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Effect of extended famine conditions on aerobic granular sludge stability in the treatment of brewery wastewater
2017
Results obtained from three aerobic granular sludge reactors treating brewery wastewater are presented. Reactors were operated for 60 d days in each of the two periods under different cycle duration: (Period I) short 6 h cycle, and (Period II) long 12 h cycle. Organic loading rates (OLR) varying from 0.7 kg COD m-3 d-1 to 4.1 kg COD m-3 d-1 were tested. During Period I, granules successfully developed in all reactors, however, results revealed that the feast and famine periods were not balanced and the granular structure deteriorated and became irregular. During Period II at decreased 12 h cycle time, granules were observed to develop again with superior structural stability compared to the…
Dożynki w Polsce. Od obrzędu do widowiska
2017
Today the traditional beliefs, customs and rites relating to the harvest time are very limited as their contemporary functions and dimension have changed. The authoress is interested in the transformation process of a harvest festival that is typical of the old rural communities. The harvest festival still crowns the labours of farming and is a form of solemn thanksgiving for harvested crops but today's celebration is not accompanied with any magical practices that would bring a good harvest next year. Ritual songs are becoming obsolete and the harvesting women, if any, no longer need any orations addressed to a landlord. The customs of baking bread and making crown-shaped wreaths have surv…
The orthodox liturgical year and its theological structure
2022
The concept of ‘liturgical year’ indicates a reference to the meaning of the measuring units of civil time, and especially to the cosmic entities that determine the general rhythm of time – the sun and the moon. Interestingly, the liturgical time depends both on the structure of civil time, and, on the two discrete systems of the solar and lunar cycles, which have always been underpinnings of time measuring. The special importance and influence that the cosmical rhythms exert on the entire human life are also felt in the structure and theology of the liturgical time, where it signals the attempt to merge and reconcile the cosmical solar and lunar cycles within the liturgical year. This lead…
Commensality in the Late Bronze Age : places and practices : the contribution of recent discoveries in the south-east of the Paris Basin
2021
This doctoral dissertation uses data from the extensive preventive archaeological research carried out in the Upper Seine Valley in the south-east of the Paris Basin for at least five decades an area where Bronze Age and Early Iron Age sites are numerous and generally well preserved. The 2005 excavation by Inrap of the Villiers-sur-Seine site "le Gros Buisson", an "unusual" settlement dating to the final phase of the Late Bronze Age (9th century B.C.) is the main focus of this study, having shed new light on domestic contexts of this pivotal period. This fortified aristocratic dwelling is characterised by an organised plan, abundant artefacts, as well as the unusual consumption of young pig…
Study of aerobic granular sludge stability in a continuous-flow membrane bioreactor.
2015
A granular continuous-flow membrane bioreactor with a novel hydrodynamic configuration was developed to evaluate the stability of aerobic granular sludge (AGS). Under continuous-flow operation (Period I), AGS rapidly lost their structural integrity resulting in loose and fluffy microbial aggregates in which filamentous bacteria were dominant. The intermittent feeding (Period II) allowed obtaining the succession of feast and famine conditions that favored the increase in AGS stability. Although no further breakage occurred, the formation of new granules was very limited, owing to the absence of the hydraulic selection pressure. These results noted the necessity to ensure, on the one hand the…
Biesiada w Soplicowie jako część boskiego ładu istnienia
2019
Bohaterowie Pana Tadeusza bardzo często jedzą na ogromnym stole. Przygotowanie święta, robienie wyszukanych potraw i ich konsumpcja towarzyszą każdemu ważnemu wydarzeniu życiowemu w Soplicowie, a sam proces jedzenia staje się istotnym wydarzeniem. Uczta staropolska otwiera i zamyka fabułę poematu. Epicki poemat Mickiewicza – kompendium szlacheckiego zwyczaju – nie może pominąć nawyków związanych z jedzeniem. Postacie utworu jedzą dobrze, dużo i szybko, a także piją sporo wódki, ponczu oraz win Tokaj i Malaga. Istnieje tu wiele opowieści o kulinarnych upodobaniach bohaterów, których najbardziej znaczącym przykładem pozostaje „uczta zajazdowa” opisana w Księdze IX (w. 250-253), w której rosyj…
Historiografia del “Ball de Torrent”: De la moixiganga barroca al quadre de balls populars valencians (1692-1929)
2013
Resum: El Ball de Torrent és una moixiganga dramàtica popular escenificada a la ciutat de València i altres indrets del País Valencià des de finals del segle XVII fins a principis del segle XX. Estava organitzada per agrupacions gremials, juntes d’hospitals o clavaris de festes i protagonitzada per personatges agrupats en comparses que representaven una paròdia sobre les relacions entre les estructures de poder i les classes populars. Tot i la variabilitat segons el moment històric, es conforma com una mescla de quadres amb danses, música i jocs teatrals. El ball interacciona de diverses formes amb algunes festes valencianes i és, probablement, una de les mostres de teatre de carrer més nos…
San Calogero eroe mietitore: continuità rituali, tempi delle feste e ritmi ergologici in Sicilia
2020
Le “somiglianze” tra antico e presente rituale non sono né accidentali né, necessariamente, frutto dell’adozione di certi modelli “forti” derivati da contatti culturali. Sono, piuttosto, specifici atti di parole, costruiti a partire da una langue simbolica comune (un apparato simbolico, sostanziato di credenze con valore cognitivo, diretto a riempire di senso i discreta culturalmente estrapolati dalla “realtà”) formatasi al momento dell’affermarsi dei regimi di vita neolitici. L’emergere, al momento del passaggio a un’economia agricola e a forme di insediamento stabili, di nuovi problemi socio-ecologici aveva imposto all’uomo, infatti, l’adozione di nuove configurazioni simboliche che organ…
The Ka’ulayawaa festivals among the Wayùu. Exploring continuities and variations in forms, meanings and contexts through ethnographic sources
2022
In this paper I review and compare the main sources of information about the ka’ulayawaa festivals among the Wayùu, an Amerindian people inhabiting in the semiarid Guajira peninsula (Northern Colombia and Venezuela). For their peculiar mix of songs, dances, imitative plays and competitive games, inserted into a same festive framework, these festivals are particularly interesting to be studied as expressive metacommentaries (in the sense of Turner) of Wayùu social structures, cultural values and worldview. Nevertheless, they have not so far been the subject of a specific anthropological analysis, also because they ceased to be celebrated around the middle of the twentieth century, that is, b…
Apogeum i kres stalinowskich obchodów Święta Pracy na Śląsku Opolskim (część 1)
2016
The Labor Day that falls on the May 1, was one of the most important events in Poland during the communist period. The celebrations were preceded by long-term preparations. Since the beginning of March, the society undertook May Day deeds. A few weeks before Labor Day, committees were formed, which ensured that the celebrations would proceed in accordance with the guidelines of the Central Committee of the PUWP. In the last days of April, in schools, clubs and workplaces, May Day academies were organized. On April 30, the most important academy was set up in Opole, namely the provincial. The program of the events proceeded according to the agreed scenario: initiated with speeches of party d…