422 research outputs found
Literature and Architecture in Early Modern England
Our built environment inspires writers to reflect on the human experience, discover its history, or make it up.Buildings tell stories. Castles, country homes, churches, and monasteries are âdocumentsâ of the people who built them, owned them, lived and died in them, inherited and saved or destroyed them, and recorded their histories. Literature and Architecture in Early Modern England examines the relationship between sixteenth- and seventeenth-century architectural and literary works. By becoming more sensitive to the narrative functions of architecture, Anne M. Myers argues, we begin to understand how a range of writers viewed and made use of the material built environment that surrounded the production of early modern texts in England. Scholars have long found themselves in the position of excusing or explaining Englandâs failure to achieve the equivalent of the Italian Renaissance in the visual arts. Myers proposes that architecture inspired an unusual amount of historiographic and literary production, including poetry, drama, architectural treatises, and diaries. Works by William Camden, Henry Wotton, Ben Jonson, Andrew Marvell, George Herbert, Anne Clifford, and John Evelyn, when considered as a group, are texts that overturn the engrained critical notion that a Protestant fear of idolatry sentenced the visual arts and architecture in England to a state of suspicion and neglect
Ghosts of the African Diaspora
The first monograph to investigate the poetics and politics of haunting in African diaspora literature, Ghosts of the African Diaspora: Re-Visioning History, Memory, and Identity examines literary works by five contemporary writersâFred DâAguiar, Gloria Naylor, Paule Marshall, Michelle Cliff, and Toni Morrison. Joanne Chassot argues that reading these texts through the lens of the ghost does cultural, theoretical, and political work crucial to the writersâ engagement with issues of identity, memory, and history. Drawing on memory and trauma studies, postcolonial studies, and queer theory, this truly interdisciplinary volume makes an important contribution to the fast-growing field of spectrality studies
An Agent-Based Variogram Modeller: Investigating Intelligent, Distributed-Component Geographical Information Systems
Geo-Information Science (GIScience) is the field of study that addresses substantive questions concerning the handling, analysis and visualisation of spatial data. Geo- Information Systems (GIS), including software, data acquisition and organisational arrangements, are the key technologies underpinning GIScience. A GIS is normally tailored to the service it is supposed to perform. However, there is often the need to do a function that might not be supported by the GIS tool being used. The normal solution in these circumstances is to go out and look for another tool that can do the service, and often an expert to use that tool. This is expensive, time consuming and certainly stressful to the geographical data analyses. On the other hand, GIS is often used in conjunction with other technologies to form a geocomputational environment. One of the complex tools in geocomputation is geostatistics. One of its functions is to provide the means to determine the extent of spatial dependencies within geographical data and processes. Spatial datasets are often large and complex. Currently Agent system are being integrated into GIS to offer flexibility and allow better data analysis. The theis will look into the current application of Agents in within the GIS community, determine if they are used to representing data, process or act a service.
The thesis looks into proving the applicability of an agent-oriented paradigm as a service based GIS, having the possibility of providing greater interoperability and reducing resource requirements (human and tools). In particular, analysis was undertaken to determine the need to introduce enhanced features to agents, in order to maximise their effectiveness in GIS. This was achieved by addressing the software agent complexity in design and implementation for the GIS environment and by suggesting possible solutions to encountered problems. The software agent characteristics and features (which include the dynamic binding of plans to software agents in order to tackle the levels of complexity and range of contexts) were examined, as well as discussing current GIScience and the applications of agent technology to GIS, agents as entities, objects and processes. These concepts and their functionalities to GIS are then analysed and discussed. The extent of agent functionality, analysis of the gaps and the use these technologies to express a distributed service providing an agent-based GIS framework is then presented.
Thus, a general agent-based framework for GIS and a novel agent-based architecture for a specific part of GIS, the variogram, to examine the applicability of the agent- oriented paradigm to GIS, was devised. An examination of the current mechanisms for constructing variograms, underlying processes and functions was undertaken, then these processes were embedded into a novel agent architecture for GIS. Once the successful software agent implementation had been achieved, the corresponding tool
was tested and validated - internally for code errors and externally to determine its functional requirements and whether it enhances the GIS process of dealing with data. Thereafter, its compared with other known service based GIS agents and its advantages and disadvantages analysed
3D structural characterization of outcrops by means of close-range multi-view stereo-photogrammetry
Image-based 3D modelling is increasingly used as a fast and cheap alternative to laser-scanning for the 3D digital representation of geological outcrops. This rapidly improving technique is progressively opening the way to the widespread use of virtual outcrop models in geology, as the technique allows nearly everybody to construct a detailed digital model of geological exposures simply using a few handy and cheap devices.
In this dissertation, the photogrammetry method has been used to demonstrate and evaluate the potential of virtual outcrops in structural geology. In particular, through the analysis of different outcrops at different scales, I showed that virtual outcrop models enable a switch from a mere descriptive/qualitative analysis of the outcrops to a quantitative one. In fact, by mean of virtual reality it is possible to overcome almost all technical limitations that are generally encountered during field work at different scales including prospective distortion, inaccessibility and the lack of instruments for quantitative acquisition of data, among others
Karst Rock Features
Rock features are important traces of the formation and development of karst surface. On various karren their record is especially rich, revealing to us the many factors that in diverse conditions formed the karst surface on various carbonate and other rock.We have tried to present the most characteristic rock features and through them the most important factors and processes in the formation of the karst surface, the methods of studying them, and the most outstanding examples.Forty-nine contributing authors offer a wide spectrum of content and examples of rock forms from many karst regions around the world.The first part of the book offers an orderly-organized survey and description of the most characteristic rock forms and presents the physical and chemical corrosion of rock, biocorrosion, the modeling of rock forms, their detailed morphometrics, and numerous descriptions of individual rock forms. The second part is devoted to various examples of rock forms found around the world from Slovenia through North and South America to Australia and Asia.Skalne oblike so pomembna sled oblikovanja in razvoja povrĆĄinskih kraĆĄkih pojavov. Ć e zlasti bogat je njihov zapis na razliÄnih ĆĄkrapljah. Razkriva nam ĆĄtevilne dejavnike, ki v raznovrstnih razmerah oblikujejo kraĆĄko povrĆĄje na razliÄnih karbonatnih in drugih kamninah. SkuĆĄali smo zajeti najbolj znaÄilne skalne oblike in skozi njih najbolj pomembne dejavnike in procese oblikovanja kraĆĄkega povrĆĄja ter naÄine njihovega raziskovanja in najbolj izrazite primere. Ć irok spekter vsebine razkriva tudi nabor 49 avtorjev in primeri skalnih oblik s ĆĄtevilnih kraĆĄkih podroÄji sveta. Prvi del knjige smiselno podaja pregled najbolj znaÄilnih skalnih oblik in njihov opis, predstavlja fizikalno-kemiÄno raztapljanje kamnine, biokorozijo, modeliranje skalnih oblik, njihovo podrobno morfometrijo ter ĆĄtevilne opise posameznih skalnih oblik. Drugi del knjige je posveÄen razliÄnim primerom skalnih oblik ĆĄirom sveta od Slovenije, prek severne in juĆŸne Amerike do Avstralije in Azije
Sensitive Objects: Affect and Material Culture
"The study of affect has become a dynamic field spanning a range of disciplines from psychology over neuroscience to philosophy and cultural studies. Little attention however has been payed to material culture. This book presents an innovative set of ethnographies of the affective relations between people and things. It tackles the sensual experiences of materiality, through taste, sounds, smells and touch that are hard to verbalize or represent in images. Evocative situations are detailed, like for instance the packing of a suitcase at the splitting of a marriage; how people in the besieged Sarajevo were both helped and humiliated by the aid received from abroad; how the parting of objects after the parentsâ death may result in siblings never talking to one another again. These ethnographies from Scandinavia, the Balkans and the US, focus on what affects do in everyday life rather than what they are. The volume is also provided with chapters that put the studies of affects in ethnology and anthropology in a wider scholarly frame and discuss theories and methods applied in the book.
Sensitive Objects in the first place addresses scholars and students in Ethnology, Anthropology, Sociology and Cultural Studies, as well as other readers interested in affects and emotions, material culture, tourism, innovations, and post-socialism.I dagens forskning har det uppstĂ„tt ett dynamiskt fĂ€lt dĂ€r sĂ„ vitt skilda vetenskaper som filosofi och neurovetenskap, psykologi och filmvetenskap börjat föra dialoger med varandra. Det handlar dĂ„ om affekters inverkan pĂ„ liv och handling. Mycket av den forskningen har Ă€n sĂ„ lĂ€nge rört sig pĂ„ ett principiellt plan. Med den hĂ€r boken ger sig etnologer och antropologer i kast med det konkreta â tingen och de olika affektiva kopplingar som uppstĂ„r mellan mĂ€nniskor och den omgivande materiella kulturen. MĂ€ngder av kunskap förmedlas via sinnena â smaken, ljuden, lukten och beröringen som Ă€r svĂ„ra att verbalisera eller förmedla via bilder eller symboler. I Sensitive Objects finns förtĂ€tade etnografiska beskrivningar av situationer som t ex hur den kappsĂ€ck som en uppriven hustru, en deporterad, â eller varför inte en vanlig resenĂ€r â packas full av sĂ„vĂ€l hopp som förtvivlan; hur ett arvskifte ger ting frĂ„n förĂ€ldrahemmet ett affektionsvĂ€rde som kan fĂ„ syskon och efterlevande att kapa alla band och hellre gĂ„ till domstol Ă€n börja samtala; eller hur de belĂ€grade invĂ„narna i staden Sarajevo under kriget fick paket med mat och förnödenheter som inte bara lindrade utsattheten utan ocksĂ„ ökade kĂ€nslan av förnedring och vanmakt. I dessa och ytterligare typfall analyseras anvĂ€ndbarheten av ett affektivt perspektiv vid förstĂ„elsen av relationen mellan mĂ€nniskor och tingen omkring dem. Etnografin i boken tar lĂ€saren med till olika delar av Skandinavien, till ett oroligt Balkan och en resa genom södra USA. I tre av bidragen diskuteras ocksĂ„ hur affektstudier kan komma till praktisk anvĂ€ndning i tillĂ€mpade innovationsstudier. Boken inleds med en utförlig diskussion dĂ€r de affektiva perspektiven sĂ€tts in i en etnologisk och antropologisk kontext. SĂ€rskilt utrymme Ă€gnas hĂ€r de metodologiska och teoretiska utmaningar som detta öppnar för.
Den hÀr boken Àr visserligen ett pionjÀrarbete i sitt slag inom de nÀmnda disciplinerna, men vÀnder sig ocksÄ till forskare och studenter inom sociologi, kultur- och turismstudier, och naturligtvis till en bredare lÀsekrets med intresse för studiet av kÀnslor, musik, materiell kultur, innovationer och postsocialism.
Burning Gabrielâs Wings: Exploring the Soulâs Movement towards God through the Masnavi of Jalal al-Din Rumi
The Qurâan is considered an eternal text, universally relevant, awaiting interpretation and reinterpretation. Its eternal nature is made all the more apparent through the ambiguity and multilayered meaning of the Arabic language, which affords every line applicability to multiple areas of thought, lived reality, and the attributes of God. Constant return to the Qurâan as a divine text allows for greater insight into not only the nature of the human self but also to the Universal Reality of God. Therefore, when Mawlana Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumiâs Masnavi is called the Qurâan in Persian, the full weight of that statement becomes apparent
Sensitive Objects: Affect and Material Culture
"The study of affect has become a dynamic field spanning a range of disciplines from psychology over neuroscience to philosophy and cultural studies. Little attention however has been payed to material culture. This book presents an innovative set of ethnographies of the affective relations between people and things. It tackles the sensual experiences of materiality, through taste, sounds, smells and touch that are hard to verbalize or represent in images. Evocative situations are detailed, like for instance the packing of a suitcase at the splitting of a marriage; how people in the besieged Sarajevo were both helped and humiliated by the aid received from abroad; how the parting of objects after the parentsâ death may result in siblings never talking to one another again. These ethnographies from Scandinavia, the Balkans and the US, focus on what affects do in everyday life rather than what they are. The volume is also provided with chapters that put the studies of affects in ethnology and anthropology in a wider scholarly frame and discuss theories and methods applied in the book.
Sensitive Objects in the first place addresses scholars and students in Ethnology, Anthropology, Sociology and Cultural Studies, as well as other readers interested in affects and emotions, material culture, tourism, innovations, and post-socialism
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