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Sewing the Body of Christ : Eucharist wafer souvenirs stitched into fifteenth-century manuscripts, primarily in the Netherlands
No full textBooks of hours in the fifteenth century occupied several social and devotional roles. People used them to store small objects, including metal badges. Although the cultural practice of sewing in badges was widespread in the late Middle Ages, nearly all of the badges were removed (by later collectors). This article examines the practice by considering needle holes and offsets in the soft parchment, which indicate the shape of the badges and where they were attached. Noting that vast majority of metal offsets in books of hours are round, the author posits that these were not impressed by pilgrims’ badges, as is often repeated in the scholarly literature, but rather by tokens that commemorate having taken the Eucharist. The round badges are the same size and shape and bear the same imagery as host wafers. Owners stitched such badges into their books’ margins at locations relevant to Eucharistic piety. When they were sewn into books, Eucharist badges reconfigured the book as a shrine that recorded a votary’s pursuit of Communion.Peer reviewe
Jan Bytnar „Rudy” w świetle relacji Danuty Kaczyńskiej „Leny” (przyczynek do sporu o religijność harcerzy)
No full textAssociating the current dispute in the Polish Scouting Association about the attitude of its members to religion with a similar conflict from the 1930s, the article presents two fragments of the account of Danuta Kaczyńska ”Lena” concerning Jan Bytnar “Rudy”. The first concerns the cause of the death of „Rudy”, liberated during the Operation at the Arsenal. According to “Lena”, relying on the accounts of Jan Wuttke “Czarny Jaś”, the death of “Rudy” was the consequence of the administration of poison at the Pawiak. The second fragment is compiled in the article with a short story by Danuta Kaczyńska entitled Confession. The story’s protagonist – Bitek, who in “Lena’s” account personifies “Rudy”, rejects Christianity and religion in general as sources of his ethical motivation. Taking into consideration who the author of the account is, the issues raised in the fragments should not be ignored.Wiążąc aktualny spór w Związku Harcerstwa Polskiego o stosunek jej członków do religii z podobnym konfliktem z lat trzydziestych XX w., artykuł przedstawia dwa fragmenty relacji Danuty Kaczyńskiej „Leny” dotyczące Jana Bytnara „Rudego”. Pierwszy dotyczy przyczyny śmierci odbitego w trakcie akcji pod Arsenałem „Rudego”, którą zdaniem „Leny” powołującej się na Jana Wuttke „Czarnego Jasia” było podanie trucizny na Pawiaku. Drugi fragment zostaje zestawiony w artykule z opowiadaniem Danuty Kaczyńskiej pt. Spowiedź, które okazuje się utworem z kluczem. Bohater opowiadania Bitek, który w relacji „Leny” jest „Rudym”, odrzuca chrześcijaństwo i religię w ogóle jako źródła etycznych motywacji. Ze względu na osobę autorki relacji i opowiadania poruszonych we fragmentach kwestii nie należy ignorować
Model Predictive Path Planning of AGVs: Mixed Logical Dynamical Formulation and Distributed Coordination
No full textMost of the existing path planning methods of automated guided vehicles (AGVs) are static. This paper proposes a new methodology for the path planning of a fleet of AGVs to improve the flexibility, robustness, and scalability of the AGV system. We mathematically describe the transport process as a dynamical system using an ad hoc mixed logical dynamical (MLD) model. Based on our MLD model, model predictive control is proposed to determine the collision paths dynamically, and the corresponding optimization problem is formulated as 0-1 integer linear programming. An alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM)-based decomposition technique is then developed to coordinate the AGVs and reduce the computational burden, aiming for real-time decisions. The proposed methodology is tested on industrial scenarios, and results from numerical experiments show that the proposed method can obtain high transport productivity of the multi-AGV system at a low computational burden and deal with uncertainties resulting from the industrial environment.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.Transport Engineering and Logistic
Lawyers on the Edge: What Happened to Rudy Giuliani?
No full textPlease join The Jacob Burns Center for Ethics in the Practice of Law for the second in their series of book talks, Lawyers on the Edge, with Andrew Kirtzman, author of Giuliani: The Rise and Tragic Fall of America\u27s Mayor.
Andrew Kirtzman, journalist and author, has been following the career of Rudy Giuliani since the 1990s. His new biography traces Giuliani from the beginning of his rise to his role as Donald Trump’s personal lawyer.
Professor Jessica Roth, Co-Director of the Jacob Burns Center for Ethics in the Practice of Law, will lead a discussion with Kirtzman about his book. This is the second in a series of book talks exploring the circumstances that led certain lawyers to choose their controversial clients and to examine how easy or difficult it would have been for them to back away from the edge.
Click here to view the flyer.https://larc.cardozo.yu.edu/event-invitations-2022/1000/thumbnail.jp
Touching parchment : how medieval users rubbed, handled, and kissed their manuscripts. Volume 1: officials and their books
No full textFunding: Research grant from the Leverhulme Trust, fellowships from the Netherlands Institute for Advance Study, Getty Research Institute and Paul Mellon Centre (Yale University). This book has been partially funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) under Germany’s Excellence Strategy in the context of the Cluster of Excellence Temporal Communities: Doing Literature in a Global Perspective (EXC 2020–Project ID 390608380).The Medieval book, both religious and secular, was regarded as a most precious item. The traces of its use through touching and handling during different rituals such as oath-taking, is the subject of Kathryn Rudy’s research in Touching Parchment. Rudy presents numerous and fascinating case studies that relate to the evidence of use and damage through touching and or kissing. She also puts each study within a category of different ways of handling books, mainly liturgical, legal or choral practice, and in turn connects each practice to the horizontal or vertical behavioural patterns of users within a public or private environment. With her keen eye for observation in being able to identify various characteristics of inadvertent and targeted wear, the author adds a new dimension to the Medieval book. She gives the reader the opportunity to reflect on the social, anthropological and historical value of the use of the book by sharpening our senses to the way users handled books in different situations. Rudy has amassed an incredible amount of material for this research and the way in which she presents each manuscript conveys an approach that scholars on Medieval history and book materiality should keep in mind when carrying out their own research. What perhaps is most striking in her articulate text, is how she expresses that the touching of books was not without emotion, and the accumulated effects of these emotions are worthy of preservation, study and further reflection
Touching Parchment: How Medieval Users Rubbed, Handled, and Kissed Their Manuscripts: Volume 1: Officials and Their Books (PDF)
No full textThe Medieval book, both religious and secular, was regarded as a most precious item. The traces of its use through touching and handling during different rituals such as oath-taking, is the subject of Kathryn Rudy’s research in Touching Parchment.
Rudy presents numerous and fascinating case studies that relate to the evidence of use and damage through touching and or kissing. She also puts each study within a category of different ways of handling books, mainly liturgical, legal or choral practice, and in turn connects each practice to the horizontal or vertical behavioural patterns of users within a public or private environment.
With her keen eye for observation in being able to identify various characteristics of inadvertent and targeted wear, the author adds a new dimension to the Medieval book. She gives the reader the opportunity to reflect on the social, anthropological and historical value of the use of the book by sharpening our senses to the way users handled books in different situations. Rudy has amassed an incredible amount of material for this research and the way in which she presents each manuscript conveys an approach that scholars on Medieval history and book materiality should keep in mind when carrying out their own research. What perhaps is most striking in her articulate text, is how she expresses that the touching of books was not without emotion, and the accumulated effects of these emotions are worthy of preservation, study and further reflection
Touching Parchment: How Medieval Users Rubbed, Handled, and Kissed Their Manuscripts: Volume 1: Officials and Their Books (XML)
No full textThe Medieval book, both religious and secular, was regarded as a most precious item. The traces of its use through touching and handling during different rituals such as oath-taking, is the subject of Kathryn Rudy’s research in Touching Parchment.
Rudy presents numerous and fascinating case studies that relate to the evidence of use and damage through touching and or kissing. She also puts each study within a category of different ways of handling books, mainly liturgical, legal or choral practice, and in turn connects each practice to the horizontal or vertical behavioural patterns of users within a public or private environment.
With her keen eye for observation in being able to identify various characteristics of inadvertent and targeted wear, the author adds a new dimension to the Medieval book. She gives the reader the opportunity to reflect on the social, anthropological and historical value of the use of the book by sharpening our senses to the way users handled books in different situations. Rudy has amassed an incredible amount of material for this research and the way in which she presents each manuscript conveys an approach that scholars on Medieval history and book materiality should keep in mind when carrying out their own research. What perhaps is most striking in her articulate text, is how she expresses that the touching of books was not without emotion, and the accumulated effects of these emotions are worthy of preservation, study and further reflection
Rudy Grzelczyk v Centre public d’aide sociale d’Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve (Case C-184/99), ECLI:EU:C:2001:458, [2001] ECR I-06193, 20 September 2001
No full textEssential Cases: EU Law provides a bridge between course textbooks and key case judgments. This case document summarizes the facts and decision in Rudy Grzelczyk v Centre public d’aide sociale d’Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve (Case C-184/99), ECLI:EU:C:2001:458, [2001] ECR I-06193, 20 September 2001. The document also included supporting commentary from author Noreen O’Meara.</p
Is there Predictive Power in Hydrological Catchment Information for Regional Landslide Hazard Assessment?
No full textAbstractRegional landslide hazard assessment is often carried out by means of empirical meteorological thresholds, which reliability is sometimes limited by the lack of information about the hydrological processes which lead to landslide triggering in slopes. Hence, in this paper the inclusion of hydrological information at catchment scale in the definition of landslide triggering thresholds is applied to a catchment in the northern Apennines (Italy). In particular, an hydro-meteorological threshold based on event precipitation and catchment specific storage (H-S threshold) is proposed. The performance of the proposed threshold is compared with the one of the usually adopted precipitation Intensity-Duration (I-D) threshold. Although most of the landslide recorded in the observed period (2002-2013) were triggered by short and intense precipitation events with little influence of the slope conditions prior the precipitation, the H-Sthreshold performs slightly better than the I-D threshold
Early Detection of Photovoltaic Panel Degradation through Artificial Neural Network
No full textIn this paper, an artificial neural network (ANN) is used for isolating faults and degradation phenomena occurring in photovoltaic (PV) panels. In the literature, it is well known that the values of the single diode model (SDM) associated to the PV source are strictly related to degradation phenomena and their variation is an indicator of panel degradation. On the other hand, the values of parameters that allow to identify the degraded conditions are not known a priori because they can be different from panel to panel and are strongly dependent on environmental conditions, PV technology and the manufacturing process. For these reasons, to correctly detect the presence of degradation, the effect of environmental conditions and fabrication processes must be properly filtered out. The approach proposed in this paper exploits the intrinsic capability of ANN to map in its architecture two effects: (1) the non-linear relations existing among the SDM parameters and the environmental conditions, and (2) the effect of the degradation phenomena on the I−V curves and, consequently, on the SDM parameters. The ANN architecture is composed of two stages that are trained separately: one for predicting the SDM parameters under the hypothesis of healthy operation and the other one for degraded condition. The variation of each parameter, calculated as the difference of the output of the two ANN stages, will give a direct identification of the type of degradation that is occurring on the PV panel. The method was initially tested by using the experimental I−V curves provided by the NREL database, where the degradation was introduced artificially, later tested by using some degraded experimental I−V curves.Photovoltaic Materials and Device
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