scholarly journals Tales from the Timeline: Experiments with Narrative on Twitter

2016 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 353-369 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bronwen Thomas

This article will provide an overview of the state of the art of contemporary forms of Twitterfiction, discussing the varieties and genres that have emerged to date, and considering the extent to which they could be described as ‘experimental’ based on existing theory. The article will argue that the most innovative examples of Twitterfiction play with key features and affordances of Twitter, but that this in itself may not constitute the kind of artistic experimentation that fundamentally disrupts or changes readers' perceptions or expectations. Moving beyond the current preoccupation with examples of Twitterfiction as ‘short bursts of beauty’, the article will examine whether Twitter can support more sustained and immersive forms of narrative. It will also argue that in order to understand how these fictions work on Twitter we need to look at the narrative environment more broadly, to fully appreciate how these narratives impact on our daily lives, while also (re)connecting us with existing and traditional patterns and practices.

Author(s):  
Zhenyang Zhu ◽  
Xiaoyang Mao

AbstractPeople with color vision deficiency (CVD) have a reduced capability to discriminate different colors. This impairment can cause inconveniences in the individuals’ daily lives and may even expose them to dangerous situations, such as failing to read traffic signals. CVD affects approximately 200 million people worldwide. In order to compensate for CVD, a significant number of image recoloring studies have been proposed. In this survey, we briefly review the representative existing recoloring methods and categorize them according to their methodological characteristics. Concurrently, we summarize the evaluation metrics, both subjective and quantitative, introduced in the existing studies and compare the state-of-the-art studies using the experimental evaluation results with the quantitative metrics.


Author(s):  
Alexandre Quaresma

ABSTRACTThe central aim of this article is to reflect critically about current conditions anthropotechnical of humani-ty, something analogous to the state of the art in current technological interface with emerging social realities, and their prospects horizons concerning social conjunctions that are constructed by technological means, paying particular attention to exponential technoscientific developments of Modernity and Post-modernity, these events that cause a sudden change in how we perceive the reality around us and circumscribes, redefining it radically. We will also try to demonstrate that, in fact, determine our technologies to conceive them and Plasma them socially but also just being equally and in opposite direction, determined by these fields important of societal life, since technical and structural technologies (such as genetics, cloning, the bioengenheiramento and transgenias, for example) are interfering deeper in our daily lives, to the point extraordinary and ambiguous they can even determine the biomolecular structure of our carnal constitution, or is, until something reckless and social bioethically talking. We will also launch poignant light on the question of indetermination in relation to the future societies and technologies and the endless and overdeterminations determinism they impose to each other in order to influ-ence mutually back-to extreme peculiarity and plasticity; remembering that the second (technologies) are (and will be) contained in the first (societies), as there could be, and that we humans, so even just getting influences and important deter-minations of both forces and entities. It is also worth noting that there is, in this context, a blatant lack of technologies and technosciences we produce and use, and it is then that we now turn.RESUMOO objetivo central deste artigo é refletir criticamente acerca das atuais condições antropotécnicas da humanidade, algo análogo ao estado da arte tecnológica atual em interface com as realidades sociais emergentes, suas perspectivas e horizontes quanto às conjunções sociais que se constroem por meios tecnológicos, dedicando especial atenção aos exponenciais desenvolvimentos tecnocientíficos da Modernidade e Pós-modernidade, eventos estes que provocam uma súbita mudança na maneira como percebermos a própria realidade que nos circunda e circunscreve, resignificando-a radicalmente. Tentaremos demonstrar também que, de fato, determinamos nossas tecnologias ao concebê-las e plasmá-las socialmente, mas também acabamos sendo, de igual modo e no sentido inverso, determinados por elas em campos importantes da vida societal, já que técnicas e tecnologias estruturantes (como a genética, clonagem, o bioengenheiramento e as transgenias, por exemplo) estão interferindo cada vez mais fundo em nossas vidas cotidianas, chegando ao ponto extraordinário e ambíguo de poderem determinar até mesmo a estruturação biomolecular de nossa constituição carnal, ou seja, algo até temerário social e bioeticamente falando. Lançaremos luz também sobre a pungente questão da indeterminação, no que se refere ao futuro de sociedades e tecnologias, e das infindáveis sobredeterminações e determinismos que estas impõem umas às outras, no sentido de se retro-influenciarem mutuamente com extremada peculiaridade e plasticidade; lembrando sempre que as segundas (tecnologias) estão (e estarão) contidas nas primeiras (sociedades), como não poderia deixar de ser, e que nós, seres humanos, por isso mesmo, acabamos recebendo influências e determinações importantes de ambas as forças e entidades. Vale destacar ainda que existe, neste contexto, um flagrante descontrole sobre as tecnologias e tecnociências que produzimos e usamos, e é disso então que trataremos a seguir.


2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Hambleton

Earthmoving machines of varying sophistication, ranging from the simple garden spade to the hydraulic excavator, have evolved considerably over the centuries, but the scientific understanding of earthmoving processes lags considerably behind the technology. Historically much effort has been directed towards aspects of the machine, whereas relatively little attention has been given to the soil. For this reason, the problem has primarily engaged the interest of mechanical engineers. This paper provides a brief overview of the state of the art in analytical and numerical modeling, as well as some of the significant challenges that have yet to be overcome. It concludes with a description of the research program at Northwestern University, which includes analytical and numerical modeling of earthmoving processes and experiments completed using a new experimental facility. The preliminary results shown in the paper highlight key features of earthmoving processes and the potential for contributions from geotechnical engineers.


Author(s):  
Quoc-Viet Pham ◽  
Dinh C. Nguyen ◽  
Thien Huynh-The ◽  
Won-Joo Hwang ◽  
Pubudu N. Pathirana

The very first infected novel coronavirus case (COVID-19) was found in Hubei, China in Dec. 2019. The COVID-19 pandemic has spread over 215 countries and areas in the world, and has significantly affected every aspect of our daily lives. At the time of writing this article, the numbers of infected cases and deaths still increase significantly and have no sign of a well-controlled situation, e.g., as of 14 April 2020, a cumulative total of 1,853,265 (118,854) infected (dead) COVID-19 cases were reported in the world. Motivated by recent advances and applications of artificial intelligence (AI) and big data in various areas, this paper aims at emphasizing their importance in responding to the COVID-19 outbreak and preventing the severe effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. We firstly present an overview of AI and big data, then identify their applications in fighting against COVID-19, next highlight challenges and issues associated with state-of-the-art solutions, and finally come up with recommendations for the communications to effectively control the COVID-19 situation. It is expected that this paper provides researchers and communities with new insights into the ways AI and big data improve the COVID-19 situation, and drives further studies in stopping the COVID-19 outbreak.


Author(s):  
Steven Burrows ◽  
Mark Shortis

<span>Online marking and feedback systems are critical for providing timely and accurate feedback to students and maintaining the integrity of results in large class teaching. Previous investigations have involved much in-house development and more consideration is needed for deploying or customising off the shelf solutions. Furthermore, keeping up to date with the state of the art from both academia and industry is essential. This paper is motivated by a project aiming to identify a marking and feedback system for deployment at the authors' university. A detailed investigation is described which is open minded towards adopting or modifying an existing product, or the implementation of a new solution, with key features and shortcomings described in detail. </span><em>Moodle Workshops, Turnitin GradeMark, Waypoint</em><span> and </span><em>WebMark</em><span> were shortlisted and carried forward for user analysis testing. The outcomes have not only provided key conclusions concerning the suitability of existing solutions, but resulted in a comprehensive collection of functional requirements that leaders of new projects should consider. This paper should be of interest for anyone considering the adoption or upgrade of any marking and feedback system at their home institution.</span>


Author(s):  
T. A. Welton

Various authors have emphasized the spatial information resident in an electron micrograph taken with adequately coherent radiation. In view of the completion of at least one such instrument, this opportunity is taken to summarize the state of the art of processing such micrographs. We use the usual symbols for the aberration coefficients, and supplement these with £ and 6 for the transverse coherence length and the fractional energy spread respectively. He also assume a weak, biologically interesting sample, with principal interest lying in the molecular skeleton remaining after obvious hydrogen loss and other radiation damage has occurred.


2003 ◽  
Vol 48 (6) ◽  
pp. 826-829 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric Amsel
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1968 ◽  
Vol 13 (9) ◽  
pp. 479-480
Author(s):  
LEWIS PETRINOVICH
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1984 ◽  
Vol 29 (5) ◽  
pp. 426-428
Author(s):  
Anthony R. D'Augelli

1991 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 140-140
Author(s):  
John A. Corson
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