In the struggle every creator of expressions goes through, the re-strictions of the media being used are there, to be obeyed or to be questioned. In this thesis I will show how maps and verbal texts are different media, and how these differences have consequences not only for how things are said, but also for what can be said at all using these two media. A text contains too much and too little information to make a map. This means that there are things—for example, negation and disjunction—which can be expressed easily in texts, but which are difficult to put on maps. Further, a map needs a level of specificity in the input data in order to be created. Such specificity is rarely if ever found in texts. In the thesis, experiments are described in which this is studied in detail. Based on the results from these experiments, an inventory of types of information that are incom¬patible is presented, along with a discussion of the degree to which each of them is incompatible. Even if the experimental results are based on just one specific text, it is also argued that they are examples of a much more general feature, applicable to most if not all texts. The latter claim is sustained through a study of the literature in the scholarly tradition of comparing different arts arid different media. It turns out that the findings from the experiments are in line with traditional as well as recent views in this area. It is explained why this is so, and what consequences this may have for how maps and texts are treated, in academia as well as beyond.

The Quaternary geology of West County Mayo, Ireland, has appeared in the literature over 30 times since Close's account in 1867. Various glacial reconstructions have been proposed due to i) the complex sedimentology and morphology of the area, ii) different approaches having been adopted by researchers iii) models being tainted by theory-laden evidence as different glaciological concepts were in vogue at the time of publication. Corroboration of existing information was undertaken in this research along with de novo mapping and identification of new data. An holistic approach was adopted, with 'conventional' mapping techniques integrated with digital image processing of satellite imagery. Over 20OOkm2 were field-mapped where landforms such as drumlins, moraines, roche moutonnées, kames/kettle holes and eskers were recorded along with sedimentological data including till fabric analysis, deformation structure geometry, petrographic components, lithofacies etc. Radar (ERS-1) and optical multitemporal and multispectral Landsat-5 Thematic Mapper imagery were processed, evaluated and interpreted. Due to the absorption of H20 molecules in soil and plants between 1.55-1.751im, winter Landsat TM band 5 provided most information and was used for interpretation. Geological information from conventional mapping and digital remote sensing were integrated using an inversion model. The landscape was spatially divided into assemblages of landforms and relative chronologies were determined by analysing cross-cutting landforms. The data show that there was one ice mass with two 'domes' in the research area. The dome in Clew Bay had a north-south divide with ice flow towards the east in the eastern half of the bay and towards the west in the western half. The eastern margins of this dome diverted the Midlands ice to flow in a northerly direction. An older pattern of flow, towards the northwest, was recorded in the east of the area. The deposits indicate that a staged retreat occurred generally from north to south.

This thesis explores how our notion of mapness is related to our knowledge, reading and understanding of the complex visual language of the map, through an investigation of how we relate to the way maps look and the structures that underpin them.The processes of creating map-like artifacts through the author's own practice are reported upon and inform a drawing forth of historical, theoretical and practical perspectives that act In conjunction to influence the artistic and design expression to communicate mapness.

Metaatlasgraphy is a new theoretic-epistemological concept with synthesis of cartographic/cartosemiotic traditions and atlasgraphic/ atlassemiotic traditions. The monograph presents a new trend from a map-centric concept to a multidisciplinary atlas-centric concept. Further, it projects a new metascience direction: from metacartography to metaatlasgraphy.:Table of contents Introduction 4 1. Cartography 1970s-2020s: Digitalitization, Semiotization, Ubiquitization... 5 1.1. Selected scientific structures and concepts of cartography (1970-2020) 1.2. About paradigmatic transformations of cartography 1.3. Critical cartography as post-critical paradigm 1.4. Cybercartography: Canadian model of interactive atlascartography and theory- technological concept 2. Theoretical-Semiotic Evolution in Cartography 2010s - 2020s without Mainstream Cartography 15 2.1. Cartographic thinking and cartosemiotics 2.2. Atlases and atlascartography 2.3. Semiotic-related atlassing 2.4. Evolutionary trajectories in cartography and cartosemiotics 3. New Atlassemiotic Тrend: Photoаtlassing 35 3.1. Ubiquitous thematic photoatlases 3.2. Semiotik of photoatlases 3.2.1. Structure-semiotic features of photoatlases 3.2.2. Derivative photoatlases 3.2.3. Photoatlas design of one, two and three slide/parts layout 3.2.4.Methodic-analytical photoatlases 3.2.5. Meta-photoatlases 3.2.6. On robotic photoatlases 3.3. Cyberphotoatlassing – a new interdiscipline synthesis 3.4. Photoatlas science as academic discipline 4. About Metaatlasgraphy 59 4.1. Models of metatheoretical research and metacartographic epicenters 4.2. From metacartography and metacartosemiotics to metaatlasgraphy 4.3. Metaatlasgraphy 4.3.1. Terminological aspects 4.3.2. From cartosemiotic models to atlassemiotic models 4.3.3. Structural model of metaatlasgraphy 4.3.4. New metatheoretic epicenters 4.3.5 Metaatlasgraphic democratic principles 5. Conclusion 70 6. References 72 7. List of selected photoatlases 77 8. Short atlas semiotic dictionary 78 9. Information-semiotic profile and potential of book 81

by Andrew Kurkjian ... [et al.]. / Bibliography: p. 63-64. / "April 1979." / U.S. Department of Transportation contract DOT-OS-60137

Στόχος της παρούσας εργασίας είναι η διερεύνηση των κινήτρων και του βαθμού της αυτοεκτίμησης των γηγενών και των αλλοδαπών μαθητών και ο ρόλος τους στην επίδοσή τους. Αρχικά, θα αναφερθούν θεωρίες σχετικές με τη μάθηση και παράγοντες που την υποβοηθούν και στη συνέχεια τα βασικά σημεία της θεωρίας των κινήτρων επίδοσης τα οποία αποτελούν τους άξονες του θεωρητικού υπόβαθρου της έρευνας. Εν συνέχεια, θα παρουσιάσουμε τα αποτελέσματα της έρευνάς μας για το βαθμό αυτοεκτίμησης γηγενών και αλλοδαπών μαθητών, των κινήτρων που θέτουν τόσο χωρίς την επίδραση εξωτερικών παραγόντων όσο και μετά την παρέμβαση και τις παραινέσεις των δασκάλων. Τέλος, θα παρουσιαστούν τα αποτελέσματα της έρευνας που διεξήχθη. / -

Η παρούσα μελέτη έχει ως στόχο την ανίχνευση των στάσεων των καθηγητών Φυσικής Αγωγής–υποχρεωτικής εκπαίδευσης- του νομού Αργολίδας απέναντι στους αλλοδαπούς μαθητές τους. Στη μελέτη συμμετείχαν 87 καθηγητές Φυσικής Αγωγής. Το θέμα της έρευνητικής εργασίας συνοψίζεται στην ανίχνευση των στάσεων και πιο αναλυτικά στην αναζήτηση των απόψεων των καθηγητών Φυσικής Αγωγής για ζητήματα όπως τα κίνητρα συμμετοχής στο μάθημα γηγενών – αλλοδαπών μαθητών, καθώς και σε ποιους παράγοντες θεωρούν ότι οφείλεται η επιτυχής εκτέλεση μιας κινητικής αλληλουχίας αλλοδαπών – γηγενών μαθητών αλλά και άπτεται ζητημάτων που αφορούν τη σχολική ζωή εν γένει. Πιο συγκεκριμένα χρησιμοποιήθηκαν για την ανίχνευση των στάσεων δυο ερωτηματολόγια- πεντάβαθμης κλίμακα Lickert. Το πρώτο έχει σαν στόχο να αντιπαραβάλλει τις στάσεις των καθηγητών Φυσικής Αγωγής απέναντι στους αλλοδαπούς και στους γηγενείς μαθητές τους ως προς τα κίνητρα, την συμμετοχή τους στο μάθημα, τη συμμετοχή σε σχολικούς αγώνες, την επίδοσή τους και άλλες σχετικές παραμέτρους. Το δεύτερο είναι ένα ερωτηματολόγιο μέτρησης του ρατσισμού για ενήλικες. Τα συμπεράσματα που προέκυψαν είναι ενδιαφέροντα. Φάνηκε ότι πάνω από τους μισούς καθηγητές Φυσικής Αγωγής του δείγματος υποστήριξαν ότι η σχολική ζωή δεν θα ήταν πιο ομαλή αν δεν υπήρχαν αλλοδαποί μαθητές (56%).Πιο συγκεκριμένα φάνηκε ότι στο συγκεκριμένο δείγμα καθηγητών Φυσικής Αγωγής δεν υπάρχει συσχέτιση των δημογραφικών στοιχείων του δείγματος και του ρατσιστικού προφίλ που σχηματίστηκε από τις απαντήσεις τους. Σημαντικές είναι και οι διαφορές στους μέσους όρους που διαπιστώθηκαν στις απαντήσεις που αφορούσαν γηγενείς και αλλοδαπούς μαθητές τους. Όλα αυτά γεννούν νέα προς διερεύνηση ζητήματα που αφορούν την πολυπολιτισμικότητα στη Φυσική Αγωγή. / The study examined the attitude of the teachers in Physical Education in Argolida toward their foreign students. 87 teachers in physical education have taken part in this survey, teachers who also work in elementary and high schools. The purpose of this study was to find if the teachers of the sample differentiate their behavior depending on the national or other identity. Two questionnaires were used to collect their answers. The first one refers to the attitude of the P.E. teachers regarding the motivation, the participation in the lesson and at the school games and competencies, and the performance of the foreign students they have in their classes, and all this comparatively with their estimations toward the native students. The second questionnaire is also a five point Lickert scale which measures the level of racism of adults. An interesting result is that there is no relation between the demographic data and the racist profile of this sample. It has been found that over half of the P.E. teachers of the sample support that the school life wouldn’t be as proper if their weren’t any foreign students (56%). Important were also the differences of means which were detected among the answers that concerned their local and foreign students. Another significant result is that there are exciting differences of means between the questions that concern the students that comes from Greece and the students that come from foreign countries. These raise further questions to be answered. Questions involving multicultural education and physical education as well.

Vorzustellen ist ein kurioses Werk aus der Kartensammlung der SLUB, das in bibliophilen Kreisen nicht ganz unbekannt ist: In einer pittoresken „Karte des Bücherlandes“ stellte der Münchner Graphiker und Illustrator Alphons Woelfle (1884 –1951) 1938 das deutsche Buch- und Verlagswesen dar, in barocker Manier mit Kartusche, Allegorie und antiken Lettern. Schon 1941 neu aufgelegt, erlebte die ursprünglich handkolorierte Lithographie auf Büttenpapier bis heute zahlreiche Nachdrucke, sogar im Postkartenformat: Dabei misst das Blatt im Original 40 mal 29 cm.

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