The Lord of Heaven in the Inner Chambers: Jesuits, Women, and Domestic Christianity (ca. 1580-1690)

The study focuses on gender norms and practices in Chinese Christian communities established by Jesuit missionary activity during the long seventeenth century. It analyzes how European and Chinese gender norms and practices affected each other in the context of the Sino-Western cultural contact initiated by the missionaries. The thesis consists of two parts. First, it analyzes the ways in which European Jesuits engaged with Chinese gender relations in the course of their mission in China. The study demonstrates that the Jesuits’ adoption of the Chinese scholar-gentry’s habitus entailed a partial adaptation to Confucian gender norms. The latter placed great emphasis on gender segregation and therefore discouraged direct communication between missionaries and Chinese women. This resulted in the emergence of organizational and devotional arrangements of Christian communities specific to China. Second, the study discusses Chinese Christian women's religious culture that emerged in the absence of a strong missionary presence among female devotees. It points out that Chinese Christian women created their own ritual culture and religious sociability in the domestic context, and that they actively took part in shaping Chinese Christianity as masters of domestic rituals.

Oral-facial-digital syndrome type VI: is C5orf42 really the major gene?

Oral-facial-digital type VI syndrome (OFDVI) is a rare phenotype of Joubert syndrome (JS). Recently, C5orf42 was suggested as the major OFDVI gene, being mutated in 9 of 11 families (82 %). We sequenced C5orf42 in 313 JS probands and identified mutations in 28 (8.9 %), most with a phenotype of pure JS. Only 2 out of 17 OFDVI patients (11.7 %) were mutated. A comparison of mutated vs. non-mutated OFDVI patients showed that preaxial and mesoaxial polydactyly, hypothalamic hamartoma and other congenital defects may predict C5orf42 mutations, while tongue hamartomas are more common in negative patients.

CHEOPS Performance for Exomoons: The Detectability of Exomoons by Using Optimal Decision Algorithm

Many attempts have already been made to detect exomoons around transiting exoplanets, but the first confirmed discovery is still pending. The experiences that have been gathered so far allow us to better optimize future space telescopes for this challenge already during the development phase. In this paper we focus on the forthcoming CHaraterising ExOPlanet Satellite (CHEOPS), describing an optimized decision algorithm with step-by-step evaluation, and calculating the number of required transits for an exomoon detection for various planet moon configurations that can be observable by CHEOPS. We explore the most efficient way for such an observation to minimize the cost in observing time. Our study is based on PTV observations (photocentric transit timing variation) in simulated CHEOPS data, but the recipe does not depend on the actual detection method, and it can be substituted with, e.g., the photodynamical method for later applications. Using the current state-of-the-art level simulation of CHEOPS data we analyzed transit observation sets for different star planet moon configurations and performed a bootstrap analysis to determine their detection statistics. We have found that the detection limit is around an Earth-sized moon. In the case of favorable spatial configurations, systems with at least a large moon and a Neptune-sized planet, an 80% detection chance requires at least 5-6 transit observations on average. There is also a nonzero chance in the case of smaller moons, but the detection statistics deteriorate rapidly, while the necessary transit measurements increase quickly. After the CoRoT and Kepler spacecrafts, CHEOPS will be the next dedicated space telescope that will observe exoplanetary transits and characterize systems with known Doppler-planets. Although it has a smaller aperture than Kepler (the ratio of the mirror diameters is about 1/3) and is mounted with a CCD that is similar to Kepler's, it will observe brighter stars and operate with larger sampling rate; therefore, the detection limit for an exomoon can be the same as or better, which will make CHEOPS a competitive instruments in the quest for exomoons.

Kurt Stieler, Rollenbild, Hüftbild, in: Ludwig Fulda: Novella d'Andrea

Signatur des Originals: S 36/F06670

Robert Vom Scheidt als Graf Andrea Vitelozzo Tamare {[u.a.], Szenenfoto, Gruppenbildnis, in: Franz Schreker: Die Gezeichneten, Frankfurt a. M., 1918

Signatur des Originals: S 36/F07708

Robert Vom Scheidt als Graf Andrea Vitelozzo Tamare {[u.a.], Szenenfoto, Gruppenbildnis, in: Franz Schreker: Die Gezeichneten, Frankfurt a. M., 1918

Signatur des Originals: S 36/F07710

Andrea Gabriel, Luigi Malipiero, Szenenfoto, Brustbild, Doppelbildnis, in: Pedro Calderón de la Barca: Der wundertätige Magier

Signatur des Originals: S 36/F08614

Andrea Campra, Brustbild

Signatur des Originals: S 36/G00578

Ms. lat. oct. 255 - Gregor XV. Andrea Cardoini. Schlacht um Canea. Pasquinata. Trascorso indifferente.

Die Foliierung geht nur bis Bl. 325; zusätzlich gibt es die Blätter 84a, 95a, 102a und 320a.

Notwendige Erinnerung/ auff dz schreckliche Fewerzeichen/ So den 10. Septembris deß jetzlauffenden 1580. Jahrs am Himmel gesehen worden/ sampt einer gründlichen gewissen Rechnung aus Gottes Wort/ daß das Ende der Welt und der Jüngste tag nahe für der Thüren

Iacobus Colerus D.

Andrea Czortek - Mario Mattei - Ceclia Pallone, Gli Agostiniani a Sansepolcro e il Beato Angelo Scarpetti, Tolentino, Biblioteca Egidiana, 2009, Págs.156 c/ ilustraciones a color

Fil: Guzmán, D. Pablo.

Horizontal profiles of longwave and shortwave radiation components over sea ice near Barrow, Alaska during the 2011 melt

An integrated instrument package for measuring and understanding the surface radiation budget of sea ice is presented, along with results from its first deployment. The setup simultaneously measures broadband fluxes of upwelling and downwelling terrestrial and solar radiation (four components separately), spectral fluxes of incident and reflected solar radiation, and supporting data such as air temperature and humidity, surface temperature, and location (GPS), in addition to photographing the sky and observed surface during each measurement. The instruments are mounted on a small sled, allowing measurements of the radiation budget to be made at many locations in the study area to see the effect of small-scale surface processes on the large-scale radiation budget. Such observations have many applications, from calibration and validation of remote sensing products to improving our understanding of surface processes that affect atmosphere-snow-ice interactions and drive feedbacks, ultimately leading to the potential to improve climate modelling of ice-covered regions of the ocean. The photographs, spectral data, and other observations allow for improved analysis of the broadband data. An example of this is shown by using the observations made during a partly cloudy day, which show erratic variations due to passing clouds, and creating a careful estimate of what the radiation budget along the observed line would have been under uniform sky conditions, clear or overcast. Other data from the setup's first deployment, in June 2011 on fast ice near Point Barrow, Alaska, are also shown; these illustrate the rapid changes of the radiation budget during a cold period that led to refreezing and new snow well into the melt season.

Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, Andrea Camilleri y Paco Ignacio Taibo II. Una lectura de la filiación

Una de las facetas de Manuel Vázquez Montalbán es la de ser reconocido como iniciador de prácticas discursivas que se manifiestan renovadas en escritores de otras latitudes. Tal es el caso de Paco Ignacio Taibo II y Andrea Camilleri quienes han declarado explícitamente sus aprovechamientos literarios de algunos rasgos de la obra del español. La cuestión de la filiación resulta clave para pensar estas relaciones. La filiación pasa por lo menos por dos meridianos identificables. El primero es la dimensión política dirimida en términos policiales y el segundo, pasa por la presencia de un actor detective que encarna la otra gran filiación: la novela negra americana. En su paso a través de la escritura de VM se hace carne en Carvalho-Biscuter, para proliferar luego en los conjuntos de detectives sicilianos y mexicanos.