scholarly journals Potential of Digital Elevation Topographic Maps reveal the history of the region: comparing Those Maps with Marsh data in the early Meiji Period

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 1-2
Author(s):  
Masatoshi Ideto ◽  
Yuki Kurisu ◽  
Hideyuki Toishigawa
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Topographic Map ◽  
Thematic Maps ◽  
Geospatial Information ◽  
Meiji Period ◽  
Topographic Information ◽  
Digital Elevation ◽  
New Findings ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Relationship

<p><strong>Abstract.</strong> Landform of lowland is remains of the natural disasters and the history. Residents of this area are influenced of the landform with history of natural disaster. Therefore, there is an inseparable relationship between topography and social life. At Geospatial Information Authority of Japan (GSI), we are creating Thematic maps which clearly express topographic information. We also create, Thematic maps which distinguish the topography from the formation of the land. New findings can be obtained by considering these thematic maps in combination.</p><p> In this paper, we study the relationship between landform and history of Tokyo by comparing “Digital Elevation Topographic Map” and “Marsh data in the early Meiji Period”. (This early Meiji Period here is the 1880s.)</p>

scholarly journals Fish Canning Industry and The Rhythm of Social Life in the Northeastern Adriatic

2020 ◽  
Vol 57 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tanja Petrović
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Work Conditions ◽  
Social Meaning ◽  
Tertiary Sector ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
Local Impact ◽  
Late Socialism ◽  
Canning Industry ◽  
The Relationship

The article discusses the social world formed around canneries in small coastal and insular towns in the northeastern Adriatic. Although associated with hard, unpleasant labor and demanding work conditions, the fish canning industry, particularly in the period of late socialism, offered a framework in which a meaningful social life was organized and lived. In this way, the local impact of canneries reached much beyond providing financial means to its employees. To understand the social meaning of fish canning in the Yugoslav Adriatic, the article focuses on the relationship between the now largely vanished local fish canning industry and tourism that is increasingly becoming the dominant (and the only) source of income for local communities. Lefebvre’s concept of rhythmanalysis proves to be a productive lens to view the complex and often ambiguous relationship between the two industries, and to narrate the history of fish canning through the senses – what was seen, heard, smelled, felt. These intense, embodied, sensorial memories caution us that the dominant claims and narratives which interpret the replacement of industry with tourism (and other tertiary sector activities) as a necessary, inevitable and desirable developmental step should not be taken for granted.

New Progress in the Investigation of Spatial Distribution for SRTM DEM Errors

2013 ◽  
Vol 726-731 ◽  
pp. 4694-4699
Author(s):  
Zu Rui Ao ◽  
Zhan Qiang Chang ◽  
Xiao Meng Liu ◽  
Qi Yao
Keyword(s):  
Land Surface ◽  
North China ◽  
Research Effort ◽  
Shuttle Radar Topography Mission ◽  
Complex Topography ◽  
Topographic Map ◽  
Srtm Dem ◽  
Topographic Factors ◽  
Digital Elevation ◽  
The Relationship

The Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) is an international research effort that obtains digital elevation models (DEM) over 80% of the Earths land surface. SRTM DEM plays a key role in geosciences and GIS. In order to investigate the vertical accuracy of SRTM DEM, we evaluated the root mean square error (RMSE) of height between SRTM DEM and 1:50,000 scale topographic map within north China, and extracted the related topographic factors including height, slope and aspect. Then, we analyzed the relationship between the topographic factors and SRTM DEM errors. The results show that the SRTM DEM errors not only have a tendency to get larger in areas of large slope and complex topography, but also have a strong correlation with aspect. Furthermore, this correlation appears increasingly strong with great slope.

Re-evaluating the reconstruction of Proto-Eskimo-Aleut

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 230-272 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Berge
Keyword(s):  
Language Contact ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Early 19Th Century ◽  
Cultural Contact ◽  
The Past ◽  
Genealogical Relationship ◽  
New Findings ◽  
History Of ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract The relationship between Unangam Tunuu (Aleut) and Eskimo was established in the early 19th century, and the 20th century especially saw a number of efforts on the reconstruction of Proto-Eskimo-Aleut (PEA). Reconstruction has supported assumptions of a largely genealogical relationship between the EA languages, assumptions which include a long history of independent development in isolation from other languages and language families. The reconstruction of PEA, however, is incomplete; many apparent cognates have irregular or imperfectly understood sound correspondences. Furthermore, advances in archaeology and genetics have called into question many assumptions about EA prehistory and about the isolation or lack thereof of Unangam Tunuu. In this study, I re-examine the proposed cognates and evaluate them based on the strength of their correspondences and their distribution within the lexicon, with reference to new findings regarding technological innovations and periods of cultural contact. Several patterns emerge, including a large group of proposed cognates with overly-specific semantic correlations relating to technologies or cultural practices post-dating the split of EA languages, a gender-based difference in the number of cognates relating to cultural activities, and a correlation between known borrowings and high levels of cognates in certain semantic domains. Results suggest extensive language contact, especially in the past millennium.

Ruling Relations: Rethinking State and Gender in South African History

1992 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 441-465 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linzi Manicom
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Social Life ◽  
African State ◽  
The State ◽  
Gender History ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
History Of ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

Although South African women's history has been growing in volume and sophistication over the past decade, the impact of gender analysis has yet to be felt in mainstream or radical historiography. One reason for this neglect is the way in which the categories of both ‘gender’ and ‘women’ have been conceived – with ‘women’ assumed to have a stable referent and ‘gender’ treated as synonymous with women. Those areas of social life where women are not immediately present have thus remained unreconstructed by the theoretical implications of gender. This is particularly the case with the history of ‘the state’.The article identifies and looks critically at the major paradigms of South African women's and gender history in terms of how the relationship between ‘the state’ and ‘women’ is implicitly or explicitly represented. It argues that the understanding of the category ‘women’ as socially and historically constructed (as evident in more recently published gender history) provides a way of moving beyond the more static or abstractly posed state-versus-women relationship. This requires too that ‘the South African state’ be understood not as unitary or coherent but as institutionally diverse with different objectives being taken up and produced as policy and practice. The project then becomes one of understanding South African state formation as a gendered and gendering process, of exploring the different institutional sites and ruling discourses in which gender identities and categories are constructed.

New findings on tardive dyskinesia in a community sample

1993 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 453-465 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter O'Hara ◽  
Traolach S. Brugha ◽  
Alain Lesage ◽  
John Wing
Keyword(s):  
Tardive Dyskinesia ◽  
Affective Disorder ◽  
Psychological Functioning ◽  
Psychiatric Patients ◽  
Community Sample ◽  
Cognitive Status ◽  
New Findings ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Relationship

SynopsisIn a geographically defined area sample of 141 long-term psychiatric patients in day care in south London, the relationship between tardive dyskinesia (TD) and other aspects of illness, treatment, and social and psychological functioning were studied. The results are compared with previous findings. TD was significantly associated with parkinsonian symptoms and with the number of years in contact with the psychiatric services. There was a trend, in affective disorder only, towards an association with current neuroleptic dose. The patients with affective disorder also had higher rates of TD than patients with schizophrenia and paranoid psychosis. History of treatment with ECT correlated negatively with TD among those with schizophrenia, and positively among those with affective disorder. As in other studies, duration of neuroleptic treatment did not correlate with the presence or absence of TD. In contrast to some previous reports, age and cognitive status were not related to TD status. Possible reasons for this are discussed.

scholarly journals LINGUISTIC CHARACTERISTICS OF THE SYSTEM OF NATIONAL VALUES IN ART

2020 ◽  
Vol 74 (4) ◽  
pp. 78-82
Author(s):  
S. Zhirenov ◽  
◽  
А. Smanova ◽  
Zh. Nebesaeva ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
National Culture ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Folk Wisdom ◽  
National Values ◽  
History Of ◽  
Aesthetic Cognition ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

The article considers the coding of the system of national values in Kazakh art and their linguistic expression in the linguocultural aspect. There is a linguistic representation of the place of art in the national culture, the activity of cultural values in the worldview of the ethnos. If the indicator of the culture of an ethnos is cultural values, then the value of cultural values is determined by language. Art is an indicator of cultural and social life, endowed with the ancient cultural and spiritual value of the national existence of the ethnos. Considering that different forms of art and their compositions are marked and distinguished by language, the article analyzes in detail the question of the relationship of art to language, language to art. The existence of such categories as the history of a nation and the ethics of words, culture and art of an ethnos, aesthetic cognition and taste, folk wisdom and spiritual food is considered in the existence of a language. The role of language in expressing the essence of art is described in detail.

scholarly journals NGUYEN BINH KHIEM'S THOUGHT AND THE BUILDING OF ECOLOGICAL ETHICS IN THE CURRENT PERIOD

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nguyen Thi Nhu
Keyword(s):  
Moral Philosophy ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Historical Period ◽  
Ecological Ethics ◽  
Current Period ◽  
The World ◽  
Man And Nature ◽  
History Of ◽  
Social Modernization ◽  
The Relationship

Ecological disasters have affected all countries and regions around the world. It hinders the process of social modernization, and threatens the survival of all mankind. In that context, the building of ecological ethics becomes one of the urgent and practical needs to contribute to environmental protection, ensuring sustainable development. Researching the history of Vietnamese thoughts in the 15th - 16th centuries reveal that Nguyen Binh Khiem is one of the typical thinkers whose moral philosophy is not only valuable for that historical period, but there are still many values for all areas of today's social life, including the area of ecological ethics. In this article, the author focuses on analyzing his three typical thoughts, including: thought on loving peace; thought on nature, thought on the relationship between man and nature; the philosophy of living in harmony with nature, thereby drawing the value of these thoughts for the issue of ecological ethics building in the current period. <p> </p><p><strong> Article visualizations:</strong></p><p><img src="/-counters-/edu_01/0790/a.php" alt="Hit counter" /></p>

scholarly journals Challenges in the Valorization of the Funerary Heritage. Experiences in the Municipal Cemetery of Murcia (Spain)

Heritage ◽  
2022 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 129-144
Author(s):  
Gabriel López-Martínez ◽  
Klaus Schriewer
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Cultural Changes ◽  
Teaching Innovation ◽  
The Family ◽  
History Of ◽  
Great Relevance ◽  
The University ◽  
Symbolic Universe ◽  
The Relationship

The cemetery is a cultural landscape that represents themes of great relevance to interpret the structure of a society, roles, and hierarchies, as a reflection of its social life. The cemetery gathers a whole symbolic universe where local social histories are represented, beyond the history of art and the architectural aspect. As a heritage element, the cemetery shows us the socio-cultural changes of a territory: religious questioning, changes linked to the family, individualization of contemporary society or broader questions about socio-economic structure. This article presents the experience conducted during the last 6 years in the Cemetery “Nuestro Padre Jesús” in Murcia (Spain), through a collaboration among the Sociedad Murciana de Antropolgía (SOMA), the University of Murcia and the Municipality of Murcia, developing the project “Funerary Cultures”, whose main objective is to promote the heritage, cultural and historical values of the funerary culture. Specifically, as a result of this teaching innovation experience, the six thematic guides to visit the cemetery are presented as an experience of patrimonialization of elements of the cemetery and its consequent selection and consensus exercise to determine what was considered as heritage in the context of the cemetery. Finally, a proposal of a systematic process in the valuation and selection of the material objects in the cemetery is presented; this proposal allows us to establish a debate on what considerations to take into account when considering the relationship between cultural heritage and the cemetery as a cultural landscape in permanent transformation.

scholarly journals A Report on “Old Map Collection” by Geospatial Information Authority of Japan

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 1-2
Author(s):  
Kana Hidari ◽  
Niina Nakano
Keyword(s):  
Local History ◽  
Historical Maps ◽  
Geospatial Information ◽  
Meiji Period ◽  
Related Information ◽  
Additional Release ◽  
History Of ◽  
Imperial Japanese Army ◽  
Pictorial Image ◽  
Made In

<p><strong>Abstract.</strong> Historical maps are valuable resources to understand the topography, land use, and land cover of the country in the past. Recently they have been used as basic data in fields such as education, disaster prevention or research on local history. Geospatial Information Authority of Japan (GSI) has been working on collecting and archiving historical maps which were drawn before than Meiji period. However, public use of these maps is often confined because they are almost non-existent or have the possibility of being damaged. Therefore, in order for everyone to use these maps, GSI created a website “Old Map Collection” (Figure 1), which provides various digitized historical maps. In this presentation, we introduce the summary of “Old Map Collection” and some of its new contents.</p><p>In 2005 GSI created a website “Old Map Collection” to provide historical maps for public use as historical, cultural, and academic documents. Users can browse about 1,500 map sheets including various related information, e.g., name, size, date-of-creation, author, and pictorial image. Also all maps are categorized into 15 fields such as maps made in Meiji period, maps of Japan, world maps, and Ino’s maps, based on their age of publication, range of area, and purpose of use, which enables users to find maps more easily.</p><p>2018 marked the 150th anniversary since the beginning of Meiji period, when the modernization of Japan started. In order to bequeath the history of Meiji to future generations, Japanese government has promoted the policy named “MEIJI 150th”. One of the projects GSI conducted related to “MEIJI 150th” was the additional release of 1:20,000 scale original rapid survey map, e.g., Figure 2, on “Old Map Collection”. This map was created from 1880 to 1886 (the 13th -19th years of Meiji period) in advance of the national survey by General Staff Office of the Imperial Japanese Army, and is now owned only by GSI. It contains 921 colored map sheets which cover the area of capital Tokyo and its surrounding regions.</p>

Aboriginal Worlds and Australian Capitalism

2021 ◽  
Vol 121 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-72
Author(s):  
Heidi Norman
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Aboriginal People ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
First Peoples ◽  
History Of ◽  
Aboriginal Society ◽  
Capitalist World ◽  
Aboriginal History ◽  
Ceremonial Life ◽  
The Relationship

Australia has a fairly established literature that seeks to explain, on one hand, the pre-colonial Aboriginal society and economy and, on the other, the relationship that emerged between the First Peoples’ economic system and society, and the settler economy. Most of this relies on theoretical frameworks that narrate traditional worlds dissolving. At best, these narratives see First Peoples subsumed into the workforce, retaining minimal cultural residue. In this paper, I argue against these narratives, showing the ways Aboriginal people have disrupted, or implicitly questioned and challenged dominant forms of Australian capitalism. I have sought to write not within the earlier framework of what is called Aboriginal History that often concentrated on the governance of Aborigines rather than responses to governance. In doing this, I seek to bring into view a history of Aboriginal strategies within a capitalist world that sought to maintain the most treasured elements of social life - generosity, equality, relatedness, minimal possessions, and a rich and pervasive ceremonial life.

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