scholarly journals Operational atlas of exposed mortars and conglomerates for interventions on the widespread architectural heritage

Rivista Tema ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol Vol.6 (2020) (N.2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sara Fasana ◽  
Marco Zerbinatti ◽  
Alessandro Grazzini ◽  
Federico Vecchio
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Data ◽  
Technological Knowledge ◽  
Cutting Edge ◽  
Multidisciplinary Teams ◽  
Architectural Heritage ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Technological Capacity ◽  
Conservative Operation ◽  
Advanced Knowledge ◽  
And Performance

When it comes to Science Heritage, the availability of refined investigation techniques, an advanced knowledge of the characteristics of materials, the current technological capacity and the synergy of specialised operators, coordinated into multidisciplinary teams, guarantee, with the support of cutting-edge tools, excellent results for every conservative operation applied to monumental buildings of acknowledged interest. On the contrary, there are still strong limits to the likelihood that this excellence will reverberate on the multitude of interventions performed on widespread architectural heritage. The research project underway envisages the preparation of an operational atlas of reference for exposed mortars and conglomerates, based on the historical and technological knowledge of materials (particularly those available locally) complete with experimental data on constitution and performance, which is useful to support the development of compatible maintenance and conservation procedures.

scholarly journals Life Sciences Data and Application Integration with B-Fabric

2011 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 49-58 ◽  
Author(s):  
Can Türker ◽  
Fuat Akal ◽  
Ralph Schlapbach
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Data ◽  
Collaborative Research ◽  
Integrated Management ◽  
Life Sciences ◽  
Cutting Edge ◽  
Application Integration

Summary In this demo paper, we sketch B-Fabric, an all-in-one solution for management of life sciences data. B-Fabric has two major purposes. First, it is a system for the integrated management of experimental data and scientific annotations. Second, it is a system infrastructure supporting on-the fly coupling of user applications, and thus serving as extensible platform for fast-paced, cutting-edge, collaborative research.

scholarly journals A WEBGIS FOR THE KNOWLEDGE AND CONSERVATION OF THE HISTORICAL WALL STRUCTURES OF THE 13<sup>TH</sup>&ndash;18<sup>TH</sup> CENTURIES

2017 ◽  
Vol XLII-5/W1 ◽  
pp. 551-556 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Vacca ◽  
D. Pili ◽  
D. R. Fiorino ◽  
V. Pintus
Keyword(s):  
Performance Improvement ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Spatial Data ◽  
Web Applications ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Entire Study ◽  
Reading And Writing ◽  
Wall Structures ◽  
Construction Techniques ◽  
And Performance

The presented work is part of the research project, titled "Tecniche murarie tradizionali: conoscenza per la conservazione ed il miglioramento prestazionale" (Traditional building techniques: from knowledge to conservation and performance improvement), with the purpose of studying the building techniques of the 13<sup>th</sup>&amp;ndash;18<sup>th</sup> centuries in the Sardinia Region (Italy) for their knowledge, conservation, and promotion. The end purpose of the entire study is to improve the performance of the examined structures. In particular, the task of the authors within the research project was to build a WebGIS to manage the data collected during the examination and study phases. This infrastructure was entirely built using Open Source software. <br><br> The work consisted of designing a database built in PostgreSQL and its spatial extension PostGIS, which allows to store and manage feature geometries and spatial data. The data input is performed via a form built in HTML and PHP. The HTML part is based on Bootstrap, an open tools library for websites and web applications. The implementation of this template used both PHP and Javascript code. The PHP code manages the reading and writing of data to the database, using embedded SQL queries. <br><br> As of today, we surveyed and archived more than 300 buildings, belonging to three main macro categories: fortification architectures, religious architectures, residential architectures. The masonry samples investigated in relation to the construction techniques are more than 150. <br><br> The database is published on the Internet as a WebGIS built using the Leaflet Javascript open libraries, which allows creating map sites with background maps and navigation, input and query tools. This too uses an interaction of HTML, Javascript, PHP and SQL code.

scholarly journals Performing with Plants in the Ob-scene Anthropocene

2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 121-142
Author(s):  
Annette Arlander
Keyword(s):  
Performance Analysis ◽  
Performance Art ◽  
Performance Studies ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Performance Practices ◽  
Art Form ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Performance As Research ◽  
Artistic Research

Is there a way for the anthropocentric and anthropomorphic art form par excellence, the theatre, or performance art for that matter, to expand beyond their human and humanist bias? Is the term Anthropocene in any way useful for theatre and performance studies or performance-as-research? In the anthology Anthropocene Feminism (Grusin 2017) Rosi Braidotti proposes four theses for a posthumanist feminism: 1) feminism is not a humanism, 2) anthropos is off-center, 3) zoe is the ruling principle, 4) sexuality is a force beyond gender. These assertions can undoubtedly be put on stage, but do they have relevance for developing or understanding performance practices off-stage and off-center, such as those trying to explore alternative ways and sites of performing, like performing with plants? In this text, I examine Braidotti’s affirmative theses and explore their usefulness with regard to performance analysis, use some of my experiments in the artistic research project “Performing with plants” as examples, and consider what the implications and possible uses of these theses are for our understanding of performances with other-than-human entities, which we share our planet with.

The Multimedia Bard: Plugged and Unplugged

1998 ◽  
Vol 14 (53) ◽  
pp. 20-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lizbeth Goodman ◽  
Tony Coe ◽  
Huw Williams
Keyword(s):  
New Technologies ◽  
Interactive Media ◽  
Open University ◽  
Live Performance ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Moving Image ◽  
Multimedia Technologies ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Multimedia Performance ◽  
The Relationship

The relationship between live theatre and the rapidly developing multimedia technologies has been ambiguous and uneasy, both in the practical and the academic arena. Many have argued that such technologies put the theatre and other live arts at risk, while others have seen them as a means of preserving the elusive traces of live performance, making current work accessible to future generations of artists and scholars. A few performance and production teams have entered the fray, deliberately pushing the technology to its limits to see how useful it may (or may not) be in dealing with the theatre. One such team – comprising Lizbeth Goodman, Tony Coe, and Huw Williams – forms the Open University BBC's Multimedia Shakespeare Research Project, and on 4 September 1997 they presented their work as the annual BFI Lecture at the Museum of the Moving Image on London's South Bank. What follows is an edited and updated transcript of the lecture – which was itself a ‘multimedia performance’ – intended to spark debate about the possibilities and limitations of using multimedia in creating and preserving ‘live’ theatre. Lizbeth Goodman is Lecturer in Literature at the Open University, where she chairs both the Shakespeare Multimedia Research Project and the new ‘Shakespeare: Text and Performance’ course. Tony Coe is Senior Producer at the OU/BBC, where Huw Williams was formerly attached to the Interactive Media Centre, before becoming Director of Createc for the National Film School, and subsequently Director of Broadcast Solutions, London. Together the team has created a range of multimedia CD-ROMs designed to test the limits and possibilities of new technologies for theatre and other live art forms – beginning with Shakespeare

Percussion Theatre: a body in between

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Jennifer Torrence
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Music ◽  
Music Performance ◽  
The Body ◽  
John Cage ◽  
Artistic Practice ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Art Forms ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
And Performance

What does the musician become when sound and instrumental thinking are no longer privileged as the foundation of a musician's practice? In what ways does an emphasis on the musician's body cause music to approach art forms such as theatre and performance? After a generation of pioneering work from Mauricio Kagel, Dieter Schnebel, John Cage and many others, where is the theatrical and the performative in music today? How do its recent developments shape, alter, constitute a musician's artistic practice? Through her research, Jennifer Torrence argues that this type of music demands the musician assume a different understanding and relation to their instrument and therefore a different relation to their body. This relation calls for new ways of making and doing (new artistic practices) that foreground the body as a fundamental performance material. Through an emphasis on the body, the musician emerges as a performer. This exposition is a reflection on the research project Percussion Theatre: a body in between. This project is comprised of a collection of new evening-length works that approach the theatrical and performative in contemporary music performance. These works are created with and by composers Wojtek Blecharz, Carolyn Chen, Neo Hülcker, Johan Jutterström, Trond Reinholdtsen, François Sarhan, and Peter Swendsen. The exposition contains reflections on recent developments in contemporary music that mark a mutation of the executing musician into a co-creating performer, as well as images, artefacts, videos, and texts that unfold the process of creating and performing the work that constitutes this project. The ambition of this exposition is that through the exposure of a personal artistic practice an image of a larger field may come into focus.

Study on Different Graphic Representations in Architectural Heritage

2020 ◽  
pp. 163-205
Author(s):  
José T. Garfella-Rubio ◽  
Jesús Máñez-Pitarch ◽  
Joaquín A. Martínez-Moya ◽  
Jaume Gual-Ortí
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
General Public ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Cutting Edge ◽  
Architectural Heritage ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Digital Representations ◽  
Graphic Representations ◽  
3D Scanners

In recent years, cutting-edge methods have emerged to gradually replace or be used with traditional methods to carry out graphic surveys of architectural heritage; modern topographic tools such as 3D scanners and specific software. In addition, the new technologies of additive printing and three-dimensional digital representations has made architectural heritage more accessible to the general public. The main objective of this study was to conduct an analysis of each of the methods, to determine their advantages and disadvantages, as well as to carry out a comparative study of the results obtained with each of them.

Blockchain and Its Applications in Healthcare

2021 ◽  
pp. 271-294
Author(s):  
Maitri Rajesh Gohil ◽  
Sumukh Sandeep Maduskar ◽  
Vikrant Gajria ◽  
Ramchandra Mangrulkar
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Service ◽  
Production Line ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Healthcare Systems ◽  
Cutting Edge ◽  
Blockchain Technology ◽  
Health Institutions ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Patient Centric

Growing organizations, institutions, and SMEs demand for transformation in all the aspects of their businesses along with the progression in time and technology. When it comes to healthcare, the growth should be heightened to higher levels with necessity. The need of providing quality of service (QoS) in healthcare is taking significant place, allowing health institutions and medical compliances to develop an ecosystem with cutting-edge technology with the same reliability but better productivity and performance. Moreover, the healthcare systems are aiming for a more patient-centric strategy. Healthcare systems work on complicated and traditional methods, oftentimes administered via teams of professionals who manage data and supportive mechanisms of the system. Blockchain could streamline and automate those methods, conserving weeks of effort in the company's production line to increase the overall revenue and discover new opportunities. This chapter aims to illustrate blockchain technology along with its state-of-the-art applications in healthcare.

Clusters, technological knowledge spillovers, and performance

2015 ◽  
Vol 53 (2) ◽  
pp. 469-490 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tsai-Ju Liao
Keyword(s):  
Market Orientation ◽  
Cluster Size ◽  
Knowledge Spillovers ◽  
Technological Knowledge ◽  
Foreign Firms ◽  
Local Market ◽  
Local Ownership ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Strategic Behaviors ◽  
And Performance

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the cluster effect by decomposing the broad category of “clusters” into cluster size and technological knowledge spillovers. Further, this study questions whether all foreign firms benefit equally from participation in geographic clusters. Specifically, the paper examines the moderating roles of local ownership ties and a local market orientation with respect to the benefits of cluster size and technological knowledge spillover. Design/methodology/approach – Using the Database of Enterprises in China, this study examines a sample of 2,200 Taiwanese manufacturing firms operating in China from 2005 to 2007. Findings – The paper found that increased cluster size and technological knowledge spillovers help to enhance foreign firms’ financial performance. The analysis also shows that local ownership ties and a local market orientation have a positive moderating effect on the relationship between cluster size, technological knowledge spillovers, and performance. Originality/value – This study distinguishes between the effects of cluster size and technological knowledge spillovers, which is an important step toward demystifying the “black box” of cluster benefits. Further, due to the liability of foreignness and the lack of legitimacy that foreign firms face when operating in emerging economies, this study integrates the cluster perspective and the legitimacy perspective to discuss whether foreign firms can actively adopt strategic behaviors that will help to improve their legitimacy and enable them to better capture potential cluster benefits.

To tell or not to tell?

2018 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 33-35
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Reading Time ◽  
Cutting Edge ◽  
Fertility Treatment ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Pertinent Information ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies. Design/methodology/approach This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places the articles in context. Findings Employees face a considerable dilemma in deciding whether to inform their employer about sensitive personal issues like fertility treatment that might impact on their attendance and performance. If effective policies are created, employees can properly evaluate the issues involved and receive appropriate support to aid their decision-making. Practical implications The paper provides strategic insights and practical thinking that have influenced some of the world’s leading organizations. Originality/value The briefing saves busy executives and researchers hours of reading time by selecting only the very best, most pertinent information and presenting it in a condensed and easy-to-digest format.

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