The present paper addresses the problem of likeness in Byzantine donor portrait and treats this issues, initially, context historiography portraiture and, further, contemporary sources, epigrams by Palaiologan poet Manuel Philes. It looks at two consecutive methodological trends historiography: first, traditional art historical, investigates portraits as objects, i.e. it their style, iconograph...

New Readings provides a fully peer-reviewed platform for original research in the fields of literature, film, cultural history and visual culture. Aiming to stimulate debate between specialists from different disciplines, journal has strong, but by no means exclusive, interest scholarship that cuts across traditional disciplinary national boundaries, as well comparative work, is open variety an...

This paper draws on the theoretical concepts of individual agency and academic buoyancy to explore ways in which three multilingual international students responded overcame challenges they encountered while studying at a university Canada. investigation is situated within against discourses deficit disruption that have traditionally surrounded accounts who use English as an additional language...

This article contributes to the growing body of research examining complex experiences water insecurity in low-income households global north. I present a schematic, and evidence support it, for household water-insecurity nexus U.S-Mexico border colonias, according which brings forth, influences, interacts with number burdens. Drawing from eight months field communities that lack connections pi...

An eponym is a word derived from the name of a person, whether real or fictional. A medical eponym is thus any word related to medicine, whose name is derived from a person. Nevertheless, some ancient medical scientists who made researches and their names were linked to medical conditions, hence become „eponyms’’ are now „anonyms”, in the sense that little is known about them. In Table I [1-12]...

In this work, we explore the feasibility of face recognition technologies for analyzing works of portraiture, and in the process provide a quantitative source of evidence to art historians in answering many of their ambiguities concerning identity of the subject in some portraits and in understanding artists’ styles. Works of portrait art bear the mark of visual interpretation of the artist. Mo...

Avatars perform a complex range of inter-related functions. They not only allow us to express a digital identity, they facilitate the expression of physical motility and, through non-verbal expression, help to mediate social interaction in networked environments. When well designed, they can contribute to a sense of “presence” (a sense of being there) and a sense of “co-presence” (a sense of be...