A new wine tasting approach based on emotional responses to rapidly recognize classic european wine styles

Conventional tasting sheets are widely used to evaluate wine quality in wine tasting competitions. However, the higher scores are mostly obtained by international commercial wines, resulting in lower scores being awarded to the classic Europeanwines. We hypothesize that this is due to the tasting methodology that fails to recognize this wine style. Therefore, the purpose of this work was to show the implementation of a new wine tasting approach to overcome this drawback. The proposed training technique is based on the emotional responses of the taster after smelling two wines of clearly opposite styles. The first wine is characterized by high aromatic intensity but low in-mouth intensity, perceived as disappointing to the taster, here defined as an “easy” wine. The second wine is characterized as a wine with low aromatic intensity but that provides an unexpectedly positive in-mouth experience, here defined as a “difficult” wine. These emotions are explained by the wine sensorial characteristics. The “easy” wine has an intense, simple smell with short persistence while the “difficult” wine has a low intensity, complex aroma, and long persistence. The first style corresponds to the international commercial wines most prized in international wine challenges. The second, frequently rejected by untrained tasters, is consistent with the “so called” classic European wines, and is characterized by light red or yellow straw colors, weak smell intensity, and aggressive mouth-feel. After no more than four training sessions and using the OIV tasting sheet, inexperienced tasters were able to score “difficult” wines equally as “easy” wines and understand their different attributes. In conclusion, this new tasting approach may be used by wine professionals to explain the characteristics of high quality wines that are not easily recognized by untrained consumersinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

The aboriginal intervention in colonial discourse: challenging white control of cross-racial intersubjectivity

Written against the background of critical whiteness studies, the article deals with the poetry of Romaine Moreton and Alf Taylor, two contemporary Aboriginal voices who are not yet widely recognised, although their work is powerful and compelling. They both use their medium to explore various aspects of indigeneity and to intervene in the public dynamics of racial separation. In their attempt to instil agency for the postcolonial Indigenous subject, they challenge what Sara Suleri (2003) calls “the static lines of demarcation” between colonial power and disempowered culture – the assumptions about such binary oppositions as domination and subordination, centre and margin, self and other, upon which the logic of coloniality often stands. In convening a cross-racial public, the rhetoric of the two poets’ critique generates a discursive guilt in non-Indigenous readers and foregrounds the need for the intersubjectivity of race; that is, a zone of mutual respect and cooperation between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people

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Viral Networks: Connecting Digital Humanities and Medical History

This volume of original essays explores the power of network thinking and analysis for humanities research. Contributing authors are all scholars whose research focuses on a medical history topic—from the Black Death in fourteenth-century Provence to psychiatric hospitals in twentieth-century Alabama. The chapters take readers through a variety of situations in which scholars must determine if network analysis is right for their research; and, if the answer is yes, what the possibilities are for implementation. Along the way, readers will find practical tips on identifying an appropriate network to analyze, finding the best way to apply network analysis, and choosing the right tools for data visualization. All the chapters in this volume grew out of the 2018 Viral Networks workshop, hosted by the History of Medicine Division of the National Library of Medicine (NIH), funded by the Office of Digital Humanities of the National Endowment for the Humanities, and organized by Virginia Tech

Monomodalna i multimodalna metafora i metonimija u umjetničkom stvaralaštvu H.R. Gigera

The cognitive linguistic approach to metaphor and metonymy postulates that we think and understand the world with the help of these figurative mechanisms. Even though metaphors are thus not primarily figures of speech, their visual representatives have not been given enough attention in terms of academic research. The study of conceptual metonymies is even more bridled with the lack of scholarly attention. In recent years, however, linguists have focused on nonverbal metaphors, analyzing visual arts, advertising, and film. Numerous genres in art have shown traits of metaphoric expression to a greater or lesser extent, the most noticeable among them being surrealism as an artistic movement with a highly potent metaphoric system. In an effort to discover the conceptual metaphors and metonymies in the still and moving images (visual art and film), this dissertation will attempt to shed a light on visual metaphor and metonymy in Surrealist art - more specifically, the art of H.R. Giger, Swiss Surrealist whose creations, examined through the lens of semiotics as a highly complex, multimodal structure, surpass cultural and sociological barriers and point to the merger between man and technology, indicative of the modern transformational processes of the 20th and the 21st century.Rad ne sadrži sažetak na drugom jeziku

Monomodalna i multimodalna metafora i metonimija u umjetničkom stvaralaštvu H.R. Gigera

The cognitive linguistic approach to metaphor and metonymy postulates that we think and understand the world with the help of these figurative mechanisms. Even though metaphors are thus not primarily figures of speech, their visual representatives have not been given enough attention in terms of academic research. The study of conceptual metonymies is even more bridled with the lack of scholarly attention. In recent years, however, linguists have focused on nonverbal metaphors, analyzing visual arts, advertising, and film. Numerous genres in art have shown traits of metaphoric expression to a greater or lesser extent, the most noticeable among them being surrealism as an artistic movement with a highly potent metaphoric system. In an effort to discover the conceptual metaphors and metonymies in the still and moving images (visual art and film), this dissertation will attempt to shed a light on visual metaphor and metonymy in Surrealist art - more specifically, the art of H.R. Giger, Swiss Surrealist whose creations, examined through the lens of semiotics as a highly complex, multimodal structure, surpass cultural and sociological barriers and point to the merger between man and technology, indicative of the modern transformational processes of the 20th and the 21st century.Rad ne sadrži sažetak na drugom jeziku

Monomodalna i multimodalna metafora i metonimija u umjetničkom stvaralaštvu H.R. Gigera

The cognitive linguistic approach to metaphor and metonymy postulates that we think and understand the world with the help of these figurative mechanisms. Even though metaphors are thus not primarily figures of speech, their visual representatives have not been given enough attention in terms of academic research. The study of conceptual metonymies is even more bridled with the lack of scholarly attention. In recent years, however, linguists have focused on nonverbal metaphors, analyzing visual arts, advertising, and film. Numerous genres in art have shown traits of metaphoric expression to a greater or lesser extent, the most noticeable among them being surrealism as an artistic movement with a highly potent metaphoric system. In an effort to discover the conceptual metaphors and metonymies in the still and moving images (visual art and film), this dissertation will attempt to shed a light on visual metaphor and metonymy in Surrealist art - more specifically, the art of H.R. Giger, Swiss Surrealist whose creations, examined through the lens of semiotics as a highly complex, multimodal structure, surpass cultural and sociological barriers and point to the merger between man and technology, indicative of the modern transformational processes of the 20th and the 21st century.Rad ne sadrži sažetak na drugom jeziku

Intra-annual variability in standards of water and sanitation in Upper Humla, Nepal: an investigation into the causes, importance and impact

This study investigates the impact of seasonality on standards of water and sanitation in the mountainous district of Humla, Nepal. The research considers impact on two levels: community level access and service delivery. First of all, it examines annual variation in village level access to water and sanitation. Secondly, it looks at the wider picture of service delivery and considers how seasonal variations present opportunities and challenges for improvement in standards for water and sanitation. Three case studies from Humla are presented which illustrate village level access to water and sanitation over a calendar year. These case studies summarise the content of 45 semi-structured interviews, 9 focus group discussions and 9 months of observational work in the district. Variations in weather, village population, infrastructure functionality, and environmental conditions are found to influence the experienced levels of access to water and sanitation at any given time. The impact of seasonality on service delivery was investigated via 39 key informant interviews. Both climatic (e.g. weather) and non-climatic (e.g. budget timings) sources of seasonality are found to impact programme implementation. The mismatch of local seasonal calendars and those imposed by central hubs is found to cause particular difficultly in effective delivery of water and sanitation services. The findings of this research have theoretical, methodological and practical implications. Theoretically, it is suggested that a mountain community s level of access to water and sanitation varies considerably over the course of a calendar year to the point where it needs to be considered if on the ground standards are to be improved. Methodological guidance is provided detailing means of investigating seasonality and its impact on standards of water and sanitation in other scenarios. Practical suggestions focus on incorporating seasonality into assessments of access to water and sanitation and programme delivery in mountain communities