The Experience of the Arnamagnæan Institute, Copenhagen

The Arnamagnæan Institute, principally in the form of the present writer, has been involved in a number of projects to do with the digitisation, electronic description and text-encoding of medieval manuscripts. Several of these projects were dealt with in a previous article 'The view from the North: Some Scandinavian digitisation projects', NCD review, 4 (2004), pp. 22-30. This paper looks in some depth at two others, MASTER and CHLT. The Arnamagnæan Institute is a teaching and research institute within the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Copenhagen. It is named after the Icelandic scholar and antiquarian Árni Magnússon (1663-1730), secretary of the Royal Danish Archives and Professor of Danish Antiquities at the University of Copenhagen, who in the course of his lifetime built up what is arguably the single most important collection of early Scandinavian manuscripts in the world, some 2,500 manuscript items, the earliest dating from the 12th century. The majority of these are from Iceland, but the collection also contains important Norwegian, Danish and Swedish manuscripts, along with approximately 100 manuscripts of continental provenance. In addition to the manuscripts proper, there are collections of original charters and apographa: 776 Norwegian (including Faroese, Shetlandic and Orcadian) charters and 2895 copies, 1571 Danish charters and 1372 copies, and 1345 Icelandic charters and 5942 copies. When he died in 1730, Árni Magnússon bequeathed his collection to the University of Copenhagen. The original collection has subsequently been augmented through individual purchases and gifts and the acquisition of a number of smaller collections, bringing the total to nearly 3000 manuscript items, which, with the charters and apographa, comprise over half a million pages.

Nonlinear Spectral Theories and Solvability of Nonlinear Hammerstein Equations

AMS Subj. Classification: 47J10, 47H30, 47H10

Eurómentés Kerneuropa útján, avagy hány sebességet bír el Európa?

Az Európai Unió eddig az „egy piac, egy pénz” elve, azaz az ország nélküli valuta és az „egy állam, egy pénz”, tehát egy mind szorosabbá váló politikai unió közötti átmeneti lépésekkel kísérelte meg az euróválság kezelését. Az mára nyilvánvalóvá vált, hogy az előbbi elven alapuló pénzügyi rendszer nem vezet a tagállamok gazdasági és költségvetési politikájának a konvergenciájához. A fiskális és gazdasági uniót magában foglaló politikai unió nélkül az euró „befejezetlen valuta”. A valódi megoldás egy politikai unió, sőt mi több, egy európai föderális állam megteremtése lenne. Egy ilyen állam, GDP negyven százalékát kitevő költségvetésével, már képes lehetne arra, hogy az eurókötvényeken és az EKB kibővített szerepén alapuló, valódi transzferunióként működjön és a regionális diszparitásokat hatékonyan kezelje; ám a tagállamok és társadalmuk jelentős része egy ilyen terv megvalósítására gazdasági és/vagy politikai okokból nem kész.

Satisfaction: Is Money Everything?

When people are asked whether they are satisfied with their jobs or careers, the first item that comes to mind, most of the time, is money. Then other factors such as advancement, work hours, autonomy, flexibility, etc. are soon added to the total equation. In this study, 140 financial and technology professionals in the lodging industry shared their satisfaction level and perceived importance of carious attributes of their career.

The Beacon, September 14, 2009

Vol. 22, Issue 15, 12 pages

Boundary : an exploration of architecture's power to mark a boundary

Cities are no longer recognizing their boundaries beyond their legal or political implications. This thesis explored the architecture of a boundary in the design of a structure that visually and symbolically marked the current Miami-Dade County development limit along Krome Avenue. This limit ultimately separates the city from the endangered Everglades ecosystem. Through the examination of ancient boundaries such as Medieval and Renaissance Military fortifications, as well as contemporary interventions such as Steven Holl's "Edge of the City Projects", an architectural vocabulary was developed considering the Double Wall, Bastion, Rampart, and Gate principles. However, rather than considering these principles to defend the city from outside forces, the focus of this exploration is their inversion in order to contain the city by strengthening its periphery visually and symbolically. From this exploration, it was concluded that a successful boundary or limit should be visible and significant. Furthermore, it should serve as an informative and reflective landmark.

TOC, TN, and sedimentary d15N and d13C ratios of sediment core SO201-2-85

We present high-resolution records of sedimentary nitrogen (d15Nbulk) and carbon isotope ratios (d13Cbulk) from piston core SO201-2-85KL located in the western Bering Sea. The records reflect changes in surface nitrate utilization and terrestrial organic matter contribution in submillennial resolution that span the last 180 kyr. The d15Nbulk record is characterized by a minimum during the penultimate interglacial indicating low nitrate utilization (~62-80%) despite the relatively high export production inferred from opal concentrations along with a significant reduction in the terrestrial organic matter fraction (mterr). This suggests that the consumption of the nitrate pool at our site was incomplete and even more reduced than today (~84%). d15Nbulk increases from Marine Isotope Stage (MIS) 5.4 and culminates during the Last Glacial Maximum, which indicates that nitrate utilization in the Bering Sea was raised during cold intervals (MIS 5.4, 5.2, 4) and almost complete during MIS 3 and 2 (~93-100%). This is in agreement with previous hypotheses suggesting that stronger glacial stratification reduced the nutrient supply from the subeuphotic zone, thereby increasing the iron-to-nutrient ratio and therefore the nitrate utilization in the mixed surface layer. Large variations in d15Nbulk were also recorded from 180 to 130 ka BP (MIS 6), indicating a potential link to insolation and sea-level forcing and its related feedbacks. Millennial-scale oscillations were observed in d15Nbulk and d13Cbulk that might be related to Greenland interstadials.

FCE LTER Mid-term Review field trip to SRS-6

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The relationship between vegetation and modern pollen assemblages on Mount Paggeo (NE Greece)

In this study, we investigated the relationship between vegetation and modern-pollen rain along the elevational gradient of Mount Paggeo. We apply multivariate data analysis to assess the relationship between vegetation and modern-pollen rain and quantify the representativeness of forest zones. This study represents the first statistical analysis of pollen-vegetation relationship along an elevational gradient in Greece. Hence, this paper improves confidence in interpretation of palynological records from north-eastern Greece and may refine past climate reconstructions for a more accurate comparison of data and modelling. Numerical classification and ordination were performed on pollen data to assess differences among plant communities that beech (Fagus sylvatica) dominates or co-dominates. The results show a strong relationship between altitude, arboreal cover, human impact and variations in pollen and nonpollen palynomorph taxa percentages.

O (e)portfolio no desenvolvimento profissional de professores: uma experiência no contexto da Didática da Matemática na Educação Pré-Escolar

O presente texto pretende ser um contributo na investigação educacional, em especial ao nível das estratégias de formação de professores, focalizando-se em processos reflexivos que decorrem da utilização de (e)portfolios no contexto da formação de professores. Tendo em conta a experiência de estágio que acontece ao longo de um ano letivo no curso de Mestrado em Educação Pré-Escolar, a metodologia formativa implementada no âmbito da unidade curricular de Didática da Matemática na Educação Pré-Escolar, durante o 1º semestre do ano letivo de 2012/2013, privilegiou as situações reais do contexto educativo em que cada estudante desenvolveu a sua intervenção pedagógica, que funcionaram como ponto de partida para os processos reflexivos de natureza pessoal, académica e profissional. A análise aos (e)portfolios elaborados permite descrever as vantagens da utilização desta estratégia de formação quer do ponto de vista do docente, quer na perspetiva dos futuros educadores de infância, salientando as inúmeras e diversas possibilidades de desenvolvimento profissional (e pessoal), designadamente no que se refere à construção do conhecimento didático no âmbito da Educação Matemática. A não definição prévia de uma estrutura rígida subjacente ao (e)portfolio, viabilizou, como mostraremos, uma aprendizagem personalizada que está patente não só na variedade das evidências incluídas, de acordo com um exercício reflexivo que as sustenta, como também nos distintos formatos que foram apresentados.