Giving Up Control: the Future of e-Learning

JESHO, 2024

This article is the first in-depth study of an Ilkhanid private document from the Mausoleum of Shaykh Ṣafī in Ardabil (North-Western Iran). It contains the critical edition, translation and commentary of an original deed recording the sale of half a village near Miyāna, in the south of the Iranian province of Azarbayjan, in 666/1267. The document is remarkable for its length, its highly literary wording, some formal oddities and also the identity of the parties. It shows that the seller, Bint Toghrïl, daughter of the last Saljuq sultan of Iran, whose life is documented by chronicles, managed not only to survive the Mongol conquests but also somehow to retain her economic base for several decades. The identity of the buyer and the qadi who legalized the act illustrates the strong presence of powerful Shafiʿi families in Mongol Iran (here the Qazwīnīs and Mākī Qazwīnīs). We compare this deed of sale with other unpublished items of the Ardabil corpus as well as similar documents from better-known medieval archival funds from the Near East.

Hace casi un siglo atrás, a los tres poderes clásicos del estado, ejecutivo, legislativo y judicial, se le añadió la prensa como un cuarto poder. En nuestro presente, las redes sociales han tomado relevancia e influencia en la población mundial inclusive movilizando multitudes

Caminhando, 2019

We will aim in our article to describe the forms of government in the novel of Joseph (Genesis 37–50); for this, we will present the literary and historical seams that the novelistic text presents to us. Government categorizations will be addressed, namely, reign and dominate, themes characteristic of almost the whole novel, whose Egyptian setting is a rear projection in perspective realized in the sixth century and incorporated into the history of the patriarchs between the fifth and fourth century.

The IRMÉCCEN (Sorbonne Nouvelle University) and LabSIC (Sorbonne Paris Nord University) laboratories, research committees 14 (Sociology of Communication, Knowledge, and Culture), 37 (Sociology of the Arts), and 54 (The Body in Social Sciences) of the International Sociological Association (ISA), as well as research committees 38 (Socio-anthropologie Politique: Médias et Cultures) and 33 (Sociologie de la Communication et du Numérique) of the Association Internationale des Sociologues de Langue Française (AISLF), the Cité du Genre, and the Groupe de Travail “Genre et Espace Numérique” of the Centre Internet et Société (CNRS), are jointly organizing the bilingual (French and English) international conference entitled “Bodies, Arts, and Media: (Re)Configurations in the Digital Era”.

In recent times the concept of smart cities has gained great popularity. Thanks to the evolution of the Internet of things(IoT) the idea of the smart city now seems to be achievable. Consistent efforts are being made in the field of IoT in order to maximize the productivity and reliability of urban infrastructure. Problems such as traffic congestion, limited car parking facilities, and road safety are being addressed by IoT. In this paper, we present an IoT based cloud integrated smart parking system. The proposed Smart Parking system consists of an on-site deployment of an IoT module that is used to monitor and signalize the state of availability of each single parking space. A mobile application is also provided that allows an end user to check the availability of parking space and book a parking slot accordingly. Towards the end, the paper discusses the working of the system in the form of a use case that proves the correctness of the proposed model.

The mainshock and moderate-magnitude aftershocks of the 6 April 2009 M 6.3 L'Aquila seismic sequence, about 90 km northeast of Rome, provided the first earthquake ground-motion recordings in the urban area of Rome. Before those recordings were obtained, the assessments of the seismic hazard in Rome were based on intensity observations and theoretical considerations. The L'Aquila recordings offer an unprecedented opportunity to calibrate the city response to central Apennine earthquakes-earthquakes that have been responsible for the largest damage to Rome in historical times. Using the data recorded in Rome in April 2009, we show that (1) published theoretical predictions of a 1-sec resonance in the Tiber valley are confirmed by observations showing a significant amplitude increase in response spectra at that period, (2) the empirical soil-transfer functions inferred from spectral ratios are satisfactorily fit through 1D models using the available geological, geophysical, and laboratory data, but local variability can be large for individual events, (3) response spectra for the motions recorded in Rome from the L'Aquila earthquakes are significantly amplified in the radial component at periods near 1 s, even at a firm site on volcanic rocks, and (4) short-period response spectra are smaller than expected when compared to ground-motion predictions from equations based on a global dataset, whereas the observed response spectra are higher than expected for periods near 1 s.

Darwin writes that there is a “web of complex relations” that binds different species together. This web, he writes, is such “that the structure of every organic being is related, in the most essential and yet often hidden manner, to that of all the other organic beings with which it comes into competition for food or residence or from which it has to escape or on which it preys.” This structure is shaped by the organism’s environment. Such shaping also includes its sensate, conscious life. In this paper, I examine how this view transforms Husserl’s notion of horizon. For Husserl, the concept of horizon signifies a series of experiences that have been connected and, in their connections, determine the further experiences which can join this series so as to determine the sense of an object. It also includes the experiences that relate this object to other objects. The totality of such experiences, which he call the horizon of horizons, thus consists of the experiences (actual and potential) that allow us to posit individual objects and relate them to each other. Viewed from the Darwinian perspective, this horizon of horizons is only part of a greater whole, that of the interrelated experiences of sensate organisms. The horizon of horizons thus exceeds the human. I conclude by showing how this expanded notion of horizon allows us to address the problematic aspects of Husserl’s original notion of horizon.