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Introduction to the Special Issue: Environmental Change in Nordic Fiction [PDF]
NORDEUROPAforum - Zeitschrift für Kulturstudien, 2022 The five research articles published in this special issue of NORDEUROPAforum were originally presented as papers at the third workshop of the Ecocritical Network for Scandinavian Studies (ENSCAN), which had the overarching theme of »Environmental Change
Toni Lahtinen, Juha Raipola
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Aerosol and Air Quality Research, 2023 The performance of low-cost particulate matter (PM) sensors (NovaFitness SDS011) in connection with a self-developed aerosol dryer has been investigated in ambient air measurements over a two-year period by comparing the reported mass concentration of ...
Martin Nothhelfer +7 more
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Umwelt as the foundation of an ethics of smart environments
Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, 2023 Due to the increasing embeddedness of pervasive and immersive technologies in the built environment, a new type of spaces known as smart environments emerges.
Patrick Lecomte
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Vocal interpretation and creation processes
Per Musi, 2021 This paper addresses aspects related to the singer’s creation processes and brings also their dialogue with the composers’ creation work, which includes the issues of Umwelten (Vieira 2008, 2009), the Peircean concepts of subject and self (Colapietro ...
Lucila Tragtenberg
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, 2020 The term UMWELT spreads in the German language from the beginning of the nineteenth century, to indicate—both in a general relational and sociological sense, and in more specific reference to the peculiarities of PERCEPTION considered as an essential biological characteristic—the external world that surrounds and accompanies living organisms.
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Sign Systems Studies, 2023 This essay attempts to combine some recent theoretical results in (bio)semiotics on arbitrariness, semiotic fitting, umwelt, choice, and extended theory of evolution into a more coherent whole.
Kalevi Kull
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Against Music? Heuristics and Sense-Making in Listening to Contemporary Popular Music
Philosophies, 2022 Is the ubiquity of contemporary popular music akin to a deliberate aggression to the hearing, making the listening experience devoid of any sense? If so, is there any strategy to morph this supposed confusion into meaningful stimuli?
Vincenzo Zingaro
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Propositions for a biocultural semiotics
Sign Systems Studies, 2020 The author has used the term ‘biocultural semiotics’ in her previous work, but has never defined this field. She presents twelve propositions that describe and motivate a biocultural semiotics. The author draws on thirty years of field work in Belize and
Kathryn Staiano-Ross
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Sensory collectives in natural systems
eLife, 2023 Groups of animals inhabit vastly different sensory worlds, or umwelten, which shape fundamental aspects of their behaviour. Yet the sensory ecology of species is rarely incorporated into the emerging field of collective behaviour, which studies the ...
Hannah J Williams +13 more
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Coronavirus Crisis and Housing Policy Challenges
Wirtschaftsdienst, 2020 The coronavirus pandemic and the associated containment measures are likely to have serious effects on housing. In the short term, the German Federal Government has reacted with temporary exemptions for subject-oriented instruments as well as for rental ...
Holger Cischinsky +3 more
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