Japanese Cartography between East and West

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Akin
Keyword(s):  
Direct Contact ◽  
Regional Context ◽  
East And West ◽  
Lasting Influence

This chapter examines the role of influential Ming texts such as the Sancai tuhui (Illustrated Compendium of the Three Fields of Knowledge) and the Huang Ming zhifang ditu (Administrative Atlas of the Imperial Ming) in Japan, even in the context of Japan’s comparatively direct contact with the cartographic traditions of the Dutch, the Portuguese, and other European lands. The role of Jesuit cartography and the long-lasting influence of Buddhist cosmology are considered within this trans-regional context.

Georgian Historians and the Ideological Confrontation Between East and West

2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 153-164
Author(s):  
George Gotsiridze
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Black Sea ◽  
The Black Sea ◽  
Black Sea Region ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Science And Culture ◽  
East And West

The work, on the one hand, highlights the mission of Europe, as an importer of knowledge, which has for centuries been the center of gravity for the whole world, and, on the other hand, the role of the Black Sea Region, as an important part of the Great Silk Road, which had also for a long time been promoting the process of rap-prochement and exchange of cultural values between East and West peoples, until it became the ‘inner lake’ of the Ottoman Empire, and today it reverts the function of rapproching and connecting civilizations. The article shows the importance of the Black Sea countries in maintaining overall European stability and in this context the role of historical science. On the backdrop of the ideological confrontation between Georgian historians being inside and outside the Iron Curtain, which began with the foundation of the Soviet Union, the research sheds light on the merit of the Georgian scholars-in-exile for both popularization of the Georgian culture and science in Eu-rope and for importing advanced (European) scientific knowledge to Georgia. Ex-change of knowledge in science and culture between the Black Sea region and Europe will enrich and complete each other through impact and each of them will have unique, inimitative features.

Recurrence of hepatocellular cancer after liver transplantation: The role of primary resection and salvage transplantation in East and West

2012 ◽  
Vol 57 (5) ◽  
pp. 974-979 ◽  
Author(s):  
Quirino Lai ◽  
Alfonso W. Avolio ◽  
Jan Lerut ◽  
Gurusharan Singh ◽  
See Ching Chan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Liver Transplantation ◽  
Hepatocellular Cancer ◽  
Primary Resection ◽  
East And West

scholarly journals Mystik als Tat? Philosophie und Spiritualität bei Maurice Blondel

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 76-97
Author(s):  
Inigo Bocken
Keyword(s):  
Crucial Role ◽  
Direct Contact ◽  
Social Philosophy ◽  
Philosophy Of Action ◽  
Jacques Maritain ◽  
Main Work ◽  
Maurice Blondel ◽  
Main Influence

Abstract Mysticism as Act. Philosophy and Spirituality in Maurice Blondel Mysticism plays a crucial role at the background of Maurice Blondel’s ‘philosophy of action’ (1893). In the years after his main work, his interest for mysticism increases. The discussion about the role of mysticism is even the battlefield of his debate with Jacques Maritain (1882–1973), who criticizes Blondel of allowing in his philosophy a direct contact with the Divine. Maritain does not accuse Blondel of ‘modernism’, but is very close to it. In order to explain his understanding of mysticism, the article outlines the intensive cooperation between Blondel and Henri Bremond (1865–1933). Blondel was of main influence for Bremond’s text on poetry and prayer in which mysticism plays an important role. At the end of the article the role of this discussion on mysticism and philosophy for Blondel’s social philosophy has been elaborated.

The local and global in North African popular music

Popular Music ◽  
1996 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 259-273 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tony Langlois
Keyword(s):  
Popular Music ◽  
Political Party ◽  
North African ◽  
Islamic Movement ◽  
Public Figures ◽  
The World ◽  
East And West ◽  
Victims Of Violence ◽  
The City

On 29 September 1994, Cheb Hasni, the most renowned Rai singer living in Algeria, was gunned down outside his family's house in Gambetta, a quarter of the city of Waharan (Oran). He was one of many public figures (and some 50,000 others) who have been killed since the main opposition political party, the FIS (Islamic Salvation Front) was prevented from assuming power by the annulment of elections that they would have won in 1991. Like the most notable of Algeria's victims of violence, which include journalists, lawyers, doctors, television presenters and top policemen, Hasni represented a version of Algerian identity that some people clearly could not tolerate. Responsibility for his assassination has not been claimed, but the manner of his death was identical to others carried out by the armed faction of the fundamentalist Islamic movement, the GIA (Armed Islamic Group). His death has possibly marked the demise of a genre of North African popular music known as Rai as it was produced in Algeria. Rai has been a particularly problematic idiom for Islamists and secularists alike. Both groups nurture distinct views of the place of Algeria, and Algerians in the world, and the role of Islam and liberal secularism in Algeria. Rai music constructs its own distinct trajectories linking local and global, ‘East’ and ‘West’, and, in this way, constitutes a distinct problem for Algerians, and indeed other North Africans today.

Innovation in cultural and creative industries firms with an academic origin (CCI-USOs): The role of regional context

Technovation ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 92-93 ◽  
pp. 102044 ◽  
Author(s):  
María Jesús Rodríguez-Gulías ◽  
Sara Fernández-López ◽  
David Rodeiro-Pazos
Keyword(s):  
Creative Industries ◽  
Regional Context ◽  
Cultural And Creative Industries

Extracurricular activities – the determinant segment in strengthening key-competences

2021 ◽  
pp. 105-109
Author(s):  
Irina Rotaru ◽  
◽  
Mariana Tibuleac ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Extracurricular Activities ◽  
Direct Contact ◽  
Educational Programs ◽  
Skills Development ◽  
Teaching Activities ◽  
Contact Hours ◽  
Complementary Nature ◽  
Key Competences ◽  
Nature Of Teaching

Extracurricular activities do not represent a segment of the curriculum domain, but involve purposes aimed at skills development promoted through educational programs, thus confirming the complementary nature of teaching activities carried out during direct contact hours. Education exceeds the limits of curricular requirements, the role of extracurricular activities becoming paramount in the personality formation who tends to knowledge, performance, result and progress.

Masa Kepemimpinan Raden Fatah 1478-1518

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 191-208
Author(s):  
Silvia Eka Sari
Keyword(s):  
East And West

Perkembangan Agama Islam di tanah Jawa tidak terlepas dari peranan para wali dan kesultanan-kesultanan Islam pada masa itu. Salah satu kesultanan yang berperan besar dalam penyebaran Agama Islam di Jawa adalah Kesultanan Demak. Kesultanan Demak adalah kesultanan pertama di Pulau Jawa yang sangat berpengaruh bukan hanya dalam menyebarkan agama Islam sampai ke daerah-daerah pedalaman, tetapi Demak juga menjadi tempat transitnya para pedagang Islam yang datang dari timur dan barat, di tangan Demak daerah-daerah yang sebelumya dibawah kekuasaan Hindu-Buddha ditaklukkan lalu di-Islamkan. Namun dibalik itu semua, terdapat seseorang yang sangat berperan besar yaitu Raden Fatah. Raden Fatah adalah pendiri sekaligus penguasa pertama Kesultanan Demak. Di tangan beliau Demak berdiri dan berkembang pesat menyaingi kerajaan-kerajaan lain pada masa itu. Berbagai macam cara diterapkan Raden Fatah untuk terus mengembangkan Demak. Selama 40 tahun beliau mengabdikan diri untuk Demak, lalu setelah beliau wafat perannya itu digantikan oleh anaknya.The development of Islam in Java was inseparable from the role of the Wali and Islamic Sultanates at that time. One of the sultanates that played a major role in the spread of Islam in Java was the Demak Sultanate. The sultanate of Demak was the first sultanate on the island of Java which was very influential not only in spreading Islam to the interior areas,but Demak was also a transit point for Islamic traders who came from east and west. It was in the hands of Demak that the areas that had previously been under Hindu-Buddhist rule were conquered and then converted to Islam. But behind all that, there is someone who plays a big role, namely Raden Fatah. Raden Fatah is the founder and first ruler of the Sultanate of Demak in his hands Demak stood and grew rapidly to rival other kingdoms at that time. Raden Fatah applied various kinds of efforts to continue to develop Demak. For 40 years, he devoted himself to Demak, then after he died his role was replaced by his son.

The role of phosphodiesterase in aggregation of Dictyostelium discoideum

1978 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 233-243
Author(s):  
M. Darmon ◽  
J. Barra ◽  
P. Brachet
Keyword(s):  
Dictyostelium Discoideum ◽  
Direct Contact ◽  
Signal To Noise Ratio ◽  
Signal To Noise ◽  
Extracellular Medium ◽  
Camp Phosphodiesterase ◽  
Cellular Slime Mould ◽  
Cellular Slime ◽  
Mutant Cells

The role of cAMP phosphodiesterase in the cAMP-mediated aggregation of the cellular slime mould Dictyostelium discoideum was investigated with a morphogenetic mutant defective in phosphodiesterase production. Mutant cells become capable of aggregating normally when incubated in the presence of exogenous phosphodiesterase isolated from Idictyostelium or rat brain. Direct contact between enzyme and the cell membrane is not required for this phenotypic suppression. The aggregateless character of this strain presumably results from an over-accumulation of cAMP in the extracellular medium since aggregation can be induced in the absence of added phosphodiesterase under conditions facilitating diffusion of the nucleotide. This suggests that phosphodiesterase is not involved in the generation or recognition of cAMP signals, but that the enzyme is essential in the control of the cAMP signal-to-noise ratio.

Bridging East and West

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eglė Rindzevičiūtė
Keyword(s):  
Global Governance ◽  
Soft Power ◽  
Great Powers ◽  
International Institute ◽  
Think Tank ◽  
Systems Research ◽  
Lyndon Johnson ◽  
East And West ◽  
East West

This chapter details the establishment of International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) to demonstrate the crucial role of East-West cooperation in shaping global governance. IIASA as a diplomatic initiative was the result of actions by top governmental officials: US president Lyndon Johnson proposed creating an East-West think tank and Soviet Prime Minister Aleksei Kosygin accepted his proposal, both sides considering this step as part of cultural diplomacy or an exercise of “soft power” in the presumably less ideological areas of science and technology. The chapter then suggests that the establishment of IIASA can be interpreted as precisely such a forward-oriented arrangement to enable a certain form of cooperation between the opposing great powers: mutual predictability was enhanced by bringing together leading policy scientists from East and West, whereas shared goals were articulated through applied systems research.

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