This article adopts a ‘cultural biography’ approach to the examination of an archaeological collection from Arica, Chile, involving two museums located in Gothenburg, Sweden. It provides a comprehensive overview of the history of the collection and how the meanings and contexts of a cranium belonging to this collection have changed over time. Different stages in the biography of the craniu…

The creation of bespoke collections of plaster casts of ‘Celtic’ sculpture for the 1901 Glasgow International Exhibition and museums in Dundee in 1904/11 and Aberdeen in 1905 provides a Scottish lens on a wider phenomenon and its context: South Kensington’s role in the provinces, museums and ‘imperial localism’, burgeoning curatorial professionalism and networking, milestones in early…

Giacomo Francesco Arpino (1607–1684), physician to the community of Poirino (near Turin) and to members of the House of Savoy, assembled a widely admired and uniquely documented collection of fine and decorative arts. Arpino’s manuscript catalogues were never published in his own lifetime and are now held in Turin’s Biblioteca Reale. The self-conscious labelling of his collection as a gab…

This article considers the display of art as a ceremonial performance and a means of establishing social and political interaction between collectors and visitors. It demonstrates that in early modern Italy the actors of these mises en scène did not improvise, but would rather know their lines by heart. By the beginning of the seventeenth century they also relied on treatises on gesture such …

We use adjoint tomography to iteratively determine seismic models of the crust and upper mantle beneath the European continent and the North Atlantic Ocean. Three-component seismograms from 190 earthquakes recorded by 745 seismographic stations are employed in the inversion. Crustal model EPcrust combined with mantle model S362ANI comprise the 3-D starting model, EU00. Before the structural inv…

Azimuthal anisotropy of attenuation is a physical phenomenon related to the directional change of attenuation. This study examines the frequency properties and directional attenuation of SKS waves. The directional frequency-dependent characteristics of SKS waves are investigated in the frequency band of 0.02–0.5 Hz using data from 53 permanent seismic stations located throughout the northern …

The ongoing negotiations on a Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) between the EU and the USA revolve to a significant extent around an effort to reduce the trade cost-raising effect of differences in regulation. The extent to which a TTIP will generate economic benefits will be determined in large part by the extent to which it will reduce such costs. This will also be a maj…

The conventional finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method for elastic waves suffers from the staircasing errorwhen applied to model a curved free surface because of the structured grid. This is similar to the situation for the FDTD method in electromagnetics when it is applied to model a curved perfect conductor surface, where the conformal FDTD methods have been recently developed to avoid …

This article argues that the most commonly used lesson plan pro formas in language teacher education are inappropriately premised on an outcomesbased approach to teaching, one that is in conflict with what we know about how languages are learnt and how experienced teachers teach. It proposes an alternative, affordance-based approach to lesson planning and makes a number of practical suggestions…

In order to study fine scale structure of the Earth’s deep interior, it is necessary to extract generally weak body wave phases from seismograms that interact with various discontinuities and heterogeneities. The recent deployment of large-scale dense arrays providing high-quality data, in combination with efficient seismic data processing techniques, may provide important and accurate observ…