Reliability Abstracts and Technical Reviews January - December 1970

Reliability Abstracts and Technical Reviews is an abstract and critical analysis service covering published and report literature on reliability. The service is designed to provide information on theory and practice of reliability as applied to aerospace and an objective appraisal of the quality, significance, and applicability of the literature abstracted

Close Reading with Computers

Rather than working at the usual scales of distant reading, this book shows what happens when we bring techniques from the digital humanities to bear on a single novel for close readings

Close Reading with Computers: Textual Scholarship, Computational Formalism, and David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas

This book is the first full-length monograph to bring a range of computational methods to bear in a sustained fashion, on a single novel, at the micro-level. While most contemporary digital studies are interested in distant-reading paradigms for large-scale literary history – using their digital methods as a telescope – following calls by Alan Liu and Tanya E. Clement, Close Reading with Computers instead asks what happens when such techniques function as a microscope

Close Reading with Computers

Rather than working at the usual scales of distant reading, this book shows what happens when we bring techniques from the digital humanities to bear on a single novel for close readings

1984-1985 Louisiana Tech University Catalog

The Louisiana Tech University Catalog includes announcements and course descriptions for courses offered at Louisiana Tech University for the academic year of 1984-1985.https://digitalcommons.latech.edu/university-catalogs/1030/thumbnail.jp

Fragment / Part / Whole: Matter and Mediality in Michael Landy’s Break Down

This thesis investigates Break Down by Michael Landy (2001), in which the artist’s 7227 belongings were systematically catalogued, dismantled and granulated. Break Down, it is argued, opens up alternative modes of engaging with materiality and mediality; this thesis explores an array of related concerns arising from the work. Landy’s process of fragmentation elicits an inquiry into concepts of part and whole, single and multiple. The granulated material produced during Break Down provokes an account, via Deleuze and Guattari’s concept of affect, of the fragment as narrative matter. Further, Break Down is considered in terms of its operations between the textual and the material. With reference to Friedrich Kittler’s account of media as distributed and multilateral entities, this text explores the conventions pertaining to two textual forms deployed by Landy in relation to Break Down; the instruction manual and the inventory. Finally, Landy’s father’s sheepskin coat, the final object to be shredded during Break Down, is the fulcrum for an appraisal of the thing as an extension of personhood, and of human subjectivity as in some sense ‘thingly’. In this text, Break Down is constructed as an assemblage that operates at the intersection of a complex, mobile massing of currents and specificities; a framing that informs both the structure and the methodology of this thesis. Written, photographic and audio-visual source material is deployed here alongside close analysis of two important texts published by Landy in 2001 as accompaniments to Break Down itself: Michael Landy / Break Down, and Break Down Inventory. In addition, drawing upon Jane Rendell’s strategy of ‘site writing,’ passages of close observational writing are used intermittently throughout this text to relay what might in Deleuzo-Guattarian terms be called the becoming of the texts and subjects under discussion

1990-1991 Louisiana Tech University Catalog

The Louisiana Tech University Catalog includes announcements and course descriptions for courses offered at Louisiana Tech University for the academic year of 1990-1991.https://digitalcommons.latech.edu/university-catalogs/1024/thumbnail.jp

Safety and Reliability - Safe Societies in a Changing World

The contributions cover a wide range of methodologies and application areas for safety and reliability that contribute to safe societies in a changing world. These methodologies and applications include: - foundations of risk and reliability assessment and management - mathematical methods in reliability and safety - risk assessment - risk management - system reliability - uncertainty analysis - digitalization and big data - prognostics and system health management - occupational safety - accident and incident modeling - maintenance modeling and applications - simulation for safety and reliability analysis - dynamic risk and barrier management - organizational factors and safety culture - human factors and human reliability - resilience engineering - structural reliability - natural hazards - security - economic analysis in risk managemen

Alternate reality stories: mapping a new genre of digital fiction

The Aim of this thesis is to chart and develop a methodology for the emerging Digital Literature genre, Alternate Reality Stories, to enable future scholars to analyse social media based interactive narratives. This new genre combines the tropes of existing field to produce a wholly unique narrative experience, that can only be experienced within the moment it is created. I argue that, whilst similar forms do exist, the examples included within this thesis offer a unique storytelling experience that mobilises agency and reality to immerse readers in a new way. I state that this research is positioned within narratology, digital literature, and game studies, providing an interdisciplinary methodology that can replicated across fields of research to understand what it means to experience an ARS