scholarly journals Sicily Before the Greeks. The Interaction with Aegean and the Levant in the Pre-colonial Era

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 172-205
Author(s):  
Davide Tanasi
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Complex Dynamics ◽  
Eastern Mediterranean ◽  
Colonial Era ◽  
Local Material ◽  
Gradual Process ◽  
Multiple Variables ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
First Time ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractThe relationship between Sicily and the eastern Mediterranean – namely Aegean, Cyprus and the Levant – represents one of the most intriguing facets of the prehistory of the island. The frequent and periodical contact with foreign cultures were a trigger for a gradual process of socio-political evolution of the indigenous community. Such relationship, already in inception during the Neolithic and the Copper Age, grew into a cultural phenomenon ruled by complex dynamics and multiple variables that ranged from the Mid-3rd to the end of the 2nd millennium BCE. In over 1,500 years, a very large quantity of Aegean and Levantine type materials have been identified in Sicily alongside with example of unusual local material culture traditionally interpreted as resulting from external influence. To summarize all the evidence during such long period and critically address it in order to attempt historical reconstructions is a Herculean labor.Twenty years after Sebastiano Tusa embraced this challenge for the first time, this paper takes stock on two decades of new discoveries and research reassessing a vast amount of literature, mostly published in Italian and in regional journals, while also address the outcomes of new archaeometric studies. The in-depth survey offers a new perspective of general trends in this East-West relationship which conditioned the subsequent events of the Greek and Phoenician colonization of Sicily.

scholarly journals NAVEGANDO ENTRE SAMBAQUÍES: EVIDENCIAS DEL USO DE EMBARCACIONES ENTRE LAS SOCIEDADES CONSTRUCTORAS DE CONCHEROS

2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (28) ◽  
pp. 17
Author(s):  
Elena Margarita Saccone
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Indirect Evidence ◽  
Coastal Areas ◽  
Maritime Culture ◽  
Shell Mounds ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Los Grupos

Resumen: Este artículo se propone indagar sobre la relación de los sambaquíes con el medio y las evidencias que los vinculan con una cultura marítima incluyendo el posible uso de la navegación por parte de los grupos que los produjeron. Las evidencias indirectas del uso de la navegación se relacionan, entre otros, con la ubicación de los sitios en zonas costeras, la complejidad de las sociedades que los construyeron, analogías etnográficas y hallazgos de cultura material vinculada con los elementos necesarios para producir embarcaciones. A través de la serie de evidencias indirectas planteadas se pretende afirmar que esta línea de trabajo debe ser profundizada ya que puede aportar una nueva mirada a las investigaciones sobre los grupos sambaquieros y podría conducir a una reinterpretación en particular sobre su movilidad.Abstract: This paper intends to explore the relationship between shell mounds and their environment and the evidence that relates them with a maritime culture, including the possible use of navigation by the groups who built them. Indirect evidence of navigation refers, among others, to the location of sites in coastal areas, the complexity of the groups that produced them, ethnographic analogies and material culture findings related to the necessary elements for the production of watercraft. Through this series of indirect evidences, we intend to state that this topic should be explored further because it can provide a new perspective on the research of shell mound groups and could lead to new interpretations especially about their mobility. 

scholarly journals The Origin of Mucosal Immunity: Lessons from the Holobiont Hydra

mBio ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Katja Schröder ◽  
Thomas C. G. Bosch
Keyword(s):  
Innate Immunity ◽  
Mucosal Immunity ◽  
Epithelial Tissue ◽  
Animal Cells ◽  
Mucosal Surfaces ◽  
Pathogenic Microbes ◽  
Upper Respiratory ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
First Time ◽  
The Relationship

ABSTRACT Historically, mucosal immunity—i.e., the portion of the immune system that protects an organism’s various mucous membranes from invasion by potentially pathogenic microbes—has been studied in single-cell epithelia in the gastrointestinal and upper respiratory tracts of vertebrates. Phylogenetically, mucosal surfaces appeared for the first time about 560 million years ago in members of the phylum Cnidaria. There are remarkable similarities and shared functions of mucosal immunity in vertebrates and innate immunity in cnidarians, such as Hydra species. Here, we propose a common origin for both systems and review observations that indicate that the ultimately simple holobiont Hydra provides both a new perspective on the relationship between bacteria and animal cells and a new prism for viewing the emergence and evolution of epithelial tissue-based innate immunity. In addition, recent breakthroughs in our understanding of immune responses in Hydra polyps reared under defined short-term gnotobiotic conditions open up the potential of Hydra as an animal research model for the study of common mucosal disorders.

ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PARAMETRIC VARIATION AND STATE FEEDBACK IN CHAOS CONTROL

2002 ◽  
Vol 12 (06) ◽  
pp. 1411-1415 ◽  
Author(s):  
ZENGRONG LIU ◽  
GUANRONG CHEN
Keyword(s):  
Chaos Synchronization ◽  
State Feedback ◽  
Chaos Control ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Form Analysis ◽  
Parametric Variation ◽  
Potential Applications ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
First Time ◽  
The Relationship

In this Letter, we study the popular parametric variation chaos control and state-feedback methodologies in chaos control, and point out for the first time that they are actually equivalent in the sense that there exist diffeomorphisms that can convert one to the other for most smooth chaotic systems. Detailed conversions are worked out for typical discrete chaotic maps (logistic, Hénon) and continuous flows (Rösller, Lorenz) for illustration. This unifies the two seemingly different approaches from the physics and the engineering communities on chaos control. This new perspective reveals some new potential applications such as chaos synchronization and normal form analysis from a unified mathematical point of view.

On the Borders of Italy

2018 ◽  
pp. 124-145
Author(s):  
Erin Maglaque
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Classical Literature ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
The Relationship

Chapter 6, we turn to examine Coppo’s Del Sito de Listria, his regional description of his adopted homeland. In this text, we can see the relationship between Coppo’s experience of family and political life in Isola, and his humanist scholarship. His geographical writing and homemade woodcut maps began to reflect his new perspective onto the empire from his study in Isola. Through classical literature, contemporary humanist writing, and most importantly, through his own witnessing of Istrian Roman material culture, Coppo wove an alternative history for Istria than that imposed by the Venetian empire.

Abusive Men's Use of Children to Control Their Partners and Ex-Partners

2007 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 54-61 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marisa L. Beeble ◽  
Deborah Bybee ◽  
Cris M. Sullivan
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Intimate Partner Violence ◽  
Partner Violence ◽  
Emotional Abuse ◽  
The United States ◽  
Intimate Partner ◽  
Anecdotal Evidence ◽  
Multiple Variables ◽  
The Relationship

While research has found that millions of children in the United States are exposed to their mothers being battered, and that many are themselves abused as well, little is known about the ways in which children are used by abusers to manipulate or harm their mothers. Anecdotal evidence suggests that perpetrators use children in a variety of ways to control and harm women; however, no studies to date have empirically examined the extent of this occurring. Therefore, the current study examined the extent to which survivors of abuse experienced this, as well as the conditions under which it occurred. Interviews were conducted with 156 women who had experienced recent intimate partner violence. Each of these women had at least one child between the ages of 5 and 12. Most women (88%) reported that their assailants had used their children against them in varying ways. Multiple variables were found to be related to this occurring, including the relationship between the assailant and the children, the extent of physical and emotional abuse used by the abuser against the woman, and the assailant's court-ordered visitation status. Findings point toward the complex situational conditions by which assailants use the children of their partners or ex-partners to continue the abuse, and the need for a great deal more research in this area.

Centralization and Effectiveness of Reward Management in Multinational Enterprises

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 55-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Tekieli ◽  
Marion Festing ◽  
Xavier Baeten
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Social Identity Theory ◽  
Multinational Enterprises ◽  
Role Identity ◽  
Management Decision ◽  
Role Identities ◽  
Management Decision Making ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
Subsidiary Managers ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract. Based on responses from 158 reward managers located at the headquarters or subsidiaries of multinational enterprises, the present study examines the relationship between the centralization of reward management decision making and its perceived effectiveness in multinational enterprises. Our results show that headquarters managers perceive a centralized approach as being more effective, while for subsidiary managers this relationship is moderated by the manager’s role identity. Referring to social identity theory, the present study enriches the standardization versus localization debate through a new perspective focusing on psychological processes, thereby indicating the importance of in-group favoritism in headquarters and the influence of subsidiary managers’ role identities on reward management decision making.

Affirmative Action and Leadership Attitudes in Brazilian Women Managers

2011 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 139-143 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gazi Islam ◽  
Sarah E. S. Zilenovsky
Keyword(s):  
Affirmative Action ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Women Managers ◽  
Psychological Effects ◽  
Preferential Selection ◽  
Justice Perceptions ◽  
First Time ◽  
The Relationship

This note examines the relationship between affirmative action (AA) program perceptions and women’s self-ascribed capacity and desire to become leaders. We propose that women who believe that their organization implements a program of preferential selection toward women will experience negative psychological effects leading to lowered self-expectations for leadership, but that this effect will be moderated by their justice perceptions of AA programs. We test this proposition empirically for the first time with a Latin American female sample. Among Brazilian women managers, desire but not self-ascribed capacity to lead was reduced when they believed an AA policy was in place. Both desire’s and capacity’s relationships with belief in an AA policy were moderated by justice perceptions.

Competition of Verb Aspects and Its Resolution as a Creative Act (Based on the Material of Aspects Variants in the Texts by F. M. Dostoevsky)

2020 ◽  
Vol 81 (2) ◽  
pp. 56-63
Author(s):  
S. A. Karpukhin
Keyword(s):  
Traditional Method ◽  
Contextual Analysis ◽  
Verb Aspect ◽  
Component Theory ◽  
Two Component ◽  
Artistic Interpretation ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
First Time ◽  
Selection Of ◽  
Aspectual Meaning

The article considers the competition of verbal aspects from a new perspective. Instead of employing the traditional method of demonstrating this phenomenon — an empirical replacement of the aspect of a verb in a phrase with the opposite — the author examines Dostoevsky’s choice between the variants found in different manuscripts of the same text. For the first time, based on a two-component theory of the semantic invariant of a verb type, the aspectual meaning of the selection of a verb aspect is revealed and, as a result of contextual analysis, an artistic interpretation of the selected type is proposed.

Product Brand Loyalty and Purchase Decision

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 76-87
Author(s):  
Muhammad Naeem ◽  
Abdul Sami
Keyword(s):  
Brand Loyalty ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Research Study ◽  
Positive Association ◽  
Perceived Quality ◽  
Purchase Decision ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Business World ◽  
Multiple Variables ◽  
The Relationship

The present study was an examination of the relationship between product brand loyalty and purchase decision of automotive customers. The study focused on comparative analysis of two famous brands of automobile i-e Honda City and Toyota Corolla Xli and the various effects of product brand loyalty on purchase decision of automotive customers. A cross sectional quantitative research design was employed in the research study. In today’s competitive business world, now most of the marketers and manufacturers of various brands have encountered with multiple variables through which they can not only influence the purchase decision of their customers but also secure their buying preferences. The variables that are used and relevant to this study are product brand loyalty, perceived quality, price, and purchase decision. During examination of the relationship between these variables, study investigated that there is a positive association between product brand loyalty, product perceived quality, price and purchase decision.

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