177 research outputs found
The image of illness in Veit Stoss’s works of art
No full textThe article takes up the issue of ideological connections between the philosophy of man developed in the 15th century by the Cracovian masters from the Universitatis Cracoviensis and Cracovian Gothic art, above all the sculptures created by Veit Stoss in his Cracovian period. The German master-carver showed in his Cracovian Altarpiece a vast range of individual portrait-studies, realistic and naturalistic in character. During the Cracovian period some essential transformations took place in Veit Stoss’s oeuvre. He created naturalistic portrait-studies unknown in the European art of the time, depicting even pathological changes, such as cancerous skin lesions,which Stoss perceived on the human body. We have known – on the basis of archival sources – that Veit Stoss maintained friendly contacts with Jan of Głogów, author of the treatise Physionomia hincinde ex illustribus scriptoribus per venerabilem virum magistrum Joannem Glogoviensem diligentissime recol lecta, printed in Kraków in 1518. I wish to prove that the content of this treatise – includingtheissueofskindiseases – found its reflection in the art of one of the leading sculptors of the late medieval Europe
A commented song of Veit Weber about the Battle of Grandson (1476)
No full textRegula Schmid published a commentary of the song by Veit Weber about the Battle of Grandson on the blog Translocations. Anthologie (A research blog that examines and comments on source texts since antiquity about looted art, art as war booty and the translocation of cultural assets). https://translanth.hypotheses.org/ueber/burgunderbeute Learn more about the author and its connection to the famous Bernese illustrated chronicles of Diebold Schilling (3 volumes with more than 600 illustra..
Arte e conscientização ambiental : uma reflexão sobre a formação continuada de professores, fundamentada em Basil Bernstein
No full textA presente tese, integrante da linha de pesquisa - O sujeito da educação: conhecimento, linguagem e contextos, na temática Sociologia e Educação, e do projeto de pesquisa Perspectivas de Ensino na Educação Básica: prática pedagógica e formação de professores, coordenado pela professora doutora Maria Helena Degani Veit, é o registro de uma pesquisa-ação que toma como base uma formação em serviço, promovida pela pesquisadora, oferecida a 14 professoras do ensino fundamental, no município de Igrejinha (RS), no ano de 2006. Reflete sobre a integração de diferentes campos de conhecimento, numa ação transdisciplinar que objetiva uma interpretação contextual da realidade do Século XXI, especialmente, das questões ambientais próprias da contemporaneidade, a partir de conteúdos de Arte. Enfatiza o compromisso da educação, na formação de um sujeito consciente de sua responsabilidade na preservação de condições de vida no planeta. Constitui uma auto-avaliação da formação promovida fundamentada em referencial teórico do sociólogo Basil Bernstein. Reflete sobre a modalidade pedagógica desenvolvida pela investigadora e sua relação com desempenhos evidenciados em posterior prática docente das educadoras integrantes da formação, analisada com base nos mesmos conceitos. Os resultados da pesquisa ressaltam a necessidade de acompanhamento posterior, assessorando a prática pedagógica das docentes de forma a garantir a aplicação dos princípios e conceitos desenvolvidos na formação. Ressaltam a necessidade de investimento em seus saberes teóricos e o desenvolvimento de modalidades pedagógicas, fundamentadas em relações democráticas, e em critérios de avaliação explícitos. Contempla o grau de aquisição de regras de reconhecimento, inferido pelas evidencias quanto às regras de realização, observado nas práticas das professoras; e como Rosa (2007), defende a presença de um discurso regulador planejado de modo a oferecer condições de desenvolvimento a um discurso instrucional capaz de promover efetiva aprendizagem.This dissertation is part of the research line, “The Subject of Education: Knowledge, Language and Contexts”, under the theme, “Sociology and Education”, and part of the research project, “Perspectives of Teaching in Basic Education: Pedagogical Practice and Teacher Training”, which is coordinated by Professor Maria Helena Degani Veit. It discusses a research-action project based on a training course offered by the author to 14 elementary school teachers in the municipality of Igrejinha, state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, in 2006. The dissertation reflects on the integration of different fields of knowledge in a transdisciplinary action designed to give a contextual interpretation of the reality of the 21st century, particularly of contemporary environmental issues, on the basis of art. It emphasizes the commitment of education to the training of subjects aware of their responsibility for the preservation of the Earth. It is a self-evaluation of the training course based on a theoretical framework provided by Basil Bernstein. It reflects on the pedagogical model developed by the author and its relation with the later teaching practice of the educators who participated in the training course, which is analyzed on the basis of the same concepts. Its results indicate the need for follow-up of the teachers’ practice in order to guarantee the application of the principles developed in the training course. These results highlight the need for investment in their theorical knowledge and the development of pedagogical models based on democratic relations and explicit assessment criteria. The dissertation discusses the degree of the acquisition of recognition rules inferred by evidences as to the realization rules observed in the teachers’ practices as Rosa (2007), it argues for the presence of a regulative discourse planned to offer conditions for the development of an instructional discourse capable of promoting an effective learning
The Excavation of an Early Bronze Age Settlement at St. Veit-Klinglberg, Land Salzburg, Austria: An Interim Report
No full textSince 1985 a team under the direction of the author has been carrying out excavations at the site of St. Veit-Klinglberg, Land Salzburg, Austria (see map, fig. 1). This interim report gives an account of the background to the work and the results so far obtained, and outlines current hypotheses concerning the site's function and significance. One more season of work is planned, but more importantly the analysis of the material from the excavation is still only at a very preliminary stage.</jats:p
THOMAS BERNHARDS UNVERÖFFENTLICHTES ROMANPROJEKT 'SCHWARZACH ST. VEIT'. DAS KONVOLUT, DIE FASSUNGEN UND IHRE DEUTUNG
No full textThe unfinished novel Schwarzach St. Veit represents a turning point in the early career of Thomas Bernhard at the end of the 1950s, a period in which the young author (by then only known as a lyric poet) was experimenting with several literary genres (poetry, drama, prose). However, Bernhard’s first attempt in the novelistic genre is not a single text. It consists of a series prose texts in several preliminary and revised stages, among which four main versions stand out (Jakob Zischek, Hufnagl, Schwarzach St. Veit and Der Wald auf der Straße). All four are finished versions, which – Jakob Zischek excepted – Bernhard offered to different publishers between 1960 and 1961, but all were rejected. Only in 1989, In der Höhe. Rettungsversuch, Unsinn – a revised version of Der Wald auf der Straße – was eventually published, thus becoming the fifth main text and in a way the final version of the whole Schwarzach-project.
The present dissertation contains, in as much detail as possible, a description of the unpublished novel-project, regarding both philological aspects and thematic content. The manuscripts are precisely catalogued and analysed in order to better understand the structure of the archival materials and the relation between several drafts and final versions. This allows for a more thorough appreciation of Bernhard’s working method at a time when he was still developing his personal style, often rewriting passages several times, excising passages and starting over. The individual analyses of the main versions bring to light similarities and interferences with other works of the same period, as well as typical motifs, that would characterise Bernhard’s later output
Towards a realistic GaAs-spin qubit device for a classical error-corrected quantum memory
No full textBased on numerically optimized real-device gates and parameters we study the performance of the phase-flip (repetition) code on a linear array of gallium arsenide (GaAs) quantum dots hosting singlet-triplet qubits. We first examine the expected performance of the code using simple error models of circuit-level and phenomenological noise, reporting, for example, a circuit-level depolarizing noise threshold of approximately 3%. We then perform density-matrix simulations using a maximum-likelihood and minimum-weight matching decoder to study the effect of real-device dephasing, readout error, and quasistatic as well as fast gate noise. Considering the tradeoff between qubit readout error and dephasing time (T2) over measurement time, we identify a subthreshold region for the phase-flip code which lies within experimental reach.QCD/Terhal GroupQuantum Computin
Christianity, imperialism and culture : the expansion of the two Krobo states in Ghana, c. 1830 to 1930
No full textThis study is concerned with cultural change in south-eastern Ghana during the colonial period. It examines how the two Krobo states negotiated their dramatic economic and territorial expansion in terms of culture from c. 1830-1930; how they remember their erstwhile settlement on Krobo Mountain and the abandonment of these homesteads; how they coped with the abolition of their national centre and recreated it in their principal farm settlements; how they dealt with and circumvented the prohibition of their principal cults and reinvented new festivals; and how today they mobilise their cultural and historical heritage in the context of ‘development’. While the abolition of the national centre and the principal rites of the Krobo is remembered as an act of colonial violence motivated amongst others by a ‘civilising mission’, the thesis argues that the Krobo themselves initiated this intervention in order to achieve the dramatic expansion and negotiate the necessary political transformation. The Krobo did not merely react or respond to external factors such as colonialism and mission. Rather, they actively drew on them (but also on the culture of the neighbouring Akan states) as resources in order to achieve internal transformations and expand their economy and territory. This explains why today mission and church can be considered part of Krobo tradition. The thesis traces these transformations by looking at ritual, ceremony and dress and by making extensive use of missionary sources combined with documents from the colonial administration and oral history
Message from the Organizers
No full textGreen Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.Intelligent Electrical Power Grid
Financial Assessment of Mini-grids Based on Renewable Energies in the Context of the Ugandan Energy Market
No full textAbstractIn Uganda the low national electrification rate of around 15% and a very poor rate of progress in rural electrification, from an estimated 1% in 2001 to around 7% in 2013 are identified as major challenges for economic development and poverty reduction. In this context, the objective of this scientific paper is to analyze the economic feasibility of mini-grids based on renewable energies in the context of the Ugandan energy market as an off-grid electrification solution. In doing so, financial feasibility of mini-grids is also taken into consideration from macro-economic perspectives and risk management aspects. It acknowledges that off-grid electrification can be seen as mandatory to reach the ambitious national electrification targets and offering a huge opportunity in a so far almost untapped market, while at the same time still facing various financing- and market barriers in Uganda. By an executed case study, the paper simulates the level of subsidies required to reach economic feasibility, revealing that it can only be achieved with high level of subsidies involved due to the currently difficult financing conditions. Therefore, innovative financing recommendations are given by suggesting a layered fund as a multi-level financial support mechanism. Given the appropriate incentives, it can facilitate a subsidy phase-out for mini-grids in regards to a sustainable public sector engagement until self-sustaining market conditions are reached. It could attract investors by offering eligible investment conditions such as appealing return rates on decipherable risks by a reallocation between different shareholder layers, including public sector funding as a safety caution, while at the same time gradually transferring grant funding to revolving funding support step by step
Route Planning with Breaks and Truck Driving Bans Using Time-Dependent Contraction Hierarchies
No full textMandatory breaks for truck drivers are nowadays scheduled after the route has been decided. However, in some cases it is beneficial to plan these breaks during waiting time caused by truck driving bans. Optimally planning a single break considering driving bans can be done using Dijkstra’s algorithm with multiple labels. This has large effects on predicted travel times: 17% of the analysed routes having a night rest obtain an earlier arrival time by 5 hours on average. However, the computation times of this algorithm are long. A novel heuristic version of time-dependent contraction hierarchies leads to significant reductions in computation times from several seconds to several milliseconds per route. Experiments show that the solutions are still optimal for a representative test set consisting of 10,000 route queries.Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.AlgorithmicsTransport and Plannin
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