scholarly journals In search of a harmonious life with the help of Ancient feng shui philosophy

2021 ◽  
Vol 79 (1) ◽  
pp. 66-71
Author(s):  
T.A. Kisselyova ◽  
◽  
A. Nurzhanova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Feng Shui ◽  
Living Space ◽  
Open Questions ◽  
Five Elements ◽  
Over Time

The article deals with problems and open questions concerning the organization of living space. Today, the problem of organizing personal spaces comes to the fore. The color strategy of feng shui, which has proven its content over time, can help turn it into an attractive, harmonious, comfortable place to stay in self-isolation. The article considers examples of color solutions for residential interiors according to the five elements of Feng Shui.

scholarly journals Votive altars: domestic signals to inhabit the Sacred

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 31
Author(s):  
Claudio Gambardella ◽  
Valentina Sapio
Keyword(s):  
Visual Arts ◽  
Word Meaning ◽  
Living Space ◽  
Mediterranean Countries ◽  
Catholic Religion ◽  
The Matrix ◽  
Human World ◽  
The Mediterranean ◽  
The City ◽  
Over Time

“Sacred” is an Indo-European word meaning “separate”. The Sacred, therefore, [. . . is] a quality that is inherent in that which has relation and contact with powers that man, not being able to dominate, perceives as superior to himself, and as such attributable to a dimension [. . . ] thought however as ”separate” and ”other” with respect to the human world » Galimberti, (2000). The so-called votive altar, autonomous or attached to a major building often present in the Mediterranean countries, belong to the dimension of the Sacred.Votive altars - present in an old neighborhood of peasant origin in the suburbs of Naples called Ponticelli - are almost always placed in the interstices between street and courtyard (a self-built residential typology modeled over time by the inhabitants and which often forms the matrix of many neighborhoods popular Neapolitan). They keep and exhibit little sculptures and drawings of Jesus, Madonnas, and Saints of the Catholic religion, mixed with ancestors portraits and photos of relatives dead of the inhabitants, drawing on the ancient domestic cult of the Romans of Lari and Penati; it is certainly not a consciously cultured reference, but a mysterious ”feeling” that is common among primitive and popular cultures and that unravels through the centuries unscathed. Placed at the entrance of the living space, the altar expresses the sign of a difference, of a territorial change, separates ”ours” from ”yours”, welcomes, does not reject, but marks an open and inclusive threshold.With the paper, we want to study this phenomenon of ”primitive” culture and not regulated by laws, a mix of diffuse sacredness and popular magic, deepening the ”design” aspects of it, building an abacus in which to highlight potential and free references to the visual arts of these ”design works without designers”, and finding out new signs of the Sacred in the City in our time.

scholarly journals Continuities and discontinuities of Russian urban housing: The Soviet housing experiment in historical long-term perspective

Urban Studies ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 57 (8) ◽  
pp. 1768-1785 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Kalyukin ◽  
Sebastian Kohl
Keyword(s):  
Urban Housing ◽  
Regional Differentiation ◽  
Differential Growth ◽  
Living Space ◽  
Housing Characteristics ◽  
Per Capita ◽  
Soviet Legacy ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Over Time

Did the socialist experiment disrupt continuity in Russian urban housing? Based on a unique collection of urban data covering several hundred Russian cities and spanning three regimes across more than a century, this paper gives a nuanced account of continuities and discontinuities of housing in post-Soviet cities. Three main housing characteristics are analysed: urban density (persons per building and living space per capita), ownership structure and the modernisation of stock (building material and provision with amenities). Although all Russian cities underwent a number of major shocks and regime changes during the course of the 20th century, their rankings with regard to these three key housing characteristics are still significantly correlated over time, whereas living space per capita is largely uncorrelated over time. This holds true despite significant convergence processes in almost all dimensions and also when including contemporary control variables. We hypothesise that local or regional building traditions, regional differentiation in Soviet urban planning as well as Soviet land use specificities could explain differential growth across cities. Going beyond existing late-Soviet-legacy timeframes, the long-term perspective reveals that even major regime shocks did not completely erase regionally shaped patterns in housing conditions.

scholarly journals Low-mass Star Formation: Observations

2010 ◽  
Vol 6 (S270) ◽  
pp. 25-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neal J. Evans
Keyword(s):  
Star Formation ◽  
Molecular Clouds ◽  
Planet Formation ◽  
Mass Star ◽  
Low Mass Stars ◽  
Chemical Changes ◽  
Open Questions ◽  
Low Mass ◽  
Over Time ◽  
The Imf

AbstractI briefly review recent observations of regions forming low mass stars. The discussion is cast in the form of seven questions that have been partially answered, or at least illuminated, by new data. These are the following: where do stars form in molecular clouds; what determines the IMF; how long do the steps of the process take; how efficient is star formation; do any theories explain the data; how are the star and disk built over time; and what chemical changes accompany star and planet formation. I close with a summary and list of open questions.

scholarly journals Urban Form Elements and Urban Potentiality ( Literature Review)

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (9) ◽  
pp. 65-82
Author(s):  
Haider Jasim Essa Al-Saaidy
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Building Block ◽  
Urban Form ◽  
Growth And Development ◽  
Street Pattern ◽  
Five Elements ◽  
The City ◽  
Different Levels ◽  
Over Time

Morphological theories shape the leading platform to theoretically and practically consider the assets connected with the emergence of the city, and its growth and development over time. In this paper, five elements of the urban form are typified: structure/tissue, plot, building, block, and the street pattern will be addressed. Understanding the urban form at the different levels within its ingredients could lead to shape a base launch of how to consider the potentiality of the development and sustainability of a particular area.   

scholarly journals Toward epidemic thresholds on temporal networks: a review and open questions

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jack Leitch ◽  
Kathleen A. Alexander ◽  
Srijan Sengupta
Keyword(s):  
Infectious Disease ◽  
Real World ◽  
Network Models ◽  
Individual Heterogeneity ◽  
Contact Network ◽  
Temporal Networks ◽  
Essential Dynamics ◽  
Epidemic Threshold ◽  
Open Questions ◽  
Over Time

AbstractEpidemiological contact network models have emerged as an important tool in understanding and predicting spread of infectious disease, due to their capacity to engage individual heterogeneity that may underlie essential dynamics of a particular host-pathogen system. Just as fundamental are the changes that real-world contact networks undergo over time, both independently of and in response to pathogen spreading. These dynamics play a central role in determining whether a disease will die out or become epidemic within a population, known as the epidemic threshold. In this paper, we provide an overview of methods to predict the epidemic threshold for temporal contact network models, and discuss areas that remain unexplored.

Implicit Meaning of Chinese Vocabulary on Colors in Five Elements Elucidating Socio-Cultural Context

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
pp. 222
Author(s):  
Kritsadee Songkhai
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Context ◽  
Chinese Culture ◽  
Chinese Language ◽  
Chinese People ◽  
Chinese Opera ◽  
New Words ◽  
The World ◽  
Five Elements ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Culture And Language

The Chinese words on colors do not only indicate types of colors, but also implicit the elucidating socio-cultural context. Colors in the Chinese language represent good and bad terms. For example, the makeup color of the Chinese opera show assigns the character wearing red makeup as a symbol of loyalty, justice, power, wealth, or high rank. Red contains most of the excellent and positive definition. On the other hand, the character wearing white means a person who is dangerous, cunning, and dishonest. These are some examples of how Chinese people use colors to represent meaning. Moreover, Chinese vocabularies are also communicated through alphabets and created to new words that hide beliefs and culture of the use of color as well.This research aims to study the “Implicit Meaning of Chinese Vocabulary on Colors in Five Elements Elucidating Socio-cultural Context.” China is a fascinating country in culture and language. Besides, Chinese is a language used by many people as the top three in the world. This research studies 5 Chinese color words, which are red, black, white, green, and yellow. The methodology is to analyze words through the example vocabularies by describing and collecting from books, journals, and articles. For an instant, Red in Chinese culture is the color of fortune. Therefore, red words are used to create new words that relate to prosperity, such as 开门红(kāi mén hóng)means opening to welcome good things or 红红火火(hóng hóng huǒ huǒ)which is a wish for prosperity and, often used for business. As a result, it can be seen that the study of Chinese color terms is not only about colors, but these words also link to beliefs and cultures over time until many new words are created. It is the use of color words mixed into new vocabulary to reflect the ideas, beliefs, and cultures. We can study Chinese culture through color vocabulary very well.

scholarly journals Votive Altars: Domestic Signals to Inhabit the Sacred

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 78
Author(s):  
Valentina Sapio
Keyword(s):  
Visual Arts ◽  
Word Meaning ◽  
Living Space ◽  
Mediterranean Countries ◽  
Catholic Religion ◽  
The Matrix ◽  
Human World ◽  
The Mediterranean ◽  
The City ◽  
Over Time

«“Sacred” is an Indo-European word meaning ”separate”. The Sacred, therefore, [. . . is] a quality that is inherent in that which has relation and contact with powers that man, not being able to dominate, perceives as superior to himself, and as such attributable to a dimension [. . . ] thought however as ”separate” and ”other” with respect to the human world » Galimberti, (2000). The so-called votive altar, autonomous or attached to a major building often present in the Mediterranean countries, belong to the dimension of the Sacred.Votive altars - present in an old neighborhood of peasant origin in the suburbs of Naples called Ponticelli - are almost always placed in the interstices between street and courtyard (a self-built residential typology modeled over time by the inhabitants and which often forms the matrix of many neighborhoods popular Neapolitan). They keep and exhibit little sculptures and drawings of Jesus, Madonnas, and Saints of the Catholic religion, mixed with ancestors portraits and photos of relatives dead of the inhabitants, drawing on the ancient domestic cult of the Romans of Lari and Penati; it is certainly not a consciously cultured reference, but a mysterious ”feeling” that is common among primitive and popular cultures and that unravels through the centuries unscathed. Placed at the entrance of the living space, the altar expresses the sign of a difference, of a territorial change, separates ”ours” from ”yours”, welcomes, does not reject, but marks an open and inclusive threshold.With the paper, we want to study this phenomenon of ”primitive” culture and not regulated by laws, a mix of diffuse sacredness and popular magic, deepening the ”design” aspects of it, building an abacus in which to highlight potential and free references to the visual arts of these ”design works without designers”, and finding out new signs of the Sacred in the City in our time.

scholarly journals State and trait characteristics of anterior insula time-varying functional connectivity

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lorenzo Pasquini ◽  
Gianina Toller ◽  
Adam Staffaroni ◽  
Jesse A. Brown ◽  
Jersey Deng ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Functional Connectivity ◽  
Emotional Processing ◽  
Anterior Insula ◽  
Time Varying ◽  
Open Questions ◽  
Novel Approach ◽  
Eye Closure ◽  
Functional Connectivity Mri ◽  
Dispositional Empathy ◽  
Over Time

AbstractThe human anterior insula (aINS) is a topographically organized brain region, in which ventral portions contribute to socio-emotional function through limbic and autonomic connections, whereas the dorsal aINS contributes to cognitive processes through frontal and parietal connections. Open questions remain, however, regarding how aINS connectivity varies over time. We implemented a novel approach combining seed-to-whole-brain sliding-window functional connectivity MRI and k-means clustering to assess time-varying functional connectivity of aINS subregions. We studied three independent large samples of healthy participants and longitudinal datasets to assess inter- and intra-subject stability, and related aINS time-varying functional connectivity profiles to dispositional empathy. We identified four robust aINS time-varying functional connectivity modes that displayed both “state” and “trait” characteristics: while modes featuring connectivity to sensory regions were modulated by eye closure, modes featuring connectivity to higher cognitive and emotional processing regions were stable over time and related to empathy measures.

scholarly journals Genetically engineered crops and pesticide use in U.S. maize and soybeans

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (8) ◽  
pp. e1600850 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward D. Perry ◽  
Federico Ciliberto ◽  
David A. Hennessy ◽  
GianCarlo Moschini
Keyword(s):  
Genetically Engineered ◽  
Pesticide Use ◽  
Open Questions ◽  
Genetically Engineered Crops ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Herbicide Use ◽  
Weed Resistance ◽  
Environmental Impact Quotient ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Insect Resistant

The widespread adoption of genetically engineered (GE) crops has clearly led to changes in pesticide use, but the nature and extent of these impacts remain open questions. We study this issue with a unique, large, and representative sample of plot-level choices made by U.S. maize and soybean farmers from 1998 to 2011. On average, adopters of GE glyphosate-tolerant (GT) soybeans used 28% (0.30 kg/ha) more herbicide than nonadopters, adopters of GT maize used 1.2% (0.03 kg/ha) less herbicide than nonadopters, and adopters of GE insect-resistant (IR) maize used 11.2% (0.013 kg/ha) less insecticide than nonadopters. When pesticides are weighted by the environmental impact quotient, however, we find that (relative to nonadopters) GE adopters used about the same amount of soybean herbicides, 9.8% less of maize herbicides, and 10.4% less of maize insecticides. In addition, the results indicate that the difference in pesticide use between GE and non-GE adopters has changed significantly over time. For both soybean and maize, GT adopters used increasingly more herbicides relative to nonadopters, whereas adopters of IR maize used increasingly less insecticides. The estimated pattern of change in herbicide use over time is consistent with the emergence of glyphosate weed resistance.

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