148 research outputs found

    El siglo de "October"

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    Tal como sabe cualquiera que haya estudiado –o enseñado– historia del arte del siglo XX, ésta es claramente un campo que carece de descripciones generales: intentos por construir algún tipo de visión abarcadora se fragmentan rápidamente en episodios que relatan el surgimiento y la caída de movimientos separados, con el Postimpresionismo dando paso al Fauvismo, Cubismo, Futurismo, Constructivismo, Dada, etc. Si bien cada movimiento aparece vívido y distinto, la lógica narrativa predominante ha sido la de la fragmentación, dejando oscuras, si no impenetrables, las interrelaciones entre los movimientos y sus raigambres en los procesos históricos subyacentes. El objetivo de Art Since 1900 es oponerse a esta fragmentación sin reducir todo a una explicación única y totalizadora.Facultad de Bellas Arte

    El siglo de "October"

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    Tal como sabe cualquiera que haya estudiado –o enseñado– historia del arte del siglo XX, ésta es claramente un campo que carece de descripciones generales: intentos por construir algún tipo de visión abarcadora se fragmentan rápidamente en episodios que relatan el surgimiento y la caída de movimientos separados, con el Postimpresionismo dando paso al Fauvismo, Cubismo, Futurismo, Constructivismo, Dada, etc. Si bien cada movimiento aparece vívido y distinto, la lógica narrativa predominante ha sido la de la fragmentación, dejando oscuras, si no impenetrables, las interrelaciones entre los movimientos y sus raigambres en los procesos históricos subyacentes. El objetivo de Art Since 1900 es oponerse a esta fragmentación sin reducir todo a una explicación única y totalizadora.Facultad de Bellas Arte

    Nondestructive Crack Detection in a Fuel System Component

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    The presentation examines the background and objective of nondestructive crack detection, flow control valve assembly and poppet post flight evaluation, poppet properties. magnetic property characterization of lab data, NDE, eddy current inspection, simulation, eddy current criteria, poppet cycle testing and NDE criteria, and the use of ultrasonic surface wave for crack detection

    From Vampire to Apollo: William Blake's Ghosts of the Flea (c. 1819-20)

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    Varley’s Zodiacal Physiognomy and Blake’s Visionary Heads are the two mainstays of a project which involved séance-like meetings at Varley’s house. While the lights were still on, Varley’s guests would have listened to the stories about the flea. With The Ghost of a Flea in front of them, the recitals of the flea’s pompous speeches, combined with the fact that it was just a ghost who leered after human blood, Varley’s guests may have laughed very heartily, if not in front of him then behind his back. Each evening followed the same protocol. When the lights were off, Varley would call out a name and Blake would look around, suddenly exclaiming ‘There he is!’ and start drawing. The flea is the most striking of the Visionary Heads, though it is not the only head which exists in different versions. If appearance is elemental to any kind of judgement of one human being of another, then Blake deliberately confused Varley. By working up the sketch, he played on Varley’s expectations; he presented him with an extraordinary and very puzzling painting, The Ghost of a Flea. But why, if Blake could have chosen any monster, did he settle on the ghost of a flea

    Equity or Efficiency? Explaining Public Officials' Values

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    This article analyzes the positions of top public officials on an equity-efficiency trade-off and the determinants of those positions. It uses data from a survey across 14 European countries. The results show that differences in public officials' positions on equity-efficiency are related to the context in which they work and to their personal background. Officials at the top of the hierarchy and those with a business or economics education are more oriented toward efficiency. Additionally, results show important differences associated with country administrative culture, including a stronger equity orientation in Scandinavian countries, and a stronger efficiency orientation in Southern European countries. The positions of public officials reflect those held by citizens in their country, confirming the contextualized nature of administrative values. This article contributes to understanding the determinants of public officials' dominant values

    'It's Reducing a Human Being to a Percentage'; Perceptions of Justice in Algorithmic Decisions

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    Data-driven decision-making consequential to individuals raises important questions of accountability and justice. Indeed, European law provides individuals limited rights to 'meaningful information about the logic' behind significant, autonomous decisions such as loan approvals, insurance quotes, and CV filtering. We undertake three experimental studies examining people's perceptions of justice in algorithmic decision-making under different scenarios and explanation styles. Dimensions of justice previously observed in response to human decision-making appear similarly engaged in response to algorithmic decisions. Qualitative analysis identified several concerns and heuristics involved in justice perceptions including arbitrariness, generalisation, and (in)dignity. Quantitative analysis indicates that explanation styles primarily matter to justice perceptions only when subjects are exposed to multiple different styles---under repeated exposure of one style, scenario effects obscure any explanation effects. Our results suggests there may be no 'best' approach to explaining algorithmic decisions, and that reflection on their automated nature both implicates and mitigates justice dimensions.Comment: 14 pages, 3 figures, ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI'18), April 21--26, Montreal, Canad

    Artificial cell research as a field that connects chemical, biological and philosophical questions

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    This review article discusses the interdisciplinary nature and implications of artificial cell research. It starts from two historical theories: Gánti's chemoton model and the autopoiesis theory by Maturana and Varela. They both explain the transition from chemical molecules to biological cells. These models exemplify two different ways in which disciplines of chemistry, biology and philosophy can profit from each other. In the chemoton model, conclusions from one disciplinary approach are relevant for the other disciplines. In contrast, the autopoiesis model itself (rather than its conclusions) is transferred from one discipline to the other. The article closes by underpinning the relevance of artificial cell research for philosophy with reference to the on-going philosophical debates on emergence, biological functions and biocentrism
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