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Obesity and the Politics of Taddeo di Bartolo's Inferno

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines Taddeo di Bartolo's depiction of Hell in the Collegiata di Santa Maria Assunta, the mother church of San Gimignano. In a striking departure from similar scenes of the period, the fresco, painted in the early fifteenth century, emphasizes the obesity of the sinners—suggesting a deliberate visual critique.
Stefania Roccas Gandal
wiley   +1 more source

Kamptaler Sakrallandschaften im Wikiversum : Edits mit Versionsgeschichte: Elementarteilchen offener Wissensproduktion am Beispiel eines Citizen Science-Projektes

open access: yesLibrary Ideas, 2023
Die Autoren skizzieren, dass insbesondere lokales und regionales Wissen mit Wikis entsteht und dauerhaft bleibt – als Regionalia in globalen offenen Linkzusammenhängen.
Christian Erlinger, Jens Bemme
doaj   +1 more source

Living in the Mycelial World

open access: yesTopics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView.
Abstract This manuscript documents a systematic ethnomycological analysis of ethnographic archives. Focusing on texts describing human–fungi interactions, I conduct a global, cross‐cultural review of mushroom use, covering 193 societies worldwide. The study reveals diverse mushroom‐related cultural practices, emphasizing the significance of fungi ...
Roope O. Kaaronen
wiley   +1 more source

The Ethics of Resisting Deportation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Can anti-deportation resistance be justified, and if so how and by whom may, or perhaps should, unjust deportations be resisted? In this paper, I seek to provide an answer to these questions.
Birnie, Rutger
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Blood supply continuity and emergency preparedness in natural and man‐made disasters and in armed conflicts—The Nordic perspectives

open access: yesVox Sanguinis, EarlyView.
Abstract Recent events have highlighted the urgent need for comprehensive blood preparedness plans at local, regional, national and cross‐border levels within the Nordic countries. This article outlines the perspectives and strategies related to blood preparedness in Norway, Sweden and Finland, in the context of emergencies, disasters and armed ...
Agneta Wikman   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Spread open knowledge to create new one. Report of the conference “Challenges and Alliances between Libraries and Wikipedia” (Central National Library of Florence, November 10th 2017

open access: yesBibliothecae.it, 2018
The paper reports the contents of the conference “Challenges and Alliances between Libraries and Wikipedia”, hosted on November 10th, 2017 by the Central National Library of Florence, which organized the meeting in collaboration with Wikimedia Italia and
Luigi Catalani
doaj   +1 more source

A Question of Coherence [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
open1noElectromagnetic waves were first postulated by James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879) in 1865. To demonstrate their existence 22 years later, Heinrich Hertz (1857-1894) had to design new instrumentation that he used to carry out an experiment than had ...
Guarnieri, Massimo
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Impaired Windkessel function and proximal aortic stiffness: Linking vascular ageing to cognitive decline

open access: yesExperimental Physiology, EarlyView.
Abstract Central arterial stiffening, particularly of the proximal aorta, is increasingly recognised as a pivotal contributor to cardiovascular disease, dementia, and mild cognitive impairment. Loss of Windkessel function amplifies pulsatile pressure, reduces diastolic perfusion and accelerates microvascular damage in the brain.
Jun Sugawara, Hirofumi Tanaka
wiley   +1 more source

Anti-Semitism, Anti-Marxism, and Technophobia: The Fourth Volume of Martin Heidegger’s Black Notebooks (1942–1948)

open access: yestripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique, 2015
The fourth volume of Martin Heidegger’s Schwarze Hefte (Black Notebooks) was published in March 2015. It contains philosophical notes written in the years 1942–1948.
Christian Fuchs
doaj   +1 more source

Must One Imagine Sisyphus Happy? An Archetypal Risk Scenario Approach to the Administrative Unification of a Public School of Engineering

open access: yesFUTURES &FORESIGHT SCIENCE, Volume 8, Issue 1, April 2026.
ABSTRACT This study investigates institutional risks and resilience in the administrative unification of a Brazilian public engineering school, a context marked by complex organizational change in the absence of formal risk governance. Employing a qualitative action‐research design, this study integrates PESTEL analysis with a novel archetypal ...
Christian Monni   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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