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Moving in Late Medieval Harness: Exploration of a Lost Embodied Knowledge

open access: yesJournal of Embodied Research, 2018
This video article presents an interdisciplinary approach dealing with the reconstruction of the lost embodied knowledge of wearers of late medieval harnesses.
Daniel Jaquet, Vincent Deluz
doaj   +2 more sources

Community Policing Involvement in the Fight Against Narcotics Use Among Youth in Rwanda

open access: yes, 2023
This study aimed to ascertain the implication of community policing in the fight against narcotics use among youth in Rwanda. It was guided by three specific objectives: to assess community policing involvement in decision-making against narcotics use ...
Nyirahabimana, Athanasie   +1 more
core   +1 more source

Prologues, Poetry, Prose and Portrayals

open access: yesActa Periodica Duellatorum, 2016
Although by far the most popular use of fifteenth century Fight Books in recent years has been their application to the study of Historical European Martial Arts and interpretations of medieval combat, this manner of learning from them was rarely what ...
Jacob Henry Deacon
doaj   +1 more source

The Hanging Guard: William Hope’s (1660-1724) Invention of Self-defence and the Spirit of Enlightenment

open access: yesActa Periodica Duellatorum, 2020
Fight books can be much more than repositories of knowledge or cornerstones of tradition. In some cases they may also reflect fundamental changes in the intellectual and social life of a society and even attempt to change the latter for the better.
Alexander Will
doaj   +1 more source

Reaching Excellence: Staff Weapon Typologies, Contexts, and Fighting Techniques in the Collectanea of Pietro Monte

open access: yesActa Periodica Duellatorum, 2019
The sixteenth-century Collectanea of the condottiero Pietro Monte contains some of the most thorough writings that exist pertaining to the use of staff weapons.
Deacon Jacob Henry   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Editors’ Introduction: The Book, the Conference and Fighting Back [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Abstract This chapter introduces the book through discussing the context in which it came about, namely a conference to mark the centenary of the publication of Dewey’s Democracy and Education. The first section relates to the book’s subtitle by describing and analysing the context in which speakers at the conference engaged in a ...
Heilbronn, R, Doddington, C, Higham, RJE
openaire   +2 more sources

Karl Popper and the Mechanisms of Hydrogen Embrittlement

open access: yesAdvanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.
Representation of the beginning of loss of ductility rather than embrittlement. Small concentrations of hydrogen in a diffusible form within iron are well‐established to harm the mechanical integrity of steels. There are theories that attempt to explain the pernicious role of hydrogen.
H. K. D. H. Bhadeshia
wiley   +1 more source

Limits of Understanding in the Study of Lost Martial Arts

open access: yesActa Periodica Duellatorum, 2016
The paper is organised around the notion of embodied technique. The recent attempts to formulate scientific methodologies for the reconstruction of medieval fighting techniques based on a study of premodern fight books raise questions about the ...
Burkart Eric
doaj   +3 more sources

A Perspective on Interactive Theorem Provers in Physics

open access: yesAdvanced Science, EarlyView.
Into an interactive theorem provers (ITPs), one can write mathematical definitions, theorems and proofs, and the correctness of those results is automatically checked. This perspective goes over the best usage of ITPs within physics and motivates the open‐source community run project PhysLean, the aim of which is to be a library for digitalized physics
Joseph Tooby‐Smith
wiley   +1 more source

Economising Early Prints on Fight Books by Multiple Using Movable Half Page Woodcuts.

open access: yesActa Periodica Duellatorum, 2016
No abstract (research note)
Bauer Matthias Johannes
doaj   +3 more sources

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