AN APPROACH TO VLADIMIR NABOKOV’S “OTHERWORLD”

RESUMO – O presente artigo tem como objetivo abordar a questão de uma das polêmicas teorias recentes relativas às obras do escritor russo Vladimir Nabokov. Pretende apresentar uma análise do conceito do “outro mundo” (“otherworld”) que, entre outras coisas, tem desempenhado o papel tematicamente mais importante nos estudos nabokovianos nas últimas duas décadas. A intenção deste artigo é chamar atenção para algumas particularidades dos textos de Nabokov, ultrapassando a visão unilateral nos termos da qual os “outros mundos” que aparecem nas suas obras estão exclusivamente relacionados com as circunstâncias biográficas do autor. Ao contrário, propõese a apresentar evidências de que o uso de uma esfera transcendente ocorre principalmente devido à sua crença sui generis na metafísica, ou seja, os mundos existindo para além da capacidade de entendimento humano. Essa nova tendência nos estudos nabokovianos vai de encontro à equívoca interpretação tradicional, segundo a qual os textos de Nabokov são examinados como sistemas herméticos e autoreferenciais, aparecidos em forma de manifestos metaliterários

The Upper Tisza Project 1991-2004

The Upper Tisza Project is an interdisciplinary Anglo-Hungarian landscape archaeology project, based in the University of Durham/Dept. of Archaeology and Eötvös Loránd University/Institute of Archaeological Science, Budapest. The project focuses on three principle aims: (i) the definition and explanation of changes in the palaeo-environment, together with changes in regional economic potential, over the last 10,000 years; (ii) the definition of long-term changes in arenas of social power which are related to the exploitation of local and regional potential; (iii) the clarification of upland-lowland relationships though definition of the mechanisms of exploitation of upland resources. This resource presents the results of the project in E-Book format and, at present, Book One of the Upper Tisza Project, out of a projected Eight, is available. It contains the introduction to the project, the information pertaining to fieldwalking methods and the results and interpretations of one of the three fieldwalking blocks

True Religion: a lost portrait by Albert Szenci Molnár (1606) or Dutch–Flemish–Hungarian intellectual relations in the early-modern period

This is the story of a work of one of the greatest early-modern humanists of Hungary, Albert Szenci Molnár, which had been lost for almost 400 years. The rediscovered Icon religionis or 'Image of Religion' is one of the oldest broadsheets printed in the Hungarian language. It was found in the collection of the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam on 30 October 2012. This study focuses on the history, the meaning and the Dutch background of this work. Furthermore, it devotes attention to Dutch-Flemish-Hungarian intellectual relations with regard to the author, the work and the time at which it was created

Examining the factor structure and validity of the multidimensional assessment of interoceptive awareness

The goal of this study was to psychometrically evaluate the Multidimensional Assessment of Interoceptive Awareness (MAIA), a popular self-report questionnaire claimed to assess the most important subjective aspects of interoception. We collected data in two samples (N = 644 and N = 1,516) and focused on the factor structure and validity of MAIA, as well as its associations with personality traits. Confirmatory Factor Analysis suggested that six of the eight subscales measure a common general factor of self-reported interoception; two MAIA subscales, Not-Worrying and Not-Distracting were only weakly related to this factor. Whereas the general factor correlated strongly with a measure of perceived attentiveness to normal nonemotive body processes, and moderately with Extraversion, Openness and Conscientiousness, the Not-Worrying factor showed moderate to strong negative correlations with Emotionality, pain catastrophization, and anxiety-related aspects of body focus. Not-Distracting was only weakly associated with the validating scales. Overall, these findings do not support the claimed eight-factor structure of the MAIA but indicate the existence of an overarching general factor. Additionally, this study provides evidence that interoceptive awareness, as measured by the MAIA, is related to, but distinct from personality. Funding Information: This work was supported by the New National Excellence Program of the Ministry of Human Capacities under Grant number ?NKP-18-3 (for Eszter Ferentzi) and by the Hungarian National Scientific Research Fund (K 124132)

Selective Imitation in Domestic Dogs

The transmission of cultural knowledge requires learners to identify what relevant information to retain and selectively imitate when observing others' skills. Young human infants-without relying on language or theory of mind-already show evidence of this ability. If, for example, in a communicative context, a model demonstrates a head action instead of a more efficient hand action, infants imitate the head action only if the demonstrator had no good reason to do so, suggesting that their imitation is a selective, interpretative process [1]. Early sensitivity to ostensive-communicative cues and to the efficiency of goal-directed actions is thought to be a crucial prerequisite for such relevance-guided selective imitation [2]. Although this competence is thought to be human specific [2], here we show an analog capacity in the dog. In our experiment, subjects watched a demonstrator dog pulling a rod with the paw instead of the preferred mouth action. In the first group, using the "inefficient" action was justified by the model's carrying of a ball in her mouth, whereas in the second group, no constraints could explain the demonstrator's choice. In the first trial after observation, dogs imitated the nonpreferred action only in the second group. Consequently, dogs, like children, demonstrated inferential selective imitation. © 2007 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved

Gravity anomaly map of the CELEBRATION 2000 region

The interpretation of the gravity field in the 2D and 3D space requires an accurate Bouguer gravity anomaly map. This requirement is of particular importance, when different techniques, instrumentation and data processing methods have been used in different parts of the area of interest. This paper presents the Bouguer gravity anomaly map of the CELEBRATION 2000 countries (Austria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovak Republic) and reports on the calculation of Bouguer gravity data. The gravity map will serve as basis for 2D and 3D modeling of the gravity field in the CELEBRATION 2000 region (45°-54° latitude and 12°-24° longitude). To avoid truncation problems in the following quantitative interpretation, the map area consists of both the CELEBRATION 2000 countries and adjacent areas. Due to different average station density of gravity measurements in the countries (Austria - 1 station/9 km2, Czech Republic - 1 station/2.6 km2, Hungary - 4 stations/km2, Poland - 2.74 stations/km2 and Slovak Republic - 5 stations/km2) the gravity data were interpolated to grids by using different spacing and projection in each country. In the entire CELEBRATION area the average station density is approximately 2.4 stations/km2 and the gravity data set contains more than 1,620,000 measurement points. Additionally, the most important regional gravity anomaly patterns of the map are presented with commentary