scholarly journals Textiles from the Museum of San Isidoro (León): New Evidence for Re-evaluating Their Chronology and Provenance

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 59-95
Author(s):  
Ana Cabrera Lafuente
Keyword(s):  
Thirteenth Century ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Archival Research ◽  
Carbon 14 ◽  
Complex Image ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
Medieval Iberia ◽  
New Evidence ◽  
Careful Investigation

Abstract This paper presents the first in-depth analysis of the textiles held by the Museo de la Real Colegiata de San Isidoro de León, providing a careful investigation of textile features and raw materials, in addition to carbon-14 dating and archival research. These new data have allowed us to redate the fabrics, placing them within their tenth- through early thirteenth-century Mediterranean and European contexts. The result is a more complex image than was previously assumed, and it offers a significant starting point for further research into the roles played by textiles in medieval Iberia.

Tobacco’s Appeal to the Senses and the Early Modern Smoker’s Still Life

2020 ◽  
pp. 123-150
Author(s):  
Julia Saviello
Keyword(s):  
Still Life ◽  
Sense Data ◽  
Complex Image ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
Tobacco Pipes ◽  
Five Senses ◽  
The Senses ◽  
Cut Tobacco ◽  
Selection Of

Smell and taste – of the five senses these are the two most strongly stimulated by smoking tobacco. The article presents an in-depth analysis of the reflection of both these forms of sensory perception in textual and visual sources concerning the early consumption of the herb. In a first step, tobacco’s changing reception, first as medicine and then as stimulant, is traced through the years of its increasing distribution in Europe, starting in the middle of the 16th century. As this overview reveals, at that time the still little known substance gave rise to new forms of sense perception. Following recent studies on smell and gustation, which have stressed the need to take into account the interactions between these senses, the article probes the manifold stimulation of the senses by tobacco with reference to allegorical representations and genre scenes addressing the five senses. The smoking of tobacco was thematized in both of these art forms as a means of visualizing either smell or taste. Yet, these depictions show no indication of any deliberate engagement with the exchange of sense data between mouth and nose. The question posed at the end of this paper is whether this holds true also for early smoker’s still lifes. In the so-called toebakjes or rookertjes, a subgenre of stilllife painting that, like tobacco, was still a novelty at the beginning of the 17th century, various smoking paraphernalia – such as rolled or cut tobacco, pipes and tins – are arrayed with various kinds of foods and drinks. Finally, the article addresses a selection of such smoker’s still lifes, using the toebakje by Pieter Claesz., probably the first of its kind, as a starting point and the work by Georg Flegel as a comparative example. Through their selection of objects, both offer a complex image of how tobacco engages different senses.

scholarly journals For our world without sound. The opportunistic debitage in the Italian context: a methodological evaluation of the lithic assemblages of Pirro Nord, Cà Belvedere di Montepoggiolo, Ciota Ciara cave and Riparo Tagliente.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Carpentieri ◽  
Marta Arzarello
Keyword(s):  
Raw Materials ◽  
Raw Material ◽  
Middle Pleistocene ◽  
Lithic Assemblages ◽  
Core Technology ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Lower Pleistocene ◽  
Great Heterogeneity ◽  
Italian Context ◽  
Methodological Evaluation

Abstract The opportunistic debitage, originally adapted from Forestier’s S.S.D.A. definition, is characterized by a strong adaptability to local raw material morphology and its physical characteristics and it is oriented towards flake production. Its most ancient evidence is related to the first European peopling by Homo sp. during Lower Pleistocene starting from 1.6 Ma and gradually increasing around 1 Ma. In these sites a great heterogeneity of the reduction sequences and raw materials employed is highlighted, bringing to the identification of multiple technical behaviours. However, the scientific community does not always agree on associating the concepts of opportunism and method to describe these lithic complexes. The same methodological issues remain for the Middle Pleistocene where, simultaneously to an increase of the archaeological evidence and the persistence of the opportunistic debitage, the first bifacial complexes are attested. Further implications concerning the increasing complexity highlighted in core technology management are now at the centre of an important debate regarding the genesis of more specialized method (Levallois and Discoid) especially during MIS 12 and MIS 9. We suggest that the opportunistic debitage could be the starting point for this process, carrying within itself a great methodological and cultural potential.

scholarly journals A new innovation paradigm: combining technological and social innovation

2019 ◽  
Vol 107 (1) ◽  
pp. 107 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Kohlgrüber ◽  
Antonius Schröder ◽  
Félix Bayón Yusta ◽  
Asier Arteaga Ayarza
Keyword(s):  
Social Innovation ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Innovation Process ◽  
Implementation Process ◽  
Steel Company ◽  
User Perspective ◽  
Horizon 2020 ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Future ◽  
Industry Sectors

A new innovation paradigm is needed to answer the societal, economic and environmental challenges the world and companies are facing. The EU funded Horizon 2020 SPIRE Project “Coordinating Optimisation of Complex Industrial Processes” (COCOP) is combining technological and social innovation within a steel company pilot case (Sidenor). The project aims at reducing raw materials consumption (and energy and emissions reduction as well) by plant-wide optimisation of production processes based on a software solution and at the same time changing social practices. Key for COCOP is a methodology integrating technological innovation within a social innovation process of co-creation and co-development by involving (potential) users of the future software system and relevant stakeholders right from the beginning; thereby improving effectiveness and impact of the innovations and the implementation process. This involvement is instructed and measured by social key performance indicators (social KPIs) and operationalised in surveys (questionnaire and interviews) with future users, engineers and external experts (from different industry sectors not involved in the project). The article presents the results of the starting point of COCOP illustrating the future user perspective of the pilot steel company (Sidenor) contrasted by the view of external experts – seriously taking into account the interfaces between technology, human and organisation.

Modern methods for vegetable oils from various raw materials identification

2021 ◽  
pp. 56-59
Author(s):  
Лев Арсенович Оганесянц ◽  
Александр Львович Панасюк ◽  
Елена Ивановна Кузьмина ◽  
Дмитрий Александрович Свиридов ◽  
Михаил Юрьевич Ганин
Keyword(s):  
Fatty Acid Composition ◽  
Fatty Acid ◽  
Acid Composition ◽  
Vegetable Oils ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Gas Liquid Chromatography ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
Modern Methods

Продукты масложировой промышленности играют важную роль в формировании рациона питания человека. При этом особое внимание отводится растительным маслам ввиду их высокой физиологической ценности. На сегодняшний день достаточно остро стоит вопрос о способах их идентификации. В связи с тем, что стоимость растительного масла в значительной степени обуславливается выбором сырья, наиболее распространенным видом фальсификации является внесение недобросовестными производителями в готовую продукцию более дешевых видов масел. Приведен анализ современных способов идентификации растительных масел из различного сырья. До настоящего времени метод газожидкостной хроматографии являлся основным при выявлении примесей посторонних жиров в продукции по ее жирнокислотному составу. Также для выявления фальсификатов могут быть использованы такие инструментальные методы, как ЯМР-спектроскопия, ИК-спектроскопия, а также метод изотопной масс-спектрометрии, который является наиболее перспективным. Особый научный интерес представляет идентификация растительных масел по их географическому месту происхождения. Основываясь на анализе литературы, показано, что наибольшее распространение при установлении региональной принадлежности масел получили исследования, направленные на изучение изотопных характеристик углерода (13С/12С), кислорода (18O/16O) и водорода (2H/1H) элементов, входящих в состав продукта, а также его жирнокислотного состава. Описаны преимущества комплексного подхода исследований, включающего в себя создание массива данных, состоящего из значений различных показателей, и его глубокий анализ с использованием статистических методов анализа. Математическая модель может быть усилена данными элементного профиля масла, изотопных характеристик отдельно взятых жирных кислот или содержанием фенольных соединений. Products of the fat and oil industry play an important role in shaping human diet. At the same time, special attention is paid to vegetable oils in view of their high physiological value. Today, the question of how to identify them is quite acute. Due to the fact that the cost of vegetable oil is largely determined by the choice of raw materials, the most common falsification type is the introduction of cheaper oils types into finished products by unscrupulous manufacturers. The authors provide an analysis of modern methods for identifying vegetable oils from various raw materials. It has been shown that the gas-liquid chromatography method is the main one in identifying products by their fatty acid composition and makes it possible to establish the presence of foreign fats impurities. Also, methods of isotope mass spectrometry, NMR spectroscopy, IR spectroscopy and electrophysical methods of analysis can be used to detect counterfeits. Of particular scientific interest is the vegetable oils identification by their geographical place of origin, which is very important for some countries of the European Union. Based on the analysis of literature, it has been shown that the most widespread in the regional oils affiliation establishing are researches aimed at researching the isotopic characteristics of carbon (13C/12C), oxygen (18O/16O) and hydrogen (2H/1H) of the elements that make up the product, and also its fatty acid composition. The advantages of an integrated research approach are described, including the creation of a data array consisting of the values of various indicators and its in-depth analysis using statistical analysis methods. The mathematical model can be strengthened by data on the elemental profile of the oil, isotopic characteristics of individual fatty acids, or the content of phenolic compounds.

On the Origin of the Spices (and Other Foodstuffs)

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan Kelly
Keyword(s):  
Primary Production ◽  
Food Chain ◽  
Chemical Elements ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Biological Effects ◽  
Desirable Outcome ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Calcium Magnesium ◽  
Good Starting Point

The beginning of the story of food is what is termed food production. This might sound logically like the process of making food, such as a chef or food company might, but this term is rather generally used in food science to refer to the so-called primary production of food, from growth of crops to harvesting of fish and minding and milking of cows. Primary production is, for example, what farmers do, producing the food that is brought to the farm-gate, from where the processors take over. So the food chain runs, according to your preference for a snappy soundbite, from grass to glass (for milk), farm to fork, slurry to curry, or (taking the food chain to its logical conclusion, and including the role of the human gut charmingly but appropriately in the chain) from farm to flush. But where do these raw materials that are yielded by primary production actually come from? It is often said that all things found on earth can be divided into categories of animal, vegetable, and mineral. To these could perhaps be added two more categories, microbial and synthetic (man-made). Within these five groups can essentially be placed everything we know as food, so using this classification to consider where our food comes from seems like a good starting point for this book. Perhaps the simplest group to start with is minerals, which might intuitively seem an unlikely source of foodstuffs (do we eat metal or rock?), until we consider where salt comes from and how much of it we add to our food (in other words, probably too much). Our bodies, however, absolutely need for us to consume certain metals and other chemical elements to survive, beyond the sodium and chloride we get from salt, and so many extracted minerals find their way from deposits in the earth into food products. This is particularly important where their biological effects are a desirable outcome (such as in carefully formulated nutritional products). In addition, products such as milk contain minerals like calcium, magnesium, zinc, and more, because the infant or calf needs them to thrive.

scholarly journals Multidrug-Resistant Salmonella enterica Serovar Rissen Clusters Detected in Azores Archipelago, Portugal

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leonor Silveira ◽  
Miguel Pinto ◽  
Joana Isidro ◽  
Ângela Pista ◽  
Patrícia Themudo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Diversity ◽  
Salmonella Enterica ◽  
Genetic Relatedness ◽  
Multidrug Resistant ◽  
Reference Laboratory ◽  
Multiple Sources ◽  
Gastrointestinal Infections ◽  
Azores Archipelago ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Depth Analysis

Gastrointestinal infections caused by nontyphoidal Salmonella (NTS) remain one of the main causes of foodborne illness worldwide. Within the multiple existing Salmonella enterica serovars, the serovar Rissen is rarely reported, particularly as a cause of human salmonellosis. Between 2015 and 2017, the Portuguese National Reference Laboratory of Gastrointestinal Infections observed an increase in the number of clinical cases caused by multidrug-resistant (MDR) S. enterica serovar Rissen, particularly from the Azores archipelago. In the present study, we analyzed by whole genome sequencing (WGS) all clinical, animal, food, and environmental isolates received up to 2017 in the Portuguese Reference Laboratories. As such, through a wgMLST-based gene-by-gene analysis, we aimed to identify potential epidemiological clusters linking clinical and samples from multiple sources, while gaining insight into the genetic diversity of S. enterica serovar Rissen. We also investigated the genetic basis driving the observed multidrug resistance. By integrating 60 novel genomes with all publicly available serovar Rissen genomes, we observed a low degree of genetic diversity within this serovar. Nevertheless, the majority of Portuguese isolates showed high degree of genetic relatedness and a potential link to pork production. An in-depth analysis of these isolates revealed the existence of two major clusters from the Azores archipelago composed of MDR isolates, most of which were resistant to at least five antimicrobials. Considering the well-known spread of MDR between gastrointestinal bacteria, the identification of MDR circulating clones should constitute an alert to public health authorities. Finally, this study constitutes the starting point for the implementation of the “One Health” approach for Salmonella surveillance in Portugal.

Governance of the Chinese Super League

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 4-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yang Ma ◽  
Markus Kurscheidt
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Organisational Change ◽  
The Body ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Republic Of China ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
The Government ◽  
Governance Processes ◽  
Super League

Purpose In 2017, the Chinese Super League (CSL), the first professional football division in the People’s Republic of China (PRC), became the highest-spending league in the international players’ transfer market, with a total spending of €377m. Moreover, the government of the PRC is backing the CSL with an ambitious football plan. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to examine the governance of the CSL by questioning the organisational viability of the league. Design/methodology/approach In addition to the relevant international literature, this study is based on 14 recent scholarly articles published in Mandarin from 2013 to 2018 to reflect the national academic debate. Moreover, website research on all CSL clubs has been conducted. The institutional analysis follows the integrative change model of Cunningham (2002) complemented by agency and bureaucracy theory. Findings The CSL still faces substantial governance problems caused by the divergence of goal setting, organisational inefficiencies and compliance issues. The organisational change is notably constrained by internal competitive value commitments and external power dependency. Research limitations/implications The institutional findings on the CSL provide a starting point for empirical studies. The approach contributes to the theory of sport governance processes. Practical implications The material and insights are informative for decision makers to evaluate the competitiveness of the CSL. Originality/value This paper is the first international in-depth analysis of the governance of the CSL using the body of knowledge published in Mandarin.

scholarly journals Exploring the Wet Mechanochemical Synthesis of Mg-Al, Ca-Al, Zn-Al and Cu-Al Layered Double Hydroxides from Oxides, Hydroxides and Basic Carbonates

Crystals ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (10) ◽  
pp. 954 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brenda Antoinette Barnard ◽  
Frederick Johannes Willem Jacobus Labuschagné
Keyword(s):  
Mechanochemical Synthesis ◽  
Layered Double Hydroxides ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Green Method ◽  
Synthesis Conditions ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Bead Mill ◽  
One Step ◽  
Synthesis Procedure ◽  
Double Hydroxides

The synthesis of Mg-Al, Ca-Al, Zn-Al and Cu-Al layered double hydroxides (LDHs) was investigated with a one-step wet mechanochemical route. The research aims to expand on the mechanochemical synthesis of LDH using a mill designed for wet grinding application. A 10% slurry of solids was added to a Netzsch LME 1 horizontal bead mill and milled for 1 h at 2000 rpm. Milling conditions were selected according to machine limitations and as an initial exploratory starting point. Precursor materials selected consisted of a mixture of oxides, hydroxides and basic carbonates. Samples obtained were divided such that half was filtered and dried at 60 °C for 12 h. The remaining half of the samples were further subjected to ageing at 80 °C for 24 h as a possible second step to the synthesis procedure. Synthesis conditions, such as selected precursor materials and the MII:MIII ratio, were adapted from existing mechanochemical methods. LDH synthesis prior to ageing was successful with precursor materials observably present within each sample. No Cu-Al LDH was clearly identifiable. Ageing of samples resulted in an increase in the conversion of raw materials to LDH product. The research offers a promising ‘green’ method for LDH synthesis without the production of environmentally harmful salt effluent. The synthesis technique warrants further exploration with potential for future commercial up-scaling.

scholarly journals A Novel Robotic Arm Design for Small Scale Industries Using myRIO

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (4.6) ◽  
pp. 257
Author(s):  
M. Srilatha ◽  
R. Hemalatha
Keyword(s):  
Working Conditions ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Technological Development ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Robotic Arm ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Complete Automation ◽  
Human Effort ◽  
Small Scale Industries

In small-scale industries, under extreme working conditions, personnel are frequently involved in lifting and carrying raw materials, which is hazardous at times. Robot, a machine with intelligence can perform the same task with the help of control instructions fed by computer or remote control. Technological development in the area of robotics made it possible to design robotic arm with the same degree of precision as a replacement to the human intervention. This will introduce automation in small-scale industries, which saves time, reduces human effort and expenditure in production. Further, this will be a starting point for complete automation of entire process, which can be expensive and complicated. NI LabVIEW along with NI-myRIO can provide a better solution in designing a more precise and accurate robot in a very low cost, which is affordable by small-scale industries. NI-myRIO is used to generate and acquire signals for controlling and processing. Further it has an inbuilt processor and FPGA which has many reconfigurable analogue and digital features.  

“How dare you call her a pig, I know several pigs who would be upset if they knew”

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eleonora Esposito ◽  
Sole Alba Zollo
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Hate Speech ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Amnesty International ◽  
Representation Of Women ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
Discourse Studies ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
Online Misogyny

Abstract On the occasion of the 2017 UK election campaign, Amnesty International conducted a large-scale, sentiment-based analysis of online hate speech against women MPs on Twitter (Dhrodia 2018), identifying the “Top 5” most attacked women MPs as Diane Abbott, Joanna Cherry, Emily Thornberry, Jess Phillips and Anna Soubry. Taking Amnesty International’s results as a starting point, this paper investigates online misogyny against the “Top 5” women MPs, with a specific focus on the video-sharing platform YouΤube, whose loosely censored cyberspace is known as a breeding ground for antagonism, impunity and disinhibition (Pihlaja 2014), and, therefore, merits investigation. By collecting and analysing a corpus of YouTube multimodal data we explore, critique and contextualize online misogyny as a techno-social phenomenon applying a Social Media Critical Discourse Studies (SM-CDS) approach (KhosraviNik and Esposito 2018). Mapping a vast array of discursive strategies, this study offers an in-depth analysis on how technology-facilitated gender-based violence contributes to discursively constructing the political arena as a fundamentally male-oriented space, and reinforces stereotypical and sexist representation of women in politics and beyond.

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