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Phit chom Meri loet lam loki kam ru thakon
No full textDrawing on a portrait and old poem, the author describes the beauty of Nang Meri, a female character in one old Thai literature
Kanssaeläjillemme tällä planeetalla – huomioita eläimestä taiteessa(ni)
No full textKuvataiteen maisterin opinnäytteeni koostuu taiteellisesta osasta ja kirjallisesta osasta. Taiteellinen osa rakentuu eläimiä kuvaavista keraamisesta veistoksesta ja kahdesta öljymaalauksesta. Kolmen teoksen kokonaisuus oli esillä Kuvataideakatemian Kuvan Kevät -näyttelyssä keväällä 2024. Kaikki teokset ovat valmistuneet keväällä 2024. Kirjallinen osa ”Kanssaeläjillemme tällä planeetalla – huomioita eläimestä taiteessa(ni)” on tutkielma eläimestä taiteessa ja taiteelliseen työskentelyyni sisältyvistä, eläimyyteen eri tavoin liittyvistä ulottuvuuksista.
Taiteellisen osan eläinkuvat ovat ehdotus yhdenlaiselle mahdolliselle evoluution polulle, toisin sanoen ne esittävät tulevaisuuden spekulatiivisia eläinlajeja. ”Matriarkan muisti suojelee laumaa” öljymaalauksessa on kuvattu suurikokoinen arktisilla alueilla elävä vuohieläin, ”Pölisevä ponsi” öljymaalaus esittää kukkia pölyttävää selkärankaista ja keramiikkaveistos ”Maamureena” pesäänsä suojelevaa munivaa nisäkästä. Tulevaisuuden eläinlajiston kuvaaminen sisältää pyrkimyksen päästää irti nykyhetkessä vallitsevasta kyynisyydestä ja toivottomuudesta. Teoskokonaisuus on saanut vaikutteita luonnontieteellisen eläinkuvituksen historiasta.
Kirjallinen osa sisältää työskentelyprosessin eri vaiheiden kuvauksen lisäksi huomioita ja analyyttista pohdintaa 1. tieteen ja taiteen väliin jäävästä tieteellisestä eläinkuvituksesta, 2. nykytaiteen suhteesta eläimiin, 3. söpöyden estetiikasta, 4. käsillä tekemisen ruumiillisuudesta, ja 5. eläimen territoriaalisuudesta. Kirjallisessa osassa havaintojen pohjana toimivat teorioiden tai hypoteesien sijaan taiteellisessa työskentelyssäni oivaltamani asiat. Tavoite on syventää omaa ymmärrystäni eläimen käsitteellisistäkin ulottuvuuksista taiteessa yleensä, sekä osana omaa taiteellista työskentelyäni.
Opinnäytekokonaisuus asettuu osaksi nykytaidekenttää, ja erityisesti osaksi sitä taiteen tekemisen jatkumoa, jossa eläin, eläimyys tai monitieteinen eläintutkimus on nähty työskentelyn keskeisenä lähtökohtana. Opinnäyte toimii alustana uusien eläintä koskevien havaintojen mahdollisuudelle – minulle sekä muille
THE EFFECT OF USING QUESTIONING THE AUTHOR (QtA) APPROACH TOWARD STUDENTS’ ABILITY IN READING COMPREHENSION AT JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL 1 TAMBANG OF KAMPAR REGENCY
No full textThe main focus of the research is to find out whether there is a significant
effect of using Questioning the Author (QtA) Approach toward Students’ Ability
in Reading Comprehension at the Junior High School 1 Tambang or not. In the
research, the type of the research was quasi-experimental research. The researcher
used nonrandomized control group pretest-posttest design. The researcher used
two classes as sample which a consisted of 50 students. The first class was
experimental group and the second was control group. Experimental class was
taught by using Questioning the Author (QtA) Approach and control class was
taught by using conventional strategy. The technique of data collecting was
observation and test. Observation was used in order to collect the data of using
Questioning the Author (QtA) Approach and the test was used in order to collect
the data of students’ ability in reading comprehension at Junior High School 1
Tambang. The technique of data analysis used T-test formula in order to find out
the difference of students’ mean score between experimental class and control
class by using SPSS 16 version. The students’ score was compared with T-table
which considered with degree of freedom (df).
Based on the data analysis, the researcher concluded that there was a
significant effect of using Questioning the Author (QtA) Approach towards
students’ ability in reading comprehension at Junior High School 1 Tambang
with consideration to = 12.000 is higher than T-table either in significant 5 %; =
2.01 or in significant 1 % = 2.68. It means that Ha is accepted and Ho is rejected.
So, it can be concluded that there is significant difference between students’
reading comprehension taught by using Questioning the Author (QtA) Approach
and control class taught by using conventional strategy at Junior High School 1
Tambang. In other words, there was a significant effect of using Questioning the
Author (QtA) Approach toward Students’ Ability in Reading Comprehension at
Junior High School 1 Tambang
Presidentide Lennart Meri ja Arnold Rüütli representatsioon Eesti ja Soome trükimeedias riigivisiitide kajastamisel Soome
No full textThe goal of this Bachelor’s Degree Thesis was to analyse the representation of President
Lennart Meri and President Arnold Rüütel in the Estonian and Finnish printed mass media in
the course of reporting on their state visits to Finland. The conducted content analysis covered
four Estonian weekly and daily newspapers and three Finnish weekly newspapers, totalling 50
articles. An additional analysis was carried out of articles published immediately after the
presidential elections (the sample has 69 articles) for the purpose of mapping out the
representation of the presidents in the same channels after the presidential elections and
compare it to that established during state visits.
When Lennart Meri was elected President, the domestic media was discreet in reflecting the
news. But when Arnold Rüütel was elected President, the media reacted to the event in an
extremely active manner. Here the author would like to point out that several Estonian
newspapers had special presidential election columns. The opposite was true of the state visits
– that made to Finland by Lennart Meri was reflected in a more active manner than the state
visit of Arnold Rüütel. The latter was never front page news in Estonian newspapers.
The Finnish printed media reflected the presidential election results and the state visits in a
relatively similar manner – no such remarkable differences can be noted as the ones observed
in the Estonian printed media. In both cases, the dedicated positive attitude of the Finnish
media toward Lennart Meri should be stressed.
The topics reflected during the state visit of the President in 1995 differ somewhat from those
discussed in 2001 as certain changes took place during those six years in Estonia and Finland,
as well in the world as a whole. The most remarkable change can be observed in the topic
columns on “culture and history.” Namely, in 1995 such topics had been of vital importance
in the printed media of both countries, while in 2001 their importance receded almost to zero.
A closer examination of the newspaper articles indicates that during the state visit of 1995 the
stress was more on the history of Estonia and Finland as two kindred nations, the first
President of Estonia and the period that had passed since his visit. Also, the schedule for
Lennart Meri contained more cultural events than the state visit of 2001. It is interesting to
observe that in 2001 the Estonian and Finnish media displayed more unity in the topics reflected than they had in 1995. The active attitude of the Estonian media was noteworthy
regarding the topic of medals – surprisingly, during both state visits.
When comparing media reflections in the two countries, one difference between the domestic
and foreign newspapers is the presence or lack of accusatory and ironic stories. During neither
of the visits did the Finnish printed media have negative-attitude stories related to the visit of
our President.
The optimistic and satisfied Finnish attitude of 1995 changed into a neutral one in 2001, with
no more impassionate stories, although the relations between the two countries remained
excellent. Nor could such impassionate stories be found in the Estonian printed media in 2001
– here the state visit reflection also became more diplomatic.
The greatest difference in the Estonian and Finnish media was that of quoting the Presidents.
The Finnish printed media’s quotations of the Presidents during the two state visits total 128
sentences in the analysed articles. The domestic media deemed it necessary to quote the
Presidents during the same period with only 53 sentences.
The attitude toward the President during the corresponding state visit was generally the same
both in Estonia and Finland. The President as the representative of the state and
simultaneously an exciting personality – this was the picture of Lennart Meri in the media of
both countries. President Meri was represented in his presidential institutional capacity and as
a personality in the Estonian and Finnish media. On the contrary, the picture of President
Arnold Rüütel during his state visit was discreet. President Rüütel in the Finnish media is
primarily the President of Estonia, without an outstanding personality, and the attention given
to him cannot be compared to the attention enjoyed by President Meri. The Estonian media
never praises Rüütel by quoting an opinion leader – he is only praised for being in the right
place at the right time.http://tartu.ester.ee/record=b1738718~S1*es
INFLUENCE OF THE HISTORICAL EVENTS TO THE ICONOGRAPHIC CONTENTS OF VOTIVE IMAGES:AN EXAMPLE OF THE ALTAR IMAGE OF THE OUR LADIES OF PROTECTION IN THE CHURCH OF ST.ANTON ON POLJUD IN SPLIT
No full textU radu se analizira ikonografski sadržaj oltarne slike Bogorodice zaštitnice iz crkve samostana Sv. Ante na Poljudu u Splitu, rad slikara Benedetta Diane. Postavlja se pitanje povezanosti njezinog sadržaja i povijesnih okolnosti u kojima je nastala. Prilikom analize slike jednaka se pažnja poklanja proučavanju njezinih ikonografskih detalja (Bogorodica sa zaštitničkim plaštem Mater misericordiae],sv. Sebastijan, sv. Ludovik Tuluški, poklekli članovi bratovštine, krajolik u pozadini) kao i povijesnim okolnostima koji su utjecali na kreiranje njezina sadržaja. U zaključku se na temelju ikonografske analize utvrđuje da je slika vjerojatno nastala kao zavjet splitskog patricija i protuosmanskog borca Janka Albertija, kojim je traženo posredništvo Bogorodice u obrani od kuge i osmanske prijetnje.The topic of this article is iconographic contents of the altar image of Our Lady of protection placed in the monastery church of St. Anton on Poljud in Split,the work of Benedetto Diano. The author puts the question about connection between the historical circumstances in which the picture arose and its theme.Analysing the image the author emphasises its iconographic details (Madonna with the protective cloak /Mater misericoriae/,St. Sebastian, St. Louis of Toulouse, fraternity members kneeling down,surrounding land-
scape),together with historical circumstances that in fluenced the painter.In the conclusion author proposes that the image was ordered by Janko Alberti,nobleman of Split and anti-Ottoman warrior. She also suggests that by this picture Alberti wanted to request Madonna ’s intervention against plague and Ottoman threat
DALMATIAN PATRICIANS AND SOCIAL CHRISTIANITY. ON MEDIEVAL HOSPITALS OF RAB, ESPECIALLY ABOUT THE HOSIPTAL PF THE BODY OF CHRIST AND ITS FOUNDER PETER DE ZARO
No full textNa temelju analize četiriju oporuka i triju kodicila, koje je zapisao rapski kanonik i bilježnik Toma Stančić za jednog od najuglednijih rapskih patricija 15. stoljeća Petra de Zaro, autorica razmatra
pitanje utemeljenja hospitala i bratovština kao izričaja tzv. »socijalnog kršćanstva« u kojem se kao osnova religioznosti ističu milosrđe i solidarnost prema potrebitima – bolesnima, starima i drugim osobama na marginama komunalnih društava na istočnoj obali Jadrana. Oporuke i kodicili Petra de Zaro, sastavljeni u razdoblju od 1450. do 1464. godine, izuzetno su zahvalna neobjavljena arhivska građa koja nam daje izravan uvid u religioznost jednog vrlo bogatog, a istodobno i obrazovanog i religioznog, patricija koji je imao toliko materijalno i novčano bogatstvo da je sam mogao utemeljiti hospital i oltar Tijela Kristova vezanih uz katedralnu crkvu sv. Marije u Rabu kao i religioznu bratovštinu u crkvi sv. Bernardina u Kamporu. Pored raščlambe podataka koji se odnose na hospital i bratovštinu, u radu se razmatra njihovo uređenje koje je Petar de Zaro vrlo detaljno razradio u svojim posljednjim voljama. Također se razmatra značenje blagdana i svetkovine Tijela Kristova u kasnom srednjem vijeku, problem siromaštva u Rabu te razvitak brige za siromašne i bolesne kao općenito poboljšanje zdravstvene kulture na Rabu u kasnom srednjem vijeku.Notarial books of Rab commune from the period of high and late Middle Ages are exceptionally well preserved. Namely, during that period several dozens of notaries were engaged by Rab authorities and their records represent one of the best preserved archival
sources on the Eastern Adriatic coast. Unfortunately, majority of these records are still unpublished. Similarly, these documents are examined only by few scholars during the twentieth century, who consulted them regarding only certain historical questions and some issues concerning history of art. Consequently, this contribution also investigates only one segment of the history of Rab. Namely, author of this article analyzes and attempts to reconstruct some aspects of religious life of medieval inhabitants of Rab as a part of their
daily life. The analysis is based on four testaments and three codicils, which were written for Peter de Zaro, one of the most prominent inhabitants of Rab. These documents were written by Thomas Stančić, contemporary prebendary and notary of Rab. Moreover, author analyzes last will of Peter’s wife Maria de Zaro, which was also recorded by Thomas Stančić. Beside records of Thomas Stančić, in the analysis author uses information from the notarial books of Andrew Fajeta, and some other notaries of Rab from the fifteenth and
sixteenth centuries, too. Moreover, author has consulted relevant data from the Statute of Rab, canonical visitations and certain information from other eastern Adriatic communes, primarily as a comparative material. Focus of the analysis is put to the questions about foundation of the hospital and its relations to confraternities, as phenomena of “social Christianity”, which was characterized by charity and solidarity towards those in need – sick, old and others on the margins of the communal societies at the Eastern Adriatic
coast. Last wills and codicils of Peter de Zaro, written in the period between 1450 and 1464, represent exceptionally useful archival material since they reveal an explicit insight to religiosity and social life of a considerably rich and educated patrician, whose wealth
enabled him to establish hospital and altar of the Body of Christ (Corpus Christi) connected with the cathedral of St Mary in Rab and religious confraternity in the church of St Bernard in Kampor. Moreover, Author discusses relations between the hospital and
the confraternity, and delivers a detailed examination of their organizational structures that can be found in the last wills of Peter de Zaro. By the same token, author discusses importance of Corpus Christy feast during the late Middle Ages, especially because Peter
de Zaro was openly inclined to such kind of piety. Furthermore, author analyzes problem of poverty in Rab in respect of development of charity, together with the care for the poor and sick, and development of health care system in general during the late Middle Ages. At the end, it is important to note that, in spite of the endeavors of Peter de Zaro, the ultimate goal of his charity bequeaths was not accomplished. Namely, during the later centuries
the trust he bequeathed did not remain prosperous and organized as it should, though the executors of the testaments and codicils, together with the prior of the hospital of the Body of Crist had reasonably clear instructions how the trust should be governed. Namely, records from canonical and bishopric visitations clearly show that the afore-mentioned institutions, which Peter de Zaro wanted to last in perpetuum, often were driven to the edge of poverty
Parametric design of non-conventional diagrid systems for tall buildings: Performance of structural grids inspired in historical geometric Islamic ornamental art
No full textGeometric patterns inspired in historical Islamic ornamental art have attracted the attention of contemporary designers worldwide. The large variety of shapes, symmetries and combinations is a source of inspiration, but at the same time makes it difficult to provide general rules when used in a technological application. Structural small-scale applications have been object of research, but there are potential applications at larger scales that deserved attention. In view of some recent proposals of Islamic patterns as structural grids for tall building skins, the question of their structural efficiency, especially compared to conventional grids, arises. The purpose of this research is to assess the performance of structural grids based on geometric Islamic patterns as outer skins of tall buildings. For this purpose, several historic patterns have been classified. An equivalent meta-material has been defined for each pattern, based on the homogenization method for a series of saturations or beam sizes. Their response in different orientations has been studied to identify their structural behaviour based on the pattern geometry. Their relative performance has been assessed for all patterns against themselves and against the conventional diagrid system. All this process has been collected and summarized in a predesign tool made of graphs, pictures and tables Finally, the predesign tool accuracy has been assessed and applied to three tall buildings. All those steps have been structured in three distinctive levels: At the method level, the conclusion is that the developed predesign tool is a success as it provides a higher level of accuracy than modelling all the beams. It is also faster and easier to implement, than modelling all the beam elements, to compare alternatives in early stages as the complexity of modelling the patterns is postponed to later stages. As the saturation decreases and the effective beam length influence in the beam model results diminishes, the beam model will become more reliable than the predesign tool and vice versa. At the pattern level, the most interesting finding is that the patterns with square symmetry (symmetry directions at 90º) display a perpendicular isotropic behaviour, whereas the patterns with pentagonal symmetry (symmetry directions at 72ª) display an orthotropic behaviour, and the patterns with hexagonal symmetry (symmetry directions at 60ª) display an isotropic behaviour. It has also been studied the effect that would have filling the stars as an alternative to building the patterns as an assembly of beams. At the building level, it has been found a few geometric Islamic patterns that could be suitable alternatives to the conventional diagrid systems, a pattern with a similar performance and even a pattern with a higher structural performance than the conventional diagrids. This highly performing pattern is currently been used for some architects such as Shigeru Ban in their parametric designs. In this regard, it can be concluded that the objective of finding suitable alternatives to conventional diagrid systems has also been a success and it can affect some designers engineering judgement. The homogenization process obtained an equivalent ideal material corresponding to a plane infinite panel that will not correspond with the built structural grid. The use of complex geometries and its application to tall buildings introduce effects not considered in the homogenization that will disrupt the expected structural performance. Those effects are minimized in the case of other shells structures such as domes but can be important in the case of tall buildings. It is not advisable to account for the squeezing effect by adapting the saturation with the change of the modulus size in the x-direction as the relative beam depth has a greater impact in the overall stiffness than the change of geometry due to the squeezing effect. The distortion effect cannot be accounted for directly and it depends on the angle of the distortion and the pattern. However, in the studied case it has been found a required correction factor of 1.2-1.3, in line with other uncertainty factors used in practice. Finally, the intermediate supports can have a great influence in the final drift. It depends on the pattern used and the number of diaphragms inside the module. Nevertheless, the use of intermediate supports is always beneficial and not considering them will always lead to more conservative solutions. In conclusion, this document successfully bridges the knowledge gap regarding the structural behaviour of historic Islamic patterns, with comparative tables. It identifies the best performing patterns and their best orientation, and it provides a useful tool for the decision making in the design process of in-plane bearing geometric Islamic patterns.Civil Engineering | Structural Engineerin
On the Operation of Pre-Romanesque Stone-Carving Workshops: The Stone-Carving Workshop of Kotor
No full textU radu se donose novije znanstvene spoznaje o Kotorskoj klesarskoj radionici, djelatnoj na prostoru južnog Jadrana u prvoj polovini 9. stoljeća. Na temelju njezinog znatno obogaćenog opusa na matičnom tlu Boke kotorske, ali i na širem području od dubrovačke Astareje do gradova Dračke teme sve do Lješa, sagledan je značaj ove radionice u lokalnim okvirima, s posebnim naglaskom na njezin odnos prema Klesarskoj radionici iz doba biskupa Ivana, koja joj je neposredno prethodila. Iznose se pretpostavke o organizaciji rada njezinih klesara, načinu školovanja majstora i širenju produkcije na okolna područja.This paper offers new scholarly insights on the Stone-carving Workshop of Kotor, active in the southern Adriatic during the first half of the 9th century. Based on the significantly extended attribution of artworks to this workshop within Boka Kotorska, as well as a broader region from Dubrovnik’s Astarea to the Theme of Dyrrachium and further to Lezha, the author discusses the workshop’s importance in the local context, with a special emphasis on its relations with the immediately preceding Stone-carving Workshop from the time of bishop John of Kotor. The article also brings new hypotheses on the workshop’s working organization, the training system of its masters, and the divulgence of its production in the surrounding areas
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