Academic literature on the topic 'Casimir Province'

Español. Las poblaciones del genero Armeria localizadas en las sierras de Aguas y Alcaparaín, ambas en la provincia de Málaga, se han incluido tradicionalmente en Armeria villosa subsp. carratracensis (Bernis) Nieto Feliner. El estudio del material de ambas sierras ha puesto de manifiesto que en realidad se trata de dos entidades taxonómicas distintas. Las poblaciones de la Sierra de Alcaparaín, sobre dolomías, se identifican como Armeria grajoana Casimiro-Soriguer Solanas & Cabezudo, sp. nov. Las poblaciones de Sierra de Aguas, sobre serpentinas/ peridotitas, se identifican como Armeria villosa subsp. serpentinicola Cabezudo, Pérez Latorre & CasimiroSoriguer Solanas, subsp. nov.English. The populations of the genus Armeria located in the mountain ranges of Aguas and Alcaparain, both in the province of Malaga (Spain), have traditionally been included in Armeria villosa subsp. carratracensis (Bernis) Nieto Feliner. The studied material, collected in both ranges, has shown that two independent taxa exist. The populations of the Sierra de Alcaparaín on dolomites, were identified as Armeria grajoana Casimiro-Soriguer Solanas & Cabezudo, sp. nov. The populations of Sierra de Aguas, living on peridotites, were identified as Armeria villosa subsp. sepentinicola Cabezudo, Perez Latorre & Casimiro-Soriguer Solanas, subsp. nov.

Public and Private Religiosity and Piety of the Queen Marie Casimire d’Arquien Sobieska In the early modern period, queens were obliged to participate in religious ceremonies and outwardly display their piety through charity. Marie Casimire de la Grange d’Arquien Sobieska met these duties when she was consort of the King John III Sobieski, and later, as a widow residing in Rome. Yet, her prayers were not limited to outward gestures of religiosity at official ceremonies. From her numerous letters, we can learn about her personal piety. In her letters written to Jakub, her eldest son, and his wife, the queen mother often refers to God’s Providence, and expresses her deep devotion and faith in God’s grace and protection. For Queen Marie Casimire, God was the source of comfort in difficult moments. While her outward religiosity is a reflection of the age in which she lived, the queen’s personal faith developed over time and appears to have been deep and sincere.

The article explores the development of peasants’ reading habits over the 18th century in the Latvian-inhabited Lutheran regions of Russia’s Baltic provinces Courland/Kurzeme and Latvian Livonia/Vidzeme. By analysing the transition from intensive to extensive reading patterns, as well as from loud and ceremonial to silent and private reading, insight into the available statistical sources and information from subscription lists is provided and the observations of contemporaries are scrutinized. The views on Latvian peasants’ reading habits expressed by Baltic-German Lutheran parsons Friedrich Bernhard Blaufuß, Joachim Baumann, Christian David Lenz, Johann Friedrich Casimir Rosenberger, Alexander Johann Stender, as well as those published by Johann Friedrich Steffenhagen, are discussed within the context of urban and middle-class reading patterns. While the number of literate peasants in the 18th century was high, reaching one third in Courland and two thirds in Livonia by the turn of the 19th century, the motivation for reading and everyday habits differed, and while extensive reading increased, before the 1840s, the Baltic rural so­ciety did not see a phenomenon similar to the European middle-class rea­ding revolution. The article focuses on differentiating among various types of readers, divided according to their confessional lines (Herrnhutian Brethren or Lutheran Orthodox Church), social stan­ding (reading patterns were different depending on rural professions) or genera­tion (the older generation tended to prefer loud and ceremonial religious reading while the younger generation more often adopted silent, private and secular reading). The collective reading of books has been explored by demonstrating how it allowed combining the reading of books with other activities and also performed a socializing function. The avai­lable sources demonstrate that quiet reading did not replace reading aloud, in the same way that extensive reading did not replace intensive, but all reading practices continued to co-exist alongside each other, creating an increasingly diverse and saturated reading experience.

The article discusses the poorly investigated painting heritage of the Dotnuva Bernardine Church, which covers the period from the monastery establishment in 1701 until its closure in 1864. In the article, we have tried to disclose, based on written sources and studies in situ, the origin of the pictures, their shifts during the time, to examine the iconography, attribution questions and also to reveal the piety traditions of Bernardines manifested through the paintings. The Bernardines in Dotnuva have retained a rare and valuable painting of the Virgin Mary with a child adorned with the baroque crowns from the second half of the 17th century. The painting was created according to the example of “The Virgin Mary with a Child” (1520) of a Dutch painter Adriaen Isenbrant. In the iconographic programme of the altars and the titles of the church the spirituality of Bernardines is reflected. They were intended to bless the Revelation to Virgin Mary, the sufferings of Jesus and to glorify the most important Saints of the Franciscans as well as other Saints (St. Anna, St. Barbara). Tense artistic interactions between the monasteries of St Casimir province reveal the early paintings of Dotnuva Church – St. Anthony of Padua and St. Anna (“St. Family”) painted by the same iconographic types prevalent in the environment of Bernardines. A painting of St. Anthony (beginning of the 18th century) brought from Vilnius is of identical composition as paintings of Vilnius Bernardines, and a painting of St. Anna as paintings from Kretinga). This tendency is also observed in the later paintings of Dotnuva Church. Several paintings remain in Dotnuva Church from the 18th century, but the paintings from the first half of the 19th century comprise the largest part. It can be assumed that the artistic quality of the paintings acquired from the first half of the 19th century was influenced by Chrapowicki family, church benefactors and collators, representative position and a demanding approach of Bernardines to art works. From the beginning until the middle of the 19th century, installation works in a new masonry church took place. Valuable altar paintings depicting the Way of Cross of exceptional iconography and a rare painting from the Old Testament were acquired. In the 1770s, GeorgiusKosztown, a professional painter, created a painting “The Trial of Susanna” for the church, which was mentioned in the visitation act in 1817. On the basis of stylistics and historical assumptions, he also could be the author of other altar paintings created at the same time: St. Francis of Assisi, St. Anna (St. Family), St. Barbara, St. Anthony of Padua, Way of the Cross and St. Dominic. J. Roselino, another professional painter, worked in Dotnuva at the same time. In 1819, he created a painting “St. Florian”. The artistic value of the works acquired in the middle of the 19th century has decreased. Adolf Czapski (“The Trinity”), a painter from Kėdainiai, Zboilev (“The Divine”) and other unknown painters participated in the decoration of the church. This study of the heritage of the Dotnuva Bernardine Church is only preliminary. This publication is intended to draw attention to the survived altar paintings characterised by stylistic integrity, images of the Way of the Cross and other valuable works.

A permanent trap fishery for northern pink shrimp (Pandalus borealis) was established in Chedabucto Bay, Nova Scotia in 1996 after several years of experimental trapping by one fisherman. Despite extensive experimental trapping projects elsewhere in Nova Scotia, only in one other area, Mahone Bay, has a long-term fishery been successfully established. The successful trapping of shrimp from small vessels off the coast of Nova Scotia appears to be dependant on a number of requisite conditions, including the presence of soft mud habitat and low temperatures in large, relatively deep coastal embayments. Catch rates for the established inshore trap fisheries increase in late summer-fall and decrease in spring, suggesting that an inshore migration occurs in the fall from adjacent “feeder” populations. In addition to the seasonal pattern of trapcatches, cyclical changes at a finer temporal scale were observed that appear to be related to tidal cycles, with higher catch rates associated with greater tidal ranges. Coupled with known diurnal vertical migratory behaviour, this pattern could arise as more water, and the shrimp within it, pass horizontally over the trap and come into contact with its bait plume during greater tidal ranges. More complex, selective vertical migration coupled with tidal drift may result in net movement into areas such as Chedabucto Bay. Analysis of length at sex transition and maximum size suggests that shrimp trapped in Chedabucto Bay come from the same population as those caught by trawlers inshore and offshore on the eastern Scotian Shelf. Shrimp trapped in Mahone Bay and St. Margaret’s Bay have significantly different growth characteristics and are probably from a different population. Thus the Mahone Bay and St. Margaret’s Bay population appears to be more locally confined than the widespread shrimp population on the eastern Scotian Shelf, possibly originating from areas within and immediately adjacent to these bays.Une pêche annuelle de la crevette nordique (Pandalus borealis) au casier a étéétablie dans la baie Chedabucto (Nouvelle‑Écosse) en 1996, après plusieurs années de pêche expérimentale au casier par un pêcheur. Malgré les nombreux projets de pêche expérimentale au casier menés ailleurs dans la province, une pêche à long terme a été établie avec succès dans seulement un autre secteur (la baie Mahone). La réussite de la pêche de la crevette au casier par les petits bateaux au large de la côte de la Nouvelle‑Écosse semble dépendre d’un certain nombre de conditions, y compris la présence d’un habitat vaseux mou et de basses températures dans de grandes échancrures relativement profondes de la côte. Les taux de capture pour les pêches côtières au casier établies augmentent à la fin de l’été et à l’automne et baissent au printemps, ce qui suggère que les crevettes migrent de populations sources vers la côte à l’automne. En plus de ce profil saisonnier des prises dans les casiers, deschangements cycliques à une échelle temporelle plus fine ont été observés et ceux‑ci semblent liés au cycle de marée, le taux de capture étant plus élevé lorsque l’amplitude de la marée est grande. Combiné au comportement de migration verticale diurne, ce profil pourrait survenir quand la quantité d’eau (et les crevettes qu’elle contient) qui passe horizontalement au-dessus des casiers est grande et qu’elle entre en contact avec le panache d’attractifs des casiers durant les périodes de grande amplitude de la marée. Une migration verticale sélective plus complexe combinée à une dérive tidale pourrait donner lieu à un mouvement net vers les secteurs comme la baie Chedabucto. L’analyse de la longueur au moment du changement de sexe et de la taille maximale suggère que les crevettes piégées dans la baie Chedabucto appartiennent à la mêmepopulation que celles capturées par les chalutiers en milieux côtiers et extracôtiers dans la partie est du plateau néo‑écossais. Les crevettes piégées dans les baies Mahone et St. Margaret’s ont des caractéristiques de croissance considérablement différentes et font probablement partie d’une autre population. Ainsi, la population des baies Mahone et St. Margaret’s semble avoir une aire de répartition beaucoup plus limitée que la population étendue de crevettes dans la partie est du plateau néo‑écossais, et elle provient peut-être de secteurs à l’intérieur de ces baies ou adjacents à celles-ci.

This provides an overview of the key themes of the book, explaining our focus on struggles land as a key aspect of Caribbean history. We introduce Jean Casimir’s the idea of the “counter-plantation system,” which guides our analysis. And we provide summaries of the various chapters.

While mechanical, electrical and electromechanical systems may exhibit complex nonlinear dynamics, their behavior is typically governed by relatively simple underlying principles of energy transfer. Modeling methodologies that seek to capture this underlying order give rise to a special form of the equations of motion, called a port controlled Hamiltonian structure with damping (PCHD). Often the natural behavior of a system is unacceptable for a desired application, and must be modified. A body of work on passivity-based control exists that shows how to use Casimir functions—certain invariant quantities of the open-loop PCHD—to reshape the natural dynamics in a desired way. We seek to apply this approach to an electrostatically-actuated MEMS device subject to the saddle-node bifurcation known as snap-through. We show that the equations describing this system do not have an appropriate Casimir function, but that they can be suitably modified through an implementable output feedback. We fully characterize the Casimirs of the modified system, and show how they may be used to eliminate snap-through. Unfortunately the transient behavior of the resulting closed-loop system is governed by the damping of the mechanical subsystem, which may or may not provide adequate performance.

Dynamic behavior of a cantilever type nano-switch actuated by pure Casimir force is investigated. Residual surface stress, surface elasticity and intermolecular forces are included in Euler–Bernoulli beam model. Knudsen number dependent squeeze-film air damping model and an asperity-based contact model are incorporated. The proposed model is inherently nonlinear due to interactions between the different nonlinear physics. An approximate analytical approach based on Galerkin’s method has been employed for predicting transient dynamic responses, since no exact solutions are available. Predicted responses show that the beam tip hits the substrate and bounces before making a permanent contact. Actuation of the switch via pure Casimir force is demonstrated for certain length and gap combinations. Initial contact time which governs the switch performance, and the deflections under non-closure condition are also quantified. This study is envisaged to provide useful insights for the future design of Casimir actuated NEM switches.