scholarly journals THEALANS: IN ADDITION TO THE ABOVE (ON A. ALEMANY'S BOOK "SOURCES ON THE ALANS: A CRITICAL COMPILATION")

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
А.Л. Чибиров
Keyword(s):  
Critical Compilation ◽  
The Past ◽  
Full Picture

Фундаментальный труд А. Алеманя Аланы в древних и средневе ковых письменных источниках , вышедший в свет в 2003 г., открывает новые возможности для развития алановедческих исследований. А. Алемань создал структуру, позволяющую дополнять его работу источниками, которые по тем или иным причинам не вошли в его книгу. В настоящей статье приводится ряд источников, которые значительно дополняют структуру, предложенную А. Але манем: Иоанн Галонифонтибус, Никифор Григора, Ф. Брун, Венецианская хроника Мартина Канале и т. д. Автор предлагает специалистамисторикам подклю читься к работе по дополнению структуры, созданной А. Алеманем, чтобы со временем научному сообществу была представлена более полная картина, от ражающая весь спектр источников по средневековым аланам. The book Sources on the Alans: a critical compilation by a wellknown Catalonian scholar AugustiAlemany was published in 2003 and has become a signi cant phenomenon in the eld of historical Alanian studies. A. Alemanis fundamental work opens new opportunities to develop research in the eld of Alanian studies. The author compiled numerous written evidences on the Alans, that had come to us from the past centuries. Among other issues A. Alemani created a structure which enables to complement his work with sources on the Alans that, for whatever reason, were not included in the book. The author of the article provides a number of sources that complement signi cantly the structure which was suggested by A. Alemany. These sources are Johannes de Galonifontibus, NicephorusGregoras, F. Bruun, the Venetian chronicle of Martin da Canale and etc. The article calls upon historians that specialize in this particular eld to join the effort to complement the structure created by A. Alemany with sources that were not included in his book. This is to be done in order to provide eventually researches with the opportunity to present the scienti c community a full picture containing the whole spectrum of sources on the medieval Alans.

scholarly journals Killing Mayberry: The Crisis in Rural American Education

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
James A. Bryant Jr.
Keyword(s):  
Rural Education ◽  
Rural Schools ◽  
American Education ◽  
Rural America ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Small Communities ◽  
The Past ◽  
Social Pressures ◽  
Full Picture ◽  
The Impact

The article provides an overview of the turbulent and challenging times facing teachers and administrators in rural schools. The article examines literature from over the past decade to paint a full picture of the economic and social pressures exerting themselves in rural America and the impact these forces are having in rural schools. This work argues that rural education has been ignored too long by policy makers and even many Americans, and that this crime of omission has had disastrous consequences for many small communities. The article concludes with an examination of some of the tentative but hopeful steps that are being taken to address the crisis in rural education.

scholarly journals Centering the Margins: Knowledge Production in the Introductory Archaeology Course

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kylie Quave ◽  
Shannon Fie ◽  
AmySue Qing Qing Greiff ◽  
Drew Alis Agnew
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Students Of Color ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Liberal Arts ◽  
Liberal Arts College ◽  
Course Structure ◽  
Student Reflection ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Us ◽  
Full Picture

Teaching introductory archaeology courses in US higher education typically falls short in two important ways: the courses do not represent the full picture of who contributes to reconstructing the past and do not portray the contemporary and future relevance of the archaeological past. In this paper, we use anti-colonial and decolonial theories to explain the urgency of revising the introductory archaeology curriculum for promoting equity in the discipline and beyond. We detail the pedagogical theories we employed in revising an introductory archaeology course at a small liberal arts college in the US and the specific changes we made to course structure, content, and teaching strategies. To examine the impacts on enrolled students and on who chose to enroll in the revised archaeology curriculum, we analyze student reflection essays and enrollment demographics. We find that students developed more complex understandings of the benefits and harms of archaeological knowledge production and could articulate how to address archaeology’s inequities. We also found that enrollment in archaeology courses at the college shifted to include greater proportions of students of color. These results support the notion that introductory archaeology courses should be substantially and continually revised.

Cultures of Soy and Cattle in the Context of Reduced Deforestation and Agricultural Intensification in the Brazilian Amazon

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-88 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ariela Zycherman
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Agricultural Production ◽  
Agricultural Intensification ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Agricultural Industry ◽  
The Past ◽  
Deforestation Rates ◽  
Full Picture ◽  
Economic Trends ◽  
Insight Into

ABSTRACTThe expansion and intensification of agriculture is a major driver of deforestation in tropical forests and for global climate change. However, over the past decade Brazil has significantly reduced its deforestation rates while simultaneously increasing its agricultural production, particularly cattle and soy. While, the scholarly literature primarily attributes this success to environmental policy and global economic trends, recent ethnographic depictions of cattle ranchers and soy farmers offer deeper insight into how these political and economic processes are experienced on the ground. Examples demonstrate that policy and markets provide a framework for soy farming and ranching, but emerging forms of identity and new cultural values shape their practices. This article argues that to understand the full picture of why Brazil’s deforestation rates have dropped while the agricultural industry has flourished, the culture of producers must be present in the analysis.

Film Aesthetics and New Methods of Film Analysis

1989 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 175-190 ◽  
Author(s):  
Werner Faulstich
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Analysis ◽  
Narrative Structure ◽  
Great Length ◽  
Film Analysis ◽  
The Past ◽  
New Methods ◽  
Feature Films ◽  
Full Picture ◽  
Formal Construction ◽  
Film Aesthetics

Almost every piece of scientific or critical work which is concerned with the film expresses at the same time opinions both about the nature of film and about the methods of film analysis, in most cases only implicitly. In contrast to such implicit statements, I will try here to make these theoretical and methodological positions explicit and demonstrate them with examples. First of all, I should like to refresh our memory about the basic theoretical premises of what I call “film aesthetics” (a concept which was presented in 1982 at great length). Then we have to name the rather more practical prerequisites essential to any serious film analysis. Third, we should concentrate on new methods of film analysis paying special attention to quantitative analysis. It would hardly be possible to give a full picture of all the various methods which in the past have been applied to various feature films with various results-many of them are presented and discussed in several introductory books on the analysis of film [1]. The new methods will be described here as suitable for analyzing that part which one could call the narrative structure of a film, i.e., its formal construction and the conceptional ordering of the action (this is more than just story and plot).

scholarly journals Immunological Effects of Histotripsy for Cancer Therapy

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alissa Hendricks-Wenger ◽  
Ruby Hutchison ◽  
Eli Vlaisavljevich ◽  
Irving Coy Allen
Keyword(s):  
Immune Response ◽  
Therapeutic Option ◽  
Treatment Protocol ◽  
Distant Metastases ◽  
Past Century ◽  
Primary Tumors ◽  
The Past ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Full Picture ◽  
Immunological Effects

Cancer is the second leading cause of death worldwide despite major advancements in diagnosis and therapy over the past century. One of the most debilitating aspects of cancer is the burden brought on by metastatic disease. Therefore, an ideal treatment protocol would address not only debulking larger primary tumors but also circulating tumor cells and distant metastases. To address this need, the use of immune modulating therapies has become a pillar in the oncology armamentarium. A therapeutic option that has recently emerged is the use of focal ablation therapies that can destroy a tumor through various physical or mechanical mechanisms and release a cellular lysate with the potential to stimulate an immune response. Histotripsy is a non-invasive, non-ionizing, non-thermal, ultrasound guided ablation technology that has shown promise over the past decade as a debulking therapy. As histotripsy therapies have developed, the full picture of the accompanying immune response has revealed a wide range of immunogenic mechanisms that include DAMP and anti-tumor mediator release, changes in local cellular immune populations, development of a systemic immune response, and therapeutic synergism with the inclusion of checkpoint inhibitor therapies. These studies also suggest that there is an immune effect from histotripsy therapies across multiple murine tumor types that may be reproducible. Overall, the effects of histotripsy on tumors show a positive effect on immunomodulation.

The Fate of the Western Balkans regional security Subcomplex - the Necessity of regional Cooperation

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 49-64
Author(s):  
Petar Djukić ◽  
Darko Obradović
Keyword(s):  
Federal Republic ◽  
Organized Crime ◽  
Regional Cooperation ◽  
Regional Security ◽  
Western Balkans ◽  
Illegal Migration ◽  
Transnational Organized Crime ◽  
Security Community ◽  
The Past ◽  
Full Picture

We refer to the Western Balkans as a regional security subcomplex that is only part of a wider, European complex. It consists of all the states of the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, except Slovenia, including Albania. It is a region that had a very turbulent past and which is still, in many ways, specific. Relations between the countries of the Western Balkans are determined by unresolved issues from the past, very intense regional security dynamics, as well as projections of the interests of global powers. However, even in such circumstances, regional cooperation is imperative in the fight against terrorism, illegal migration, transnational organized crime, and other serious threats and challenges to regional security and stability. The paper will present the basic geopolitical and security characteristics of the regional security subcomplex Western Balkans. Based on that, we will be able to get a full picture of the necessity of regional cooperation in the Western Balkans in the light of Euro-Atlantic integration and the construction of a kind of security community in the region.

Let’s introduce order into Gestalt terminology: Method, concepts and techniques, and their development after 70 years of Gestalt psychotherapy

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mariola Paruzel-Czachura ◽  
Bartosz Konieczniak
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Phenomenological Method ◽  
Dream Work ◽  
Body Work ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
Full Picture ◽  
Theoretical Issues ◽  
Transformation Processes

Gestalt psychotherapy has been practiced by specialists from all over the world for 70 years. It is not new, yet it continues to be described with vastly varying terminology, which may result in ambiguities as well as reinforcing stereotypes about what exactly is Gestalt psychotherapy. Offering a review of selected theoretical issues, this paper proposes to organize the terminology. We focus on the technical side of psychotherapy – the article presents the phenomenological method, concepts, and main techniques used in this approach (psychodrama, body work, chair work, dream work), coming together in a full picture of what working in this approach entails. In addition, we discuss the transformation processes that Gestalt psychotherapy has gone through over the past 70 years. We emphasize that the use of techniques alone is not yet equivalent to conducting psychotherapy in the Gestalt approach, especially considering that the primary conditions necessary for such a therapy to occur are: contact with a holistically perceived client, an increased awareness (including body), and working in keeping with the principle of here and now. Analyzing the terminology used in relation to Gestalt psychotherapy leads us to the conclusion that the toolset of a gestaltist is grounded in the following factors: the phenomenological method, the concepts of Gestalt psychotherapy that are strongly associated with that method, and the techniques consistent with these concepts. We posit that using these categories (i.e., the method, concepts, and techniques) introduces much-needed order into the theoretical framework of Gestalt psychotherapy.

Secularization in Israel

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guy Ben-Porat
Keyword(s):  
Political System ◽  
Jewish State ◽  
Beliefs And Practices ◽  
Complex Concept ◽  
The Past ◽  
State And Society ◽  
Full Picture ◽  
Societal Changes ◽  
Private Beliefs ◽  
Jewish Religion

Neither the study of the political system nor surveys of individual religiosity capture the full picture of secularization in Israel. The power of religious parties seems unshaken, and formal changes in religious policies and legislation are few. A large number of Israelis maintain their attachment to Jewish religion in beliefs and practices, and the Jewish majority agrees that Israel is and must remain a “Jewish state.” However, economic and demographic trends in the past two decades have caused incremental changes, not registered in formal political channels, toward the partial yet significant secularization of Israel. Religion still has a hold on private beliefs and practices, but secularization will unfold in societal changes involving a decline of religious authority over significant spheres of life. A more complex concept of secularization allows for contradictions observed in Israel and helps to explain how secularization can occur while religion remains embedded in state and society.

scholarly journals Sea, sickness and cautionary tales: a multi-isotope study from a post-mediaeval hospital at the city-port of Gibraltar (AD 1462–1704)

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (12) ◽  
Author(s):  
Emma Lightfoot ◽  
Emma Pomeroy ◽  
Jennifer Grant ◽  
Tamsin C. O’Connell ◽  
Petrus le Roux ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Historical Context ◽  
Mobility Patterns ◽  
The Past ◽  
Full Picture ◽  
Isotope Study ◽  
Dietary Variation ◽  
Cautionary Tales ◽  
The City ◽  
Board Ship ◽  
Isotope Analyses

AbstractDuring the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries, Spanish ships sailed around the globe connecting Spain to its colonies. While documentary records offer rich details concerning life on board ship, archaeological information is essential to generating a full picture of the past. The cemetery at Old St Bernard’s Hospital, Gibraltar, provides an opportunity to study the skeletal remains of sailors. Following previous osteological research, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen and strontium isotope analyses were undertaken on thirty-three of these individuals. The results show that the, largely male, individuals had various different diets during life and came from several different places. Diets were largely based on C3 food chains; some individuals consumed C3 foods with low δ13C values; others consumed some marine foods, and a few individuals had a high trophic level diet, through the consumption of either freshwater resources or a high proportion of animal protein. The individuals spent their childhoods in several different places, although these homelands do not correlate simply with dietary variation. This variety in diets and homelands is consistent with our expectations for this hospital site given its location in a post-mediaeval entrepôt. The interpretation of these results are greatly helped by the available historical information and this has broader implications for the interpretation of isotope data elsewhere where the historical context of the site and the mobility patterns of the individuals are less well known.

scholarly journals Centering the Margins

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Kylie E. Quave ◽  
Shannon M. Fie ◽  
AmySue Qing Qing Greiff ◽  
Drew Alis Agnew
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Students Of Color ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Liberal Arts ◽  
Liberal Arts College ◽  
The United States ◽  
Course Structure ◽  
Student Reflection ◽  
The Past ◽  
Full Picture

ABSTRACT Teaching introductory archaeology courses in U.S. higher education typically falls short in two important ways: the courses do not represent the full picture of who contributes to reconstructing the past, and they do not portray the contemporary and future relevance of the archaeological past. In this article, we use anti-colonial and decolonial theories to explain the urgency of revising the introductory archaeology curriculum for promoting equity in the discipline and beyond. We detail the pedagogical theories we employed in revising an introductory archaeology course at a small liberal arts college in the United States and the specific changes we made to course structure, content, and teaching strategies. To examine the impacts on enrolled students and on who chose to enroll in the revised archaeology curriculum, we analyze student reflection essays and enrollment demographics. We found that students developed more complex understandings of the benefits and harms of archaeological knowledge production and could articulate how to address archaeology's inequities. We also found that enrollment in archaeology courses at the college shifted to include greater proportions of students of color. These results support the notion that introductory archaeology courses should be substantially and continually revised.

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