Cosmos - Carl Sagan

While Jewish liturgy is national, it also has universalistic traits, which are extremely visible in the liturgy of Rosh Hashanah.

TUBA-AR, 2024

As a result of archaeological research conducted in the Southern Caucasus, including Azerbaijan, a number of settlements belonging to the Late Chalcolithic period were discovered. A research has shown that the Late Chalcolithic culture in Azerbaijan has its own characteristics, and the “Ovçular Tepe culture” and “Leyla Tepe culture” were formed here. But despite this, many of Caucasian scholar’s studies generally named the Late Chalcolithic culture of the Southern Caucasus sometimes the Sioni Culture, sometimes Sioni-Tsopi Culture, sometimes Sioni ceramics, and sometimes Sioni-type monuments in textbooks. Recently, this culture has been named the Sioni-Tsopi-Ginchi Culture. According to all these facts it can be said that the Sioni Culture has become the synonym of the Late Chalcolithic culture of the Southern Caucasus. The investigation of Late Chalcolithic monuments located in the Southern Caucasus shows that they differ from each other in terms of their architecture and ceramics. The period and characteristic features of the Sioni Culture also are not fully defined. Ceramics belonging to the second group in the Tumbul Tepe settlement are similar to Sioni ceramics in some of their characteristics. However, researches show that this type of ceramics was not a separate culture, but a part of the Late Chalcolithic culture. We believe that the reason for such diversity of ceramics is related to their functional purpose. Even if it is possible to call a group of Late Chalcolithic monuments in the Southern Caucasus the Sioni-Tsopi-Ginchi Culture, it is not correct, in our opinion, to attribute this to all the monuments of the Southern Caucasus. It should be noted that this type of ceramics, distributed in different periods and monuments of different characteristics, differs from each other due to local characteristics. This shows that they do not spread from one center.

Journal of Early Modern History, 10, 2006

An influential historiographical tradition has opposed the accounts of extra-European worlds produced by sixteenth-century travel writers to the concerns of humanists and other European men of learning, even detecting a 'blunted impact' up until the eighteenth century, when the figure of the philosophical traveller was proclaimed by Rousseau and others. It is my argument that this approach is misleading and that we need to take account of the full influence of travel writing upon humanistic culture in order to understand how the Renaissance eventually led to the Enlightenment. A first step consists in analysing the collective impact of accounts of America, Africa and Asia, rather than opposing the 'New World' to other areas. Moreover, whilst quantitative estimates offer a route for the assessment of 'impact', it is the qualitative aspect which is most clearly central to the cultural history of the period. Even 'popular' observers were often subtly influenced by concepts and strategies formulated by the intellectual elites. Under close scrutiny, it appears that humanists-and here I adopt a broad definition-had a crucial role in the production and consumption of travel accounts, as editors and travel collectors, as historians and cosmographers, and eventually-from the turn of the seventeenth century-as 'philosophical travellers'. The article seeks to illustrate these roles with reference to some examples from the first phase of the encounter. In particular, the early accounts of the Columbian expeditions by Nicolaus Scyllacus and Peter Martyr of Anghiera can be shown to have elaborated Columbian material more faithfully than is usually understood to be the case. Similarly, the historiography of conquest published after the middle of the sixteenth century reveals the widespread application of humanist standards to the literature of encounter produced in the previous sixty years.

Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2015

Target Cost Management is well known as the Japanese companies' competitive tool. Some studies claim that it is very hard to implement it outside Japan. The purpose of this paper is to explore how the TCM is being practiced and what the major factors are that influence TCM in non-Japanese environment. By using a case study approach, this paper compares TCM practices at a Malaysian automotive manufacturer with the previous case studies of Japanese automotive manufacturers. The results found that although the fundamental concept is similar, there are differences in details processes due to the adaptation with the contextual constraints.

Amparo contra el impuesto especial sobre producción y servicios en el consumo de gasolinas y dieseL

Journal of Engineering Research, 2024

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