180 research outputs found
Computer Vision and Architectural History at Eye Level:Mixed Methods for Linking Research in the Humanities and in Information Technology
Information on the history of architecture is embedded in our daily surroundings, in vernacular and heritage buildings and in physical objects, photographs and plans. Historians study these tangible and intangible artefacts and the communities that built and used them. Thus valuableinsights are gained into the past and the present as they also provide a foundation for designing the future. Given that our understanding of the past is limited by the inadequate availability of data, the article demonstrates that advanced computer tools can help gain more and well-linked data from the past. Computer vision can make a decisive contribution to the identification of image content in historical photographs. This application is particularly interesting for architectural history, where visual sources play an essential role in understanding the built environment of the past, yet lack of reliable metadata often hinders the use of materials. The automated recognition contributes to making a variety of image sources usable forresearch.<br/
Graphonomics and your Brain on Art, Creativity and Innovation : Proceedings of the 19th International Graphonomics Conference (IGS 2019 â Your Brain on Art)
[Italiano]: âGrafonomia e cervello su arte, creativitĂ e innovazioneâ.
Un forum internazionale per discutere sui recenti progressi nell'interazione tra arti creative, neuroscienze, ingegneria, comunicazione, tecnologia, industria, istruzione, design, applicazioni forensi e mediche. I contributi hanno esaminato lo stato dell'arte, identificando sfide e opportunitĂ , e hanno delineato le possibili linee di sviluppo di questo settore di ricerca. I temi affrontati includono: strategie integrate per la comprensione dei sistemi neurali, affettivi e cognitivi in ambienti realistici e complessi; individualitĂ e differenziazione dal punto di vista neurale e comportamentale; neuroaesthetics (uso delle neuroscienze per spiegare e comprendere le esperienze estetiche a livello neurologico); creativitĂ e innovazione; neuro-ingegneria e arte ispirata dal cervello, creativitĂ e uso di dispositivi di mobile brain-body imaging (MoBI) indossabili; terapia basata su arte creativa; apprendimento informale; formazione; applicazioni forensi. / [English]: âGraphonomics and your brain on art, creativity and innovationâ.
A single track, international forum for discussion on recent advances at the intersection of the creative arts, neuroscience, engineering, media, technology, industry, education, design, forensics, and medicine.
The contributions reviewed the state of the art, identified challenges and opportunities and created a roadmap for the field of graphonomics and your brain on art.
The topics addressed include: integrative strategies for understanding neural, affective and cognitive systems in realistic, complex environments; neural and behavioral individuality and variation; neuroaesthetics (the use of neuroscience to explain and understand the aesthetic experiences at the neurological level); creativity and innovation; neuroengineering and brain-inspired art, creative concepts and wearable mobile brain-body imaging (MoBI) designs; creative art therapy; informal learning; education; forensics
Computer Vision and Architectural History at Eye Level:Mixed Methods for Linking Research in the Humanities and in Information Technology
Information on the history of architecture is embedded in our daily surroundings, in vernacular and heritage buildings and in physical objects, photographs and plans. Historians study these tangible and intangible artefacts and the communities that built and used them. Thus valuableinsights are gained into the past and the present as they also provide a foundation for designing the future. Given that our understanding of the past is limited by the inadequate availability of data, the article demonstrates that advanced computer tools can help gain more and well-linked data from the past. Computer vision can make a decisive contribution to the identification of image content in historical photographs. This application is particularly interesting for architectural history, where visual sources play an essential role in understanding the built environment of the past, yet lack of reliable metadata often hinders the use of materials. The automated recognition contributes to making a variety of image sources usable forresearch.<br/
Central and Eastern European Literary Theory and the West
The twentieth century saw intensive intellectual exchange between Eastern and Central Europe and the West. Yet political and linguistic obstacles meant that many important trends in East and Central European thought and knowledge hardly registered in Western Europe and the US. This book uncovers the hidden westward movements of Eastern European literary theory and its influence on Western scholarship
Narratives Crossing Boundaries: Storytelling in a Transmedial and Transdisciplinary Context
As the dominant narrative forms in the age of media convergence, films and games call for a transmedial perspective in narratology. Games allow a participatory reception of the story, bringing the transgression of the ontological boundary between the narrated world and the world of the recipient into focus. These diverse transgressions - medial and ontological - are the subject of this transdisciplinary compendium, which covers the subject in an interdisciplinary way from various perspectives: game studies and media studies, but also sociology and psychology, to take into account the great influence of storytelling on social discourses and human behavior
Computer Vision and Architectural History at Eye Level:Mixed Methods for Linking Research in the Humanities and in Information Technology
Information on the history of architecture is embedded in our daily surroundings, in vernacular and heritage buildings and in physical objects, photographs and plans. Historians study these tangible and intangible artefacts and the communities that built and used them. Thus valuableinsights are gained into the past and the present as they also provide a foundation for designing the future. Given that our understanding of the past is limited by the inadequate availability of data, the article demonstrates that advanced computer tools can help gain more and well-linked data from the past. Computer vision can make a decisive contribution to the identification of image content in historical photographs. This application is particularly interesting for architectural history, where visual sources play an essential role in understanding the built environment of the past, yet lack of reliable metadata often hinders the use of materials. The automated recognition contributes to making a variety of image sources usable forresearch.<br/
'Ane end of an auld song?': macro and micro perspectives on written Scots in correspondence during the union of parliaments debates
This thesis examines the relationship between political identity and variation from a diachronic perspective. Specifically, it explores the use of written Scots features in the personal correspondence of Scottish politicians active during the Union of the Parliaments debates. Written Scots by 1700 had steadily retreated from most text-types in the face of ongoing anglicisation, but simultaneously the Union debates sparked heated discussion around questions of nationality and Scotland's separate identity. I consider the extent to which the use of Scots features may have been influenced by such discourse, but also how they may have become indexical markers used to lay claim to these ideologies. Drawing from the frameworks of First, Second and Third Wave perspectives on variation, and combining quantitative, macro-social methods with micro-social analysis, broad socio-political factors are explored alongside plausible stylistic intentions in conditioning or influencing the linguistic behaviour of these writers. The first analysis examines variation in the corpus temporally, using the chronologically-organised clustering technique VNC - Variability-based Neighbor Clustering (Gries and Hilpert, 2008), to measure Scots features over time. The crucial years of the debates (1700-1707) are compared with correspondence either side, and the VNC analysis identifies heightened use of Scots falling within the key years of the debates. The following macro-social analysis explores the factors driving this variation quantitatively, using a number of different statistical models to examine the data from various perspectives. Probabilities of Scots are found to correlate with certain political factors, though in complex and multilayered ways that reflect the composite nature of the historical figures operating in the Scottish parliament. The third analysis focuses on the features of written Scots itself and how these pattern in aggregate and across the individual authors who comprise the corpus. Findings suggest the persistence of written Scots was not being driven by a singular feature or set of tokens, rather, authors varied widely in their range and proportion of different variants. Finally, the micro-analysis examines the intra-writer variation of four individuals representing different political interests, exploring their Scots use across various recipients. Close-up inspection of features within particular extracts and letters suggests the subtle social and stylistic functions Scots had acquired for these writers. Its occurrence was found to reflect but also constitute the macro-social patterns identified earlier.
Taken together, results indicate the use of Scots features was both influenced by, and contributed to, the political and ideological loyalties these writers harboured. Moreover, they tentatively suggest a process of reinterpretation was underway, in which Scots features were becoming a resource that could be selectively employed for particular indexical and communicative purposes
Pedagogical practices in teaching siSwati as a first language in diverse linguistic settings
Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2023Educational research indicates that sound pedagogical practices are essential for learners to achieve positive learning outcomes. This suggests that the success of any learning programme is dependent on the selection and utilisation of relevant and appropriate pedagogical practices. In response to educational research which indicates the vital role played by a learnerâs first language in learning, the Eswatini Ministry of Education and Training embarked on an exercise of decolonising the curriculum in 2011 by using siSwati as the medium of instruction and learning in the foundation and middle phases and a core subject throughout primary and senior secondary school. However, arguably, research on African language pedagogy is scanty, let alone teaching of siSwati, as the little available research has been on issues of policy, thus leaving a knowledge gap on the pedagogy in siSwati first language (SL1). Therefore, this study used the sociocultural theory to explore and comprehend pedagogy in SL1 in light of Eswatiniâs Language in Education Policy, which provides for siSwati to be a compulsory subject and a vehicle for teaching and learning in early primary, despite the countryâs linguistic heterogeneous classrooms in urban schools.
This was a qualitative exploratory case study conducted in two urban schools of Nhlangano in the Shiselweni region of Eswatini. The study sought to respond to three research questions, which were: How are pedagogical practices used in teaching SL1? Why are these pedagogical practices used in the teaching of SL1? How do teachers experience the teaching of SL1? Participants were purposively selected, and they included the teachers who taught siSwati. Data were generated through interviews, a focus group discussion, lesson observations and documentary review. To comprehend the data in this study, I used conventional content analysis, which involved deriving coding categories directly from the text. The findings indicated that teachersâ practices were anchored to the understanding that the teaching of SL1 meant equipping learners with functional language skills, such as productive and receptive skills, which are essential for studying across subject curricula. However, a lack of technological knowledge (TK) and pedagogical knowledge (PK) thwarted teachersâ pedagogical practices. Teachers acknowledged this knowledge gap and attributed it to a lack of training to teach SL1 under the competency based education curriculum, let alone in diverse linguistic settings and to the way they were trained to teach siSwati in colleges. The findings revealed that teacher-centred expository pedagogy dominated SL1 classrooms, as opposed to the requirement of the curriculum that learner-centred pedagogies be used in social practice. Based on these findings, it is recommended that teachers be provided with in-service training on learner-centred and culturally responsive pedagogies appropriate to teach SL1 under the CBE curriculum. Besides, they should be equipped with the technological skills necessary to teach language in the 21st century. Also, the pre-service training offered to SL1 students in colleges be evaluated to comprehend why a first language is taught in a second language.Canon Collins TrustUniversity of PretoriaHumanities EducationPhDUnrestricte
Grasping nothing: a study of minimal ontologies and the sense of music
If music were to have a proper sense â one in which it is truly given â one might reasonably place this in sound and aurality. I contend, however, that no such sense exists; rather, the sense of music takes place, and it does so with the impossible. To this end, this thesis â which is a work of philosophy and music â advances an ontology of the impossible (i.e., it thinks the being of what, properly speaking, can have no being) and considers its implications for music, articulating how ontological aporias â of the event, of thinking the absolute, and of sovereigntyâs dismemberment â imply senses of music that are anterior to sound. John Cageâs Silent Prayer, a nonwork he never composed, compels a rerethinking of silence on the basis of its contradictory status of existence; Florian Hecker et al.âs Speculative Solution offers a basis for thinking absolute music anew to the precise extent that it is a discourse of meaninglessness; and Manfred Werderâs [yearn] pieces exhibit exemplarily that musicâs sense depends on the possibility of its counterfeiting. Inso-much as these accounts produce musical senses that take the place of sound, they are also understood to be performances of these pieces. Here, then, thought is musicâs organon and its instrument
Suffering in Babylon: Ludlul bÄl nÄmeqi and the scholars, ancient and modern
Suffering in Babylon comprises a series of studies on Ludlul bÄl nÄmeqi. Part One examines the modern scholarship surrounding the poemâs textual reconstruction and translation. Ludlul exists today as a composite text, pieced together over the last 180 years from dozens of cuneiform tablets and fragments from various archaeological sites. With these disparate sources, Assyriologists have reconstructed three quarters of the poemâs original text, which is here translated anew with extensive epigraphic and philological notes.
Part Two explores the historical contexts of the poem and its reception among first-millennium scribes. Whether the poemâs protagonist is the historical Ć ubĆĄi-meĆĄrĂȘ-Ć akkan or not, his experiences as described in the poem provide insight into the worldview and concerns of the ancient scholars among whom the poemâs author was counted, likely from the ranks of the exorcists. The protagonistâs experience with divine revelation sheds light on those scholarsâ divinatory worldview. The anatomical and pathological vocabulary used to describe his suffering compares well to the vocabulary in exorcism texts. The ritual failures he experiences reflect the poemâs institutional agenda. And the structure and language of his first person account shows intertextual connections with incantation prayers, a genre distinctive to exorcism. The poemâs subsequent incorporation into various scribal curricula and tablet collections demonstrates the poemâs cultural stature among first-millennium scribes, who wrote a commentary on Ludlul and used the text in the creation of others.
Part Three offers a comparative study that bridges the ancient and modern scholarly horizons. Drawing on both ancient and modern scholarship, it compares the protagonistâs experience of the alĂ» demon with the clinical condition known today as sleep paralysis. The bookâs underlying goal is to illustrate the potential of a multi-perspectival approach to Akkadian literature that acknowledges the contexts of both ancient and modern scholars involved in producing meaningful readings of this ancient literary gem
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