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Virtue Ethics and Education from Late Antiquity to the Eighteenth Century
No full textThis book argues that pre-modern societies were characterized by a common quest for human flourishing or excellence, i.e. virtue. The history of virtue is a particularly fruitful approach when studying pre-modern periods. Systems of moral philosophy and more day-to-day moral ideas and practices in which virtue was central were incredibly important in pre-modern societies within and among diverse scholarly, literary, religious and social communities. Virtue was a cornerstone of pre-modern societies, permeating society in many different ways, and on many different levels, and it was conveyed in erudite and pedagogical texts, ritual, performance and images. The construction of virtues such as wisdom, courage, and justice helped shape identities and communities, but also served to legitimize and reinforce differences pertaining to gender, social hierarchies, and nations. On a more fundamental level, studying the history of virtue helps us understand the guiding principles of historical action. Thus, we believe that the history of virtue is central to understanding these societies, and that the history of virtue, including criticisms of virtue and virtue ethics, tells us important things about how men and women thought and acted in ages past
Advances and Applications in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
No full textIn the last decade, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), commonly known as drones, have been used for different purposes, including applications such as search and rescue, highway patrol, and infrastructure inspections for power lines, bridges, and factories. These applications require UAVs that can operate under specific conditions or complex environments. As a result, new configurations are being developed, including improved sensors, longer flight times, and enhanced autonomy. This Special Issue provides the recent advances and applications in unmanned aerial vehicles, considering both theories and experiments for multirotor, fixed-wing, and non-conventional (convertible) vehicles. After a stringent peer review process, twelve papers were finally included in this Special Issue, which covers the following aspects: modeling, guidance, navigation, control, simulation, and applications
Assessment of Tensegrity Structures
No full textThis book enables a proper understanding of tensegrity structures. It contains both theoretical background and examples. First, a geometrically non-linear model and the methods used to evaluate the behavior of tensegrity structures are explained. Next, a broad spectrum of different planar and spatial design solutions is considered. Assessment of Tensegrity Structures is very logically organized, in line with its down-to-earth subject, beginning with the simplest two-dimensional structure, for which solutions can be presented in explicit form, and ending with more complex tensegrity structures used in civil engineering such as domes, towers, and plates. This book is designed for everyone who is interested in tensegrity systems, from beginners to those who want to deepen their knowledge of them. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) 4.0 license
Applying Earth Observation Data for Urban Land-Use Change Mapping
No full textThe Special Issue “Applying Earth Observation Data for Urban Land-Use Change Mapping” focuses on the science of Earth observation data, aiming to process, analyze, and monitor the development and impact of urbanized areas from social, economic, environmental, and other land-related perspectives. This Special Issue particularly favors the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms for processing spatial big data and correlating it with in situ measurements. The articles in this Special Issue present theoretical and practical approaches to urban processes and are a collection of applied and review articles. Interdisciplinary manuscripts are also particularly welcome
Stefan Javors’kyj's Sermons
No full textThis edition presents a selection of 15 sermons by Stefan Javors’kyj (1658–1722), a Ukrainian poet and preacher of the late 17th century. His imagination, knowledge, and rhetorical skills made him one of the leading European writers of his time. For political reasons, his sermons remained in manuscript for over 300 years. The editors have painstakingly transcribed the Ukrainian texts and annotated them in English. The edition makes Javors’kyj’s works available to scholars who wish to broaden their knowledge of an unknown part of early modern European literature. Edited by Giovanna Brogi, Maksym Yaremenko, Tetiana Kuzyk, Marzanna Kuczyńska, and Jakub Niedźwiedź with an introduction by Marzanna Kuczyńska in collaboration with Bartosz B. Awianowicz, Grzegorz Franczak, and Monika Miazek-Męczyńsk
Biografie di paesaggi boschivi
No full textPublishedLungi dal rappresentare paesaggi “naturali”, i boschi italiani hanno alle spalle una densa storia. Per secoli le aree verdi hanno rappresentato una risorsa e sono state interessate da molteplici usi, diritti, sistemi produttivi che ne hanno condizionato nel tempo estensione, composizione e la stessa ecologia. Larici, faggi, ma anche pecore e ronchi: questo volume è un viaggio in tante storie locali di boschi alpini e appenninici. Unendo geografia, storia, ricerca di terreno e analisi cartografica, si propone un approccio biografico ai paesaggi boschivi per riscoprire i processi di biodiversificazione, gli effetti paesaggistici delle pratiche produttive e le eredità dei patrimoni storico-ambientali, per una ricerca geografico-storica che possa anche sostenere l’attuale programmazione ambientale sostenibile
Qualität in der wissenschaftlichen und künstlerischen Weiterbildung
No full textDie wissenschaftliche und künstlerische Weiterbildung gewinnt vor dem Hintergrund gesellschaftlicher Transformationsprozesse, technologischer Entwicklungen sowie individueller und beruflicher Qualifizierungsbedarfe zunehmend an Bedeutung. Hochschulen positionieren sich dabei als zentrale Akteurinnen auf einem dynamischen Weiterbildungsmarkt. Qualität in der wissenschaftlichen Weiterbildung wird zu einem entscheidenden Differenzierungsmerkmal, wobei sich eben jene Qualität in ihrer Mehrdimensionalität auf unterschiedliche Steuerungsebenen bezieht. Dieser Sammelband dokumentiert zentrale Beiträge und Erkenntnisse der Tagung "Qualität in der wissenschaftlichen und künstlerischen Weiterbildung: Akteur:innen, Organisationen, Gesellschaft", die im Dezember 2024 in Heidelberg stattfand. Die Publikation greift aktuelle Diskurse zur Qualitätssicherung und -entwicklung auf und reflektiert Fragen von Governance, Didaktik und institutionellen Strukturen in Theorie und Praxis. Dabei reicht das Themenspektrum von Fragen der Educational Governance über Programmplanung und Hochschuldidaktik bis hin zu Strategien zur Qualitätssicherung und Microcredentials. Der erste Teil der Publikation beleuchtet Organisation und Professionalisierung als Voraussetzung für Qualität. Im zweiten Teil stehen strategische, strukturelle und prozessuale Aspekte im Fokus. Teil drei bietet Einblicke in die Weiterbildungslandschaft in Medizin und Gesundheitsberufen. Der vierte Teil widmet sich innovativen Praxisbeispielen, u. a. aus dem Bereich künstlerischer Weiterbildung oder digitaler Lehr-Lern-Räume. Der Band bietet fundierte Analysen und praxisnahe Ansätze, die aktuelle Herausforderungen sowohl theoretisch als auch methodisch umreißen. Er leistet einen Beitrag zur Qualitätsentwicklung in der wissenschaftlichen und künstlerischen Weiterbildung und richtet sich an alle, die diese aktiv mitgestalten wollen
The Elementary Forms of Corruption
No full textSeeks to better understand the nature of corruption through a case study of a rural Brazilian community’s response to the country’s political fraud. The Elementary Forms of Corruption is an ethnographic history of rural Brazilians’ shifting moral imagination in the context of their country’s recent corruption scandals and political crises. The book explores how Brazil’s cosmopolitan models of corruption, both left-wing and right-wing varieties, found their way to a small sertanejo (hinterland) municipality in the northeast, where people understood corruption very differently. Reckoning with both the leftist Workers’ Party, which sought to liberate sertanejos from patron-client relations, and the New Right populists who sought to stamp out the “communists” threatening the patriarchal family, the people of the sertanejo made recourse to older ideas about corruption—such as the betrayal of kinship obligations and communal trust—to decipher and shape national politics. Challenging the discipline’s current aversion to generalizable, analytic categories that are useful for comparison across cultures or historical periods, The Elementary Forms of Corruption posits a general framework for understanding corruption at its most elementary level: the degradation of a moral gradient through the transgressive rechanneling of those currencies (e.g., gifts, favors) that sustain communal bonds when properly directed
Chapter San Nicolò del Lido: scan to BIM per la comprensione e la divulgazione del manufatto architettonico
No full textThe here collected contributions relating to the 46th International Conference of the Representation Disciplines Teachers, organized jointly by Sapienza University of Rome, Roma Tre University, and San Raffaele Roma University, aim to offer the scientific community a reflection on the theoretical and methodological aspects related to the concept of èkphrasis, a term that, in the field of representation, concerns descriptive, analogical, and digital activities that generate new knowledge in several areas of application. The Conference aims to place at the center of the discussion an interpretation of the concept of research that, without neglecting an idea of study, protection, and enhancement of environmental and cultural heritage, focuses on the needs of contemporary society and its possible developments, making use of innovative theoretical, methodological, and operational activities, including those characterized by an interdisciplinary approach. According to this interpretation, research can also be seen as a foreshadowing of the definition and testing of experimental proposals aimed at exploring new areas of investigation: this opens up imaginative and utopian perspectives in the relationship between the sciences, the arts, and the disciplines that contribute to common goals, through the experimentation of methods, techniques, and languages for conceiving, prefiguring, designing, and representing
Redefining Spiritual Spaces in the Age of Technology
No full textEmerging technologies are entering every aspect of human life, including the spiritual realm. At the same time, spirituality has entered mainstream environments, including business, education, health and healing, and tech design. This provides an opportunity for technology and wisdom traditions to evolve together due to the widening audiences and worldviews. In this open access volume, an assembly of experts explores the intersection of spirituality and technology as they are emerging in a variety of contexts in our world. Through a mixture of philosophy, advocacy, presentation of research findings, and sharing of practices, this book illustrates technology’s influence on spirituality and vice versa and its applications to management, strategy, and leadership. At the same time, contributing authors identify the surfacing pitfalls, shadow material, and areas that must be attended to during this time of evolving landscapes. Additionally, two of the chapters highlight virtual practices that focus on racial healing, which are of crucial import at this time in our collective history, and another two explore healing, justice, and liberation through the uses of technology. Written in a think-piece style, this book is accessible to those within and outside of academia. This is an open access book