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Pyramidová vzestupná cesta ve Staré Říši: vývoj architektury a definice reliéfního výzdobného programu
No full textIn the spring of 1994, an unexpected discovery to the North of the upper part of Sahure's causeway changed the long established belief that the mortuary complex of Sahure was excavated completely by L. Borchardt.1 Four huge limestone blocks decorated in basrelief of the highest quality bearing unique polychrome scenes were discovered during that spring, proving Borchardt's excavations of Sahure's complex were incomplete. These four blocks were evidence that more decorated blocks and fragments were still under the masses of sand surrounding the upper part of the causeway which had never been investigated by Borchardt? This surprising discovery was the result of cleaning being done in the area in preparation to open the Abusir necropolis for tourists. The work was under the supervision of Zahi Hawass. Hawass stopped the work at Abusir and reburied the blocks after they were photographed and drawn with the help of the Czech mission working at Abusir. Only a preliminary report was published by Zahi Hawass and Miroslav Verner to present the discovery to scholars.3 In their report, a survey of the causeways from royal funerary complexes was performed to alert scholars that many causeways are partially or completely unexcavated and need to be given more attention.4 In 2002, the present author was trusted by Hawass...Czech Institute of EgyptologyČeský egyptologický ústavFilozofická fakultaFaculty of Art
Pyramid causeway in the Old Kingdom: evolution of the architecture and definition of the relief decoration program
No full textIn the spring of 1994, an unexpected discovery to the North of the upper part of Sahure's causeway changed the long established belief that the mortuary complex of Sahure was excavated completely by L. Borchardt.1 Four huge limestone blocks decorated in basrelief of the highest quality bearing unique polychrome scenes were discovered during that spring, proving Borchardt's excavations of Sahure's complex were incomplete. These four blocks were evidence that more decorated blocks and fragments were still under the masses of sand surrounding the upper part of the causeway which had never been investigated by Borchardt? This surprising discovery was the result of cleaning being done in the area in preparation to open the Abusir necropolis for tourists. The work was under the supervision of Zahi Hawass. Hawass stopped the work at Abusir and reburied the blocks after they were photographed and drawn with the help of the Czech mission working at Abusir. Only a preliminary report was published by Zahi Hawass and Miroslav Verner to present the discovery to scholars.3 In their report, a survey of the causeways from royal funerary complexes was performed to alert scholars that many causeways are partially or completely unexcavated and need to be given more attention.4 In 2002, the present author was trusted by Hawass..
What is CSR? - a review of different theoretical perspectives and case studies of Cheminova and Systematic
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Activities, employment, and wages in rural and semi-urban Mexico
No full textThe author addresses the labor markets in rural and semi-urban Mexico. The empirical analyses show that non-farm income shares increase with overall consumption levels and, also, with time. Rural-dwellers in lower quintiles of the consumption distribution tend to earn a larger share of their nonagricultural incomes from wage labor activities. For the poorest, low-productivity wage labor activities are important. The quantile wage regression analysis for rural Mexico shows a rather heterogeneous impact pattern of individual characteristics across the wage distribution on monthly wages. The author's findings reveal that education is key to earning higher wages, and that workers in more dispersed rural areas earn less than their peers in semi-urban rural areas (localities with less than 15,000 inhabitants). The rural non-farm sector is heterogeneous and includes a great variety of activities and productivity levels across non-farm jobs. Moreover it can reduce poverty in a couple of distinct but qualitatively important ways in rural Mexico. The analysis of non-farm employment in rural Mexico suggests that the two key determinants of access to employment and productivity in non-farm activities are education and location.Environmental Economics&Policies,Health Economics&Finance,Banks&Banking Reform,Health Monitoring&Evaluation,Municipal Financial Management
Temporal provinsialism och svenskt lynne : Kjell Espmark, Verner von Heidenstam och den svenska glömskans historia
No full textIn fiction and non-fiction alike, the author and literary scholar Kjell Espmark (1930–2022) frequently returns to the idea that Swedish culture is characterized by a lack of historical consciousness, or, in his own words, a temporal provincialism. In the following article, I study how this idea is manifested in Espmark’s satirical novella Resan till Thule (2017). In addition to the analysis of Espmark’s view of history and its literary expressions, I argue that the novella contains an important dialogue, in terms of intellectual and literary history, vis-à-vis Verner von Heidenstam’s essay “Om svenskarnas lynne” (1896). The purpose of the article is to examine the similarities between these texts and thereby to outline an incipient historiography of the idea of a particularly Swedish ahistoricity
Temporal provinsialism och svenskt lynne [Elektronisk resurs] : Kjell Espmark, Verner von Heidenstam och den svenska glömskans historia
No full textFörfattaren och litteraturforskaren Kjell Espmark (1930–2022) återkommer i åtskilliga texter – i både skönlitteratur och sakprosa – till en idé om att den svenska kulturen präglas av en omfattande historielöshet, eller en temporal provinsialism som han inte sällan benämner det. I den föreliggande artikeln studerar jag hur denna idé tar sig till uttryck i Espmarks satiriska kortroman Resan till Thule (2017). Utöver att analysera Espmarks historiesyn och dess litterära uttryck argumenterar jag för att romanen bär på en idé- och litteraturhistoriskt betydelsefull dialog visavi Verner von Heidenstam (1859–1940) och dennes essä ”Om svenskarnas lynne” (1896). Syftet med artikeln är att undersöka likheterna dessa texter emellan, för att därigenom också lämna en begynnande skiss över en den svenska historielöshetens historia.In fiction and non-fiction alike, the author and literary scholar Kjell Espmark (1930–2022) frequently returns to the idea that Swedish culture is characterized by a lack of historical consciousness, or, in his own words, a temporal provincialism. In the following article, I study how this idea is manifested in Espmark’s satirical novella Resan till Thule (2017). In addition to the analysis of Espmark’s view of history and its literary expressions, I argue that the novella contains an important dialogue, in terms of intellectual and literary history, vis-à-vis Verner von Heidenstam’s essay “Om svenskarnas lynne” (1896). The purpose of the article is to examine the similarities between these texts and thereby to outline an incipient historiography of the idea of a particularly Swedish ahistoricity
Wage determination in Northeast Brazil
No full textThe author analyzes the labor markets in the Northeast region of Brazil that includes Pernambuco, Bahia, and Ceará states. Her findings show a rather heterogeneous impact pattern of individual characteristics on monthly wages across the wage distribution. That is, the magnitude of the effect of a wage determinant is different depending on whether the worker is placed in the lower, median, or top of the wage distribution. The findings reveal that basic schooling matters for all four geographical areas and across the income distribution. However, poor workers are awarded lower returns than their richer peers, and in Bahia and Ceará, the poor do not obtain any returns to basic schooling. Furthermore, the impact of 5-8 or 9-11 years of education is larger than that of 1-4 years of completed education. The returns obtained by a median worker are higher in Ceará and Pernambuco than in Bahia. Finally, completed tertiary education offers the largest returns of all levels of education. The median worker receives a premium of 105, 249, and 216 percent in Ceará, Pernambuco, and Bahia, respectively. Hence, one direct policy implication is to increase the quality of education, in particular in poorer neighborhoods. Experience impacts positively on wages and it increases with age until workers reach 50 years of age. However, returns to experience are falling significantly across the wage distribution. For the poor and younger generations, experience contributes more to wages than education. The occupation of workers is important for wage determination. All workers in the included occupational groups are paid more than workers engaged in agricultural activities. Workers employed as technicians or administrators obtain the highest returns. The white/nonwhite wage disparity reveals that white workers are paid 17 percent more than their nonwhite co-workers, takinginto account other characteristics. Gender disparities are large in the Northeast and heterogeneous across the wage distribution. The time spent in the current state impacts adversely on wages. That is, those that have stayed earn, on average, less than the newcomers. There are no considerable differences between male and female workers. Union membership has a positive impact on workers'wages.Health Monitoring&Evaluation,Curriculum&Instruction,Teaching and Learning,Gender and Education,Economic Theory&Research
Fables de La Fontaine Edition Taille-Douce, Tomes 1er/2eme
No full textPartial copy of Bodemann #279.1. This large-format book first appeared in sixty-three separate parts. There should be 246 half-page illustrations. The first of them is a bust of La Fontaine set into a pastoral scene including mother and child as well as a dog and some sheep. Apparently the notice on the life of La Fontaine below this illustration stems from Walckenaer. That page is present, as are the two title-pages and the two table-of-contents pages. When one opens this book, one experiences some confusion. The first confusion comes from the nature of the table of contents for each of the volumes. The T of C in each case arranges the fables by La Fontaine's books, but the order it uses within the book is alphabetical. The order in which the fables actually should occur is, I gather, La Fontaine's order. I write I gather because of the second confusion. Much of this book is missing, and what is here is not well ordered. One opens the first volume to page 64 and MSA! Its two pages are followed by 43 (BC) and 46 (SW). Succeeding pages in the (mostly lacking) first volume are 49, 56, 3 (4 pages), 53, 28 (bis), 37 (bis), 39 (bis), 45, 43, and 41. I do not know whether to be angry or to be delighted that I found a weird copy of the book! The illustration styles are quite varied. I am taken with the dog's inactivity while the wolf kills the ass on 56. The Wolf and the Fox (41) makes a good presentation of a traditional visual theme. Of the human scenes, The Fool Who Sells Wisdom may be the most active (53). The second half seems more complete but is still disorganized. There is a wondrously vigorous bear about to smash the fly above his friend on one of the several page 44's. The Animal in the Moon (53) is well presented here. It seems that most pages from 37 through 64 are here with the exception of 39, 42, and 49. In many cases, different pages--up to four of them--have the same number. The organizing motif intended by the publisher may have been the indications at the end of each fable showing its book and number. As Bodemann notes, the illustrations often follow Oudry. There is a good deal of repair evident in the book. Its spine is weak.This is a hardbound book (hard cover)Language note: FrenchWalckenae
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