Academic literature on the topic 'Megale Hellas'

La ricerca non ha l’ambizione di dipanare le complesse problematiche legate alla tradizione frammentaria, recentiore, stratificata e spuria su Pitagora nel disperato tentativo di individuare un filone più genuino di altri, utile a ricostruire il profilo del filosofo nel VI secolo a.C. Il lavoro si limita invece a isolare e analizzare alcuni aspetti incentrati sulla tradizione attestante il ruolo di Pitagora negli anni del suo soggiorno in Italía e Sicilia, nel tentativo di ricontestualizzarli al periodo storico di appartenenza. Tuttavia tale operazione non può essere correttamente intesa se isolata dall’opera di “riedificazione” della figura del filosofo effettuata dalla scuola di Aristotele. Difatti si deve proprio ai due discepoli dello Stagirita, Aristosseno e Dicearco, il primo sistematico tentativo di ricostruire la biografia di Pitagora collegando le vicende del filosofo a quelle magnogreche e siceliote. In particolare è il primo a fare di Pitagora il nomoteta poleico di orientamento antitirannico e antidionigiano, e il nuovo ecista dell’Italía e della Sicilia non più in chiave coloniale. Sempre in tale ottica si può leggere l’origine tirrenica del filosofo, così come il probabile tentativo effettuato dallo stesso di persuadere Policrate a deporre la tirannide e il rifiuto di accogliere la tradizione, inclusa quella del maestro, che faceva di Sibari la polis sopraffatta dal lusso, contrapponendole quella mirante a farne una delle città rese libere da Pitagora. L’operazione patriottica compiuta da Aristosseno nel tentativo di liberare l’Italía e la Sicilia dal passato coloniale riformulandone la storia pare legarsi infine a quella dei Neoplatonici, in particolar modo Giamblico, i quali recuperano la versione del Tarantino nell’estremo tentativo di “salvare” la filosofia dal Cristianesimo.

The rhinoceros has received scant attention in wildlife histories as against the iconic status enjoyed by elephants, cheetahs, and lions. This is particularly true in the context of ancient India. Against this backdrop, this chapter chronicles the much-neglected saga of the rhinoceros in ancient India based on its first appearance in the fossil record, its presence in archaeological contexts in the form of bones and visual representations till its appearance in the literary texts of the period. The narrative helps us map the geographical retreat of the animal to its present-day havens. The details of this retreat are integral to understanding aspects of the environmental history of ancient India.

Non-standard faculty are individuals with faculty appointments, but whose responsibilities fall outside the traditional faculty role. Non-standard faculty are often overlooked in conversations about SoTL, but they play an integral part in the teaching and learning that occurs on post-secondary campuses. Due to the focus on local context within SoTL, non-standard faculty greatly benefit from this type of professional development. Using the micro, meso, macro, and mega framework, the authors of this chapter describe how educational developers can support non-standard faculty in using SoTL for professional development. This common SoTL framework helps educational developers bring non-standard faculty into SoTL conversations while also recognizing the unique teaching environments in which they work.

The opinion of others significantly influences our decision-making process about any product or service. The positive or negative opinions of prospective clients or customers may promote or demote the profit margin of any business activities. Therefore, analyzing the public sentiment is important for many applications such as firms trying to find out the response of their products in the market, predicting political elections, and predicting socioeconomic phenomena such as stock exchange, sale of products, etc. With the emergence of Web 2.0 services, a wide range of online platforms including micro-blogging, social networking, and many other review platforms are available. The automated process for public sentiment analysis from a large amount of social data present on the web helps to improve customer satisfaction. This chapter discusses the process of sentiment analysis of prospective buyers of mega online sales using their posted tweets about the big billions day sale.

“What is a festival?” is a deceptively simple question – but also a deceptively complex one. This is reflected by much of the literature on festivals, in which discussion of their multiplicity and heterogeneity, their complex etymologies and histories, as well as the expansion in the second half of the 20th century, and exponentially since the 1980s in Europe, has seen festivals transformed into one of the dominant formats in the current cultural realm. However, beneath the apparent multiplicity, one major feature helps to clarify the issues at stake when considering their cultural significance: festivals tend to be either “‘traditional’ moments of celebration or... highly orchestrated mega-events” (Waitt, 2008: 513). The first are supposed to be the organic expression of a community; the second, which we may call post-traditional (Giorgi and Sassatelli, 2011: 1-11), are instead mostly associated with the contemporary culture industry and its rationales, their recent exponential growth seen as proof that we are faced by a non-organic, commercially driven phenomenon. The distinction is relevant because, whilst traditional festivals have been studied, in particular within anthropology and folklore studies, as expressions of a given society and an entry point into its culture, values and identity, post-traditional festivals have been dismissed by some writers as banal, and banalizing ‘spectacles’ (Debord, 1994). Different approaches and literatures contribute to deepen this gulf, with contemporary festivals on the whole dismissed by mainstream social science and cultural theory and assessed in terms of their (economic) impact only. In this chapter, after a brief review of the dominant approach in urban festivals research, I try to uncouple these associations. That is, to explore the possibility that contemporary festivals, as expressions of the contemporary society in which they flourish, can provide a valuable analytical perspective on its public culture.

Abstract Objectives/Scope Cloud based end to end digital project management platform with digital control tower, as fundamental technologies of the fourth industrial revolution, have enormous potential to improve real time visibility, productivity, collaboration, data sharing, efficiency, predictability, decision power and sustainability in the construction industry. Throughout the lifecycle of capital / mega projects, the engineering, construction, operations, and maintenance stakeholders face numerous issues, including the lack of trust and visibility, inefficiencies, and the fragmentation of the information value chain into fragile data silos. Digital control tower aimed to narrow down the time, budget and quality & safety challenges of a capital project by having overall / end to end control of project from initiation phase to handover and operations phase of the project. Methods, Procedures, Process Digital control tower provides systematic, 360-degree view of project details along with real-time analytics spanning from design engineering, pre-construction planning, onsite execution, action tracker, construction services, equipment's, quality, budget and safety (leading and lagging indicators). Stakeholders involved throughout the project lifecycle (i.e.: owner, engineering team, pre-construction and planning team, construction management and site team), enables instantaneous connectivity from the top floor to the shop floor for seamless communication by reducing waste time. Digital control tower also enables bird's eye view for real time project performance monitoring and progress, it also enables week wise look ahead task for better monitoring and control, also narrows down the issues or concerns to an activity, area or person. The control tower can create the customizable necessary discipline/function dashboards available to all relevant roles and stakeholders without limitation. Results, Observations, Conclusions Digital Control Tower leverages Artificial intelligence, Machine learning and Blockchain technologies to seamlessly capture, maintain and process fragmented data set into intelligent predictive analytics which helps the project stakeholders to take right decision on right time, so as to avoid any kind of delays in project. Novel/Additive Information Digital Control Tower is not a standard dashboard, it's an integrated digital ecosystem where stakeholders can drive projects with real time data for decision making.

Background: In two years from now, Qatar will host the 2022 World Cup competition, which requires high level of preparedness and readiness in different sectors including healthcare. Among different subsections of health, the blood bank and the Blood Donor Center will have a major role in this event especially in case of unforeseen incidences. Accordingly, a proper assessment of the current blood resource availability and a prediction of future blood needs helps in overcoming any obstacle that could be faced during the event. Objectives: (1) Highlight the process of the blood supply chain, with a detailed delineation of the needed amount of blood components for both routine and emergency situations services, and outline the proper measures taken to deliver the safest and most appropriate blood units and reduce wastage of blood component. (2) Assess the current standing of the Blood Donor Center and corresponding units in Qatar. (3) Develop a forecast model that predicts the number of blood donors in the next four years as a method to evaluate the readiness of the Blood Donor facility to host the world cup event. (4) Explore the potential challenges that could be faced when meeting the benchmark of donation and established an action plan to overcome these anticipated challenges. Materials and methods: Both qualitative (interviews) and a quantitative (data collection and analysis) approaches have been implemented in our study. We also established a time series forecast model using Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA). Results: The number of donors in the next four years, which is predicted to increase by 26%, will not be able to be accommodated in the current Blood Donor Center facility. Therefore, the established blood stock benchmark will not be met despite that the Center and its corresponding units are fully equipped with high standard equipment and follow international guidelines in the process of blood withdrawal. Conclusion: Infrastructure improvements and logistics support for Hamad Medical Corporation Blood Donor Center are required to support the continuously increasing numbers of blood donors for daily demand and during mega events.

The global pandemic has brought renewed attention toward the everyday challenges in informal settlements. COVID-19 reminds us that southern urban life is rooted in ‘collective’ experiences where toilets and kitchens are shared by multiple families; where the categories of work and home, private and public space overlap; and where the majority live in vulnerable conditions. Despite these challenges, some of the most innovative and collective responses to COVID-19 have emerged from these areas. While informal settlements did face a host of risks and vulnerabilities during the pandemic, local responses have highlighted the resilience of informal settlement communities. However, few informal settlements are actually ‘resilient’ and any local responses must be robustly supported by system-wide change including support from local and national governments, improvements to built infrastructure, and improved access to health care services, among other priorities. The category of ‘informal settlements’ also captures a wide range of settlement types, from a legal slum to an informal settlement with no legal status, with many other types in between. This underscores the need to address fundamental issues that ‘perpetuate conditions of inequity, exclusion and vulnerability’ while also recognising the needs and contexts of different kinds of informal settlements. Whether COVID-19 helps governments recognise conditions of insecurity and vulnerability to address safe and secure housing and infrastructures remains to be seen. This is an update to the previous SSHAP brief on ‘COVID-19 in Informal Urban Settlements’ (March 2020). This evidence review highlights local responses, grassroots efforts, and challenges around COVID-19 recovery within urban informal settlements in South Asia. It focuses on specific examples from Karachi, Pakistan and Mumbai, India to inform policy responses for COVID-19 recovery and future epidemic preparedness and response. We show how local level responses are shaped in these cities where national and international responses have not reached communities at municipal and sub-municipal levels. This brief was written by Saba Aslam (IDS Alumni) and Megan Schmidt-Sane (IDS), with reviews from Professor Amita Bhide (Tata Institute of Social Sciences, India), Dr Asad Sayeed (Collective for Social Science Research, Pakistan), Annie Wilkinson (IDS), and contributions from Swati Mishra (LSHTM), Prerana Somani (LSHTM), Saleemullah Odho (Deputy Commissioner, Korangi district Karachi), Dr Noman Ahmed (NED University, Karachi), Tahera Hasan (Imkaan Foundation, Karachi), Atif Khan (District Health Officer, Korangi district Karachi), Dr Harris (District Focal person, Korangi), Aneeta Pasha (Interactive for Research and Development, Karachi), Yasmeen Shah (Pakistan Fisherfolk Forum), Ghulam Mustafa (HANDS Pakistan), and Dr Shehrin Shaila Mahmood (icddr,b). This brief is the responsibility of SSHAP.