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Why Engineers Should Read More Novels

open access: yesChemie Ingenieur Technik, EarlyView.
What do engineers do? And what should they work on? A surprising answer is outlined in this essay, which argues that reading novels holds the key for addressing both questions. Novels train the imagination as well as our ethical abilities – skills that are essential for developing future‐proof technologies.
Michael Kuhn
wiley   +1 more source

16th Century Antiphon

open access: yes, 2017
The Renaissance era, which spanned from the 14th century until the 16th century, served as a transitional period. Considered to be a period of rebirth, the Renaissance commenced a revival in culture, literature, and the arts throughout Europe.
Major, Abigail K.
core  

Travelling Places, Navigating Conflicts: Relational Ontology of Public Space in Urban Climate Transformation

open access: yesConflict Resolution Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines the ontological complexity of public space through an analysis of the long‐running dispute over the development of Redlowska Glade, a green area in Gdynia, Poland. Drawing on relational ontology perspective, the study explores how conflicting parties not only debated the future of this space but also enacted different ...
Krzysztof Janas
wiley   +1 more source

Gestures as an interface of performers’ intentionality : a case study of Western Embodiment of Karnatic Music in piano performance [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Background Music performance has a strong corporeal dimension, involving different types of gestures (technical gestures, expressive gestures, etc.) that performers employ to transform a written score into live music (Leman 2007). This transformation is
Caruso, Giusy
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Music Reveals Medial Prefrontal Cortex Sensitive Period in Childhood [PDF]

open access: green, 2018
Laurel J. Gabard‐Durnam   +2 more
openalex   +1 more source

Necessity Social Enterprises: Community Resilience Strategies of “Kitchen Rebellions”

open access: yesCorporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Entrepreneurship out of economic necessity—sometimes combined with addressing social and environmental challenges—is attracting growing attention. However, welfare states show a phenomenon unaccounted for in both necessity and social entrepreneurship literatures, conceptualized here as necessity social enterprise.
Sonia Vidal, Arno Kourula, Ans Kolk
wiley   +1 more source

Choosers: The design and evaluation of a visual algorithmic music composition language for non-programmers [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Algorithmic music composition involves specifying music in such a way that it is non-deterministic on playback, leading to music which has the potential to be different each time it is played.
Bellingham, Matt   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Curriculum guidelines for the development of student agency in secondary education: A systematic review

open access: yesThe Curriculum Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract To prepare students for lifelong learning, and their role in society, student agency has been foregrounded as an important aim of secondary education. In general, student agency is seen as the will and skill to intentionally transform one's functioning or circumstances.
A. J. M. Schoots‐Snijder   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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