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Saints and Sons: Painting Power, Piety, and the Performance of Nobility in Zurbarán’s Saint Peter Nolasco Recovering the Image of the Virgin of El Puig.

Type:: Article
Description/Abstract:: The young boy in Francisco de Zurbarán’s (1598-1664) Saint Peter Nolasco Recovering the Image of the Virgin of El Puig (1630) has been suggested to be either Zurbarán’s son, Juan de Zurbarán (1620–1649), or the son of James I of Aragon, Alfonso of Castile (1229–1260). Despite visual dominance, most scholars do not address the boy, and those who do offer conflicting identifications. This paper bridges the gap between these varying opinions, and concretely identifies the most formally important figure in this commission that defined Zurbarán’s career. The argument is built on the writings of Zurbarán scholar Martin S. Soria, as well as a comparison to Zurbarán’s body of work at large, primarily his tendency to create from life, and his suspected self-portrait, The Crucified Christ with a Painter (1650). I conclude that the child in the piece is likely a culmination of Juan and Alfonso and explore the implication of Zurbarán depicting his child in the noble and pious role of James the Conqueror’s son, paying witness to the rediscovery of the Virgin of El Puig. The combined figure of Juan and Alfonso gains significance through an exploration of historical context surrounding the legend of the Virgin of El Puig and its key figures. By drawing parallels between 17th-century Spanish colonialism contemporary to Zurbarán’s time and 13th-century Reconquista depicted in the painting, Zurbarán uses this composite figure to assert a vision of his lineage as triumphant and divinely favoured. Ultimately, this paper continues and expands upon Soria’s writings on the subject, and places Zurbarán within a Baroque tradition of artists, such as Velázquez, who used painting to assert their profession as divinely-inspired, nobel, and distinct from craftsmen.
Creator/Author:: Krimmer, Ruby
Submitter:: Ruby Krimmer
Date Uploaded:: 04/28/2025
Date Modified:: 04/28/2025
Date Created:: April 25, 2025
License:: All rights reserved

Towards a Virtual Cloud-Based Smart Factory Testbed for Cybersecurity

Type:: Article
Description/Abstract:: Today's industrial equipment is connected over a network to communicate with external systems and make decisions without human intervention, making it vulnerable to cyberattacks and showing the importance of research. This study explored the implementation of a cloud-based virtual testbed for a smart factory for cybersecurity testing and research. As a first step, this paper reports on developing an environment with one programmable logic controller (PLC) simulating a conveyor belt setup. The study examined different virtualization platforms and network designs. In addition, it executed a denial-of-service attack and identified its signature indicators. The study found that VMware Workstation Pro is the most suitable virtualization platform and that network input and output are the DoS attack's signature indicators.
Creator/Author:: Mandalapu, Rohit and Said, Hazem
Submitter:: Rohit Mandalapu
Date Uploaded:: 01/17/2025
Date Modified:: 01/17/2025
Date Created:: 2023-07-27
License:: Attribution 4.0 International

The Critical Role of Faculty as Buffering the Impact of Discrimination on College Student Aspirations

Type:: Article
Description/Abstract:: While most like to consider college and university campuses safe from discrimination, research demonstrates this is unfortunately not true. We know students with minority group status experience discrimination on campus at an alarming rate. Years of research has demonstrated the negative effects of experiencing discrimination on students’ well-being, sense of belonging, and future aspirations. However, research has also shown positive impacts that faculty relationships can have on students’ motivation, academic achievement, persistence, and aspirations. Faculty serve as institutional agents within the university, so they have considerable influence over students’ satisfaction with their university experience and overall wellness. Thus, this study investigates the extent to which college students’ trust in faculty acts as a buffer against the negative impacts of discrimination. Results of this research indicate a strong relationship between experiencing discrimination and feelings of stress and decreased sense of belonging, and that increased stress and decreased belonging negatively affect students’ future aspirations. However, our findings demonstrate that trust in faculty mitigates the negative effects of discrimination and can reduce feelings of stress and increase feelings of belonging, thereby increasing students’ future aspirations. Our findings demonstrate the important role faculty play in creating an affirming climate for students on college campuses.
Creator/Author:: Mason, Lauren; Vason, Tyra; Faller, S. Elisabeth (Beth); Campbell, Kristen, and Chrobot-Mason, Donna
Submitter:: S. Elisabeth (Beth) Faller
Date Uploaded:: 01/03/2024
Date Modified:: 01/03/2024
Date Created:: 2023-08-30
License:: All rights reserved

Benjamin Dombar

Type:: Article
Description/Abstract:: Article from Modernnati.com about Benjmain Dombar, Cincinnati architect.
Creator/Author:: Meyer, Elizabeth A.
Submitter:: Elizabeth A. Meyer
Date Uploaded:: 11/21/2023
Date Modified:: 11/21/2023
Date Created:: 20th century
License:: All rights reserved

Examining the energy performance of older and historic building using municipal benchmarking data

Type:: Article
Description/Abstract:: Until recently, nationally representative survey data has been the primary source of information on the energy performance of buildings in the U.S., relative to their year of construction. The emergence of municipal energy benchmarking ordinances and public availability of benchmarking datasets now makes it possible to explore these relationships at the local level, and to link this data with information about a building’s historic designation status. This paper presents results from an initial statistical analysis examining the relationships between building energy use, year of construction, and historic designation status. First, municipal benchmarking data from six U.S. cities is used to examine local trends in the relationship between building age and energy performance. Second, an exploratory analysis of the energy performance of designated historic compared to non-historic buildings in New York City is presented. The methods described in this paper could be applied more widely to benchmarking datasets from other cities.
Creator/Author:: Webb, Amanda; M. David Burton, and Beckett, Lauren
Submitter:: Amanda Webb
Date Uploaded:: 05/26/2022
Date Modified:: 05/26/2022
Date Created:: 2018-09-26
License:: Attribution 4.0 International

If Black Holes Are Superficial

Type:: Article
Description/Abstract:: Prior work on black hole (BH) thermodynamics suggests the entropy depends not on the volume, but rather the surface area of the event horizon. Such findings highlight the intriguing nature of BHs and give rise to the idea that information may be entirely encoded on the surface. We study the case of a superficial Schwarzschild BH, and calculate the net force (Fnet) exerted on the surface of its spherical shell from the self-gravitational pull. We demonstrate that the Fnet is exactly c^4/4G, 3.025•10^43 Newtons, a force that is constant and independent of the size and the mass of the BH, meaning all such Schwarzschild BHs share the same Fnet. Surprisingly, the Fnet matches Fmax, the limit of the maximum force conjecture. This establishes a new potential connection between the formation of BHs and the Fmax. We demonstrate that under the validity of this Fmax, the mass of the superficial BH is contained at precisely the Schwarzschild radius. Finally, we provide further evidence to reject the concept of a point mass singularity and we theorize on the creation of a BH given the findings.
Creator/Author:: Viaña, Javier and O'Grady, Katherine
Submitter:: Javier Viana
Date Uploaded:: 12/13/2021
Date Modified:: 12/13/2021
Date Created:: September 10, 2021
License:: All rights reserved

Allocated Flow Diagramming: A Structured Process and Methods for Teaching Interactive Product Prototyping in Industrial Design

Type:: Article
Description/Abstract:: Interactive product prototyping has been widely taught in industrial design studio courses to prepare design students in dealing with dynamic interactions of using digital products. While it requires the integration of design and technology, the lack of systematic approaches of the studio curricula creates a great challenge for students who are not familiar with technology in creating interactive prototypes successfully. A theoretical framework is developed from the human-machine interaction model and the sequential flow of task analysis methods. Based on this framework, a human-machine interaction (HMI) flow diagram is proposed with which interaction elements, relationships, and flows are specified and categorized. The flow diagram is utilized to create a storyboard and an allocation flowchart subsequently. A structured design process based on these methods was applied to an interactive product design studio course in an undergraduate industrial design program. Students created working prototypes of interactive products, following the structured design process consisting of an HMI flow diagram, a storyboard, and an allocation flowchart. 104 students (87.4%) among 119 succeeded in translating their ideas to functioning circuits. 74 students (62.2%) successfully integrated electronics components into working physical prototypes while 30 students (25.2%) just made the circuits work. The structured design process makes a transition from initial ideation to programming smooth and incremental. This helps students without previous programming experience to understand the logic flow and to develop algorithms. The HMI flow diagram is useful for analysis, concept development, and the specification of interactions, and helps students to grasp the effect of interactive features on user experience.
Creator/Author:: Ghim, Yong-Gyun
Submitter:: Yong-Gyun Ghim
Date Uploaded:: 12/05/2021
Date Modified:: 12/05/2021
License:: Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International

A Longitudinal Study of Older Adults’ Acceptance of Robot Companions and Their Effects on Well-being

Type:: Article
Description/Abstract:: Robotic animal-like companions for older adults are promising technologies that have shown to have health benefits, especially for individuals with dementia, and good adoption rates in some previous studies. Our project, Affordable Robotic Intelligence for Elderly Support, aims to design new capabilities for companionship and smart care, but at high affordability. In a 6-month longitudinal study of baseline acceptance and well-being, we assessed the impact of an Ageless Innovation Joy for All™ robotic pet on user acceptance and emotional well-being (depression, loneliness, positive emotions). Nineteen participants from independent and assisted living facilities completed three standardized in-person surveys, each 3 months apart, including the CES-D, measures of Loneliness, Emotions, Attitude towards Technology (ATI), and various measures of evaluation of and engagement with robotic technology. The measures showed modest to very good reliability and meaningful construct validity. Participants in this sample showed little depression or loneliness, and these levels did not further decrease over the six months. People welcomed the pet and expressed positive evaluations of it, and these sentiments were stable over time. Attitudes toward technology varied but were unrelated to well-being measures and to robot evaluations. Our current conclusion, on the basis of a small sample, is that the selected robotic pet companion is appreciated and seen as beneficial, and for adults who are already low in depression and loneliness, the robot companion helps maintain the adult’s emotional well-being but does not further increase it.
Creator/Author:: Rebola, Claudia and Malle, Bertram
Submitter:: Claudia Rebola
Date Uploaded:: 12/02/2021
Date Modified:: 12/02/2021
Date Created:: November 10, 2021
License:: All rights reserved

The Unspoken Arms Race: Neurowarfare

Type:: Article
Description/Abstract:: An expanded version of "The Future of Conflict: Neurowarfare", both of which discuss emerging neurotechnology, neuroscience, and their implications for war, politics, medicine, ethics, and society.
Creator/Author:: Turner, Grant
Submitter:: Grant Turner
Date Uploaded:: 10/15/2021
Date Modified:: 10/15/2021
Date Created:: 2021-10-02
License:: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International

The Future of Conflict: Neurowarfare

Type:: Article
Description/Abstract:: A short discussion of emerging neurotechnology, neuroscience, and their implications for war, politics, medicine, ethics, and society.
Creator/Author:: Turner, Grant
Submitter:: Grant Turner
Date Uploaded:: 10/14/2021
Date Modified:: 10/14/2021
Date Created:: 2021-10-12
License:: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International

Promised Land, Crusader State: The Eight Traditions of US Diplomacy and Foreign Policy

Type:: Article
Description/Abstract:: An overview of Walter A. McDougall's 1997 book "Promised Land, Crusader State: The American Encounter with the World Since 1776" with some concluding thoughts.
Creator/Author:: Turner, Grant
Submitter:: Grant Turner
Date Uploaded:: 10/10/2021
Date Modified:: 10/10/2021
Date Created:: 2021-10-08
License:: Attribution 4.0 International

Reviving Wright in Cincinnati

Type:: Article
Description/Abstract:: Revival of Wright in the University of Cincinnati's Faculty Center (demolished to make way for the new Linder Center)
Creator/Author:: Meyer, Elizabeth A. and Snadon, Patrick
Submitter:: Elizabeth A. Meyer
Date Uploaded:: 09/22/2021
Date Modified:: 09/22/2021
Date Created:: 2018
License:: All rights reserved

Modernism's Skin Disease

Type:: Article
Description/Abstract:: Recladding of Procter Hall and Kroger Headquarters
Creator/Author:: Meyer, Elizabeth A. and Snadon, Patrick
Submitter:: Elizabeth A. Meyer
Date Uploaded:: 09/22/2021
Date Modified:: 09/22/2021
Date Created:: 2018
License:: All rights reserved

Procter Hall

Type:: Article
Description/Abstract:: Procter Hall at the University of Cincinnati designed by Woodie Garber
Creator/Author:: Meyer, Elizabeth A.
Submitter:: Elizabeth A. Meyer
Date Uploaded:: 09/22/2021
Date Modified:: 09/22/2021
Date Created:: 2017
License:: All rights reserved

Architecture and Sculpture in Cincinnati

Type:: Article
Description/Abstract:: Sculpture and Art in the Terrace Plaza Hotel and Public Library of Cincinnati Hamilton County
Creator/Author:: Snadon, Patrick and Meyer, Elizabeth A.
Submitter:: Elizabeth A. Meyer
Date Uploaded:: 09/22/2021
Date Modified:: 09/22/2021
Date Created:: 2018
License:: All rights reserved

Machines and Gardens (Cincinnati Modern)

Type:: Article
Description/Abstract:: Leo Marx, in his famous 1964 book, “The Machine in the Garden,” proposed that a central conflict in the American psyche resulted from the industrialization of the unspoiled, Eden-like landscapes of the new world. Wright’s Organic Modernism perhaps allowed 20th-century Americans to unconsciously feel that they could “resolve" that conflict by living in harmony with nature, while International Style Modernism and its machine-like buildings perhaps pointed too directly to the tragedy of industrial capitalism’s despoiling of the environment.
Creator/Author:: Snadon, Patrick and Meyer, Elizabeth A.
Submitter:: Elizabeth A. Meyer
Date Uploaded:: 09/22/2021
Date Modified:: 09/22/2021
Date Created:: 2018
License:: All rights reserved

Great Kitchens of Cincinnati

Type:: Article
Description/Abstract:: The Corbett House kitchen and John Becker Residence, both notable Cincinnati kitchens.
Creator/Author:: Snadon, Patrick and Meyer, Elizabeth A.
Submitter:: Elizabeth A. Meyer
Date Uploaded:: 09/22/2021
Date Modified:: 09/22/2021
Date Created:: 2018
License:: All rights reserved

Frank Lloyd Wright's Scandals

Type:: Article
Description/Abstract:: Scandals in newspapers of Frank Lloyd Wright
Creator/Author:: Snadon, Patrick and Meyer, Elizabeth A.
Submitter:: Elizabeth A. Meyer
Date Uploaded:: 09/22/2021
Date Modified:: 09/22/2021
Date Created:: 2018
License:: All rights reserved

John deKoven Hill and the Corbett House

Type:: Article
Description/Abstract:: House designed by deKoven Hill in Cincinnati's Hyde Park neighborhood
Creator/Author:: Snadon, Patrick and Meyer, Elizabeth A.
Submitter:: Elizabeth A. Meyer
Date Uploaded:: 09/22/2021
Date Modified:: 09/22/2021
Date Created:: 2018
License:: All rights reserved

Crosley Tower

Type:: Article
Description/Abstract:: Article about Crosley Tower on University of Cincinnati's campus.
Creator/Author:: Simpson, Scott
Submitter:: Elizabeth A. Meyer
Date Uploaded:: 09/22/2021
Date Modified:: 09/22/2021
Date Created:: 2020
License:: All rights reserved

Tonken's House

Type:: Article
Description/Abstract:: The Tonken's House in the Cincinnati neighborhood of Amberley Village and was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.
Creator/Author:: Snadon, Patrick and Meyer, Elizabeth A.
Submitter:: Elizabeth A. Meyer
Date Uploaded:: 09/22/2021
Date Modified:: 09/22/2021
Date Created:: 2018
License:: All rights reserved

Parkitect:Carl Freund and Organic Modernism in Cincinnati's Public Parks

Type:: Article
Description/Abstract:: Carl Freund and Organic Modernism in Cincinnati's public parks.
Creator/Author:: Snadon, Patrick and Meyer, Elizabeth A.
Submitter:: Elizabeth A. Meyer
Date Uploaded:: 09/22/2021
Date Modified:: 09/22/2021
Date Created:: 2018
License:: All rights reserved

Frank Lloyd Wright in Cincinnati

Type:: Article
Description/Abstract:: Bibliography and Sources for further research
Creator/Author:: Meyer, Elizabeth A. and Snadon, Patrick
Submitter:: Elizabeth A. Meyer
Date Uploaded:: 09/22/2021
Date Modified:: 09/22/2021
Date Created:: 2018
License:: All rights reserved

Boulter House

Type:: Article
Description/Abstract:: Article about Frank Lloyd Wright's house he designed in Cincinnati.
Creator/Author:: Meyer, Elizabeth A.
Submitter:: Elizabeth A. Meyer
Date Uploaded:: 09/22/2021
Date Modified:: 09/22/2021
Date Created:: 2018
License:: All rights reserved

Crosley Tower

Type:: Article
Description/Abstract:: An article about Crosely Tower on University of Cincinnati's campus
Creator/Author:: Meyer, Elizabeth A. and Simpson, Scott
Submitter:: Elizabeth A. Meyer
Date Uploaded:: 09/22/2021
Date Modified:: 09/22/2021
Date Created:: 2020
License:: All rights reserved

Tonken's House

Type:: Article
Description/Abstract:: Article about Frank Lloyd Wright's designed house in Amberley Village a suburb of Cincinnati.
Creator/Author:: Meyer, Elizabeth A.
Submitter:: Elizabeth A. Meyer
Date Uploaded:: 09/22/2021
Date Modified:: 09/22/2021
Date Created:: 2018
License:: All rights reserved

Boswell House

Type:: Article
Description/Abstract:: Article about Frank Lloyd Wright's designed house in Indian Hill, Ohio
Creator/Author:: Meyer, Elizabeth A.
Submitter:: Elizabeth A. Meyer
Date Uploaded:: 09/22/2021
Date Modified:: 09/22/2021
Date Created:: 2018
License:: All rights reserved

Benjamin Dombar

Type:: Article
Description/Abstract:: Description of Benjamin Dombar's work in Cincinnati.
Creator/Author:: Snadon, Patrick and Meyer, Elizabeth A.
Submitter:: Elizabeth A. Meyer
Date Uploaded:: 09/22/2021
Date Modified:: 09/22/2021
Date Created:: 2018
License:: All rights reserved

Reassessing US Grand Strategy – Part 1: The Current State of US Grand Strategy

Type:: Article
Description/Abstract:: This is part one of a mini-series attempting to grapple with US grand strategy and the potential need for its re-assessment. The goal of this series is to introduce readers to grand strategy, ideally prompting more to grapple with US grand strategy and grand strategy more broadly. The author is fleshing out their own ideas, so don’t take the work as gospel, but rather as a starting point for your own journey. In part one, an overview of the current state of US grand strategy is given. In part two, grand strategy is defined as a concept, a more detailed argument for the need of reassessment is put forth, and resources on grand strategy are listed for interested readers. In part three, four typologies of US grand strategic thought are summarized and contrasted with what US grand strategy has arguably been since the end of WWII. In part four, some general thoughts on the means and ends of reassessing US grand strategy will be described. Additional articles on grand strategy may appear over time.
Creator/Author:: Turner, Grant
Submitter:: Grant Turner
Date Uploaded:: 09/18/2021
Date Modified:: 09/18/2021
Date Created:: 2021-08-11
License:: Attribution 4.0 International

Specific Energy Limit and its Influence on the Nature of Black Holes

Type:: Article
Description/Abstract:: What if the universe has a limit on the amount of energy that a certain mass can have? This article explores this possibility and suggests a theory for the creation and nature of black holes based on an energetic limit.
Creator/Author:: Viaña, Javier
Submitter:: Javier Viana
Date Uploaded:: 08/17/2021
Date Modified:: 08/17/2021
Date Created:: 2021-08-15
License:: All rights reserved

A First Note to the Short Theory on the Creation and Nature of Black Holes

Type:: Article
Description/Abstract:: This is the first comment/addition to the theory published with the title "A First Note to the Short Theory on the Creation and Nature of Black Holes".
Creator/Author:: Viaña, Javier
Submitter:: Javier Viana
Date Uploaded:: 07/19/2021
Date Modified:: 07/20/2021
License:: All rights reserved

Short Theory on the Creation and Nature of Black Holes

Type:: Article
Description/Abstract:: Perspective and hypothesis of the author on the creation mechanism and the nature of black holes.
Creator/Author:: Viaña, Javier
Submitter:: Javier Viana
Date Uploaded:: 07/18/2021
Date Modified:: 07/18/2021
Date Created:: 2019-06-10
License:: All rights reserved

Common Objects

Type:: Article
Description/Abstract:: In the 1960"s and 1970', when most of these unfinished essays were written, I was a free thinking architecture student who perceived a fundamental disconnect within diverse institutions, including Architecture and Education and Money - Banking. I had an intuitive feeling that architecture is more than a visual aesthetic, rather a holistic social experience. The everyday objects with which we interact are an integral part of our social disposition and social wellbeing. The attempt is to develop a method for understanding some previously largely ignored aspects of environmental design – the role of Common Objects as a communication facilitator.- Eric M. Lee
Creator/Author:: Lee, Eric M.
Submitter:: Elizabeth A. Meyer
Date Uploaded:: 04/20/2021
Date Modified:: 04/21/2021
Date Created:: 1960
License:: All rights reserved