So far little attention has been paid to the territorial aspects of cultural heritage, dispersion patterns and clustering processes nor to the changes induced by tourism on the physical, economic and social environment. Studying the territorial cohesion of different elements of cultural heritage and the interdependency between tangible and intangible heritage assets brings us closer to an under...

© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014 T. K. Shackelford, R. D. Hansen (eds.), The Evolution of Sexuality, Evolutionary Psychology DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-09384-0_11 D. P. Schmitt () Department of Psychology, Bradley University, 75 Bradley Hall, Peoria, IL 61625, USA e-mail: [email protected] Just like all other sexually reproducing species, male and female humans are more similar th...

The development of safety-critical electronic systems in the automotive domain is standardized by the ISO 26262 Road vehicles Functional safety. Depending on the concrete risk classification (Automotive Safety Integrity Level, ASIL for short), necessary safety requirements and activities are specified in order to achieve an acceptable residual risk of the system. In particular for the higher AS...

While often used in everyday exchanges, feeling vigorous at work, that is individuals’ feelings that they have physical strength, emotional energy, and cognitive liveliness, has hardly been subjected to any conceptual inquiry or empirical research. In this chapter, I pursue the following objectives: (a) to review the range of behavioral science literature in which vigor has been considered as a...

A woman ahead of her times, Judith Leyster was born the last child, a prodigy, in the large brood of a cloth maker and brewer in Haarlem. While still in her teens, she earned favorable mention in Description and Praise of the City Haarlem in Poetry, a book by Dutch poet Samuel Ampzing. She received art training, probably from Frans de Grebber and may have worked in the studio of well-known port...

New Materialism's Second Phase Tobias Skiveren (bio) Influx and Efflux: Writing Up with Walt Whitman by Jane Bennett. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2020. Pp. 224. $25.95 cloth. Language matters. Discourse Culture There is an important sense in which the only thing that does not seem to matter anymore matter. —Karen Barad, "Posthumanist Performativity," 2003 Almost twenty years have passed ...

Syntactic units, word combinations and speech fragments are used to strengthen the effect of during communication, they considered be rhetoric figures. Such these figures may metaphor, anaphora, antithesis, asyndeton, inversion, metonymy, repetition, ellipsis, epiphora, zeugma, syllepsis, pun, etc. The following explanation demonstrate definitions some rhetorical devices: a) Metaphor: It shows ...

Adolph von Menzel (1815–1905), one of the greatest German realistic painters of the nineteenth Century (1), painted his right foot from normal perspective with the great toe extended (Figure 1B). The other toes seem to be relaxed. There are no suggestions of foot deformity like pes cavus. Menzel finished that painting, oil on wood panel, in 1876 (1). He gave no official explanation, why he had ...

author of Truth from Trash presents machine learning in the form of “edutainment” for the lay reader. The book might also supply points of interest, although not always dependable instruction, to social scientists, philosophers, and psychologists. Thornton describes his book as a research memorandum “in keeping with the technicolour spirit of our times” and also owns to “importing various devic...