Street photography

ThesisStreet photography can be defmed as a practice of soliciting subjects for impromptu portraits done on the street. The photographer trying to document the social portrait without being noticed by their subjects - people going about their business unaware of the photographer's presence, candid pictures of everyday life. Street photography is a kind of photography that tells us something crucial about the nature - human nature, life in the level we understand it. The combination of the instrument, a camera and the subject - the street, yields a type of picture that is idiosyncratic to photography in a way formal portraits, landscapes and other forms are not. While experimentations were made possible by photography - those performed by Eadweard James Muybridge and Etienne-lules Marey or events documented in photojournalism may yield more information, but Street photographers use the capacity for information more imaginatively. They think about tbis attribute of photography more profoundly than anyone else. There are two sides to street photography - a paradox to which the photographers are very sensitive. On the one hand, they try to get as many shots that they can get of a rapidly moving and changing subject, allowing them to strive for the one singular image - perfect in composition. On the other hand, they might make purposely open-ended, unbalanced pictures that can't stand alone and need to be played ofT on another, in groups, or runs in books. There are more technical details to this kind of photography. Motion blur can be used to the photographer's advantage. It can be a way to express energy on the street. A blurry picture of a fussy child, or a woozy picture of an old wotnaIl, can convey the 'feeling' of the image. The tradition of street photography is a diffuse, fragmented, intermittent one. But it is a tradition nonetheless - a succession of influences and inheritances. There are certain picrures, such as Paul Strand's Blind Woman of 1916 that everybody who took up street photography thereafter appear to have seen and been affected by it. This essay covers the history of portraits, which I believe was the fIrst step towards the basic street photography. What started as an image taken for e.g. sentimental keepsakes and historical recording developed into a search of the human's inner being ... captured on fIlm. The proille on Henri Cartier-Bresson serves as an example of a photographer that took picture of the 'moment of truth' and not out of routine

Feasibility study for reliable magnetic connection switch, phase I Final report

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Neural correlates of perceiving emotional faces and bodies in developmental prosopagnosia:An event-related fMRI-study

Many people experience transient difficulties in recognizing faces but only a small number of them cannot recognize their family members when meeting them unexpectedly. Such face blindness is associated with serious problems in everyday life. A better understanding of the neuro-functional basis of impaired face recognition may be achieved by a careful comparison with an equally unique object category and by a adding a more realistic setting involving neutral faces as well facial expressions. We used event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to investigate the neuro-functional basis of perceiving faces and bodies in three developmental prosopagnosics (DP) and matched healthy controls. Our approach involved materials consisting of neutral faces and bodies as well as faces and bodies expressing fear or happiness. The first main result is that the presence of emotional information has a different effect in the patient vs. the control group in the fusiform face area (FFA). Neutral faces trigger lower activation in the DP group, compared to the control group, while activation for facial expressions is the same in both groups. The second main result is that compared to controls, DPs have increased activation for bodies in the inferior occipital gyrus (IOG) and for neutral faces in the extrastriate body area (EBA), indicating that body and face sensitive processes are less categorically segregated in DP. Taken together our study shows the importance of using naturalistic emotional stimuli for a better understanding of developmental face deficits

The other side of whiteness : the Dutch Reformed Church and the search for a theology of racial reconciliation in the afterlife of apartheid

CITATION: Van der Riet, L. R. & Van Wyngaard, C. G. J. 2021. The other side of whiteness : the Dutch Reformed Church and the search for a theology of racial reconciliation in the afterlife of apartheid. Stellenbosch Theological Journal, 7(1):1–25, doi:10.17570/stj.2021.v7n1.t2.The original publication is available at https://ojs.reformedjournals.co.zaThis article will provide an overview and analysis of developments in the Dutch Reformed Church’s (DRC) General Synod concerning race, racism, and racial reconciliation from 1986 until 2019. It seeks to extend the multiple accounts of the DRC’s adoption and rejection of apartheid theology by tracing its further attempts at grappling with questions of racism during and after the transition to democracy, into the present. Three primary discourses are explored, namely the search for an inclusive ecclesiology, the commitment to community involvement in the reconstruction of South Africa after apartheid, and the transformation of interpersonal ethics towards greater respect and care for others. Thereafter, the article highlights four territories that remain largely unexplored within the DRC in the past quarter of a century and argues for their future exploration. These trajectories could contribute to a deeper transformation and conversion from the white Christianity historically tied to the DRC.Publisher's versio

Dynamics of Generalized Assisted Inflation

We study the dynamics of multiple scalar fields and a barotropic fluid in an FLRW-universe. The scalar potential is a sum of exponentials. All critical points are constructed and these include scaling and de Sitter solutions. A stability analysis of the critical points is performed for generalized assisted inflation, which is an extension of assisted inflation where the fields mutually interact. Effects in generalized assisted inflation which differ from assisted inflation are emphasized. One such a difference is that an (inflationary) attractor can exist if some of the exponential terms in the potential are negative.Comment: 27 page

Adsorption induced reconstruction of the Cu(110) surface

The formation of the O/Cu(110)-(2 × 1) and H/Cu(110)-(1 × 2) superstructures has been investigated by a LEED beam profile analysis. The oxygen induced reconstruction proceeds at later stages by creation of holes on flat terraces. This could not be observed at the hydrogen induced missing row reconstruction. The formation of the missing row structure proceeds most probably via nucleation at steps and subsequent growth of (1 × 2) islands. The influence of different distributions of steps and islands on beam profiles is discussed

European Paediatric Formulation Initiative workshop report: Improving the administration of oral liquid medicines in paediatrics using dosing syringes and enteral accessories

Accurate dosing of the right medicine to the right patient is a key element of safe and efficacious pharmacotherapy, yet prone to technical challenges and human error when dosing involves the administration of small volumes of liquid medicines. For this reason, the topic has gained increased attention over the last decade from multiple stakeholder parties e.g. academia, hospital pharmacy, the medical device and pharmaceutical industry, and regulatory agencies. It is now well acknowledged that spoons and cups are not suitable for the measurement of small volumes of oral liquid medicines and that syringes are a better alternative, but syringes for parenteral use should not be used for oral dosing in order to avoid accidental parenteral delivery of oral products. However, dosing accuracy of very small volumes of liquid medicines to young children, and especially pre-term neonates, is still not sufficiently ensured. A workshop was organised in 2018 by the European Paediatric Formulation Initiative to reflect on current status and challenges (first part) and possible strategies to improve the present situation (second part). A voting system (n = 24) was used to consider the most favourable solutions. The harmonisation and/or standardisation of the technical design of oral syringes (including e.g. female/male connection) was considered a key priority