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New Advances in Statistical Modeling and Applications
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 283

New Advances in Statistical Modeling and Applications

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-05-12
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  • Publisher: Springer

This volume of the Selected Papers is a product of the XIX Congress of the Portuguese Statistical Society, held at the Portuguese town of Nazaré, from September 28 to October 1, 2011. All contributions were selected after a thorough peer-review process. It covers a broad scope of papers in the areas of Statistical Science, Probability and Stochastic Processes, Extremes and Statistical Applications.

Eating, Building, Dwelling
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 231

Eating, Building, Dwelling

The intricate relationship between food, city and architecture, spanning from ancient civilizations to the present, serves as a focal point for interdisciplinary discourse. This book delves into a diverse set of cases throughout history in which processes related to food significantly influenced architectural or urban designs. This book delineates three spatial levels — city, home and intermediate spaces — illuminating their dynamic interplay within the construct of a continually evolving “food space." Featuring 12 contributions from Mediterranean Europe, this publication explores historical legacies and contemporary challenges. Divided into urban-territorial and architectural scales, it offers nuanced insights into urban dynamics, domestic life and gastronomic tourism. Supported by a prestigious introductory study, this research advances a comprehensive understanding of food's role in shaping urban environments. Through the chapters of this book, those interested in cultural studies of food, urban history and architecture will be able to reflect on our relationship with food and its processes, and how it affects the way we live and design our cities and their architectures.

Industry 4.0 for the Built Environment
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 677

Industry 4.0 for the Built Environment

This book discusses how the role of traditional construction professional is changing, providing a useful guide for practitioners who would like to upskill themselves. Lately, core concepts and methodologies for the Built Environment are presented providing definitions and applications on Building Information Modelling, Computational Design, Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Cloud Computing, Data Analytics and Visualization, Lean Construction, Advanced Project Management, Sustainability, Geographical Information Systems, Advanced Business Models, Disaster Management, Quality Management, Health and Safety and Legal prospective. The book also shows the latest technologies for the Built Enviro...

Exploring Film and Christianity
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 240

Exploring Film and Christianity

This book examines the connections between film and Christianity, considering how films express and depict Christian faith and spirituality and provide experiences associated with it. The notion of movement as immobility (from Simone Weil) is employed to describe film and its images in motion. Its movements can reconnect us with the movements of the world, those motions in which a mysterious sense of order, what Weil calls "immobility," arises. Film is understood as a privileged form to access inscrutable spiritual (in)visibilities that can be linked with Christian concepts and practices. The chapters in Exploring Film and Christianity offer new studies of famous directors such as Andrei Tarkovsky and Robert Bresson combined with analyses of recent notable films, including Terrence Malick’s Knight of Cups, Martin Scorsese’s Silence, and Denis Villeneuve’s Blade Runner 2049. Organized around the productive topics of theory, expression, depiction and experience, this volume is a valuable contribution to interdisciplinary research on film and Christianity.

The Boundaries of Freedom
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 507

The Boundaries of Freedom

This book brings together key scholars writing on Brazilian slavery and abolition, emphasizing the profound impact it had on the social, political, and institutional history of modern Brazil. For the first time, English-language readers can access in one place arguments that have transformed the historiography of Brazilian slavery.

The Marrano Factory
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 464

The Marrano Factory

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2001
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  • Publisher: BRILL

First published in Portuguese in 1969, this is the only work by Antonio Jose Saraiva available in English and the only single-volume history devoted primarily to the working of the Portuguese Inquisition, a most lucid and compact survey. "The Marrano Factory" argues that the Portuguese Inquisition s stated intention of extirpating heresies and purifying Portuguese Catholicism was a monumental hoax; the true purpose of the Holy Office was the fabrication rather than the destruction of "Judaizers."

Dança moderna 1992-2022
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1222

Dança moderna 1992-2022

Dança moderna 1992-2022 reúne textos do livro Dança moderna (1992) com escritos atualíssimos, incluindo imagens inéditas: as fotos da bailarina da Semana de Arte Moderna, evento que em 2022 teve seus cem anos festejados. Sob a curadoria editorial de Cássia Navas, os quatro artigos de 1922 permaneceram intactos: "As mães da modernidade" e "Klauss Vianna em São Paulo", de Cássia Navas, "As companhias estáveis" e "A experiência do Teatro de Dança no Galpão", de Linneu Dias. A eles juntam-se os capítulos: "Dança na Semana de Arte Moderna: importante desimportância", de Cássia Navas; "Dança em São Paulo hoje: continuidade e instabilidade, de 1992 a 2022", de Henrique Rochelle, ...

The Portuguese Slave Trade in Early Modern Japan
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 608

The Portuguese Slave Trade in Early Modern Japan

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2019-01-21
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  • Publisher: BRILL

In The Portuguese Slave Trade in Early Modern Japan: Merchants, Jesuits and Japanese, Chinese, and Korean Slaves, Lúcio de Sousa offers a study on the system of traffic of Japanese, Chinese, and Korean slaves from Japan, using the Portuguese mercantile networks; reconstructs the Japanese communities in the Habsburg Empire; and analyses the impact of the Japanese slave trade on the Iberian legislation produced in the 16th and first half of the 17th centuries.

Structural Health Monitoring Based on Data Science Techniques
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 490

Structural Health Monitoring Based on Data Science Techniques

The modern structural health monitoring (SHM) paradigm of transforming in situ, real-time data acquisition into actionable decisions regarding structural performance, health state, maintenance, or life cycle assessment has been accelerated by the rapid growth of “big data” availability and advanced data science. Such data availability coupled with a wide variety of machine learning and data analytics techniques have led to rapid advancement of how SHM is executed, enabling increased transformation from research to practice. This book intends to present a representative collection of such data science advancements used for SHM applications, providing an important contribution for civil engineers, researchers, and practitioners around the world.

Peasant Rebellion in a Slave Society
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 531

Peasant Rebellion in a Slave Society

Peasant Rebellion in a Slave Society identifies the immediate and remote reasons for the Balaiada revolt in Maranhão, Brazil, analyzing the special characteristics of the region that favored the development of a relatively independent peasantry within and around the cotton, rice, cassava, and cattle estates. The book explores the demography of Maranhão and patterns of land ownership and documents the rapid degradation of the environment by plantation‐based export agriculture. The analysis of various types of coerced and free labor, the oligopolistic structure of the colonial economy, and the key determinants of class and status contextualizes the conflict potential in Maranhão during th...