scholarly journals Learning fire investigation the clean way: The virtual experience

2009 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Amanda Davies ◽  
Barney Dalgarno
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Fire Investigation ◽  
Virtual Experience ◽  
Teaching Resource ◽  
Novel Approach ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Origin Determination ◽  
Fire Scene

<span>The effective teaching of fire investigation skills presents logistical challenges because of the difficulty of providing students with access to suitable fire damaged buildings so that they can undertake authentic investigation tasks. At Charles Sturt University (CSU), in the subject JST415, </span><em>Fire Investigation Cause and Origin Determination</em><span>, the novel approach of providing students with a CD based virtual environment based on the scene of a burned down house, as an alternative to having them undertake investigation of a real fire scene, has been implemented. This paper describes a quantitative and qualitative study exploring the effectiveness of this teaching resource. A key finding from this study was that students felt that the virtual fire investigation task had important advantages over undertaking a real investigation task, even though there were some limitations in the overall degree of realism of the experience. The results also suggested that students found that the visual fidelity and navigation capabilities provided within the environment were quite adequate for carrying out their fire investigation activity. Importantly, students also felt that the ability to revisit the virtual scene as many times as they wanted, at a time convenient to them, gave it advantages over a real investigation task if they were to be provided with only one or the other.</span><br />

scholarly journals Het gezicht van de oorlog – het gezicht van de Ander: epifanie van het gelaat in Die son struikel van Dolf van Niekerk

Literator ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 59-82
Author(s):  
J. Koch
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Literary Adaptation ◽  
The Face ◽  
Il Y A ◽  
War Experiences ◽  
The Subject ◽  
To Come ◽  
War Experience ◽  
Interpretative Framework

The face of war – the face of the Other: Epiphany of the visage in Die son struikel by Dolf van Niekerk Traumatic war experiences are crucial in shaping the identity of Diederik Versveld, the main character in Dolf van Niekerk’s Die son struikel (The sun stumbles). In this article I want to explore the war experience that the protagonist has to deal with, its literary adaptation, and the construction of the protagonist’s identity. I indicate that the three stages of Diederik’s development are closely connected to the concrete philosophic contents of the novel. The thought of Emmanuel Lévinas serves as my interpretative framework. Central to Diederik Versveld’s experience of war is the reduction of the subject to merely and impersonally existing, to il y a (“there is”). In my opion Lévinian concepts are useful in outlining the route to a better understanding of the protagonist’s experience of the war. In analysing the processing of the trauma of war Lévinas’ notion of the epiphany of the face of the Other can be helpful. The encounter with the Other in the faces of other people plays a crucial role in Diederik’s attempt to come to terms with his experiences of war and death. In Totalité et Infini (Lévinas, 1961:188) the French philosopher wrote: “The epiphany of the face unlocks humanity”.

Volavérunt

1982 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-31
Author(s):  
Antonio Larreta ◽  
Malcolm Coad
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Historical Events ◽  
Spanish Society ◽  
Francisco Goya ◽  
Police Report ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Aristocratic Culture

‘Impossible not to think of Russian dolls,’ writes Antonio Larreta in the prologue to this novel The book juxtaposes different kinds of testimony to cast varying lights on historical events. The novel turns on the death in July 1802 of Maria del Pilar Teresa Cayetana de Silva y Alvarez de Toledo, the 13th Duchess of Alba and the subject of several paintings by Francisco Goya, notably the famous pair of pictures, La Maja Vestida ('La Maja clothed) and La Maja Desnuda (‘La Maja nude’), the second of which caused a major scandal in Spanish society when it was exhibited The novel is constructed around two apocryphal testimonies regarding her death, one supposedly by Goya himself, and the other by Don Manuel Godoy, Duke of Alcudia, a friend but political enemy of the Duchess. The first of these is recounted by Godoy as part of his own statement written in 1848. Both testimonies, plus a police report about the death and a letter sent to Godoy by another participant in the events, are purportedly found by the author in 1980 among papers in a house in Paris belonging to his Uruguayan mother's third husband, Lorenzo de Pita y Evora, Marquess of Peñadolida. There are notes added throughout the text written notionally by Pita y Evora in 1939 and by Larreta himself. The issue throughout is whether the Duchess died naturally, was poisoned or committed suicide. The novel is concerned with the corruption of a luxurious and decadent aristocratic culture, preoccupied with political intrigue and artistic show. The figure of the Duchess, a brilliant schemer, hostess and cocaine addict, is central to this world; her death throws it into crisis, setting up reverberations which echo down the ensuing 150 years. The extract of Volavérunt which follows is from Goya's description of the soiree after which the Duchess is found dying. The paragraph in parentheses is comment by Godoy, and the notes are by Larreta drawing from Pita y Evora (notionally, of course). Goya, it should be pointed out, was substantially deaf by the time of the events he describes.

Colombian Sicariato and Rosario Tijeras

2020 ◽  
pp. 197-228
Author(s):  
Aldona Bialowas Pobutsky
Keyword(s):  
Real Life ◽  
The Other ◽  
Press Coverage ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Femme Fatale ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Rosario Tijeras

This chapter turns to the other by-product of Colombia’s narco machine: the plague of sicarios recruited from that nation’s hardscrabble neighborhoods. It traces the rise of hitmen from its original press coverage, when Escobar ordered the assassination of Colombia’s Justice Minister Rodrigo Lara Bonilla in 1984, to the present-day “baby sicarios,” whose disturbingly premature entry into delinquency has become the subject of several film documentaries. Though real-life sicarios have been associated with men, it is Jorge Franco’s female rendition of the phenomenon, the eponymous heroine of the novel Rosario Tijeras, which in a brief time moved to both the small and the big screens. This chapter explores the trajectory of the Rosario Tijeras franchise, where her multiple renditions turned the femme fatale into a household name. Albeit fictional, she grew to incarnate Colombia’s women who became hardened by the volatile circumstances of drug and guerrilla violence.

scholarly journals BECOMING THE POSTHUMAN: THE DESTABILISATION OF THE SUBJECT IN THOMAS GLAVINIC’S NIGHT WORK

2021 ◽  
pp. 223
Author(s):  
Branka B. Ognjanović
Keyword(s):  
Urban Environment ◽  
The State ◽  
Night Work ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Organic Life ◽  
The Uncanny ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Insight Into

The paper provides an insight into the destabilisation of the subject and the emergence of the posthuman condition in the novel Night Work (Die Arbeit der Nacht, 2006) by Austrian writer Thomas Glavinic. The first part briefly discusses previous analyses of the novel and the definitions of posthumanism as an umbrella term for a heterogeneous theory dedicated to the questions of what follows after the re-consideration of the humanist ideals and after decentring the human. The posthuman is interpreted as non-fixed, in the state of constant reconstruction as opposed to the humanist subject’s fixedness and integrity. The analysis examines the ‘uncanny’ setting of the novel and the power of survival in the face of death, which becomes the protagonist’s point of demise and divergence from consciousness and rationality. The urban environment devoid of all organic life replaces the Other applied traditionally to other humans. The Sleeper as the nightly doppelgänger and the filming of the environment further add to the transgression of the boundaries between material and immaterial, the living and the non-living, the real and the dreamlike/artificial, and ultimately determine the protagonist’s posthuman existence in the state of ‘becoming’ rather than ‘being’.

scholarly journals Tro og beslutsomhed

2018 ◽  
Vol 76 (4) ◽  
pp. 276-290
Author(s):  
Lars Albinus
Keyword(s):  
Thomas Mann ◽  
Human Existence ◽  
The Other ◽  
Formal Structure ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The Awakening ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Literary Figure ◽  
The Subject

Kierkegaard and Heidegger agree in seeing the prominenceof human existence in the reflexive concern for itself and the anxietywhich follows from recognizing the abyss of possibility and nothingness.However, Heidegger misses a notion of the formal structure of beingin Kierkegaard’s work, which he conceives to merely offer a theologicalsolution to questions that only a phenomenological outlook mightprovide on neutral grounds. Kierkegaard, on the other hand, lends hisvoice to forms of existence by which the “existentiell” dimension restson the awakening of the Spirit as the condition of possibility. Contraryto Heidegger, Kierkegaard does not regard the fulfi llment of existenceas something the subject can decide for itself without falling into despair.Using the literary figure of Hans Castorp from the novel Zauberbergby Thomas Mann, the article aims to show how easily the decisionto confront life with love falls back into a spell of escapism, leavingKierkegaard with the upper hand in pointing out the inadequacy of thehuman spirit, including philosophical endeavors, to ground itself.

scholarly journals A new approach to instruction-idioms detection in a retargetable decompiler

2014 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 1337-1359
Author(s):  
Jakub Křoustek ◽  
Fridolín Pokorný ◽  
Dusan Kolář
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Previous Approach ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Novel Approach ◽  
Advanced Analysis ◽  
Complex Instruction ◽  
Optimized Code ◽  
High Level ◽  
Later Phase

Retargetable executable-code decompilation is a one of the most complicated reverse-engineering tasks. Among others, it involves de-optimization of compiler-optimized code. One type of such an optimization is usage of so-called instruction idioms. These idioms are used to produce faster or even smaller executable files. On the other hand, decompilation of instruction idioms without any advanced analysis produces almost unreadable high-level language code that may confuse the user of the decompiler. In this paper, we revisit and extend the previous approach of instruction-idioms detection used in a retargetable decompiler developed within the Lissom project. The previous approach was based on detection of instruction idioms in a very-early phase of decompilation (a front-end part) and it was inaccurate for architectures with a complex instruction set (e.g. Intel x86). The novel approach is based on delaying detection of idioms and reconstruction of code to the later phase (a middleend part). For this purpose, we use the LLVM optimizer and we implement this analysis as a new pass in this tool. According to experimental results, this new approach significantly outperforms the previous approach as well as the other commercial solutions.

scholarly journals DEPORTATION OF THE SOVIET GERMANS THROUGH THE EYES OF A CHILD IN THE NOVELETTE: EXPERIENCE OF REFLECTION AND AUTOREFLECTION

Keruen ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 66 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
E.I. Zeyfert ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
The Other ◽  
Central Character ◽  
The Novel ◽  
German Culture ◽  
International Union ◽  
Main Plot ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Russian Germans

Data for study in the present article is the anthology of literature of the Russian Germans «The rumble of sounds is in the air» having been issued following the anthology of the Russian Germans literature of the second half of the XX – early XXI century «Towards the mistrustful sun». A genre palette of the new edition is the following: a novel, a novelette, a story, a miniature and a schwank. The book has been prepared for printing by the Institute of Ethnocultural Education in cooperation with the International Union of the German Culture. Due to the announced subject, i.e. deportation of the Soviet Germans through the eyes of a child, such works as «Our Yard» by Gugo Vorsmbekher, «The Nonfictional Landscape» by Olegа Klingа, «The Nonwoven of Fate» by Nellie Kossko and «The Melting Boat. The Karaganda novelet» by Elena Zeyfert, giving the experience of an autoreflection, are analyzed. Deportation of the Russian Germans through the child's eyes is shown at the Russian Germans mainly in the novelette; the subject is the character or the story-teller character. «The Nonfictional Landscape» by O. Klinga flickers between the novel and the story. Its poetics gravitates toward the specific for the novelette historical sight and two spheres of «friend or for». The genre of the novelette is interesting to the authors not only with the tendency to one main plot, the central character which is easy for attaching to the child. Constant is the historical sight of the novelette. The child can’t realize the originality of the situation which he is in. He just lives, noticing singularity of adults’ behavior remaining at that in the children’s world. He experiences recurrence of time altogether with the cycles of his own life. Such is Sasha of Klinga, Fritz of Vormsbekher, Emma of Kossko and Mariyka of Zeyfert. The other reason lies in the sphere of the internal movement of the plot and chronotope: the hero leaves from one valuable (and an existential point) in another and then comes back.

scholarly journals Transfer Specifics of Spanish Realities into Russian

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (11) ◽  
pp. 323-325
Author(s):  
Urunbayeva Dilnoza Komilovna
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Semantic Meaning ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The One

Abstract: The article deals with the problem of the transfer of Spanish realities in translation. It was found out that the difficulties in translating realities, on the one hand, are due to the lack of an equivalent or analogue in the translation language, and on the other hand, the need to transfer the subject (semantic) meaning, taking into account the connotation (nationalhistorical coloring). As a result of the analysis of the translation text of the novel, it was found that translators mainly resort to such methods of translating realities as transcription, descriptive and approximate translation. Keywords: realities; transcription; transliteration; semantics; descriptive translation; approximate translation

scholarly journals Metafictional poetics of Victor Pelevin’s novel “iPhuck 10”

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
The Other ◽  
Dual Function ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Art Objects ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Self Transcendence ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Existential Anthropology ◽  
Event Dynamics

The article analyzes the ways of artistic realization of the aesthetic-reflective metafictional complex in Victor Pelevin’s novel “iPhuck 10”. The metanarrative structure of the novel is traced, which is built with the use of a special type of narrator - a literary simulator, which at the same time is the sum of all the cultural forms of writing, a kind of archive thesaurus, on the other hand undermines the basis of its own narrative by exposing the empty nature and the existential problematic nature of the narrative. Metatextual issues are updated at the level of the deictic structures of the language-speech that are basic for aesthetic communication. A further subject of study is the method of isomorphic conjugation of plot-motive event dynamics with semantics of a series of ecstatically described and interpreted art objects of various medial-semiotic nature. Thanks to the dual function of the diegetic narrator as the subject of the story and its object, the equivalence effect of different metalanguages and discourses is simultaneously created within the framework of the basic conceptual metaphors and symbolic constructions of the novel. Thanks to this, we can talk about both metanarrativeness and the metafiction of the poetics of the novel. Metafictional reflection productively correlates with author's anthropological concepts. In particular, the plot of the creator-impostor combines the through Pelevinian motive of suffering and pain as the fundamental characteristics of human life with pain as an inalienable quality and source of creativity. A software algorithm is grown as a conscious person to create works of art, and its creators reinforce sorrow, anxiety, and the experience of the meaninglessness of existence so that creativity is genuine. Man is experienced by the temptation of demiurgy, by meeting with the Other, by the demand for personal self-transcendence. Thus, the author succeeds in isomorphically combining metafictional poetics and existential anthropology of the novel.

scholarly journals The Psychological Development of The Main Character of Becoming A Gang Leader through Frustration; Reflections on Dashner’s “The Maze Runner”

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-29
Author(s):  
Yosia Puri Saputro ◽  
Maria Johana Ari Widayanti ◽  
Bambang Purwanto
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Sigmund Freud ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Psychological Development ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Good Decision ◽  
Psychoanalytic Approach ◽  
Good Leader

In this study, the writer emphasized the psychological development of the main character reflected in the story. Then the main character must convince the other, there is a better place outside the Glade. Therefore, this study aims to analyze how the process of psychological developments of being a leader through frustration and to analyze how the main character shows an ability to lead. This is a qualitative study using psychoanalytic approach by Sigmund Freud. The writer collected the data relating to the psychological development from frustration to being a leader by using The Maze Runner novel. The secondary data were taken from some sources, such as books, dictionary, encyclopedia, and also articles related to this research. Meanwhile the procedures for collecting data were done by reading, identifying, inventorying, classifying, selecting and reporting. In conducting the study, Freud’s psychoanalysis including id, ego, and superego are employed to reveal the main character frustration and shows the leadership ability in The Maze Runner. The findings of the analysis showed that; first, the causes of frustration are anxiety, hatred, and fear. It had been found that frustration was the results of the superego pressure that cannot be controlled by the ego. The frustration can be dangerous if the person who is frustrated does not fight against the pressure he gets. Second, there are seven leading ability which found in the novel such as having a purpose, curiosity, fairness, giving the suggestion, appreciates, and source of inspiration. Thomas is able to control the pressure from superego and his desire from id. He can make a good decision for his ego whether yielding his id or obey the superego. Then, he does not only focus on his frustration, but he can develop from frustration to be a good leader.   Keywords: psychoanalysis; psychological development; leader; frustation; adolescent

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