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Curiosités à la Colette, czyli o osobliwościach i niezwykłościach codzienności
2016
Twórczość Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette jawi się jako swoisty gabinet osobliwości. Owe niezwykłości to kurioza związane z tajemnicami natury, przedmiotami codziennego użytku, a także sferą doznań, które wpływają na poznawanie oraz smakowanie życia. W niniejszym artykule kurioza rozumiane są w kategoriach fascynacji, stanu emocjonalnego, wynikającego z odkrywania, podziwiania nowych rzeczy lub osób, a także rozkoszowania się różnorodnością doświadczeń i możliwości przekraczania tabu. Niezwykle interesujące wydaje się w tym aspekcie „pożądanie skarbów”, które implikuje specyficzne upojenie lub ekscytację rzeczywistością. Ukazanie odmienności świata pozwala przeżyć zachwyt - odczuwany wszystkimi z…
Utebarnehager – et sted for demokratisk praksis?
2013
Published version of an article in the journal: Nordisk barnehageforskning. Also available from the publisher at: http://www.nordiskbarnehageforskning.no/ Open access The questions in the title is posed to discuss how an outdoor kindergarten space is contextualized and understood by those who are staying there. Nature is often seen as an especially open space, free from strong guidelines and structures. Being part of an educational practice gives the place new structures. The activities the children participate in and the employees expressed attitudes and practices are part of different discourses, which give certain limits or possibilities for what is going on at the Hut, and thus influenc…
Concepciones docentes acerca de la naturaleza de la tecnología y de las relaciones Ciencia, Tecnología, Sociedad y Ambiente en la educación tecnológi…
2012
Este trabajo pretende, en primer lugar, cuestionar extendidas concepciones de la tecnología que la presentan como mera aplicación de los conocimientos científicos y que están contribuyendo a una imagen distorsionada y empobrecida de la naturaleza de la ciencia y la tecnología y, consecuentemente, al desinterés e incluso rechazo hacia su estudio. En segundo lugar se presentan los resultados de una investigación cuyo objetivo es analizar en qué medida dichas concepciones afectan incluso al profesorado encargado de la alfabetización tecnológica. Finalmente se aborda la transformación de dichas concepciones.
Human Activity Signatures Captured under Different Directions Using SISO and MIMO Radar Systems
2022
In this paper, we highlight and resolve the shortcomings of single-input single-output (SISO) millimeter wave (mm-Wave) radar systems for human activity recognition (HAR). A 2×2 distributed multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) radar framework is presented to capture human activity signatures under realistic conditions in indoor environments. We propose to distribute the two pairs of collocated transmitter–receiver antennas in order to illuminate the indoor environment from different perspectives. For the proposed MIMO system, we measure the time-variant (TV) radial velocity distribution and TV mean radial velocity to observe the signatures of human activities. We deploy the Anc…
Dialoghi a distanza in tema di socialità e storicità del diritto. Italia, Francia e Germania tra fine Ottocento e primo Novecento
2015
L’intreccio di trasformazioni che tra Otto e Novecento cambia il volto dell’Europa fa da sfondo a uno dei momenti più alti della storia della cultura giuridica. Un comune afflato sembra ispirare gli indirizzi che in Italia, Francia e Germania sollecitano un rinnovamento del metodo e un ripensamento della stessa nozione di diritto. Le fibrillazioni della «Scuola sociale del diritto», già attiva in Italia negli anni Ottanta, incrociavano le inquietudini del “rinascimento giuridico” francese e le provocazioni del gius-liberismo tedesco, sovrapponendosi le une alle altre, percorrendo itinerarii contigui, attingendo a un patrimonio scientifico comune. Le componenti eterodosse della cultura giuri…
Glosa do wyroku Wojewódzkiego Sądu Administracyjnego w Opolu z dnia 2 lutego 2017 r. II SA/Op 577/16
2018
Opposing health effects of hybridization for conservation
2021
The continuing decline of many natural plant and animal populations emphasizes the importance of conservation strategies. Hybridization as a management tool has proven successful in introducing gene flow to small, inbred populations, but can be also associated with health risks. For example, hybridization can change susceptibility to infection in either direction due to heterosis (hybrid vigor) and outbreeding depression, but such health effects have rarely been considered in the genetic management of populations. Here, we investigated the effects of experimental outcrossing between the critically endangered Saimaa landlocked salmon (Salmo salar m. sebago) and the genetically more diverse A…
Tale(s) of a forest – re-creation of a primeval forest in three environmental narratives
2020
We analyze three environmentally conscious works that are concerned with the state of Finnish forests: the documentary film Metsän tarina/Tale of a Forest (2012), the book with the same name (2013) and the series of short documentaries Tarinoita metsästä/Tales from the Forest (2013). By combining methods from arts research and ecology, we ask how the narratives adapt material from nature photography. The film and book present mythic stories and old Finnish beliefs about forests. They also contain references to cultural memory. Additionally, the biodiversity on display reflects a conventional practice to exhibit large or charismatic species. However, the ecological message remains only impli…
A mate to die for? A model of conditional monogyny in cannibalistic spiders.
2012
Monogynous males in various species actively limit themselves to mating with a single female in their lifetime. Whereas previous models have considered monogyny as an obligate mating strategy, here we explore the potential of monogyny to evolve as a context-specific (conditional) behavior. Using a state-dependent dynamic game model based on the biology of the cannibalistic spider Argiope bruennichi, we confirm that conditional monogyny can evolve under broad conditions, including an even sex ratio. We predict that males should make a terminal investment when mating with large, virgin females, especially if population density is low and the encounter occurs late in the season. We encourage e…