The Sense of an Ending: Music, Time and Romance in Before Sunrise

2018 ◽  
pp. 167-182
Author(s):  
Carlo Cenciarelli
Keyword(s):  
Central Europe ◽  
The Road ◽  
Cinematic Experience ◽  
On The Road ◽  
The Moment

Right from the start, Before Sunrise presents us with the problem of its ending. The film narrates the on-the-road romance of Jesse and Celine, who meet on a train through central Europe, fall for each other, and decide to spend a day and night together in Vienna before continuing their respective journeys, never to see each other again. In a move that is typical of indie cinema, the two protagonists trade the idea of a ‘happily ever after’ with the possibility of experiencing a moment together. And yet, for this same reason, their time together is inseparable from the feeling of the approaching goodbye, which threatens their very ability to experience the moment. My chapter explores how Before Sunrise draws on music to find a solution to this conundrum. I show that, as we approach the temporal deadline of the title, Bach’s music is used to mobilise a set of complementary eschatological frameworks that are meant both to freeze and extend the time in Vienna. More broadly, I suggest that the film provides a model of cinema’s use of music to make sense of endings and of the time-bound nature of the cinematic experience.

scholarly journals CONCEPT OF PROTECTED NETWORKS CREATION

2020 ◽  
pp. 87-94
Author(s):  
Aigul Ospanovna Dauitbayeva ◽  
Elmira Nurlanovna Tulegenova ◽  
Sapar Omir ◽  
Mukhtar Kozhan
Keyword(s):  
Remote Access ◽  
The Road ◽  
Corporate Information System ◽  
On The Road ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Fixed Line ◽  
Voice Data ◽  
The Voice ◽  
Corporate Information ◽  
High Place

Nowadays, it is important for users to know how to contact a corporate information system. There is a need for broadband connection, whether it’s fixed line or Wi-Fi, as it’s not rare for users to work on the road. At the moment, virtual technologies are widely popular, they have a high place in modern companies. Because they allow the voice server to communicate to one workplace. It does not require staff always to keep up-to-date with the Service, and there’s no need to be there, so use remote access. Many institutions have been fixed or fixed through a mobile connection that ensures optimal connection of mobile workers through the terminal. They work with voice data transmission services. It ensures that employees are always in touch.

The Integrative Time-Dependent Modeling of the Reliability and Failure of the Causes of Drivers' Error Leading to Road Accidents

2015 ◽  
pp. 1279-1294
Author(s):  
Khashayar Hojjati-Emami ◽  
Balbir S. Dhillon ◽  
Kouroush Jenab
Keyword(s):  
Human Error ◽  
Time Dependent ◽  
Failure Rates ◽  
Road Accidents ◽  
Road Transportation ◽  
The Road ◽  
Representational Model ◽  
On The Road ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Dependent Failure

Nowadays, the human error is usually identified as the conclusive cause of investigations in road accidents. The human although is the person in control of vehicle until the moment of crash but it has to be understood that the human is under continued impact by various factors including road environment, vehicle and human's state, abilities and conduct. The current advances in design of vehicle and roads have been intended to provide drivers with extra comfort with less physical and mental efforts, whereas the fatigue imposed on driver is just being transformed from over-load fatigue to under-load fatigue and boredom. A representational model to illustrate the relationships between design and condition of vehicle and road as well as driver's condition and state on fatigue and the human error leading to accidents has been developed. Thereafter, the stochastic mathematical models based on time-dependent failure rates were developed to make prediction on the road transportation reliability and failure probabilities due to each cause (vehicle, road environment, human due to fatigue, and human due to non fatigue factors). Furthermore, the supportive assessment methodology and models to assess and predict the failure rates of driver due to each category of causes were developed and proposed.

scholarly journals Contradictions on the Road to Democracy and the Market in East Central Europe

1992 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
pp. 3-25
Author(s):  
Robin A. Remington
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Central Europe ◽  
Former Soviet Union ◽  
International Political Economy ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
East Central Europe ◽  
East Central ◽  
The Road ◽  
On The Road

This analysis focuses on the dilemmas facing policymakers attempting the transition from one-party hegemonic systems to multiparty democracies in post-communist Europe. It investigates the hypothesis that the political conditions for building democracy and the economic conditions required for establishing market economies in these societies are at cross purposes. The author examines the role of the international political economy in the process of democratization in terms of a framework of three primary variables: identity, legitimacy, and security. In applying these variables to post-communist East Central Europe, five significant arenas emerge in which political and economic imperatives come into conflict. The analysis concludes with policy implications for Western decision-makers whose own future security needs and economic well-being are tied to successful transition from communism to viable democracy in East Central Europe and the former Soviet Union.

The Integrative Time-Dependent Modeling of the Reliability and Failure of the Causes of Drivers’ Error Leading to Road Accidents

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
Khashayar Hojjati-Emami ◽  
Balbir S. Dhillon ◽  
Kouroush Jenab
Keyword(s):  
Human Error ◽  
Time Dependent ◽  
Failure Rates ◽  
Road Accidents ◽  
Road Transportation ◽  
The Road ◽  
Representational Model ◽  
On The Road ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Dependent Failure

Nowadays, the human error is usually identified as the conclusive cause of investigations in road accidents. The human although is the person in control of vehicle until the moment of crash but it has to be understood that the human is under continued impact by various factors including road environment, vehicle and human’s state, abilities and conduct. The current advances in design of vehicle and roads have been intended to provide drivers with extra comfort with less physical and mental efforts, whereas the fatigue imposed on driver is just being transformed from over-load fatigue to under-load fatigue and boredom. A representational model to illustrate the relationships between design and condition of vehicle and road as well as driver’s condition and state on fatigue and the human error leading to accidents has been developed. Thereafter, the stochastic mathematical models based on time-dependent failure rates were developed to make prediction on the road transportation reliability and failure probabilities due to each cause (vehicle, road environment, human due to fatigue, and human due to non fatigue factors). Furthermore, the supportive assessment methodology and models to assess and predict the failure rates of driver due to each category of causes were developed and proposed.

Rubella revisited: Where are we on the road to disease elimination in Central Europe?

Vaccine ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 29 (49) ◽  
pp. 9141-9147 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vytautas Usonis ◽  
Ioana Anca ◽  
Francis André ◽  
Roman Chlibek ◽  
Milan Čižman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Central Europe ◽  
The Road ◽  
Disease Elimination ◽  
On The Road

scholarly journals Optimization in Handling Tasks in Monorail Transportation System at Busan Port

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. first
Author(s):  
Duy Anh Nguyễn ◽  
Long Ngọc Bảo Lê ◽  
Hwan-seong KIM
Keyword(s):  
High Speed ◽  
Optimal Solution ◽  
Transportation System ◽  
Container Port ◽  
The Road ◽  
The World ◽  
Utility Rate ◽  
Overall Performance ◽  
On The Road ◽  
The Moment

This paper presents an optimal solution for handling tasks at Busan Container Port in South Korea. Currently, there is a monorail transportation system being constructed and supposed to be ready in use in 2045. It is a project in association with Korean Government that aims to increase the utility rate at Busan Port – one of the biggest container port in the world. At the moment, the main transport mean at Busan Port is truck – whose speed is about 40-50 km/h, however this traditional method leads to a low productivity and traffic congestions on the road. An innovation is to build a monorail system that could operates at high speed (about 80-90 km/h) along the entire port to transfer standardized containers. This new transportation system is expected to strongly reduce the delay in transporting as well as increase the overall efficiency for the system. In new system, there are transport vehicles called shuttles that would move on the rail in only one direction, and to turn back in the opposite way, there are some special stations called change stations that would direct the shuttles into the other lanes – which is similar to the lane driver systems on the railway. Containers at each inner terminal in Busan Port will be grabbed onto the shuttles by special equipments called loaders – a kind of giant automated manipulator that would load or unload whenever a shuttle requires. To optimize the operation, we introduce a heuristic algorithm called Greedy Algorithm for scheduling tasks and assigning tasks – two major actions in a cycle work that significantly affects to the system’s performance. First, the containers at each loader position will be sorted in a proper sequence, and then the sorted schedule will be assigned to proper shuttles in order to lower the total working time and delay time as much as possible. The overall performance is simulated by MATLAB software, including the result charts showing the main criteria points, in order to highlight the advantage of new transportation system.

On the Road

2020 ◽  
pp. 223-230
Author(s):  
Adam Teller
Keyword(s):  
Central Europe ◽  
Small Groups ◽  
Acting Out ◽  
Crucial Issue ◽  
The Road ◽  
Fundamental Part ◽  
Jewish Refugee ◽  
On The Road ◽  
Refugee Experience

This chapter details the experience of flight from Poland to Germany and what it meant in real terms to be a Jewish refugee on the roads of central Europe. This is a crucial issue because that kind of forced travel is such a fundamental part of what refugees have to endure that unless it is examined, they themselves cannot be understood. Though the whole refugee experience was fraught with danger and terror, the most difficult moments for many came right at the beginning, when the individuals or small groups of refugees had to evade the enemy troops from whom they were fleeing. Even if refugees managed to evade the hostile soldiers, their lives remained in danger from people acting out of hatred of Jews, simply wanting to rob them, or both. Nighttime was particularly dangerous, especially if Jews were staying at an inn run by a non-Jew. The chapter then highlights the personal chronicle of Yuda ben Ephraim Ḥayim of Piła in Great Poland, who fled to Silesia during 1656 to avoid being attacked by the forces of Stefan Czarniecki.

“An end to housekeeping”

2019 ◽  
pp. 45-70
Author(s):  
Carol Dougherty
Keyword(s):  
The Novel ◽  
Family Responsibilities ◽  
Her Family ◽  
The Road ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
On The Road ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Relationship Of

This chapter offers a reading of Marilynne Robinson’s 1980 novel Housekeeping—the story of a transient woman, Sylvie, who returns home to take care of her recently orphaned nieces, Ruth and Lucille, and the novel raises important questions not just about life on the road, but also about the house and home that is left behind. Whereas the Odyssey maintains a perpetually idealized notion of Penelope and Odysseus as emblems of a like-minded merger of travel and home by deferring indefinitely the moment when the two actually live (or travel) together, in Housekeeping there is always an attempt to blur the divide between people who stay and people who go, one that is most clearly embodied in the character of Sylvie. Like Odysseus, who will one day leave home again and whose travels are also always returns, Sylvie’s travels keep taking her home; yet like Penelope as well, she keeps her family by her side. In particular, by taking men out of the picture, Robinson radically reorients the traditionally gendered relationship of travel to home that Homer’s Odyssey represents, and the novel prompts us to ask how women can reconcile family responsibilities with travel. Can the possibilities, rather than the constraints, of mobility help redefine what makes a house a home?

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