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The cult of St Nicholas in medieval Italy
No full textSt Nicholas was one of the most popular saints in medieval Italy. His cult attracted the attention
of popes, kings and emperors, and his shrine at Bari became an important international pilgrimage
destination. This thesis asks how the cult of St Nicholas came to be so widespread and popular in
Italy, and why the saint attracted the attention of diverse groups and individuals.
This thesis is structured around four chapters. The first demonstrates that through a
process of Latinisation the cult of St Nicholas became integrated within Italian literary traditions
and within a new spiritual era. Chapter Two reveals that this Latinisation also occurred within the
saint’s iconography. Chapters Three and Four are case studies of the cult in Puglia and Venice,
locations which claimed possession of the saint’s relics. These case studies show that the general
developments that the cult of St Nicholas underwent in Italy, identified in Chapters One and Two,
did not apply universally. Instead, the presence of the saint’s relics resulted in a different profile
of the saint in Bari and Venice. Through the process of Latinisation, the cult of St Nicholas
became updated and remained relevant for its new Italian audience; Chapters Three and Four
show alternative ways that the cult of St Nicholas gained widespread popularity.
This thesis presents for the first time an iconographical study of St Nicholas in Italian art,
which develops existing research of the saint’s Byzantine iconography. Chapter Four presents a
profile of the cult of St Nicholas in Venice in the Middle Ages, which is a significant oversight in
the literature. The thesis uses a variety of visual and textual sources, in particular fresco and
altarpiece representations, archival documents from Venice and Rome (including the Apostolic
Visitations), and under-exploited contemporary and antiquarian Venetian sources
Exploring sexual dimorphism of the modern human talus through geometric morphometric methods
No full textSex determination is a pivotal step in forensic and bioarchaeological fields. Generally, scholars focus on metric or qualitative morphological features, but in the last few years several contributions have applied geometric-morphometric (GM) techniques to overcome limitations of traditional approaches. In this study, we explore sexual dimorphism in modern human tali from three early 20th century populations (Sassari and Bologna, Italy; New York, USA) at intra- and interspecific population levels using geometric morphometric (GM) methods. Statistical analyses were performed using shape, form, and size variables. Our results do not show significant differences in shape between males and females, either considering the pooled sample or the individual populations. Differences in talar morphology due to sexual dimorphism are mainly related to allometry, i.e. size-related changes of morphological traits. Discriminant function analysis using form space Principal Components and centroid size correctly classify between 87.7% and 97.2% of the individuals. The result is similar using the pooled sample or the individual population, except for a diminished outcome for the New York group (from 73.9% to 78.2%). Finally, a talus from the Bologna sample (not included in the previous analysis) with known sex was selected to run a virtual resection, followed by two digital reconstructions based on the mean shape of both the pooled sample and the Bologna sample, respectively. The reconstructed talus was correctly classified with a Ppost between 99.9% and 100%, demonstrating that GM is a valuable tool to cope with fragmentary tali, which is a common occurrence in forensic and bioarchaeological contexts.</div
57Fe Mössbauer-effect study of preferential site occupancy in quasicrystalline Al86Cr14−xFex alloys
No full textPT: J; CR: BANCEL PA, 1986, PHYS REV B, V33, P7917 BLACK PJ, 1955, ACTA CRYSTALLOGR, V8, P175 CAHN JW, 1986, J PHYS-PARIS, V47, P415 COOPER M, 1966, ACTA CRYSTALLOGR, V20, P614 COOPER M, 1967, ACTA CRYSTALLOGR, V23, P1106 CORBY RN, 1977, ACTA CRYSTALLOGR B, V33, P3468 DUNLAP RA, UNPUB J PHYS F DUNLAP RA, 1986, HYPERFINE INTERACT, V28, P963 DUNLAP RA, 1986, J PHYS F MET PHYS, V16, P1247 DUNLAP RA, 1987, J PHYS F MET PHYS, V17, L39 EIBSCHUTZ M, 1986, PHYS REV LETT, V56, P169 EIBSCHUTZ M, 1987, PHYS REV LETT, V59, P2443 GUYOT P, 1986, J PHYS-PARIS, V47, P389 HAUSER JJ, 1986, PHYS REV B, V33, P3577 HENLEY CL, 1986, PHYS REV B, V34, P797 HENLEY CL, 1987, COMMENTS CONDENSED M, V13, P59 LAWTHER DW, UNPUB MA J, 1986, PHYS REV LETT, V57, P1611 MACKAY AL, 1962, ACTA CRYSTALLOGR, V15, P916 NASU S, 1974, J PHYS F MET PHYS, V4, L24 SCHURER PJ, 1986, SOLID STATE COMMUN, V59, P619 STEPHENS PW, 1986, PHYS REV LETT, V56, P1168 SWARTZENDRUBER LJ, 1985, PHYS REV B, V32, P1383 WARREN WW, 1986, PHYS REV B, V34, P4902; NR: 24; TC: 40; J9: PHYS REV B; PG: 4; GA: P9232Source type: Electronic(1
The effects of sodium azide and sodium cyanide on the oxygen consumption of the eggs of salmo fario, 1950
No full textSearch for exclusive b → u transitions in hadronic decays of B mesons involving Ds+ and Ds*+ mesons
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Alexander J.; Bebek C.; Berkelman K.; Bloom K.; Browder T.; Cassel D.; Cho H.; Coffman D.; Drell P.; Ehrlich R.; Garcia-Sciveres M.; Geiser B.; Gittelman B.; Gray S.; Hartill D.; Heltsley B.; Jones C.; Jones S.; Kandaswamy J.; Katayama N.; Kim P.; Kreinick D.; Ludwig G.; Masui J.; Mevissen J.; Mistry N.; Ng C.; Nordberg E.; Patterson J.; Peterson D.; Riley D.; Salman S.; Sapper M.; Würthwein F.; Avery P.; Freyberger A.; Rodriguez J.; Stephens R.; Yelton J.; Cinabro D.; Henderson S.; Kinoshita K.; Liu T.; Saulnier M.; Wilson R.; Yamamoto H.; Bergfeld T.; Eisenstein B.; Gollin G.; Ong B.; Palmer M.; Selen M.; Thaler J.; Sadoff A.; Ammar R.; Ball S.; Baringer P.; Bean A.; Besson D.; Coppage D.; Copty N.; Davis R.; Hancock N.; Kelly M.; Kwak N.; Lam H.; Kubota Y.; Lattery M.; Nelson J.; Patton S.; Perticone D.; Poling R.; Savinov V.; Schrenk S.; Wang R.; Alam M.; Kim I.; Nemati B.; O'Neill J.; Severini H.; Sun C.; Zoeller M.; Crawford G.; Daubenmier C.; Fulton R.; Fujino D.; Gan K.; Honscheid K.; Kagan H.; Kass R.; Lee J.; Malchow R.; Morrow F.; Skovpen Y.; Sung M.; White C.; Butler F.; Fu X.; Kalbfleisch G.; Ross W.; Skubic P.; Snow J.; Wang P.; Wood M.; Brown D.; Fast J.; McIlwain R.; Miao T.; Miller D.; Modesitt M.; Payne D.; Shibata E.; Shipsey I.; Wang P.; Battle M.; Ernst J.; Kwon Y.; Roberts S.; Thorndike E.; Wang C.; Dominick J.; Lambrecht M.; Sanghera S.; Shelkov V.; Skwarnicki T.; Stroynowski R.; Volobouev I.; Wei G.; Zadorozhny P.; Artuso M.; He D.; Goldberg M.; Horwitz N.; Kennett R.; Mountain R.; Moneti G.; Muheim F.; Mukhin Y.; Playfer S.; Rozen Y.; Stone S.; Thulasidas M.; Vasseur G.; Zhu G.; Bartelt J.; Csorna S.; Egyed Z.; Jain V.; Akerib D.; Barish B.; Chadha M.; Chan S.; Cowen D.; Eigen G.; Miller J.; O'Grady C.; Urheim J.; Weinstein A.; Acosta D.; Athanas M.; Masek G.; Paar H.; Gronberg J.; Kutschke R.; Menary S.; Morrison R.; Nakanishi S.; Nelson H.; Nelson T.; Richman J.; Ryd A.; Tajima H.; Schmidt D.; Sperka D.; Witherell M.; Procario M.; Yang S.; Balest R.; Cho K.; Daoudi M.; Ford W.; Johnson D.; Lingel K.; Lohner M.; Rankin P.; Smith J.; Alexander J.; Alexander J.P
Singing from the Grave: DNA from a 180 Year Old Type Specimen Confirms the Identity of Chrysoperla carnea (Stephens)
No full textCopyright: © 2015 Price et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. The attached file is the published version of the article.NHM Repositor
Educators P.1
No full textDistinguished educators who pioneered the development of the University of Utah. Top row, left to right: F.M. Bishop, Milton H. Hardy, George M. Ottinger (1886), Joseph Thomas Kingsbury (ca. 1888). Middle row, left to right: Karl Gottfried Maeser (1882), Joseph B. Toronto (1886), Evan Stephens (1885), Joshua H. Paul (1882). Bottom row, left to right: Orson Howard (1884), William M. Stewart (1892), C.L. Bellerino (1891). Donor: Nicholas G. Morgan
The Consumption Response to Seasonal Income: Evidence from Japanese Public Pension Benefits
No full textJapanese public pension benefits, which were distributed quarterly through February 1990 and every other month since then, induce substantial but predictable income fluctuations. The relative magnitude of the payments combined with the delay between payments yields a stronger test of the Life-Cycle/Permanent Income Hypothesis than in prior studies. Applying two identification strategies to monthly household panel data, we find that consumption significantly responds to quarterly benefit receipt. Additional analysis suggests that our findings cannot be explained by either liquidity constraints or precautionary savings motives.
Developing Learning Trajectory For Enhancing Students’ Relational Thinking
No full textAlgebra is part of Mathematics learning in Indonesian curriculum. It takes one half of the teaching hours in senior high school, and one third in junior high school. However, the learning trajectory of Algebra needs to be improved because teachers teach computational thinking by applying paper-and-pencil strategy combining with the concepts-operations-example-drilling approach. Mathematics textbooks do not give enough guidance for teachers to conduct good activities in the classroom to promote algebraic thinking especially in the primary schools.
To reach Indonesian Mathematics teaching goals, teachers should develop learning trajectories based on pedagogical and theoretical backgrounds. Teachers need to have knowledge of student’s developmental progressions and understanding of mathematics concepts and students’ thinking. Research shows that teachers’ knowledge of student’s mathematical development is related to their students’ achievement. In fostering a greater emphasis on algebraic thinking, teachers and textbooks need to work more closely together to develop a clearer learning trajectory. Having this algebraic thinking, students developed not only their own character of learning and thinking but also their attitude, attention and discipline.
Key Words: Learning Trajectory, Relational Thinkin
Socio-economic and environmental differentials, and mortality in a developing urban area (Belo Horizonte - Brazil)
No full textStudies
on
health
inequalities
on
developing
cities
are
scarce.
They
have
mainly
focused
on
infant
and
child
mortality
and
life
expectancy
at
birth.
Studies
of
adult
mortality
and
cause-
specific
studies
have
seldom
been
carried
out.
An
ecological
study
was
performed
in
order
to
investigate
the
relationship
between
mortality
due
to
all
causes
of
death,
infectious
diseases,
combined
illness
of
diarrhoea,
pneumonia
and
malnutrition,
external
causes,
homicides,
and
motor
vehicle
traffic
accidents,
and
socio-
environmental
conditions
in
a
developing
city,
Belo
Horizonte
in
Brazil.
Death
certificates
relating
to
1994
were
processed.
A
total
of
10,558
certificates
were
geocoded
according
to
75
geographical
areas.
The
areas
were
classified
according
to
the
income
of
the
head
of
family
(or
female
illiteracy
when
appropriate),
and
plausible
routinely
environmental
factors.
In
the
study
of
mortality
due
to
infectious
diseases,
water,
sanitation,
crowding,
and
rubbish
collection
were
tested.
Among
the
external
causes,
the
study
focused
on
homicide
and
motor
vehicle
traffic
accidents,
testing
the
effect
of
public
illumination,
crowding
and
the
average
time
for
police
response
to
a
phone
call.
Analytical
and
descriptive
techniques
were
used
in
the
study.
Mortality
rate
(MR)
ratios
were
estimated
using
random
effects
Poisson
regression.
A
high
correlation
was
found
between
socio-economic
and
environmental
variables.
These
correlated
to
the
distribution
of
mortality
rates
across
the
areas.
Shantytown
areas
(the
favelas)
presented
higher
risk
of
mortality
than
non-favela
areas.
Infectious
diseases,
homicide,
and
combined
illness
of
diarrhoea,
pneumonia
and
malnutrition
(under
5
years
old)
presented
MR
ratios
of
1.59,2.05,
1.62,
respectively.
All
of
them
presented
p-values
for
trend
<0.00.
Deaths
due
to
all
causes
presented
1.12
(p=0.04).
Adverse
socio-economic
and
environmental
conditions
are
associated
with
higher
rates
of
specific
cause
of
death.
Deprived
areas
encompass
highest
vulnerable
groups.
The
use
of
routine
data
in
developing
countries
can
be
used
to
measure
the
inequalities
in
health,
helping
build
up
more
adequate
urban
and
health
policies
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