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Returning culture to peacebuilding : contesting the liberal peace in Sierra Leone
No full textThis thesis investigates the advantages and limitations of applying culture to the analysis of violent conflict and peacebuilding, with a particular focus on liberal peacebuilding in Sierra Leone. While fully aware of the critique of the concept of culture in terms of its uses for the production of difference and ‘otherness,’ it also seeks to respond to the critique of liberal peacebuilding on the account of its low sensitivity towards local culture, which allegedly undermines the peace effort. After a careful examination of the terms of discussion about culture enabled by theoretical approaches to conflict in Chapter 2, the thesis presents a theoretical framework for the analysis of cultural aspects of conflict and peace based on the processes and effects of meaning-generation (Chapter 3), developing the conceptual apparatus and vocabulary for the subsequent empirical study. Instead of bracketing out the recursive nature of cultural theorising, the developed approach embraces the recursive dynamics which arise as a result of cultural ‘embeddedness’ of the analyst and the processes which s/he seeks to elucidate, mirroring similar dynamics in the cultural production of meaning and knowledge. The framework of ‘embedded cultural enquiry’ is then used to analyse the practices of liberal peacebuilding as a particular culture, which shapes the interaction of the liberal peace with its ‘subjects’ and critics as well as framing its reception of the cultural problematic generally (Chapter 4). The application of the analytical framework to the case study investigates the interaction between the liberal peace and ‘local culture,’ offering an alternative reading of the conflict and peace process in Sierra Leone (Chapter 5). The study concludes that a greater attention to cultural meaning-making offers a largely untapped potential for peacebuilding, although any decisions with regard to its deployment will inevitably be made from within an inherently biased cultural perspective
Rice genetic resources in postwar Sierra Leone
No full textThis research presents the effect of the 10-year long civil war in Sierra Leone on rice genetic resources, using farmers and their seed systems in three selected districts as reference points. The war disrupted all forms of production and development in the country and like other sectors of the economy, agricultural production and the conservation of plant genetic resources at the farm level was severely affected. It emerged that farmers’ effectiveness to cultivate and manage their seed systems and the options to grow rice under insecure conditions were disrupted at different levels in the three districts studied. However, the general consequence of the war in all of the districts was that farmers lost considerable amounts of their seed stocks. Total losses for some rice varieties was averted because of the occurrence of a number of varieties in more than one village in the same region, which was a result of farmers seed exchange systems, and also due to farmer movement during the war. The majority of the varieties that were reported lost were actually “dispersed” in the regions, indicating good options for post-war recovery. There was little evidence that the genetic composition of rice varieties were significantly altered as a consequence of the war, except for the total loss of upland varieties in one of the districts. The varieties that had the highest survival were those that had wider pre-war distribution, showed plasticity in growing habits wherein they demonstrated the potential to grow in both agro-ecosystems and in the different districts, and the fact that they existed in many different forms. Statistical analysis showed a clear distinction between upland and lowland varieties, which demonstrated the effectiveness of farmer selection with regard to the two production ecosystems. This was different for the periods defined as pre-war and post-war. Pre-war varieties were less well defined in this respect. Further to this, there was evidence of a change in rice genetic resources between the pre-war and post-war situations, which was demonstrated in the number of varieties for each of the two ecosystems. Despite these changes, and the losses in seed stocks as a consequence of the war, genetic diversity increased in post-war rice varieties. AFLP results indicated that rice varieties in Sierra Leone possess different levels of intra-variety variation, which makes it difficult to identify homogenous genotypes at the seed unit level. This was attributed to genetic exchanges caused by farmers’ practices of growing different varieties in mixtures. The variation however does not alter the profile of inter-variety genetic differences, which remains large enough to distinguish one variety from the other. It demonstrates that the genetic composition of rice varieties remains distinct from one another, and that variety names in Sierra Leone are good indicators for genetic diversity of rice at the farm level. <br/
Leone, Sergio (1929-1989)
No full textOriginally published in Encyclopedia of Religion and Film. Ed: Eric Mazur. ABC-CLIO, 2011
Leone, Sergio (1929-1989) by Marc DiPaolo
To see more or purchase works by Marc DiPaolo, visit his Amazon page here: https://www.amazon.com/Marc-DiPaolo/e/B004LV7W6Y%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_sharehttps://dc.swosu.edu/cas_ll_books/1010/thumbnail.jp
Biennale 1958: Il Leone d’Oro a Marc Tobey e la consacrazione dell’arte di tipo americano
No full textMark Tobey was the first us painter in the XX century who won the Leone d’Oro at the Biennale of 1958. We can consider this event as a goal of an entire program based on spreading American Art all over the «free» world. This award is not very popular among the public that usually recognize as the first Leone d’Oro won by a us artist the one they gave to Rauschenberg in 1964. The Leone d’Oro assigned to Tobey signs for the very first time the importance of us Art in the world of art in a moment in which basically Abstract Expressionism was at the end of his development and in which in Italy the debate among abstracts and realist was in the public eye. With this article I want to point out some questions about American Art and its advance in Italy during the 50es starting from Tobey’s example pursuing to a general consideration on us exhibition strategies at the Venice Biennale during the first period of the Cold War
Author Visit inside Leone Cole Auditorium 1
No full textAn unidentified author was a special guest at Jacksonville State University in Spring 1968. Shown she stands on stage in Leone Cole Auditorium with unidentified students signing a book.https://digitalcommons.jsu.edu/lib-ac-histimg/20307/thumbnail.jp
Leone Allemandes Corpus
No full textThe corpus we present is comprised of twenty-four allemandes (dance music originating from Germany, usually possessing even meter), written in 1768 by Gabriele Leone (sometimes referred to as Pietro Leone), a mandolin virtuoso from Naples. These pieces were originally included in a method for teaching mandolin to violin players (in particular, the method was dedicated to Louis Philippe II, later known as Philippe Égalité, at the time when he was Duke of Chartres). As such, despite the great technical ability of the author, the pieces are extremely simple and can be played by a novice. All of the allemandes are written for a mandolin duo, ideally having the first part played by the student and the second by the teacher, so all these pieces are polyphonic. In addition, a single instrument often plays chords, so either part may polyphonic on its own. Since the Neapolitan mandolin has only four strings, neither part ever has more than four simultaneous notes.
These pieces are released here in MusicXML format, with added chord annotations. We propose this corpus as a tool for the study of musical structure, as these simple pieces have strong formal regularities. More information can be found on the paper below.
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If you use this corpus for an academic publication, please cite the following paper:
Filippo Carnovalini, Antonio Rodà, Nicholas Harley, Steven T. Homer, and Geraint A. Wiggins. 2021. A New Corpus for Computational Music Research and A Novel Method for Musical Structure Analysis. In Audio Mostly 2021 (AM ’21), September 1–3, 2021, virtual/Trento, Italy. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 4 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3478384.3478402The original method is in the public domain and can be found at https://imslp.org/wiki/Méthode_raisonnée_pour_passer_du_Violon_à_la_Mandoline_(Leone%2C_Gabriele)
The additional work done to that corpus to release it in MusicXML format with chord annotations is released here under Creative Commons license
Use of a centrifugal separator to separate grape seeds from Marc: Mechanical settings and thermographic evaluations
No full textA centrifugal separator was used to find the best mechanical and electrical settings to separate grape seeds from marc efficiently. Three different reel rotation speeds (400, 500, and 600 rpm) and two different distances between blade and cylinder (A condition = 2.0 mm and B = 10.0 mm) were evaluated, while using a mass flow rate of fresh marc of 300 kg h-1. The data shows that the minor axis length of grape seeds of the Negramaro variety belongs to a normal distribution, and the best separating conditions are obtained by setting a distance of 10.0 mm between reel and cylinder, and with rotation speeds at 400 and 500 rpm. Finally, thermographic analysis can be a useful tool for discriminating machine setting conditions as a function of separation performance
Development of a centrifugal separator for grape marc: effect of the blade position and rotor speed on grape seed separation performance
No full textThe present study was conducted to find a method to separate grape seeds and soft solids from fresh marc at the end of wine-making processes. Interest in these by-products is growing owing to the high content of phytochemicals and other components useful in cosmetic and pharmaceutical industries. A prototype centrifugal separator was developed and its separation performance was evaluated. Four different reel speed rotations (480, 576, 687, and 842 rpm) and two different blade adjustments (Type-A blade with 1.5 mm and Type-B blade with 8.5 mm) were evaluated at the same mass flow rate (350 kg·h −1 ). Results showed that the separation of seeds from the fresh grape marc using a centrifugal separator is possible and that this could be achieved by setting the optimal rotation speed of the reel (480 rpm) and establishing the best distance between the blades and the cylindrical separator (8.5 mm with TypeB blades)
Da Venezia a Nola. Le epistole prefatorie al De nobilitate rerum e alla traduzione del De virtutibus di Ambrogio Leone
No full textNel settembre del 1525 il medico Camillo Leone pubblicò a Venezia un volume che comprendeva due opere postume del padre, l'umanista e medico Ambrogio, originario di Nola, nel Regno di Napoli, ma vissuto a Venezia con il figlio fin dai primi anni del Cinquecento, diventando anche amico intimo di Aldo Manuzio e di diversi Filelleni. Le due opere sono un dialogo intitolato De nobilitate rerum e una traduzione latina del De virtutibus (pseudo)-aristotelico, ciascuna delle quali è introdotta da un'epistola prefatoria, scritta dallo stesso Camillo e indirizzata, rispettivamente, al conte di Nola, Enrico Orsini, e a un influente uomo politico nolano, Giacomo Antonio Cesarini. Pur contenendo anche alcuni dati biografici su Ambrogio Leone, le due epistole costituiscono soprattutto uno strumento “diplomatico” attraverso il quale Camillo intende preparare il suo ritorno a Nola, seguendo in parte il modello del padre, che più di una volta utilizzò l'epistola prefatoria per “definire” la sua condizione di cittadino del Regno di Napoli residente a Venezia
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