Foreword to the special section on the Spring Conference on Computer Graphics 2015 (SCCG'2015)

[Excerpt] It is our pleasure to present this special section of Computers & Graphics (C&G), featuring the selected best papers presented at the 31st Spring Conference on Computer Graphics 2015 (www. sccg.sk), which was held April 22–24, 2015 in Smolenice, Slovakia. The venue is probably the oldest regular annual meeting of computer graphics in Central Europe, covering all relevant innovative ideas in computer graphics, image processing and their applications. The philosophy of SCCG is to bring together top experts and young researchers in CG in order to support a good and sustained communication channel for East–West European exchange of prospective ideas. [...]info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Guest editorial: Foreword to the special issue on pattern recognition in remote sensing

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Culture as as System :the Concept of Culture in Talcott Parsons

文化という概念は,人間や社会を対象とした種々の学問領域で一般的に用いられてきた。しかし,その内容は多義的であり,使用法にも差異がみられる。本論おいては,〈文化〉をその壮大な行為システム論の中に位置づけて,文化そのものをシステムとして捉えたタルコット・パーソンズの文化システム論についてその理論枠組みをみていく。その分析の準拠枠は,サイバネティクなコントロール・ハイアラーキーと,AGIL図式である。前者は,システムにおける要素が低次から高次にわたって,制御と条件づけという位相のもとに配列されているというものであり,行為システムにおいては文化はその最上位に位置づけられている。また後者は,内的―外的および手段的―成就的という二つの軸を交叉させることによって生み出された四つの次元での分析図式で,文化の各要素もこの枠組のなかで,適応,目的達成,統合,パターン維持といった機能をもっものとして,構造―機能的かつシステマティクに分析される。The purpose of this article is to examine Talcott Parsons' theory of the cultural system based on his general theory of action. Parsons employs two theoretical frames of reference for analyzing culture as a system. One is cybernetic control hierarchy, which is a structural concept according each element of an action system is ordered hierarchically through the controlling and conditioning factors. Parsons places culture in highest class of the whole action system. The other is the AGIL scheme, which consists of four functional prerequisites represented by the intersectional axes : internal-external and instrumental-consummatory. According to this scheme, culture can be analyzed as a system whose elements carry out four functions : Adaptation, Goal-attainment, Integration and Latent-pattern maintenance.コントロール・ハイアラーキーＡＧｌＬ図式信念のシステム表出的シンボリズム価値のシステ

The doctoral research abstracts. Vol:6 2014 / Institute of Graduate Studies, UiTM

Congratulations to Institute of Graduate Studies on the continuous efforts to publish the 6th issue of the Doctoral Research Abstracts which ranged from the discipline of science and technology, business and administration to social science and humanities. This issue captures the novelty of research from 52 PhD doctorates receiving their scrolls in the UiTM’s 81st Convocation. This convocation is very significant especially for UiTM since we are celebrating the success of 52 PhD graduands – the highest number ever conferred at any one time. To the 52 doctorates, I would like it to be known that you have most certainly done UiTM proud by journeying through the scholastic path with its endless challenges and impediments, and by persevering right till the very end. This convocation should not be regarded as the end of your highest scholarly achievement and contribution to the body of knowledge but rather as the beginning of embarking into more innovative research from knowledge gained during this academic journey, for the community and country. As alumni of UiTM, we hold you dear to our hearts. The relationship that was once between a student and supervisor has now matured into comrades, forging and exploring together beyond the frontier of knowledge. We wish you all the best in your endeavour and may I offer my congratulations to all the graduands. ‘UiTM sentiasa dihati ku’ Tan Sri Dato’ Sri Prof Ir Dr Sahol Hamid Abu Bakar , FASc, PEng Vice Chancellor Universiti Teknologi MAR

Worldviews and the American West: The Life of the Place Itself

A diverse group of writers and scholars follow the lead of noted folklorist Barre Toelken and consider, from the inside, the ways in which varied cultures in the American West understand and express their relations to the world around them. As Barre Toelken puts it in The Dynamics of Folklore, \u27Worldview\u27 refers to the manner in which a culture sees and expresses its relation to the world around it. In Worldviews and the American West, seventeen notable authors and scholars, employing diverse approaches and styles, apply Toelken\u27s ideas about worldview to the American West. While the contributors represent a range of voices, methods, and visions, they are integrated through their focus on the theme of worldview in one region. Worldviews and the American West includes essays by Margaret K. Brady, Hal Cannon, Nora Marks Dauenhauer and Richard Dauenhauer, James S. Griffith, Barry Lopez, Robert McCarl, Elliott Oring, Twilo Scofield, Steve Siporin, Kim Stafford, C. W. Sullivan III, Jeannie B. Thomas, George Venn, George B. Wasson, and William A. Wilson. Each of the authors in this collection attempts to get inside one or more of the worldviews of the many cultures that have come to share and interpret the American West. The result is a lively mix of styles and voices as the authors\u27 own worldviews interact with the multiple perspectives of the diverse peoples (and, in Barry Lopez\u27s The Language of Animals, other species) of the West. This diversity matches the geography of the region they all call home and gives varied life and meaning to its physical and cultural landscape.https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/usupress_pubs/1022/thumbnail.jp