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Hossios Loukas [monastère d']
No full textPariente Anne. Hossios Loukas [monastère d']. In: Bulletin de correspondance hellénique. Volume 116, livraison 2, 1992. p. 882
[Loukas Brothers Confectionery and Cafe]
No full textPhotograph of a group of one woman and four men in Loukas Brothers Confectionery and Cafe on 249 Procter Street. Three of the men behind the bar are identified as John D. Loukas (founder), Fred D. Loukas, and Lawrence Lyons (Cook). One man is sitting at the bar. Text below the photograph says "Loukas Brothers Confectionery and Cafe Circa 1935.
Corporate Governance Rating and Family Firms: The Greek Case
No full textCorporate governance (CG) studies have mostly focused on highly dispersed corporations. However, there is an important need for research exploring the governance structure of family-owned firms. The main characteristics that distinguish the family firm from the other types of corporations are the presence of one or more controlling family and the involvement of the owners in the management. Family firm is the most common form of business in Greece. Hence, the governance structures and the performance of the family firms affect the growth opportunities of the capital market. The aim of the paper is to explore the main aspects of CG of family-owned listed companies in Greece. For this purpose, we apply a specific CG rating methodology, using five core CG criteria to distinguish family from non-family firms: shareholders' rights and obligations; transparency, disclosure of information and auditing; board of directors; CEO and executive management and corporate social responsibility and corporate governance commitment. The overall research objective of the study is to develop a CG rating methodology on the current state of corporate governance in Greece. Each firm is rated among the 120 total number of companies (both family-owned and widely- held). The results disclose the potential strengths and weaknesses of the existing corporate governance framework of the family-owned firms and provide specific policy recommendations.family firms, corporate governance rating, Greece
Hosios Loukas
No full text"Byzantine monastery 8 km east of Dhistomo in the foothills of Mt Helikon (nr anc. Stiris), Phokis, central Greece. Founded in the mid-10th century by the monk Loukas the younger (d ad 953), a healer and miracle-worker, the monastery has two unusually well-preserved churches, the Panagia or Theotokos (church of the Virgin) and the adjoining katholikon or main monastery church. The latter is famous for its lavish mosaics and wall paintings, which remain intact. Other monastic buildings of various periods survive.
The Life of Loukas, written after 961 by an anonymous monk, is the only record of the monastery’s foundation and first building period. According to the Life, a church, dedicated to St Barbara, was built during Loukas’ lifetime. A cruciform oratory was later erected over his grave and acted as a shrine. The translation of the saint’s relics into a ‘new church’, which is attested by commemorative hymns, occurred under the auspices of Abbot Philotheos, the dates of whose abbacy are unknown. Although the Theotokos church has been shown to be older than the katholikon (Stikas, 1972), the identification of these two buildings with the St Barbara church and the ‘new church’ respectively remains controversial.
Both churches are variations on the Greek-cross plan. The Theotokos is of the cross-in-square plan (c. 130 sq. m in area; see Church, fig. 6) with walls built in the cloisonné technique and white marble revetment around the drum of the dome. The lavish foliate and interlace sculptural ornament that appears on the capitals and templon barrier inside the church is comparable with the fragmentary marble revetment of the North Church (907) of the monastery of Constantine Lips in Constantinople (now Istanbul). The katholikon is the earliest known example of the Greek-cross-octagon plan (270 sq. m in area, excluding narthex; see fig.), with galleries on the second level. Large, reused blocks of marble from the ancient site of Stiris are incorporated into its cloisonné walling. Here, and in the Theotokos, motifs imitating kufic letters occur abundantly in the exterior masonry, a type of decoration popular in Greece in the 10th century. Inside the katholikon there is a shrine to Loukas, beneath which a large crypt houses his tomb and two others, probably those of abbots.
The mosaics and wall paintings of the katholikon are the most notable features at Hosios Loukas. A complex, hierarchical arrangement of scenes and portraits provides a comprehensive statement of Orthodox dogma. In the narthex, mosaic compositions represent the theme of death and resurrection: the Crucifixion and Anastasis frame a monumental bust of Christ over the entrance to the church, while the Washing of the Feet and Incredulity of Thomas appear at the north and south ends. There are standing Apostles in the soffits and medallions in the arches. The main body of the church or nave is dominated at the east by an apse mosaic of the seated Virgin and Child. Although wall paintings (1820) have replaced the original mosaic in the main dome, the sanctuary dome preserves an early example of the use of this space for a Pentecost scene. Three of the four squinches below the main dome retain scenes of great feasts of the liturgical year celebrating Christ’s incarnation: the Nativity, Presentation in the Temple and Baptism. Two scenes of miraculous salvation appear in the diakonikon, the chapel to the right of the sanctuary: the Three Hebrews in the Fiery Furnace and Daniel in the Lions’ Den. A great array of angels, saints, church fathers and holy men occupy all remaining vaults and lunette surfaces surrounded by lavish geometric and floral ornament in a gold ground. Notable among the portraits of saints are those in the north-east chapel, one on the south wall showing Philotheos, the founder, presenting Loukas with a model of the church, and two on the west wall of local saints, Nikon Metanoite and Loukas Gurniokiotes.
Wall paintings are also abundant and well preserved in the chapels and galleries of the katholikon and in the crypt. The funerary and baptismal connotations in the programmes of the north-west and south-west chapels, respectively, reflect their intended uses. In the north arm of the cross a remarkable painting of Joshua, in full armour before the archangel, survives on a wall that was part of the façade of the earlier Theotokos church, now part of the katholikon. The distinctive hieratic style of the mosaics differs sharply from the ornamental and precious quality of the mosaics at Nea Moni, Chios (see Chios, §2), and the lyrical, Hellenistic forms of Dafni. The rather heavy-set figures have wide, staring eyes and stiff, linear draperies.
The crypt, which houses the tomb of Loukas, has the most complete programme of wall paintings surviving from the Middle Byzantine period (see Early christian and byzantine art, fig. 42). Ten vaults of the crypt contain medallion portraits of warrior martyrs, Apostles and holy men, including three realistic portraits of contemporary abbots in the south-east vault, among whom is Philotheos. These portraits may be compared with a panel near the crypt entrance depicting three abbots standing in front of an assembly of monks. Around the walls of the crypt are eight lunettes with scenes of the Passion and Resurrection. The use of Classical proportions, white highlights and the circular stylizations of draperies encourage comparison with the 10th-century wall paintings in the New and Old Churches of Tokali (see Cappadocia, §2) and the Panagia Chalkion at Thessaloniki (1028; see Thessaloniki, §III, 6) as well as with such manuscripts as the Menologion of basil ii. The style is consistent with formalizing tendencies seen in the late Macedonian Renaissance. Although major differences exist between the wall paintings of the crypt and the mosaics of the katholikon, they have certain stylistic and iconographic similarities."plan (drawing), (above) shrine of Theotokos; (below) monastery church or 'Catholicon', early 11 th centur
MeSH term explosion and author rank improve expert recommendations
No full textInformation overload is an often-cited phenomenon that reduces the productivity, efficiency and efficacy of scientists. One challenge for scientists is to find appropriate collaborators in their research. The literature describes various solutions to the problem of expertise location, but most current approaches do not appear to be very suitable for expert recommendations in biomedical research. In this study, we present the development and initial evaluation of a vector space model-based algorithm to calculate researcher similarity using four inputs: 1) MeSH terms of publications; 2) MeSH terms and author rank; 3) exploded MeSH terms; and 4) exploded MeSH terms and author rank. We developed and evaluated the algorithm using a data set of 17,525 authors and their 22,542 papers. On average, our algorithms correctly predicted 2.5 of the top 5/10 coauthors of individual scientists. Exploded MeSH and author rank outperformed all other algorithms in accuracy, followed closely by MeSH and author rank. Our results show that the accuracy of MeSH term-based matching can be enhanced with other metadata such as author rank
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
The Garden of Eden or Vavilov's El Dorado? A review of recent thoughts on the origins of agriculture in East Asia
No full text"Closing the R&D Gap, Evaluating the Sources of R&D Spending"
No full textBoth spending and tax policies have been implemented in the United States with the goal of stimulating private sector research and development (R&D). Karier questions whether current R&D policy, especially the research and experimentation tax credit, can contribute to closing the gap between nondefense expenditures on R&D in the United States and such expenditures in other countries, such as Japan and Germany. He also explores possible changes to our current R&D policy to make it more effective.
A review of Corbett, West, and Lefevre (eds.), 2010, "People at the End of the World: the Wester Aleutians Project and the Archaeology of Shemya Island
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