Hierarchical representations for spatio-temporal visual attention: modeling and understanding

Mención Internacional en el título de doctorDentro del marco de la Inteligencia Artificial, la Visión Artificial es una disciplina científica que tiene como objetivo simular automaticamente las funciones del sistema visual humano, tratando de resolver tareas como la localización y el reconocimiento de objetos, la detección de eventos o el seguimiento de objetos....Programa Oficial de Doctorado en Multimedia y ComunicacionesPresidente: Luis Salgado Álvarez de Sotomayor.- Secretario: Ascensión Gallardo Antolín.- Vocal: Jenny Benois Pinea

The Palgrave Handbook of Digital Russia Studies

This open access handbook presents a multidisciplinary and multifaceted perspective on how the ‘digital’ is simultaneously changing Russia and the research methods scholars use to study Russia. It provides a critical update on how Russian society, politics, economy, and culture are reconfigured in the context of ubiquitous connectivity and accounts for the political and societal responses to digitalization. In addition, it answers practical and methodological questions in handling Russian data and a wide array of digital methods. The volume makes a timely intervention in our understanding of the changing field of Russian Studies and is an essential guide for scholars, advanced undergraduate and graduate students studying Russia today

The Palgrave Handbook of Digital Russia Studies

This open access handbook presents a multidisciplinary and multifaceted perspective on how the ‘digital’ is simultaneously changing Russia and the research methods scholars use to study Russia. It provides a critical update on how Russian society, politics, economy, and culture are reconfigured in the context of ubiquitous connectivity and accounts for the political and societal responses to digitalization. In addition, it answers practical and methodological questions in handling Russian data and a wide array of digital methods. The volume makes a timely intervention in our understanding of the changing field of Russian Studies and is an essential guide for scholars, advanced undergraduate and graduate students studying Russia today

Genres of Listening

Xochitl Marsilli-Vargas explains how psychoanalytic listening practices have expanded beyond the clinical setting to influence everyday social interactions in Buenos Aires

Itaataatawi: Hopi Song, Intellectual Property, and Sonic Sovereignty in an Era of Settler-Colonialism

Hopi traditional songs or taatawi are more than aesthetic objects; they are sound-based expressions of Hopi authority. As I argue in this dissertation, creating, performing, circulating, and remembering taatawi are what we might call acts of sonic sovereignty: a mode of authority articulated within ongoing, sound-based networks that include Hopi people, plants, weather systems, land, and other living things within Hopi territories. I begin by exploring the generative process through which taatawi do their connective work, which includes long-term collaborations between yeeyewat (composers) and environmental actors that establish a collective vision of prosperity that is realized when these songs are performed. Hopi composer Clark Tenakhongva’s taatawi performances during Grand Canyon National Park’s Centennial (a Hopi sacred space currently controlled by settler governments) exemplify the ways Hopi people are actively using taatawi to (re)assert Hopi relations to colonized territories. Because taatawi are closely tied to Hopi relations to one another and the land, and sometimes contain specialized forms of knowledge held closely by Hopi clans and ceremonial societies, their ownership and circulation remains of vital concern to Hopi people. Laura Boulton’s recording of Hopi singers Dan Qötshongva, Thomas Bahnaqya and David Monongye in the Summer of 1940, and the travels of those recordings afterwards, show us the complex politics of Hopi song circulation in the early Twentieth Century up through the present, and how settler cultural and intellectual property laws provide only limited possibilities for indigenous groups seeking to bring their ancestors’ voices back under their control. And even if tribes could reclaim taatawi under settler property laws, these laws require physical and conceptual transformations that effectively sever them from the networks of relations from which they were created. To better support Hopi sonic sovereignty going forward, I offer brief sketches for three potential interventions: (1) an indigenous works amendment to the United States Copyright Act; (2) the use of indigenized licensing frameworks to embed indigenous protocols into the governance and circulation of indigenous creative works both on and off indigenous lands; and (3) establishing a right to indigenous care, similar to Europe’s right to forget, whereby our ancestors’ voices can be subject to indigenous care rather than preserved anonymously and perpetually as archival objects. My hope is that these will allow indigenous communities to better assert and maintain control over their modes of sonic sovereignty despite the increasing colonization of the sonic world by global intellectual property regimes

Genres of Listening

Xochitl Marsilli-Vargas explains how psychoanalytic listening practices have expanded beyond the clinical setting to influence everyday social interactions in Buenos Aires

Dicionário de Biblioteconomia e Arquivologia

O objetivo deste dicionário é definir, de forma clara, sucinta e simples, os termos utilizados por bibliotecários, arquivistas e demais profissionais da ampla e multifacetada área de ciência da informação, facilitando a expansão de seus conhecimentos. O critério básico para inclusão de um termo foi seu uso potencial ao longo do exercício profissional desses especialistas. Em muitos verbetes foram incluídas abonações extraídas da literatura técnico-científica e de léxicos gerais e especializados. A tarefa de compilação sistemática de terminologia é vital para o desenvolvimento de qualquer ramo técnico-científico, pois é impossível atingir clareza e precisão sem uniformidade na linguagem pelos praticantes da área. Amplo em seu escopo, com mais de quatro mil verbetes, o dicionário inclui não somente a terminologia das várias especializações dentro da biblioteconomia, arquivologia, documentação e estudos de informação, mas também os principais termos de direito autoral, editoração, comércio livreiro, artes gráficas, história do livro, bibliografia, comunicação científica, telecomunicações e informática. Servirá, portanto, a bibliotecários, arquivistas, editores, livreiros, estudantes, pesquisadores e demais profissionais que trabalham na coleta, armazenamento, processamento, recuperação e difusão da informação, em seu formato tradicional impresso ou em meio eletrônico. Colaborará também para atender às necessidades daqueles estudiosos que necessitam da terminologia técnica em inglês

Viet Nam Generation, Volume 6, Number 1-2

Edited by Dan Duffy and Kali Tal. Contributing editors: Renny Christopher. David DeRose, Alan Farrell. Cynthia Fuchs, William M. King. Bill Shields, Tony Williams, and David Willson