Anastas Benderev's 1890 Ethnographic Maps

Epohi ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dragomir Yordanov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Balkan Peninsula ◽  
Scientific Discourse ◽  
Ethnic Composition ◽  
The Other ◽  
Historical Documents ◽  
Saint Petersburg ◽  
Military Geography ◽  
Stated Purpose

This article deals with a pair of old ethnographic maps made by a Bulgarian officer (bearing the rank of Captain at the time) named Anastas Benderev (1859–1946). The maps were first published as folding attachments in Benderev’s book Military Geography and Statistics of Macedonia and Its Adjacent Territories on the Balkan Peninsula (Voennaia geografiia i statistika Makedonii i sosednikh s neiu oblastei Balkanskago poluostrova), which itself was published in Russian in Saint Petersburg in 1890. The stated purpose of the maps was to elucidate certain passages from the book, particularly those pertaining to the population’s ethnic composition. One of the maps (Etnograficheskaya karta Balkanskogo poluostrova) depicts the ethnicities across the entire Balkan Peninsula, while the other (Etnograficheskaya karta Makedonii) focuses on those within the confines of the historical and geographical territory of Macedonia. Due to a confluence of events, the maps in question are barely known and hardly ever used nowadays, even though they represent valuable relics from the era. This article aims to reintroduce them into the scientific discourse as historical documents of note.

From Fieldwork to Research Theory on an Indian Pilgrimage

2005 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 105-121 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rémy Delage
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Random Sampling ◽  
South India ◽  
Scientific Discourse ◽  
The Other ◽  
Critical Reading ◽  
Major Research ◽  
Research Hypothesis ◽  
Sources Of Knowledge ◽  
The One

Using as the example of the pilgrimage to Sabarimala (Kerala, South India), I propose here to explore the links existing between sources, research hypothesis and research theory in social sciences. The choice of research materials in the process of investigation, sources of knowledge about the studied object, is not mere random sampling; it is processed in accordance with the questions of the researcher. It inevitably assumes a selective dimension. After a critical reading of the sources used by Indian studies, I will highlight on the connections between the sources and the methodological tools on the one hand, and the major research hypothesis about pilgrimage on the other. The links between the data taken from the field and the legitimacy of scientific discourse on India will be examined at the end before providing some keys for the interpretation of Sabarimala phenomenon in South India during the contemporary period.

A Military Geography of the Balkan Peninsula

1913 ◽  
Vol 45 (9) ◽  
pp. 696
Author(s):  
Eugene van Cleef ◽  
Lionel W. Lyde ◽  
A. F. Mockler-Ferryman
Keyword(s):  
Balkan Peninsula ◽  
Military Geography

scholarly journals The Geopolitical Identity of the Bulgarian Nation

2021 ◽  
Vol 37 ◽  
pp. 78-92
Author(s):  
A. A. Kovalevskiy ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Balkan Peninsula ◽  
Great Powers ◽  
The Other ◽  
Peace Treaty ◽  
Small State ◽  
South Eastern ◽  
Political Events ◽  
South Eastern Europe ◽  
The One

The article considers the issues of the nature and conditions of the formation of the geopolitical identity of the Bulgarian nation. The author analyzes the specifics of geopolitical thinking in Bulgaria as a small state in South-Eastern Europe associated, on the one hand, with the approval of the “central”, “core” position of Bulgaria on the Balkan Peninsula, and with belonging to “Intermediate Europe” (“Wide South-Eastern Europe”) along with all other Balkan countries on the other hand. It has been shown that the fundamental Bulgarian geopolitical notions are not part of any clearly articulated doctrine, as was the case in neighboring Greece or Serbia, but are the result of a number of political events, due to which the modern Bulgarian national identity begins to take shape. First of all, we are talking about the firman of the Ottoman Sultan, according to which the Bulgarian Autocephalous Church – Exarchate was founded on March 11, 1870, and after that the draft about autonomous Bulgaria worked out at the Istanbul Conference of Ambassadors of the Great Powers (December 1876), and finally – San - Stefan Peace Treaty of 1878, which completed the formation of the national geopolitical ideal of "Greater Bulgaria."

scholarly journals Comparative analysis of populations of the Balkan endemic species Daphne malyana Blecic (Thymeleaceae)

2010 ◽  
Vol 62 (4) ◽  
pp. 1151-1162 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marina Juskovic ◽  
P. Vasiljevic ◽  
V. Randjelovic ◽  
V. Stevanovic ◽  
Branka Stevanovic
Keyword(s):  
Principal Component Analysis ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Endemic Species ◽  
Morphological Variability ◽  
Principal Component ◽  
Balkan Peninsula ◽  
Canonical Discriminant Analysis ◽  
The Other ◽  
Isolated Populations ◽  
Microclimate Conditions

Daphne malyana Blecic (Thymeleaceae) is an endemic species of the western part of the Balkan Peninsula, distributed in the mountains, canyons and gorges of N. Montenegro, E. Bosnia and W. Serbia. The comparative morphoanatomic investigations have included four distantly separated populations of the species D. malyana, i.e. two from Serbia, from the ravines of Sokoline and Vranjak on Mt. Tara, and two from Montenegro, in the canyons of the Tara and Piva rivers. Comparative morphoanatomical studies have shown the presence of general adaptive characteristics of a specific, conservative xeromorphic type, slightly differing in each population. Principal component analysis (PCA) and canonical discriminant analysis (CDA) of 20 morphoanatomical characteristics of the leaves and stems have shown a clear distinction between the populations from the river Piva canyon (Montenegro) and those from the Sokoline ravine (Serbia), on one side, and those of Vranjak gorge (Serbia) and of the river Tara canyon (Montenegro) on the other side. It may be assumed that the mild morphological variability of the isolated populations of the Balkan endemic species D. malyana in the canyons and gorges seem to have been affected by the microclimate conditions in their habitats.

scholarly journals Outdoor Physical Activity During the First Wave of the COVID-19 Pandemic. A Comparative Analysis of Government Restrictions in Italy, France, and Germany

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Enrico Michelini ◽  
Nico Bortoletto ◽  
Alessandro Porrovecchio
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Health Systems ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Influencing Factor ◽  
National Level ◽  
Scientific Discourse ◽  
The Other ◽  
Risky Behaviour ◽  
Health Politics ◽  
The One

Introduction: Mandated restrictions on outdoor physical activity (PA) during the coronavirus pandemic disrupted the lifeworld of millions of people and led to a contradictory situation. On the one hand, PA was perceived as risky behaviour, as it might facilitate transmission of the virus. On the other hand, while taking precautions, regular PA was an important tool to promote the population's health during the lockdown.Methods: This paper examines the differences in government restrictions on PA in France, Germany, and Italy during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. We draw on techniques of qualitative content analysis and apply a critical theoretical framework to assess the countries' restrictions on PA.Results: Our analysis shows that the restrictions on PA varied in the three countries, in all three countries. This variance is attributed both to differences in the timing and severity of the pandemic in the countries analysed, as well as to the divergence in the relationships between the countries' sport and health systems.Conclusion: At the national level, the variance in restrictions on PA reflect the differences in the spread of the coronavirus and in the health systems' understanding of and approach to PA. The global scientific discourse on the pandemic represents a further key influencing factor. The management of the coronavirus pandemic has demonstrated that the extreme complexity of societies in terms of public health, politics, and the economy pose challenges and unsolvable contradictions.

Before Infinitude: A Levinasian Response to Meillassoux’s Speculative Realism

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lee Braver
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Discourse ◽  
The Other ◽  
Speculative Realism ◽  
Human Thought ◽  
Nuanced Understanding ◽  
Human Rationality ◽  
Ethical Experience

This chapter argues that like Meillassoux, Levinas opposes correlationism—a term encompassing both idealism and anti-realism in philosophy. However, Levinas’s attempt to overcome correlationism differs markedly from that of Meillassoux. Whereas Meillassoux argues that mathematizable, scientific discourse can determine facts about reality independent of human thought or awareness, Levinas appeals to an ethical experience of the other that remains correlated with awareness but transcend human rationality. Their attempts to overcome correlationism are thus reverse images of each other: whereas Meillassoux uses reason to transcend experience, Levinas appeals to experience to transcend reason. Taken together, these disparate approaches point to a more nuanced understanding of correlationism and its possible overcoming.

PERFORMANCE COMPARISON OF DENOISING METHODS FOR HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS

2015 ◽  
Vol 77 (22) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sayed Muchallil ◽  
Fitri Arnia ◽  
Khairul Munadi ◽  
Fardian Fardian
Keyword(s):  
Image Processing ◽  
Processing Technique ◽  
Performance Comparison ◽  
The Other ◽  
Historical Documents ◽  
Median Filtering ◽  
Document Images ◽  
Post Processing ◽  
Binary Images ◽  
Complete Procedure

Image denoising plays an important role in image processing.  It is also part of the pre-processing technique in a binarization complete procedure that consists of pre-processing, thresholding, and post-processing.  Our previous research has confirmed that the Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT)-based filtering as the new pre-processing process improved the performance of binarization output in terms of recall and precision. This research compares three classical denoising methods; Gaussian, mean, and median filtering with the DCT-based filtering. The noisy ancient document images are filtered using those classical filtering methods. The outputs of this process are used as the input for Otsu, Niblack, Sauvola and NICK binarization methods. Then the resulted binary images of the three classical methods are compared with those of DCT-based filtering. The performance of all denoising algorithms is evaluated by calculating recall and precision of the resulted binary images.  The result of this research is that the DCT based filtering resulted in the highest recall and precision as compared to the other methods. 

Documentation of Ethnicity

2004 ◽  
Vol 95 (3) ◽  
pp. 859-861 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Robert Brašić
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
General Population ◽  
Care Facility ◽  
The United States ◽  
Ethnic Composition ◽  
The Other ◽  
Intermediate Care ◽  
Minority Status ◽  
White Population ◽  
United States Census

The comparison of the ethnic composition of an intermediate care facility with several Hispanic residents and the general population was hindered by the absence of categorization of ethnicity according to the United States Census. If all Hispanic residents of the facility were white, then 55% of the facility population were white, a proportion comparable to the 58.2% white population of the general population. On the other hand, if all the Hispanic residents were not white, then 27.5% of the facility residents were white. In that case, the proportion of white residents of the facility is much less than in the general population. Therefore, a Demographic Coding Form was developed to capture the essential data to make direct comparisons and contrasts with the general population recorded by the United States Census. Since the United States Census records Hispanic ethnic minority status as a separate category independent from all other ethnic groups, the design of experiments to investigate the possible effects of ethnicity on populations wisely incorporates the administration of a Demographic Coding Form to capture the key ethnic data to permit direct comparison with the general population.

scholarly journals Helicopter EMS Transport Outcomes Literature: Annotated Review of Articles Published 2007–2011

2012 ◽  
Vol 2012 ◽  
pp. 1-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brandon S. Brown ◽  
Korby A. Pogue ◽  
Emily Williams ◽  
Jesse Hatfield ◽  
Matthew Thomas ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Emergency Care ◽  
Task Force ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Scientific Discourse ◽  
The Other ◽  
Prehospital Emergency Care ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Related Literature ◽  
Prehospital Emergency ◽  
Medical Task

Helicopter EMS (HEMS) and its possible association with outcomes improvement continues to be a subject of discussion. As is the case with other scientific discourse, debate over HEMS usefulness should be framed around an evidence-based assessment of the relevant literature. In an effort to facilitate the academic pursuit of assessment of HEMS utility, in late 2000 the National Association of EMS Physicians' (NAEMSP) Air Medical Task Force prepared annotated bibliographies of the HEMS-related outcomes literature. As a result of that work, two review articles, one covering HEMS use in nontrauma and the other in trauma, published in 2002 inPrehospital Emergency Caresurveyed HEMS outcomes-related literature published between 1980 and mid-2000. The project was extended with two subsequent reviews covering the literature through 2006. This review continues the series, outlining outcomes-associated HEMS literature for the three-year period 2007 through the first half of 2011.

scholarly journals Two Worlds: Communism and Western Society

Slavic Review ◽  
1977 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 475-487
Author(s):  
Alfred G. Meyer
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
The Other ◽  
Western Society ◽  
Reference Book ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Stated Purpose

The stated purpose of the encyclopedia being reviewed here, Marxism, Communism and Western Society: A Comparative Encyclopedia is to present a comprehensive comparative portrait of two worlds, one called “Communism,“ the other, “Western Society,” including their institutions and self-images, the images they have of each other, and their entire views of the cosmos; the range of topics covered is extremely wide. Several aims might be fulfilled by such a work. One of them is to serve as a reference book for students of Marxism and Communist societies, especially the Soviet Union, and not for specialists only but also for anyone interested in selected aspects of these topics. On the whole, the Encyclopedia serves this purpose very well. The relevant articles tend to be competent and thorough, even though I can understand why one of the anonymous referees of this essay found them “tinged with Germanic pedantry, dry and often verbose, with a penchant for abstraction, reifications, and fine distinctions.“

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