1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910791581703321

Autore

Boone Elizabeth Hill

Titolo

Stories in red and black [[electronic resource] ] : pictorial histories of the Aztecs and Mixtecs / / Elizabeth Hill Boone

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Austin, : University of Texas Press, 2000

ISBN

0-292-79184-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (313 p.)

Disciplina

972/.01

Soggetti

Manuscripts, Nahuatl

Aztec painting

Nahuatl language - Writing

Manuscripts, Mixtec

Mixtec art

Mixtec language - Writing

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-284) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Configuring the past -- History and historians -- Writing in images -- Structures of history -- Mixtec genealogical histories -- Lienzos and tiras from Oaxaca and southern Puebla -- Stories of migration, conquest, and consolidation in the central valleys -- Aztec altepetl annals -- Histories with a purpose.

Sommario/riassunto

The Aztecs and Mixtecs of ancient Mexico recorded their histories pictorially in images painted on hide, paper, and cloth. The tradition of painting history continued even after the Spanish Conquest, as the Spaniards accepted the pictorial histories as valid records of the past. Five Pre-Columbian and some 150 early colonial painted histories survive today. This copiously illustrated book offers the first comprehensive analysis of the Mexican painted history as an intellectual, documentary, and pictorial genre. Elizabeth Hill Boone explores how the Mexican historians conceptualized and painted their past and introduces the major pictorial records: the Aztec annals and cartographic histories and the Mixtec screenfolds and lienzos. Boone focuses her analysis on the kinds of stories told in the histories and on how the manuscripts work pictorially to encode, organize, and preserve



these narratives. This twofold investigation broadens our understanding of how preconquest Mexicans used pictographic history for political and social ends. It also demonstrates how graphic writing systems created a broadly understood visual "language" that communicated effectively across ethnic and linguistic boundaries.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910299848003321

Titolo

Biomedical Technology / / edited by Thomas Lenarz, Peter Wriggers

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2015

ISBN

3-319-10981-2

Edizione

[1st ed. 2015.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (192 p.)

Collana

Lecture Notes in Applied and Computational Mechanics, , 1613-7736 ; ; 74

Disciplina

610.113

Soggetti

Mechanics

Mechanics, Applied

Biomedical engineering

Medical informatics

Solid Mechanics

Biomedical Engineering and Bioengineering

Health Informatics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

Nota di contenuto

From the Contents: RVE procedure for estimating the elastic properties of inhomogeneous microstructures such as bone tissue -- A gradient-enhanced continuum damage model for residually stressed fibre-reinforced materials at finite strains -- A mechanically stimulated fracture healing model using a finite element framework.

Sommario/riassunto

During the last years computational methods lead to new approaches that can be applied within medical practice. Based on the tremendous advances in medical imaging and high-performance computing, virtual testing is able to help in medical decision processes or implant



designs. Current challenges in medicine and engineering are related to the application of computational methods to clinical medicine and the study of biological systems at different scales. Additionally manufacturers will be able to use computational tools and methods to predict the performance of their medical devices in virtual patients. The physical and animal testing procedures could be reduced by virtual prototyping of medical devices. Here simulations can enhance the performance of alternate device designs for a range of virtual patients. This will lead to a refinement of designs and to safer products. This book summarizes different aspects of approaches to enhance function, production, initialization and complications of different types of implants and related topics.