Iskandar's Bibulous Business: Wine,Drunkenness and the Calls to the Sāqī in Nizāmī Ganjavī's Sharaf-nāma

The twelfth-century poet Nizāmī Ganjavī has produced his version of the adventures of Alexander as a unique composition mingling known Persian historiography and Qur'anic legends with unusual non-Islamic, especially Greek, elements in order to create his Iskandar-nāma (containing two parts, the Sharaf-nāma and the Iqbāl-nāma) as a synthesis of eastern and western cultures. A first point is the examination of the reasons behind the importance given to wine and drunkenness within the narrative. The poet has stressed this further by heading each chapter with a call to the sāqī. The essay examines the appositeness of the invocations with the episodes in the narrative, it analyses examples of wine imagery (containing references to medicine, to the mirror and to religion) and questions the relation between authorial persona, narrator and characters, examining in particular the famous teetotaler claim in one of the introductory chapters of the first part of the Iskandar-nāma.     

The Middle Stone Age human remains from Diepkloof Rock Shelter (Western Cape,South Africa)

In the course of recent excavations at Diepkloof Rock Shelter (South Africa), three human remains were found in the Middle Stone Age layers. These human remains are two pedal phalanges (intermediate and distal) from a fifth ray, which belong to the same individual, and a deciduous first lower molar. The layers in which they were found represent the end of the Howiesons Poort and the beginning of post-Howiesons Poort occupation, and are radiometrically dated to MIS 3, between 45 and 65 kyr ago. They are thus very close in time to the assumed period of anatomically modern humans (AMH) dispersal out of Africa into Eurasia, a period for which very few remains are available in the African fossil record. Here, we describe these new remains and compare their morphology and dimensions to samples of African and Eurasian Pleistocene and Holocene humans. Our results show that the human remains from Diepkloof Rock Shelter fall well within the range of variation of AMH. The phalanges are of very small size and indistinguishable from those of recent humans. In addition, our analysis of the dm₁ underlines a large size variation at the end of the MIS 4/beginning of the MIS 3 in the Western Cape. The discovery of human remains at Diepkloof Rock Shelter, albeit limited to three small bones, enriches a poorly represented chronological period of the African hominin fossil record.     

German modernity,barbarous Slavs and profit‐seeking Jews: the cultural racism of nationalist liberals

This paper examines emblematic texts by two important protagonists of post‐1848 liberalism in Germany, Gustav Freytag and Heinrich von Treitschke, focusing on their treatment of Jews and Poles. The paper analyses the social content of their statements and argues that the elements of anti‐Semitism and anti‐Slav racism that they contain were motivated by the specific kind of nationalist liberalism that frames their affirmation of the process of modernisation. This affirmation was directed against the Poles on the one hand, seen as backward Easterners who had to be pushed into civilisation by Prussian–German colonialism, and, on the other hand, the Jews, largely perceived as representing the wrong kind of modernity against which benign (supposedly German) modernity had to be protected. At the same time, the image of the Jew in Freytag and Treitschke also participates in that of the backward Easterner, permitting to see undesirable, allegedly Jewish aspects of modernity also as distortions resulting from an alien and ancient culture. This analysis has consequences for theorisations of both liberalism and nationalism: it suggests that the racism and anti‐Semitism of nationalist liberals were intrinsically related to core aspects of the liberal world‐view rather than being merely contingent opinions held by particular individuals. It also indicates that the nationalism of many German post‐1848 liberals was ethnic as well as liberal. In this way, the paper contributes to the growing body of literature discussing the illiberal aspects of liberalism as well as the shortcomings of the long‐established conceptual dichotomy of ethnic vs. liberal nationalism.     

MODELLING OF STRUCTURAL ACCELERATIONS AND APPLICATION TO CONTROLLER DESIGN

In this paper a method for the identification of simplified linear models for building structures is applied to the case when acceleration, rather than displacement, is measured. A frame from benchmark structural controller studies is simulated, and from the input-output data of these simulations, simplified models for the acceleration response of the frame are obtained that have far fewer degrees of freedom. One of these simplified models is used to design a controller, which is tested using an evaluation model from the benchmark controller studies and found to be effective.     

产业转型期的长三角区域海洋旅游特色产品链构建

长三角地区是我国综合实力最强的经济中心,这一地区海岸线漫长,海洋旅游资源丰富,具备了发展旅游的资源、需求、区位和产品四大优势,是重要的旅游目的地和旅游客源地。近年来,长三角地区的入境旅游增长幅度逐年下降,旅游经济在国民经济体系、对外经济体系和服务经济体系中的比重也正发生着变化,旅游业面临着转型。作为现代服务业的旅游业是无边界产业,它与其它行业的广泛融合、相互渗透,形成了多样化的产业新形态。本文剖析了长三角地区转型时期的旅游产业,分析该区域旅游产业的新形态,并提出了构建海洋特色旅游产品链的设想。     

基于GIS的盐城城市内部空间结构演变分析

根据1984、1997、2003、2006年4个时相数据,运用GIS的空间分析方法,对盐城城市工业、居住、公共服务用地的空间分异特征进行分析,并利用多种景观格局指数,分析了三种功能用地的完整性、集聚性和异质性特征。结果表明:1984-2006年盐城城市内部空间结构演变过程可划分为集聚、分散、再集聚三个阶段,同时演变中存在"工业围城"、城市中心区的工业和居住用地比重偏大等问题。     

延安市农民收入可持续增长机制探析

近年来,延安市农民人均纯收入一直低于全国平均水平,城乡居民收入差距也不断扩大。为改变这一局面,延安市政府实施了生态移民工程,进行了农业产业结构调整。这些措施在一定程度上改善了农民的生活水平,但是,制约农民收入增长的根本性障碍仍然存在。只有促进高附加值农业的可持续发展、鼓励农村剩余劳动力的外出就业和使农村非农产业实现较快发展,才能建立起农民收入的可持续增长机制。     

甘肃旅游资源类型及其空间结构研究

对旅游资源类型及其地域组合、空间结构规律的研究是进行旅游资源开发利用和旅游规划的基础。在分析甘肃旅游资源形成的自然和社会历史文化因素的基础上,利用统计(SPSS)和地信软件(GIS),对甘肃旅游资源类型的地域组合和空间结构进行了定量的分析。首先对甘肃旅游资源以县域为单位,结合甘肃旅游资源特点,参照郭来喜等新拟的旅游资源分类系统,选取23个景型指标,依据其在景区的重要程度分别赋属性值,经专家打分,最后得出各单位景区的各景型指标的属性值。在此基础上把景区的各个景型要素视为多维空间的数轴,由属性值构成指标空间,每个景区都是一个向量。在多维空间中有一个数据点,依据"点"与"点"间的距离进行系统聚类,将全省旅游资源分为5个聚类;然后依据旅游规划的最大福利原则,进行旅游景点的空间聚类分区,将甘肃旅游资源分为7个区,然后将上述聚类和空间聚类在地图上进行叠加,研究其空间组合规律。得出甘肃旅游资源的类型空间组合特点;最后对甘肃旅游资源集中性进行探讨,得出甘肃旅游资源有沿交通线和河流的线状集中、依据中心地级别的等级集中、依据某个中心节点的节点集中和大的区域集中特征。