Made by Byzantine painters for Catholic patrons, the fresco cycle of St. Catherine Alexandria in Darlos stands apart from other late-medieval cycles. In terms patronage, style, and iconography, this pictorial raises questions cultural exchange between Byzantium West, illustrating how female holiness was differently articulated these areas. While Catherine?s Western cycles emphasize her wisdom e...

In Connectedness and Its Discontents, Dan Markel pays me the distinct honor of critiquing my recent article, Horizontal Federalism in an Age of Criminal Justice Interconnectedness. There, I examined the challenges faced by states as they seek to apply their registration and recidivist enhancement laws to exoffenders who, having discharged their penal commitments, migrate to other states. As I e...

Anthony Downs assumed no false information, and no irrationality. Neither of these assumptions is realistic in politics. Adam Smith recognised the role of rhetoric (deliberative eloquence) in political debate. The significance of propaganda was recognised in the 1940s. Modern approaches to political processes, agenda setting and discourse analysis also emphasise persuasion. This paper begins by...

Introduction As we commemorate the four hundredth anniversary of the death of Andreas Vesalius, our thoughts may turn to another sixteenth-century figure who made an epoch-making contribution to medicine: to Paracelsus.1 At first glance, they seem as much alike as fire and water. Their life and work had its setting in different cultural milieus. The tempestuous character of the German reformati...

Following the national reform of education and training industry urgent need society for comprehensive quality talents, focus teaching is gradually changing from examination-oriented to education. Meanwhile, artistic institutions, especially emerging ones like broadcasting hosting, have also ushered in new opportunities. However, because its professional nature, issue whether it suitable childr...

This article is based on a keynote presentation given at the 18th Congress of the International Ergonomics Association in Recife, Brazil, February 2012. It considers new, and not so new, approaches and practical roles for the emerging field of human factors/ergonomics (HFE) in sustainable development (SD).The material for this article was largely drawn from the literature in the fields of human...

Non-invasive assessment of cognitive importance has been a major challenge for planning of neurosurgical procedures. In the past decade, in vivo brain imaging modalities have been considered for estimating the 'eloquence' of brain areas. In order to estimate the impact of damage caused by an access path towards a target region inside of the skull, multi-modal metrics are introduced in this pape...

Literature, one of the branches art, on hand, feeds aesthetic feelings a person, and other it makes important contributions to his cultural, mental, moral development. Each literary work reflects time period in which was written, social cultural structure geography allows us better evaluate this period. Makamat is defined more terms its shape style as narration story by narrator over an imagina...