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This work introduces a family of effective plate theories for multilayered materials with internal misfit. This is done for scaling laws ranging from Kirchhoff's theory to the linearised von Kármán one. An intermediate von Kármán-like theory is introduced to play a central interpolating role with a new parameter which switches between the adjacent regimes. After proving the necessary Gamma-convergence and compactness results, minimising configurations are characterised. Finally, the interpolating theory is numerically approximated using a discrete gradient flow and the relevant Gamma-convergence and compactness results for the discretisation are proved. This provides empirical evidence for the existence of a critical region of the parameter around which minimisers experience a stark qualitative change.

Mathematics. --- Math --- Science --- elastic plates --- effective model hierarchy --- gamma convergence --- non-conforming penalty method --- Kirchhoff

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Determinants of the Death Penalty seeks to explain the phenomenon of capital punishment - without recourse to value judgements - by identifying those characteristics common to countries that use the death penalty and those that mark countries which do not. This global study uses statistical analysis to relate the popularity of the death penalty to physical, cultural, social, economical, institutional, actor oriented and historical factors. Separate studies are conducted for democracies and non-democracies and within four regional contexts. The book also contains an in-depth investigat

Capital punishment --- Abolition of capital punishment --- Death penalty --- Death sentence --- Criminal law --- Punishment --- Executions and executioners

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"The purpose of this study was to examine the self-talk of elite triathletes during acompetition. Furthermore, we wanted to investigate possible differences in content and frequencyin self-talk during a triathlon competition among elite and club triathletes. Participantswere ten members of the Norwegian triathlon national team as well as ten triathletescompeting at Norwegian club level. The competition consisted of an indoor sprint-distance triathlon (a 750 m pool swim leg, a 20 km ergometer cycling leg, and a 5 km treadmill run leg).Self-talk content and frequency were measured using a Norwegian version of the AutomaticSelf-Talk Questionnaire for Sports (ASTQS). Overall, results showed that all athletes reportedmore positive than negative self-talk during competition. Moreover, elite athletes reportedmore confidence-inducing self-talk compared to the club level athletes during the swim. Thefindings also indicated that elite athletes were more able than club athletes to maintain higherlevels of positive self-talk during the latter stages of the competition (5 km run). This tendencywas reversed regarding negative self-talk. Elite athletes reported less negative self-talk comparedto club level athletes towards the end of the competition."

soccer referee --- penalty kick --- expert panel --- incorrect refereeing --- fotballdommer --- straffespark --- ekspertpanel --- feildømming

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"This volume represents the first collection of essays devoted exclusively to Jacques Derrida's Death Penalty Seminars, conducted from 1999 to 2001. The volume includes essays from a range of scholars working in philosophy, law, Francophone studies, and comparative literature, including established Derridians, activist scholars, and emerging scholars. These essays attempt to elucidate and expand upon Derrida's deconstruction of the theologico-political logic of the death penalty in order to construct a new form of abolitionism, one not rooted in the problematic logics of sovereign power. These essays provide remarkable insight into Derrida’s ethical and political projects; this volume will not only explore the implications of Derrida’s thought on capital punishment and mass incarceration, but will also help to further elucidate the philosophical groundwork for his later deconstructions of sovereign power and the human/animal divide. Because Derrida is deconstructing the logic of the death penalty, rather than the death penalty itself, his seminars will prove useful to scholars and activists opposing all forms of state sanctioned killing. In compiling this volume, our goals were twofold: first, to make a case for Derrida's continuing importance in debates on capital punishment, mass incarceration, and police brutality, and second, to construct a new, versatile abolitionism, one capable of confronting all forms the death penalty might take." -- Publisher's description.

Power (Social sciences) --- Imprisonment --- Capital punishment --- Moral and ethical aspects. --- Philosophy. --- Derrida, Jacques. --- Capital Punishment. --- Death Penalty Abolition. --- Death Penalty. --- Deconstruction. --- Jacques Derrida. --- Mass Incarceration. --- Political Theology. --- Prison Industrial Complex. --- Psychoanalysis. --- Sovereignty.

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Examining the religious debates and dimensions of the death penalty in America

Capital punishment --- Abolition of capital punishment --- Death penalty --- Death sentence --- Criminal law --- Punishment --- Executions and executioners --- Religious aspects.