‘An indefatigable intermediary’

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eliot W Rowlands
Keyword(s):  
Italian Renaissance ◽  
Intense Competition ◽  
Mary Magdalen ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Cleveland Museum Of Art

Abstract O n 4 June 1925, Harold Woodbury Parsons was appointed European Representative to the Cleveland Museum of Art; for the remainder of the decade he distinguished himself in scouting for and acquiring masterworks of European art for the essentially brand new institution. His long-time contacts in Rome, to begin with, led him to a famous Byzantine ivory (formerly in the collection of Count Grigorij Stroganoff). This he bought for the museum in November 1925, winning enthusiastic praise from Paul J. Sachs, a key figure in American museological circles. Similarly, he acquired soon afterwards El Greco’s Holy Family with St Mary Magdalen, despite intense competition. Parsons was ideally placed in the sale of Filippino Lippi’s Holy Family tondo as a sometime agent for the antiquities collector Edward Perry Warren (recently deceased). Parsons’s correspondence and unpublished notices in the Duveen Brothers records document the off-again, on-again dealing for what is now one of the pre-eminent Italian Renaissance paintings in America, acquired in August 1929.

scholarly journals PERILAKU WIRAUSAHA PEDAGANG ETNIS CINA DI JALAN SAMANHUDI KABUPATEN JEMBER

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 8
Author(s):  
Aini Nur Rohmah ◽  
Joko Widodo ◽  
Sutrisno Djaja
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Analytical Method ◽  
Job Seekers ◽  
Entrepreneurial Behavior ◽  
Data Collection Methods ◽  
Ethnic Chinese ◽  
Intense Competition ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Collection Methods ◽  
Descriptive Qualitative

This study aims to describe how the entrepreneur behavior of ethnic Chinese traders in Jalan Samanhudi Jember regency. Limited employment and increasingly intense competition among job seekers make some of people in Jalan Samanhudi Jember work as entrepreneurs. Formerly Jalan Samanhudi was one of Chinatown area in Jember Regency. Actually, there are many ethnic Chinese traders who trade in their shop. Through observations conducted by researchers they found that ethnic Chinese traders in Jalan Samanhudi Jember regency are able to maintain their business in a long time and quite successful in the field of trading although they are from the wandering people overseas. Those characteristics of entrepreneurial behavior shown by ethnic Chinese traders are not easy to despair, not to let go of opportunities, keeping promises, trying to convince customers during trading and have extremely good endurance and enthusiasm. Data collection methods used consisted of observation, interview and document methods. The analytical method used is descriptive qualitative. The result of this study indicate that the entrepreneur behavior of ethnic Chinese traders in Jalan Samanhudi Jember regency is very strong in running their business.

Trade and Science Journals

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Colin Norman
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Journal ◽  
Good Deal ◽  
Bachelor's Degree ◽  
News Story ◽  
Good Story ◽  
Intense Competition ◽  
Nobel Laureates ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Good Writing ◽  
Specific Community

I once asked a friend who was a political reporter for an influential British daily whether he had a particular type of reader in mind when he sat down at his typewriter (yes, I said typewriter; it was a long time ago). His response: “Somebody who moves his lips when he reads.” At the time, equipped with a mere bachelor's degree, I was starting out as a reporter for Nature, a journal read by researchers at the forefront of their disciplines—Nobel laureates, even. My friend's flip remark carried a useful message, which is why it has stuck with me over the years: Don't be intimidated by your readers. Writing for a scientific journal can certainly be intimidating. A fraction of your readers will know a good deal more about the topic than you do, and a larger fraction will be quick to jump on any mistakes. Yet if you are writing for a multidisciplinary journal like Science or Nature, and are hoping to entice an astrophysicist, say, to read an article on genetics, you'll need to explain some basic terms—and you'll need to do it without talking down to the scientists who are already the experts. You are also writing for a very busy audience, so there's a premium on good writing. Scientists have a hard enough time understanding the technical papers in the back of the journal, and they will turn the page rather than struggle through a news story if it's needlessly dense. And, perhaps most important, you are setting the context of whatever research you're describing. Your readers can get the findings just by scanning the literature, but what they can't get is how those findings fit into a hot new trend or the way that intense competition drove the research. That's where you come in. So what makes a good story for a professional magazine? Remember who your readers are: a community of scientists—a relatively specific community if you are writing for a magazine like Chemical and Engineering News, or a very broad one if you are writing for Science or Nature.

scholarly journals Insights on Funeral Practices and Insects Associated With the Tombs of King Ferrante II d’Aragona and Other Renaissance Nobles

2019 ◽  
Vol 56 (6) ◽  
pp. 1582-1589
Author(s):  
Augusto Loni ◽  
Antonio Fornaciari ◽  
Angelo Canale ◽  
Valentina Giuffra ◽  
Stefano Vanin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Conditions ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Italian Renaissance ◽  
Insect Community ◽  
Funerary Practices ◽  
Funeral Practices ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Advanced Knowledge ◽  
Body Preparation

Abstract The impressive Sacristy of the Basilica of San Domenico Maggiore contains 38 wooden sarcophagi with the bodies of 10 Aragonese princes and other Neapolitan nobles, who died in the 15th and 16th centuries. To improve the knowledge about the entomofauna associated with bodies in archaeological contexts, herein we provide insights on the funerary practices and the insect community associated to Ferrante II King of Naples and other Italian Renaissance mummies of the Aragonese dynasty buried in the Basilica of St. Domenico Maggiore. We identified 842 insect specimens: 88% were Diptera (Muscidae, Fanniidae, and Phoridae), followed by 9% Lepidoptera (Tineidae) and 3% Coleoptera (Dermestidae and Ptinidae). Ninety-seven percent of the specimens were collected from the coffin of Francesco Ferdinando d’Avalos, which was the best preserved. A lack of fly species characterizing the first colonization waves of exposed bodies was noted. The most common fly was the later colonizing muscid Hydrotaea capensis (Wiedemann); only a few Fanniidae (Fannia spp.) were retrieved. The lack of blowflies, coupled with recording H. capensis as the dominant fly, supports our hypothesis that corpses have been kept indoors for a long time under confined environmental conditions. Other explanations include odorous oils/balms having been used in the embalming process, causing the delay or stopping the arrival of first colonizer flies. Hermetically sealing of the coffin with bitumen may also have played a role in preventing access to the corpses. This scenario describes a historical context characterized by a well-advanced knowledge of body preparation, with specific burial techniques adopted for nobles.

‘An indefatigable intermediary’

2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 537-558
Author(s):  
Eliot W Rowlands
Keyword(s):  
Art Market ◽  
World Market ◽  
Art Museum ◽  
The Public ◽  
Works Of Art ◽  
Mary Magdalen ◽  
The World ◽  
Assistant Director ◽  
Cleveland Museum Of Art

Abstract At a time when museum curatorship in America was in its infancy, Harold Woodbury Parsons (1882–1967) scouted and negotiated for outstanding works of art for the cash-rich Cleveland Museum of Art, which opened to the public in 1916. As its European representative (1925–41), he acquired such masterworks as the Stroganoff Ivory, El Greco’s Holy Family with St Mary Magdalen, and the Warren tondo by Filippino Lippi, all during the late 1920s. During a lifetime’s work in the art market, in which he worked for private collectors and other museums, this was his most important achievement. What he acquired for the Cleveland Museum is vividly recounted in the art agent’s correspondence, until now, almost entirely unpublished. After moving to Rome in 1910, Parsons first served as ‘an indefatigable intermediary’ in the world market for antiquities. Later, with the blessing of Edward Waldo Forbes and Paul J. Sachs – director and assistant director, respectively, of Harvard’s Fogg Art Museum – and with a host of European contacts, he was able to ‘gun for’ art for an ever expanding number of clients.

200kv superconducting cryo electron microscope

1987 ◽  
Vol 45 ◽  
pp. 642-643
Author(s):  
M. Iwatsuki ◽  
Y. Kokubo ◽  
Y. Harada ◽  
J. Lehman
Keyword(s):  
Electron Microscope ◽  
Structure Analysis ◽  
Organic Materials ◽  
Strong Interactions ◽  
Specimen Preparation ◽  
Great Effort ◽  
Electron Microscopic ◽  
Crystal Fields ◽  
Special Skill ◽  
Long Time

In recent years, the electron microscope has been significantly improved in resolution and we can obtain routinely atomic-level high resolution images without any special skill. With this improvement, the structure analysis of organic materials has become one of the interesting targets in the biological and polymer crystal fields.Up to now, X-ray structure analysis has been mainly used for such materials. With this method, however, great effort and a long time are required for specimen preparation because of the need for larger crystals. This method can analyze average crystal structure but is insufficient for interpreting it on the atomic or molecular level. The electron microscopic method for organic materials has not only the advantage of specimen preparation but also the capability of providing various information from extremely small specimen regions, using strong interactions between electrons and the substance. On the other hand, however, this strong interaction has a big disadvantage in high radiation damage.

A Stationary Solution of High-Energy Electron Reflection (HEER) for An Arbitrary Surface

1990 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 374-375
Author(s):  
YIQUN MA
Keyword(s):  
Stationary Solution ◽  
High Energy ◽  
Bloch Wave ◽  
Dynamical Theory ◽  
High Energy Electron ◽  
Bulk Materials ◽  
Periodic Surface ◽  
Electron Transmission ◽  
Electron Reflection ◽  
Long Time

For a long time, the development of dynamical theory for HEER has been stagnated for several reasons. Although the Bloch wave method is powerful for the understanding of physical insights of electron diffraction, particularly electron transmission diffraction, it is not readily available for the simulation of various surface imperfection in electron reflection diffraction since it is basically a method for bulk materials and perfect surface. When the multislice method due to Cowley & Moodie is used for electron reflection, the “edge effects” stand firmly in the way of reaching a stationary solution for HEER. The multislice method due to Maksym & Beeby is valid only for an 2-D periodic surface.Now, a method for solving stationary solution of HEER for an arbitrary surface is available, which is called the Edge Patching method in Multislice-Only mode (the EPMO method). The analytical basis for this method can be attributed to two important characters of HEER: 1) 2-D dependence of the wave fields and 2) the Picard iteractionlike character of multislice calculation due to Cowley and Moodie in the Bragg case.

Direct imaging of charge transfer

1996 ◽  
Vol 54 ◽  
pp. 680-681
Author(s):  
Yimei Zhu ◽  
J. Tafto
Keyword(s):  
Charge Transfer ◽  
Electron Diffraction ◽  
Scattering Amplitude ◽  
High Temperature Superconductors ◽  
Charge Carriers ◽  
Image Charge ◽  
Net Charge ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Electron Holes ◽  
First Time

The electron holes confined to the CuO2-plane are the charge carriers in high-temperature superconductors, and thus, the distribution of charge plays a key role in determining their superconducting properties. While it has been known for a long time that in principle, electron diffraction at low angles is very sensitive to charge transfer, we, for the first time, show that under a proper TEM imaging condition, it is possible to directly image charge in crystals with a large unit cell. We apply this new way of studying charge distribution to the technologically important Bi2Sr2Ca1Cu2O8+δ superconductors.Charged particles interact with the electrostatic potential, and thus, for small scattering angles, the incident particle sees a nuclei that is screened by the electron cloud. Hence, the scattering amplitude mainly is determined by the net charge of the ion. Comparing with the high Z neutral Bi atom, we note that the scattering amplitude of the hole or an electron is larger at small scattering angles. This is in stark contrast to the displacements which contribute negligibly to the electron diffraction pattern at small angles because of the short g-vectors.

Microstructural characterization of plasma-processed Ti-Al metal matrix composites

1989 ◽  
Vol 47 ◽  
pp. 552-553
Author(s):  
M. G. Burke ◽  
M. N. Gungor ◽  
M. A. Burke
Keyword(s):  
High Temperature ◽  
Titanium Aluminide ◽  
Plasma Processing ◽  
Microstructural Characterization ◽  
High Temperature Strength ◽  
Matrix Composites ◽  
Intermetallic Matrix ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Strength And Stiffness ◽  
Intermetallic Matrix Composites

Intermetallic matrix composites are candidates for ultrahigh temperature service when light weight and high temperature strength and stiffness are required. Recent efforts to produce intermetallic matrix composites have focused on the titanium aluminide (TiAl) system with various ceramic reinforcements. In order to optimize the composition and processing of these composites it is necessary to evaluate the range of structures that can be produced in these materials and to identify the characteristics of the optimum structures. Normally, TiAl materials are difficult to process and, thus, examination of a suitable range of structures would not be feasible. However, plasma processing offers a novel method for producing composites from difficult to process component materials. By melting one or more of the component materials in a plasma and controlling deposition onto a cooled substrate, a range of structures can be produced and the method is highly suited to examining experimental composite systems. Moreover, because plasma processing involves rapid melting and very rapid cooling can be induced in the deposited composite, it is expected that processing method can avoid some of the problems, such as interfacial degradation, that are associated with the relatively long time, high temperature exposures that are induced by conventional processing methods.

Gum arabic helps prepare better lacey polymer films for specimen support in electron microscopy

1993 ◽  
Vol 51 ◽  
pp. 240-241
Author(s):  
Shailesh R. Sheth ◽  
Jayesh R. Bellare
Keyword(s):  
Electron Microscopy ◽  
Polymer Films ◽  
Gum Arabic ◽  
Complete Removal ◽  
Ammonium Bromide ◽  
Release Agent ◽  
Astigmatism Correction ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Micro Holes ◽  
Cetyl Trimethyl Ammonium

Specimen support and astigmatism correction in Electron Microscopy are at least two areas in which lacey polymer films find extensive applications. Although their preparation has been studied for a very long time, present techniques still suffer from incomplete release of the film from its substrate and presence of a large number of pseudo holes in the film. Our method ensures complete removal of the entire lacey film from the substrate and fewer pseudo holes by pre-treating the substrate with Gum Arabic, which acts as a film release agent.The method is based on the classical condensation technique for preparing lacey films which is essentially deposition of minute water or ice droplets on the substrate and laying the polymer film over it, so that micro holes are formed corresponding to the droplets. A microscope glass slide (the substrate) is immersed in 2.0% (w/v) aq. CTAB (cetyl trimethyl ammonium bromide)-0.22% (w/v) aq.

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