scholarly journals Upscaling, Obduracy, and Underground Parking in Maastricht (1965-Present): Is There a Way Out?

2020 ◽  
pp. 009614422090906
Author(s):  
Jelena Stanković ◽  
Marc Dijk ◽  
Anique Hommels
Keyword(s):  
Inner City ◽  
Resistance To Change ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Cultural Meanings ◽  
Sustainable Mobility ◽  
Parking Garage ◽  
Car Use ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
History Of ◽  
Dutch City

This article reconstructs the history of underground parking in the Dutch city of Maastricht by connecting the model of obduracy (i.e., “resistance to change”) with the concept of upscaling, which offers new insights in historic urban transitions. We discuss how the decision-making process about the building of the first underground parking garage (Vrijthof) in the late 1960s was a starting point of a growing obduracy of the urban practice of car use and parking in the inner city of Maastricht. We argue that this obduracy can be explained by the growing interconnections between the cultural meanings of historic squares and urban car use, expertise of urban planners, traffic experts and parking operators, parking and traffic policies and regulations, and underground parking infrastructures. Ironically, the expansion of underground parking in Maastricht can be seen as a pivotal part of the successful upscaling and increasing obduracy of car mobility in this town, but at the same time significantly affects the upscaling of local sustainable mobility innovations forty years later and beyond.

scholarly journals A COMIDA E A LINGUAGEM EM “FOLCLORE DA ALIMENTAÇÃO” (1963): CASCUDO, OS FOLCLORISTAS E A CULTURA ALIMENTAR

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 64
Author(s):  
Ariza Maria Rocha
Keyword(s):  
Cultural History ◽  
Food System ◽  
Rich Source ◽  
Food Culture ◽  
Cultural Meanings ◽  
Everyday Language ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
History Of ◽  
Ancient Civilizations ◽  
The Relationship

Até que ponto o sistema alimentar de um povo está impregnado nos verbetes que usamos na linguagem cotidiana? Esta comunicação tem o objetivo de analisar os significados culturais atribuídos aos alimentos que expressam a relação com o corpo e o comportamento a partir da obra “Folclore da alimentação”, de Cascudo (1898-1986), publicada na Revista Brasileira de Folclore (1963). O estudioso compilou 135 palavras, expressões, frases feitas e imagens comparativas provenientes do vocabulário corrente do cotidiano associadas à alimentação. Faz-se mister esclarecer que a mesma produção foi inserida no livro a “História da Alimentação no Brasil” (1983). O folclorista empregou a pesquisa histórica, etnográfica, bibliográfica e documental, a exemplo, O Diário de Pernambuco, fundado em 1825, a obra Auto da Ave-Maria – Auto dos Cantarinhos: com uma notícia biográfica do autor, de Antônio Prestes (1530) e o diálogo com outros folcloristas, tais como, Francisco Manuel de Melo (1608-1666), João Loureiro (1717-1791), Hermann Urtel (1873-1926), Francisco Augusto Pereira da Costa (1851-1923), Valdomiro Silveira (1873-1941), Ataliba Amaral Leite Penteado (1875-1929), Hidelgardes Cantolino Vianna (1919-2006), Édison de Souza Carneiro (1912-1972) e Cornélio Pires (1884-1958). A obra é uma rica fonte de pesquisa e reflexão da cultura alimentar que revela a contribuição africana, portuguesa, asiática, árabe, francesa, além da civilização da Antiguidade. Nas linhas e entrelinhas da obra, o historiador revela a riqueza da linguagem e da cultura da alimentação. Para analisar o referido universo comunicativo empregou-se os estudos da história cultural do alimento e, metodologicamente, investiu-se na pesquisa documental da obra o “Folclore da alimentação”.Palavras-chave: Comida. Linguagem. Folclore.ABSTRACTTo what extent does a people’s food system permeate the words we use in everyday language? This communication aims to analyse the cultural meanings attributed to foods that express the relationship between body and behaviour having as a starting point the book “Folclore da Alimentação” – “Folklore of food”, by Cascudo (1898-1986), published in the Revista Brasileira do Folclore – Brazilian Magazine of Folklore (1963). The scholar compiled 135 words, idioms, phrases, and comparative images from the current everyday vocabulary associated with eating at that time. It is necessary to clarify that the same production was inserted in the book “História da Alimentação no Brasil” – “History of Food in Brazil” (1983). The folklorist employed the historical, ethnographic, bibliographical and documentary researching methods, for example, O Diário de Pernambuco, founded in 1825, the work Auto Da Ave-Maria - Auto dos Cantarinhos: with a biographical article by Antônio Prestes (1530) and dialogues with other folklorists, such as Francisco Manuel de Melo (1608-1666), João Loureiro (1717-1791), Hermann Urtel (1873-1926), Francisco Augusto Pereira da Costa (1851-1923), Valdomiro Silveira (1873-1941), Ataliba Amaral Leite Penteado (1875-1929), Hidelgardes Cantolino Vianna (1919-2006), Édison de Souza Carneiro (1912-1972) and Cornélio Pires (1884-1958). The book is a rich source of research and reflection on food culture that reveals the African, Portuguese, Asian, Arab and French contributions, besides the contributions made by ancient civilizations. Along and between the lines of the book, the historian reveals the richness of both language and food culture. In order to analyse the aforementioned communicative universe, the study of the cultural history of food was carried out and, methodologically, a documentary research of the book “Folclore da Alimentação” was conducted. Keywords: Food. Language. Folklore.

The Modernities of H. Lawrence Freeman

2019 ◽  
Vol 72 (3) ◽  
pp. 719-779
Author(s):  
David Gutkin
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
New York ◽  
Reception History ◽  
Black Press ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
History Of ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
White Press ◽  
Grand Opera

H. Lawrence Freeman's “Negro Jazz Grand Opera,” Voodoo, was premiered in 1928 in Manhattan's Broadway district. Its reception bespoke competing, racially charged values that underpinned the idea of the “modern” in the 1920s. The white press critiqued the opera for its allegedly anxiety-ridden indebtedness to nineteenth-century European conventions, while the black press hailed it as the pathbreaking work of a “pioneer composer.” Taking the reception history of Voodoo as a starting point, this article shows how Freeman's lifelong project, the creation of what he would call “Negro Grand Opera,” mediated between disparate and sometimes apparently irreconcilable figurations of the modern that spanned the late nineteenth century through the interwar years: Wagnerism, uplift ideology, primitivism, and popular music (including, but not limited to, jazz). I focus on Freeman's inheritance of a worldview that could be called progressivist, evolutionist, or, to borrow a term from Wilson Moses, civilizationist. I then trace the complex relationship between this mode of imagining modernity and subsequent versions of modernism that Freeman engaged with during the first decades of the twentieth century. Through readings of Freeman's aesthetic manifestos and his stylistically syncretic musical corpus I show how ideas about race inflected the process by which the qualitatively modern slips out of joint with temporal modernity. The most substantial musical analysis examines leitmotivic transformations that play out across Freeman's jazz opera American Romance (1924–29): lions become subways; Mississippi becomes New York; and jazz, like modernity itself, keeps metamorphosing. A concluding section considers a broader set of questions concerning the historiography of modernism and modernity.

The Membership Intake Movement of Historically Black Greek-letter Organizations

NASPA Journal ◽  
1997 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Walter M. Kimbrough
Keyword(s):  
Historically Black ◽  
Resistance To Change ◽  
Greek Letter ◽  
Intake Process ◽  
Black Greek Letter Organizations ◽  
History Of ◽  
National Leadership ◽  
Membership Intake ◽  
Black Fraternities ◽  
Greek Letter Organizations

The author reviews the history of pledging and the recent movements for reform of this practice among historically Black fraternities and sororities. He describes the membership intake process that has been adopted and its resultant problems, and suggests that the national leadership should emphasize the founding ideals of the organizations as a means of overcoming resistance to change.

Znaczenie czynników behawioralnych w podejmowaniu decyzji inwestycyjnych na rynku kapitałowym

2016 ◽  
pp. 173-183
Author(s):  
Mirosław Wasilewski ◽  
Marta Juszczyk
Keyword(s):  
Capital Market ◽  
Stock Prices ◽  
Stock Price ◽  
Investment Decisions ◽  
Price Volatility ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Emotional States ◽  
Psychological Conditions ◽  
History Of ◽  
Research Show

The aim of the study was to investigate the investors’ opinions concerning the usefulness of behavioral factors for investment decisions. The research was carried out in the group of 100 investors, using the services of five brokerages with a long history of operation. The results of the research show that people’s psychological conditions and sentiment in the stock market play an important role in the decision-making process of investors in the capital market. The importance of this factor increased with the length of the investment period. The emotional states of people and their psychological conditions affect the stock price volatility. However, the complexity of the determinants of stock prices makes the market value of stocks can be affected by many factors at the same time and investors seem aware of this.

An Introduction to Nonlinear Chemical Dynamics

1998 ◽  
Author(s):  
Irving R. Epstein ◽  
John A. Pojman
Keyword(s):  
Flow Reactor ◽  
Chemical Dynamics ◽  
Design Data ◽  
Chemical Oscillators ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Hands On ◽  
Undergraduate Laboratory ◽  
History Of ◽  
Mechanistic Basis ◽  
Nonlinear Chemical Dynamics

Just a few decades ago, chemical oscillations were thought to be exotic reactions of only theoretical interest. Now known to govern an array of physical and biological processes, including the regulation of the heart, these oscillations are being studied by a diverse group across the sciences. This book is the first introduction to nonlinear chemical dynamics written specifically for chemists. It covers oscillating reactions, chaos, and chemical pattern formation, and includes numerous practical suggestions on reactor design, data analysis, and computer simulations. Assuming only an undergraduate knowledge of chemistry, the book is an ideal starting point for research in the field. The book begins with a brief history of nonlinear chemical dynamics and a review of the basic mathematics and chemistry. The authors then provide an extensive overview of nonlinear dynamics, starting with the flow reactor and moving on to a detailed discussion of chemical oscillators. Throughout the authors emphasize the chemical mechanistic basis for self-organization. The overview is followed by a series of chapters on more advanced topics, including complex oscillations, biological systems, polymers, interactions between fields and waves, and Turing patterns. Underscoring the hands-on nature of the material, the book concludes with a series of classroom-tested demonstrations and experiments appropriate for an undergraduate laboratory.

Presbyterians and Ethics

2019 ◽  
pp. 525-537
Author(s):  
Mark Douglas
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Great Awakening ◽  
Reformed Theology ◽  
Second Great Awakening ◽  
World War ◽  
Early Nineteenth Century ◽  
History Of Ethics ◽  
Presbyterian Church ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
History Of

The history of ethics in the Presbyterian Church has been shaped by the theological commitments of Reformed theology, the church’s ecumenical and interreligious encounters, its interactions with the wider cultures in which it functions, and its global scope. Consequently, Presbyterian ethics have become increasingly diverse, culturally diffused, ecumenically directed, and frequently divisive. That said, its history can helpfully be divided into three lengthy periods. In the first (roughly from the church’s origins in 1559 to the Second Great Awakening in the early nineteenth century), theology, ethics, and politics are so interwound that distinguishing one from the others is difficult. In the second (roughly from the Second Great Awakening to the end of World War II), moral concerns emerge as forces that drive the church’s theology and polity. And in the third (for which proclamation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948 might be a heuristically helpful starting point), ethics increasingly functions in ways that are only loosely tethered to either Reformed theology or polity. The strength of the church’s social witness, the consistency of its global engagements, and the failings of its internecine strife are all evident during its five-hundred-year history.

Experience and expression of social isolation by inner-city high-rise residents

2014 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 151-166 ◽  
Author(s):  
Love M. Chile ◽  
Xavier M. Black ◽  
Carol Neill
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Inner City ◽  
Social Isolation ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Evidence Base ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Content Type ◽  
High Rise ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Health And Social Care

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the significance of social isolation and the factors that create social isolation for residents of inner-city high-rise apartment communities. We critically examine how the physical environment and perceptions of safety in apartment buildings and the inner-city implicate the quality of interactions between residents and with their neighbourhood community. Design/methodology/approach – The authors used mixed-methods consisting of survey questionnaires supplemented by semi-structured interviews and focus group discussions using stratified random sampling to access predetermined key strata of inner-city high-rise resident population. Using coefficient of correlation we examine the significance of the association between social isolation, age and ethnicity amongst Auckland's inner-city high-rise residents. Findings – The authors found the experience and expression of social isolation consistent across all age groups, with highest correlation between functional social isolation and “being student”, and older adults (60+ years), length of tenure in current apartment and length of time residents have lived in the inner-city. Research limitations/implications – As a case study, we did not seek in this research to compare the experience and expressions of social isolation in different inner-city contexts, nor of inner-city high-rise residents in New Zealand and other countries, although these will be useful areas to explore in future studies. Practical implications – This study is a useful starting point to build evidence base for professionals working in health and social care services to develop interventions that will help reduce functional social isolation amongst young adults and older adults in inner-city high-rise apartments. This is particularly important as the inner-city population of older adults grow due to international migration, and sub-national shifts from suburbs to the inner-cities in response to governmental policies of urban consolidation. Originality/value – By identifying two forms of social isolation, namely functional and structural social isolation, we have extended previous analysis of social isolation and found that “living alone” or structural social isolation did not necessarily lead to functional social isolation. It also touched on the links between functional social isolation and self-efficacy of older adults, particularly those from immigrant backgrounds.

scholarly journals 335 - BEHÇET DISEASE PRESENTING WITH ACUTE PSYCHOSIS

2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (S1) ◽  
pp. 94-94
Author(s):  
A.M. Carvalheiro ◽  
A.R. Fonseca ◽  
J. Maia
Keyword(s):  
Psychiatric Symptoms ◽  
Retinal Vasculitis ◽  
Posterior Uveitis ◽  
Neurological Involvement ◽  
Behçet Disease ◽  
Acute Psychosis ◽  
Behcet Disease ◽  
Persecutory Delusions ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
History Of

ObjectivesUsing as a starting point a clinical case, the authors performed a literature review to clarify the relationship between Behçet disease and acute psychosis.MethodsAnalysis of the patient's clinical process and brief review of the latest available literature on the subject, published in PubMed/Medline databases.ResultsMale patient, 55 years old, brought to the emergency room by fever, headache, hetero-aggressive behavior, disinhibited behavior, mood swings, euphoria, persecutory delusions and insomnia, in the last 4 days. He had no insight into his illness. There was no personal or family history of psychiatric illness and toxicological habits were irrelevant. Due to the personal history of posterior uveitis with bilateral macular edema, retinal vasculitis, genital aphthosis, papulo-vesicular lesions and recurrent bipolar aphthosis, the hypothesis of neuro-behçet was raised.ConclusionsBehçet's disease can present with neurological involvement - neuro -behçet - and can manifest itself with several psychiatric symptoms (euphoria, lack of insight, disinhibited behavior, agitation or psychomotor retardation, persecutory delusions, obsessive thoughts, anxiety, depression, insomnia or memory changes). Fever and headache usually appear in the prodromal stage and can be signs of onset or recurrence of the disease. The prevalence of neuro-behçet ranges from 2 to 50% and usually occurs 1 to 10 years after the first symptoms of the disease. Since it appears as the first manifestation of the disease in only 3% of cases, it is difficult to diagnose. The literature suggests that symptoms are generally resistant to treatment with conventional psychotropic drugs and so it is an important cause of morbidity and mortality.”

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