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The aesthetic sublime of megaproject structures: A framework and a research agenda
European Management Review, EarlyView.Abstract The physical structures of megaprojects—such as mega‐canals, metros, railway lines, bridges, tunnels, and iconic opera houses—hold a profound capacity to generate aesthetic experiences with enduring societal impact. Yet, research on megaprojects has predominantly focused on functionality and economic rationale with aesthetics being pushed to ...
Federica De Molli +2 more
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Regeneration of the city: The Tobacco factory in Ljubljana. More elaborate preparation, better order, success assured? [PDF]
Urbani Izziv, 2006 The closure of the Tobacco factory, which was for 130 years one of the main city landmarks, offered numerous buildings needing safeguarding as cultural monuments but also vast surfaces in the immediate vicinity of the city centre.
Luka Mladenovič
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Walls as a Space of Pacification
Proceedings of the International Conference of Contemporary Affairs in Architecture and Urbanism-ICCAUA, 2020 Today we live in a world that daily erects walls on the most delicate borders between countries. Over the centuries, the walls have acquired a dual significance for the city. They make the city an island, creating a feeling of unity as well as security.
Francesco Del Sole
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Quintic threefolds and Fano elevenfolds
, 2015 The derived category of coherent sheaves on a general quintic threefold is a central object in mirror symmetry. We show that it can be embedded into the derived category of a certain Fano elevenfold.
Segal, Ed, Thomas, Richard P.
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History and Theory, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In 1955, Hisayuki Miyakawa published an article that sought to introduce American and European scholars to the work of the Japanese Sinologist Naitō Konan (1866–1934). Miyakawa drew particular attention to what he called the “Naitō hypothesis”—that is, Naitō’s argument that China became modern during the Song dynasty (960–1279).
CHRISTIAN DE PEE
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THE LATEST TRENDS IN ARCHITECTURE IMPORTANT FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION [PDF]
Journal of Process Management and New Technologies, 2018 In this paper, the emphasis will be on presenting the trends that are dominant in the field of construction in 2017. Includes projections built around the world, from fantastic transport containers that have been adapted and converted into a ...
Predrag Mihajlović, Marija Mihajlović
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Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the most common type of primary liver cancer, accounting for up to 80% of all cases. Most patients present at an advanced stage and are unsuitable for curative treatments. In the past 5 years, immunotherapy combination has superseded tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKI) as the standard first‐line therapy for ...
Landon L. Chan +2 more
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Categorial mirror symmetry for K3 surfaces
, 1998 We study the structure of a modified Fukaya category ${\frak F}(X)$ associated with a K3 surface $X$, and prove that whenever $X$ is an elliptic K3 surface with a section, the derived category of $\fF(X)$ is equivalent to a subcategory of the derived ...
Bartocci, C. +2 more
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The Modern Language Journal, EarlyView.Abstract This study investigates the pedagogical impact of integrating cognitive linguistics (CL) into concept‐based language instruction (C‐BLI) for teaching English modal verbs. Eighty‐nine Mandarin‐speaking university learners were assigned to one of three instructional conditions: C‐BLI with CL‐based conceptualizations (C‐BLI‐CL), C‐BLI with non‐CL
Helen Zhao, James P. Lantolf
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Changing Modernity: Religion and the High-Rise as Markers of Cultural Identity in Works by Dickens and Dos Passos [PDF]
University of Bucharest Review. Literary and Cultural Studies Series, 2016 This paper explores the changing functionality of religious buildings such as the cathedral and the church at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century in works by Dickens and Dos Passos set in London and New York respectively, as well
Hristo Boev
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