Abstract. Climate is usually considered to depend on a large number of parameters, this being essentially a functional in multi-dimensional parameter space. We propose a low-dimensional model of a climate where the temperature field on a thermally conducting planet depends on the external energy input and very limited number of internal parameters, like thermal conductivity and reflectivity. Eq...

all forms of creative production born of an intimate and individual urge, often secretive, unbound from the conventional art system rules. Through short descriptions of the Outsider art work of prominent artists and new protagonists often hosted in community mental health services, this section intends to investigate the latest developments of the contemporary art scene, where the distances bet...

0019-1035/$ see front matter 2009 Elsevier Inc. A doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2009.06.005 * Corresponding author. Address: Universität B Sidlerstasse 5, 3013 Bern, Switzerland. E-mail addresses: [email protected] Lefort). The Peneus and Amphitrites Paterae region of Mars displays large areas of smooth, geologically young terrains overlying a rougher and older topography. These terrains ma...

Introduction The authors were all involved in the 'seminal' Utopia project, 1981-85, where Cooperative Design methodology, involving users very early in the design process, had an early development and application in the use of computers. One strong goal was to 'give the end users a voice' in design and development of computer support in work places, thus enhancing the quality of the resulting ...

We examine dialectical tensions between “dialogue” and “narrative” as these discourses supplant one another the fundamental discourse of intelligibility, through juxtaposing two interpretations Genesis 38 rooted in changing interpretative paradigms. Is dialogue properly understood a narrative genre, or is content about which people are dialogue? divine–human relationship drama it god human bein...

in the classification and structural analysis of shahnameh, the authors of the article consider the conflict between good and evil (from now on c.g.e.) as the main motif of this great epic. this motif has spread all over the epic. the number of the stories being influenced by the myth of c.g.e. is at least twice as many as every other motif in the epic. considering the antiquity of the myth and...