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Science, politics and image in Valencia: a review of urban discourse in the Spanish City
2003
Abstract In the urban sphere, discourse is fundamental to the social and political construction of urban reality. The urban landscape is, in part, a result of those discourses. It is, as Richard Schein suggests, a discourse materialized. The production of these discourses throughout urban history both represented and constructed urban reality at any given time. For much of history, the written word was central to such discursive representations, literary formulations and even biological metaphors that sought to interpret the city both for local inhabitants and outsiders. Today, the photographic image has usurped the former dominance of the word. This article uses archival research to trace …
Una máquina para la industria medieval. Los batanes del sur valenciano : integración y negocio. Nuevas aportaciones (1490-1502).
2021
El artículo tiene como objetivo el estudio de la región batanera de las comarcas del sur valenciano a través de nuevas aportaciones documentales. A lo largo del siglo XV y principios del siglo XVI, en las comarcas de la Vall d'Albaida, el Comtat y Alcoià el número de batanes hidráulicos aumentó hasta los 38 molinos en funcionamiento. El artículo muestra las causas de esta concentración, explica las características técnicas que aportan los documentos, y la adaptación de los batanes al conjunto de la red molinar de la zona. El trabajo concluye explicando los sectores sociales y económicos (artesanos empresarios) que organizaron y protagonizaron este desarrollo técnico e industrial, aportando …
Saint Adalbert – the Apostle of Silesia
2017
Bishop Adalbert is known under many names but only one source refers to him as the ‘Apostle of Silesia’: a mediaeval chronicle of the Opole Dominicans. Since the II World War the chronicle is lost. The contents of the chronicle were recently reconstructed thanks to an archival research in the manuscript department of the Wrocław University Library, the National Archive in Prague and the Dominican General Archive on Aventine hill in Rome. According to the source, saint Adalbert had visited Opole about 984. In Górka (the Hill) he was supposed to christianize local society and baptize them. When he was run out of baptizing water, the fountain came to the top and lasted till the beginning of th…
Three Decades of Psychological Research in the Journal Cognitive Psychology (1979–1999)
2003
We examined the journal Cognitive Psychology, as representative of the evolution of cognitive psychology during the last three decades (1979–1999). Analysis of changes in the impact factor defined according to the Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) is an indication of the ranking of this journal both in the general classification of archival research journals as well as in relation to other periodicals in the area of cognitive psychology. This single quantitative measure of articles published in Cognitive Psychology indicates a change in the topics of interest. An analysis of the research topics and identification of the most productive authors identifies important indicators of the psyc…
Music at Palermo’s San Martino delle Scale during the Late Sixteenth Century
2015
Nella seconda metà del Cinquecento Palermo fu uno dei centri musicali più importanti dell'Italia meridionale, grazie soprattutto all'attività della Cappella Palatina. C'erano tuttavia altre istituzioni, monasteri e conventi, che svolgevano un ruolo altrettanto importante nella promozione di eventi musicali di vario tipo. Fra gli ordini religiosi più attivi in tal senso, i Benedettini si distinguevano per la ricchezza e la quantità di occasioni musicali in cui erano coinvolti. L'istituzione benedettina più prestigiosa era l'abbazia di San Martino delle Scale, situata al di fuori delle mura della città. La documentazione rimasta fornisce un buon numero di informazioni sulla vita musicale de…
Rock decay phenomena and collapse processes in the “Latomiae del Paradiso” in Syracuse (Sicily)
2014
The Latomiae (origin: Greek latomia, from laas, las stone plus –tomia tomy ) del Paradiso in Syracuse are Magna Graecia rock quarries, located in the coastal areas of Southern Italy and internationally renowned for their impressive environment. The few historical technical records do not help clarify the events that led to their current configuration since a series of instability phenomena occurred due to decay processes over time. Through a geotechnical back-analysis, this work highlights the failure phenomena, which may have led to the current configuration of the easterly side of the Latomiae del Paradiso. The back-analysis process was carried out by means of numerical modelling, support…
Między Starą a Nową Ojczyzną – muzyczna aktywność cymbalistów na Dolnym Śląsku w latach 50. XX wieku
2022
W artykule omówiono zagadnienie muzycznej aktywności cymbalistów, którzy zmuszeni byli do migracji z przedwojennych kresów wschodnich (Wileńszczyzny, Galicji Wschodniej) na Dolny Śląsk po II wojnie światowej. Będąc nowymi osadnikami na tzw. Ziemiach Odzyskanych, otoczeni ludnością o różnym pochodzeniu regionalnym, cymbaliści próbowali w nowych warunkach kontynuować muzyczną działalność. W tekście ukazane są różne sposoby adaptacji do nowej sytuacji wykonawczej w nowym miejscu zamieszkania: budowanie kolejnych instrumentów, granie w kapelach ludowych składających się z członków o różnym pochodzeniu regionalnym, próby indywidualnego muzykowania oparte na wykonywaniu muzyki tanecznej z regionu…
Who makes partner in Big 4 audit firms? – Evidence from Germany
2021
Abstract This study investigates who makes partner in Big 4 audit firms. Building on prior qualitative research, we conduct the first large scale study using archival data to examine the incremental importance of different individual auditor characteristics for making partner. For our analyses, we collect information on German auditors from a business-oriented social network site. We conduct a longitudinal analysis for a cohort of Big 4 senior managers and directors to identify determinants of making partner. We find that economic capital, social capital, and institutionalized cultural capital matter for making partner. Further, we find that female and foreign auditors are less likely to be…
Il palazzo pretorio di Palermo nel XV secolo: nuove fonti archivistiche e iconografiche
2021
This paper aims to trace the original appearance of the Palazzo Pretorio of Palermo, through archival documents and existing iconography referring in particular to before the modifications made according to Giuseppe Damiani Almeyda’s plan in the late nineteenth century. The discovery of new documents and of an unpublished drawing made before the earthquake of 1823, which damaged the structure, has allowed us to further advance the state of knowledge about the edifice and has reduced the level of approximation of the reconstruction hypothesis. In particular, it was possible to have a realistic idea of the conformation of the main facade, originally facing south on the San Cataldo plane, and …
Neuronal ceroid-lipofuscinosis--late-infantile or Jansky-Bielschowsky type--revisited.
1996
Among the now eight genetic types of neuronal ceroid-lipofuscinoses (NCL), CLN1 to CLN8, CLN2 is considered classic late-infantile NCL. It was originally described by Janský in a family of eight children with four of them affected [Janský J (1908) Sborn Lek 13:165-196] and, subsequently, by Bielschowsky in a family of three children each of whom was affected, and, hence, termed Janský-Bielschowsky type of NCL. Earlier, archival studies of Bielschowsky's original post-mortem tissue blocks had documented accumulation of autofluorescent lipopigments with a curvilinear ultrastructure. In a subsequent study, described here, immunohistochemical absence of the CLN2-related lysosomal enzyme tripept…