SHIPYARD OF SOLIDARITY: ARTISTS-ACTIVISTS CO-CREATION OF PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE CONCERNING CULTURAL HERITAGE OF THE FORMER GDANSK SHIPYARD

SHIPYARD OF SOLIDARITY: Artists-activists co-creation of public knowledge concerning cultural heritage of the former Gdansk Shipyard

The main theme of this article is the frequent lack of adequate and effective public dialogue and participation within the schemes of the contemporary urban planning practices referred as neoliberal hegemony of urbanization (Brenner and Theodore, 2005, Miles, 2004, Fezer, 2010).On the other side we can observe artists-led cultural methodologies, se

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Simplest Color Balance

In this paper we present the simplest possible color balance algorithm.The assumption underlying this algorithm is that the highest values of R, G, B observed in the image must correspond to steely dan gaucho t-shirt white, and the lowest values to obscurity.The algorithm simply stretches, as much as it can, the values of the three channels Red, Gr

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Eucommia bark (Du-Zhong) improves diabetic nephropathy without altering blood glucose in type 1-like diabetic rats

Ho-Shan Niu,1 I-Min Liu,2 Chiang-Shan Niu,1 Po-Ming Ku,3,4 Chao-Tien Hsu,5 Juei-Tang Cheng4,6 1Department of Nursing, Tzu Chi University of Science and Technology, Hualien City, 2Department of Pharmacy & Graduate Institute of Pharmaceutical Technology, Tajen University, Pingtung County, 3Department of Cardiology, 4Department of Medical Research

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Neural cognitive control moderates the association between insular risk processing and risk-taking behaviors via perceived stress in adolescents

Adolescence is yellow shirt relics a critical period for the initiation of risk-taking behaviors.We examined the longitudinal interplay between neural correlates of risk processing and cognitive control in predicting risk-taking behaviors via stress.The sample consisted of 167 adolescents (53% males) who were assessed twice (MAgeTime1 = 14.13, MAge

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