261 research outputs found
Beate Sigriddaughter’s Story of Sigrid
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Power, poverty, and participation: HIV and intimate partner violence in an informal settlement in Nairobi, Kenya
No full textMixing Methods: Practical Insights from the Humanities in the Digital Age
Full text linkDigitality is a cause and a consequence of different data cultures. It applies to the 10 research projects that are included in this volume. They are rooted in various humanities disciplines such as art history, philosophy, musicology, religious studies, architectural history, media studies, and literature studies. As diverse as the disciplines are the objects and their formats, which are the subject of this book. The cultural data of the projects include recordings of music and spoken word, photographs and other types of images, handwriting, typoscripts and maps. The oldest material dates back to 500 BCE, followed by medieval times, the 18th and 19th centuries, early 20th century and the present. All projects share that they study their material with digital methods, although digitality comes into play at different moments and layers in each of the projects. Hardly readable manuscripts from the 18th century have to be treated with specialized OCR-methods while Plato’s texts are already available in digital form, and therefore open up other affordances for analysis. Special analysis possibilities had to be developed for certain image sources. For all projects, however, it is equally true that only the digitization of the objects makes them accessible to the methods that are the subject of this book.History, Form & Aesthetic
Investigation of family (un)truths: memory, trauma and testimony in the study "My good father: life with his past" by Beate Niman
No full textOsnovna namera rada jeste analitičko raslojavanje sadržine studije "Moj dobri otac: život sa njegovom prošlošću" Beate Niman. Autorka studije je kćerka Bruna Zatlera, šefa Gestapoa i zločinca Drugog svetskog rata, koji je, pored mnogobrojnih zverstava, rukovodio operacijom ubijanja žena i dece u dušegupkama u Beogradu (1942-1944). Uočavajući praznine i nelogičnosti u svojim sećanjima, autorka započinje proces istraživanja o ocu u nameri da napiše njegovu biografiju. Beatin narativ sučelјava prošlost sa sadašnjošću, kao i porodičnu kreiranu prošlost sa potencijalnim porodičnim nasleđem. Osim toga, baveći se istorijom, činjenicama, dokazima, otac postaje predmet svojevrsne kćerkine istrage. Počevši od dekonstrukcije (Beatinih) sećanja, najpre je istaknuta prošlost Bruna Zatlera. Biće dati uvidi u autorkine procese istraživanja kojima se dospelo do razotkrivanja istorijske i porodične istine o Zatleru. Istraživanje neće biti striktno fiksirano na lik Bruna Zatlera, budući da narativ kao takav daje prostor istraživanju psiholoških aspekata ličnosti same Beate Niman. Na račun rečenog, ali i u vezi sa samim narativom, biće tematizovani odnosi istorije i prošlosti, funkcije sećanja, dometi trauma, aspekti (auto)biografije, kao uvidi u postojanje dvostrukog svedočenja i dvostrukog istražnog postupka na nivou narativa kao celine.The main purpose of the work is the analytical stratification of the content of the study "My good father: life with his past" by Beate Nieman. The author of the study is the daughter of Bruno Sattler, head of the Gestapo and a criminal of the Second World War, who, in addition to numerous atrocities, led the operation of killing women and children in the dušegupka’s in Belgrade (1942-1944). Noticing gaps and illogicalities in her memories, the author begins the process of researching her father with the intention of writing his biography. Beata’s narrative confronts the past with the present, as well as the family’s created past with the potential family legacy. In addition, dealing with history, facts, evidence, the father becomes the subject of his daughter’s investigation. Starting with the econstruction of (Beat’s) memories, Bruno Sattler’s past is highlighted first. Insights will be given into the author’s research processes that led to the uncovering of the historical and family truth about Sattler. The research will not be strictly fixed on the character of Bruno Sattler since the narrative as such gives space to research the psychological aspects of the personality of Beate Niemann herself. The work will be focused on the relations of history and the past, the functions of memory, the scope of trauma, aspects of (auto)biography, as insights into the existence of double testimony and double investigative procedure at the level of the narrative.Tema broja: "Holokaust: nove perspektive, nova saznanja, novi izazovi" (topic of the issue: "Holocaust: new perspectives, new knowledge, new challenges")
The Fabric of Gifts: Culture and Politics of Giving and Exchange in Archaic Greece
Full text linkWhen the Greek leader Agamemnon took for himself the woman awarded to Achilles as his spoils of battle, the warrior’s resulting anger and outrage nearly cost his side the war. Beyond the woman herself was what she symbolised — a matter of esteem rather than material value. In Archaic Greece the practices of gift giving existed alongside an economy of market relations. The value of gifts and the meanings of exchange in ancient societies are fundamental to the debates of 19th-century economists, to Marcel Mauss’s famous Essai sur le don (1923-4), and to the definition of experiential value by modern philosopher Yanis Varoufakis.
In this book Beate Wagner-Hasel analyses the sensory content and the social context of many examples of Greeks bearing gifts: to guests, at sacrificial rituals and at funerals, to brides and to heroes. The fabric of these gifts unfolds a panorama of social networks and models of rulership embedded in a world of pastoral and textile economy. Among the gifted objects that represent this world, textiles offer the clearest representation of social cohesion — the key value ascribed to the gift by the earliest theorists of gift-giving.
Beate Wagner-Hasel was Professor of Ancient History at the Leibniz University of Hannover 2001–2018, specializing in economic history and gender studies. She is the author of Antike Welten (2017), Alter in der Antike (2012), Die Arbeit des Gelehrten (2011), and Der Stoff der Gaben (2000), and co-editor (with Marie-Louise Nosch) of Gaben, Waren und Tribute (2019).
The Fabrics of Gifts is a revised edition of her study of gifts in Early Greece (Der Stoff der Gaben, 2000).https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/zeabook/1092/thumbnail.jp
Remodelling selection to optimise disease forecasts and policies
Full text linkFunding Information: This paper benefited from supportive discussions with numerous colleagues, especially Mauricio Barreto, Maxine Caws, Andrea Doeschl-Wilson, Nicholas Feasey, Marcelo Ferreira, Philippe Glaziou, Stephen Gordon, Jessica King, James LaCourse, Christian Lienhardt, Paul McKeigue, Penelope Phillips-Howard, Lisa Reimer, Meta Roestenberg, Jamie Rylance, Bertel Squire, Russell Stothard, Miriam Taegtmeyer, Dianne Terlouw, Rachel Tolhurst, Tom Wingfield. This work is funded by national funds through the FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P., under the scope of the projects UIDB/00297/2020 ( https://doi.org/10.54499/UIDB/00297/2020 ) and UIDP/00297/2020 ( https://doi.org/10.54499/UIDP/00297/2020 ) (Center for Mathematics and Applications) MGMG has received additional funding from the Innovative Medicines Initiative 2 Joint Undertaking under Grant Agreement No 101007799 (Inno4Vac). This Joint Undertaking receives support from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme and EFPIA. This communication reflects the author’s view and that neither IMI nor the European Union, EFPIA, or any Associated Partners are responsible for any use that may be made of the information contained therein. Publisher Copyright: © 2024 The Author(s). Published by IOP Publishing Ltd.Mathematical models are increasingly adopted for setting disease prevention and control targets. As model-informed policies are implemented, however, the inaccuracies of some forecasts become apparent, for example overprediction of infection burdens and intervention impacts. Here, we attribute these discrepancies to methodological limitations in capturing the heterogeneities of real-world systems. The mechanisms underpinning risk factors of infection and their interactions determine individual propensities to acquire disease. These factors are potentially so numerous and complex that to attain a full mechanistic description is likely unfeasible. To contribute constructively to the development of health policies, model developers either leave factors out (reductionism) or adopt a broader but coarse description (holism). In our view, predictive capacity requires holistic descriptions of heterogeneity which are currently underutilised in infectious disease epidemiology, in comparison to other population disciplines, such as non-communicable disease epidemiology, demography, ecology and evolution.publishersversionpublishe
Georg Rheticus as author and editor of the sphere of Sacrobosco
No full textThese 3 datasets are based on the corpus of books built within the project "The Sphere" (https://sphaera.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/).
The first 2 datasets are edges of a network of early modern creators of text-parts whose works were published together during their life time.
The last dataset is a list of text-parts authored or edited by Georg Rheticus.
Prepared for the publication of "The Hidden Praeceptor: How Georg Rheticus Taught Geocentric Cosmology to Europe" by Matteo Valleriani, Olya Nicolaeva and Beate Federau in Perspectives on Science
Georg Rheticus as author and editor of the sphere of Sacrobosco
No full textThese 3 datasets are based on the corpus of books built within the project "The Sphere" (https://sphaera.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/).
The first 2 datasets are edges of a network of early modern creators of text-parts whose works were published together during their life time.
The last dataset is a list of text-parts presumably authored or edited by Georg Rheticus.
Prepared for the publication of "The Hidden Praeceptor: How Georg Rheticus Taught Geocentric Cosmology to Europe" by Matteo Valleriani, Olya Nicolaeva and Beate Federau in Perspectives on Science
Graphic identity exploratory development of tourism service provider
No full textBeates Gargurnes diplomdarba tēma ir “Grafiskās identitātes izstrāde izzinošā tūrisma pakalpojumu sniedzējam”.
Izstrādājot darbu, tika veikti literatūras pētījumi un to analīze, kā arī apkopoti un, izmantojot diagrammas, analizēti tūrisma logotipi atbilstoši vairākiem izvēlētajiem kritērijiem.
Pētījuma jautājums: “Kādi grafiskie līdzekļi ir raksturīgi tūrisma industrijas vizuālajiem materiāliem?” Izanalizējot tūrisma industrijas vizuālos materiālus, tika izveidots logotips, kas atbilst mūsdienu tūrisma industrijas vizuālā tēla kopīgajām tendencēm.
Radošajā daļā tika izstrādāta tūrisma uzņēmuma “Tournesol” grafiskā identitāte.The theme of the research paper by Beate Gargurne is “Graphic identity exploratory development of tourism service provider”.
The research paper consists of the investigation and analysis of information, as well as summarization of logotypes of tourism companies and analysis of these logotypes according various established criteria using diagrams.
The advanced question of the research: “What graphical aids are characteristic of visual materials of tourism industry?” According to the analysis of visual materials of tourism industry the author created a logotype which conforms to the common standards of tourism industry.
The practical part of the research consists of the graphical identity created for the tourism company “Tournesol”
Computer Vision and Architectural History at Eye Level:Mixed Methods for Linking Research in the Humanities and in Information Technology
Full text linkInformation on the history of architecture is embedded in our daily surroundings, in vernacular and heritage buildings and in physical objects, photographs and plans. Historians study these tangible and intangible artefacts and the communities that built and used them. Thus valuable insights are gained into the past and the present as they also provide a foundation for designing the future. Given that our understanding of the past is limited by the inadequate availability of data, the article demonstrates that advanced computer tools can help gain more and well-linked data from the past. Computer vision can make a decisive contribution to the identification of image content in historical photographs. This application is particularly interesting for architectural history, where visual sources play an essential role in understanding the built environment of the past, yet lack of reliable metadata often hinders the use of materials. The automated recognition contributes to making a variety of image sources usable for research.</p
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