The Quest for an Appropriate Past in Literature, Art and Architecture

This volume explores the various strategies of construing appropriate pasts in scholarship, literature, art, architecture and literature, in order to create “national”, regional or local identities, in late medieval and early modern Europe. Readership: All those interested in the reception of Antiquity and high medieval history (true and false) in early modern in literature, architecture and art, neolatin scholarship, Renaissance architecture, history of ideas, history of literature, and history of humanist scholarship

The Quest for an Appropriate Past in Literature, Art and Architecture

This volume explores the various strategies of construing appropriate pasts in scholarship, literature, art, architecture and literature, in order to create “national”, regional or local identities, in late medieval and early modern Europe. Readership: All those interested in the reception of Antiquity and high medieval history (true and false) in early modern in literature, architecture and art, neolatin scholarship, Renaissance architecture, history of ideas, history of literature, and history of humanist scholarship

Inside Perspectives on Ceramic Manufacturing: Visualizing Ancient Potting Practices through Micro-CT Scanning

Micro-computed tomography (CT) analysis offers a new perspective on archaeological ceramic manufacture, augmenting traditional studies that focus on decorative and morphological aspects of ceramic vessels. High resolution, three dimensional, micro-CT images reveal different ceramic forming methods by identifying the characteristic gestures and techniques, as well as idiosyncratic corrective measures used by potters to form vessel rims. These techniques or “tools of the trade” reflect potters’ engagement with tradition and innovation while working within a community of practice. This study adopted two research questions. First, what is the value and potential of micro-CT as a method of ceramic analysis in archaeology? Second, as a case study to illuminate the first question: what insights can be advanced about the craft of pottery manufacture from the ceramic assemblages of the Late Woodland Arkona Cluster archeological sites? To answer these questions I scanned sherds representing 67 vessels from the Arkona Cluster sites (located near Arkona, Ontario). These vessels come from a series of contemporaneous and/or sequentially occupied sites dating to between ca. 1000-1270 CE. They existed within a material borderland, generally located in space and time between what conventionally has been defined and labelled in archaeological culture history as the Western Basin and Ontario Iroquoian Late Woodland material culture traditions. Though accompanied by a steep learning curve, micro-CT analysis proved an effective method for accessing hidden steps in the ceramic production sequence used by potters at the Arkona Cluster. The ability to highlight, in three dimensions (3D), inclusions and void spaces in the ceramic fabric, allow scanned images to reveal aspects of ceramic preparation and manufacturing practices that could not be accessed using conventional analysis methods. The capacity to see these practices, and how they related to ceramic design, revealed that potters at the Arkona Cluster were engaging with and incorporating elements from multiple ceramic traditions, reflecting a distinct regional material expression. Through micro-CT analysis, the ceramics at the Arkona Cluster suggest idiosyncratic expressions of an artisan community sustaining tradition and innovation, which characterizes an archaeological material borderland at this specific time and place

Hands-on Science. Advancing Science. Improving Education

The book herein aims to contribute to the advancement of Science to the improvement of Science Education and to an effective implementation of a sound widespread scientific literacy at all levels of society. Its chapters reunite a variety of diverse and valuable works presented in this line of thought at the 15th International Conference on Hands-on Science “Advancing Science. Improving Education

Rethinking the risk matrix

So far risk has been mostly defined as the expected value of a loss, mathematically PL (being P the probability of an adverse event and L the loss incurred as a consequence of the adverse event). The so called risk matrix follows from such definition. This definition of risk is justified in a long term “managerial” perspective, in which it is conceivable to distribute the effects of an adverse event on a large number of subjects or a large number of recurrences. In other words, this definition is mostly justified on frequentist terms. Moreover, according to this definition, in two extreme situations (high-probability/low-consequence and low-probability/high-consequence), the estimated risk is low. This logic is against the principles of sustainability and continuous improvement, which should impose instead both a continuous search for lower probabilities of adverse events (higher and higher reliability) and a continuous search for lower impact of adverse events (in accordance with the fail-safe principle). In this work a different definition of risk is proposed, which stems from the idea of safeguard: (1Risk)=(1P)(1L). According to this definition, the risk levels can be considered low only when both the probability of the adverse event and the loss are small. Such perspective, in which the calculation of safeguard is privileged to the calculation of risk, would possibly avoid exposing the Society to catastrophic consequences, sometimes due to wrong or oversimplified use of probabilistic models. Therefore, it can be seen as the citizen’s perspective to the definition of risk

Bassoon Playing in Perspective : Character and Performance Practice from 1800 to 1850

This dissertation is a theoretical study of bassoon performance practice in the first half of the nineteenth century, analysing the temporal changes that took place in the different musical traditions of France, Germany and Britain. It emphasizes methodological problems inherent in historical performance studies in general, as well as those specifically related to nineteenth-century music, from the performer s point of view. Moreover, woodwind performance practice finds itself lagging behind keyboard or string instruments as a relevant research topic. The research is based on the analysis of bassoon performance practice from a double perspective, combining research on historical written sources with a practical experimentation and application of data on period instruments. As a result, the conclusions derived from the investigation have ample and immediate practical applications. The thesis theoretical framework is interdisciplinary, bringing together different questions on history and music theory. This research seeks to be a new approach to understanding bassoon performance practice, in this historical period and in its relationship with the present-day practice of nineteenth-century repertoire. Furthermore, by using the bassoon as a case study, the research gives some hints that may be used to understand performance practice in a wider context. The most important subject that gives structure to this thesis comes from what has been a constant presence in all historical sources. This is the concept of character as it is understood by arts in the early nineteenth century. Hence, character is used in the research to give unity to the analysis of the different parameters like tempo, articulation, ornamentation, and even the performance of repertoire in general. Therefore character lies at the core of the whole performance in this research. The conclusion of this thesis is based on research which shows that performance in the first half of the nineteenth century finds its balance between the influences of some baroque practice, and the germ of some ideas, marked by a positivist mentality, that will fully develop by the end of the century. Somehow, the bassoon like other woodwind instruments also finds itself in a similar position. It is undeniable, according to the data, that singing and its new techniques had a great influence as the main source of inspiration for every performer. However, the period studied witnesses a new trend whereby bassoonists start to look into how string players developed new features that become personal marks, especially, in virtuoso performance.Bassoon playing in Perspective söker att vara ett nytt tillvägagångssätt för att förstå fagottens speltekniker och sätt under 1800-talet och dess relation till dagens spelsätt av repertoaren från 1800-talet. Den här forskningen är en teoretisk studie av fagottspeltekniker och sätt från första halvan av 1800-talet. Den kombinerar forskning av historiska skrivna källor med praktiskt experimenterande på periodinstrument. Som ett resultat av detta, har slutsatserna av denna utredning omfattande och omgående praktiska tillämpningar. Dessutom ger den tips som kan användas för att förstå speltekniker i ett större sammanhang.Bassoon playing in Perspective tavoittelee uutta näkökulmaa fagotin 1800-luvun soittoteknikoiden ja -tapojen ymmärtämiseen ja fagotin suhteeseen nykypäivän tapoihin soittaa 1800-luvun ohjelmistoa. Tämä tutkimus on teoreettinen tutkielma fagotin 1800-luvun ensimmäisen puoliskon soittoteknikoista ja tavoista. Se yhdistää historiallisten dokumenttien ja lähteiden tutkimusta käytännön kokeilulla aikalaissoittimilla. Tästä johtuen, päätelmät tutkimuksesta on laajat ja välittömät käytännölliset sovellukset. Lisäksi, se antaa vinkkejä joita voi käyttää ymmärtääkseen soittoteknikoita ja tapoja laajemmassa kontekstissa

Collected Papers (Neutrosophics and other topics), Volume XIV

This fourteenth volume of Collected Papers is an eclectic tome of 87 papers in Neutrosophics and other fields, such as mathematics, fuzzy sets, intuitionistic fuzzy sets, picture fuzzy sets, information fusion, robotics, statistics, or extenics, comprising 936 pages, published between 2008-2022 in different scientific journals or currently in press, by the author alone or in collaboration with the following 99 co-authors (alphabetically ordered) from 26 countries: Ahmed B. Al-Nafee, Adesina Abdul Akeem Agboola, Akbar Rezaei, Shariful Alam, Marina Alonso, Fran Andujar, Toshinori Asai, Assia Bakali, Azmat Hussain, Daniela Baran, Bijan Davvaz, Bilal Hadjadji, Carlos Díaz Bohorquez, Robert N. Boyd, M. Caldas, Cenap Özel, Pankaj Chauhan, Victor Christianto, Salvador Coll, Shyamal Dalapati, Irfan Deli, Balasubramanian Elavarasan, Fahad Alsharari, Yonfei Feng, Daniela Gîfu, Rafael Rojas Gualdrón, Haipeng Wang, Hemant Kumar Gianey, Noel Batista Hernández, Abdel-Nasser Hussein, Ibrahim M. Hezam, Ilanthenral Kandasamy, W.B. Vasantha Kandasamy, Muthusamy Karthika, Nour Eldeen M. Khalifa, Madad Khan, Kifayat Ullah, Valeri Kroumov, Tapan Kumar Roy, Deepesh Kunwar, Le Thi Nhung, Pedro López, Mai Mohamed, Manh Van Vu, Miguel A. Quiroz-Martínez, Marcel Migdalovici, Kritika Mishra, Mohamed Abdel-Basset, Mohamed Talea, Mohammad Hamidi, Mohammed Alshumrani, Mohamed Loey, Muhammad Akram, Muhammad Shabir, Mumtaz Ali, Nassim Abbas, Munazza Naz, Ngan Thi Roan, Nguyen Xuan Thao, Rishwanth Mani Parimala, Ion Pătrașcu, Surapati Pramanik, Quek Shio Gai, Qiang Guo, Rajab Ali Borzooei, Nimitha Rajesh, Jesús Estupiñan Ricardo, Juan Miguel Martínez Rubio, Saeed Mirvakili, Arsham Borumand Saeid, Saeid Jafari, Said Broumi, Ahmed A. Salama, Nirmala Sawan, Gheorghe Săvoiu, Ganeshsree Selvachandran, Seok-Zun Song, Shahzaib Ashraf, Jayant Singh, Rajesh Singh, Son Hoang Le, Tahir Mahmood, Kenta Takaya, Mirela Teodorescu, Ramalingam Udhayakumar, Maikel Y. Leyva Vázquez, V. Venkateswara Rao, Luige Vlădăreanu, Victor Vlădăreanu, Gabriela Vlădeanu, Michael Voskoglou, Yaser Saber, Yong Deng, You He, Youcef Chibani, Young Bae Jun, Wadei F. Al-Omeri, Hongbo Wang, Zayen Azzouz Omar

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