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Growth and Employment Potentials of Chosen Technology Fields

Growth and Employment Potentials of Chosen Technology Fields

Author(s): Bernhard Mahlberg,Herwig W. Schneider,Mikuláš Luptáčik,Wolfgang Koller / Language(s): English / Issue: 01/2008

Keywords: technology fields; input-output analysis; key sector analysis; technology flows; subsystem minimal flow analysis

The development of European technology platforms is a valuable building block of European science and technology policy. Out of the range of technology platforms, seven technology fields were chosen and investigated for their potential impacts on selected economies of the European Union. The study is based on input-output analysis, thus enabling us to account for the complex interrelationships between the sectors related to technology fields, either as origin or as user sectors, and the other sectors of the economy. Multiplier analysis is used to quantify the impacts of demand for goods produced by the sectors related to technology fields. Key sector analysis yields suggestions as to whether these sectors play a key role within the network of intermediate inputs. By linking the input-output tables with data on business enterprise R&D technology flow matrices are calculated and evaluated with respect to the sectors related to technology fields. Subsystem minimal flow analysis (SMFA) is carried out in order to find out whether these sectors are part of growth bipols. Due to the principal difficulty to relate technologies which are not yet applied to actual economic data the results require great care in interpretation. Nevertheless, some patterns emerge from the analysis that suggest that some technology fields seem promising areas for future R&D efforts.

Mental Modeling in Conceptual Change

Mental Modeling in Conceptual Change

Author(s): Nancy J. Nersessian / Language(s): English / Issue: 01/2010

Keywords: mental modeling; cognitive development; understanding; human cognition; cognitive science

In this paper I will focus on one capacity, that for mental modeling, in part because analogy, visualization, and simulation contribute to reasoning through mental modeling and in part because mental modeling is a central notion used in analyses of conceptual change across the literatures of studies of science, learning, and cognitive development.

Sand collection

Zbirka pijeska

Author(s): Italo Calvino / Language(s): Croatian / Issue: 04/1999

Always Somewhere Else - Anti-Gypsyism in France

Always Somewhere Else - Anti-Gypsyism in France

Author(s): Author Not Specified / Language(s): English / Issue: 15/2005

Keywords: Second Class Citizens in France; Basic civil and political rights; discriminatory treatment of Gypsies; Romani migrants; the Besson Law; the Sarkozy Law; human rights; racism; intolerance

" First we should say that they are cornered in a Kafkaesque absurd situation of the type the French administration is so good at creating. Here is the summary. There is a law – the Besson law – which requires each municipality of 5000 residents to create a stopping area for Gypsies and Travellers. But only one municipality out of four has done so, which basically means that 80% of Gypsies or four Gypsies out of five find themselves without a place to stop. Into this situation is added a second law, which is repressive in nature, which is the Sarkozy Law, and it criminalises them – it sends them to prison if they are not on a legal halting area. So, it is as if you have a game of musical chairs with one chair for five persons and the four who remain standing risk six months in prison. " Documentary “Gens du voyage: la répression et l’absurde”, aired on May 10, 2004, by Canal Plus.

The hellenistic city of Daorson – Methodological approach to its preservation and preparation of a conservation-restoration project

Helenistički grad Daorson – Metodološki pristup zaštiti i priprema projekta konzervatorsko-restauratorskih radova

Author(s): Nermina Mujezinović / Language(s): English / Issue: 52/2010

Keywords: preservation of the monument; conservation; degradation of stone; stone; Ošanići; conservation-restoration works; conservation project; methodological approach; investigations.

Archaeological investigations were carried out on a number of occasions at Gradina and Banje between the publication of the first details of the site at Gradina in Ošanići near Stolac and 1991, some accompanied by conservation works over short stretches of the walls. The first comprehensive, systematic conservation of the site began only in 2007-2008, and was carried out by the National Museum in Sarajevo. The initial phase covered the megalithic wall with its gates and towers at Gradina (the Acropolis). This paper offers a detailed account of the methodological approach to the preservation of the physical structure of this part of the site, applied during the analytical and diagnostic stage of drawing up the first part of the conservation project. In her presentation of the findings of the first working stage, a two-year process, the author explains the course, methodology and results of the conservation investigations and analyses conducted to date; describes the diagnostic instruments and decision-making mechanisms; and presents and interprets, within the specific context, the process of prolonging the life of the materials of the monument that is to be applied.

The Odyssey of Jakob Belsen 1879-1937

Jēkaba Belzēna odiseja 1879-1937

Author(s): Kristiāna Ābele / Language(s): Latvian / Issue: 09/2007

Keywords: Jēkabs Belzēns; Jakob Belsen; Latvian art; painting; drawing; prints; exhibitions; St. Petersburg; Germany

Jakob Belsen's art in the country of his forefathers remained associated almost exclusively with the ten oil paintings and warercolours shown in the Latvian Art Exhibition of 1910. Now the number of his paintings at the Latvian National Museum of Art (LNMA) in Riga can be counted on one hand. With four works of undisputed authorship and one of doubtful attribution, this is the largest public collection of Belsen's paintings in the world. Although three of these paintings are familiar to the public from Latvian art albums, exhibitions and catalogues, knowledge of the artist's life has been very poor even among experts, partly because of distances separating Riga from his basic places of residence - St. Petersburg, Berlin and New York. An avalanche of recent discoveries sheds new light on previously obscure periods and episodes in Belsen's life and career. Several of his paintings from the 1920s have newly appeared in Latvian private collections. Numerous supplements to his non-Latvian historiography have been found in publications of both his and our contemporaries. The St. Petersburg Regional Section of the Public Russian German Academy of Sciences held a memorial Belsen exhibition in 2001 and supplied the LNMA with a CD of its materials documenting the artist's productive work as illustrator and cartoonist as well as containing reproductions of private photographs. Some of these images have been used in this article by courtesy of Antonie Tosca Grill in Baden-Baden, whose father was a nephew of Jakob Belsen's first wife. My inquiries into the provenance of this picture archive resulted in a correspondence with Wenedikt Bohm (St. Petersburg) to whom I owe a debt of gratitude for copies of extremely important sources of biographical evidence, compiled by Antonie Grill: memoirs of the artist and his widow, covering the periods from the mid-1870s until 1924 and 1925-1937 respectively, and Belsen's letters to his children from New York (1936-1937).

Psychosocial significances of the communist history and ideology

Despre semnificatiile psihosociale ale istoriei si ideologiei comuniste

Author(s): Cătălin Mamali / Language(s): / Issue: 15/2005

Event and Ethnic Situation: Changes to the Identity of National Minority Communities in the Republic of Croatia (Translation)

Događaj i etnička situacija: promjene identiteta nacionalnih manjinskih zajednica u Republici Hrvatskoj

Author(s): Marina Perić Kaselj,Filip Škiljan,Aleksandar Vukić / Language(s): Croatian / Issue: 27/2015

This paper presents research results concerning the (re)-construction of the ethnic / national identities of particular minority communities in the Republic of Croatia, as shaped by fluctuations in the social and historical context (over the period when Croatia was part of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, thereafter in the periods of democratic transformation, the Homeland War, and the independent Republic of Croatia). We take a multi-method approach, on the one hand exploring the official categorization and classification of national minorities within the Constitution of the FRY and the Constitution of the RC, whilst also examining theoretical and conceptual explanations and their implementation in defining identity. The empirical part includes in-depth interviews with members of different ethnic minority communities living across the territory of present-day Croatia. The paper emphasizes how certain institutional classificatory schemes or historical moments may be imposed or lead to volatility as concerns the strategies, positions and roles of certain minority communities. In addition to the official definition and institutionalized classificatory schemes that are directly attributed to the specific identity characteristics of each group, social identities can be the result of free choice, coercion, strategy games played by individuals / members of certain groups themselves or resources mobilized in order to achieve political or economic goals. Through considering these two approaches to the analysis of national minority identities in present-day Croatia, we elaborate not only the procedural and dynamic character of identity but also its variable and situational nature.

Homicide of the Harvesters from the Village Staro Gracko and Vicinity

Убиство жетелаца из Старог Грацка и околине

Author(s): Bojan Đokić / Language(s): Serbian / Issue: 1/2016

Keywords: Kosovo and Metohija; Lipljan; Staro Gracko; Bujance; harvest massacre; Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA)

The goal of the paper is to analyze all the available data about the mass murder of 14 Serbian civilians from the village Staro Gracko and vicinity who went to the fields to harvest on 23 July 1999. The importance of the paper is to determine facts reliably and eliminate the irrelevant ones, emphasize direct circumstances and describe the whole case.

Civil society in Bulgaria - between social entrepreneurship and state capture

Civil society in Bulgaria - between social entrepreneurship and state capture

Author(s): Todor Yalamov,Maria Doichinova / Language(s): English / Issue: 29/2013

Professional Looter. On the looting activity of Pieter Nicolaas Menten (1899–1987)

Grabieżca ze znakiem Q. O rabunkowej działalności Pietera Nicolaasa Mentena (1899–1987)

Author(s): Nawojka Cieślińska-Lobkowicz / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 11/2015

Keywords: looting of works of art in the General Government; Jewish antique shops and artistic salons in Cracow after 1939; occupation-period trade in works of art; murder of professors in Lvov

The Nazi looting of works of art and cultural goods during 1933–1945 is usually divided into organised and unauthorised. The former was conducted by special organisations and authorities, while the former, widespread mostly in the east, amounted to private looting conducted by many Germans on their own account. The author suggests introducing a separate category of quali􀏐ied looting encompassing those who engaged in looting with premeditation – on their own account and/or on commission – and whose competence included evaluation of the sought artistic goods and knowledge of where and in whose possession they could be found. In the Reich and in occupied France and Holland there were many such quali􀏐ied robbers, while in Poland their number remained small after the initial wave of of􀏐icial con􀏐iscations, with the exception of the Dutchman, Pieter Nicolaas Menten (1899–1987), who after the war was one of the wealthiest citizens of Holland and owner of a collection of works of art unavailable to the public. The scope, character, and methods of the looting conducted by Menten for his private use in Cracow and Lvov during the German occupation between early 1940 and the end of 1942 make him an exceptional case in the history of Nazi looting. These aspects are analysed on the basis of extensive archival materials and evidence collected in Holland and Poland during the investigations and trials against Menten (the 􀏐irst one took place in 1948 and was followed by next ones in the late 1970s), who was accused, for instance, of collaboration with the Germans and the massacre of Jewish inhabitants of the Galician villages of Urycz and Podhorodce in the summer of 1941. Menten was never sentenced for the looting of works of art in Cracow, where he was an appointed administrator of four Jewish artistic salons, and in Lvov, where he appropriated the collections from the homes of several Lvov professors murdered on 4 July 1941. He was never found guilty even though when in January 1943 he left the General Government and went to Holland he took – with Himmler’s special permission – four wagons of works of art, gold ware and silverware, antique furniture, and Oriental rugs. The collection of works of art in his possession has become dispersed.

A contribution to awareness of nobility inventories: movable property register in fort Križovljan – grad (1724.)

Prilog poznavanju plemićkih inventara: popis pokretnina u kaštelu križovljan – grad (1724.)

Author(s): Ivana Šupljika / Language(s): Croatian / Issue: 25/2014

Keywords: Inventory; Križovljan – grad; fort; Vragović; Varaždin County; Early Modern Period;

Author in article analyzes list of movable property found on Križovljan estate after death of its owner Kristofor Vragović in 1724 and family Vragović extinction which consequently led to handover of their possessions into royal treasury ownership. Movables, registered in six chambers, upper passage, kitchen, cellar, area in immediate vicinity of fort and pair of chambers in wooden curia, corresponded to furniture, bedroom equipment, dining and cooking utensils, garments and footwear, decorative objects and contents of storage areas as well as other items used on daily basis such as clocks or books. Although registrant frequently and consciously denied several movables their noteworthiness, quantity, appearance, quality and state of preservation for majority of items are well known, which provides opportunity for recontruction of historical interior in its genuine configuration.

"The internal decoration" in the latest Russian drama

„Meblowanie przestrzeni” w najnowszym dramacie rosyjskim

Author(s): Lidia Mięsowska / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 149/2015

Keywords: contemporary Russian drama; space motives; Alexandr Shipenko; Nikolay Kolada; Oleg Bogayev

The article is an attempt to present the techniques of modeling dramatic space of the latest Russian drama works. The examples derived from Alexandr Shipenko, Nikolay Kolada or Oleg Bogayev’s oeuvre exemplify that writers, who resort to postmodern games with cultural codes and literary tradition, build the space of dramas on the terms of confronting contrasts and fulfilling them with the theatrical items in order to picture the changes that Russian society experienced after the period of transformation.

Srebrenica in the middle ages

Srebrenica in the middle ages

Author(s): Tatomir Vukanović / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2012

Keywords: Srebrenica; Middle Age;

There is not a single town in Bosnia that has such a long and important tradition as does Srebrenica. Its name clearly points to its rich content and main charecteristics

The “Groupe de Saint-Luc et de Saint-Maurice” and church art in Switzerland in the interwar period

„Groupe de Saint-Luc et de Saint-Maurice” i sztuka kościelna w Szwajcarii w okresie międzywojennym

Author(s): Joanna Wolańska / Language(s): English,Polish / Issue: 9/2016

Keywords: Romandy (Romandie); Swiss church art; Alexandre Cingria; Gino Severini; Fernand Dumas; Groupe de Saint-Luc et de Saint-Maurice

The revival of church art in Romandy in the interwar period was as noteworthy as that in France, even though it is not known as widely. The article is an attempt at a general characterization of the work by Groupe de Saint-Luc et de Saint-Maurice carried out mostly in countryside churches of Romandy. Nearly sixty first-class ensembles of decorations of church interiors executed over the span of twenty-five years (1920–1945) offer a remarkable testimony of the group’s activity. Its realizations were created by several artists among whom only some declared themselves to be regular members of the group; others – like the well-known Italian painter and art theorist Gino Severini – were only loosely associated with the group. Its existence and activity is a phenomenon whose success can be explained by some particularly favourable circumstances (despite the economic crisis of the 1930s) and the close collaboration of three significant individuals: the driving force and the actual founder of the association was the Genevese painter, decorator and writer Alexandre Cingria (1879–1945); the designer of most of the churches decorated and furnished by the members of the group was Fernand Dumas (1892–1956), a talented architect and great organizer; the association could also always count on the support of the Catholic Bishop of Lausanne, Geneva and Fribourg in the period 1920–1945 Fr. Marius Besson (1876–1945), who was keenly interested in art. The deaths of Besson and Cingria, the most important figures in the association’s activities, mark the end of its existence in 1945.

Griffin Daggers of Eurasia as Eastern Parallels of a Pontic Tradition

Грифовые кинжалы Евразии: восточные параллели одной причерноморской традиции

Author(s): Denis A. Topal / Language(s): Russian / Issue: 3/2017

Keywords: Eurasia; Scythian period; sword; akinakes; griffin dagger; antennae pommel

In 550—500 BC, an original series of akinakai with realistic ornithomorphic pommel appears on the territory of European Scythia and this group is not related to the Early Scythian production centers. Apparently, the appearance of these ornithomorphic and zoomorphic pommels fits into the framework of the common Eurasian tradition. During this short period of time the daggers with the pommels in the form of opposed heads of birds of prey appear on the entire territory of the Scythian world. We can highlight several areas where these daggers were most popular: the Volga-Ural region, Zhetysu, Western Siberia and Northern China. Most likely, the role of the original area (where the image canons and morphology of the griffin dagger were formed) could be assigned to Central Asia consisting of Altai, Tuva and Minusinsk Hollow. The abundance and diversity of species of griffin daggers could confirm this idea. There are very original items among them which are very specific only for Altai-Sayan region: daggers with griffin pommels and hilts decorated with sitting predators.

Clarification of the Magistrates’ List Controlling Ceramic Production in Heraclea Pontica

Уточнение списка магистратов, контролировавших керамическое производство в Гераклее Понтийской

Author(s): Vladimir I. Kac / Language(s): Russian / Issue: 3/2017

Keywords: Heraclea Pontica; amphorae tare; ceramic stamps; chronological groups; magistrates; manufacturers

The paper deals with clarification of the most complete list of magistrates present on the widespread in the Western and Northern Black Sea Region englific stamps imprinted on amphorae, traditionally attributed to Heraclea Pontica. As a result, from the list, numbering 92 names, four magistrates were removed and the reading of the names of two officials was corrected. In addition, eight previously unknown eponyms were added. It is possible that with the appearance of new materials the list of magistrates will be extended with few more officials, whose names are only presumed at the moment. Thus, now we know about a hundred Heracleian magistrates. In connection with the extension of the list there is a need to correct the relative and absolute chronology of ceramic stamps of Heraclea Pontica.

Core-formed Glass Vessels from Nikonion

Стеклянные сосуды из Никония, изготовленные в технике сердечника

Author(s): Anzhelika Kolesnychenko / Language(s): Russian / Issue: 3/2017

Keywords: Northern Black Sea Region; Lower Dniester region; Classical period; Hellenistic period; core-formed technique; non-transparent glass

The paper treats fragments of glass vessels from Nikonion that were found in the course of its excavations (1958—1994) but remained unpublished. There are 16 specimens. Every type detected in Nikonion finds its correspondence in Olbia. It can be a result of common trade operations with Eastern Mediterranean region or a local inter-city exchange of glass vessels. The author differentiates “narrow and wide” chronological intervals like it was proposed by M. B. Shchukin. This approach helped to date more precisely both vessels and complexes where the latter were retrieved. Glass vessels started to be imported in Nikonion in the early 5th century BC. Mostly, they entered the city in the second half of the 5th — early 4th century BC, during the apex of the city’s development. Then, after the interruption of the city’s life in the middle of the 3rd century BC, it was re-settled sporadically since the second half of the 2nd century BC — 1st century AD. The single find of characteristic glass fragment dates to this period. The disappearance of Nikonion as a city resulted in transfer of glass vessels import to the neighboring city of Tyras, where the major input of vessels is defined in the 3rd—2nd centuries BC, exactly when they lack in Nikonion. The tradition to use aromatic oils and keep them in glass containers is typically Greek. Glass vessels are present in Nikonion in the 5th—4th centuries BC marking the Greek ethnicity of the population of the city during this period.

Women’s Place in Film History: the Importance of Continuity

Women’s Place in Film History: the Importance of Continuity

Author(s): Dina Iordanova / Language(s): English,Polish / Issue: 23 (30)/2020

Keywords: women’s cinema; film festival circuit; global cinema; author’s policy

The author calls for continuity and continuation of the study of women’s cinema. Attention is drawn to the blurring of memory and even erasing women from the history of national film industries. They are not recognised as authors, while the history of cinema has been subject to the concept of the auteur film-maker. The filmmakers are made through the commitment and work of film critics and then cinema historians. The expert does not hide the fact that those relationships are strengthened by bonds of friendship, without the fear of being accused of having a lack of objectivity, and are often associated with the support of the author on the international festival circuit. The author calls for ‘watching across borders’, i.e. a supranational approach to the study of women’s cinema. Crossing the borders of national cinemas, in which the authors have not been recognised, allows a broader perspective to see the critical mass of the authors of world cinema. Politically, for the feminist cause, it is better to talk about European women’s cinema. Iordanova selects from the history of Central and Eastern European cinema, the names of authors who did not receive due attention. Moreover, she proposes specific inclusive and corrective feminist practices: the inclusion of filmmakers in the didactics, repertoires of film collections and festival selections; a commitment to self-study by watching at least one woman’s film a week.

Silver Bull Protome from Barrow no. 2 of Karavan Group near the Town Lubotyn

Серебряная протома быка из кургана № 2 группы «Караван» близ Люботина

Author(s): Roman V. Zymovets,Vitaliy N. Okatenko / Language(s): Russian / Issue: 3/2022

Keywords: rhyton; bull protome; morphological; iconographic and stylistic analysis; Assyria; Media; Elam; Iran; bull cult; Scythian culture;

The article studies the silver bull protome found in mound no. 2 of “Karavan” group near the town Lubotyn, Kharkiv region (Seversky Donets basin). For the first time, all protome fragments are published and their graphic reconstruction is carried out. It is proved that the item in question was part of a rhyton. Morphological analysis of the rhyton makes it possible to date it to the late 7th — early 6th centuries BC. The iconographic and stylistic analysis allows us concluding that this rhyton is one of the earliest in the series of rhyta which later became widespread in the Achaemenid Empire. It has been suggested that the place of its production was Western Iran — historical Media or Elam — where Assyrian art had a significant influence on local cultural traditions. Many considerations are expressed about the cult of the bull in the Scythian culture of the Archaic period.