Festa, spazio, territorio by Alessandra Broccolini

“…In order to answer these questions, the essay seeks to explore the festivity-territory-inhabitation relation through the spatial analysis of a specific ethnographic case, the feast of the Madonna del Monte di Marta (Viterbo, Lazio), broadening the gaze from the inhabited space of the town-city, where the feast is often (but not always) produced in its ceremonial moments, to the entire territory that the feast encompasses and helps to define, both in the construction of a ‘sense of place’ and in the experience and practical action of the same. …”
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Séries literárias juvenis: autoria e circulação da cultura by Andréa Borges Leão

“…Observing the phenomenon of cultural movement since the onset of Brazilian publishing industry, the essay offers some ideas on the status of authorship in contemporary series books for young adults. …”
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The Societal Relevance of the “Rheinischer Merkur” by Regina M. Frey

“…The closure of the Rheinischer Merkur obscures even today the decisive role it played in the elaboration of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Germany and the substantial quality of the paper. This essay sketches the history of the Rheinischer Merkur and its self-understanding, as well as its decline, locating these in the context of the journalistic autonomies and media-ethical tensions to which every journalistic medium is subject. …”
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Morte e rinascita di una risorsa sostenibile: le terre d’acqua e il riso Gigante Vercelli by Davide Porporato

“…This essay provides a first insight on the recently resumed production of the “Gigante (Giant) Vercelli”, a rice cultivar created in 1936, but whose production had ceased in the 1960s. …”
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Realismo afetivo: evocar realismo além da representação by Karl Erik Schøllhammer

“…This essay will discuss different kinds of literary expression in search for ways to “realism” without giving continuity of the historical realism that appears during the 19th and 20th century. …”
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The Restoration of the Panel Painting depicting the Adoration of Shepherds with a Saint Bishop by Claudia Cricchio

“…A careful historical and artistic study as well as a diagnostic analysis preceded the restoration that aimed to re-establish a good reading of the painting. The essay focuses on the possibility to reintegrate a missing element of the frame with materials used in the 3D printing, in order to restore its function of “spatial connection” between the painting and the expositive environment. …”
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How to Compute the Economic Impact of a Sudden Stop of Gas Imports from Russia by Tom Krebs

“…Abstract In this essay, I outline a method to compute the economic impact of a sudden stop of natural gas imports from Russia. …”
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Un-Haunted House : Spirits, Solid Citizens, and Babbitt by Russ Castronovo

“…By considering Sinclair Lewis’s 1922 novel, Babbitt, this essay examines the continuum between the paranormal and the normal, the supernatural and the natural. …”
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The Art Requisitions by the French under Napoléon and the Detachment of Frescoes in Rome, with an Emphasis on Raphael by Cathleen Hoeniger

“…The restoration of Italian paintings at the Louvre, after their confiscation by Napoleon’s deputies, has received considerable attention; however, the concurrent preoccupation of the French in Rome with the detachment of frescoes has been little studied, even though the desire for Raphael’s art led some to plan the extraction of his Stanze frescoes. In this essay, the parallel practices of the transfer method on Raphael’s altarpieces in Paris and the detachment of frescoes by close followers of Raphael and Michelangelo in Rome will be explored in light of the innovations of the age in science and technology. …”
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Physical, digital, virtual, intangible. Research experiences in Museums by Massimiliano Lo Turco, Elisabetta Caterina Giovannini, Andrea Tomalini

“…Using consolidated taxonomies and redefining the digital tools to be innovatively applied to Cultural Assets, the essay describes some research experiences carried out over the last years. …”
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Occupy Waikīkī: pushing the borders of land, sea and story-telling in Kristiana Kahakauwila’s This is Paradise (2013) by Sylvie Largeaud-Ortega

“…This essay explores Kahakauwila’s short story This is Paradise from the angle of post- and decolonial studies and environmental humanities, and presents it as an ecofeminist and counterhegemonic Oceanian identitarian narrative. …”
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Design is Everywhere, But Nowhere in Patent Analytics by Taek-Kyun Shin, Jieun Kim

“…Through the prism of a patent professional, data analyst and designer, this photo essay demystifies the complexity of design patent data and sheds light on the underlying value of design as it features among a range of diverse innovation activities. …”
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The Structural Changing Phases of Ifẹ̀ Festivals and Tradition Towards Economic Boost and Cultural Tourism by Adéọlá Adijat Fálẹ́yẹ

“…However, our research informs that a number of the official festival activities with the tones of its referred sacredness in Ilé-Ifè, which ̣ is the domain of data collection and subject of our analysis, are being restructured in outlook and content to boost the economic survival of the people; and for cultural tourism. Tis essay seeks to interrogate these structural reforms, with the mind of identifying improved areas of the age-long tradition, the philosophy of the festival, and the economic value added. …”
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Diaspora and Syncretism: Marriage Rites in Yorùbá Homeland and Abroad by Olanike Lawore

“…As Yorùbá people are found all over the globe, the marital rites are transferred from the original soil to the diaspora, the result of which is the syncretic practices that are associated with marital practices abroad. This essay therefore engages in a comparative exercise, identifying marital rites in the diaspora that have maintained close ties with homeland and those that have diverged from them. …”
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Yorùbá Films in Time Perspective: Past, Present, and Future by Ifeoluwa Theophilus Akinsola

“… This essay (re)views the development of Yoruba films according to the Yoruba traditional worldview about time: a term used synonymously with life, season or period, for it is not linear but cyclical, just as life, it is not straight. …”
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Abicht and Śniadecki: about a Turbulent Philosophical Dispute at the Imperial University of Vilnius in 19th century by Tomasz Kupś

“…In this paper I argue that it was Abicht and his Vilnius-based scholarly and teaching activities that were the direct cause of Śniadecki’s publication of the essay On Metaphysics in 1814, and indirectly also the trigger for all of Śniadecki’s later philosophical writings. …”
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Post-producing the modern – Guidelines for an energy development as an architectural transition by Giuseppe Marsala, Giulia Renda

“…From this perspective, the essay retraces contemporary architectural experiments in an energetic key performed on the structure of modern architecture, starting from the re-interpretation of its theoretical principles.   …”
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On reversibility and architectural temporarity in marginal contexts by Domenico Chizzoniti, Letizia Cattani, Monica Moscatelli

“…The essay puts forward experimental research carried out in emergency contexts and in developing countries with the study of temporary architecture of a health, cultural and social nature as a field of investigation. …”
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The Elephant in the Room: NAMUDNO, Shelby County, and Racially Polarized Voting by Richard L. Engstrom

“…It further found that protected minorities were vulnerable to dilutive elective schemes because of the pervasive presence of racially polarized voting (RPV) in those jurisdictions. This essay examines the extensive evidence of RPV relied upon by Congress but ignored by the Court majority and also the legal import of this evidence as identified in numerous briefs before the Court, also ignored by the majority.…”
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The challenges of being an in-house AI ethicist and how to overcome them by Dafna Burema

“…Reflecting on my own experience working as an in-house AI ethicist at an academic institution, this essay discusses three challenges of the profession: ambiguous objectives, conflict of interest, and epistemological differences. …”
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