scholarly journals Les "modernes" religioses valencianes: entrebancs d'una recerca textual

2013 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 271
Author(s):  
Maria Ángeles Herrero Herrero
Keyword(s):  
Women Religious ◽  
Genre Analysis ◽  
Modern Age ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Subsequent Application ◽  
Women Of Letters

Resum: El catàleg titulat Lletraferides modernes. Catàleg de les escriptores valencianes dels segles XVI-XVIII (Herrero 2009) suposava un punt de partida en la compilació de «lletraferides» valencianes de l’Edat Moderna. Aquest ajudà a rescatar els seus noms, però el major handicap radica en la diversitat en la localització física dels textos. A través d’una visió dels diferents gèneres que empraren aquestes escriptores, en especial les religioses (poesia, mística, auto/biografia espiritual…), avancem algunes conclusions que permetran una anàlisi sociolingu?ística, literària i de gènere d’eixes obres.Paraules clau: Catàleg, Localizació textual,  Autores religioses, Valencianes, Modernes.Abstract: The catalogue entitled Lletraferides modernes. Catàleg de les escriptores valencianes dels segles XVI-XVIII (Herrero 2009) provided a starting point for the compilation of Valencian «women of letters» in the Modern Age. Although this catalogue helped to recover the names of these authors, the process is greatly hindered by the diversity of textual localisation. By considering the different genres these writers, particularly the religious authors, favoured (poetry, mystic, spiritual auto/biography,…), this paper aims to provide a number of conclusions for subsequent application in the sociolinguistic, literary and genre analysis of these works.Keywords: Catalogue, Textual localisation, Women religious authors, Valencian, Modern

scholarly journals A CARTOGRAFIA DA CONQUISTA: A FUNÇÃO DOS MAPAS COMO INSTRUMENTO DE LEGITIMAÇÃO DAS CONQUISTAS GEOPOLÍTICAS NO ESPAÇO IBÉRICO DURANTE O ALVORECER DA IDADE MODERNA

GEOgraphia ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (51) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alisson Eugênio
Keyword(s):  
Historical Narrative ◽  
Verbal Mode ◽  
Modern Age ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Right

Esse estudo interdisciplinar entre Geografia e História tem por objetivo compreender como os mapas produzidos por cartógrafos ibéricos, sobretudo os portugueses, foram utilizados no processo de formação de seus impérios ultramarinos. Para isso, será feita uma articulação entre a história da expansão de Portugal e a produção cartográfica que a acompanhou, para mostrar que tal produção serviu à coroa portuguesa como instrumento de legitimação das suas conquistas, especialmente no continente americano, e como arma ideológica na geopolítica do alvorecer da Idade Moderna. Palavras-chave: cartografia, conquista geopolítica e formação dos impérios coloniais ibéricos. THE CARTOGRAPHY OF THE CONQUEST: THE FUNCTION OF MAPS AS AN INSTRUMENT OF LEGITIMATION OF GEOPOLITICAL CONQUESTS IN THE IBERIAN SPACE DURING THE DAWN OF THE MODERN AGE Abstract: The interdisciplinarity between Geography and History has proven increasingly fruitful, progressively generating relevant results, especially when dealing with topics of intense interface, such as geopolitics, from which the field of cartographic studies and the associated field of political historiography allow, for example, to understand maps as an instrument of legitimation of conquests and the starting point for territorialization. Thus, based on the premise that cartography, more than representing space, can also, among other functions, serve as a non-verbal mode of historical narrative, this article will show how the Iberian cartographic production, with emphasis on the Portuguese experience, was used in geopolitical clashes of the colonial space to validate the right of possession in the process of formation of overseas empires at the dawn of the Modern Age. Keywords: cartography, geopolitical conquest and formation of Iberian colonial empires. LA CARTOGRAFÍA DE LA CONQUISTA: LA FUNCIÓN DE LOS MAPAS COMO INSTRUMENTO DE LEGITIMACIÓN DE LAS CONQUISTAS GEOPOLÍTICAS EN EL ESPACIO IBÉRICO DURANTE LOS ALBORES DE LA EDAD MODERNA Resumen: La interdisciplinariedad entre la Geografía y la Historia ha sido cada vez más fructífera, generando progresivamente resultados relevantes, especialmente cuando se tratan temas de intensa interfase, como la geopolítica, a partir de la cual el campo de los estudios cartográficos y el campo de la historiografía política permiten, por ejemplo, entender los mapas como instrumento de legitimación de conquistas y punto de partida para la territorialización. Así, partiendo de la premisa de que la Cartografía, más que representar el espacio, puede también, entre otras funciones, servir como modo no verbal de narración histórica, este artículo mostrará cómo la producción cartográfica ibérica, con énfasis en la experiencia portuguesa, fue utilizada en los enfrentamientos geopolíticos del espacio colonial para validar el derecho de posesión en el proceso de formación de los imperios de ultramar en los albores de la Edad Moderna. Palabras clave: cartografía, conquista geopolítica y formación de imperios coloniales ibéricos.  

scholarly journals For an ethics of experimentation. Moral arguments supporting 3Rs

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Franco Manti
Keyword(s):  
Animal Welfare ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Ontological Status ◽  
Conflict Of Interests ◽  
Ethical Competence ◽  
Modern Age ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Animal Psychology ◽  
Moral Arguments ◽  
Effective Development

A non-ideological approach to the moral questions posed by the use of animals for experimental purposes involves taking into account: i) the debate that has developed since the modern age on the ontological status of animals and on what is due to them or we must recognize; ii) the new frontiers of knowledge opened up by disciplines such as ethology, anthrozoology, animal psychology; iii) the arguments in support of or against experimentation with animals, referring also to new perspectives opened up by methodologies commonly defined as alternatives. Referring to the 3Rs, an important starting point is to critically consider the impasse generated by the conflict of interests between human and animal welfare or, in another respect, by the conflict of benefits for humans - costs for animals. Effective development of the 3Rs requires epistemological awareness and ethical competence as the assumption of responsibility by researchers and OPBA members for the well-being of humans and animals, giving reasons for the choices that are made.

scholarly journals The construction and representation of social stereotypes of peasants and the rural world: A comparative research from historiography to classrooms

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 284-297
Author(s):  
Cosme J. Gómez Carrasco ◽  
Francisco García González
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Comparative Research ◽  
Scientific Journals ◽  
Specific Topic ◽  
Social Stereotypes ◽  
Teaching History ◽  
Modern Age ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Social ◽  
Rural World

Abstract   The purpose of this paper is to analyse the construction and transmission of social stereotypes when teaching history through a specific topic; the rural world of Spain and France in the Early Modern Age. The starting point is the study of the historiographic reconstruction based on this topic found in the main scientific journals. This is followed by seeing how this knowledge is transmitted in the classroom through the curriculum and textbooks. Finally, we analyse students’ perception of the social stereotypes related to the topic. The findings show that historiography is advancing in the opposite direction to the history knowledge taught in the classroom. There is also a noticeable difference between the representation of the urban and the rural world, which is due to the persistence of the theory of modernization in historical explanations. Keywords: social stereotypes, history education, textbooks, peasantry, historiography.    

scholarly journals Le fortificazioni litoranee di Terra d’Otranto: una panoramica sulle torri costiere della provincia di Lecce

X ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giuseppe Tricarico
Keyword(s):  
Intimate Relationship ◽  
Local History ◽  
Great Powers ◽  
Panoramic View ◽  
Coastal System ◽  
Religious Conflicts ◽  
Modern Age ◽  
Intrinsic Values ◽  
Starting Point

The coastal fortifications of Terra d’Otranto: a panoramic view of the coastal towers in the province of LecceDuring the Modern Age we witnessed the birth, consolidation and decline of great powers that dragged numerous political and religious conflicts with them. The Mediterranean Sea, as area of contact between the most distant Empires, experienced an era of intense naval activity in the form of piracy, race wars and armed deterrence, spreading along its shores with coastal watch towers. The organization of the defensive coastal system took place in intimate relationship with the territory, strongly characterizing the coasts which for centuries have seen them as the unique anthropical presence. Their exclusively military character has, however, inhibited their reuse over time, arousing until a few decades ago the disinterest of the community and their disavowal of architectures worthy of protection. The knowledge of the historical events and the morphotypological characteristics of the Apulian system of coastal towers thus becomes the starting point for their acknowledgment as fundamental identifying characters of the territory, finalizing their study to the re-appropriation of these assets by the community as strategical vehicles for the transmission of the local history and its intrinsic values. The classification of the towers in the province of Lecce has made them the object of spatial and typological analyses produced with the help of the opensource software “Quantum GIS” and geo-referenced on the official cartographic bases.

scholarly journals American Muslim Women, Religious Authority, and Activism

2014 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 100-104
Author(s):  
Krista Riley
Keyword(s):  
Women Religious ◽  
Muslim Women ◽  
Women's Leadership ◽  
Religious Authority ◽  
Work Related ◽  
Public Figures ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
American Muslim ◽  
The Media ◽  
Muslim Communities

In American Muslim Women, Religious Authority, and Activism: More Than aPrayer, Juliane Hammer traces recent conversations around gender and religionwithin American Muslim communities. Taking as a starting point the mixedgenderFriday prayer led by Amina Wadud in 2005, the author examines howquestions of gendered religious authority have been negotiated through interpretationsof scripture and religious laws, challenges to constructions of traditionand community, contestations surrounding prayer spaces, and representationsof Muslim women in the media and autobiographical narratives.100 The American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences 31:1The result is a valuable and insightful mapping of some of the majorscholars, activists, and public figures engaged in work related to women, gender,and Islam in North America. Based on an analysis of texts produced byfemale American Muslim scholars and writers since the 1980s and especiallywithin the past decade, the book highlights women’s contributions to debatesaround women-led prayer, Qur’anic interpretations, women’s spaces inmosques, and women’s leadership within Muslim communities, among otherissues. Hammer acknowledges that of many of the texts she studies have a“progressive” leaning, but frames this as itself a research finding that reflectsthe perspectives and voices most likely to be published or otherwise highlightedwithin an American context ...

Prehistoric Models for Representing the Female Form

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Veselina Stoyanova ◽  
◽  
◽  
Keyword(s):  
Female Gender ◽  
General Analysis ◽  
Female Figure ◽  
Modern Age ◽  
Artistic Experience ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The World ◽  
Enormous Amount ◽  
Female Figures ◽  
Subjective Sensation

In our modern age, there are an enormous amount of forms of depiction of the female figure that have been accumulated on the basis of thousands of years of artistic experience. To make a general analysis on the all available depiction models and to put them in order would be an extremely difficult task because of the huge volume of material. Instead of using the present as a starting point we will return to the very beginning to consider the question of the first artistic manifestations of humanity and its “purest“ understanding of the Female. Our purpose is to trace which combinations of forms makes up the notion of a female figure in a period when one relies solely on subjective sensation and a primary understanding of the world and nature. Following the approach from the general to the specific, according to the appearance of the female figures we can distinguish characteristic groups with different combinations of proportions and sizes in the ratio of head, torso, hips, and legs. Each figure individually recreates the idea of the female gender, but there are enough repetitions to bring out a few basic models.

scholarly journals Reflexivity and technology in adult learning

Seminar.net ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Neil Selwyn
Keyword(s):  
Adult Learning ◽  
Education System ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Social Worlds ◽  
Modern Age ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Uk

  It is argued by influential commentators such as Ulrich Beck and Scott Lash that we now live in a ‘reflexively modern' age. People are seen to now be free of the structures of modern society and driven instead by individualised opportunities to reflexively engage with their fast-changing social worlds and identities. Taking the notion of reflexive modernisation as its starting point, this paper explores the roles that information technologies (ITs) may play in supporting adults' reflexive judgements about, and reflexive engagements with, education and learning. Through an analysis of interview data with 100 adults in the UK the paper finds that whilst a minority of interviewees were using ITs to support and inform reflexive engagement with learning, the majority of individuals relayed little sign of technology-supported reflexivity when it came to their (non)engagement with education. For most people ITs were found, at best, to reinforce pre-established tendencies to ‘drift' through the formal education system. The paper concludes by considering the implications of these findings for ongoing efforts in developed countries to establish technology-supported ‘learning societies'.

Crystal structure images of large gold clusters and growing crystals by HRTEM

1984 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
pp. 428-429
Author(s):  
L.R. Wallenberg ◽  
J.-O. Bovin ◽  
G. Schmid
Keyword(s):  
Crystal Structure ◽  
Nucleation And Growth ◽  
Close Packing ◽  
Gold Clusters ◽  
Molecular Weight Determination ◽  
Growth Mechanisms ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Nucleation And Growth Mechanisms ◽  
Points Of View

Metallic clusters are interesting from various points of view, e.g. as a mean of spreading expensive catalysts on a support, or following heterogeneous and homogeneous catalytic events. It is also possible to study nucleation and growth mechanisms for crystals with the cluster as known starting point.Gold-clusters containing 55 atoms were manufactured by reducing (C6H5)3PAuCl with B2H6 in benzene. The chemical composition was found to be Au9.2[P(C6H5)3]2Cl. Molecular-weight determination by means of an ultracentrifuge gave the formula Au55[P(C6H5)3]Cl6 A model was proposed from Mössbauer spectra by Schmid et al. with cubic close-packing of the 55 gold atoms in a cubeoctahedron as shown in Fig 1. The cluster is almost completely isolated from the surroundings by the twelve triphenylphosphane groups situated in each corner, and the chlorine atoms on the centre of the 3x3 square surfaces. This gives four groups of gold atoms, depending on the different types of surrounding.

Two isoprenylated flavonoids from Dorstenia psilurus activate AMPK, stimulate glucose uptake, inhibit glucose production and lower glycemia

2019 ◽  
Vol 476 (24) ◽  
pp. 3687-3704 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aphrodite T. Choumessi ◽  
Manuel Johanns ◽  
Claire Beaufay ◽  
Marie-France Herent ◽  
Vincent Stroobant ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Glucose Uptake ◽  
Human Cancer ◽  
Glucose Production ◽  
Liver Mitochondria ◽  
New Drugs ◽  
Structural Isomer ◽  
Rat Liver Mitochondria ◽  
Ionization Mass ◽  
Ampk Activation ◽  
Starting Point

Root extracts of a Cameroon medicinal plant, Dorstenia psilurus, were purified by screening for AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) activation in incubated mouse embryo fibroblasts (MEFs). Two isoprenylated flavones that activated AMPK were isolated. Compound 1 was identified as artelasticin by high-resolution electrospray ionization mass spectrometry and 2D-NMR while its structural isomer, compound 2, was isolated for the first time and differed only by the position of one double bond on one isoprenyl substituent. Treatment of MEFs with purified compound 1 or compound 2 led to rapid and robust AMPK activation at low micromolar concentrations and increased the intracellular AMP:ATP ratio. In oxygen consumption experiments on isolated rat liver mitochondria, compound 1 and compound 2 inhibited complex II of the electron transport chain and in freeze–thawed mitochondria succinate dehydrogenase was inhibited. In incubated rat skeletal muscles, both compounds activated AMPK and stimulated glucose uptake. Moreover, these effects were lost in muscles pre-incubated with AMPK inhibitor SBI-0206965, suggesting AMPK dependency. Incubation of mouse hepatocytes with compound 1 or compound 2 led to AMPK activation, but glucose production was decreased in hepatocytes from both wild-type and AMPKβ1−/− mice, suggesting that this effect was not AMPK-dependent. However, when administered intraperitoneally to high-fat diet-induced insulin-resistant mice, compound 1 and compound 2 had blood glucose-lowering effects. In addition, compound 1 and compound 2 reduced the viability of several human cancer cells in culture. The flavonoids we have identified could be a starting point for the development of new drugs to treat type 2 diabetes.

Overview of Current Approaches to Aural Rehabilitation for Adults With Cochlear Implants

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (5) ◽  
pp. 1175-1187
Author(s):  
Rachel Glade ◽  
Erin Taylor ◽  
Deborah S. Culbertson ◽  
Christin Ray
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Clinical Practice ◽  
Cochlear Implants ◽  
Practice Patterns ◽  
The United States ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Aural Rehabilitation ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Clinical Models ◽  
Hearing Health

Purpose This clinical focus article provides an overview of clinical models currently being used for the provision of comprehensive aural rehabilitation (AR) for adults with cochlear implants (CIs) in the Unites States. Method Clinical AR models utilized by hearing health care providers from nine clinics across the United States were discussed with regard to interprofessional AR practice patterns in the adult CI population. The clinical models were presented in the context of existing knowledge and gaps in the literature. Future directions were proposed for optimizing the provision of AR for the adult CI patient population. Findings/Conclusions There is a general agreement that AR is an integral part of hearing health care for adults with CIs. While the provision of AR is feasible in different clinical practice settings, service delivery models are variable across hearing health care professionals and settings. AR may include interprofessional collaboration among surgeons, audiologists, and speech-language pathologists with varying roles based on the characteristics of a particular setting. Despite various existing barriers, the clinical practice patterns identified here provide a starting point toward a more standard approach to comprehensive AR for adults with CIs.

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