Tindara Addabbo, Marie-Pierre Arrizabalaga, Cristina Borderías y Alastair Owens (eds.), Gender Inequalities, Households and the Production of Well-being in Modern Europe

Ressenya del llibre: 'Gender Inequalities, Households and the Production of Well-being in Modern Europe'

Early Modern Persian, Urdu, and English Historiography and the Imagination of Islamic India under British Rule

This paper analyses the early modern transformations of South Asian literary cultures through the production of historiography in Persian, English, and Urdu. In the 18th-19th centuries, South Asian communities experienced and participated in a major restructuring of the languages of the subcontinent. Urdu and English were institutionalized as governmental languages and utilized in new literary productions as Persian was gradually marginalized from the centre of literary and governmental polities. Three interrelated colonial policies reshaped the historical consciousness of South Asia and Britain: the production of new Persian histories commissioned under British patronage, the initiation of Urdu historiography through the translation of Persian and English histories, and the construction of the British history of India written in English. This article explores the historical and social dynamics of these events and situates the origins and evolution of the colonial historiographical project. Major works discussed are the Tārīkh-i Bangālah of Salīm Allāh Munshī (fl. 1763), James Mill's (1773-1836) The History of British India first published in 1817, Mīr Sher ʿAlī Afsos' the Ārāʾish-i mahfil, as well as the production of original Urdu histories such as Muḥammad Zakāʾ-Allāh's (1832-1910) the Tārīkh-i Hindustān.

Courts and Courtly Cultures in Early Modern Italy and Europe: Models and Languages

This volume deals with the forms of propaganda and self-representation, through words and images, during the rise of the 'civiltà delle corti' and through processes typical of the time, such as confrontation, adaptation, competition and rivalry. This period, which marked the passage of Italian and European culture from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance, is fundamental in the development of Modern Europe, and it lasted up to the XVIII century and beyond. At the heart of many matters debated here lies the relationship between culture and politics. The formation of a 'Lombard identity', central to the Sinergia project which was the frame of the whole research and its conferences, is closely linked to this broad general context. It places the so called 'questione milanese' - above the traditional hierarchies 'Toscana oriented' - at the centre of many questions regarding Northern Italy as a whole, starting from the dissolution of the Medieval communes, through to the rise of the signorie, from the end of the XIII century and the beginning of the XIV century up to the early XVI century.

Effects of modern variable frequency drive on the reliability of an old crane induction motor

The work aims to analyze the possibilities of utilizing old crane driving AC induction motors in modern pulse-width-modulated variable frequency drives. Bearing currents and voltage stresses are the two main problems associated with modern IGBT inverters, and they may cause premature failure of an old induction motor. The origins of these two problems are studied. An analysis of the mechanism of bearing failure is proposed. Certain types of bearing currents are considered in detail. The most effective and economical means are chosen for bearing currents mitigation. Transient phenomena of cables and mechanism of over voltages occurring at motor terminals are studied in the work. The weakest places of the stator winding insulation system are shown and recommendations are given considering the mitigation of voltage stresses. Only the most appropriate and cost effective preventative methods are chosen for old motor drives. Rewinding of old motors is also considered.

Celebrating Creative Consciousness: Insights Into Oscar Wilde’s Aesthetics

Tutkielmani valottaa irlantilaisen kirjailijan Oscar Wilden (1854-1900) vähemmän tunnettua työtä ja ajattelua taidekriitikkona fin de sièclen ja modernismin välisen siirtymävaiheen estetiikassa. Wilden voidaan sanoa olleen edellä aikaansa estetiikkakäsityksensä suhteen: Hän käsittelee taidekritiikissään teemoja, jotka tulivat keskeisiksi modernismin ja postmodernismin myötä – esimerkiksi kielen pettävyyttä, sellaisten käsitteiden kuin ’todellisuus’, ’luonto’ tai ’yhteiskunta’ sattumanvaraisuutta sekä yhteisön ja yksilön identiteettien fragmentoitumista. Wilde myös kyseenalaistaa – paradoksien, kielellisten nokkeluuksien ja ironian avulla – monia länsimaisessa filosofiassa ’normatiivisina’ pidettyjä arvoja, kuten totuuteen pyrkimisen. Lisäksi hän haastaa taiteenkritiikin akateemisen tradition hylkäämällä sellaiset sen hyveinä pitämät piirteet kuin johdonmukaisuus ja ristiriidattomuus. Tarkastelen Wilden estetiikkakäsitystä pääasiassa esseekokoelman Intentions (1891), etenkin esseen Valehtelun rappio, sekä De Profundis –teoksen (1905) kautta. Tekstejä analysoimalla ja vertaamalla osoitan miten 1890-luvun alkupuolen ja vankilatuomiotaan istuvan Wilden estetiikkakäsitys muuttui ja kehittyi. Wilden kohdalla on syytä puhua taidefilosofiasta taiteenteorian sijaan. Hänen kriittiset esseensä eivät tähtää ’harmonisen’ kokonaisuuden luomiseen tai pragmaattis-loogisen mallin rakentamiseen taiteen ymmärtämiseksi vaan tulvivat ironiaa ja ristiriitaisuuksia. Wildella taideteoksen tarkasteluun liittyy aina eettisiä, ontologisia ja metafyysisiä kysymyksiä, jotka syventävät mutta myös monimutkaistavat esteettistä kokemusta. Keskeinen teema Wildelle onkin taiteen ja elämän vastakkainasettelu sekä niiden välisen yhteyden tunnistaminen ja tunnustaminen: taide on sekä autonomista että subjektiivista. Tämä paradoksi kulminoituu esteettisessä kokemuksessa. Wildelle luomistyö ja vastaanottajan elämys ovat tiedostamattomia prosesseja – tietoista luovuutta ei ole. Esteettinen kuitenkin voidaan yhdistää tietoisuuteen, mutta se edellyttää että myös tietoisuuden on oltava luovaa. Siksipä lähestyäkseen taidetta kritiikin on tultava enemmän taiteen kaltaiseksi – epänormatiiviseksi ja epäloogiseksi. Tässä prosessissa paradokseilla on merkittävä tehtävä: ne muistuttavat siitä, että puhuttaessa taiteesta ei ole oikeita vastauksia, on vain hyviä kysymyksiä.

Modern recovery boiler design criteria

Engineering and pricing of large recovery boiler were studied in this work. Engineering was carried out with Anita 4.2 which is an engineering program of Andritz. Key initial values were chosen with previous studies. Primary target of this work was to find out the consequences that furnace dimensions and furnace screen vertical part has to boiler pricing. Boilers that were engineered had different rate of furnace width and depth and different heat transfer plate count. Boiler balances were invariable. Boilers with different vertical screen construction were also calculated. First variation was boiler with vertical screen up to furnace roof. Other variation was to connect vertical screen to Pre-boiler generating bank inlet tubes. Total prices were calculated to engineered boilers. Pricing was sort out to heat transfers, high pressure pipes, steel structures, auxiliary equipments and civil/structural costs. This study did not notice parts of the boiler which costs do not vary with the construction of the boiler. Heat transfers had the largest share of costs. Boiler building had the most significant differences between the boilers. Furnace screen had also significant role especially to costs of the boiler building.

Informational Aesthetics Measures

The Birkhoff aesthetic measure of an object is the ratio between order and complexity. Informational aesthetics describes the interpretation of this measure from an information-theoretic perspective. From these ideas, the authors define a set of ratios based on information theory and Kolmogorov complexity that can help to quantify the aesthetic experience

Modern kontrapunkt

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