scholarly journals PALAZZO DUCALE OF SABBIONETA ARCHITECTURAL SURVEY OF SOME DECORATED ROOMS

2019 ◽  
Vol XLII-2/W9 ◽  
pp. 127-134
Author(s):  
A. Bianchi ◽  
M. Belloni
Keyword(s):  
Northern Italy ◽  
Current Situation ◽  
Historical Background ◽  
Urban Fabric ◽  
Political Consequences ◽  
New Town ◽  
Future Developments ◽  
World Heritage List ◽  
Architectural Survey ◽  
Over Time

<p><strong>Abstract.</strong> Sabbioneta is a small town situated in the province of Mantova, in northern Italy. Founded by Vespasiano Gonzaga Colonna in the XVI century, it constituted the capital of the Sabbioneta Ducat. His specific historical background and renaissance urban fabric made it enter into the UNESCO’s World Heritage list in 2008. Other than the economic and political consequences of this event, it shows the architectural importance of Sabbioneta and its great potential for future developments. Palazzo Ducale (Figure 1) was one of the first constructions of the new town. Acting as a ducal residence in its beginnings, its function has evolved over time until the current situation: an exposition space.</p>

Bolsonaro: A Ridiculous Caesar?

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 142-157
Author(s):  
Caio Gontijo ◽  
Leonardo Ramos
Keyword(s):  
Social Conflict ◽  
Historical Background ◽  
Future Developments ◽  
Constituent Elements

Abstract In this article, we aim to set out an appropriate interpretation for the historical form that the Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro embodies and the context that made his presidency possible. We propose a discussion on the level of ideology, although conceived from a material and historical background and integrated into a context of hegemonic dispute that presupposes ideology but which is not identical to it. We analyse the constituent elements of this ideology and its particularities, based on the Gramscian concept of ‘Caesarism’ and the notion of ‘corrosive ridicule’. Finally, we outline probable future developments for social conflict and crisis in Brazil during the coronavirus pandemic.

Increased adoption of best practices in ecological forecasting enables comparisons of forecastability across systems

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abigail S. L. Lewis ◽  
Whitney M. Woelmer ◽  
Heather L. Wander ◽  
Dexter W. Howard ◽  
John W. Smith ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Support ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Forecast Skill ◽  
Robust Analysis ◽  
Ecological Forecasting ◽  
Workflow Automation ◽  
Future Developments ◽  
Current State ◽  
Near Term ◽  
Over Time

Near-term iterative forecasting is a powerful tool for ecological decision support and has the potential to transform our understanding of ecological predictability. However, to this point, there has been no cross-ecosystem analysis of near-term ecological forecasts, making it difficult to synthesize diverse research efforts and prioritize future developments for this emerging field. In this study, we analyzed 178 near-term ecological forecasting papers to understand the development and current state of near-term ecological forecasting literature and compare forecast skill across ecosystems and variables. Our results indicate that near-term ecological forecasting is widespread and growing: forecasts have been produced for sites on all seven continents and the rate of forecast publication is increasing over time. As forecast production has accelerated, a number of best practices have been proposed and application of these best practices is increasing. In particular, data publication, forecast archiving, and workflow automation have all increased significantly over time. However, adoption of proposed best practices remains low overall: for example, despite the fact that uncertainty is often cited as an essential component of an ecological forecast, only 45% of papers included uncertainty in their forecast outputs. As the use of these proposed best practices increases, near-term ecological forecasting has the potential to make significant contributions to our understanding of predictability across scales and variables. In this study, we found that forecast skill decreased in predictable patterns over 1–7 day forecast horizons. Variables that were closely related (i.e., chlorophyll and phytoplankton) displayed very similar trends in predictability, while more distantly related variables (i.e., pollen and evapotranspiration) exhibited significantly different patterns. Increasing use of proposed best practices in ecological forecasting will allow us to examine the forecastability of additional variables and timescales in the future, providing a robust analysis of the fundamental predictability of ecological variables.

Historical background and evolution of Soil Mechanics

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 ◽  
pp. 96-113
Author(s):  
Philotheos Lokkas ◽  
Ioannis Chouliaras ◽  
Theodoros Chrisanidis ◽  
Dimitrios Christodoulou ◽  
Emmanouil Papadimitriou ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Building Material ◽  
Soil Mechanics ◽  
Geotechnical Engineering ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Building Construction ◽  
Historical Background ◽  
Education Of Students ◽  
Scientific Fields ◽  
Important Branch ◽  
Over Time

The behavior of soil either as a building material or as a load receiver is particularly important and presents a paramount significance in both infrastructure and building construction. Geotechnical engineering has shown a rapid development over the last fifty years and holds a prominent position in all scientific fields of engineers. This paper mainly aims at the historical background along with the progress made on Soil Engineering as an important branch of Surveyors, Civil and Mining Engineers, where, through an important citation of technical works and constructions over time, may be considered as a significant tool for teaching and education of students

Social Capital and Residential Agency in Pujiang New Town, Shanghai

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carolyn Richardson
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Chinese History ◽  
Political Consequences ◽  
New Town ◽  
The Social ◽  
World Expo ◽  
Basic Services ◽  
Forced Relocation ◽  
The Government

Although it barely registered in social media and current news in North America, the Shanghai 2010 World Expo was the most expensive urban reconstruction project in Chinese history and also caused the largest human relocation project in Shanghai history. To make way for the Expo, over18 000 families- an estimated 55 000 people- were relocated to the outskirts of Shanghai, away from their homes, communities, social connections and basic services. Of these residents, 25 000 were relocated to Pujiang new town: a brand new town constructed for this occasion by the Shanghai government. Although the government and contracted urban planners built the town, it is the relocated residents who are building the community. Using personal interviews that I and my Shanghainese partner conducted with the residents of Pujiang new town, we aimed to find out how residents are regaining the “social capital” that was lost during their forced relocation, and how their “individual and collective agency” prevents them from being seen as victims of a strong centralized government. In order to understand how this unique case of urban development was created, I will also be explaining the historical causes of the project, and it’s social and political consequences. However, it is the overarching question of “how does China see urban development, and why?” that I wish to answer

Introduction

2013 ◽  
pp. 1-5
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Neural Networks ◽  
Computational Intelligence ◽  
Evolutionary Computing ◽  
Historical Background ◽  
Intelligent Computing ◽  
Biometric Security ◽  
Introductory Overview ◽  
Over Time

This chapter presents an introductory overview of the application of computational intelligence in biometrics. Starting with the historical background on artificial intelligence, the chapter proceeds to the evolutionary computing and neural networks. Evolutionary computing is an ability of a computer system to learn and evolve over time in a manner similar to humans. The chapter discusses swarm intelligence, which is an example of evolutionary computing, as well as chaotic neural network, which is another aspect of intelligent computing. At the end, special concentration is given to a particular application of computational intelligence—biometric security.

Bajla Gelblung und Johannes Bobrowskis Gedicht BERICHT

2019 ◽  
Vol 60 (1) ◽  
pp. 373-383
Author(s):  
Eduard R. Müller
Keyword(s):  
Jewish Woman ◽  
Historical Background ◽  
Warsaw Ghetto ◽  
The Third ◽  
Over Time ◽  
German Wehrmacht

Johannes Bobrowski’s iconic poem BERICHT (REPORT) refers to an historical photograph showing the interrogation of a young Polish Jewish woman by officers of the German Wehrmacht in Brest-Litovsk. It has long been assumed that the woman referred to as Bajla Belblung was a resistance fighter who escaped from the Warsaw ghetto in 1943. But further research has shown that the interrogation took place in September 1939 after the end of the third week of the war. This work examines the historical background of the photos of Bajla Gelblung taken at that time as well how the photograph captions have changed over time. It also raises questions about the development of a legend, to which Bobrowski’s poem has made a decisive contribution.

Culture inside: Scale, intimacy, and chronotopic stance in situated narratives

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-23
Author(s):  
Sonya E. Pritzker ◽  
Sabina Perrino
Keyword(s):  
Linguistic Anthropology ◽  
Northern Italy ◽  
Specific Interactions ◽  
Embodied Experience ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Discursive Strategies ◽  
Ethnographic Studies ◽  
Zoom In ◽  
Beijing China ◽  
Over Time

ABSTRACT This article focuses on what we define as scalar intimacy in the stories people tell about their embodied experience as sociohistorical beings. Our analysis, based on ethnographic studies in Northern Italy (Perrino) and Beijing, China (Pritzker), examines the ways in which speech participants draw upon various discursive strategies to ‘zoom in’ and ‘pan out’ of both time and space, placing themselves and their activities in relation to various people, ideologies, and practices. Scalar intimacy, we argue, provides a novel framework for understanding the multiple ways in which people use language to scale their embodied experience in relation to culturally situated ideas and forms. Scalar intimacy thus extends the study of scales and fractal recursivity in linguistic anthropology and sociolinguistics. It also contributes to scholarship focusing on how culturally situated meanings are reproduced and challenged over time through specific interactions. (China, chronotope, identity, intimacy, narrative, Northern Italy, scales)*

scholarly journals The Only (Other) Poll That Matters? Exit Polls and Election Night Forecasts in BBC General Election Results Broadcasts, 1955–2017

2020 ◽  
pp. 003232172090632
Author(s):  
Stuart Wilks-Heeg ◽  
Peter Andersen
Keyword(s):  
Academic Research ◽  
General Election ◽  
The Political ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Political Consequences ◽  
Academic Literature ◽  
Political Narratives ◽  
Election Results ◽  
Over Time

This article examines the role of results forecasts and exit polls in BBC general election night broadcasts from 1955 to 2017. Despite the substantial role played by academics in results programmes, in devising forecasts and analysing results as they emerge, academic literature on election night broadcasts is scant. This article charts the development of election night forecasting over time and its implications for the structure and content of election night broadcasts. It draws on a unique new data set of verbatim transcripts of the first hour of every BBC election night broadcast from 1955–2017 to quantify the attention paid to forecasts and exit polls and assess how they frame discussion of the likely outcome and its potential political consequences. The article concludes that the function of election night broadcasts as ‘the first draft of psephology’ merits closer attention for both the political narratives and the academic research agendas they generate.

Declining Trust in Congress: Effects of Polarization and Consequences for Democracy

The Forum ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
David R. Jones
Keyword(s):  
Public Trust ◽  
Downward Trend ◽  
Trust In Government ◽  
Political Consequences ◽  
Party Polarization ◽  
Dramatic Decline ◽  
Legislative Branch ◽  
Trends Over Time ◽  
Over Time

AbstractWhy has Congress, once a widely trusted institution, experienced such a uniquely dramatic decline in the public’s confidence, and what are the consequences for democracy? This article sets out to systematically address these questions. First, I discuss how we can gauge Americans’ levels of trust in Congress. Second, I examine trends over time in public trust in Congress, looking both partisan differences within this measure, and also overall differences in comparison to other institutions. Third, I examine various ways in which the much-noted rise in party polarization in Congress might explain the downward trend in Americans’ trust in that institution. Finally, I explore one potentially important consequence of declining trust in the legislative branch: Americans’ willingness to obey laws. The results suggest that those interested in the problem of declining trust in government would be wise to focus their attention on Congress. Compared to other institutions, the problem in Congress appears more severe, more intractable, and carries greater political consequences.

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