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Interpreting a Commemorative Landscape: The Eleventh Corps and Cemetery Hill

open access: yes, 2017
An analysis of the memorialization of the land on and around Cemetery Hill on the Gettysburg battlefield as it pertained to the Union Eleventh ...
Klustner, Bradley J.
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Ruins come what may: a trip to the capital of Spainistan [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Seseña is the main residential project in Spain that was interrupted due to the 2008 financial crisis, though some parts of it were actually accomplished and people are now starting to move there. By using the symbolic figure of an ‘archaeological park’,
Arboleda, Pablo
core   +1 more source

Beggars as Rational Choosers

open access: yesSouthern Economic Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT American municipalities increasingly regulate panhandling. That regulation is controversial. The determinants of panhandling activeness are unknown, and it is doubted whether panhandling activity responds rationally to incentives. To shed light on these issues, we collect data on hundreds of panhandlers and the passersby they solicit at ...
Peter T. Leeson   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Some aspects of the social structure and authority of the Ancient Turks in written sources of the 8th-11th centuries

open access: yesTurkic Studies Journal
The ancient Turkic script, which became the foundation for the writing systems of the Turkic-speaking peoples of the Eurasian steppes and Transcaucasia, was developed in the 6th-7th centuries. Written documents from the ancient Turks have been preserved
Nicolaus Boroffka, Ayagoz Sultanova
doaj   +1 more source

Heritage, crisis, and community crime prevention in Nepal [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Following Nepal's 2015 earthquake there was speculation that sacred art would be looted from the ruins of severely damaged temples due to breakdown in formal security.
Mackenzie, Simon, Yates, Donna
core   +3 more sources

The History and Ideas of George Herbert Mead's Pragmatism and Its Relevance for Operational Research and Systems Thinkers

open access: yesSystems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT George Herbert Mead is an oft forgotten or ignored American philosopher who was one of the originators of pragmatism. Today, he is recognised as a creative thinker who has teased out knotty problems that others in the field had not realised were problems. Understanding Mead's analysis has been made difficult because he died prematurely without
Richard Ormerod
wiley   +1 more source

‘Early’ Texts in ‘Clear Script’ in the National Corpus of the Kalmyk Language: Chronological Characteristic

open access: yesOriental Studies, 2018
The article describes chronological characteristics of the written monuments in «Сlear Script». The development process of the peculiar Oirat (Kalmyk) literature, written in «Clear Script» can be divided into two periods.
E. Bembeev
doaj  

RESEARCHING WRITTEN MONUMENTS IN THE CONTEXT OF CHANGING SCIENTIFIC PARADIGMS

open access: yesUkraine: Cultural Heritage, National Identity, Statehood, 2018
The scientific paradigm of the 21st century has acquired anthropocentric drift. In modern linguistic studies, the anthropocentric approach also occupies a dominant position: the researcher’s attention is refocused from objects of cognition (lingual units of different levels) to the subject; thus, linguists analyze an individual in language and language
openaire   +2 more sources

Heritage Protection Versus Individual Interests in a Post-Socialist Country: the Case of Mšeno, Czech Republic [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Large-scale investment is routinely believed to be the main danger to urban heritage. The measures designed to sustain heritage thus traditionally focus on steering investment into respectful ways of real-estate development.
Nowotny, Vojta   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Early use of the reinforced concrete in the architecture of the Historicism in Austria–Hungary

open access: yesStructural Concrete, EarlyView.
Abstract The study examines the early incorporation of reinforced concrete in the architecture of Historicism in Austria–Hungary. Spanning the late 19th to early 20th centuries, the research illuminates the period's stylistic pluralism and the transformative impact of reinforced concrete.
Éva Lovra, Zoltán Bereczki
wiley   +1 more source

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