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Humanities and Social Sciences	71%
7 Other Domains	29%

Selected Abstracts

IMPLICATIONS OF THE NEW ALEXANDER OF APHRODISIAS INSCRIPTION

BULLETIN OF THE INSTITUTE OF CLASSICAL STUDIES, Issue 1 2005
R. W. SHARPLES
It does, however, show conclusively for the first time that his post was at Athens, and strongly suggests that at the end of the second century AD the term diadokhos ,successor' was applied to the imperially appointed holders of the chairs of philosophy at Athens. It also provides us with a possible candidate for the authorship of works attributed to Alexander of Aphrodisias but not apparently by him, notably On fevers. [source]

RE-READING INSCRIPTIONS IN CHINESE SCROLL PAINTING: THE ELEVENTH TO THE FOURTEENTH CENTURIES

ART HISTORY, Issue 5 2005
ZHANG HONGXING
Art historians often regard Chinese art as the classic example of the unity between word and image. Such a view is predicated on the uncritical acceptance of canonical Chinese art theory and on mistaken notions about a changeless China and ideographic Chinese writing. Those misconceptions have prevented an understanding of the historical specificity of the relationship between the two graphic systems. In applying Charles Sanders Peirce's theory of the three fundamental types of sign (icon, index, symbol) to Chinese writing, scholars tend to conclude that it is not a symbolic-indexic system, but primarily an iconic one. Taking as the point of departure an antinomy between word and image, I demonstrate that the introduction of inscriptions into Chinese scroll painting was a long and uneven process. Between the eleventh and the fourteenth centuries, inscriptions initially entered pictorial space timidly; gradually growing in size and type, they eventually became separated from the pictorial elements, bringing about a fundamental change to the relations between word and image. In the age of the advent of codex and the invention of printing, inscriptions, through their intrusions into and encounters with painting, served to rescue the scroll from oblivion and to transform it into the major bearer of pictorial culture. [source]

Multidimensional Generation of Combinatorial Organic Arrays by Selective Wetting Inscription

ADVANCED MATERIALS, Issue 5 2009
Yu-Jin Na
Based on selective wetting inscription, a highly parallel and error-proof platform is developed to integrate different classes of solution-processed organic elements into 2D and 3D combinatorial arrays with high resolution. By simple solution coating, disparate elements can be precisely self-registered in a pattern-by-pattern or pattern-on-pattern fashion within the framework of the wetting transition as a length scale. [source]

Risk, Ritual and Performance

THE JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE, Issue 1 2000
Leo Howe
Performance approaches to the interpretation of ritual highlight process, presence, strategy and uniqueness. They are often favourably contrasted to textual approaches said to emphasize meaning, structure and stability. However, this sharp distinction can be maintained only by ignoring the notion of inscription, which is central to text. Inscription is a political process which involves risk, strategy and struggle. Moreover, commonly performance approaches neglect questions of risk in ritual action. Ritual is often seen as suppressing risk, but many rituals are events involving high risk. This article considers various Balinese rituals in which risk is a prominent feature, and suggests ways in which a focus on risk may aid our understanding of ritual. [source]

Insular Inscriptions By David Howlett

EARLY MEDIEVAL EUROPE, Issue 4 2006
THOMAS O'LOUGHLIN
No abstract is available for this article. [source]

Proliferation of inscriptions and transformations among preservice science teachers engaged in authentic science

JOURNAL OF RESEARCH IN SCIENCE TEACHING, Issue 4 2007
Eddie Lunsford
Abstract Inscriptions are central to the practice of science. Previous studies showed, however, that preservice teachers even those with undergraduate degrees in science, generally do not spontaneously produce inscriptions that economically summarize large amounts of data. This study was designed to investigate the production of inscription while a group of 15 graduate-level preservice science teachers engaged in a 15-week course of scientific observation and guided inquiry of two organisms. The course emphasized the production of inscriptions as a way of convincingly supporting claims when the students presented their results. With continuing emphasis on inscriptional representations, we observed a significant increase in the number and type of representations made as the course unfolded. The number of concrete, text-based inscriptions decreased as the number of graphs, tables and other sorts of complex inscriptions increased. As the students moved from purely observational activities to guided inquiry, they made many more transformations of their data into complex and abstract forms, such as graphs and concept maps. The participants' competencies to cross-reference ultimate transformations to initial research questions improved slightly. Our study has implications for the traditional methods by which preservice science teachers are taught in their science classes. © 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Res Sci Teach 44: 538,564, 2007. [source]

Greek Inscriptions from Bahrain

ARABIAN ARCHAEOLOGY AND EPIGRAPHY, Issue 2 2002
PIERRE-LOUIS GATIER
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Multidimensional Generation of Combinatorial Organic Arrays by Selective Wetting Inscription

Proliferation of inscriptions and transformations among preservice science teachers engaged in authentic science

Integration in ERP environments: rhetoric, realities and organisational possibilities

NEW TECHNOLOGY, WORK AND EMPLOYMENT, Issue 3 2006
Ben Light
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) packages are said to enable integration when the standard inscription is adhered to through software configuration. A social shaping perspective expands conceptualisations of ERP packages, enabling a view of them as configurational technologies. Thus, ERP integration is opened up and the ,integration through standardisation thesis' is challenged. [source]

Contested land and mediascapes: The visuality of the postcolonial city

NEW ZEALAND GEOGRAPHER, Issue 1 2009
Kevin Glynn
Abstract:, This paper explores spatial dynamics of contestation in the ongoing production of textures of urban place in the postcolonial context of Christchurch, New Zealand. It first examines practices of visual inscription that generate landscapes and mediascapes that struggle to naturalize particular social imaginaries, relations and place-identities. It then considers modes of transgression that rework and expand urban spatiality into new visual terrains of contestation such as those associated with digital media. Emergent communities have thus made use of media spaces such as YouTube to reverse the urban gaze, reframe themselves and the city, and re-imagine place-making landscapes and identities. [source]

Elsewhere and Otherwise: Lévinasian Eros and Ethics in Le Clézio's La quarantaine

ORBIS LITERARUM, Issue 4 2001
Karen D. Levy
Beginning in the 1930s, Emmanuel Lévinas called into question the totalizing priorities of the Western metaphysical tradition and developed a dramatically original description of how subjectivity is constructed in the context of what he terms a face to face encounter with an absolute Other. This destabilizing experience is presented in terms of a summons that demands an ethical response in the form of unqualified moral responsibility for the well being of the Other, without any expectation of reciprocity. In a series of profoundly challenging works, Lévinas analyzes the different stages in the development of this relationship, expressed in masculine oriented terms, and he contrasts the nobility and generosity of ethics with the intimacy of eros and the welcome of the feminine in a protected domestic site. Lévinas insists on the impossibility of fusion and possession in both the ethical and the erotic relationships and seeks to disengage his discourse from essentialist, gender based interpretations. Nevertheless, he privileges terms associated with masculine subjects and likewise seems to endorse stereotypical interpretations of the feminine as fragile and frail, inviting either pity or tenderness. The fact that eros is based on an equivocation between need and the desire for something absolutely Other, which does not depend on any lack, prevents it from attaining the same stature as ethics. And by leaving the feminine out of his discussion of ethics, Lévinas at least downplays the possibility for feminine subjects to respond to the summons of the face to face encounter and accept the risk of living other than in the metaphysical dwelling of Being. The questions raised in Lévinas' works concerning eros, ethics, and the feminine assume different configurations and lead elsewhere when explored in proximity to J.M.G. Le Clézio's emblematic saga La quarantaine. Similar in many ways to Lévinas' philosophical trajectory, Le Clézio's literary undertaking details the disjointed stages of a journey from the self-contained solitude of Being to an exposed elsewhere in what Lévinas calls the "au-delà de l'être." The multi-layered text of La quarantaine fictionalizes the crisis that caused Le Clézio's great-uncle to be erased from family history and depicts the transgenerational effects of that disappearance. The originality of Le Clézio's work stems from the double inscription of the alterity of both eros and ethics in an Other who is gendered female. His text explores the process of rupture and exposure that Lévinas valorizes, but it does so in a way that reveals how a female subject, who both welcomes discreetly and imposes herself indiscreetly, challenges what Lévinas calls the "égoïté tragique" of the other protagonists. Le Clézio's arrestingly beautiful prose serves as a kind of textual face that expresses concretely the complexity of Lévinas' preoccupations and summons us as readers to exceed our capacities and live otherwise. [source]

"The Distorting Mirror of Hell (On the Interpretation of Pluto's Words in Dante's Inferno VII,1)"

ORBIS LITERARUM, Issue 4 2000
Dmitri Nikulin
The article proposes a new interpretation of a passage in Dante's Inferno VII, 1,2, of the enigmatic phrase "pape Satàn aleppe," one of the famous "cruces dantesche." The first section of the paper lays out certain assumptions that lie behind Dante's description of hell. The second section reviews the main existing interpretations of the passage. Finally, in the third section I bring forward a new interpretation, which I support with further evidence. The key passage that helps to explain the lines in question is Inf. III, 5,6. The parallelism between Pluto's "oscure parole" in Inf. VII, 1,2 and the inscription on the infernal gates can be clearly seen once the intrinsic reflection of the divine within the created and the distorting character of hell are both taken into account. By linking the verses to implicit theological and philosophical presuppositions underlying the entire structure of the Comedy, their meaning is thereby established. [source]

A PUNIC JUG FROM THE MUSEUM OF ST AGATHA, RABAT, MALTA: A GLANCE AT PUNIC EVERYDAY LIFE

OXFORD JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGY, Issue 2 2005
ANNELIESE HÜBNER
Summary. The assumption of a long-term overlapping or co-existence of cultures there has been confirmed by a very small inscription which came to my attention during research for my doctoral thesis ,From Expansion to Isolation. A study on the development of the Phoenician,Punic culture on the islands of Malta and Gozo'. Pottery chronology and the use of epigraphy and palaeography illustrate that at a time when Malta and Gozo had long been under Roman rule, the harmonious co-existence of the Punic, Greek and Roman cultures was manifested in one vessel and in one inscription. The Maltese archipelago assumes a special status owing to its isolation. There is hardly any comparable area of 246 sq km in which the phenomenon of cultural overlapping and cultural parallels can be found in such density. [source]

Perplexity: an effect of social trauma

PSYCHOTHERAPY AND POLITICS INTERNATIONAL, Issue 1 2003
Julia Braun
Abstract This paper faces the challenge of building hypotheses that contain referents about social subjectivity and the effects of mental inscription of traumatic social events. The authors' starting point is the hypothesis that every link involves a subjectivizing potential. Also the ,unconscious principle of uncertainty' holds that every encounter exposes the individual to unforeseeable effects that cause emotional states bound to the uncertainty that underlies the construction of every link. This principle remains unconscious because the individual defensively implements the ,illusion of predictability', but a violent and unexpected attack may activate it, causing a state of disorganization whose clinical indicator is the feeling of perplexity. The paper discusses thinking disorders within the context of violent actions. Finally, clinical material about a patient being assaulted and held as hostage is discussed. Copyright © 2003 Whurr Publishers Ltd [source]

John Donne, godly inscription, and permanency of self in Devotions upon Emergent Occasions

RENAISSANCE STUDIES, Issue 3 2010
Matthew Horn
I argue that throughout his career but especially during his sickness of 1623, Donne fears self annihilation in death. Examining critical views on Donne's concept of death and the self, I identify this as a fear of a temporal blackout of the self between the body's death and the final Resurrection. Donne believes that the self is the result of the combination of the body and the soul, and although the soul can survive the body's dissolution, the self cannot. In order to counter this fear of the self's temporal disappearance, Donne seeks to inscribe himself in his Devotions upon Emergent Occasions, assuming the posture of an anatomist to distance himself from his physical body to capture the observations of his body in a text using a corporeal register. Donne preserves this textual encoding of himself by addressing God as the main audience for the Devotions: when God reads the text, the content of the text (Donne's self) becomes archived in the eternally stable mind of God. Ultimately, Donne's authorship of the Devotions is his imitation of God's own activity. Donne sees God's nature, his ,core self', as a system of eternally preserved propositions, and God's activity in creation is an act of copious literary expression using an alphabet of physical things that are used not for their own endurance qua physical entities but for their ability to figurative reveal God's self, which stands beyond and above them. Donne imitates this nature and activity in his act of writing the Devotions. [source]

,No painting on earth would be more beautiful': an analysis of Giovanna degli Albizzi's portrait inscription

RENAISSANCE STUDIES, Issue 5 2008
Maria DePrano
ABSTRACT Domenico Ghirlandaio has been accepted as the author and speaker of the epigram written on the fictive parchment posted behind Giovanna degli Albizzi in her profile portrait, lamenting the limit of his skills to fully represent her. However, the patronage context of this work, processes of composing art, as well as the realities of artistic education and social status in Quattrocento Florence suggest that another speaker uttered these words and intended a different meaning. An analysis of inscriptions in the small sorority of women's portraits bearing a text demonstrates that these epithets carry three messages: to name the women, declare their virtues or mourn their death. Examining her likeness within the patronage context of her conjugal family and her early death, this essay gives a new interpretation of Giovanna's epigram, arguing that her portrait and inscription, a slightly modified version of a verse by Martial, convey all three messages. Giovanna's husband, the learned and poetic Lorenzo Tornabuoni, is identified as the probable speaker of the portrait's lines, which he may have written with the assistance of his friend, the humanist Angelo Poliziano, to express his wistful desire for his deceased wife's return. [source]

Risk, Ritual and Performance

Ionic Mechanisms and Vectorial Model of Early Repolarization Pattern in the Surface Electrocardiogram of the Athlete

ANNALS OF NONINVASIVE ELECTROCARDIOLOGY, Issue 3 2008
Eduardo C. Barbosa M.D.
Background: The electrocardiogram (ECG) of the athlete displays particular characteristics as a consequence of both electrophysiological and autonomic remodeling of the heart that follows continued physical training. However, doubts persist on how these changes directly interact during ventricular activation and repolarization ultimately affecting surface ECG waveforms in athletes. Objective: This article considers an in deep rationale for the electrocardiographic pattern known as early repolarization based on both electrophysiological mechanisms at cellular level and the vectorial theory of the cardiac activation. Methods: The mechanism by which the autonomic remodeling influences the cardiac electrical activation is reviewed and an insight model of the ventricular repolarization based on ionic models and the vectorial theory of the cardiac activation is proposed. Results: Considering the underlying processes related to ventricular electrical remodeling, we propose that, in athletes' heart: 1) vagal modulation increases regional electrophysiological differences in action potential phases 1 and 2 amplitudes, thus enhancing a voltage gradient between epicardial and endocardial fibers; 2) this gradient affects depolarization and repolarization timing sequences; 3) repolarization wave front starts earlier on ventricular wall and partially overcomes the end of depolarization causing an upward displacement of the J-point, ST segment elevation, and inscription of magnified T-waves amplitudes leading to characteristic surface ECG waveform patterns. Conclusions: In athletes, the association between epicardial to endocardial electrophysiological differences and early repolarization ECG pattern can be demonstrated by the vectorial theory of the ventricular activation and repolarization. [source]

A new Nabataean inscription from Taym,'

ARABIAN ARCHAEOLOGY AND EPIGRAPHY, Issue 2 2009
Mohammed Al-Najem
A new six-line Nabataean inscription was recently discovered during building work in the centre of the oasis city of , north-west Saudi Arabia. It is the epitaph of a ruler, or chief citizen, of the city and is dated by the era of the Roman Province of Arabia to AD 203. All but one of the names in the text are Jewish, and this is by far the earliest record of Jews in the oasis. The Nabataean script of the epitaph is also of great interest since it shows features which are normally associated with much later periods in the development of the Nabataean into the Arabic script. [source]

A Himyarite diplomatic mission to the Sasanian court of Bahram II depicted at Bishapur

ARABIAN ARCHAEOLOGY AND EPIGRAPHY, Issue 2 2009
Bruno Overlaet
Rock relief IV at Bishapur, Iran, depicts the Sasanian king Bahram II (AD 276,293) who meets an Arab diplomatic mission with horses and dromedaries. An inscription from the Mahram Bilqis temple near Marib mentions a diplomatic mission sent by Shammar Yuhar'ish to Ctesiphon and Seleucia. Based on the events mentioned in the inscription, this mission is now dated to the beginning of Bahram II's reign. This date agrees with the stylistic dating that has been proposed for the relief, which suggests that Bishapur IV depicts the reception of this Himyarite diplomatic mission. [source]

Itaamar der Sabäer: Zur Datierung der Monumentalinschrift des Yiaamar Watar aus irw,

ARABIAN ARCHAEOLOGY AND EPIGRAPHY, Issue 1 2007
Norbert Nebes
In December, 2005, a monumental inscription of the Sabaean ruler Yi a amar Watar bin Yakrubmalik was discovered during excavations in the Almaqah temple at irw, by a German Archaeological Institute expedition. The text is not only the longest ever discovered in Yemen in a scientific excavation, but also the earliest datable inscription known in South Arabia. Yi a amar Watar bin Yakrubmalik, who was completely unknown until recently, may be identified with Ita amar, the Sabaean ruler who brought gifts to the Assyrian monarch Sargon II around 715 B.C. [source]

Risky subjects: changing geographies of employment in the automobile industry

AREA, Issue 2 2001
David Butz
This paper examines employment in the Canadian automobile industry in terms of Beck's (1992) Risk Society. We demonstrate that risk transcends terms of employment, to encompass injury, lay-off, and displacement. Work becomes increasingly risky with the blurring of employment relations within and among three geographic scales: the globe, the locale and the plant. We argue for an embodied account of the experience of risk which emphasizes the inscription of different temporal and spatial configurations of work on the body. [source]

SIGNPOSTS OF INVENTION: ARTISTS' SIGNATURES IN ITALIAN RENAISSANCE ART

ART HISTORY, Issue 4 2006
PATRICIA RUBIN
The opening lines of Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy provide the starting point for a consideration of the ways that artists inscribed themselves within their works during the Renaissance. This is a matter both of signatures and of authorial complicity. This article examines how signatures were defined in the period and how they were used in a process of artistic definition. Conventions of inscription are outlined, and four particularly inventive instances (Fra Filippo Lippi, Donatello, Michelangelo and Titian) are considered in greater detail to show how artists' names could be used to direct the viewer's experience of their works and appreciation of their authorship. [source]

CORRECT DELINEATIONS AND PROMISCUOUS OUTLINES: ENVISIONING INDIA AT THE TRIAL OF WARREN HASTINGS

ART HISTORY, Issue 1 2006
FINBARR BARRY FLOOD
This essay explores the representation of India to a British metropolitan audience in the last decades of the eighteenth century, a time of burgeoning orientalist scholarship. Texts and images produced during the period reveal many of the ambiguities and ambivalences in the evolving relationship between Parliament, the East India Company and native Indian rulers. Between 1788 and 1795 these were highlighted dramatically in the impeachment proceedings against Warren Hastings, the Governor-General of the East India Company's possessions. The proceedings coincided with the exhibition and publication in London of a corpus of Indian landscape paintings executed by William Hodges, who had enjoyed Hastings's patronage during and after his travels in India. The article focuses on a number of satirical political prints relating to the impeachment, arguing that they draw upon the sudden influx of graphic information on India as a vehicle for satire while invoking a contemporary penchant for optical devices of various sorts. In doing so, they highlight a contemporary tension between the aesthetic and documentary value of the image, which is often framed in terms of a dialectical opposition between artistic translation and transcription. It is suggested that these images reflect a hermeneutic common to other modes of orientalist production, which effected a domestic inscription of the Orient by finding correspondences between the foreign and the familiar. [source]

The Gendered Violence of Development: Imaginative Geographies of Exclusion in the Imposition of Neo-liberal Capitalism

BRITISH JOURNAL OF POLITICS & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, Issue 2 2007
Lara Coleman
In this article I consider how gendered hierarchies are constitutive of neo-liberal development and the violence attendant upon it. Building on Arturo Escobar's observation that violence is constitutive of development, I explore how the violent imposition of neo-liberal development is legitimised through the inscription of gendered imaginative geographies, which define ,savage' spaces of exclusion in need of ,civilising' development interventions. Drawing on the example of contemporary Colombia, I trace how the development discourse produces space in this way by normalising certain identities and political rationalities,those associated with competition and rational economic behaviour,while representing others as errant, as hyper-masculine subjects prone to violence or ,pre-rational' feminised subjects. [source]

Think Globally, Publish Virtually, Act Locally: A U.S.-Saudi International Museum Partnership

CURATOR THE MUSEUM JOURNAL, Issue 1 2005
Paul Michael Taylor
ABSTRACT This paper examines an on-going cooperative project between the National Museum of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, undertaken within the framework of the International Partnership Among Museums (IPAM) program of the American Association of Museums. The project,Written in Stone: Epigraphy from the National Museum of Saudi Arabia,is a virtual Web exhibition of inscriptions dating from the late second millennium B.C. to the nineteenth century AD. It is undoubtedly representative of many special-purpose cooperative projects (for exhibitions, research, or other purposes) that are taking place across international boundaries between pairs or groups of museums in various countries. Such collaborations provide examples of how partner institutions can take advantage of the opportunities that globalization and standardization of museum practices offer. [source]

The origins of Christian commemoration in late antique Britain

EARLY MEDIEVAL EUROPE, Issue 2 2001
Mark A. Handley
The corpus of approximately 250 Christian inscriptions, dating from before c.700, from western Britain has been interpreted as the result of contact between Britain and Gaul. This article will show that Christian commemoration was neither a new, post-Roman introduction into Britain nor the product of contact with Gaul. Rather, it will show that the inscriptions should be seen as part of a larger pattern of epigraphic practice also evidenced in Spain, Italy and North Africa during late antiquity. Where earlier scholars have argued that Christian inscriptions in Britain begin in the period AD 420,40, it will demonstrate that they are more likely to date from the late fourth century, a conclusion with important implications for the study of western Britain. [source]

Un/safe/ly at Home: Narratives of Sexual Coercion in 1920s Egypt

GENDER & HISTORY, Issue 3 2004
Marilyn Booth
This paper takes up an Arabic narrative genre that appeared in the 1920s. Its distinctive narrative properties included adoption of a first-person female experiental voice and a focus on `impolite' social realms. Combining confessional exposé and social polemic in what I am calling `simulated memoirs', these narrating voices offered readers the narrative authority of first-hand experience in Cairo's underworld and critique of elite politics and spaces of behaviour from the constructed perspective of subaltern social figures. I argue that these text's inscriptions of bodily coercion trace an anxiety about growing female visibility throughout urban space. Construction of feminine narrative voices apparently wrests authority to speak about gendered bodily violence away from elite, mostly male commentators and representatives of the state, transferring that authority to the figure of the `fallen' female who `speaks'. But this is an act of ventriloquism: complex layerings of authorial and narrative attribution recoup that authority, reasserting the disciplinary power of the patriarchal father over the lives and vulnerabilities of the young. [source]

The Cultural Burden of Architecture

JOURNAL OF ARCHITECTURAL EDUCATION, Issue 4 2004
GÜLSÜM BAYDAR
Contemporary architectural discourse mostly assumes an unmediated link between architecture and culture. This is a historical assumption, however, rooted in colonial encounters when the notion of cultural difference first entered the architectural scene. In the first part of my article, I focus on a statement by Vitruvius that provides ways of thinking about architecture outside cultural identity categories. In the second part, I analyze two nineteenth-century texts to show both the cultural inscriptions of architectural discourse and their breaking points. Finally, I argue that recognizing the historicity of the relationship between architecture and culture involves problematizing architecture as an identity category as much as questioning culture as an architectural category. [source]