activities, partial monopolization of the market and interference
in the activities of decentralized cryptocurrencies, as well as the very novelty of combining two
different fields of activity and the global nature of the consequences. Mining can be used to convert
the underdeveloped electricity or all of Energoatom’s capacities totally, but at the same time it can
also affect the cryptoasset market in the field of decentralization, as the primary cost factor to affect
the price of assets and allow for obtaining super-profits at a state enterprise. The author of the article
tries to understand the profitability of such actions and, in general, to understand the globality
of the idea. The results of the entry of the national energy giant into the cryptoasset market will
change the global processes in the ecosystem of the cryptoindustry and change the situation both
on the electricity market in the region and, in general, will affect the processes of globalization and
unification of the financial sectors of the economy.
The aim of the paper is to analyze instances of vegetalization, which is the X IS A PLANT metaphor, in John Henry Newman’s collection of sermons, published as Sermons on Subjects of the Day (1843). One group of metaphors are ontological metaphors, whose source domain is an entity (Lakoff, Johnson 2003[1980]). They can be classified as reifications, vegetalizations, animalizations, personifications, and deifications, which corresponds to the hierarchy of the so-called Great Chain of Being. As claimed by Krzeszowski (1997), these metaphors play an important role in expressing the axiological dimension of language, since they can express specific values of their target domains. In Christian discourse, vegetalizations contribute to the conceptualization of such notions from the religious sphere as God, grace, the Kingdom of God, the Christian life, the Church, or evil.
The process of social remitting is complex and multilayered, and involves numerous social actors that at each stage face several choices. By definition, the process of socially remitting ideas, codes of behav-iour and practices starts with the migrants themselves and their social context in the destination country. This paper focuses on the as yet unexplored issue of resistance performed and articulated by migrants confronted with potential change influenced by social remittances and the generalised process of diffu-sion. Faithful to the understanding of social remittances as ultimately a process where individual agency is the crucial determinant, the article follows the ideas, practices and values travelling across the trans-national social field between Britain and various localities in Poland. Resistance to change and new ways of doing things is a continuous dialogical process within one culture’s power field, which is un-derstood here in anthropological terms as a porous, open-ended field of competing meanings and dis-courses. Notions of bifocality, infra-politics of power relations and resistance are an important aspect of remittances and their reinterpretations, and resistance to social remittances by migrants, both in their destinations and in their communities of origin, is a crucial component of the whole process without which our understanding of remittances is incomplete.