16,820 research outputs found
An Article About Albertus C. Van Raalte, Author Unknown, Except for Parts Taken from an Article by Anna C. Post
No full textAn article about Albertus C. Van Raalte, author unknown, except for parts taken from an article by Anna C. Post. The author knew first generation persons in the Holland settlement and therefore, the article has some value.https://digitalcommons.hope.edu/vrp_1890s/1012/thumbnail.jp
Medical CLIL (Part IV): How the brain works
No full textThe article describes the content and language integration strategy adopted by the author with thirty trainee hospital doctors attending five or six year postgraduate specialisation courses in medicine. It describes the role of personality as a content and language linking factor. Personality contentwise refers to abormal personalities affected by brain disorders, language-wise to confidence in public speaking in English on medical matters. The article explores attempts to measure student performance in relation to other CLIL projects and exemplifies the approach adopted in relation to web genres (two films accessible via the web) and web tools (google docs)
From ancient construction, through survival, towards modern conservation: characterization of fine-grained building material at Niğde-Kınık Höyük (Cappadocia, Turkey)
No full textIn this paper, we studied building materials from the Niğde-Kınık Höyük archaeological site (Southern Cappadocia,
Turkey) with the support of historical, architectural, and geological research. The samples were collected within the
framework of the Kınık Höyük Archaeological Project, which began excavations at the site in 2011 in a bid to
conserve the ancient buildings that would be discovered there. The objective was to characterize the fine-grained
building materials as a means of understanding the structural stability they offered, in order to explain how the
remains had managed to survive for such a long time. Samples were taken from the coating on different walls, from
mud bricks and rendering, and from soil-beaten floors from the different buildings in the settlement. Samples were
first observed using a video microscope and then studied by means X-ray diffraction and optical and scanning
electron and transmission microscopies. The materials studied were composed of volcanic sands coming from the
materials that outcrop in the area. In general, the samples were porous and fissured and minerals of volcanic origin
were identified such as quartz, plagioclases, cristobalite, pyroxenes, micas, amphiboles, and olivine together with
others of sedimentary origin, such as calcite, and small amounts of clays. The possible presence of hydrated calcium
silicates was closely investigated due to their important role in the preservation of ancient building materials, but
although we searched for them with a range of different techniques, none was found. This indicates that the longterm conservation of the Niğde-Kınık Höyük archaeological site may be due to the fact that it was buried at constant
temperature and humidity conditions and so protected from the weather conditions, which are milder in this area
than in any other region of Central Anatolia
Richardson, Barbauld, and the construction of an early modern fan club
No full textMPhilMuch has been written about the life and long works of the eighteenth century epistolary novelist, Samuel Richardson, but the prospect of his position as the first celebrity novelist – responsible for courting his own fame as well as initiating his own fan club – has largely been ignored. The body of manuscripts housed at the National Art Library in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London provides the modern scholar with evidence of the skeletal beginnings of an early fan club. This thesis aims to show how these manuscripts were turned into a saleable commodity by the publisher and entrepreneur Richard Phillips, while under the guiding hand of another, slightly later, literary celebrity, Anna Laetitia Barbauld. In order to restore Richardson’s reputation amongst a new nineteenth century audience, Barbauld was required to construct her own idea of him as an eighteenth century celebrity author, and in doing so the insecurities of a self-professed, apparently diffident man, are revealed. Barbauld’s capacious, but heavily edited selection of letters is analyzed in this thesis, providing ample evidence that Richardson’s correspondents were more than just eager letter writers. By using Barbauld’s biography of Richardson this thesis aims to show how she manipulates the genre of life writing in her construction of him.
This thesis offers an alternative reading of how the Richardson manuscripts are viewed, redefining them as not simply a collection of letters, but as a collective entity, deliberately selected and archived as evidence of an early modern fan club, and its celebrity managing director
Selection of work by Anna Gerber
No full textVarious journals and magazines Anna Gerber has contributed to. Anna Gerber is a graphic designer and writer based in London.
She is the author and designer of All Messed Up: Unpredictable Graphics (Laurence King, 2004) and co-editor and co-designer
of Influences: A Lexicon of Contemporary Graphic Design (Die Gestalten Verlag, 2006) with Anja Lutz. She writes regularily for magazines such as Print, Eye, Creative Review, Varoom and Idea Magazine and her work has also been published in shift!, dot dot dot and +rosebud.
She teaches at the London College of Communication on the BA Graphic Design and MA Design Writing Criticism programmes. She has also held workshops and lectures across the U.K. (including Tate Modern and the V&A Museum), as well as in India, the U.S., Australia and Malaysia.
Anna Gerber is currently engaged in research and developing projects relating to sustainability and how it applies to graphic
design as well as exploring contemporary graphic design in India
Analysis of pigments and mortars from the wall paintings of the Roman archaeological site of Las Dunas (San Pedro de Alcántara, Malaga S Spain)
No full textM. Urosevic and A. Arizzi were supported by State Research Agency (SRA) and the Ministry of Science and Innovation under the Research Project PID2020-119838RA-I00, within the Junta de Andalucía Research Group RNM179. D. Jimenez-Desmond and J.S. Pozo-Antonio were supported by the Ministry of Science and Innovation, Government of Spain through the project RYC2020-028902-I. The authors thank to J.A. Padrón-Navarta for his petrological input and to archeologists A. León Sierra, I. Gómez Montenegro, J. García Calvente, E. Loriguillo Millán, J. Aragón Jiménez and M. Requena Cueto for their work at the archaeological site Las Dunas. Authors also thank A. Dorado Alejos of the Dpt. Of Prehistory and Archaeology of the University of Granada, for his assistance in the use of the Coxem EM-30AXP low vacuum SEM (equipment funded by the project EQC2018-004880-P).This study aims to describe the composition, texture, and arrangement of mortars and pictorial layers from a newly excavated Roman archaeological site in the province of Baetica, southern Spain. Representative fragments with well-preserved pictorial layers were analyzed using optical imaging, spectrophotometry, Scanning Electron Microscopy with Energy-Dispersive Spectroscopy (SEM-EDS) mapping, and X-ray diffraction. The results reveal similarities to other well-studied Roman archaeological sites, particularly in the use of mixtures of natural (hematite, goethite, aragonite, phyllosilicates, and quartz) and synthetic minerals (cuprorivaite) used in classical Roman pigments. However, the mortar from the investigated site shows a distinctive use of ferromagnesian silicates (olivine and pyroxenes from local ultramafic rocks) as aggregate material, making this site unique among all Roman provinces. Additionally, the common occurrence of Mg in the binder of the mortars under the form of brucite, hydromagnesite and magnesium silicate hydrates, indicates the use of a magnesian (dolomitic) lime that, according to the chemical analyses, was obtained by adding up to 15 wt% of powdered dolomitic marbles from nearby Roman quarries to the limestone. We speculate that this addition might be intended to improve the workability and mechanical resistances of the mortar in combination with the abundant ferromagnesian silicates used as aggregates, some of them showing chemically reactive rims in contact with the binder. In conclusion, this study provides further evidence of the advanced knowledge and skills achieved by Roman craftsmen who were able to adapt traditional recipes to suit local resources, obtaining materials of excellent quality and durability.State Research Agency (SRA)Spanish Government
PID2020-119838RA-I00Junta de Andalucía
RNM179Spanish Government
RYC2020-028902-IEQC2018-004880-
The manufacture of natural hydraulic limes: Influence of raw materials' composition, calcination and slaking in the crystal-chemical properties of binders
No full textThis study aims to achieve an in-depth understanding of the manufacturing process of natural hydraulic lime
(NHL) by assessing the influence of raw materials' chemical- mineralogical composition and the effect of the
slaking process. NHLs with variable hydraulicity were manufactured using 56 raw materials from carbonate
outcrops in Andalusia (Spain). This study shows that siliceous limestones with microcrystalline quartz generate
hydraulic phases after calcination. However, when the amount of this reactive silica exceeds 18% by weight, CaO
is not formed, and only calcium silicates appear. It was also found that slaking of NHL leads to partial hydration
of the most reactive calcium silicates, reducing the expected reactivity of the lime. Instead, exposure of NHL
quicklimes to environmental relative humidity promotes the formation of disordered portlandite and reduces the
partial hydration of hydraulic phases. Our findings demonstrate that standard slaking can be replaced by
alternative methods for the studied binders.State Research Agency (SRA) and the
Ministry of Science and Innovation under the Research Project PID2020-
119838RA-I00Regional Ministry of University Research and
Innovation of the Junta de Andalucía and FEDER (a way of making
Europe) B-RNM-188-UGR20Junta de Andalucía Research
Group RNM17
Author and Lecturer Anna Bird Stewart will Speak at the University of Dayton
No full textNews release announcing the visitation and speech of author and lecturer Anna Bird Stewart to the University of Dayton
Operatori del processo edilizio
No full textLemma che descrive i diversi attori del processo edilizio, con particolare attenzione al processo edilizio pubblico - ISBN:ISSN 2284-00IX - visibile su: Wikitecnica.com/author/giovenale-anna-mari
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