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Journal articles on the topic "Spitha (Greece)"
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Φραγκούλη, Νάντια Αυγερινός. "Ιταλικός κινηματογραφικός νεορεαλισμός και ελληνική μεταπολεμική πεζογραφία: Νεορεαλιστική γραφή στο Άνθρωποι και σπίτια του Αντρέα Φραγκιά." Σύγκριση 26 (February 25, 2018): 81. http://dx.doi.org/10.12681/comparison.11038.
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The years 1951-1961 mark the reception of Italian neorealist cinema in Greece with the production of films influenced by neorealism and the discussion of the nature of neorealism by Greek film critics. The novel Anthropi ke spitia [Of Houses and Men] by Adreas Fragkias, published in 1955, four years after the first viewing of De Sica’s Bicycle Thief in Greece, shows significant similarities to the themes and style of the Italian neorealist cinema. Discussing unemployment as a crucial problem of post-war Greek society Anthropi ke spitia presents the life in a poor urban neighbourhood in a series of seemingly random episodes that B. Klaras in his review of the book called ‘cinematic tableaux’. Most importantly, however, it seems that Fragkias’ novel explores the boundaries and the style of realism in post-war literature in a way that resonates the aesthetic principles of the Italian neorealistic films.
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Lewis, Michael. "Vitruvius and Greek aqueducts." Papers of the British School at Rome 67 (November 1999): 145–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0068246200004530.
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VITRUVIO E GLI ACQUEDOTTI GRECILa sezione di Vitruvio (VIII 5-6.9) sugli acquedotti ha causato molte difficoltà agli studiosi della materia che non riescono a riconciliarlo né con le pratiche conosciute nell'occidente romano, né con le teorie dell'idraulica moderna. In questo articolo si sostiene che, con l'eccezione dei passaggi sulle dimensioni dei tubi e sulla distribuzione urbana, le fonti di Vitruvio siano interamente greche. La sua descrizione dei chorobates deriva da Carpo di Antiochia, i suoi dati sul gradiente da Filone di Bisanzio, mentre le sue specifiche riguardanti le condutture dell'acqua, complete con un sifone invertito, corrispondono esattamente all'acquedotto Karapinar a Smirne. Tre grandi sifoni del secondo secolo a.C. (Smirne, il Madra Dag a Pergamo e l'esempio di stile ellenistico ad Alatri) tutti includono una caratteristica ingegneristica che spiega l'enigmatico colluviaria di Vitruvio. Le ‘pietre rosse’ che Vitruvio consiglia come ancore di sifoni possono essere ritrovate solo negli acquedotti dell'Asia Minore occidentale. La sua teoria idraulica è comprensibile più in termini di disciplina stoica che di fisica moderna. Se ne conclude che Vitruvio fosse ampiamente influenzato da fonti pergameniche del secondo secolo a.C, e che forse perfmo il suo resoconto del tipico acquedotto romano con tubazioni, che sembra descrivere l'Anio Vetus, possa derivare di seconda mano dalle stesse fonti.
Books on the topic "Spitha (Greece)"
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Aikaterinē, Dēmētsantou-Kremezē, and Ethniko Metsovio Polytechneio (Greece). Scholē Architektonōn Mēchanikōn., eds. Neoklasika spitia tēs Attikēs: Archeio spoudastēriou architektonikēs morphologias. Athēna: Ekdosē E.M.P., 2009.
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Ethniko Metsovio Polytechneio (Greece). Spoudastērio Architektonikēs Morphologias. Neoklasika spitia tēs Attikēs: Archeio spoudastēriou architektonikēs morphologias. Athēna: Ekdosē E.M.P., 2009.
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s, S. V. Skopelite. Neoklasika spitia te s Athe nas kai tou Peiraia. 3rd ed. Athe na: "Gno se ", 1987.
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Kouvela, Agnē. To Spiti tōn Anemōn stē Santorinē. [Athens]: Shape IKE Technikes Ekdoseis, 2016.
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Hernandez, Rebecca Skreslet. Authority by Association. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198805939.003.0003.
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In another controversial fatwa, al-Suyūṭī claims to represent a consensus of scholars opposed to the study of Greek logic on the grounds that it can lead to philosophical speculation of a heretical nature. While ostensibly a condemnation of logic, upon closer examination this fatwa serves to bolster al-Suyūṭī’s own claim to have achieved the rank of mujtahid (scholar capable of independent reasoning) in spite of his own lack of expertise in the discipline of logic. He tries to position his own opinion as being in line with those of the great scholars of the past or, in other words, with his “community of practice.” In fact, no such consensus against the study of logic existed during al-Suyūṭī’s time, thus making the “logic” of al-Suyūṭī’s logic fatwa even more tortured.
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Horta, Ana, and Anabela Carvalho. Climate Change Communication in Portugal. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190228620.013.599.
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In Portugal, global politics tend to dominate climate change communication. Policy-oriented news stories prevail, being very much influenced by international events, dynamics, and actors, especially European ones, whereas national politicians and officials tend to be given less space. Climate change is thus mainly (re)presented as a global issue, distant from local realities, in spite of the vulnerabilities that the country faces. National policy makers tend to adopt a technocratic discourse that comes across as “rational” and fairly optimistic, with little contestation by environmental groups or others. A “green economy” discourse has prevailed in the media, with investment on renewable energy being depicted as the way to both stimulating the economy and addressing climate change. Scientific knowledge tends to be represented as consensual and national scientists tend to avoid dramatization. Although public opinion surveys have shown that the population considers climate change a serious problem and skepticism regarding its anthropogenic causes is low, surveys have also revealed high levels of ignorance and self-evaluated lack of information. In spite of a traditionally weak environmental movement and lack of public engagement, the population has shown a consistent sense of collective responsibility to tackle climate change. The economic and financial crisis up until the mid-2010s considerably affected the already fragile media system and turned political and public attention to economy-related topics. News coverage of climate change, in all its complexity, has been constrained by a lack of specialized reporters and increased dependency on the pro-activity of news sources.
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Wallace, Mark I. When God Was a Bird. Fordham University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5422/fordham/9780823281329.001.0001.
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At one time, God was a bird. In ancient Egypt, Thoth was the Ibis-headed divinity of magic and wisdom. Winged divine beings—griffins and harpies—populated the pantheon of Greek antiquity, and Quetzalcoatl was the plumed serpent deity of the pre-Columbian Aztecs. It is said that in spite of—or better, to spite—this time-honored wealth of divine avifauna, Christianity divorced God from the avian world in order to defend a pure form of monotheism. This narrative, however, misses the startling scriptural portrayals of God as the beaked and feathered Holy Spirit, the third member of the Trinity who, alongside the Father and Son, is the “animal God” of historic Christian witness. Appearing as a winged creature at the time of Jesus’ baptism (Luke 3:21-22), the bird-God of the New Testament signals the deep grounding of archi-original biblical faith in the natural world. This book calls this new but ancient vision of the world “Christian animism” in order to signal the continuity of biblical religion with the beliefs of indigenous and non-Western communities that Spirit enfleshes itself within everything that grows, walks, flies, and swims in and over the Earth. To this end, it weaves together philosophy (Heidegger, Girard), theology (Augustine, Hildegard, Muir), and the author’s own birdwatching visitations (wood thrush, pileated woodpecker, great blue heron, American dipper, domestic pigeon) to argue that all things are alive with sacred personhood and worthy of human beings’ love and protection in a time of ecocidal, even deicidal, climate change.
Book chapters on the topic "Spitha (Greece)"
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Erdős, László. "How Henry Spira Put Animal Liberation into Practice." In Green Heroes, 49–53. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-31806-2_11.
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Lahusen, Christian, Ulrike Zschache, and Maria Kousis. "Introduction: Citizen Organisations, Transnational Solidarity and Collective Learning in Europe." In Transnational Solidarity in Times of Crises, 1–29. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49659-3_1.
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Abstract This edited volume is devoted to the analysis of practices of transnational solidarity in response to the various crises affecting Europe, especially the economic and refugee crises. Its aim is to present new insights into existing informal groups, at the grassroots, geared at furthering transnational solidarity in three thematic areas (disability, unemployment and immigration) and builds on extensive fieldwork in eight European countries (Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Poland, Switzerland and the UK). The introductory chapter provides an overview of the topic and the related research, discusses conceptual and methodological issues, and presents the structure of the book. It argues that the transnational solidarity work of citizen groups and organisations is strongly shaped by the socio-economic and political context in which they operate, by the action repertoires they promote, the networks of cooperation they are involved in and the experiences and lessons learned by engaged citizens and activists. It argues that in spite of apparent differences tied to contexts, there are a number of similarities in regard to the way transnationally oriented solidarity groups and organisations respond to societal challenges.
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Sandrin, Paula. "EU and Brazil in the International Circuits of Disavowal of the Climate Crisis." In Climate Change in Regional Perspective, 169–84. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-49329-4_11.
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AbstractThis chapter analyzes EU-Brazil relations and joint initiatives to tackle the climate crisis, particularly the optimism surrounding green hydrogen as a possible new source of “sustainable connectivity” between them, through the prism of the psychoanalytical concept of disavowal. The chapter makes a distinction between climate denial, when climate change is deliberately denied, and climate disavowal, when climate change is acknowledged, but ineffective responses to mitigate it keep being repeated, in spite of contrary evidence and recurring failures. It argues that mainstream responses to climate change, centered on the conference of the parties (COP), which include net-zero pledges, carbon markets, and natural or artificial carbon sinks, constitute an international circuit of disavowal, in which the EU and Brazil are also caught up. This chapter presents some of the “solutions” being advanced to tackle climate change, presents the ample and readily available evidence that they do not work fast enough or on a scale needed to keep global warming below 1.5 °C, and investigates some of the reasons why they keep being offered despite all the evidence. It proposes that while climate denialism is obviously very dangerous, climate disavowal, which is in operation in the international climate regime, and in EU-Brazil relations and initiatives, including cooperation on green hydrogen, is much more insidious and constitutes a relation of cruel optimism, i.e., “when something you desire is actually an obstacle to your flourishing” (Berlant, 2011, p. 1). It may not work to mitigate the climate crisis, but it works in other spheres: it allows capitalist accumulation to continue unabated; it presents new market niches, new investment opportunities, and new activities in which one can feel useful, productive, creative, and virtuous. There are many benefits, material, symbolic, and psychic, being distributed by this international circuit of disavowal, which explains its durability and expansion despite, or because of, all the evidence that shows that we are heading for catastrophe.
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Cairns, D. L. "11 The politics of envy: envy and equality in ancient Greece." In Envy, Spite and Jealousy, 235–52. Edinburgh University Press, 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9781474469937-015.
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Fagan, Brian. "Greece Bespoiled." In From Stonehenge to Samarkand. Oxford University Press, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195160918.003.0007.
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The grand tour took the young and wealthy to Rome and Naples, but not as far as Greece, which had sunk into oblivion under its Byzantine emperors, who began to rule in A.D. 527. For seven hundred years Greece remained masked in obscurity as Crusaders, Venetians, and then Turks established princedoms and trading posts there. The Turks entered Athens in 1455 and turned the Parthenon and Acropolis into a fortress, transforming Greece into a rundown province of the Ottoman Empire. Worse yet, the ravages of wind, rain, and earthquake, of villagers seeking building stone and mortar, buried and eroded the ancient Greek temples and sculptures. Only a handful of intrepid artists and antiquarians came from Europe to sketch and collect before 1800, for Greek art and architecture were still little known or admired in the West, overshadowed as they were by the fashion for things Roman that dominated eighteenth-century taste. A small group of English connoisseurs financed the artists James Stuart and Nicholas Revett on a mission to record Greek art and architecture in 1755, and the first book in their multivolume Antiquities of Athens appeared in 1762. This, and other works, stimulated antiquarian interest, but in spite of such publications, few travelers ventured far off the familiar Italian track. The Parthenon was, of course, well known, but places like the oracle at Delphi, the temple of Poseidon at Sounion—at the time a pirates’ nest— and Olympia were little visited. In 1766, however, Richard Chandler, an Oxford academic, did visit Olympia, under the sponsorship of the Society of Dilettanti. The journey took him through overgrown fields of cotton shrubs, thistles, and licorice. Chandler had high expectations, but found himself in an insect-infested field of ruins: Early in the morning we crossed a shallow brook, and commenced our survey of the spot before us with a degree of expectation from which our disappointment on finding it almost naked received a considerable addition. The ruin, which we had seen in evening, we found to be the walls of the cell of a very large temple, standing many feet high and well-built, its stones all injured . . .
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Özlem, Kader. "A comparative analysis of the policies of Turkey, the Russian Federation, and Greece towards the Kosovo issue (1999–2008)." In Russia — Turkey — Greece: Dialogue opportunities in the Balkans, 122–29. Nestor-Istoriia, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.31168/4469-2030-3.08.
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The developments in Kosovo that occurred after the death of Josip Broz Tito were one of the key factors in the disintegration of Yugoslavia. Albanians in Kosovo, after the change of its status, started a peaceful resistance under the leadership of Ibrahim Rugova. However, the focus of the international community on the Bosnian War in the first half of the 1990s caused the Kosovo issue to decline in importance. As a result, Kosovo was not mentioned in the Dayton Accords, which caused Albanians to change their methods, and they subsequently militarized under the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA/UÇK). Clashes between the Yugoslavian Army, Serbian soldiers, and KLA in 1998 and 1999 concluded with NATO’s intervention on March 24, 1999. While the United Nations Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) took the lead in the region, Albanians in Kosovo started to establish their own institutions after 1999. The failure of international negotiations over Kosovo’s status led Kosovo to declare her independence unilaterally with the support of the United States on 17th February, 2008. Turkey, as a member of NATO, joined the intervention in 1999 and supported the Kosovan independence process in the 2000s, while the Russian Federation (RF) opposed the unilateral independence declaration because the negotiations on Kosovo’s status did not conclude with a deal between both sides. In spite of Greece’s being a member of NATO, Athens only reluctantly supported the intervention in 1999 and Greek public opinion was firmly against that decision. Greece has been a traditional ally of Serbia in the Balkans, leading to a difficult situation for Greece. The result of this can be seen in the decision of Greece to not recognise Kosovo. This work compares the policies of Turkey, RF, and Greece on the Kosovo issue between the years of 1999 and 2008 and attempts to explore the primary motivations of these actors’ policies regarding Kosovo’s independence.
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"IX. Ferngelenkte Autonomie – László Szuhányi an der Spitze des Komitats Szatmár." In Herrschaft an der Grenze, 270–310. Köln: Böhlau Verlag, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.7788/boehlau.9783412215972.270.
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E. Mpeza, Paraskevi. "Management and Sustainability of Greek Wetlands." In Protected Area Management - Recent Advances. IntechOpen, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.100003.
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Greece has today about 400 large and small wetlands. Some of them are international importance and some are considered as national importance. Several of them are composite and form wetland mosaics or complexes. The most common wetland types in Greece are: rivers, estuaries, deltas, lagoons, shallow lakes, shallow marine formations, marshes. Their total area is still quite large (210,000 ha) in spite of the heavy losses that occurred during the last two generations Threats of degradation are drainage, dam construction, irrigation networks, alteration in river morphology such as diversion flow, clearing of natural vegetation which alter hydrological regime and affect wetland function. Sustainable agriculture in the hydrological basins of important wetlands should be considered because these systems are threaten most.
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Sifianou, Maria. "Politeness: Cross-cultural Perspectives." In Politeness Phenomena in England And Greece, 44–73. Oxford University PressOxford, 1992. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198239727.003.0003.
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Abstract One of Brown and Levinson’s concerns has been the :,earch for universals in language usage. Extensive parallels across unrelated languages have convinced them that, in spite of cultural peculiarities, there are universal linguistic properties. The issue of universality in language is quite controversial and seems to be related to earlier considerations concerning the relationship of language, thought, and culture. Sapir and Whorf strongly advocated this interrelationship and the uniqueness and distinctiveness of each language on which the ‘real world’ or culture is built. This thesis c.:ime to be widely known as the ‘Sapir-Whorf hypothesis’, or ‘linguistic relativity’.1 Hymes (1966: u6) presents a different version of ‘linguistic relativity’ when he says that ‘cultural values and beliefs are in part constitutive of linguistic relativity,’ whereas for Whorf it was the structure of language which in part determined thought and culture.
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Lie, Rolvt. "An International Perspective on Anencephaly and Spina Bifida: Prevalences by the Turn of the Century." In Neural Tube Defects, 117–32. Oxford University PressNew York, NY, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195166033.003.0012.
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Abstract Neural tube defects are dramatic birth defects that probably have occurred since ancient times around the world (Elwood et al., 1992; Smith, 2001). Excavations of ancient skeletons with neural tube defects have been found in South and North America and in Africa. A mummy from Egypt has a verified spina bifida. There are texts from Babylonia that possibly describe neural tube defects, and ancient texts from India, Greece, and Rome discuss the occurrence of birth defects in different contexts.
Conference papers on the topic "Spitha (Greece)"
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Biagetti, Erica, Luca Brigada Villa, Chiara Zanchi, and Silvia Luraghi. "Enhancing the semantic and conceptual description of Ancient Greek verbs in WordNet with VerbNet and FrameNet: a treebank-based study." In INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE on Computational Linguistics and Intellectual Technologies. RSUH, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.28995/2075-7182-2023-22-1009-1020.
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This paper presents a pilot study intended to enhance the semantic and conceptual description of Ancient Greek verbs in WordNet with information from two other resources, VerbNet and FrameNet, and to enrich a treebank of Ancient Greek texts with semantic information extracted from the three resources. We provided semantic annotation for verbs based on their morphosyntactic behavior, and performed a number of queries in order to extract occurrences from the Ancient Greek treebank that intended to match the different meanings of each verb. The manual check of the data extracted shows that, in spite of a limited number of mismatches, our queries yielded reliable results. The queries can be further refined in the future and complemented with a rule-based algorithm to map frame elements to dependency structure.
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Buch-Hanser, Thomas Cornelius, Guangli Du, and David John Duffus. "Innovative green roof with high water retention and durability." In IABSE Symposium, Guimarães 2019: Towards a Resilient Built Environment Risk and Asset Management. Zurich, Switzerland: International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering (IABSE), 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.2749/guimaraes.2019.0919.
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<p>Given the rapid increase in urban populations, combined with the effects of climate change, cities are struggling to provide green spaces to address liveability as well as adaptability to new challenges. Water retention and bio-diversity are the main advantages of green roofs. There are, however, limitations to green roofs that impede their acceptance and proliferation. There is for example uncertainty on how much water they retain during major storm events. In terms of building technology, green roofs today aren’t robust, and the risk for leakage through the roof membrane is disproportionally high when compared to the cost. A newly developed innovative green roof system with high water retention capacity and high durability will be presented. The patented prefabricated technology incorporate insulation and membrane into a single concrete element, ensuring improved robustness, quickened building times and a long term durable product. Initial indications for pricing indicate that the system is price-neutral when compared with green roofs as they are built today. The optimized structural performance obtain same loadbearing capacity, as existing systems, in spite of the relatively increased space created for water reservoir, without compromising the insulation capacity, hence the new green roof system further contribute to increased sustainability.</p>
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Ma, Chao, F. A. Rezaur Rahman Chowdhury, Aryan Deshwal, Md Rakibul Islam, Janardhan Rao Doppa, and Dan Roth. "Randomized Greedy Search for Structured Prediction: Amortized Inference and Learning." In Twenty-Eighth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence {IJCAI-19}. California: International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence Organization, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2019/713.
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In a structured prediction problem, we need to learn a predictor that can produce a structured output given a structured input (e.g., part-of-speech tagging). The key learning and inference challenge is due to the exponential size of the structured output space. This paper makes four contributions towards the goal of a computationally-efficient inference and training approach for structured prediction that allows to employ complex models and to optimize for non-decomposable loss functions. First, we define a simple class of randomized greedy search (RGS) based inference procedures that leverage classification algorithms for simple outputs. Second, we develop a RGS specific learning approach for amortized inference that can quickly produce high-quality outputs for a given set of structured inputs. Third, we plug our amortized RGS inference solver inside the inner loop of parameter-learning algorithms (e.g., structured SVM) to improve the speed of training. Fourth, we perform extensive experiments on diverse structured prediction tasks. Results show that our proposed approach is competitive or better than many state-of-the-art approaches in spite of its simplicity.
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Brunner, Christoph, and Jonas Fritsch. "Human Energetics in an Era of Post-Humanism." In 28th International Symposium on Electronic Art. Paris: Ecole des arts decoratifs - PSL, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.69564/isea2023-46-full-brunner-et-al-human-energetics.
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French philosopher of technology Gilbert Simondon is undoubtedly one of the key figures when it comes to conceptualizing individuation across physical, mental and social strata. In this article, we develop a rather overlooked aspect of Simondon’s work, namely how his ontogenetic project also implies an idea of a “human science” based on a “human energetics,” which—maybe in spite of its name—is an inherently transhumanist project transducing across both disciplinary and experiential fields, with a particular emphasis on the role of technology. We present key concepts in Simondon’s work and relate them to lines of thinking on energies in the arts (Kahn) and post-colonialism (Wynter), exemplified through an analysis of Nigerian artist Otobong Nkanga’s video work “Remains of the Green Hill.” Our primary aim with the article is to continue a mobilization of Simondonian concepts and thinking for an experimental, transhumanist exploration in relation to its ethico-aesthetic and artistic potential.
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Österberg, U., C. P. Kuo, C. T. Seaton, G. I. Stegeman, and K. O. Hill. "Optical Fibers with Negative Group-Velocity Dispersion in the Visible." In Nonlinear Optical Properties of Materials. Washington, D.C.: Optica Publishing Group, 1988. http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/nlopm.1988.thb1.
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In 1978, Hill et al.1 observed that subjecting optical fibers to illumination with green light from an Ar+ ion laser for approximately ten minutes could establish a grating along the fiber core. Reflectivities as high as 90% were achieved, with a bandwidth of approximately 200 MHz. In spite of considerable effort,2,3 no explanation of why these gratings are formed has yet been given. Only recently was it reported4 that these gratings could be formed in any fiber other than the one used in the original experiments by Hill. The use of these fibers as narrow-band reflection filters in various applications has been discussed in the literature.5 However, the work reported here was prompted by an article proposing that optical-fiber gratings would exhibit large negative group-velocity dispersion (GVD) in the vicinity of the wavelength used to create the grating.6 The obvious advantage of this would be the possibility of pulse compression in the visible wavelength region in an optical fiber without having to use an external grating pair. The negative GVD would also make it possible to produce "visible solitons."
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Bas Butuner, Funda, Ela Alanyalı Aral, and Selin Çavdar. "Transformative Urban Railway: Ankara Commuter Line and Lost Landscape." In 24th ISUF 2017 - City and Territory in the Globalization Age. Valencia: Universitat Politècnica València, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/isuf2017.2017.6171.
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Transformative Urban Railway: Ankara Commuter Line and Lost LandscapeFunda Baş Bütüner¹, Ela Alanyalı Aral¹, Selin Çavdar² ¹Middle East Technical University. Department of Architecture. Ankara. Dumlupınar Bulvarı no:1 06800 Ankara Turkey ² Middle East Technical University. Department of City and Regional Planning. Ankara. Dumlupınar Bulvarı no:1 06800 Ankara Turkey E-mail: fbutuner@metu.edu.tr, earal@metu.edu.tr, selin.cavdar@gmail.com Keywords (3-5): urban railway, urban landscape, Ankara, commuter line, landscape infrastructure Conference topics and scale: Urban green space Being major transportation infrastructure of the 19th and early 20th centuries, the impacts of railways on cities have highly directed urban discourses; deforming material edge of cities, encouraging urban extension, formation of new territories, and speeding up urban development. However, in recent decades, with newly emerging discussions on landscape infrastructure, a new idea for a more integrated infrastructure and urban system has started to be formulated. Railway strips, occurring as terrains where solid-void morphology of cities becomes illegible, emerge as generators in the formation of new urban green network. Within this framework, Ankara commuter line that mark outs a route approximately 37 kilometers in length in the city, is a remarkable case for a motivating discussion on railway and landscape confrontation. Penetrating the city in east-west direction, the commuter line integrated with a rural landscape –covering vegetable gardens and creeks- that was serving as a recreational field for citizens until 1950s. However, the transformative nature of the railway, encouraged the development of new urban lands, industrial areas and neighborhoods along its route, and erased the characteristic landscape along the railway. The continuous landscape integrated with green, water and railway infrastructure became fragmented covering only some splits of green and water. In this respect, this study dwells on the lost landscape of the commuter line by mapping the fragmented continuity of the railway, green and water infrastructure from 1950’s until today to show the limited, but potential interaction of these three systems in the current urban fabric. References Allen, S. (1999). Infrastructural Urbanism, in Allen, S. (ed.) Points and Lines: Diagrams and Projects for The City (Princeton Architectural Press, New York) 40-89. Bertolini, L., Spit, T. (1998). Cities on Rails (Routledge, London). Hung, Y. (2013). Landscape Infrastructure: Systems of Contingency, Flexibility, and Adaptability, in Hung, Y., Aquino, G., Waldheim, C., Czerniak, J., Geuze, A., Robinson, A., Skjonsberg, M. (ed.) Landscape Infrastructure (Birkhauser, Basel) 14-19. Tatom, J. (2006). Urban Highways and the Reluctant Urban Realm. C. Waldheim (Ed.). The Landscape Urbanism Reader (Princeton Architectural Press, New York) 179-196. Waldheim, C. (2016). Landscape as Urbanism: A General Theory (Princeton University Press).
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PIMOKHOVA, Lyudmila, German YaGOVENKO, Zhanna TSARAPNEVA, and Nina Kharaborkina. "Impact of efficient protective chemicals on seeds yield of white lupin." In Multifunctional adaptive feed production 27 (75). ru: Federal Williams Research Center of Forage Production and Agroecology, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.33814/mak-2022-27-75-65-72.
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The white lupin is a source for qualitative plant protein to provide balanced nutrition for animals and poultry. Seed and green mass yield of modern lupin varieties can be 3–5 t/ha and 70–120 t/ha respectively. In spite of valuable qualities the production crop use is insufficient. One of the reasons is infection by diseases and pests. Anthracnose is the main dangerous and harmfulness disease. As a result lupin is in dire need for high effective protective chemicals. High effectiveness (97–96%) of seed dressers Vitaros – 2.0 l/t, Maxim XL – 2.0 l/t, Divident Star – 0.5 l/t, Selest Top – 0.7 l/t, Inshurperform – 0.7 l/t was revealed against seeds’ infection with anthracnose and other diseases under field conditions. The fungicides Amistar Extra – 0.5 l/ha, Spirit – 0.7 l/ha, Rakurs – 0.4 l/ha, Kolosal Pro – 0.4 l/ha, Bamper Super – 1.5 l/ha and Zantara – 1.5 l/ha are of high effectiveness (88–93%) for protection of lupin crops. The insecticides Tabu – 0.4 l/t and Selest Top – 07 l/t were high effective (76.2–96.0%) against seedlings pests. The most effective dressers (91–96%) against aphids and weevils were the chemicals BI-58 New – 0.7 l/ha and Borey Neo – 0.2 l/ha. The use of the mentioned chemicals for white lupin protection allows manage development and harmfulness level of harmful organisms in crops and prevent significant grain yield losses.
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Alsinan, Ali, Khalilur Rehman, and Ahmad Bakodah. "Towards Sustainable Excellence & Biodiversity Protection in Upstream O & G Facility." In Middle East Oil, Gas and Geosciences Show. SPE, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.2118/213248-ms.
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Objective The objective is to showcase the Abu Ali facility's commitment to protecting and preserving the Abu Ali biodiversity ecosystem. The project demonstrates a modern sustainable, circular, innovative and systemic approach to target the biodiversity threats in multi-dimensional aspects and transform these threats into opportunities to improve the island's ecosystem. The island is important to Aramco's upstream operations because it houses an oil and gas production facility. The organization has determined its environmental goals from the corporate policies and vision to be as follows. Contribute to reaching the company's and the kingdom's vision for being a net zero-carbon operating facility by 2050 and 2060, respectively, by reducing and offsetting greenhouse gases' impact on climate. Support the Saudi Green Initiative by planting mangroves and trees in the Abu Ali Island and seeking for sourcing out the mangrove seeds to other entities. Align and adapt with carbon circular economy (CCE) approaches in reusing/repairing/recycling wasted materials and resources turning them into valuable products. Protect, preserve and enhance the Abu Ali biodiversity area to create an integrated ecosystem for wildlife, marine life, and birds. Be recognized at the corporate, nationally, and internationally as a role model in environmental protection stewardship. Background North of Jubail, a city in the Eastern Province of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, close to a large offshore oil field, sits Abu Ali Island. There are two large islands in the archipelago which are potentially preservational. The larger one is Abu Ali Island located to the north and the southern one is called Al Batinah Island. Abu Ali Island is a unique isolated island with one of the most diversified habitats in the Arabian Gulf, a home for a variety of creatures, and Aramco's oil and gas operational area. Aramco has designated Abu Ali Island as the country's first and biggest biodiversity stewardship island. The island is a sabkha semi-dry grassland. The coral reefs that encircle Abu Ali Island were formed naturally, making it an excellent habitat for marine life. The island's ecological and biological systems benefit from the variety of marine life. Birds nest on the island, turtles lay eggs, and foxes hunt for food. Abu Ali Island is on birds' migratory paths, and the island has become a resting area during migratory seasons. Furthermore, Abu Ali Island has been a fishing harbor for local fishermen for decades. Wildlife Habitat Mammals, reptiles, and rodents are just a few of the many biological species found on Abu Ali Island. Numerous other species, including the Cerastes Gasperettii/Arabian horned viper "Um Jounab" and the Arabian Red Fox, were also commonly observed on the island. The island is covered with vegetation, including native plants, cultivated trees, and herbs such as Ziziphus spina-christi "Sidir," Rhanterium epapposum "Arfaj," and Zygophyllum qatarense. Migratory Birds The island is situated in one of the main flyways of migratory birds that travel seasonally from Siberia & Eastern Europe to Africa. The migratory birds settle down for a couple of days/weeks to take a rest and food supply, then continue their long journey. The following migratory bird species have been spotted at Abu Ali Island: Black-necked Grebe, Great Crested Grebe, Black Kite, Slender-billed Gull, Greater Flamingo, Western Reef-egret, Lesser Crested Tern, White-cheeked Tern, Saunders's Tern, Little Tern, Grey Plover, Lesser Sandplover, Greater Sandplover, Kentish Plover, Bar-tailed Godwit, Whimbrel, Eurasian Curlew, Dunlin, Terek Sandpiper, Common Redshank, Common Greenshank, Ruddy Turnstone, Eurasian Oystercatcher, Crab-plover and Osprey. Marine Life Abu Ali Island is a territory of a critically endangered creature, the Hawksbill sea turtle. The turtles travel to various sites in the Arabian Gulf and lay their eggs on an island like Abu Ali Island during the year's roosting season. Besides that, coral reefs, seagrass, and mangroves thrive around Abu Ali Island creating attractive habitats for fishes and other organisms to reproduce and enrich marine life.
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Makrí, Marina. "La morfología de las redes ante una ciudad en continua transformación: el caso del Metro ateniense." In Seminario Internacional de Investigación en Urbanismo. Barcelona: Maestría en Planeación Urbana y Regional. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana de Bogotá, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.5821/siiu.6041.
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Actualmente la red de metro de Atenas está formada por tres líneas: un ferrocarril eléctrico, construido
durante el siglo XIX, y otras dos líneas subterráneas de nueva construcción. El presente estudio tiene por
objetivo comprender la peculiaridad en esta configuración a través de la exégesis de la propia historia
urbana y de la movilidad de la capital griega. La investigación se centra en el análisis de las numerosas
proposiciones de instalación de metro desde los años 20 hasta los años 80. Esta “polifonía” de planos se
estudia, sin embargo, de una manera estrictamente ligada al crecimiento urbano de la ciudad. Su
diagnóstico permitirá observar las pautas recurrentes de los diferentes trazados, que han persistido y
modelado una especie de arquetipo. Los aparentemente diferentes documentos, a pesar de su abismo
temporal, obedecen a tácticas en común. The metro network of Athens currently consists of three lines: one electric railway line, constructed in the
nineteenth century, and two more contemporary underground ones. The present study aims at
comprehending the uniqueness of this configuration through the interpretation of the urban history and the
mobility of the Greek capital. The research is focused on the analysis of the numerous proposals that had
been put forward regarding the metro layout from 1920 up until 1980. The pluralism of the designs has been
studied from the perspective always maintaining, however, in the context of the city’s urban growth. Its
outcome reveals a set of common patterns that emerge among the different routes forming a persistent
archetype. For all their apparent differences and in spite of their dispersion in time they adhere to a common
pattern.
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Vandanjon, Pierre-Olivier, Alex Coiret, and Emir Deljanin. "Optimization of road speed-sectioning by assessing the impact of a road speed limitation sign." In 6th International Conference on Road and Rail Infrastructure. University of Zagreb Faculty of Civil Engineering, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5592/co/cetra.2020.1079.
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Energy consumed by road vehicles has a high impact on climate changes; indeed this energy use accounts for 23% of total energy-related Green House Gases (GHG) emissions of 2014 global GHG emissions. GHG emissions are growing constantly year after year, in spite of global objectives (COP) and researches on vehicle efficiency and modal shift. The contribution of the infrastructure to lower this energy is less studied, since it is often seen as immuable or too costly. This paper aims to demonstrate that simple and low-cost solutions exist for that purpose. Particularly a methodology has been developed, based on an optimization of the speed layout over an itinerary in order to improve the eco- driving potential of a given road infrastructure. The key point of this work is that inconsistency often exists between vehicle dynamics, road longitudinal profile and changes in regulation speeds. These changes in speed are defining the speed- sectioning of a route, and an optimization of this speed-sectioning can be easily carried out while displacing or modifying speed signs. The objective of this study is to build an optimized speed sectioning which minimizes the fuel consumption for realistic traffic and various driver behaviors, while maintaining the required safety levels. A progressive optimization loop has been worked out with a Python script including an embedded microscopic road traffic simulator. As a result, an optimized speed-sectioning is leading to a gain of 227 ml for 60 minutes of simulated flow of 100 veh/h/lane, for a modification of a single speed changing point. The overall benefits are reduced energy consumption, air pollution and noise which otherwise would have been produced by braking. This work brings an effective optimization tool for road managers and its practical application is passive and inexpensive. This methodology is suitable for rural and urbanized territories and easily adaptable to any type of traffic in various countries. In perspectives, the optimization process could be extended to a full road route and to a wide range of different speed-sectioning layouts.
Reports on the topic "Spitha (Greece)"
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Incongruity between biological and chronologic age among the pupils of sports schools and the problem of group lessons effectiveness at the initial stage of training in Greco-Roman wrestling. Aleksandr S. Kuznetsov, March 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.14526/2070-4798-2021-16-1-19-23.
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Considerable influence and compulsory dropout among those, who go in for GrecoRoman wrestling at the age of 10-13, does not take into account the level of individual biological development and integral demands domination claimed on too high general physical training (GPT) (4) normatives fulfillment. It corresponds with general situation in the system of education (6, 9). In spite of uneven speed of biological development (1, 8, 9), there are general demands claimed on physical training at school for age groups (5) in accordance with chronologic age. The same situation is at sports schools. Technical and physical training lessons at Greco-Roman wrestling school at the stage of initial training are organized according to general group principle. Research methods. Information sources analysis and summarizing, questionnaire survey, coaches’ experience summarizing, methods of mathematical statistics. Results. The received research results led to the following conclusion: it is possible to solve the problem of dropping out of Greco-Roman wrestling sports schools in terms of minimal loss in the quality of sports training by means of dividing the training groups into subgroups. There different normatives of material mastering and set by standard physical qualities development are used. For this purpose we created the training groups and subgroups of the set objectives realization at Greco-Roman wrestling sports schools.