scholarly journals Fashion autobiographies: a case study with fourteen subjects

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Filomena Natale Gasparro
Keyword(s):  
Life Writing ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Major Research ◽  
Theoretical Assumption ◽  
Form Function ◽  
Emotion And Memory ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Novel Concept

“Fashion Autobiographies: A Case Study with Fourteen Subjects” creates a narrative at the intersection of fashion, affect, and autobiography. Underlying this study is the theoretical assumption that, more than a protective skin for hiding or showcasing the body, clothing is a repository for emotion and memory. It is also a powerful medium for communicating and writing a life. To illustrate fashion’s potential as a medium for life writing, specifically as fashion autobiography, this Major Research Paper (MRP) pursues two distinct goals. First, it theorizes the novel concept of the fashion autobiography using theories of fashion, life writing and gender. Second, it includes an arts-based project, “Fashion Autobiographies: A Case Study with Fourteen Subjects,” involving fourteen women and the creation of fourteen fashion autobiographies written on canvas dresses and exhibited at the Design Exchange in Toronto in February 2015. The author designed three template dresses using three iconic silhouettes from the 1950s, 60s, and 70s, which the women were encouraged to manipulate and deconstruct as they wished. Thus, each woman used one of these template dresses to articulate a pivotal experience, illustrating a moment that defined her life. Together, this MRP argues, these fourteen dresses stand as a collection of moments told through fashion life writing, exhibiting deeply personal memories and emotions. They represent the objects of study for this MRP, presented through detailed description and object analysis. This MRP conjoins theory and art to advance our understanding of the form, function, and significance of the fashion autobiography.

scholarly journals Fashion autobiographies: a case study with fourteen subjects

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Filomena Natale Gasparro
Keyword(s):  
Life Writing ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Major Research ◽  
Theoretical Assumption ◽  
Form Function ◽  
Emotion And Memory ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Novel Concept

“Fashion Autobiographies: A Case Study with Fourteen Subjects” creates a narrative at the intersection of fashion, affect, and autobiography. Underlying this study is the theoretical assumption that, more than a protective skin for hiding or showcasing the body, clothing is a repository for emotion and memory. It is also a powerful medium for communicating and writing a life. To illustrate fashion’s potential as a medium for life writing, specifically as fashion autobiography, this Major Research Paper (MRP) pursues two distinct goals. First, it theorizes the novel concept of the fashion autobiography using theories of fashion, life writing and gender. Second, it includes an arts-based project, “Fashion Autobiographies: A Case Study with Fourteen Subjects,” involving fourteen women and the creation of fourteen fashion autobiographies written on canvas dresses and exhibited at the Design Exchange in Toronto in February 2015. The author designed three template dresses using three iconic silhouettes from the 1950s, 60s, and 70s, which the women were encouraged to manipulate and deconstruct as they wished. Thus, each woman used one of these template dresses to articulate a pivotal experience, illustrating a moment that defined her life. Together, this MRP argues, these fourteen dresses stand as a collection of moments told through fashion life writing, exhibiting deeply personal memories and emotions. They represent the objects of study for this MRP, presented through detailed description and object analysis. This MRP conjoins theory and art to advance our understanding of the form, function, and significance of the fashion autobiography.

Diaghilev and British Writing

2009 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-92
Author(s):  
Susan Jones
Keyword(s):  
Visual Arts ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Literary Responses ◽  
Literary Aesthetics ◽  
Ballets Russes ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The Subject ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Opening Up

This article explores the diversity of British literary responses to Diaghilev's project, emphasising the way in which the subject matter and methodologies of Diaghilev's modernism were sometimes unexpectedly echoed in expressions of contemporary British writing. These discussions emerge both in writing about Diaghilev's work, and, more discretely, when references to the Russian Ballet find their way into the creative writing of the period, serving to anchor the texts in a particular cultural milieu or to suggest contemporary aesthetic problems in the domain of literary aesthetics developing in the period. Figures from disparate fields, including literature, music and the visual arts, brought to their criticism of the Ballets Russes their individual perspectives on its aesthetics, helping to consolidate the sense of its importance in contributing to the inter-disciplinary flavour of modernism across the arts. In the field of literature, not only did British writers evaluate the Ballets Russes in terms of their own poetics, their relationship to experimentation in the novel and in drama, they developed an increasing sense of the company's place in dance history, its choreographic innovations offering material for wider discussions, opening up the potential for literary modernism's interest in impersonality and in the ‘unsayable’, discussions of the body, primitivism and gender.

scholarly journals From a Pareto Front to Pareto Regions: A Novel Standpoint for Multiobjective Optimization

Mathematics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (24) ◽  
pp. 3152
Author(s):  
Carine M. Rebello ◽  
Márcio A. F. Martins ◽  
Daniel D. Santana ◽  
Alírio E. Rodrigues ◽  
José M. Loureiro ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Multiobjective Optimization ◽  
Pareto Front ◽  
Optimization Problems ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Particle Swarm Optimizer ◽  
Novel Approach ◽  
Multiobjective Optimization Problems ◽  
Pressure Swing ◽  
Novel Concept

This work presents a novel approach for multiobjective optimization problems, extending the concept of a Pareto front to a new idea of the Pareto region. This new concept provides all the points beyond the Pareto front, leading to the same optimal condition with statistical assurance. This region is built using a Fisher–Snedecor test over an augmented Lagragian function, for which deductions are proposed here. This test is meant to provide an approximated depiction of the feasible operation region while using meta-heuristic optimization results to extract this information. To do so, a Constrained Sliding Particle Swarm Optimizer (CSPSO) was applied to solve a series of four benchmarks and a case study. The proposed test analyzed the CSPSO results, and the novel Pareto regions were estimated. Over this Pareto region, a clustering strategy was also developed and applied to define sub-regions that prioritize one of the objectives and an intermediary region that provides a balance between objectives. This is a valuable tool in the context of process optimization, aiming at assertive decision-making purposes. As this is a novel concept, the only way to compare it was to draw the entire regions of the benchmark functions and compare them with the methodology result. The benchmark results demonstrated that the proposed method could efficiently portray the Pareto regions. Then, the optimization of a Pressure Swing Adsorption unit was performed using the proposed approach to provide a practical application of the methodology developed here. It was possible to build the Pareto region and its respective sub-regions, where each process performance parameter is prioritized. The results demonstrated that this methodology could be helpful in processes optimization and operation. It provides more flexibility and more profound knowledge of the system under evaluation.

scholarly journals And ya don’t stop: investigating race, space and meaning in Toronto’s queer party ‘Yes Yes Y’all’

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Trudie Jane Gilbert
Keyword(s):  
Critical Race Theory ◽  
Queer Theory ◽  
Hip Hop ◽  
Major Research ◽  
Race Theory ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Sexuality And Gender ◽  
Race And Sexuality ◽  
And Gender

This Major Research Paper (MRP) is a case study of the queer hip hop and dancehall party Yes Yes Y’all (YYY). This MRP seeks to challenge white, cismale metanarratives in Toronto’s queer community. This paper employs Critical Race Theory (CRT) and queer theory as theoretical frameworks. Racialization, racism, homophobia, homonormativities and homonational rhetoric within queer discourses are interrogated throughout the analysis. In pursuit of this research, five participants and two key informants were interviewed. Four emergent themes are explored: fluid identities, the intersection of race and sexuality, dancing as expression of sexuality and gender identity, and the transgressive possibilities of YYY.

scholarly journals And ya don’t stop: investigating race, space and meaning in Toronto’s queer party ‘Yes Yes Y’all’

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Trudie Jane Gilbert
Keyword(s):  
Critical Race Theory ◽  
Queer Theory ◽  
Hip Hop ◽  
Major Research ◽  
Race Theory ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Sexuality And Gender ◽  
Race And Sexuality ◽  
And Gender

This Major Research Paper (MRP) is a case study of the queer hip hop and dancehall party Yes Yes Y’all (YYY). This MRP seeks to challenge white, cismale metanarratives in Toronto’s queer community. This paper employs Critical Race Theory (CRT) and queer theory as theoretical frameworks. Racialization, racism, homophobia, homonormativities and homonational rhetoric within queer discourses are interrogated throughout the analysis. In pursuit of this research, five participants and two key informants were interviewed. Four emergent themes are explored: fluid identities, the intersection of race and sexuality, dancing as expression of sexuality and gender identity, and the transgressive possibilities of YYY.

Bodies of Evidence on Prehistoric Cyprus

1997 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 183-204 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Bernard Knapp ◽  
Lynn Meskell
Keyword(s):  
Queer Theory ◽  
Bronze Age ◽  
The Body ◽  
Feminist Studies ◽  
Sex And Gender ◽  
Bodies Of Evidence ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Point Of Departure

This study takes as its point of departure recent discussions in sociology, anthropology, queer theory, and masculinist and feminist studies on the contextual constitution of sex and gender, with its surrounding debates. We explore the adoption and implications of the body as a phenomenon in archaeology and its connection to power-centred theories. As a case study, we use a body of data comprised of prehistoric Cypriot figurines (Chalcolithic and Bronze Age), and suggest that an archaeology of individuals may be possible in prehistoric contexts. In conclusion, we suggest that archaeologists move beyond rigid, binary categorizations and attempt to prioritize specific discourses of difference by implementing constructions of self or identity

scholarly journals For a Few Dollars More

2021 ◽  
pp. 292-319
Author(s):  
Maximilian P. L. Haslbeck ◽  
Peter Lammich
Keyword(s):  
Cost Model ◽  
Intermediate Representation ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Worst Case ◽  
Fine Grained ◽  
Case Complexity ◽  
Worst Case Complexity ◽  
Functional Correctness ◽  
Novel Concept

AbstractWe present a framework to verify both, functional correctness and worst-case complexity of practically efficient algorithms. We implemented a stepwise refinement approach, using the novel concept of resource currencies to naturally structure the resource analysis along the refinement chain, and allow a fine-grained analysis of operation counts. Our framework targets the LLVM intermediate representation. We extend its semantics from earlier work with a cost model. As case study, we verify the correctness and $$O(n\log n)$$ O ( n log n ) worst-case complexity of an implementation of the introsort algorithm, whose performance is on par with the state-of-the-art implementation found in the GNU C++ Library.

Subspace Discovery for Disease Management

2012 ◽  
pp. 36-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
Josephine Namayanja ◽  
Vandana P. Janeja
Keyword(s):  
Metabolic Syndrome ◽  
Disease Management ◽  
Cross Section ◽  
The Body ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Race And Gender ◽  
Disease Characteristics ◽  
Mining Methods ◽  
And Gender

This paper identifies key subspaces for better disease management. Disease affects individuals differently based on features such as age, race, and gender. The authors use data mining methods to discover which key factors of a disease are more relevant for particular strata of the population using bin wise clustering. The authors use a case study on Metabolic Syndrome (MetS). MetS is a combination of abnormalities that occur in the body during the processing of food and nutrients. A number of definitions have been studied to classify MetS. No clear criterion exists that can generally fit into a single satisfactory protocol. This domain encompasses a variety of demographics in society, leading to an implication that different criteria may be appropriate for different demographic strata. The authors address this issue and identify the cross section of demographic strata and the disease characteristics that are critical for understanding the disease in that subset of the population. Findings in real world NHANESIII data support this hypothesis, thus the approach can be used by clinical scientists to narrow down specific demographic pools to further study impacts of key MetS characteristics.

Subspace Discovery for Disease Management

2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
Josephine Namayanja ◽  
Vandana P. Janeja
Keyword(s):  
Metabolic Syndrome ◽  
Disease Management ◽  
Cross Section ◽  
The Body ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Race And Gender ◽  
Disease Characteristics ◽  
Mining Methods ◽  
And Gender

This paper identifies key subspaces for better disease management. Disease affects individuals differently based on features such as age, race, and gender. The authors use data mining methods to discover which key factors of a disease are more relevant for particular strata of the population using bin wise clustering. The authors use a case study on Metabolic Syndrome (MetS). MetS is a combination of abnormalities that occur in the body during the processing of food and nutrients. A number of definitions have been studied to classify MetS. No clear criterion exists that can generally fit into a single satisfactory protocol. This domain encompasses a variety of demographics in society, leading to an implication that different criteria may be appropriate for different demographic strata. The authors address this issue and identify the cross section of demographic strata and the disease characteristics that are critical for understanding the disease in that subset of the population. Findings in real world NHANESIII data support this hypothesis, thus the approach can be used by clinical scientists to narrow down specific demographic pools to further study impacts of key MetS characteristics.

scholarly journals Elsa Morante’s Aracoeli: A portrait of the mind as embodied

2017 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 148-169
Author(s):  
Marzia Beltrami
Keyword(s):  
Sensory Perception ◽  
Interesting Case ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Cognitive Approach ◽  
Embodied Mind ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Embodied Memory

This article focuses on Elsa Morante’s last novel, Aracoeli (1982), as an interesting case study of representation of the mind as embodied. The argument begins by considering the ambiguous status of Manuele as narrator and suggests that his inability to distinguish between true and apocryphal memories should be regarded as a cognitive issue rather than a rhetorical one. The next stage of the argument explores the consequences of adopting a cognitive approach, thus foregrounding the embodied mind as one of the main foci of the narrative, both thematically and stylistically. Assuming a cognitive interpretive key, the central part of the article illustrates Morante’s complex portrayal of the dependence of the mind on the body and in particular on sensory perception, providing also a closer examination of the number of ways in which Morante articulates the body-mind nexus. For descriptive and heuristic purposes, these instances have been gathered into three main clusters: Embodied nature of emotions or feelings; Specificities of embodiment; and Embodied memory. Finally, I shall offer some suggestions as to how a cognitive reading of Aracoeli corroborates a non-nihilistic interpretation of the novel as expression of existential or literary defeat.

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