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Journal articles on the topic "Hallmarks Greece"
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Stylianidis, Stelios, and Kyriakos Souliotis. "The impact of the long-lasting socioeconomic crisis in Greece." BJPsych International 16, no. 1 (April 18, 2018): 16–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/bji.2017.31.
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Since 2009, Greece has experienced a long-lasting socioeconomic crisis that has had substantial consequences on the health and mental health of the population. Unemployment, financial hardship and income loss constitute the hallmarks of the socioeconomic landscape. Consequently, a substantial decline in health and mental health has been documented. Converging evidence corroborates a deterioration of self-rated health, an alarming rise in suicide rates and a gradual increase in the prevalence of major depression. Concomitantly, the healthcare system is on the verge of collapse and the mental healthcare system is incapable of addressing the emerging needs. Therefore, a multifaceted and concerted effort is urgently needed to mitigate the mental health effects of the recession.
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Mantanis, George I., Charalampos Lykidis, and Antonios N. Papadopoulos. "Durability of Accoya Wood in Ground Stake Testing after 10 Years of Exposure in Greece." Polymers 12, no. 8 (July 23, 2020): 1638. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/polym12081638.
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In this research, acetylated wood (Accoya) was tested in ground contact in central Greece. After ten years of exposure during a ground stake test, acetylated pine wood (Pinus radiata) stakes, with a 20% acetyl weight gain, were completely intact and showed no visual decay (decay rating: 0). However, the key mechanical properties of Accoya wood, that is, modulus of elasticity (MOE) and modulus of rupture (MOR) after 10 years of ground contact, were significantly reduced by 32.8% and 29.6%, respectively, despite an excellent visual result since no evidence of fungal attack was identified. This contradiction could possibly indicate that the hallmarks of decay, i.e., brown-rot decay of acetylated wood can be the significant loss of mechanical properties before decay is actually visible.
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Mylonakis, Mathios E., Alex F. Koutinas, Edward B. Breitschwerdt, Barbara C. Hegarty, Charalambos D. Billinis, Leonidas S. Leontides, and Vassilios S. Kontos. "Chronic Canine Ehrlichiosis (Ehrlichia canis): A Retrospective Study of 19 Natural Cases." Journal of the American Animal Hospital Association 40, no. 3 (May 1, 2004): 174–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.5326/0400174.
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Nineteen dogs from Greece with chronic ehrlichiosis were studied. The dogs exhibited bicytopenia or pancytopenia, bone marrow hypoplasia, seroreactivity to Ehrlichia canis (E. canis) antigens, and had no history of drug or radiation exposure. Anorexia, depression, severe bleeding tendencies, hypoalbuminemia, and increased serum alanine aminotransferase activity were also hallmarks of the disease. All these animals eventually died, irrespective of the treatment applied. Some dogs were also serologically positive for Rickettsia conorii, Leishmania infantum (L. infantum), and Bartonella vinsonii subspp. berkhoffii. Polymerase chain reaction testing of bone marrow samples revealed E. canis, Anaplasma phagocytophilia, Anaplasma platys, and L. infantum in some dogs. Concurrent infections did not appear to substantially influence the clinical course and final outcome of the chronic canine ehrlichiosis.
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Papada, Evie, Anna Papoutsi, Joe Painter, and Antonis Vradis. "Pop-up governance: Transforming the management of migrant populations through humanitarian and security practices in Lesbos, Greece, 2015–2017." Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 38, no. 6 (December 8, 2019): 1028–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0263775819891167.
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This paper intervenes in recent debates on humanitarianism and security in migration by introducing the notion of ‘pop-up governance’. It reflects on our two year-long fieldwork on Lesbos, Greece at the peak of Europe’s migrant reception crisis (2015–2017). We present recent developments in border and migration management in the EU and we position these within recent migration debates. We then present the two main facets guiding migrant reception and governance in Lesbos, namely humanitarianism and security. Through our interviews with humanitarian and security actors we show how top-level government decisions followed and resembled the flexibility and adaptability of humanitarian and security operations. We define this turn as ‘pop-up governance’, which comprises a practice-based, abruptly introduced and retractable set of governance mechanisms responding to the situation at hand. We argue that the seemingly disorganised management of migration actually bore hallmarks of a new, flexible and adaptable mode of governance. Finally, we show how ‘pop-up governance’ can help move beyond present understanding of governance based either on the rule or its exception. This has important implications for our comprehension of migration, humanitarianism, security and the governance of vulnerable populations and contemporary socio-political crises.
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Mathioudakis, Matthaios M., Varvara I. Maliogka, Thierry Candresse, Osmar Nickel, Thor Vinicius Martins Fajardo, Daria Budzyńska, Beata Hasiów-Jaroszewska, and Nikolaos I. Katis. "Molecular Characterization of the Coat Protein Gene of Greek Apple Stem Pitting Virus Isolates: Evolution through Deletions, Insertions, and Recombination Events." Plants 10, no. 5 (May 3, 2021): 917. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/plants10050917.
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A RT–PCR assay developed to amplify the full coat protein (CP) gene of apple stem pitting virus (ASPV) was evaluated using 180 Greek apple and pear samples and showed a broad detection range. This method was used to investigate the presence of ASPV in quince in Greece and showed a high incidence of 52%. The sequences of 14 isolates from various hosts with a distinct RFLP profile were determined. ASPV population genetics and the factors driving ASPV evolution were analyzed using the Greek ASPV sequences, novel sequences from Brazilian apple trees and Chinese botanical Pyrus species, and homologous sequences retrieved from GenBank. Fourteen variant types of Greek, Brazilian and botanical isolates, which differ in CP gene length and presence of indels, were identified. In addition, these analyses showed high intra- and inter-group variation among isolates from different countries and hosts, indicating the significant variability present in ASPV. Recombination events were detected in four isolates originating from Greek pear and quince and two from Brazilian apples. In a phylogenetic analysis, there was a tendency for isolates to cluster together based on CP gene length, the isolation host, and the detection method applied. Although there was no strict clustering based on geographical origin, most isolates from a given country tended to regroup in specific clusters. Interestingly, it was found that the phylogeny was correlated to the type, position, and pattern of indels, which represent hallmarks of specific lineages and indicate their possible role in virus diversification, rather than the CP size itself. Evidence of recombination between isolates from botanical and cultivated species and the clustering of isolates from botanical species and isolates from cultivated species suggest the existence of a possible undetermined transmission mechanism allowing the exchange of ASPV isolates between the cultivated and wild/ornamental hosts.
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Georgakopoulou, Alexandra. "Conversational Stories as Performances." Narrative Inquiry 8, no. 2 (January 1, 1998): 319–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ni.8.2.05geo.
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This study is intended as a step towards the full uncovery of the textual and contextual, cross-cultural and particularistic aspects of the contested notion of oral performances. The data comprise conversational storytelling performances from Greece. To capture the interplay between conventional resources and contextual contingencies involved in any performance, the study employs the three dimensions of narrativity, teller-tale-telling (Blum-Kulka, 1997), as the loci of performances. With respect to the tale, Greek stories range from mini-performances to full-fledged or sustained performances. The choice of one or the other is interrelated to a story's episodic structuring, topic, and purposes of telling. A constellation of devices (keys) form the hallmarks of Greek performances; these are classified as poetic or theatrical. With regard to the stories' telling, it is argued that the teller-audience interactional norms are geared towards granting strong floor-holding rights and upholding full-fledged, single-teller performances which call attention to the teller's skill and autonomy. Finally, the locus of teller is proposed as the main site for the emergent properties of performance events. It is also argued that the relationship between these properties and the teller can be best explored with reference to the concept of positioning (Bamberg, 1997). This allows us to shed light on how performance devices, in their individualized and local uses, act as indexes of personal and sociocultural identities. The study's findings point to avenues for future research and suggest analytical ways of pursuing it. Specifically, the classification of performance keys as poetic or theatrical could be useful for the exploration of cross-cultural aspects of performance styles. In addition, the "Greek" performance devices reinforce the assumption that there is a certain set of devices typical of verbal art cross-culturally; this needs to be further documented. Overall, the study aims at demonstrating the validity and necessity of exploring the pragmatic work which performance keys accomplish in interactional contexts. {Narrative performance, Emergence, Teller-tale-telling, Positioning)
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Russell, Ben. "Stone quarrying in Greece: ten years of research." Archaeological Reports 63 (November 2017): 77–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0570608418000078.
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It has been ten years since the publication of Lorenzo Lazzarini's monumental volume on the quarrying, use and properties of the coloured marbles of Greece: Poikiloi Lithoi, Versiculores Maculae: I Marmi Colorati della Grecia Antica (Lazzarini 2007). The first study since Angelina Dworakowska's Quarries in Ancient Greece (Dworakowska 1975) to attempt a large-scale examination of quarrying across Greece, Lazzarini's approach is fundamentally an archaeometric one. Analysis of the evidence for quarrying in different regions is set alongside minero-petrographic and geochemical analyses of the materials extracted. Lazzarini focuses on 12 lithotypes: marmor lacedaemonium from Laconia, variously referred to as serpentino and porfido verde antico; three stone types from the Mani peninsula: rosso antico tenario, nero antico tenario and cipollino tenario; from Chios, the famous marmor chium or portasanta, breccia di Aleppo and nero antico chiota; the breccia di settebasi and semesanto of Skyros; the intensively exploited marmor carystium or cipollino verde, as well as the marmor chalcidicum or fior di pesco from Euboea; and from central and northern Greece, marmor thessalicum or verde antico and the breccia policroma della Vittoria. For each of these lithotypes, Lazzarini considers the evidence for their use and distribution, illustrated with a distribution map in each case, and provides a thorough overview of what is known about their quarries. Archaeological and geological approaches are here combined, and this is a hallmark of much recent work on the question of quarrying and stone use through Greek history.
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Goutakoli, P., G. Papadaki, S. Papanikolaou, G. Vatsellas, G. Bertsias, P. Verginis, and P. Sidiropoulos. "OP0014 CTLA4-Ig INDUCES TOLEROGENIC PROPERTIES OF DENDRITIC CELLS BY ALTERING CELLULAR METABOLISM." Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases 81, Suppl 1 (May 23, 2022): 8.2–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/annrheumdis-2022-eular.4389.
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BackgroundDendritic cells (DCs) are well-recognized for their dual role either for T cell activation (1) or for inducing T cells tolerance (2). Their ability to modulate T-cell responses has made them an interesting tool for the immunotherapy of autoimmune diseases (3). Cytotoxic T lymphocyte antigen 4 (CTLA4) is a negative co-stimulatory molecule, which binds to CD80/CD86 on DCs. CTLA4 induces its immunoregulatory function through trans-endocytosis resulting in impaired co-stimulation (4), or through the induction of indoleamine-pyrrole 2,3-dioxygenase (IDO) enzyme (5). Moreover, it has been demonstrated that CTLA4 impairs the autophagic machinery of DCs and therefore suppresses DC inflammatory function (6). Nevertheless, the molecular mechanisms underlying the CTLA4-mediated immunomodulatory phenotype, require a more comprehensive understanding.ObjectivesIn this study we focused on tolerogenic DCs (tolDCs) and we applied CTLA4-Ig as a tool to induce them. We aim to assess the immunoregulatory potential of CTLA4-mediated tolDCs and to investigate thoroughly the intracellular pathways that are involved in the induction of tolerance.MethodsHealthy human monocytes were isolated from peripheral blood and differentiated into monocyte-derived dendritic cells (DCs). After 6 days, immature DCs activated with LPS were treated with CTLA4-Ig or IgG control for 18 hours. The anti-inflammatory function of DCs was validated using RT-PCR and flow cytometry and DCs proceeded to RNA sequencing. The metabolic pathways were studied using a Seahorse bioanalyzer.ResultsCTLA4-Ig-treated DCs showed significantly decreased HLA-DR, CD80/CD86 expression as compared to IgG-treated cells (n=4, p=0,0294, n=5 p=0,0079). Moreover, IL6 and TNFα mRNA expression, hallmarks of inflammatory cytokines secreted by DCs, was reduced upon CTLA4-Ig (n=5, p=0,0079). To elucidate the pathways involved in DC reprogramming upon CTLA4-Ig treatment, we performed RNA sequencing and we concluded with 1270 differentially expressed genes (p-value <0.05 counts>10). Interestingly, transcriptomic analysis revealed that the majority of genes (n=900) participated in metabolic processes, specifically in OXPHOS pathway and mitochondrial function. To further support the above metabolic changes, we performed Seahorse assays and confirmed that tolDCs had lower basal OXPHOS and decreased ATP production compared with mature DCs. Furthermore, expression of phosphorylated mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) and AKT1, central regulators of metabolism, was increased in CTLA4-mediated tolDCs (n=3, p= 0,0308 and p=0,0347).ConclusionHerein we confirmed that CTLA4 restricts the pro-inflammatory properties of activated DCs. RNA-seq analysis revealed that this anti-inflammatory deviation of DCs is characterized by the modification of the expression of genes implicated in cellular metabolism. Metabolic experiments confirmed that CTLA4-mediated tolDCs have reduced OXPHOS and ATP production, whereas, mTOR signaling is upregulated. In future experiments, we will investigate the mechanism that CTLA4 may promote metabolic changes thus contributes to the immunoregulatory phenotype of DCs and could represent a therapeutic target.References[1]Van Brussel et al., Mediators Inflamm2012, 690-643 (2012).[2]B. Pulendran et al., Nature immunology11, 647-655 (2010).[3]B. E. Phillips et al., Front Immunol8, 1279 (2017).[4]O. S. Qureshi et al., Science332, 600-603 (2011).[5]D. H. Munn et al., J Immunol172, 4100-4110 (2004).[6]T. Alissafi et al., J Clin Invest127, 2789-2804 (2017).AcknowledgementsThis research is co-financed by Greece and the European Union (European Social Fund- ESF) through the Operational Programme «Human Resources Development, Education and Lifelong Learning» in the context of the project “Strengthening Human Resources Research Potential via Doctorate Research” (MIS-5000432), implemented by the State Scholarships Foundation (ΙΚΥ).Disclosure of InterestsNone declared.
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Babül, Elif. "Claiming a Place Through Memories of Belonging: Politics of Recognition on the Island of Imbros." New Perspectives on Turkey 34 (2006): 47–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0896634600004374.
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The establishment of the Turkish Republic in 1923 marks the official construction of a new community and new forms of belonging that were expected to replace the communities and forms of belonging characteristic of the Ottoman Empire. The convention signed at the end of the First World War on January 30, 1923, concerning “the compulsory exchange of Turkish nationals of the Greek Orthodox Religion established in Turkish territory, and of Greek nationals of the Muslim religion established in Greek territory” can be seen as the hallmark of this republican attempt to create a new homogenized republican community called the nation. Exchanging populations meant the mutual exclusion of the largest ethnic and religious minority groups from the post-World War I nationalized lands of Greece and Turkey.
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Katz, Claudio. "The Socialist Polis: Antiquity and Socialism in Marx's Thought." Review of Politics 56, no. 2 (1994): 237–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0034670500018428.
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The central question guiding this essay is: what does Marx's socialism owe to classical antiquity? Underlying this question is the thesis that Marx's studies of classical Greece supply the angle of vision necessary to bring to light the hallmark of his conception of the socialist polity. The argument challenges a widespread interpretation of the connection between antiquity and socialism in Marx's work—that his socialist vision takes its bearings from the Aristotelian understanding of the relationship between necessity and leisure. In Marx's view, the fundamental legacy of antiquity was the notion of freedom as masterlessness. The roots of this legacy are in the political experience of the democratic polis, not in Aristotle's reflections on the ideal household. The core of Marx's project, then, is not to open a realm of freedom beyond necessity, but rather to create spaces for democratic action within the realm of necessity itself, to ensure that work is free and compatible with leisured activities.
Books on the topic "Hallmarks Greece"
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Musselwhite, Paul, Peter C. Mancall, and James Horn, eds. Virginia 1619. University of North Carolina Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469651798.001.0001.
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Virginia 1619 provides an opportunity to reflect on the origins of English colonialism around the Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic world. As the essays here demonstrate, Anglo-Americans have been simultaneously experimenting with representative government and struggling with the corrosive legacy of racial thinking for more than four centuries. Virginia, contrary to popular stereotypes, was not the product of thoughtless, greedy, or impatient English colonists. Instead, the emergence of stable English Atlantic colonies reflected the deliberate efforts of an array of actors to establish new societies based on their ideas about commonwealth, commerce, and colonialism. Looking back from 2019, we can understand that what happened on the shores of the Chesapeake four hundred years ago was no accident. Slavery and freedom were born together as migrants and English officials figured out how to make this colony succeed. They did so in the face of rival ventures and while struggling to survive in a dangerous environment. Three hallmarks of English America--self-government, slavery, and native dispossession--took shape as everyone contested the future of empire along the James River in 1619. The contributors are Nicholas Canny, Misha Ewen, Andrew Fitzmaurice, Jack P. Greene, Paul D. Halliday, Alexander B. Haskell, James Horn, Michael J. Jarvis, Peter C. Mancall, Philip D. Morgan, Melissa N. Morris, Paul Musselwhite, James D. Rice, and Lauren Working.
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Wasdin, Katherine. Divine Reciprocity. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190869090.003.0007.
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This chapter examines the love affair and the wedding through lenses of the related dynamics of charis and makarismos. The Greek word charis (grace, favor) designates both desired beauty and agreeable reciprocity in Greek love and wedding poetry. Such harmony is a hallmark of the wedding, but its absence haunts the love affair. Reciprocity has similar ramifications in Latin poetry. The presence of reciprocity may be indicated by the makarismos (blessing). This topos raises mortals to a godlike level, and is commonly combined with praise of female beauty. A generic marker of the wedding discourse, it appears in erotic verse to symbolize brief but thrilling unions. Such heights can never last, however, and both the wedding and the love affair see time as threatening the brief blessed moment.
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Galadza, Daniel. Liturgy and Byzantinization in Jerusalem. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198812036.001.0001.
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The church of Jerusalem, the ‘mother of the churches of God’, influenced all Christendom before it underwent multiple captivities between the eighth and thirteenth centuries: first, political subjugation to Arab Islamic forces, then displacement of Greek-praying Christians by crusaders, and, finally, ritual assimilation to fellow Orthodox Byzantines in Constantinople. All three contributed to the phenomenon of the Byzantinization of Jerusalem’s liturgy, but only the last explains how the latter was completely lost and replaced by the liturgy of the imperial capital, Constantinople. The basis of this study is the rediscovered manuscripts of Jerusalem’s liturgical calendar and lectionary. When examined in context, they reveal that the devastating events of the Arab conquest in 638 and the destruction of the Holy Sepulchre in 1009 did not have as detrimental an effect on liturgy as previously held. They confirm that the process of Byzantinization was gradual and locally implemented rather than an imposed element of Byzantine imperial policy or ideology from the church of Constantinople. Originally the city’s worship consisted of reading Scripture and singing hymns at places connected with the life of Christ, so that the link between holy sites and liturgy became a hallmark of Jerusalem’s worship; but the changing sacred topography caused changes in the local liturgical tradition. This book is the first monograph dedicated to the question of the Byzantinization of Jerusalem’s liturgy; it provides for the first time English translations of many liturgical texts and hymns and offers a glimpse of Jerusalem’s lost liturgical and theological tradition.
Book chapters on the topic "Hallmarks Greece"
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Hawes, Greta. "Localisms." In Pausanias in the World of Greek Myth, 159–201. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198832553.003.0005.
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This chapter analyses the ways that the different histories of four places shaped the stories that Pausanias attaches to them in the Imperial period. It describes how different relationships to canonical literature, and different experiences of destruction, rebuilding, and decline shaped the epichoric storytelling of Thebes, Corinth, Mycenae, and Messenia. It argues that Thebes’ experience of destruction, rebuilding and depopulation meant that its physical landscape was closely tied to a safely canonical expression of myth. Pausanias’ comments about Roman Corinth’s divergence from the traditional myths of the place points in fact to the creativity of storytelling there. Mycenae presents the most extended description of a ruined city that we have in the Periegesis and yet the hallmarks of ruination still affect the stories told on site. Messenia, finally, offers a case-study in the opportunistic creation of civic myths within existing strictures.
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Holland, Robert. "That Splendid Enclosure." In The Warm South, 225–62. Yale University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.12987/yale/9780300235920.003.0007.
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This chapter describes how the spirit of commemoration of those killed in the Great War, which became such a hallmark of national culture in the years ahead, always remained overwhelmingly Southern and Greek. What was involved was not just aesthetic in a purely artistic sense. The legacy of physical disfigurement from war service was one prime reason why consciousness of beauty was habitual in society at large. Simplicity, minimalism, and the whiteness of marble were inherent in this rejuvenation of classical principles. For instance, the bare austerity of Edwin Lutyens's Cenotaph in Whitehall, erected in 1920, drew upon ancient Greek tombs at Xanthos. In her 1925 volume of essays, The Common Reader, Virginia Woolf captured essential elements in this national mood during the first years after the war by relating the British condition to the ancient Greek mind.
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McGuire, Valerie. "Nationalists and the Mediterranean in the Liberal Era." In Italy's Sea, 37–88. Liverpool University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781800348004.003.0002.
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Studies of Italian empire in the Liberal era period tend to emphasize the campaigns to establish settlement colonies in East Africa. But Italian resettlement in East Africa entwined with the desire to achieve some form of empire in the Mediterranean basin, where hundreds of thousands of emigrants resided under the flags of the British and French empires. This chapter examines writing by well-known nationalists of the Liberal era—Gabriele D’Annunzio, Giuseppe Sergi, Edmondo De Amicis, Enrico Corradini, Luigi Federzoni and Orazio Pedrazzi—to show how representations of the Mediterranean revived the constitutive link between nation and empire that had been a hallmark of the nineteenth-century wars of the Italian unification. Nationalists inscribed the region with special meaning, an ‘unadulterated cultural significance,’ that was rooted in the memory of Greco-Roman empire and Renaissance histories of Venetian and Genoese maritime expansion. But these authors also navigated proximity to the African continent and the Levant (or Ottoman Near East) imagining it to be a dangerous frontier of national and racial degeneration. This paradoxical condition of fabled self and dangerous Other formed the basis for Mediterranean-ism, Italy’s own version of Orientalism as adapted for its nationalist goals.
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Bagneris, Mia L. "Introduction." In Colouring the Caribbean. Manchester University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.7228/manchester/9781526120458.003.0001.
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July 2007, Yale Center for British Art – reflections on Agostino Brunias’s A Planter and his Wife (fig. 1) … The painting is relatively small – about 12 x 10 inches – and a wonderfully exquisite little gem, its bright gold frame setting off the work of a talented colourist. Pristine whites and vivid pale blues are punctuated with punches of coral red; deep greens and rich ochres define the landscape. In the background are all the hallmarks of an idyllic island day; under a perfect canopy of blue sky and fluffy white clouds, a pair of palm trees rise in the right margin of the picture, nestled against the calm, crystal waters of the Caribbean Sea. However, in the midst of this quintessential tropical splendour, two figures in the foreground, a man and a woman, command the viewer’s immediate attention. Although he is dressed to beat the heat, the man manages to cut an impressive figure in long white trousers, white shirt, and white waistcoat – all immaculately spotless. He accessorises the outfit with black cravat, black shoes with silver buckles, and a long mustard-coloured dress coat with shiny gold buttons, completing the ensemble with a black ‘planter’s hat’. Surely his elegant dress demonstrates his wealth and status, but not so much as his pose, for the artist has frozen him in a perpetual state of showing off; his outstretched arm gestures towards the splendid natural beauty all around him as he turns his face to the lady at his side in a move that silently proclaims his ownership of all that surrounds them....
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Baporikar, Neeta. "Innovation in the 21st Century Organization." In Transcultural Marketing for Incremental and Radical Innovation, 339–65. IGI Global, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-4749-7.ch016.
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“When memories exceed dreams, the end is near. The hallmark of a truly successful organization is the willingness to abandon what made it successful and start fresh” (Friedman, 2005). These words seem relevant in the context of the discussion on creativity, creative industries, and innovation. The debate has been by no means scarce, but are economies, businesses, research groups, and technology developers heading in the right direction? Innovation has a crucial role in achieving competitive advantage in this globalized world. By definition, innovation means the first introduction of new idea, product, process, or system through a complex process by which knowledge in organizations is oriented towards achieving the stakeholders’ expectations. The traditional business processes are evolving, and today, richer functional areas, such as reengineering, green world, collaborative approaches, and sustainability, are the focal point. As a process, it demands that leaders understand multiple complex systems, differing frames of reference, intricate structures, diversity, and boundaries. Equally crucial is the need to understand what innovation really means and what really drives the wheels of innovative process. The objective of this chapter is to understand the innovation imperative and innovation approaches adopted by organizations in the 21st century. Understanding will also safeguard against the pitfalls of managerial decision making. Based on in depth literature review and grounded theory approach with contextual analysis of both primary and secondary data, the study is restricted to innovation in business organizations.
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Manley, John. "Decoration and Demon Traps: The Meanings of Geometric Borders in Roman Mosaics." In Communities and Connections. Oxford University Press, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199230341.003.0033.
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The thousands of mosaics that survive from the Greek and especially Roman worlds are taken by many to be one of the great surviving artistic hallmarks of these two classical civilizations. The decorative variety of the floors, made usually and mostly from small stone tesserae, strikes a chord with those who view them as works of art (Neal and Cosh 2002: 9). They appear testimony to the erudition of the patrons who commissioned them, to the skilled artists who composed and executed the designs, and to the knowledge of those ancients who walked over them and who were able to interpret knowingly what was beneath their feet. Viewing them in a museum context, many of us judge them as we would an eighteenth-century watercolour or an early Picasso—the end product of inspirational artistic endeavour. The near complete absence of written references from the ancient world regarding mosaics means that we are forced to generate meanings from the floors themselves. What I want to suggest in this chapter is an alternative way of looking at mosaics. I am going to draw on ethnographic and anthropological research to provide additional insights to the archaeological study of mosaics. I want to argue that there is something to be explained in the sheer constancy of some of the geometric borders on mosaics through the Hellenistic and Roman periods—a period of some seven centuries. This constancy is also apparent in overall design in large areas of the Roman Empire. For instance in the northwest provinces, including Britain, the enduring emphasis is on the pattern, and the picture-panels are fitted within this pattern, often in a series of more or less equally weighted panels. These kinds of stability need their explanations just as much as change does. I particularly want to focus on the abstract and geometric borders—for example the meander, the guilloche, the wave-pattern—and seek to understand why these motifs were utilized across the length and breadth of the Roman Empire. I want to take a different approach to that taken by scholarly interpreters who seek to find layers of meaning in figurative representations and then ascribe them to erudite ancient patrons (pace Perring 2003).
Conference papers on the topic "Hallmarks Greece"
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Bouchard, Jaques. "Refined Attic Greek: Hallmark of the Emerging Phanariot Nobility." In ARA 40th Congress. American Romanian Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.14510/40ara2016.4001.
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İncekara, Ahmet, and Elif Haykır Hobikoğlu. "Eco-innovation as a Determinant of the Importance of Sustainable Economic Development: World and Turkey Examples." In International Conference on Eurasian Economies. Eurasian Economists Association, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.36880/c05.01170.
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In modern societies, because of the continuity of change and transformation, innovation became one of the hallmarks of community life. Studies which mainly started by engineers in the field of environment, nowadays became a work area in many branches of science. Although eco-innovation has supply or demand side determinants, there are some corporate and political effects. Negative interaction with the environment of the societies of the world has become a risk for the sustainable existence. It also revealed the need for eco-innovation. Eco-innovation examined in four main sectors such as recycling, building and construction, food and beverage, and green businesses. Businesses can also become a part of the transformation and the concept has emerged that called green businesses. Contribute to the formation of eco-labeling has provided public awareness. Netherlands, Germany, France, the United Kingdom and Turkey are examined, said that Turkey's eco-innovation in the early period.
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Hernández-Lamas, Patricia, Ana Rubio Gavilán, and Jorge Bernabeu-Larena. "Parks and roads build the cities: the M-30 and Madrid-Río project, building landscape." In Virtual City and Territory. Barcelona: Centre de Política de Sòl i Valoracions, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.5821/ctv.8121.
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Public works respond to a function and are linked to the territory where they are located. Its use and connection to the place become hallmarks and generating elements of urban processes.
The roads are located close to the rivers where layouts are easier. Its relationship with the city is usually conflictive. River and city are also necessarily linked. The conversion from road to street requires a complex planning process and involves a deep transformation of its environment. Particularly significant is the case of Madrid and the ring road that develops along the Manzanares River, awarded prestigious Harvard prize for best urban design. There is much written about Madrid-River project and the enabling M-30 excavation work. This paper takes technical and architectural references to place them in a political and social process that gave rise and in the urban reality offered today to Madrid citizens. This project is a new landscape for the city where the river becomes a limit to be integrated into the urban area. New uses can be reconciled and linked through multiple paths, and neighborhoods from both sides are connected. Old and new landmarks coexist, viewpoints that overlook new river scenes are created and elements, related to landscape and territory, are incorporated. This corridor seeks ecological rebalance and connects different green spaces in the city.
Public works are not just useful infrastructures in contemporary polis; they have strong influence in social cohesion and urban processes.