16 resultados para Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art
em Consorci de Serveis Universitaris de Catalunya (CSUC), Spain
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This project is intended to prove the prevalent importance of myth in contemporary art and, more specifically, to highlight how myth and poetry have shaped and reflected ideas of womanhood over time. A selection of significant literary periods, authors and works from the Renaissance to our days have been chosen in order to provide a wide scope of the evolution that the portrayal of women has undergone. Special attention has been paid to the way in which a group of selected poets have contributed to the construction and deconstruction of traditional Judeo-Christian and Greco-Roman myths strongly attached to patterns of male dominance.
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Recent years have seen a striking proliferation of the term global in public and political discourse. The popularity of the term is a manifestation of the fact that there is a widespread notion that contemporary social reality is global. The acknowledgment of this notion has important political implications and raises questions about the role played by the idea of the global in policy making. These questions, in turn, expose even more fundamental issues about whether the term global indicates a difference in kind, even an ontological shift, and, if so, how to approach it. This paper argues that the notion of global, in other words the global dimension, is a significant aspect of contemporary politics that needs to be investigated. The paper argues that in the globalization discourse of International Studies global is naturalized, which means that it is taken for granted and assumed to be self-evident. The term global is used mainly in a descriptive way and subsumed under the rubric of globalization. Global tends to be equated with transnational and/or world-wide; hence, it addresses quantitative differences in degree but not (alleged) differences in kind. In order to advance our understanding of contemporary politics, global needs to be taken seriously. This means, firstly, to understand and to conceptualize global as a social category; and, secondly, to uncover global as a naturalized concept in the Political and International Studies strand of the globalization discourse in order to rescue it for innovative new approaches in the investigation of contemporary politics. In order to do so, the paper suggests adopting a strong linguistic approach starting with the analysis of the word global. Based on insights from post-structuralism as well as cognitive and general constructivist perspectives it argues that a frame-based corpus linguistic analysis offers the possibility of investigating the collective/social meaning(s) of global in order to operationalize them for the analysis of the global dimension of contemporary politics.
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This Phd research report aims to obtain a better understanding of the recent changes in mortality of the elderly population in developed countries. Its essence will be a critical thinking, without performing empirical work, which means that the analysis and concepts of the actual demographic literature will form the main body of this work. There are two central questions: Which age and cause specific mortality trends caused these recent changes in the life expectancy?Did the increase in life expectancy of the elderly population accelerate, continue or decline in recent years?
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Is there a link between decentralized governance and conflict prevention? This article tries to answer the question by presenting the state of the art of the intersection of both concepts. Provided that social conflict is inevitable and given the appearance of new threats and types of violence, as well as new demands for security based on people (human security), our societies should focus on promoting peaceful changes. Through an extensive analysis of the existing literature and the study of several cases, this paper suggests that decentralized governance can contribute to these efforts by transforming conflicts, bringing about power-sharing and inclusion incentives of minority groups. Albeit the complexity of assessing its impact on conflict prevention, it can be contended that decentralized governance might have very positive effects on the reduction of causes that bring about conflicts due to its ability to foster the creation of war/violence preventors. More specifically, this paper argues that decentralization can have a positive impact on the so-called triggers and accelerators (short- and medium-term causes).
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Aquest document de treball mira d'establir un nou camp d'investigaci a la crulla entre els fluxos de migraci i d'informaci i comunicaci. Hi ha diversos factors que fan que valgui la pena adoptar aquesta perspectiva. El punt central s que la migraci internacional contempornia s incrustada en la dinmica de la societat de la informaci, seguint models comuns i dinmiques interconnectades. Per consegent, s'est comenant a identificar els fluxos d'informaci com a qestions clau en les poltiques de migraci. A ms, hi ha una manca de coneixement empric en el disseny de xarxes d'informaci i l's de les tecnologies d'informaci i comunicaci en contextos migratoris. Aquest document de treball tamb mira de ser una font d'hiptesis per a investigacions posteriors.
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In the present work we review the way in which the electron-matter interaction allows us to perform electron energy loss spectroscopy (EELS), as well as the latest developments in the technique and some of the most relevant results of EELS as a characterization tool in nanoscience and nanotechnology.
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Millennials generation is changing the way of learning, prompting educational institutions to attempt to better adapt to young needs by incorporating technologies into education. Based on this premise, we have reviewed the prominent reports of the integration of ICT into education with the aim of evidencing how education is changing, and will change, to meet the needs ofMillennials with ICT support. We conclude that most of the investments have simply resulted in an increase of computers and access to the Internet, with teachers reproducing traditional approaches to education and e-learning being seen as complementary to face-to-face education. While it would seem that the use of ICT is not revolutionizing learning, it is facilitating the personalization, collaboration and ubiquity of learning.
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Nou museu devant de les pirmides de Giza (El Cairo).Lloc extraordinari i extraordinriament difcil.Incorpora protecci/ aprofitament del vent del desert, tempestes de sorra i aigua de pluja
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Aim of this contribution is to illustrate the state of the art of smart antenna research from several perspectives. The bow is drawn from transmitter issues via channel measurements and modeling, receiver signal processing, network aspects, technological challenges towards first smart antenna applications and current status of standardization. Moreover, some future prospects of different disciplines in smart antenna research are given.
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Aquest document de treball mira d'establir un nou camp d'investigaci a la crulla entre els fluxos de migraci i d'informaci i comunicaci. Hi ha diversos factors que fan que valgui la pena adoptar aquesta perspectiva. El punt central s que la migraci internacional contempornia s incrustada en la dinmica de la societat de la informaci, seguint models comuns i dinmiques interconnectades. Per consegent, s'est comenant a identificar els fluxos d'informaci com a qestions clau en les poltiques de migraci. A ms, hi ha una manca de coneixement empric en el disseny de xarxes d'informaci i l's de les tecnologies d'informaci i comunicaci en contextos migratoris. Aquest document de treball tamb mira de ser una font d'hiptesis per a investigacions posteriors.
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Thermal energy storage (TES) can increase the thermal energy effieresa, of a process by reusing the waste heat from industrial process, solar energy or other sources. There are different ways to store thermal energy: by sensible heat, by latest heat, by sorption process or by chemical reaction. This thesrs provides a-state-of-the-art review of the experimental performance of TES systems based on solid gas sorption process and chemical reactions. The importance of theses processes is that provides a heat loss free storage system with a high energy density.
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Life cycle analysis (LCA) is a comprehensive method for assessing the environmental impact of a product or an activity over its entire life cycle. The purpose of conducting LCA studies varies from one application to another. Different applications use LCA for different purposes. In general, the main aim of using LCA is to reduce the environmental impact of products through guiding the decision making process towards more sustainable solutions. The most critical phase in an LCA study is the Life Cycle Impact Assessment (LCIA) where the life cycle inventory (LCI) results of the considered substances related to the study of a certain system are transformed into understandable impact categories that represent the impact on the environment. In this research work, a general structure clarifying the steps that shall be followed ir order to conduct an LCA study effectively is presented. These steps are based on the ISO 14040 standard framework. In addition, a survey is done on the most widely used LCIA methodologies. Recommendations about possible developments and suggetions for further research work regarding the use of LCA and LCIA methodologies are discussed as well.
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There is growing concern that flooding is becoming more frequent and severe in Europe. A better understanding of flood regime changes and their drivers is therefore needed. The paper reviews the current knowledge on flood regime changes in European rivers that has traditionally been obtained through two alternative research approaches. The first approach is the data-based detection of changes in observed flood events. Current methods are reviewed together with their challenges and opportunities. For example, observation biases, the merging of different data sources and accounting for nonlinear drivers and responses. The second approach consists of modelled scenarios of future floods. Challenges and opportunities associated with flood change scenarios are discussed such as fully accounting for uncertainties in the modelling cascade and feedbacks. To make progress in flood change research, we suggest that a synthesis of these two approaches is needed. This can be achieved by focusing on long duration records and flood-rich and flood-poor periods rather than on short duration flood trends only, by formally attributing causes of observed flood changes, by validating scenarios against observed flood regime dynamics, and by developing low-dimensional models of flood changes and feedbacks. The paper finishes with a call for a joint European flood change research network.
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Organic food products are highly susceptible to fraud. Currently, administrative controls are conducted to detect fraud, but having an analytical tool able to verify the organic identity of food would be very supportive. The state-of-the-art in food authentication relies on fingerprinting approaches that find characteristic analytical patterns to unequivocally identify authentic products. While wide research on authentication has been conducted for other commodities, the authentication of organic chicken products is still in its infancy. Challenges include finding fingerprints to discriminate organic from conventional products, and recruiting sample sets that cover natural variability. Future research might be oriented towards developing new authentication models for organic feed, eggs and chicken meat, keeping models updated and implementing them into regulations. Meanwhile, these models might be very supportive to the administrative controls directing inspections towards suspicious fraudulent samples.
