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Heraclitus’ Eschatology: Was There One, or Not?. Wiener Studien|Wiener Studien 134 134|
No full textHeraclitus’ eschatology is largely derived from his concept of the soul. One groupof researchers holds that the dry souls of the wise, the well-informed and of soldiers endureafter death, while the souls of the ignorant, the sick, and of cowards perish with death in waterbecause of pleasures, disease, and obtuseness. Souls that are neither too dry nor too wet persistin the underworld. However, other specialists consider the presence of an eschatology inHeraclitus’ thinking to be unproven and contradictory. According to them, all souls cyclicallyarise from or vanish into water or fire, and the measure of their dryness or wetness has only amoral or intellectual meaning and not an eschatological one. Both of these interpretativepositions have their strong points, but they also come with some problems and questions thatare very serious and difficult to solve. It is possible that Heraclitus intentionally did not expresshimself clearly in this area, so that his statements included both positions without, in alllikelihood, giving priority to either
Ko-Kreation: Ein Prozess mit Herausforderungen (ITA Dossier Nr.56, Juni 2021)
No full text --> Durch Ko-Kreation können die Perspektiven unterschiedlicher Stakeholder kreativ und proaktiv miteinbezogen werden. Gemeinsam wird unterschiedliches Wissen genützt und damit auch Verbindlichkeit und Verantwortungsgefühl gefördert. --> Die Vielfalt an konkurrierenden Zieloptionen (z.B. Demokratisierung oder konkrete Produktentwicklung) erfordert eine Priorisierung und Positionierung des jeweiligen Ko-Kreationsprozesses. --> Die Beteiligung von Bürger*innen, Konsument*innen und Expert*innen erhöht die Effektivität des Prozesses; sie muss aber mit zusätzlichen Ressourcen unterstützt werden
U2. Der römische Limes in Österreich|Das Heiligtum des Jupiter Optimus Maximus auf dem Pfaffenberg/Carnuntum Band 3 Der römische Limes in Österreich, Heft 49|Teil 1 Der römische Limes in Österreich, Heft 49|
No full textAd utriusque imperii unitatem? Anastasius Bibliothecarius as a Broker between Two Cultures and Three Courts in the Ninth Century. Medieval Worlds|Movement and Mobility & Ideologies of Translation, III - Volume 13. 2021 medieval worlds Volume 13. 2021|
No full textIn 870, Anastasius, former (and later once again) librarian of the papal bibliotheca and chancellery, well-known erudite and former anti-pope, reached the pinnacle of his career as a diplomat. While exiled from Rome for a crime committed by his cousin, he was an important member of a mission sent to Constantinople by the Carolingian emperor and lord of Italy Louis II. He was sent there to negotiate a marriage alliance between Louis’s daughter and only surviving child Ermengard and a son of the upstart Byzantine emperor Basil I, which was ultimately to serve to bind the two empires together in the fight against the Saracens, southern Italy and Sicily. While there, Anastasius also joined the papal delegation at the Eighth Ecumenical Council, which was there in the pope’s stead to formally depose Patriarch Photius and negotiate the case of Bulgaria. We thus see Anastasius as a diplomat and cultural broker between Latin and Greek ecclesiastic and lay culture and between three courts. He composed a letter about his dealings in the East for Pope Hadrian II in 870, and thus we have an invaluable first-hand eyewitness account. While most negotiations started in 869 and 870 between the East and the West ultimately failed or were rendered pointless by political change, Anastasius shows us that 870 was a great chance for all sides. And while most parties involved lost something by the failure of the exchanges, Anastasius himself regained and kept a powerful position in the papal administration once again
Federico III e Niccolò V. Römische Historische Mitteilungen|Römische Historische Mitteilungen 63|
No full textThe visit of Frederick III to Rome in 1452 has been reconstructed on the basis of published and unpublished sources, including correspondence between the orators in the Roman Curia (especially between orators coming from Siena and Milan), urban chronicles (by Stefano Infessura e Paolo Dello Mastro), biographies (De vita ac gestis Nicolai quinti summi pontificis by Giannozzo Manetti) and several historiographic and literary sources (Historia Austrialis by Enea Silvio Piccolomini). Particularly noteworthy is what has been written about the relations between the emperor and Pope Nicholas V, with the latter being concerned that the Roman citizens would revolt during the emperor’s visit, as had already occurred in previous centuries when other emperors arrived in Rome. Most of all, the pope was scared about the conspiracy against the papacy orchestrated by Stefano Porcari, which occurred in 1453, and about an alliance between Frederick III and Alfonso of Aragon, King of Naples. Among all the international controversial issues that emerged during the visit, there was also the issue of Francesco Sforza, Duke of Milan, demanding that the coronation of Frederick as King of Italy be held in Milan, prior to him being crowned in Rome by the pope, thus following the old tradition with the Iron Crown of Lombardy. The meeting between Frederick III and Nicholas V, at which no particular problems arose, was partly conducted with Piccolomini’s skilful mediation
A mixed collocation scheme for solving second kind Fredholm integral equations in [-1,1]. ETNA - Electronic Transactions on Numerical Analysis
No full textIn this paper we propose a suitable combination of two collocation methods based on the zeros of Jacobi polynomials in order to approximate the solution of Fredholm integral equations on [−1,1]. One of the main interesting aspects of this procedure is that our approach is cheaper than the usual collocation method based on standard Lagrange interpolation using Jacobi zeros. Moreover, we can successfully manage functions with algebraic singularities at the endpoints. The error of the method is comparable with the error of the best polynomial approximation in suitable spaces of functions, equipped with the weighted uniform norm. The convergence and the stability of the method is proved, and some numerical tests, which confirm the theoretical estimates, are provided
Satellite Measured Ionospheric Magnetic Field Variations over Natural Hazards Sites
No full textProcesses and threats related to natural hazards play an important role in the evolution of the Earth and in human history. The purpose of this study is to investigate magnetic field variations measured at low Earth orbit (LEO) altitudes possibly associated with earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and artificial outbursts. We focus on two missions with well equipped magnetometer packages, the China Seismo-Electromagnetic Satellite (CSES) and ESA’s three spacecraft Swarm fleet. After a natural hazards survey in the context of this satellites, and consideration of external magnetospheric and solar influences, together with spacecraft interferences, wavelet analysed spatio-temporal patterns in ionospheric magnetic field variations related to atmospheric waves are examined in detail. We provide assessment of the links between specific lithospheric or near surface sources and ionospheric magnetic field measurements. For some of the diverse events the achieved statistical results show a change in the pattern between pre- and post-event periods, we show there is an increase in the fluctuations for the higher frequency (smaller scales) components. Our results are relevant to studies which establish a link between space based magnetic field measurements and natural hazards