Search results for "Documentary"
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The past distribution of Abies nebrodensis (Lojac.) Mattei: results of a multidisciplinary study
2019
The present study provides a critical review of the available historical data on the distribution of Abies nebrodensis, a fir tree endemic to Sicily. The only (somewhat ambiguous) references to its occurrence on Mount Etna date back to the 1st century bc and refer back to the 3rd century bc. Although the botanical and forestry literature and the very few surviving herbarium specimens do not prove that A. nebrodensis grew outside the Madonie mountain range, several indications suggest its past occurrence on other Sicilian mountain ranges such as the Erei, Nebrodi, and probably also Sicani mountains. The results of the most recent pollen investigations (still ongoing) point to the disappearan…
Five centuries of Central European temperature extremes reconstructed from tree-ring density and documentary evidence
2010
Future climate change will likely influence the frequency and intensity of weather extremes. As such events are by definition rare, long records are required to understand their characteristics, drivers, and consequences on ecology and society. Herein we provide a unique perspective on regional-scale temperature extremes over the past millennium, using three tree-ring maximum latewood density (MXD) chronologies from higher elevations in the European Alps. We verify the tree-ring-based extremes using documentary evidences from Switzerland, the Czech Republic, and Central Europe that allowed the identification of 44 summer extremes over the 1550-2003 period. These events include cold temperat…
Climate indices in historical climate reconstructions: a global state of the art
2021
Narrative evidence contained within historical documents and inscriptions provides an important record of climate variability for periods prior to the onset of systematic meteorological data collection. A common approach used by historical climatologists to convert such qualitative information into continuous quantitative proxy data is through the generation of ordinal-scale climate indices. There is, however, considerable variability in the types of phenomena reconstructed using an index approach and the practice of index development in different parts of the world. This review, written by members of the PAGES (Past Global Changes) CRIAS working group – a collective of climate historians a…
Testing the hypothesis of post-volcanic missing rings in temperature sensitive dendrochronological data
2013
a b s t r a c t The precise, annual dating control, inherent to dendrochronology, has recently been questioned through a combined analysis of tree-growth and coupled climate models (Mann et al. (2012; hereafter MAN12)) suggesting single tree-rings in temperature limited environments are missing following large volcanic events. We test this hypothesis of missing, post-volcanic rings by using a compilation of maximum late- wood density (MXD) records that are typically used for reconstructing temperature and the detection of volcanic events, together with a unique set of long instrumental station data from Europe reaching back into the early 18th century. We investigate the temporal coherence …
Sguardo di ascolto: note di ricerca sul film Aylesbury Estate (2020)
2022
Aylesbury Estate (2020) è un lungometraggio documentario sul noto complesso abitativo di social housing londinese, nel quale ho abitato per alcuni anni. Il film, da me diretto tra il 2017 e il 2020, segue il percorso esistenziale ed emotivo di alcuni residenti dell’Aylesbury mentre si fa strada il lungo processo di demolizione dello stesso. Nel ripercorrere il processo di realizzazione del film e attraverso l’analisi di alcune sequenze del film finito, questo articolo propone uno ‘sguardo di ascolto’ per condurre ricerca sul campo attraverso il mezzo filmico.
Reliability of the representation of a distribution: a case-study on Middle Bronze Age metal finds in the Seine valley
2013
International audience; Controlling the uncertainties and the documentary lacks of an archaeological corpus should be the priority to interpret correctly the data distribution. The conception of a reliability map in order to estimate the quality of the inventory, the creation of a representation map so as to highlight the over- and under-representations and finally their combination, the confidence map, are efficient tools to spot out the zones concerning which there is a risk for a defective interpretation. We propose here, an application on a case-study of Middle Bronze Age metal hoards and isolated finds, for which the only really determining factor is the possibility for discoveries sin…
Die finstere Seite des Herzens, Zur Migration von Bildern der religiösen Profanation
2012
This article deals with the series of re-appripriation and re-editing of twe single images produced by the Republican side during the Spanish Civil War: the one representing the execution of the statue of Christ at the Hill of Angels at the end of July-beginning of August 1936, and the one depicting the desecration of the mumies of nuns taken in Barcelona the same month. Both in photography and in film support were the object of propaganda purposes from the Francoist side and even they appeared in Nazi and Italian Fascist footage. The chapter traces its transformation until the present.
Gestión y liderazgo del talento: las claves del éxito empresarial
2021
Desde hace ya unas décadas, se está trabajando con profundidad en la investigación científica sobre la evidencia en las empresas de la gestión del talento. A nivel profesional, ya han sido muchas organizaciones las que han dado el salto cualitativo hacia una nueva manera de enfocar los recursos humanos (RR. HH.). Principalmente porque esta nueva perspectiva está más vinculada tanto al negocio como a los objetivos empresariales, además de ser más aceptada por la mayoría de los profesionales. Desde los orígenes de la guerra del talento por Mckinsey hasta la actualidad, la investigación está analizando el papel de la gestión del talento en los resultados organizativos. En este sentido, Luna (2…
Weakening Forensic Science in Spain: From Expert Evidence to Documentary Evidence*
2012
An amendment in 2002 to the Spanish Code of Criminal Procedure converted into documentary evidence the expert reports prepared by official laboratories aimed at determining the nature, weight, and purity of seized drugs. In most cases, experts are spared from appearance before the courts. This is likely to be extended to other forensic fields. After an overview of criminalistic identification in current forensic science, the objectivity and reliability concepts used by jurists and scientists are considered by comparing the paradigm of individualization with that of likelihood. Subsequently, a detailed critical study is made on the above-mentioned Spanish legal reform, and a comparison is ma…
1968 And Rural Japan as A Site of Struggle. Approaches to rural landscapes in the history of Japanese documentary film
2021
In the twentieth century, Japan produced an extraordinary documentary film heritage around the rural world which has not received sufficient attention. This article identifies three different approaches to the rural in Japanese film history: first, the wartime interest in place as providing an 'authentic essence' of a national identity. Second, the post-war representation of the rural in public relations films (PR eiga), mainly interested in geography. And third, the release of Ogawa's Summer in Sanrizuka in 1968 which brought a new dimension to a countryside transformed into both a battlefield and an icon of the political protest of the era.