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Preprint REVIEW | doi:10.20944/preprints202007.0027.v1

Impact of COVID-19 on Education in Sub-Saharan Africa

Abdullahi Aborode, Olaitan Anifowoshe, Tolorunju Ifeoluwapo Ayodele, Akinjo Rebecca Iretiayo, Ogunjemilua Oluwafemi David

Subject: Arts And Humanities, Humanities Keywords: COVID-19; Deadly disease; Education; Resolution; Africa; Sub-Sahara

Online: 3 July 2020 (08:57:38 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202111.0556.v1

Museums and Digital Culture: From Reality to Digitality in the Age of Covid-19

Tula Giannini, Jonathan P. Bowen

Subject: Arts And Humanities, Museology Keywords: Covid-19; digital culture; museums; reality; digitality

Online: 30 November 2021 (10:47:20 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201607.0082.v1

Impact of Christianity on African Women in Buchi Emecheta’s Novels

Longjam Bedana, Sangeeta Laishram, Moirangthem Priyobrata Singh

Subject: Arts And Humanities, Humanities Keywords: Africa, African women, Christianity, Igbo society, patriarchy, post-colonialism, feminism, womanism

Online: 27 July 2016 (04:18:57 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201911.0083.v1

From Allostatic Agents to Counterfactual Cognisers: Active Inference, Biological Regulation, and The Origins of Cognition

Andrew W. Corcoran, Giovanni Pezzulo, Jakob Hohwy

Subject: Arts And Humanities, Philosophy Keywords: complexity; uncertainty; cognition; allostasis; homeostasis; free energy principle; active inference; environmental complexity thesis

Online: 8 November 2019 (03:50:08 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201911.0183.v2

Approaches to Addressing Informal Settlement Problems: A Case Study of District 13 in the Kabul city, Afghanistan

Maqsood Rezayee, Gabriel Hoh Teck Ling, Siti Hajar Misnan

Subject: Arts And Humanities, Architecture Keywords: informal settlement; sustainable neighborhood; approaches; district 13 of Kabul city Afghanistan

Online: 20 November 2019 (11:20:52 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202401.1231.v1

Symmetry, Music and Water

Marc Henry, Sylvain Bridoux

Subject: Arts And Humanities, Music Keywords: music; group theory; water; universe; diapason; 429.62 Hz; consciousness

Online: 17 January 2024 (02:02:47 CET)

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There is a deep link existing between symmetry and nature that may be best apprehended by using group theory. In physics, giving a symmetry group is entirely equivalent to fix natural laws (Noether’s theorem). Within such a framework, it follows that all fundamental mechanical laws may be given by defining a group of symmetry operations belonging to the Gal(3,1) symmetry group having ten generators (3 + 3 + 3 + 1 = 10). The move to special relativity amounts simply to substitute another group ISO(3,1) to Gal(3,1) and having the same number of generators. In both cases, one immediately perceives that we live in universe with 3 dimensions of space and 1 dimension of time. A further progress could be made by looking for the symmetry group that leaves Maxwell’s equations invariant. The answer to this fundamental question is the group ISO(4,2)⊗U(2)⊗U(2) characterized by 23 generators : 15 = 10 + 5 for the conformal group ISO(4,2), 4 for U(2) and hence 8 = 4 + 4 for the compact part U(2)⊗U(2) that could be related to the existence of quantum physics besides relativity. As ISO(3,1) is a sub-group of ISO(4,2), the two numbers 4 and 2 suggests that, taking into account the existence of light besides matter, we live in an universe having 4 spacelike dimensions and 2 time-like dimensions. Here, it is proposed that, as music is characterized by a scale-invariant symmetry operation (transposition by octaves) and that as time may be perceived differently in shamanic trance for instance, the two “new” dimensions of our universe may be related to music and consciousness. Related to the fifth dimension of music, the notion of diapason linking physical frequencies to a musical note is revisited. It is thus proposed to adopt a new A4 = 429.62 Hz value based on universal physical constants of our universe and on the mass of the water molecule H₂O, the most abundant molecule in the universe. Demonstration is done that this new diapason is superior to other diapasons based on frequencies of 440 Hz or even 432 Hz

Preprint ESSAY | doi:10.20944/preprints201607.0020.v1

Post-humanizing Arabs: Case of Diana Abujber’s Arabian Jazz (2003) and Fadia Faqir’s My Name is Salma (2007) and Willow Trees Don’t Weep (2014)

Dallel Sarnou

Subject: Arts And Humanities, Literature And Literary Theory Keywords: posthuman; deterriteriolization; diaspora; home; Arab women; Arab Anglophone

Online: 11 July 2016 (10:41:37 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201608.0057.v1

The Analysis of a Translation of Musyakalah Verses in the Holy Quran Published by the Indonesian Department of Religious Affairs

Yayan Nurbayan

Subject: Arts And Humanities, Religious Studies Keywords: Translation, musyakalah, linguistic style, holy Quran, and Arabic language

Online: 6 August 2016 (04:35:45 CEST)

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Musyakalah is one of the Arabic linguistic styles included under the category of majaz. This style is commonly used in Al-Quran. The Indonesian translation of Al-Quran is a case where many of the figures of speech are translated literally, thereby causing serious semantic problems. Thus, the research problem of this is formulated with the following questions: 1) How many musyakalah ayahs are there in Al-Quran?; 2) How are the musyakalah ayahs translated, literally (harfiyya) or interpretatively (tafsiriyya)?; 3) How many ayahs are translated literally and how many are translated interpretatively?; and 4) Which translated musyakalah ayahs have the potential to raise semantic and theological problems? The corpus in this research consists of all musyakalah ayahs in Al-Quran and their translation to Indonesian published by the Department of Religious Affairs of Indonesia. The research adopted a descriptive-semantic method. The findings of this research are: 1) There are only eleven ayahs in Al-Quran using musyakalah style, namely: Alhasyr ayah 19, Ali Imran ayah 54, Annaml ayah 50, Alanfal ayah 30, Asysyura ayah 40, Albaqarah ayah 15, Almaidah 116, Aljatsiah ayah 34, Attaubah ayah 79, Annisa ayah 142, and Albaqarah 194; 2) The musyakalah ayahs translated literally are: Aljatsiah 34, Almaidah 116, Asysura 40, Annaml 50, and Alhasyr 19, whereas the musyakalah ayahs translated interpretatively are Albaqarah 194, Annisa 142, Attaubah 79, Albaqarah 15, Alanfal 30, and Ali Imran 54; 3) Of the eleven musyakalah ayahs, only Alhasyr ayah 19 that is translated correctly and does not have the potential of creating misinterpretation. Meanwhile, the interpretation of the other four ayahs can potentially cause misinterpretation or are against the basic principles of Islam. The six remaining ayahs are translated interpretatively and thus do not have the potential to be misinterpreted; 4) The findings suggest that musyakalah ayahs are more appropriately translated interpretatively. Therefore, the following is recommended: 1) Considering the different characteristics of Arabic and Indonesian languages, studies on Al-Quran translation into Indonesian should continuously be carried out; 2) In order to avoid misinterpretation, it is better that the translation of musyakalah ayahs uses tafsiriyya (interpretative) approach; 3) The harfiyya (literal) and tafsiriyya (interpretative) approaches should be developed for other styles beside musyakalah..

Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201608.0126.v1

From Oral to Written Dakwah: A Study on the Development of Preaching Methods in Indonesia

Safei Agus Ahmad

Subject: Arts And Humanities, Religious Studies Keywords: development; methods; oral preaching; written preaching; Dakwah; innovation

Online: 11 August 2016 (11:07:45 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201607.0055.v1

The Role of Persian Reading Text Books of the First to the Third Primary School in Presenting Religious Doctrines in Iran

Maryam Jalali

Subject: Arts And Humanities, Religious Studies Keywords: religious, children, Reading books, school, Iran

Online: 18 July 2016 (10:48:05 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201805.0115.v1

“Once a Junkie, Always a Junkie”: A Narrative Analysis of Cinematic Representations of the Attribution of Criminality and Deviancy to Heroin Users

Chris Allen, Anna-Maria Alberici

Subject: Arts And Humanities, Film, Radio And Television Keywords: heroin users; junkies; cinematic representations; social constructionism; cultural criminology

Online: 7 May 2018 (11:05:31 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201706.0055.v1

A New Kind of Aesthetics – The Mathematical Structure of the Aesthetic

Akihiro Kubota, Hirokazu Hori, Makoto Naruse, Fuminori Akiba

Subject: Arts And Humanities, Art Keywords: aesthetics; mathematical structure; category theory; natural intelligence

Online: 12 June 2017 (13:26:59 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201609.0055.v1

Cultural Heritage Sites in Danger—Towards Automatic Damage Detection from Space

Daniele Cerra, Simon Plank, Vasiliki Lysandrou, Jiaojiao Tian

Subject: Arts And Humanities, Archaeology Keywords: change detection; Cultural Heritage; texture analysis

Online: 18 September 2016 (08:38:10 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201812.0051.v1

Ideologies Behind the Halal Tourism Sector

Saortua Marbun

Subject: Arts And Humanities, Religious Studies Keywords: tourism, travel, halal tourism, Islamic tourism, Islamic teachings, Sharia

Online: 4 December 2018 (10:05:44 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201703.0199.v1

The Music of Bipolar Disorder

David Angeler

Subject: Arts And Humanities, Music Keywords: auditory arts; psychiatry; heavy metal music; mental disorder; bipolar; education; awareness

Online: 27 March 2017 (10:45:03 CEST)

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Preprint CONCEPT PAPER | doi:10.20944/preprints202109.0075.v1

The Impact of COVID-19 That Outbreak on the Quality Education vs. Role of Social Worker in the Context of Kerala

Som Nepali

Subject: Arts And Humanities, Humanities Keywords: pandemic; social worker; Kerala; policies; education

Online: 3 September 2021 (20:50:56 CEST)

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Preprint REVIEW | doi:10.20944/preprints202010.0295.v2

A Review of Recent Studies on Urban Stormwater Drainage System for Urban Flood Management

Manaye Teshome

Subject: Arts And Humanities, Architecture Keywords: stormwater drainage; urban flood; urban drainage management; food disaster management

Online: 15 October 2020 (12:05:44 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201707.0061.v1

Science's Big Problem, Reincarnation's Big Potential, and Buddhists' Profound Embarrassment

Ted Christopher

Subject: Arts And Humanities, Religious Studies Keywords: scientific materialism; genetics; reincarnation; soul; religions; science; Buddhism

Online: 21 July 2017 (05:18:59 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201710.0138.v1

Preservation of the Environment according to the Quran and the Analysis of Environmental Issues in Malaysia

Noor Shakirah Mat Akhir, Imaaduddin Abdul Halim

Subject: Arts And Humanities, Religious Studies Keywords: preservation; environment; quran; issues; Malaysia

Online: 20 October 2017 (10:11:16 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201612.0129.v1

Historical Museums in Israel: Semiotics of Culture

Gabriel Mayer

Subject: Arts And Humanities, Museology Keywords: history; museology; Israeli culture; Holocaust; Israeli society

Online: 26 December 2016 (10:43:31 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201902.0138.v1

Raul Lino and the City

Paulo Manta Pereira

Subject: Arts And Humanities, Architecture Keywords: Raul Lino, architecture, city, circumstance, modernity, continuity

Online: 18 February 2019 (09:54:25 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201906.0050.v1

Avicenna’s Ideas and Arguments about Mind and Brain Interaction

Mohammad Jamali, Mehdi Golshani, Yousef Jamali

Subject: Arts And Humanities, Philosophy Keywords: mind brain interaction, Avicenna, consciousness, cognition, incorporeity of mind, mind matter interaction

Online: 6 June 2019 (12:58:52 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202109.0304.v1

A Comparative Analysis of Selected Fundamentals of Christianity and Islam

Idris Ajani Oni

Subject: Arts And Humanities, Religious Studies Keywords: Religion; Islam; Christianity; Abrahamic; Dialogue

Online: 17 September 2021 (10:49:52 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201804.0263.v1

Forensic Archaeometry Applied to Antiquities Trafficking: An Investigation at the Frontiers of Knowledge

Ignacio Rodríguez Temiño, Ana Yáñez, Susana Jorge Villar, Álvaro Reyes Mateos, Javier Rufino Rus, Jesús Salas Álvarez, Ana Carmen Lavín Berdonces

Subject: Arts And Humanities, Archaeology Keywords: antiquities trafficking; archaeometry; archaeological looting; expert evidence; judicial proceedings

Online: 20 April 2018 (11:17:32 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201701.0005.v1

What We Talk About When We Talk About Logic as Normative for Reasoning?

Ines Skelac

Subject: Arts And Humanities, Philosophy Keywords: logical laws; normativity of logic; reasoning; thinking

Online: 2 January 2017 (11:12:15 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201911.0111.v1

The Predictive Brain: A Modular View of Brain and Cognitive Function?

Ines Hipolito, Michael D. Kirchhoff

Subject: Arts And Humanities, Philosophy Keywords: predictive brain; modularity of the mind; cognitive function; functional segregation

Online: 10 November 2019 (13:40:28 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201712.0137.v1

Gimbutas’ Smile – An Archaeology Led, Archaeogenetic Model

Bob Kenyon

Subject: Arts And Humanities, Archaeology Keywords: Archaeology; Archaeogenetic Model; Neolithic; Chalcolithic; Bronze Age; Migration

Online: 19 December 2017 (15:49:22 CET)

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Migrations are much more important than currently recognised, for explaining important patterns observed in the European archaeology record – according to this archaeology led model. At a high level, they explain the introduction of different farming, monument building, the spread of metalworking and patterns of trade and exchange. This paper presents an archaeogenetic model based on a strategic review of the Neolithic and Chalcolithic archaeology of Europe, alongside a review of recently published ancient DNA data. The model is archaeology led. It takes archaeology themes and proposes migratory events to explain them. Ancient DNA data and further archaeology evidence is then used to test these proposed migrations- to reject or refine them. The model introduces a new and more strategic way of looking at archaeological cultures - that updates early 20th century approaches to studying archaeology cultures, and integrates with the detailed ‘post processual’ studies of the late 20th Century. The model consists of seven maps – each showing multiple migration events – with key evidence to support each migration map. It proposes a new category of a ‘Black Sea’ related population that makes a major genetic contribution to the Middle Neolithic of Europe. The proposed migrations provide an explanation for the observed patterns of archaeology, for example: • multiple Neolithic migrations that introduced, farming and metalworking into Europe; • a major ‘Black Sea’ related ‘Middle Neolithic’ migration that carried advanced knowledge of astronomy that can be recognised in a variety of types of monument from the Neolithic through to Bronze Age Europe; and, • migrations of related cultures (‘supercultures’) that explain patterns of trade and exchange in Bronze Age western Europe. The model also provides ancient DNA and archaeology based support for the key aspects of Childe’s ‘dawn of civilisation’ in Europe and Egypt and Gimbutas’ ‘Old Europe’ and “three waves of migration from the Steppe”.

Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201704.0133.v1

Ecological Approaches to Quantifying (Bio)Diversity in Music

David G. Angeler, José Benavent-Corai

Subject: Arts And Humanities, Music Keywords: quantitative musicology, biodiversity, ecology, interdisciplinary research, music analysis

Online: 20 April 2017 (10:43:40 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201612.0131.v1

Comparing the Incomparable: ‘Speaking Out’ and the Use of Drawings in Notebooks by Physicists

Harmen Hollestelle

Subject: Arts And Humanities, Philosophy Keywords: physicists, experimental set-up, drawings, spirituality, interaction

Online: 28 December 2016 (10:24:28 CET)

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Preprint EDITORIAL | doi:10.20944/preprints201703.0020.v1

Introduction: Race, Politics, and the Humanities in an Age of “Posts”: Rethinking the Human/Race

Myra Mendible

Subject: Arts And Humanities, Humanities Keywords: none

Online: 3 March 2017 (07:24:05 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201711.0123.v1

Reindeer Herders and White-Collar Workers: A Descriptive Study of Protestant Ethnic Groups in Urals and Western Siberia

Alexander Klyashev

Subject: Arts And Humanities, Religious Studies Keywords: Protestantism; Protestant Churches; post-Soviet Russia; ethnic groups; national intelligentsia; native peoples; social activity

Online: 20 November 2017 (08:10:47 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201705.0147.v1

‘When she calls for help’ – Domestic violence in Christian families

Leonie Westenberg

Subject: Arts And Humanities, Religious Studies Keywords: domestic violence; religion; families; women; abuse; theology; language

Online: 19 May 2017 (09:56:02 CEST)

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Carol Winkelmann, in her book ‘The Language of Battered Women’ describes not only the fact that domestic abuse is almost a daily occurrence in the lives of many women but that the language of religion and faith is often used by women in attempts to explain, understand and cope with such abuse . While religious belief and domestic violence may seem contradictory in terms of religious values of faith, virtue and love, research demonstrates that domestic violence in religious families and amidst religious congregations is prevalent. In fact, religious beliefs and practices are often embedded in cultural contexts and thus perpetuate patriarchal notions of dominance, power and submission. Abused Christian women, for example, are more likely to seek help from (male) ministers and others in positions of authority in their local church communities and are equally more likely to remain in or return to unsafe relationships, citing their religious beliefs to support their avoidance of ‘family break-ups’ because of abuse. What, then, is the response of ministers and church authorities to domestic abuse in their congregations? Despite recent calls for the training of pastors and other religious leaders in an understanding of domestic violence and in the recognition of appropriate, helpful responses, the language of some Christian churches can be seen to foster notions of submission so that women and pastors alike can appear confused concerning the experience of abuse. Religious congregations, while acting in love to help the poor and needy, for example, often fail to recognise domestic abuse amongst their own members and, indeed, such a topic can remain taboo in some church communities. Women, in turning to their pastors or other Christian leaders for help, can be silenced by the language of the religion itself, so that the role of wives and mothers may be seen to be submissive and the ‘keeper of the home’; to leave an abusive relationship may thus ‘break-up’ a home and imply failure of the woman to understand her role and fulfil her ‘maternal vocation’. On the other hand, religious beliefs offer victims of domestic violence both hope and comfort. Religious practices, such as prayer, liturgies and corporal (physical) works of mercy, can provide solace and practical assistance for women who suffer abuse. Domestic violence in religious congregations can be addressed within the context of the faith itself, with an emphasis on love and respect, helping women to understand their dignity with avenues of help so that the women can remove themselves and their children from abusive relationships, and the religious congregation and its leaders can call the partners to accountability. This paper seeks to outline a picture of domestic violence in religious congregations, specifically Christian church communities, by drawing on current research in the Western world. It then describes the language of some religious congregations that perpetuates domestic violence, with emphasis on contemporary studies in religious belief and domestic abuse. Finally, the paper makes some suggestions on how religious belief and practice can, in contrast to perpetuating abuse through norms, serve to assist women as victims of domestic violence, and how the connections between domestic violence and religious language or belief can be severed.

Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201803.0029.v1

Some Functions and Contexts of Traditional Pottery in Northern Ghana

Yussif Iddrisu, Vesta E. Adu-Gyamfi, Kafui Kwesi Agyenan

Subject: Arts And Humanities, Art Keywords: functions; contexts; traditional pottery; northern; Ghana

Online: 5 March 2018 (04:00:32 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201704.0155.v1

Exploring Natural Stone and Building a National Identity. The Geological Exploration of Natural Stone Deposits in the Nordic Countries and the Development of a National-Romantic Architecture

Atli Magnus Seelow

Subject: Arts And Humanities, Architecture Keywords: architecture; 19th century; 20th century; Nordic countries; natural stone; national romanticism; geology

Online: 25 April 2017 (04:56:44 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202205.0187.v1

Multidisciplinary Study of the Origin of the Painting From the Early 20TH Century Leads to Picasso

Marica Bakovic, Slobodanka Karapandza, Sajed Mcheik, Ana Pejovic Milic

Subject: Arts And Humanities, Art Keywords: historic pigments; colorants; nitrocellulose; X-ray radiography; X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy; infrared Fourier transform spectroscopy; Raman spectroscopy

Online: 13 May 2022 (09:44:35 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201902.0141.v1

Kazburun I Barrow Burial Ground: Barrow Complex of and Alakul Population of Bashkir Transurals Archeological Microdistrict: The Southern Urals Barrow Burial Ground of the Late Bronze Age: The Complex of Alakul and Srubnaya Crosscultural Actions

I. Shuteleva, Nikolai Shcherbakov, T. Leonova, K. Gorshkov

Subject: Arts And Humanities, Archaeology Keywords: the Late Bronze Age; Bashkir Transurals; Srubnaya-Alacul type of monuments; interdisciplinary methods in archaeological investigation

Online: 15 February 2019 (11:16:37 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201704.0111.v1

Willful Control and Controlling the Will: Technology and Being Human

Brent Waters

Subject: Arts And Humanities, Religious Studies Keywords: technology; ontology; will; mastery; Hannah Arendt; George Grant; Iris Murdoch

Online: 18 April 2017 (11:48:02 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201801.0278.v1

Psychological Risks of Resettlers in Resettlement Planning: A Study in Moragahakanda Resettlement Project (MRP)

Rangajeewa Ratnayake, Hansani Disanayake

Subject: Arts And Humanities, Humanities Keywords: resettlement; psychological risks; development-induced displacement

Online: 30 January 2018 (06:48:20 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202006.0267.v1

Cultivating Quality Awareness in Corona Times

Guus Timmerman

Subject: Arts And Humanities, Philosophy Keywords: quality of care; Covid-19; relational caring; care ethics; practical wisdom; mismatch; humanness: solicitude: habitability

Online: 21 June 2020 (11:49:59 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202002.0339.v1

The Representation of Modern Government in W. H. Auden’s Poem “The Unkown Citizen”

Christinawati Christinawati, Moses Pandin

Subject: Arts And Humanities, Literature And Literary Theory Keywords: citizen; modern government; monument; phenomenon; representation; statistics

Online: 24 February 2020 (02:26:06 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201802.0117.v1

Assessment of the History and Cultural Inclusion of Public Art in Pakistan

Syed Asifullah Shah, Ashfaq Ahmad Shah, Xianfeng Li

Subject: Arts And Humanities, Art Keywords: Public Art; Cultural identity; Islamic society; Art history; Pakistan.

Online: 18 February 2018 (13:16:07 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202304.0593.v1

Everyone's an Artist? Exploring User Acceptance of AI-Based Painting Systems

Junping Xu, Xiaolin Zhang, Hui Li, Chaemoon Yoo, Younghwan Pan

Subject: Arts And Humanities, Art Keywords: AI-based painting systems(AIBPS); Technology Acceptance Model (TAM); Behavioral intentions; User experience; Structural Equation Modelling (SEM

Online: 19 April 2023 (13:27:16 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201801.0121.v1

Social Sustainable Assessment Tool Development Approach

Jubril Olakitan Atanda, Ayşe Öztürk

Subject: Arts And Humanities, Architecture Keywords: social criteria; building assessment tools; sustainable development; social sustainability

Online: 15 January 2018 (07:55:41 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201709.0004.v1

An Evaluation-Driven Design Process for Exhibitions

Wolfgang Leister, Ingvar Tjøstheim, Göran Joryd, Michel de Brisis, Syver Lauritzsen, Sigrun Reisæter

Subject: Arts And Humanities, Other Keywords: design process; installations; science centres; museums; visitor engagement

Online: 1 September 2017 (18:01:32 CEST)

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Preprint REVIEW | doi:10.20944/preprints202003.0027.v1

Sometimes Hidden but Always There: Assumptions Behind Demographic Inference from Ancient DNA Data

Liisa Loog

Subject: Arts And Humanities, Archaeology Keywords: Population genetics; Statistical modelling; Demographic modelling; Ancient DNA; Population history; Archaeology

Online: 2 March 2020 (15:17:14 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201706.0076.v1

Christian Churches and the Boko Haram Insurgency in Cameroon: Dilemmas and Responses

Michael Kpughe Lang

Subject: Arts And Humanities, Religious Studies Keywords: Cameroon; terrorism; religion; Islam; Boko Haram; Christian churches; peace

Online: 16 June 2017 (05:13:32 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201708.0098.v1

Portraying Reality: Perceptions and Realities of Youth in Korean Theatre for Adolescents

Joohee Park

Subject: Arts And Humanities, Theater Keywords: theatre for adolescents; theatre for young audiences; art for youth

Online: 28 August 2017 (08:44:33 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202106.0381.v1

Lack of Implementation of Pancasila Values in the Era of Globalization

Nabila Vidi Paramestri, Moses Glorino Rumambo Pandin

Subject: Arts And Humanities, Humanities Keywords: moral decadence, implementation of Pancasila, globalization

Online: 14 June 2021 (16:46:30 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201708.0068.v1

Geometric Analysis on Stone Façades with Terrestrial Laser Scanner Technology

Juan Corso, Josep Roca, Felipe Buill

Subject: Arts And Humanities, Architecture Keywords: Terrestrial Laser Scanning; orthoimage; heritage; remote sensing; preservation; archaeology

Online: 18 August 2017 (16:49:13 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201912.0115.v1

Twice-Exceptional Gifted Students: Needs, Challenges, and Questions to Ponder

Khlood K Alshareef

Subject: Arts And Humanities, Humanities Keywords: gifted and talented students; twice-exceptional students; gifted education; special education

Online: 9 December 2019 (03:59:20 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201710.0070.v1

Semi-Automatic Detection of Indigenous Settlement Features on Hispaniola through Remote Sensing Data

Till F. Sonnemann, Douglas C. Comer, Jesse L. Patsolic, William P. Megarry, Eduardo Herrera Malatesta, Corinne L. Hofman

Subject: Arts And Humanities, Archaeology Keywords: Remote sensing; direct detection; GIS mapping; Caribbean Archaeology; landscape archaeology

Online: 11 October 2017 (16:23:29 CEST)

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Rethinking the Individuality of Pregnancy: Eutherian Pregnancy as an Evolved Relational Novelty

Laura Nuño de la Rosa, Mihaela Pavlicev, Arantza Etxeberria

Subject: Arts And Humanities, Philosophy Keywords: evo-devo; individuality; novelty; pregnancy; reproduction; transition

Online: 11 October 2019 (05:38:00 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202008.0491.v1

Ancestor Worshiping Beliefs in the Beliefs and Religion Life of Vietnamese People: Nature, Values, and Changes of it in the Current Period

Nguyen Trong Long, Vu Hong Van

Subject: Arts And Humanities, Religious Studies Keywords: folk beliefs; ancestor worshiping belief; spiritual life; beliefs and religion life; Vietnamese people; Vietnam today

Online: 22 August 2020 (05:03:32 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201711.0178.v1

“Festive Customs” and “Everyday Beauty”. The Agenda and Self-Conception of the Nordic Life Reform Movement

Atli Magnus Seelow

Subject: Arts And Humanities, Art Keywords: art history; Nordic countries; life reform movement; Ellen Key; 19th Century; 20th Century

Online: 28 November 2017 (05:29:23 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201809.0403.v1

Richard Avenarius’ “Kritik Der Reinen Erfahrung” (Critique of Pure Experience): An English Summary

Arturo Tozzi

Subject: Arts And Humanities, Philosophy Keywords: philosophy; epistemology; empirio-criticism; neuroscience; brain

Online: 20 September 2018 (08:04:55 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201803.0159.v1

Medea in Etruscan Art

Ekaterine Kobakhidze

Subject: Arts And Humanities, Art Keywords: Medea; Argonauts; Etruscan art; Cavatha

Online: 19 March 2018 (11:33:17 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201712.0071.v1

Models as a Medium in Architecture

Atli Magnus Seelow

Subject: Arts And Humanities, Art Keywords: history of architecture; architectural models; architectural media

Online: 12 December 2017 (07:05:09 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202106.0301.v1

The Urgency of Pancasila Values as a Form of Millennial Generation Character Education

Gabriella Raisza Putri, Moses Glorino Rumambo Pandin

Subject: Arts And Humanities, Humanities Keywords: Character education, Pancasila, the millennial generation, digital era.

Online: 10 June 2021 (15:17:44 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201901.0278.v1

Cultural Identity in Conservation of the Cultural Landscape values in Uraman Takht Village—Iran

laleh Ramezani, Mahdiar Nezam, Somayeh Fadaei Nezhad, Pirouz Hanachi

Subject: Arts And Humanities, Art Keywords: cultural identity; conservation; cultural landscape; value; Uraman Takh

Online: 28 January 2019 (12:11:03 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202104.0690.v1

Facade Style Mixing using Artificial Intelligence for Urban Infill

AHMED KHAIRADEEN ALI, One Jae Lee

Subject: Arts And Humanities, Architecture Keywords: : Artificial Intelligence; Generative Adversarial Network; Machine Learning; Computationl Design; Urban infill; Facade design

Online: 26 April 2021 (20:20:29 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201901.0197.v1

In Search of the Iraqi Other: Iraqi Fiction in Diaspora and the Discursive Reenactment of Ethno-Religious Identities

Yasmeen Hanoosh

Subject: Arts And Humanities, Literature And Literary Theory Keywords: post-2003 Iraq; fiction; Iraqi diaspora; sectarianism; secularism; Shīʿism; ethno-religious identity; alterity

Online: 21 January 2019 (08:00:48 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201801.0013.v1

Making Less Vulnerable City: Resilience as a New Paradigm of Smart Planning

Francesca Moraci, Maurizio Francesco Errigo, Celestina Fazia, Gianluca Burgio, Sante Foresta

Subject: Arts And Humanities, Architecture Keywords: resilient urban design; smart planning; climate change; resilient regional laws; pleasant public space

Online: 2 January 2018 (12:03:30 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201709.0147.v1

The Aspect of Subjectivity in Scientific Thinking—Where Did It Actually Come From?

Sven Hroar Klempe

Subject: Arts And Humanities, Philosophy Keywords: history of psychology; humanism; reformation; metaphysics; empirical psychology

Online: 29 September 2017 (03:41:09 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202109.0075.v2

The Impact of COVID-19 That Outbreak on the Quality Education vs. Role of Social Worker in the Context of Nepal

Rajesh Tamang, Som Nepali

Subject: Arts And Humanities, Humanities Keywords: COVID-19; Quality education; social work; students; implication level

Online: 15 February 2022 (20:45:19 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201810.0560.v1

The Coming Emptiness: On the Meaning of the Emptiness of the Universe in Natural Philosophy

Gregor Schiemann

Subject: Arts And Humanities, Philosophy Keywords: natural philosophy; cosmology; emptiness; vacuum; void; dark energy; space flight; exoplanet; big freeze; big crunch; everyday lifeworld

Online: 24 October 2018 (09:27:57 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201810.0265.v1

Recognizing and Acknowledging Worldview Diversity in the Inclusive Classroom

Janieta Bartz, Thomas Bartz

Subject: Arts And Humanities, Religious Studies Keywords: inclusion; worldview education; universal design for learning; learning in the presence of the other; reflexive inclusion

Online: 12 October 2018 (11:25:02 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201812.0042.v1

Information in Science and Buddhist Philosophy: Towards a Non-Materialistic Worldview

Carlos Gershenson

Subject: Arts And Humanities, Philosophy Keywords: information theory; epistemology; Buddhism; worldviews; causality

Online: 4 December 2018 (03:13:08 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201712.0041.v1

A Conceptual Approach to Urban Wellbeing from a Human Evolution Perspective

Gustav Milne

Subject: Arts And Humanities, Archaeology Keywords: conceptual model; Evolutionary Determinants of Health; greened city; human evolution; Palaeolithic genome; urban greenspace; urban wellbeing; Western Lifestyle Diseases

Online: 7 December 2017 (07:15:37 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201904.0157.v1

A Nonlinear Study on Time Evolution in Gharana Tradition of Indian Classical Music

Archi Banerjee, Shankha Sanyal, Ranjan Sengupta, Dipak Ghosh

Subject: Arts And Humanities, Music Keywords: Guru-Shishya parampara; gharana; Indian Classical Music; MFDFA; MFDXA

Online: 15 April 2019 (10:46:10 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201801.0281.v1

Belonging, Strangerhood and Mobility: South Sudanese in a Rural Town, Victoria

Naduni Wickramaarachchi, Edgar Burns

Subject: Arts And Humanities, Humanities Keywords: migrants; sense of belonging; small town; stranger; South Sudanese

Online: 30 January 2018 (10:35:53 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201711.0049.v1

Influence of Perceptual Range on Perceived Restoration

Moohan Kim, Jae-Hyuck Lee, Woo-Yeong Joo

Subject: Arts And Humanities, Architecture Keywords: spatial perception; Perceived Restorativeness Scale; urban greening; cognitive mapping; environmental restorative effect; perceptual range

Online: 8 November 2017 (03:11:06 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201805.0183.v1

Heritage Ethics and Human Rights of the Dead

Kelsey Perreault

Subject: Arts And Humanities, Humanities Keywords: death; bodies; human rights; burial; ethics; tourism; heritage; culture; memory

Online: 14 May 2018 (05:32:40 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202111.0371.v1

A Phone of One’s Own: Woolf, TikTok and the Aesthetic Evolution of Bisexuality

Christopher James Wells

Subject: Arts And Humanities, Literature And Literary Theory Keywords: bisexuality; Woolf; modernism; sexology; TikTok

Online: 19 November 2021 (17:33:57 CET)

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Preprint HYPOTHESIS | doi:10.3390/sci2030073

Are Scientific Models of Life Testable? A Lesson from Simpson’s Paradox

Prasanta Bandyopadhyay, Nolan Grunska, Don Dcruz, Mark Greenwood

Subject: Arts And Humanities, Humanities Keywords: emergence of life; game of life; inefficiency objection; simpson’s paradox; astrobiology

Online: 18 September 2020 (00:00:00 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202206.0035.v1

Descartes’ Dualism Does Not Commit the Masked Man Fallacy

Stuart Doyle

Subject: Arts And Humanities, Philosophy Keywords: Descartes; Dualism; Intensional Fallacy; Masked Man Fallacy; Cogito; Introspection

Online: 2 June 2022 (15:28:01 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202208.0267.v1

Basically Jewish Kabbalah and Similarity to Hinduism

Ahmet Furkan Gocgen

Subject: Arts And Humanities, Religious Studies Keywords: kabbalah; kabbalah’s doctrines; hinduism; religion similarities

Online: 15 August 2022 (15:39:30 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201811.0635.v1

The Power of Carl Schmitt: Fascism, Dualism and Justice

Richard A. Cohen

Subject: Arts And Humanities, Philosophy Keywords: justice, fascism, Nazi, Gnosticism, power, ethics, will

Online: 30 November 2018 (15:49:55 CET)

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Preprint REVIEW | doi:10.20944/preprints202106.0577.v1

Repatriation of Artefacts: Western Museums and their Victims of Circumstance: Protocol for Systematic Review with Meta-Synthesis

Mathew Mbwogge

Subject: Arts And Humanities, Museology Keywords: Material culture, restitution, artefacts, antiquities, cultural objects, western museums, review

Online: 23 June 2021 (11:30:52 CEST)

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Background: The saga of repatriating cultural artefacts continues as western museums face increasing pressure from claimants. Western museums that have been involved in the display of historical artefacts, most of which were acquired during the colonial period, have come under huge criticism. A heated discussion of late has been the legitimacy of retaining artefacts in western museums. This study aimed at investigating the ongoing debate regarding the restitution of artefacts. Objective: To investigate the arguments for and against the repatriation of artefacts in relation to diplomatic exchange, preservation, legitimacy and usefulness. Methods: Records will be searched in electronic databases including the University of Manchester Library for Social Anthropology, Scorpus and Project MUSE. Search terms will include "return of artefacts", “return of historical objects”, “return of cultural objects”, “western museums”, “restitution of artefacts”, “repatriation of artefacts”, “restitution of historical objects”, repatriation of historical objects”, “restitution of cultural objects”, “repatriation of cultural objects”, "material culture", "return of antiquities”, restitution of antiquities” and “repatriation of antiquities”. Coding and analysis will be done in SWIFT-Review. The deductive and inductive approaches will be used in synthesising results. Both tabular and graphical methods will be used to present results. Ethics and Results: This study did not need any ethical approval. Results on study characteristics, quality and risk of bias assessments as well as the synthesis of arguments for and against the restitution of artefacts will be presented. The review results will be reported according to appropriate guidelines and disseminated through publication in a relevant journal and presented to stakeholders where necessary. Conclusions: This review will be based on current protocols for systematic review and qualitative evidence synthesis. The study will be the first review that seeks to pull together claims for and against the return of cultural artefacts. The conclusions that will be drawn and recommendations will provide the basis for further research into the debate and the way forward. This study will also help identify the existing gaps regarding the subject matter.

Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201808.0524.v1

Architecture and Technology in Paimio Sanatorium

Marianna Heikinheimo

Subject: Arts And Humanities, Architecture Keywords: Alvar Aalto, Modernism, Paimio Sanatorium, Finland, Bruno Latour, actor-network theory, history of technology, history of architecture

Online: 30 August 2018 (10:47:12 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202001.0363.v2

Materialist Premises in Hobbes and Kropotkin for Antipodean Conclusions: The State of War and the Mutual Aid

Francesco Scotognella

Subject: Arts And Humanities, Philosophy Keywords: Materialist philosophy; State of nature; Hobbes; Kropotkin

Online: 19 February 2020 (11:50:14 CET)

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The Origin of Phototrophy Reveals the Importance of Priority Effects for Evolutionary Innovation

Anthony Burnetti, William Ratcliff

Subject: Arts And Humanities, Humanities Keywords: photosynthesis; phototrophy; priority effects

Online: 21 December 2020 (11:29:19 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202310.1776.v1

Fantastic Flails and Where to Find Them: the Body of Evidence for the Existence of Flails in the Early and High Medieval Eras in Western, Central, and Southern Europe

Alistair Holdsworth

Subject: Arts And Humanities, History Keywords: flail; early medieval; high medieval; flexible weapon; ball and chain; morning star; war flail; holy water sprinkler; threshing flail; improvised weapon

Online: 30 October 2023 (05:58:39 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201806.0008.v1

The Development of Russian Church Architecture in The 1990s-2017: The State and Prospects

Ershov Bogdan Anatolievich, Ashmarov Igor Anatol’evich, Danilchenko Sergey Leonidovich

Subject: Arts And Humanities, History Keywords: church; art; priest; state; society

Online: 1 June 2018 (08:09:03 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201804.0057.v1

Auto-Extraction of Linear Archaeological Traces of Tuntian Irrigation Canals in Miran Site (China) from Gaofen-1 Satellite Imagery

Lei Luo, Xinyuan Wang, Rosa Lasaponara, Bo Xiang, Jing Zhen, Lanwei Zhu, Ruixia Yang, Decheng Liu, Chuansheng Liu

Subject: Arts And Humanities, Archaeology Keywords: auto-extraction; remote sensing archaeology; tuntian; LATTICs; GF-1; Silk Road; Miran

Online: 4 April 2018 (11:56:47 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202003.0105.v1

The Effects of High-Rise Buildings Arrangement on Pedestrian-Level Wind Comfort in Tehran District 22

Arash Mostafavi, Fariba Alborzi

Subject: Arts And Humanities, Architecture Keywords: High-Rise Building; Wind Comfort; Building Arrangement; Pedestrian Level; CFD; Tehran

Online: 6 March 2020 (04:35:48 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201811.0213.v1

The Correspondence Principle in Quantum Field Theory and Quantum Gravity

Damiano Anselmi

Subject: Arts And Humanities, Philosophy Keywords: Quantum field theory, Quantum gravity, Causality, Unitarity, Fakeons, Quantization, Correspondence principle, Philosophy, Philosophy of science

Online: 8 November 2018 (11:52:55 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201807.0310.v1

Atlantis: a Grain of Truth Behind the Fiction?

Massimo Rapisarda

Subject: Arts And Humanities, Archaeology Keywords: Atlantis; Obsidian; Pantelleria; Strait of Sicily; Plato

Online: 17 July 2018 (12:01:43 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201801.0059.v2

Multi-Faith Spaces Uncover Secular Premises Behind the Multi-Faith Paradigm

Ryszard Bobrowicz

Subject: Arts And Humanities, Religious Studies Keywords: multi-faith spaces; secularisation; multi-faith paradigm; unaffiliated; multi-belief

Online: 15 January 2018 (08:24:56 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201910.0036.v1

Housing Prices in Unregulated Markets: Study On Verticalised Dwellings in Santiago De Chile

Francisco Vergara-Perucich, Carlos Aguirre-Núñez

Subject: Arts And Humanities, Architecture Keywords: housing; Santiago de Chile; internal rate of return; net present value; affordability; profitability index

Online: 3 October 2019 (04:26:56 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201801.0197.v1

Modernization of Arab Linguistic Sciences in Modern Age

Salahuddin Mohd. Shamsuddin, Siti Sara Binti Hj. Ahmad

Subject: Arts And Humanities, Humanities Keywords: Arab Sciences; Greek Logic; Islamic Philosophy; Heretical Books; Modernization of Arab Rhetorical Linguistic Sciences in the contemporary age

Online: 22 January 2018 (10:07:20 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201805.0030.v1

Ready for Green Building Risks? The Case of South Korea from the Architect’s Point of View

Jinho Kim

Subject: Arts And Humanities, Architecture Keywords: green building; risk management; risk factors, risk mitigation measures; architect

Online: 2 May 2018 (16:55:58 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201806.0068.v1

Transformation of Informal Settlements: Case of Cape Vert

Miguel Amado, Francesca Poggi, Adriana Martins, Nuno Vieira, António Ribeiro Amado

Subject: Arts And Humanities, Architecture Keywords: sustainability; urban planning; parametric model; informal settlements; GIS

Online: 5 June 2018 (12:56:11 CEST)

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The non-existence of a land ownership database in most of the developing countries moves the inhabitants to the occupation of public lands. Some of this situation are the origin to areas of informal housing, commerce and agriculture and in the end into new informal settlements. Informal settlements become a serious problem in developing countries. The most common typology of informal settlements is that they are the population settled in public lands without any infrastructures and against the administrator's will. Thought this action the result in an uncontrolled land occupation process that promotes new informal areas without any proper built-up utilities, located in risk areas on the territory, barely ensuring the minimum requirements for a heaty living of the population and in various cases incentives to an informal economy. The process of build a cadastral map in informal settlement areas is a fundamental base to support the future transformation of illegal areas and to regulate the occupation of new subdivision planning and into the creation of new expansion areas. In this paper, it is presented a methodology developed to be applied to support a new register of land and to management. The transformation of informal settlement areas. The model to register the land tenure has been associated with allows the process application to multiple typology of informal settlements. The model to register land tenure has developed on a series of qualitative and quantitative data that determine the identification and classification of the buildings and its physical and functional description. The model was developed using Geographic Information System and with an initial survey of existing land titles of possession and public proposals to develop new expansion areas. A case study of the method is presented, where the land management model was implemented - Chã da Caldeiras in Ilha do Fogo an informal settlement in Cape Verde. The results are a great acceptance of the proposal by the population and local authorities and the starting of the implementation phase.

Preprint HYPOTHESIS | doi:10.20944/preprints202003.0072.v1

Modelling Consciousness within Mental Monism: An Automata-Theoretic Approach

Peter Lloyd

Subject: Arts And Humanities, Philosophy Keywords: consciousness; mental monism; idealism; automata; cellular automata

Online: 5 March 2020 (02:21:55 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201804.0173.v1

Leonardo da Vinci, Arquitect? A Proposal of Intervention in the Duomo of Milan

David Hidalgo García, Juan Manuel Santiago Zaragoza, Julián Arco

Subject: Arts And Humanities, Architecture Keywords: renaissance; architecture; duomo; Leonardo; Bramante

Online: 16 April 2018 (05:15:25 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201807.0363.v1

Art Objects and the Experience of Art-Making

Tim Gorichanaz

Subject: Arts And Humanities, Art Keywords: art-making; experience; phenomenology; feeling; intention; lifeworld; cognitive dualism

Online: 19 July 2018 (14:57:28 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201907.0110.v1

Approximate and Situated Causality in Deep Learning

Jordi Vallverdú

Subject: Arts And Humanities, Philosophy Keywords: causality; deep learning; machine learning; counterfactual; explainable AI; blended cognition; mechanisms; system

Online: 8 July 2019 (08:10:29 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201910.0011.v1

Trace Elements of Cu-(Fe)-Sulphide Inclusions in Bronze Age Copper Slags from South Urals and Kazakhstan: Ore Sources and Alloying Additions

Dmitry A. Artemyev, Maksim N. Ankushev

Subject: Arts And Humanities, Archaeology Keywords: copper slag; sulphide; chalcocite; сovellite; bornite; LA-ICP-MS; South Ural; Kazakhstan; Bronze Age

Online: 2 October 2019 (03:32:26 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201810.0149.v1

Gender and Race in Ministry Leadership: Experiences of Black Clergywomen

Dr. Kimberly Nelms Smarr, PsyD, Dr. Rachelle Disbennett-Lee, PhD, Dr. Amy Cooper Hakim, PhD

Subject: Arts And Humanities, Religious Studies Keywords: Leadership, Women, Women Clergy, Black, Religion and Gender.

Online: 8 October 2018 (13:57:05 CEST)

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From Allostatic Agents to Counterfactual Cognisers: Active Inference, Biological Regulation, and the Origins of Cognition

Andrew W. Corcoran, Giovanni Pezzulo, Jakob Hohwy

Subject: Arts And Humanities, Philosophy Keywords: complexity; uncertainty; cognition; allostasis; homeostasis; free energy principle; active inference; environmental complexity thesis; adaptation; representation; interoception; biorhythms; life-mind continuity

Online: 29 February 2020 (12:33:12 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202003.0092.v1

From Religious Heritage to Cultural Heritage: Study the Heritage of Buddhism in Vietnam

Vu Hong Van

Subject: Arts And Humanities, Religious Studies Keywords: Heritage of Buddhism; religious heritage; tangible cultural heritage; intangible cultural heritage; Vietnam

Online: 5 March 2020 (12:16:31 CET)

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