The anthology explores breath from the perspective of the arts and humanities, as well as experimental scientific and design practices. Focus is on the period from 1900 to the present day – an era during in which air has become a precarious medium, co-created and manipulated by humans. Against this backdrop, breath appears as an elusive yet vital substance that reveals connections between the…
This eBook is a collection of articles from a Frontiers Research Topic. Frontiers Research Topics are very popular trademarks of the Frontiers Journals Series: they are collections of at least ten articles, all centered on a particular subject. With their unique mix of varied contributions from Original Research to Review Articles, Frontiers Research Topics unify the most influential researcher…
Kehidupan Masa Kecil Seorang Yahudi di Mediterania Muslim menyatukan kisah-kisah pribadi yang menarik dari para penulis, cendekiawan, dan intelektual Yahudi yang tumbuh dewasa di negeri-negeri di mana Islam adalah agama yang dominan dan kehidupan sehari-hari diwarnai oleh politik proyek kekaisaran Prancis. Didorong oleh novelis Leïla Sebbar untuk merefleksikan masa kecil mereka, para penulis i…
Starting from a cluster of villages in southeast Albania, Albanian-born British scholar Julie Vullnetari follows rural migrants to domestic urban destinations such as Tirana and abroad to Thessaloniki in Greece. Vullnetari has conducted more than 150 interviews, and drawing upon this rich empirical material, she offers a profound account of Albanian migration from start to finish. A rare, exhau…
Since the time of Galen and Hippocrates, medicine has had a slow progression, with each new advance improving the length and quality of patients’ lives. By the nineteenth century, medical science had even begun to understand the concept of vaccinations and had started to make substantial inroads into the prevention of communicable diseases. Despite this, diagnosis with a bacterial infecti…
The emergence of neuroimaging and neurophysiological techniques opened new opportunities to complement bedside assessment by improving diagnosis and prognosis of patients with DOC. This Research Topic, which includes 15 articles with 100 contributors, aims to give an overview on how neuroimaging research can improve diagnosis,
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'…