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Journal articles on the topic "Historical Book Structures"
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Hovakimian, Armen. "Are Observed Capital Structures Determined by Equity Market Timing?" Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis 41, no. 1 (2006): 221–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022109000002489.
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AbstractContrary to Baker and Wurgler (2002), I find that the importance of historical average market-to-book ratios in leverage regressions is not due to past equity market timing. Although equity transactions may be timed to equity market conditions, they do not have significant long lasting effects on capital structure. Debt transactions exhibit timing patterns that are unlikely to induce a negative relation between market-to-book ratios and leverage. I also find that historical average market-to-book ratios have significant effects on current financing and investment decisions, implying that they contain information about growth opportunities not captured by current market-to-book ratios.
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Rogozhnikova, T. P., and M. V. Khomenko. "ANTHROPONYMIC SYSTEM OF THE 1701 CENSUS BOOK OF TARA REGION." Review of Omsk State Pedagogical University. Humanitarian research, no. 29 (2020): 83–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.36809/2309-9380-2020-29-83-87.
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The material for the study is a historical regional source of a fiscal nature. The system of naming Siberian taxpayers at the turn of the 20th–21st centuries is considered. Anthroponymic structures, socio-cultural determinism of structures and models, word-formation features of anthroponyms are revealed.
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Steiner, Ann. "Personal Readings and Public Texts: Book Blogs and Online Writing about Literature." Culture Unbound 2, no. 4 (2010): 471–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.3384/cu.2000.1525.10228471.
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The blogging culture has become an important and integrated part of the book trade and has influenced the publishing, marketing and distribution of literature in North America and in many European countries. However, it is unclear how this potential agency among bloggers operates, and thus far most research has concerned politics, media systems and larger social structures. The present article is a study of the Swedish book blogs during the autumn of 2009 and an attempt to address a small, but significant, part of the Internet influence. The relationship between books and digital technology is complicated and manifold, but it is clear that the Internet has changed how people access books, how they read and how they communicate with others about their reading. Here, the position of the amateur is one that will be discussed in detail in terms of professionalism, strategies and hierarchies. Another issue that will be addressed is the connections between the book bloggers and the book trade, especially the publishers and their marketing departments. The book bloggers operate in a social realm, despite the fact that their writing is personal, and have to be understood in their social, economic and literary context. The Swedish book blogs will be analysed with the help of readerresponse theory, sociology of literature and a book historical perspective on the dissemination of literature.
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Piketty, Thomas. "Toward a Political and Historical Economics Reflections on Capital in the Twenty-First Century." Annales (English ed.) 70, no. 01 (2015): 121–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s2398568200001011.
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Abstract This article attempts to clarify certain points raised in my book, Capital in the Twenty-First Century. In particular, I try to lay the foundations for a multidimensional history of capital and power relations between social classes. I study the way different forms of ownership lead to specific structures of inequality and social and institutional compromises.
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Hellwig, Oliver. "Dating Sanskrit texts using linguistic features and neural networks." Indogermanische Forschungen 124, no. 1 (2019): 1–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/if-2019-0001.
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Abstract Deriving historical dates or datable stratifications for texts in Classical Sanskrit, such as the epics Mahābhārata and Rāmāyaṇa, is a considerable challenge for text-historical research. This paper provides empirical evidence for subtle but noticeable diachronic changes in the fundamental linguistic structures of Classical Sanskrit, and argues that Classical Sanskrit shows enough diachronic variation for dating texts on the basis of linguistic developments. Building on this evidence, it evaluates machine learning algorithms that predict approximate dates of composition for Sanskrit texts. The paper introduces the required background, discusses the relevance of linguistic features for temporal classification, and presents a text-historical evaluation of Book 6 of the Mahābhārata, whose historical stratification is disputed in Indological research.
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Dementiev, V. E. "Scientifically and practically significant development of a major and relevant economic and managerial topic (about the book by Yu.B. Vinslav «Management of integrated structures: theoretical and methodical aspects»)." Russian Economic Journal, no. 2 (May 2020): 81–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.33983/0130-9757-2020-2-81-90.
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The article is a review of the book named in the title. According to the reviewer, the author of the monograph is highly qualified: 1) considers a complex set of issues of management modernization in domestic integrated companies; 2) develops a historical overview of the formation of large corporate business in post-Soviet Russia, systematizes its current problems; 3) describes the conceptual features of management of integrated corporate structures (ICS); 4) substantiates. practical recommendations for improving the management of ICS and public management of the development of the sector of these structures. The reviewer's reflections on the book are summarized in the thesis about its high value for business circles and the scientific and educational community of the country, for state and local government bodies.
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Dooley, Allan C. "Epic and Anti-Epic in The Ring and the Book." Browning Institute Studies 15 (1987): 137–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0092472500001905.
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In several ways, The Ring and the Book presents itself as an epic. It is long, and long in the epic way: twelve books. It gives the impression of moving from place to place and from incident to incident, and it contains plenty of conflict, harrowing episodes, and violent struggles. And yet upon reflection, The Ring and the Book quickly loses its savor of the epic. Its length derives not from the sequential narration of causally-related, Fate-driven events of historical importance, but rather from a series of competing analyses of just one relatively brief and decidedly unheroic set of events. Very little in the way of incident is presented to the reader directly; instead, almost all of the events in the central story are recollected and accounted for in different ways by different speakers. The Ring and the Book seems to be more an epic of words than of deeds. As critics we speak of Browning's psychologizing, of his probing of motives, of the potential indeterminacy of the very truth he tells us he seeks to reveal. The arguments and structures of the poem thus aspire to the condition of irony, as may be confirmed by the poet's own doubts about his achievement at the end of Book 12. On this reading, Browning prompts us to a relativist, modernist, or even post-modernist stance, a view of considerable attractiveness.
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Vosburg, William W. "The Ombudsmen in New Zealand by Bryan Gilling." Victoria University of Wellington Law Review 31, no. 4 (2000): 905. http://dx.doi.org/10.26686/vuwlr.v31i4.5928.
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This article is a book review of Bryan Gilling The Ombudsman in New Zealand (Dunmore Press in association with the Historical Branch, Department of Internal Affairs, Palmerston North, 1998) (190 pages, $29.95). Gilling's book provides an important account of the evolution of the New Zealand ombudsman providing an accessible and careful analysis of its first thirty years, which contained periods of both government stability as well as radical changes in the government's structure, the economy, the class structure, the status of minority groups and foreign relations. Vosburgh states that the book stands as a study of institutionalism and evolution of government structures, and praises Gilling for containing a comprehensive account with a compact and sharp focus.
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Tsiborovska-Rymarovych, Iryna. "Vyshnivetsky Castle Library of Prince Mychailo Servaty Vyshnivetsky – Historical Book Heritage and Object of Bibliological and Historical Reconstruction." Bibliotheca Lituana 3 (December 22, 2014): 166–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.15388/bibllita.2014.3.15569.
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The article has as its object the elucidation of the history of the Vyshnivetsky Castle Library, definition of the content of its fund, its historical and cultural significance, correlation of the founder of the Library Mychailo Servaty Vyshnivetsky with the Book.The Vyshnivetsky Castle Library was formed in the Ukrainian historical region of Volyn’, in the Vyshnivets town – “family nest” of the old Ukrainian noble family of the Vyshnivetskies under the “Korybut” coat of arm. The founder of the Library was Prince Mychailo Servaty Vyshnivetsky (1680–1744) – Grand Hetman and Grand Chancellor of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Vilno Voievoda. He was a politician, an erudite and great bibliophile. In the 30th–40th of the 18th century the main Prince’s residence Vyshnivets became an important centre of magnate’s culture in Rich Pospolyta. M. S. Vyshnivetsky’s contemporaries from the noble class and clergy knew quite well about his library and really appreciated it. According to historical documents 5 periods are defined in the Library’s history. In the historical sources the first place is occupied by old-printed books of Library collection and 7 Library manuscript catalogues dating from 1745 up to the 1835 which give information about quantity and topical structures of Library collection.The Library is a historical and cultural symbol of the Enlightenment epoch. The Enlightenment and those particular concepts and cultural images pertaining to that epoch had their effect on the formation of Library’s fund. Its main features are as follow: comprehensive nature of the stock, predominance of French eighteenth century editions, presence of academic books and editions on orientalistics as well as works of the ideologues of the Enlightenment and new kinds of literature, which generated as a result of this movement – encyclopaedias, encyclopaedian dictionaries, almanacs, etc. Besides the universal nature of its stock books on history, social and political thought, fiction were dominating.The reconstruction of the history of Vyshnivetsky’s Library, the historical analysis of the provenances in its editions give us better understanding of the personality of its owners and in some cases their philanthropic activities, and a better ability to identify the role of this Library in the culture life of society in a certain epoch.
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Lincove, David. "Book Review: The Powers of U.S. Congress: Where Constitutional Authority Begins and Ends." Reference & User Services Quarterly 57, no. 1 (2017): 69. http://dx.doi.org/10.5860/rusq.57.1.6458.
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his book offers an overview and analysis of the twenty-one powers of the US Congress as enumerated in the Constitution. It is organized by the powers of Congress in the order that they appear in Article I Section 8, Article II Section 2, and the enforcement provisions in the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments. Editor Brien Hallett (University of Hawaii, Manoa) introduces the book with historical background on how the American colonies developed the concepts and structures that led to the Constitution. Most important are social contract theory and the influence of the European commercial revolution in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries that had an impact on the original design of colonial government in America.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Historical Book Structures"
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Aly, Islam Mahmoud Mohamed. "Historical book structures and artists' books as a teaching tool." Diss., University of Iowa, 2016. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/3040.
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This study focuses on developing a book arts curriculum as a tool for teaching about creativity and problem solving. The curriculum's ultimate goal is to introduce and emphasize book arts as an expressive and powerful medium to future teachers and artists.
Book arts will be used to offer potentialities for collaborative, learner-centered instruction. Students will create structures and artists' books from their experience, their learning will emerge from personal interactions with the structures and artists' books presented.
The curriculum is planned into three modules, each module containing a different set of projects and activities organized to scaffold students learning in an engaging process. The modules examine book structures, artists' books, and a project that can either further explore book structures and artists books, or it can explore incorporating some other aspect of book arts in the project. Each module provides a broad range of examples, discussions, questions, and applications.
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Aly, Islam Mahmoud Mohamed. "Using Historical Bindings in Producing Contemporary Artists' Books." Thesis, University of Iowa, 2013. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/4811.
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I regard the culturally rich bookbinding as formats that hold great meaning; I made models of books that existed in different cultures through the history of the book. I became interested in how each structure had unique features and how the books themselves transmitted knowledge about their form.
This interest in bookbinding formats led me to explore ways to add content to The binding plays a powerful role in producing my artist's books, the look and presence of these bindings is an integral part of my work and they are linked to the content and aesthetics. The final pieces encourage the viewer to interact with the work.
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Nguyen, Thi Tuyet Hai. "Facilitating access to historical documents by improving digitisation results." Thesis, La Rochelle, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020LAROS004.
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Les documents papiers sont à la base de nos connaissances et renferment une myriade d'informations dont certaines sont très précieuses pour notre société. Dans un but de préservation et afin de les rendre plus accessibles, de nombreux projets de numérisation visent à convertir ce type de documents en textes numérisés, notamment en utilisant des logiciels de reconnaissance optique de caractères (OCR). Toutefois, certains problèmes inhérents aux techniques actuelles d’OCR rendent difficiles la recherche ou l’accès aux informations présentes dans ces collections numérisées, tant pour les utilisateurs que pour les processus automatiques, et limitent ainsi l’impact de ces efforts de numérisation. L’une des limitations de la numérisation repose sur le processus même puisque les documents numérisés ne sont pas immédiatement représentés sous leur forme logique (partie, chapitre, section, etc.), mais de façon physique. Ainsi, une œuvre sera numérisée page par page, ce qui ne correspond généralement qu’à une organisation physique et pas à l'intention rédactionnelle des auteurs. La structure logique des documents doit ainsi être extraite afin de permettre aux utilisateurs de naviguer dans les collections ou même de trouver des informations au sein d’un ouvrage. Un second verrou du processus de numérisation, qui en est également le plus important, correspond aux performances des moteurs d’OCR. En effet, celles-ci sont substantiellement réduites pour les documents patrimoniaux qui ont généralement subis des dégradations. Les erreurs d’OCR que cela induit ont un impact non négligeable sur la performance des outils de recherches et sur les systèmes de traitement du langage naturel puisqu’il faut par exemple apparier des besoins bien écrits à des textes mal reconnus. Cette thèse a pour objectif de faciliter l’accès aux documents historiques numérisés en étudiant les problèmes précédemment mentionnés. En vue de faciliter l’accès aux documents historiques, plusieurs approches sont proposées, visant à reconstruire les structures logiques des ouvrages et à améliorer la qualité des textes numérisés par OCR. En ce qui concerne l’extraction de la structure logique, nous avons développé des approches de fusion combinant des méthodes préexistantes afin d’extraire la table des matières d’ouvrages numérisés. Nos expériences ont démontré que cette approche surpasse l’état de l’art. La contribution majeure de cette thèse fournit, quant à elle, des méthodes pour la détection et la correction des erreurs d’OCR. Les caractéristiques communes et divergentes entre les erreurs d’OCR et celles des utilisateurs sont clarifiées pour mieux concevoir les traitements post-OCR. Normalement, un système de post-traitement détecte et rectifie les erreurs résiduelles. Toutefois, il peut être préférable de gérer ces erreurs séparément grâce à des applications qui permettent de filtrer, d’étiqueter, ou de traiter sélectivement de telles données. Dans cette étude, nous examinons différentes approches post-OCR basées sur la modélisation des erreurs typiques observées, et sur des modèles de réseaux de neurones. Les résultats montrent que les performances de nos méthodes sont comparables à plusieurs méthodes de référence sur des jeux de données en anglais utilisés lors des deux premières éditions de la compétition sur la correction des textes post-OCR organisée durant les conférence ICDAR en 2017 et 2019<br>Born-analog documents contain enormous knowledge which is valuable to our society. For the purpose of preservation and easy accessibility, several digitisation projects have converted these documents into digital texts by using optical character recognition (OCR) software. Some existing problems of current OCR techniques prevent users and further processes from accessing, searching, or retrieving information on these digitised collections, and so limit the benefits of these above projects. A notable limitation is the fact that OCRed books are often split into pages with paragraphs, lines, and words. Certain meaningful structures such as chapters, sections, etc., are not available. Thus, it is not convenient for users to navigate or search information inside books. Another constraint is that the accuracy of modern OCR engines on historical documents substantially decreases. Erroneous OCR output considerably impacts on the performance of search engines and natural language processing systems. This thesis facilitates access to historical digitised documents by addressing such problems. In order to facilitate access to historical documents, several approaches are proposed within this thesis, aiming to reconstruct the logical book structures and to improve the quality of digitised text. The first contribution is to rebuild the logical book structures. An ensemble method is introduced to extract tables of contents of digitised books. Experimental results show that our approach outperforms the state-of-the-art for both evaluation metrics. The major contribution of this thesis is to provide methodologies to reduce OCR errors. Common and different features between OCR errors and human misspellings are clarified for better designing post-OCR processing. Normally, a post-processing system detects and corrects remaining errors. However, it is reasonable to treat them separately in some applications which allow to filter out, flag, or selectively reprocess such data. In this thesis, we examine different post-OCR approaches, ones based on error model and language model, and others that involve neural network models. Results reveal that the performance of our proposals is comparable to several strong baselines on English datasets of the first two rounds of the competition on post-OCR text correction organised in the International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition in 2017 and 2019
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Johnson, Shelley. "This little chicken went to Africa : a historical survey into the development of narrative structures within relief printmaking in community centres in South Africa and a formal analysis of the relevance of the medium in contemporary children's picture book illustration." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/1725.
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Thesis (MPhil (Visual Arts. Illustration))--University of Stellenbosch, 2009.<br>When dealing with emergent literacy in South Africa, the didactic aspects of picture books are often privileged over their aesthetic quality and the idea of reading for pleasure. The themes of the books are not always locally relevant and for economic reasons, they often fail to reach the communities that need them the most.
By looking at the history of relief printing within a community environment, I hope to highlight how communities themselves may be able to develop locally relevant children’s picture books, instituting a ‘grassroots’ approach rather than the paternalistic ‘top down’ approach of the past. I will also be looking at the narrative and stylistic elements of relief printing that are complimentary to the picture book genre and how these can be utilised for a pleasurable rather than didactic approach to the narratives.
Books on the topic "Historical Book Structures"
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Young, James W. An historical and pictorial book of Old Settlers Cemetery. [James W. Young, 2005.
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Zakharov, Nikolay. Conceptualization of society in social-philosophical and philosophical-historical reflection. INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/23038.
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The book is one of the first monographs published in Russian, which covers in detail the theoretical, methodological and applied aspects of the formation of behavioral Economics as a special branch of science and economic practice. The article reveals the essence, sources and results of economic behavior of economic entities in the conditions of the existing political and economic system in Russia. The author substantiates the ways and technologies of economic growth activation based on further strengthening of the functional role of a person and his constructive behavior in the system of modern social production. The author's merit is an interdisciplinary approach to the problem under study, including the use of theoretical and applied Economics, management, psychology, sociology, computer science, and futurology.
 The book can be useful for managers of bodies and organizations of the state and municipal management system, business structures and consulting firms, teachers and students studying this issue.
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Cerioni, Cristiano, and Tommaso Di Carpegna Falconieri, eds. I conventi degli ordini mendicanti nel Montefeltro medievale. Firenze University Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.36253/978-88-6655-211-6.
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The remains in Montefeltro of the material structures of the medieval mendicant orders still constitute a fresh archive of data useful for casting light on the formal and technological transformations that took place in the first two centuries of its history. The book looks for the first time into the type of settlements of the Franciscan and Augustinian orders through the historical, archaeological, historico-artistic and petrographic analysis of the elevations of six convents dating from the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.
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Moore, William Bruce. Oil boom architecture: Titusville, Pithole, and Petroleum Center. Arcadia Pub., 2008.
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Hubbell, Royal. Ancient and modern New Smyrna, Fla. and vicinity: Facsimile reprint of Royal Hubbell's 1906 photo book. Luthers, 1997.
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Norman, James B. Portland's architectural heritage: National Register properties of the Portland metropolitan area. 2nd ed. Oregon Historical Society Press, 1991.
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The Iron Age I structure on Mt. Ebal: Excavation and interpretation. Eisenbrauns, 2012.
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Bandini, Gianfranco, ed. Manuali, sussidi e didattica della geografia. Firenze University Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.36253/978-88-8453-958-8.
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This publication is comprised within a recent strand of studies devoted to scholastic culture, understood as an original and complex form of mediation between academic and popular culture. The history of scholastic disciplines is actually one of the most innovative and interesting sectors of the social history of education, and also links up with similar initiatives in other academic sectors, even at international level. These include studies on scholastic and educational publishing, the history of professional associations in the area of geography and cartography (both local and national), and on possible interactions between classical geographical studies and technological applications (digital history and geography). The study of geography teaching, in particular, is extremely useful and significant for analysing: the structure, functioning and changes in scholastic culture; the contribution it made at the time of foundation and consolidation of the Italian State and at other times of political and cultural discontinuity and, finally, the tormented relations of scholastic geography with numerous aspects of an ideological nature and related to the building of Italian identity. From a methodical and historical aspect, the approach of this book is distinctly interdisciplinary: it involves specialists from scientific communities that differ in their origins and current structure, but share the same argument of study and the wish for open exchange. The various contributions seek to highlight the close interrelations between past and present in geography, never severing the links between current and historic study, between the educational and operational concerns of today and those of yesterday. Rather, they underscore the importance and advantages of a historic perspective, which can supply useful keys for interpreting the moments of discontinuity and the (ideal and operational) tensions that have distinguished geographical culture, both scholastic and academic. Rassegna stampa: La Vita Scolastica Rivista n. 5 Dicembre 2013
Book chapters on the topic "Historical Book Structures"
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Corredor, Javier, Carolina Castro-Morales, and Tiffany Alexandra Jiménez-Rozo. "Document-Based Historical Role-Playing as a Tool to Promote Empathy and Structural Understanding in Historical Memory Education." In Peace Psychology Book Series. Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-77688-6_15.
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SAMELY, ALEXANDER. "Literary Structures and Historical Reconstruction: The Example of an Amoraic Midrash (Leviticus Rabbah)." In Rabbinic Texts and the History of Late-Roman Palestine. British Academy, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.5871/bacad/9780197264744.003.0012.
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This chapter examines historical reconstruction and literary structures of rabbinic texts using the Leviticus Rabbah as an example. It explains that Leviticus Rabbah is a commentary on the Book of Leviticus which now forms part of Midrash Rabbah. It proposes ten theses about the special problems which the literary structures of rabbinic texts pose for the historian and analyses a section of the amoraic work of Leviticus Rabbah to describe some of those literary structures. The findings suggest that it is impossible to explain how the textuality of rabbinic sources worked and that many rabbinic works fill the same functional position in a text more than once.
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"Masonry arch railway bridges in Austria: Sustainable historical structures for today’s traffic." In Advances in Bridge Maintenance, Safety Management, and Life-Cycle Performance, Set of Book & CD-ROM. CRC Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1201/b18175-91.
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Bonnefoy, Laurent. "The Historical Foundations of Yemen’s Globalisation." In Yemen and the World, translated by Cynthia Schoch. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190922597.003.0002.
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The chapter opens the first section of the book, focusing on the various challenges of Yemen through its relations with the outside world. The chapter shows how much its history has been shaped by the outside world, despite an image of backwardness. It presents the divided trajectories of north and south Yemen as well as some of the specificities of its populations, in particular in terms of tribal structures and religious identities, and how they came into play since the beginning of the twentieth century, letting Yemen appear as an issue in the international game.
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Vinitsky, Ilya. "Lord of the Words." In The Whole World in a Book. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190913199.003.0011.
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Vinitsky examines the cultural and historical elements of Vladimir Dahl’s Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language, the major and most famous of Russian dictionaries. Dahl’s religious passions and experimental approach to language led to an organizing principle based not on scientific lexicography, but on entries centred on the notion of the word family or ‘nest’. In discussing these features of Dahl’s work, Vinitsky presents the dictionary as an inventive production that was meant to reveal to the reader the communal spirit of Russia through the words of living Russian language. Vinitsky surveys Dahl’s literary and intellectual goals and the structure and pragmatics of his dictionary alongside the interconnected contexts of lexicographical trends in England, reform in Russia, the literary foundations for Dahl’s interest in family structures, and Dahl’s religious and spiritual background. Through his unique approach to language, Dahl worked to cast the Russian language itself as a kind of national epic.
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Nail, Thomas. "Introduction." In Theory of the Image. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190924034.003.0001.
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This chapter introduces the historical importance of the image, provides a methodological framework for studying moving images, lays out the two major problems the book aims to overcome, describes the limitations of the book, and offers its plan of organization. As such, it redefines the image as fundamentally mobile and thus proposes to investigate all images as mobile images. It argues for a new materialist aesthetics distinct from representational and constructivist theories. That is, the image is not a copy nor a movement relative to an object or subject; it is not even a copy of a copy without an original. All these structures have to be accounted for, starting from the historical mobility of the image, and not from any metaphysical or ontological position. Therefore, the book is an attempt to develop a theory and a history of the logic and structure of the moving image.
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Erman, Burak, and James E. Mark. "Classical Theories of Rubber Elasticity." In Structures and Properties of Rubberlike Networks. Oxford University Press, 1997. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195082371.003.0004.
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This chapter describes three molecular theories of rubber elasticity. Section 2.1 outlines the elementary theory of Kuhn and Treloar, which is of particular importance since it presents the basic elements of rubberlike elasticity in a very transparent way. Section 2.2 presents the phantom network model developed by James and Guth, and section 2.3 presents the affine network model developed by Wall and Flory. Historical aspects of the theories have been given in an article by Guth and Mark, and in a book prepared as a memorial to Guth. Finally, the major features of both theories are briefly summarized in a review. Separately, the James-Guth theory has been reviewed by Guth and by Flory, and the phantom network model of section 2.2 is based on the Flory treatment. The affine network model has been described in detail in Flory’s 1953 book. This model is described in section 2.3 by generalizing the phantom network model (as was done in one of Flory’s subsequent studies). The simple, elementary statistical theory described in section 2.1 paved the way to the current understanding of rubber elasticity. Further progress in the understanding of rubberlike systems was possible, however, only as a result of the two more precise and accurate theories: the phantom network and the affine network theories. Despite their differences, these two theories and the corresponding molecular models have served as basic reference points in this area for more than four decades. They still serve this purpose for the interpretation and explanation of experimental data. The differences between the assumptions and the predictions of the two models have led to serious disagreements during their development, as may be seen from the original papers cited earlier. The main point of disagreement was the magnitude of the front factor that appeared in the expression for the elastic free energy and the stress. For tetrafunctional networks, the James-Guth phantom network theory predicts one-half the value of the front factor obtained by the Wall-Flory affine network theory.
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Hai-Jew, Shalin. "Structuring an Emergent and Transdisciplinary Online Curriculum." In Packaging Digital Information for Enhanced Learning and Analysis. IGI Global, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-4462-5.ch014.
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Subject domains are in constant transition as new research and analysis reveal fresh insights, and occasionally, there may be paradigm shifts or new conceptual models. Transdisciplinary approaches may be understood as such a shift, with new approaches for conceptualization, analysis, and problem solving via recombinations of domain fields. Such transitory paradigm-shifting moments remove the usual touchpoints on which a curriculum is structured. There are often few or none of the accepted sequential developmental phases with identified concepts and learning outcomes in book chapters, thematic structures, and historical or chronological ordering. An emergent curriculum requires a different instructional design approach than those that have assumed curricular pre-structures. Based on a year-and-a-half One Health course build, this chapter offers some insights on the processes of defining and developing an emergent curriculum.
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"Introduction." In Unusual and Rare Psychological Disorders, edited by Brian A. Sharpless. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med:psych/9780190245863.003.0001.
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There are important practical, theoretical, and scientific reasons to give increased attention to lesser-known psychological disorders. After discussing classification issues more generally and the values that undergird our nosological decisions, the book and chapter structures are discussed. In order to facilitate both ease of reading and consistency across chapters, each follows a specific structure. Vignettes will introduce a de-identified patient, followed by discussions of the cultural and historical context of the disorder in question; its role in contemporary diagnostic systems, if any; its symptomatology; its prevalence and associated features; theories of its etiology; options for its assessment; any differential diagnoses; treatment options available; and finally, recommendations for future research.
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Raitz, Karl. "Introduction." In Making Bourbon. University Press of Kentucky, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5810/kentucky/9780813178752.003.0001.
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The introduction outlines the three modes of geographic history analysis utilized in the book: making, landscape, and historical ecology. Making examines the various creative and haptic skills, using inherent or acquired knowledge, that are involved in the process of producing structures and machines that perform functions or tasks. Landscape is both a physical entity and a register of contemporary and historical knowledge; it is both the physical and built environment and a way of knowing the world. Distilling landscapes are shaped by complex natural processes and cultural practices, as well as by contemporary and historical actors, that layer or juxtapose the new and the old. Landscape elements, such as structures or various forms of land use, may be removed; but if retained, they represent heritage and become a reservoir of meaning and identity. Historical ecology is the investigation of the physical and human elements that constitute present-day landscapes through the conjunctions of people, places, and processes over time, with attention to order, timing, and contingency of causal events. Understanding the historical ecology of landscape requires an appreciation of its totality through local, regional, and national perspectives.
Conference papers on the topic "Historical Book Structures"
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Kök, Derya Sökmen, and Yegan Kahya Sayar. "Fortified Structures in Cilician An Evaluation on Conservation Problems." In 4th International Conference of Contemporary Affairs in Architecture and Urbanism – Full book proceedings of ICCAUA2020, 6-8 May 2020. Alanya Hamdullah Emin Paşa University, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.38027/iccaua2021tr0070n24.
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Cilicia has been considered as a settlement territory for centuries due to its location that connects Anatolia to Mesopotamia as well as its favourable geographical conditions. In the region where various civilizations wanted to take control, fortified structres were needed since ancient ages in order to ensure the security of roads, agricultural areas, important centers and the people due to conflicts, invasions and wars. Especially, when long-term peace and security could not be maintained, existing buildings were renewed and new ones were built. These monumental structures are extremely valuable with their unique architecture that fits the features of the topography, cultural layers and fortified systems. Therefore, it is important to ensure their sustainability. However, while some of the buildings try to survive despite various adverse effects, some of them are in danger of disappearing. Presenting individual fortresses together as a joint cultural heritage in the context of their common geographical and historical characteristics, preserving them with a shared approach, and securing their sustainability are only possible with the identification of the current problems. In this context, the study includes the evaluation and results of the data obtained from the area regarding the conservation problems of these structures, the number of which increased with new constructions (Hellenkemper & Hild, 1990, s. 143,150) between the 11th and 14th centuries in the Cilicia Region.
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Yılmaz, Yonca, Dilara Genç, and Hümeyra Birol. "Evaluation of Industrial Buildings within the Scope of Renewal, Alsancak Tekel Warehouses." In 4th International Conference of Contemporary Affairs in Architecture and Urbanism – Full book proceedings of ICCAUA2020, 6-8 May 2020. Alanya Hamdullah Emin Paşa University, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.38027/iccaua2021tr0056n19.
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Industrial structures are cultural legacy sites in need of protection that carry the social, cultural, historical and architectural properties of their respective eras into the present day. Due to the changing production demands and technology, these structures lost their usage value and have been rendered obsolete. The interventions implemented and new functions provided to ensure the continuity of industrial structures must be in accordance with the character of the building. Our study focuses on the renovation process of one of the first industrial premises of the city of İzmir Alsancak Tekel Storages located in Port Rear Area. Industrial building history in the region dates back to the 1900s, when industrial and storage structures have been built. A new master development plan that entered into force in 1989, conserning the fate of these industrial buildings. As the result of the passed legislation, old tekel storages have been transformed to offices and cultural centres. In the scope of this study the changes that occurred in order to refunction the Alsancak Tekel Storages have been inspected. As a method, a detailed literature review of the history of the region was made, and data on the buildings examined before and after the restoration were collected. As a result, the region’s historical development, status of the buildings before the restoration, architectural quality of the buildings after the restoration and role of the buildings in relation to the city have all been examined and collected data were evaluated comparatively.
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Kleber, Florian, Markus Diem, Herve Dejean, Jean-Luc Meunier, and Eva Lang. "Matching Table Structures of Historical Register Books using Association Graphs." In 2018 16th International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition (ICFHR). IEEE, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/icfhr-2018.2018.00046.
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Mehri, Maroua, Pierre Heroux, Julien Lerouge, Petra Gomez-Kramer, and Remy Mullot. "A structural signature based on texture for digitized historical book page categorization." In 2015 13th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR). IEEE, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/icdar.2015.7333737.
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Kömürcü, Esranur, and Nuray Benli Yıldız. "Historic Building Information Modelling (HBIM)." In 4th International Conference of Contemporary Affairs in Architecture and Urbanism – Full book proceedings of ICCAUA2020, 6-8 May 2020. Alanya Hamdullah Emin Paşa University, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.38027/iccaua2021tr0072n25.
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Cultural heritage conservation and restoration work is a complex process that includes documentation, data collection, interpretation and production. By integrating the BIM (Building Information Modeling) methodology into this process, the concept of HBIM (Historic Building Information Modeling) has been formed. In this article, the progress of this process with the HBIM methodology in the restoration, protection and management studies of cultural heritage buildings and sites requiring collective and holistic work, the evaluation of access to the information obtained, and the provision of interdisciplinary information exchange were analyzed. By using the SWOT analysis method, the opportunities and threats offered by using the HBIM working methodology were evaluated and the strengths and weaknesses of the HBIM technology were determined. As a result of the SWOT analysis, it has been determined that the HBIM application will positively contribute to the heritage structures and increase in the direction of potential opportunities by eliminating the weaknesses.
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Merz, Karl O., Geir Moe, and Ove T. Gudmestad. "A Review of Hydrodynamic Effects on Bottom-Fixed Offshore Wind Turbines." In ASME 2009 28th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering. ASMEDC, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/omae2009-79630.
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Recent and historical literature regarding hydrodynamics has been reviewed, with offshore wind turbine support structures in mind. Under conditions of separated flow, several relevant phenomena have been noted which are not covered by the commonly-used Morison equation: 1. damping of structural vibration or slow-drift motion; 2. the interaction of structural vibration and vortex shedding; 3. loads near the free-surface; and, 4. burst motions, caused by impulse-like loading from steep waves. References have been given to books and articles that describe the phenomena in more detail. A form of the Morison equation is proposed which has separate empirical coefficients for each of the velocity and acceleration terms. The coefficients can be determined from existing test data with use of least-squares error minimization. A simplified form of the equation provides a means to obtain conservative bias on both the applied load (bias towards a high drag coefficient) and damping (bias towards a low drag coefficient). Further investigation into free-surface and burst motion (ringing) phenomena is recommended, considering a slender wind turbine monotower in 20 to 50 m water depth.
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Pierce, William H., and Ben T. Railsback. "Boom Lift Operator Protection From Stored Energy Hazards." In ASME 2016 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/imece2016-66743.
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Boom lifts are useful throughout a variety of industries, such as manufacturing, maintenance service, real estate management, and construction. Boom lifts are designed to allow operator mobility at high elevations and are often used as a substitute for traditional ladders, man-baskets on lift trucks and scaffolding. Although boom lifts are very practical and efficient in allowing personnel to work at high elevations and in areas with limited access, several known hazards exist with boom lifts such as falls, machine tipping, crushes, collapse of machine and electrocution. Although boom lift operator manuals and safety literature discuss the aforementioned hazards, they do not or incompletely discuss the hazard of suddenly released stored energy when stored energy is rapidly converted from potential energy to kinetic energy through the boom to the operator platform. One example of rapid conversion of potential energy to kinetic energy involves the boom lift driven over a sudden drop off such as a curb. A relatively low drop off can be amplified substantially by the lever arm of the boom, and as a result, the operator platform and operator(s) within, rapidly accelerate. A second example is when the operator platform is snagged on an external structure and continued hydraulic movement builds up potential energy within the boom. The buildup of potential energy can suddenly and unexpectedly release if the platform springs free from entanglement with the structure. Such release results in the boom, the platform, and the operator(s) rapidly accelerating. During the rapid acceleration experienced in both examples, operators can potentially be and have historically been violently thrown against the railing of the platform, ejected from the platform, and/or crushed by any nearby overhead obstacles. The purpose of this paper is to address, analytically quantify, and propose engineering solutions to guard against the sudden conversion of potential energy to kinetic energy on boom lifts. This hazard is currently not discussed or incompletely discussed in boom lift operator manuals and safety literature. Analytical techniques are used to quantify the rapid acceleration experienced by operator platforms and operators upon the sudden conversion of potential to kinetic energy in various scenarios. Further, the principles of safety engineering are utilized to determine methods to eliminate or reduce the frequency and severity of injuries associated with the sudden conversion of potential to kinetic energy on boom lifts. This engineering and safety engineering analysis demonstrates that the sudden conversion of energy on boom lifts can rapidly accelerate the operator platform and operator(s) within. Further, there are technologically feasible designs that protect operators against the sudden conversion of potential energy to kinetic energy on boom lifts. Such improved, safer designs are more effective at eliminating or reducing the frequency and severity of injuries than simply warning against the hazards.
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Maretto, Marco, Vicente Mas, Eva Alvarez, et al. "A multidisciplinary approach to urban fabrics analysis. The historical centre of Valencia." In 24th ISUF 2017 - City and Territory in the Globalization Age. Universitat Politècnica València, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/isuf2017.2017.5674.
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The themes of reduce, recycle, reuse are at the heart of the challenges that the global society of the XXI century is facing. At the same time, more than two-thirds of the world population lives in cities nominating the latters to play a central role in the near future. For this reason, the search for a methodology for the redevelopment of the historical urban fabrics appears today extremely interesting. Complexity, richness and stratification of the latters make them definitely the most convincing test to set a scientific strategy for the project of urban transformations. But stratification means complexity and complex are the phenomena that characterize the XXI century society. The only convincing way then for the analysis of these phenomena is that of the multi-disciplinarity. The proposed methodology is structured, thus, around a number of disciplines (Urban Morphology, Sustainability, Urban Regulation, Economic Evaluation and Urban Design) on which to set the reading of the urban fabric with special attention to the so called “urban voids” namely all those situations in which the tissue is interrupted due to slumping and demolitions. This aspect is very important because if, on the one hand, it is in these areas where key tissue analysis problems can be seen, on the other hand, it is always from these areas that the main urban, social and economical transformation opportunities can take boot. A Due Diligence of the “urban voids” organised in datasheets/base (for each area) concludes the analysis. The different disciplinary fields work then in a complementary way within a single methodological approach laying the scientific basis for the interventions of urban regeneration within the historic fabric of Valencia. References Gherri, B. (2016) ‘Environmental Analysis Towards Low Carbon Urban Retrofitting For Public Spaces’, Proceedings of HERITAGE 2016 – 5th International Conference on Heritage and Sustainable Development,Vol. 1, p. 499-508. Gherri, B. (2016) ‘Environmental Assessment method for Decarbonised Urban renewal’, NewDist: SBE16 Towards Post-Carbon Cities, vol. 2, p. 114-122. Guarini, M.R. Buccarini C., Battisti F., (2015)‘Valutazione della fattibilità tecnica economica di un intervento di recupero edilizio’, Estimo: temi e questioni contemporanee, (Politecnico di Bari, Bari). Maretto, M. (2015) ‘Polarities, Paths, Fabrics. The role of urban morphology in contemporary Urban Design’, U+D urbanform and design 03/04, 46-65. Maretto, M. (2008) Il Paesaggio delle differenze (ETS Edizioni, Pisa).
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Occhiuto, Rita. "Resistance & Permanence of Green Urban Systems in the Globalization Age." In 24th ISUF 2017 - City and Territory in the Globalization Age. Universitat Politècnica València, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/isuf2017.2017.6328.
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Rita Occhiuto Faculté d’Architecture. Université de Liège, ULG. 1, Rue Courtois 4000 Liège (BE) Tél. +3242217900 e-mail : r.occhiuto@ulg.ac.be Keywords: public space, park system, green and water infrastructure, morphological green writings, landscape memory The rapid transformation and the trivialization of landscapes in Wallonia (BE), require reformulating tools and objectives of morphological studies. Built fabrics and landscapes show the effects of abandoning or losing interest in the interrelations between natural and human actions. This contribution focuses on studies of cities and territories that have ceased to be the object of spatial policies attentive to the relationship between the need to live, maintain or care for green or natural spaces. After the systematic reduction of urban environments to simple green covers, morphological reading allows the recognition of traces of park systems or green infrastructures, whose communities often do not remember. The research's focus has shifted from the building to the green space structure. This displacement of interest makes it possible to find commons cultures that have acted on the territory of Liège (industrial city) on the one hand, through the building’s extension and on the other hand, through the project of forests, walks, squares, parks and public gardens. Now, these fragmented places become the main resource for reorganizing natural and human systems in order to offer new - social and spatial - coherence for tomorrow. Thus the historical green systems become a strong structuring link which serves to seek new dialectics of balance between existing fabrics and green systems. This system’s regeneration stands, on the one hand, to the hybridization of materials - water, green and buildings - and, on the other hand, to the physical and mental memory of the inhabited environments that populations keep. Green systems impose themselves as powerful vectors for the construction of new socio-spatial balances of cities and territories of globalization, as in the study case for the landscape systems in Liège and for the water and landscapes infrastructure in Chaudfontaine.References Foxley, A. (2010), Distance &amp; engagement. Walking, thinking and making landscape. Vogt landscape architects, Lars Müller Publishers Cronon,W., Coll., Uncommon ground. Rethinking the Human Place in Nature. W.W.Norton &amp; Company New York/London McHarg, I.(1969), Design with Nature, 1th, New York Spirn, A.W. (1994), The granite garden. Urban Nature and Human Design, ed. Basic Book Ravagnati, C. (2012), L’invenzione del Territorio. L’atlante inedito di Saverio Muratori, ed. Franco Angeli, Milano
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Martínez Gregori, Carmen. "The industrial architecture of Mauro Lleó in the growth of the modern Valencia." In 24th ISUF 2017 - City and Territory in the Globalization Age. Universitat Politècnica València, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/isuf2017.2017.5952.
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After the urban stagnation that supposed the autarchic stage, began the true urban "boom" that would double the urbanized area of the city of Valencia. From the radio-concentric structural solution proposed by the PGOU of 1946, new urban and industrial development axes were established, the western one being Manises-Quart de Poblet-Aldaia, specialized in the metal industry. But the Plan was not feasible without a network of roads that would give the historic roads the right proportion to their new condition. This is the case of the Camí Reial de Castilla that in 1953 opened to traffic, becoming the new entrance of the road from Madrid to the city of Valencia and the connection with the airport of Manises. This created a great commercial and industrial axis along where large companies would be installed given their good communications with the state capital. This is the case of the Coca-Cola bottler (1958), the metal processing plant FLEX (1961) or the S.E.A.T. subsidiary (1965), all of which are the work of the same architect, Mauro Lleó Serret (1914-2001), who became pioneer in the construction of modern Valencia. It is important to know the architecture that has helped to configure part of our city, in this case the one that connects with its western metropolitan area, giving it a façade that will approach solutions already used by the great masters of architecture like Mies.