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Showing 1 to 20 of 34 for “"Seville"”.
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Articulatory timing and sound change: a sociophonetic study of /st/ clusters in Seville Spanish
This dissertation investigates the phonetic realization of the consonant cluster /st/ in Sevillian Spanish, examining how social and temporal factors influence the articulation of /s/ before /t/. Four variants are analyzed: sibilant /s/, preaspiration [ʰt], postaspiration [tʰ], and …
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Measuring the Applicability of the Seville Strategy to the Mammoth Cave Area Biosphere Reserve
… Reserve (IBR) program, as defined in the Seville Strategy, encourages locations already involved in conservation to continue to protect biodiversity and foster harmonious relationships between humans and their environment through sustainable development. An excellent example of an IBR is …
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Evaluation of seismic Vulnerability and Strengthening of heritage Buildings. Case Study: The Giralda of Seville
… development in our cities. This is the case of Seville, where the cultural heritage has a great relevance. The Giralda tower of the Cathedral of Seville is its most representative building and its identity symbol. It has been declared as a Word Heritage Site by UNESCO due to its patrimonial …
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Contrasting the past and the present: A contemporary museum for the city of Seville, Spain
It is proposed to provide a link referring to the Golden Tower by contrasting Islamic vocabularies of the tower with contemporary architectural vocabularies in order for the two structures to complement one another.
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The Barber of Seville by Giovanni Paisillo and Pierre-Augustin Caron De Beaumarchais English Adaption
… Rossini and Paisiello versions of The Barber of Seville for a research seminar three years ago. Although I was quite familiar with the Rossini setting, I had neither seen nor heard the Paisiello work. Fortunately, there was an Italian recording available and I soon became enchanted by the music …
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Application of circularity tools for the sustainability evaluation of the urbanization process (case study; city of Seville)
… insights. Validation through the case study of Seville, Spain (2003–2023), illustrates the framework’s effectiveness. Results demonstrate a circularity score of 6.55 in 2016 (33.5% of the ideal score 19.57) and 7.25 in 2023 (37.05% of the ideal benchmark) and reveal significant urban sprawl …
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Francisco de Zurbarán and his Workshop's Painting Production for the Americas: Trade, Collections and Reception
… 1636 and 1649. Zurbarán was mostly active in Seville, the main Spanish port to the Americas during his lifetime, which was a considerable advantage as he had direct contact with the merchants and shipments destined overseas. By the time he started exporting his oeuvre to Latin America in the …
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The development of passive downdraught evaporative cooling systems using porous ceramic evaporators and their application in residential buildings
… simulations on a case study building in Seville demonstrated that the system can provide comfort conditions after a series of energy saving strategies were applied to reduce cooling loads. An applicability study focusing on the residential stock of Seville assessed that the proposed …
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Making the ocean : global space, sailor practice, and bureaucratic archives in the sixteenth-century Spanish maritime empire
… centered at the Casa de la Contratación in Seville. In the Atlantic, bureaucratic standardization driven by the Casa made commercial ocean travel increasingly routine, while exploratory sailors, particularly in the Pacific, continued to apply their expertise in unknown and unpredictable …
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Regional variation of mood use in Spanish: A comparison among three Spanish-speaking regions
… (Rosario, Argentina; Barcelona, Spain; and Seville, Spain) by means of a conceptual replication of Gudmestad (2021), which studied variable mood use in Spanish across three regions (Quito, Ecuador; Mérida, Mexico; and Seville, Spain). The current study's participant pool (N = 107) consisted …
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The Model Prodigal: Jesuit School Plays and the Production of Devotion in the Spanish Empire, 1565-1611
… in Pedro Pablo de Acevedo's Comedia Caropo: Seville, 1565) and Comedia Filauto: Seville, 1565), Juan de Cigorondo's Tragedia intitulada Oçio: Puebla, 1586), and Pedro de Salas's Coloquio de la Escolástica triunfante y la nueva Babilonia: Soria, 1611). These plays characterize this journey …
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The City Encomium in Medieval and Humanist Spain
… city encomia written for Roncesvalles, Seville and Zamora represented a growing tendency in the Peninsula to mark the dignity and history of a local community, and not just Hispania as a wider entity. Fourteenth- and fifteenth-century <em>laudes</em> and <em>lamentationes</em> for cities …
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Biomonitorización de contaminantes ambientales en parejas madre-hijo y posibles asociaciones con su estado de salud y nutricional en el momento del parto
… and cord blood samples in a population from Seville (Spain)” y una determinación de los niveles de parabenos en muestras de orina y de líquido amniótico que aparece en el capítulo 3: “Determinación y cuantificación de los niveles de parabenos en muestras de orina materna y líquido amniótico …
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Enchantment, treasures and the otherworld in the Four Branches of the mabinogi.
… in treatise by churchmen such as Isidore of Seville, or the scholarly works of the universities. Textual analysis of these has demonstrated that until the thirteenth century, many elite-writers believed that the origin of magical power was demonic influence. The thirteenth-century texts add a …
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LE ETIMOLOGIE GRECHE NEI COMMENTARII DI SERVIO A VIRGILIO
… from Naevius (III century BCE) to Isidore of Seville (died 636 CE). In the Conclusions, a comprehensive analysis of Servius' Greek etymological notes relative to their function is presented. Furthermore, two widely accepted scholarly interpretations, namely that Servius believed in an Aeolic …
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The Book of the Judgements of Calatarama: A Case Study of a Medieval Spanish Geomancy
… of the Biblioteca Colombina at the Cathedral of Seville, Spain, contains a single text, the Libro de los juysios de calatarama, the “Book of the judgements of calatarama.” Identified as a translation of a Hebrew translation of an Arabic original, the Libro de los juysios de calatarama is an …
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Designing a neighborhood to prevent crime and increase physical activity: a case study among African-American women in Kansas City, Missouri
… aspects of the built environment (Cleveland and Seville 2008; Griffin et al. 2008; Dekeseredy et al. 2009), they have yet to effectively address crime-safety needs and its potential relationship with physical activity behaviors of low-income African-American women and their neighborhoods. …
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Unstable Foundations: Class Realignment, Class Formation and Its Political Articulation in an Urban Working-Class Periphery
… through a case study of San Jeronimo in Seville (Spain). Located in an urban periphery undergoing socio-spatial changes, hitherto considered a bulwark of social democratic politics, San Jeronimo shows signs of political change. Results indicate that the theoretical framework is successful …
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Control predictivo con modos deslizantes
… de Sistemas y Automática" in the University of Seville (Spain); second, a field of distributed collectors of solar radiation, situated in the "Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas" in Tabernas (Almería, Spain).
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Her Playing Eye: Courtesans at Chess in the Book of Games (c. 1283/84)
… and Tables (Libro de los Juegos) completed in Seville in 1283, there is more than what meets the eye. Featuring some hundred chess problems, another hundred board and dice games, each accompanied by miniatures depicting games at play, players sit across the board from each other. Enclosed, …
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