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Shaping women's agency through temporality in "The life and activity of the holy and blessed teacher Syncletica"
2020
The present article attempts to discuss the relationship between two female characters, Thecla and Syncletica, against the wider theoretical background of temporality as it was perceived and construed through literary texts. Syncletica is portrayed as a ‘disciple’ of Thecla. However, while the apocryphal Acts of Paul and Thecla appear to be pervaded with an eschatological expectation, the Life of Saint Syncletica shows signs of a different temporality. The detailed description of the whole life of Syncletica, with an emphasis on the course of illness, reveals a temporality more focused on the stages of life. Building on this evidence, I aim to identify a set of key features that…
When is Architecture Not Design?
2019
If there’s nothing more to architecture than design, and to its attendant thinking processes than design thinking, then core dimensions of the enterprise from production and use angles have no special character over and above their counterparts in general design. Yet that does not appear to be true by the lights of architects or design specialists or the public at large. So what is it, at the core or periphery of the discipline or its objects, that makes architecture not design? The ways in which architecture and design constitute artistic enterprises, drawing on and promoting aesthetic interest, differ such that architecture is not, or at least not only, a branch of or variation on desi…
A primera sang: batalles nupcials en la Catalunya barroca. Els epitalamis al galant Alba de Francesc Fontanella
2017
Resum: A l’antiga Grecia i Roma els epitalamis actuaven com a preludi erotic de la nit nupcial. Claudia, a l’antiguitat tardana, va tractar el motiu del desflorament com a pugna amoris amb lasciu refinament. A partir del Quattrocento italia, l’Europa moderna va reprendre amb profusio aquesta tradicio laudatoria d’erotisme estilitzat amb cants consagrats a la unio de les families il·lustres. El poeta barroc Francesc Fontanella (1622-1682/83) va compondre quatre magnifics epitalamis dedicats a les noces d’un enigmatic personatge: el ‘galant Alba’. Diversos estudis han intentat, sense exit, desvelar-ne la identitat. En aquestes composicions, Fontanella va emprar un llenguatge refinat i metafor…
The fifteenth-century Catalan translation of the French "Danse macabre": A critical edition and English translation, from manuscript Miscel·lània 26,…
2015
The present article focuses on ff. cxlr-cviiir of the manuscript Miscel?lània 26, Arxiu de la Corona d’Aragó, Barcelona, which contain the only extant version of the fifteenth-century Catalan translation of the French Danse macabre. The article contains a philological study of this section of the manuscript, with particular attention to the relationship between the Catalan version of the Danse macabre and its French sources: this study serves as an introduction to a new critical edition of the Catalan translation proposed in the second part of the article. The critical text consists of a parallel edition of the Catalan version and manuscript lat. 14904, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Par…
Ocho notas sobre la Casa Farnsworth de Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
2020
Mies was in the top of his career when he built the Farnsworth House. The analysis of this work shows some characteristics of his architectural thought: the relationships between architecture and nature, the definition of the pavilion type, his concept of architectural space, the role of structure and limits, the idea free plan and the meaning of construction
Thought Experiments, Justice and Character
2012
A significant number of philosophers seem to assume that the study of thought experiments in light of a series of sketchy examples (and counterexamples) constitutes the best means to advance the philosophical debate. It is not my purpose to deny that thought experiments must play a role in philosophical reflection on moral issues, but to stress the need to complement this methodological resource with other means of understanding that may help us to discern the moral demands we may eventually confront. For, otherwise, one may unkowingly project onto the thought experiment itself a rather elementary comprehension of our moral practices, which may thereby seem confirmed.
Non-periodic Discrete Splines
2015
Discrete Splines with different spans were introduced in Sect. 3.3.1. This chapter focuses on a special case of discrete splines whose spans are powers of 2. These splines are discussed in more detail. The Zak transform provides an integral representation of such splines. Discrete exponential splines are introduced. Generators of the discrete-spline spaces are described whose properties are similar to properties of polynomial-spline spaces generators. Interpolating discrete splines provide efficient tools for upsampling 1D and 2D signals. An algorithm for explicit computation of discrete splines is described.
Comparative Analysis of the Social, Demographic and Economic Factors that Influenced Housing Choices in Spain in 1990 and 2000
2008
The housing market is an important sector in the economy of any country. Residential demand (also referred to as `housing consumption') depends on many demographic and social characteristics of the country's population and is also related to economic factors. The aim of the present paper was to evaluate the joint effects of economic, demographic and social factors on household behaviour with respect to housing choices. In addition, an attempt was made to determine the impact of recent economic and structural changes in Spanish society (in 1990 and 2000) on residential demand. It was found that the consequences of these structural changes will have medium- and long-term effects on housing d…
Comparison of the smile perception and smile characteristics among Latvian and Uzbek population
2021
Šī pētījuma mērķis bija: 1) izpētīt Latvijas un Uzbekistānas iedzīvotāju smaida raksturojumu 20-35 gadu vecuma grupā, 2) un salīdzināt smaida pašvērtējumu Latvijas un Uzbekistānas iedzīvotāju vidū. Metodes: 1) Tika uzņemtas piecdesmit dalībnieku no Latvijas un piecdesmit dalībnieku no Uzbekistānas pilna smaida fotogrāfijas, kurās novērtēja smaida estētiskās īpašības (smaida tips, smaida simetrija, smaidā parādīto zobu skaits, augšžokļa priekšzobu malas novietojums attiecībā pret apakšlūpu, tika pētīts augšžokļa incisīvu izliekums attiecībā pret apakšlūpu). 2) Lai novērtētu dalībnieku smaida pašnovērtējumu, tika izveidota anketa latviešu, uzbeku, angļu un krievu valodā. Dalībniekiem tika nos…
On the Statistical Properties of Equal Gain Combining over Mobile-to-Mobile Fading Channels in Cooperative Networks
2010
Paper presented at the 2010 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Cape Town. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other users, including reprinting/ republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted components of this work in other works. Paper also available from the publisher: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICC.2010.5501898 This article deals with the statistical analysis of equal gain combining (EGC) over mobile-to-mobile (M2M) fading channels in a dual-hop amplify-and-forward relay network. Here, we…