Ideologi kemurnian darah (limpieza de sangre) membagi masyarakat Iberia pada masa awal modern menjadi dua kelas yang berbeda: Kristen Lama dan Kristen Baru. Kristen Baru, yaitu Conversos (Yahudi yang memeluk Kristen) dan Moriscos (Muslim yang memeluk Kristen), serta keturunan mereka, dianggap sebagai Kristen yang inferior dan selalu cenderung untuk murtad. Pada awal abad ke-17, terdapat peningk…
Apa sebenarnya pernikahan itu?. Bagaimana hubungannya dengan tradisi agama saat ini?. Topik ini akan mencari jawaban atas pertanyaan tersebut.;;; Editorial ini membahas salah satu tantangan paling mendasar dalam genetika modern pada awal abad ke-21: hubungan yang kompleks antara genotipe (susunan genetik) dan fenotipe (sifat yang tampak). Judul tulisan ini Merujuk secara metaforis pada "pernika…
At one point in his Romanstudien he even goes so far as to speak of his own age as being an "epic" age. 1 In this context, to be sure, the term is not employed in its conventional sense. Here it means not an heroic age, but one in which outer reality impinges on human life and activity to such a degree that it seriously hampers freedom of choice and freedom of action
Despite a career spanning over forty years, filmmaker Alan Rudolph has flown largely under the radar of independent film scholars and enthusiasts, often remembered as Robert Altman's prote?ge?. Through a reading of his 1985 film Trouble in Mind, Caryl Flinn demonstrates that Rudolph is long overdue for critical re-evaluation. Exploring Trouble in Mind's influence on indie filmmaking, Rudolph'…
Throughout the 20th century and into the 21st, the emergence of airports as gateways for their cities has turned into one of the most important architectural undertakings. Ever since the first manned flight by the Brothers Orville and Wilbur Wright on December 17th 1903, utilitarian sheds next to landing strips on cow pastures evolved into a completely new building type over the next few decade…
Various aerodynamics, structural dynamics, and control design and experimental studies are presented with the aim of advancing green and morphing aircraft research. The results obtained with an in-house CFD code are compared and validated with those of two NASA codes. The aerodynamical model of the UAS-S45 morphing wing as well as the structural model of a morphing winglet are presented. A new …
This book presents an overview of air traffic management and control. Chapters cover such topics as human factors in quality control, behavioral modeling of electric aircraft, aviation English, radar target classification, occupational health and safety, and terminal airspace sector capacity.
Air pollution is a worldwide environmental hazard that poses serious consequences not only for human health and the climate but also for agriculture, ecosystems, and cultural heritage, among other factors. According to the WHO, there are 8 million premature deaths every year as a result of exposure to ambient air pollution. In addition, more than 90% of the world's population live in areas wher…
Academic interest in what constitutes a profession and the process of professionalization has a long history often traced back to what became known as The Flexner Report (1910) which focused on medical education in the USA and Canada. In 1915, Flexner went on to propose six criteria that could be used to distinguish professions from other occupations (Flexner, 1915)
The essays in this book trace a rich continuum of artistic exchange that occurred between successive Islamic dynasties from the twelfth through nineteenth centuries—as well as the influence of Islamic art during that time on cultures as far away as China, Armenia, India, and Europe. Taking advantage of recent technologies that allow new ways of peering into the pasts of art objects, the autho…