scholarly journals A Feminist Critique of “I’m Thinking of Ending Things”: A Trapped Young Woman in the Dream of a Man

2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 167-172
Author(s):  
Elif Ertem
Keyword(s):  
Young Woman ◽  
Feminist Critique ◽  
Feminist Study ◽  
Existential Crisis ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Voice ◽  
Inner Voices

Written and directed by Charlie Kaufman, I’m Thinking of Ending Things recently metwith viewers of Netflix and brought the controversy. The film is in the focus of criticism as wellas the likes, praise, and applause. The film is an adaptation from the Canadian writer Iain Reid’sbestselling namesake novel. Neither the book nor the film is not intended to be a feminist study,although it argues to show the existential crisis and the inner-voices of a young woman character.Instead, this piece reflects the subjective interpretations of dreams, memories, and a man’s life,Jake. What makes this piece a subject of feminist critique is the promised story of the movieand the starting point of the movie. This movie promises the audience to hear the voice of ayoung woman going through an existential crisis, making her wonder about her story.

scholarly journals Reducing the Heart Failure Burden in Romania by Predicting Congestive Heart Failure Using Artificial Intelligence: Proof of Concept

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (24) ◽  
pp. 11728
Author(s):  
Maria-Alexandra Pană ◽  
Ștefan-Sebastian Busnatu ◽  
Liviu-Ionut Serbanoiu ◽  
Electra Vasilescu ◽  
Nirvana Popescu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Heart Failure ◽  
Learning Algorithm ◽  
Heart Association ◽  
Machine Learning Techniques ◽  
Support Vector ◽  
Nyha Classification ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Voice ◽  
Voice Recording

Due to population aging, we are currently confronted with an increased number of chronic heart failure patients. The primary purpose of this study was to implement a noncontact system that can predict heart failure exacerbation through vocal analysis. We designed the system to evaluate the voice characteristics of every patient, and we used the identified variations as an input for a machine-learning-based approach. We collected data from a total of 16 patients, 9 men and 7 women, aged 65–91 years old, who agreed to take part in the study, with a detailed signed informed consent. We included hospitalized patients admitted with cardiogenic acute pulmonary edema in the study, regardless of the precipitation cause or other known cardiovascular comorbidities. There were no specific exclusion criteria, except age (which had to be over 18 years old) and patients with speech inabilities. We then recorded each patient’s voice twice a day, using the same smartphone, Lenovo P780, from day one of hospitalization—when their general status was critical—until the day of discharge, when they were clinically stable. We used the New York Heart Association Functional Classification (NYHA) classification system for heart failure to include the patients in stages based on their clinical evolution. Each voice recording has been accordingly equated and subsequently introduced into the machine-learning algorithm. We used multiple machine-learning techniques for classification in order to detect which one turns out to be more appropriate for the given dataset and the one that can be the starting point for future developments. We used algorithms such as Artificial Neural Networks (ANN), Support Vector Machine (SVM) and K-Nearest Neighbors (KNN). After integrating the information from 15 patients, the algorithm correctly classified the 16th patient into the third NYHA stage at hospitalization and second NYHA stage at discharge, based only on his voice recording. The KNN algorithm proved to have the best classification accuracy, with a value of 0.945. Voice is a cheap and easy way to monitor a patient’s health status. The algorithm we have used for analyzing the voice provides highly accurate preliminary results. We aim to obtain larger datasets and compute more complex voice analyzer algorithms to certify the outcomes presented.

A Tutorial of the Current Treatment Modalities and Voice Management in Laryngeal Cancer

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (5) ◽  
pp. 805-813
Author(s):  
Kathryn Regan ◽  
Ashwini Joshi
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Laryngeal Cancer ◽  
Treatment Options ◽  
Current Treatment ◽  
Voice Therapy ◽  
Treatment Modalities ◽  
Cancer Risk Factors ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Basic Understanding ◽  
The Voice

Purpose The purpose of this tutorial was to provide speech-language pathologists unfamiliar with the rehabilitation of laryngeal cancer a basic understanding of laryngeal cancer and the factors involved in the treatment of the voice. Conclusion This tutorial provides an overview of the types and subsites of laryngeal cancer, risk factors, stages and prognosis, and treatment options at these stages. The readers will gain the foundational knowledge necessary to work with this population and a starting point for further study. More research is needed regarding voice outcomes and the benefits of voice therapy in combination with the available laryngeal cancer treatment modalities so that we may better serve these patients.

Anxieties of influence

Target ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kaisa Koskinen ◽  
Outi Paloposki
Keyword(s):  
Bloom's Taxonomy ◽  
Bloom’S Taxonomy ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Anxiety Of Influence ◽  
The Voice

A defining feature of retranslation is that a previous translation exists, and this earlier text has a first translator. In this article we argue that the figure of the first translator exerts an influence in the retranslation process, and all retranslators are forced to develop a stance towards the predecessor. Taking Harold Bloom’s notion of anxiety of influence in poetry as a starting point, we look at two cases of retranslation that share the same famous first translator, Pentti Saarikoski, analysing how and where the voice of this first translation can be heard in the retranslations. According to Bloom’s taxonomy, there are six modes available to poets. Applying the same taxonomy to our two retranslators, we find that they have resorted to different modes. What remains constant is that the figure of the first translator is an unavoidable function of the retranslation process and needs to be taken into account both by the retranslator and by researchers studying retranslations.

scholarly journals Las ninfas de los ríos: Echo(s) zwischen Miguel de Cervantes, Paul Valéry und Jorge Luis Borges als Grundlegung einer Theorie literarischer Resonanz

2021 ◽  
Vol 56 (1) ◽  
pp. 44-64
Author(s):  
Anita Traninger
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Jorge Luis Borges ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
First Passage ◽  
Miguel De Cervantes ◽  
Don Quijote ◽  
Patron Saint ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Voice

Abstract The article takes as its starting point a reading of Jorge Luis Borges’ short story Pierre Menard, autor del Quijote, focusing on the first passage from Cervantes’ Quijote that is quoted verbatim in the text. An invocation of the river nymphs and the nymph Echo („las ninfas de los ríos, la húmida y dolorosa Eco“), it is singled out by the narrator as bearing the voice of Pierre Menard despite having never been attempted by him in his project of writing Don Quijote again. I argue that the invocation of Echo does not point to a duplication of the text. Rather, Echo’s early modern acceptation, that of a dialogue partner that not only answers, but answers back and says different things with the same words, encapsulates Menard’s project as such and, beyond that, a theory of literary resonance. Paul Valery’s poems and essays, to which Borges’ story variously alludes, underpin this reading of Echo as the patron saint of a theory of resonance that accounts for the necessary openness of literary texts to deviant interpretations, in particular those that could not have been foreseen or desired by their authors.

scholarly journals Something that speaks

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 19-30
Author(s):  
Rune Søchting
Keyword(s):  
Media Technology ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Voice ◽  
Ubiquitous Presence

Taking as its starting point the notion of schizophonia, this paper considers the effects of mediation of the voice. Schizophonia was intended to denote a state of experienced confusion that followed from a distortion of the spatiotemporal conditions of experience caused by media technology. The article asks how these effects are to be considered in a situation characterised by a ubiquitous presence of mediation. Based on these considerations the paper presents an analysis of the work Blanche-Neige Lucie by the French artist Pierre Huyghe. Huyghe’s work has explored the often blurred line between fiction and reality and how different accounts of reality intertwine in our experience and memory. In Blanche-Neige Lucie Huyghe explores the voice in relation to the format of film, particularly the figure of dubbing, and how the medial conditions allow for a certain confusion with regard to the questions of identity and memory. 

The appropriation of the necessary technique in singing performance

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (62) (SI) ◽  
pp. 321-330
Author(s):  
Orsolya VARI ◽  
Stela DRAGULIN
Keyword(s):  
Subsequent Evolution ◽  
The Real ◽  
The Road ◽  
Personal Note ◽  
Vocal Apparatus ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The One ◽  
High Level ◽  
The Voice ◽  
Singing Performance

This article wants to highlight the fact that for an opera/operetta performer, just talent and voice are not enough, he must have a multilateral, detailed and disciplined training. Of course, the nature of the voice is the starting point of any path in subsequent evolution. To reach a high level of interpretation you have to go through certain stages of approaching an opera/operetta role. You can't start the road without knowing your vocal apparatus, its components and how to use it, for later to be able to get to the interpretation, style and personal note. A perfect opera/operetta performer will be the one who, in addition to his voice, is able to understand the subtleties of music and implicitly of the libretto, and will also have a very fair and organized technical and informational training, "The sincerity of the expressiveness of a voice that does not take into account the real personal potentials, she will be doubtful” (Cîmpeanu 1975, 28).

Discerning Artificial Consciousness from Artificial Intelligence - A Thought Experiment

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jack Charles
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Thought Experiment ◽  
Conscious Experience ◽  
Artificial Agent ◽  
Artificial System ◽  
Reverse Engineer ◽  
Existential Crisis ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Artificial Consciousness ◽  
Potential Test

This paper attempts to provide a starting point for future investigations into the study of artificial consciousness by proposing a thought experiment that aims to elucidate and provide a potential ‘test’ for the phenomenon known as consciousness, in an artificial system. It suggests a method by which to determine the presence of a conscious experience within an artificial agent, in a manner that is informed by, and understood as a function of, anthropomorphic conceptions of consciousness. The aim of this paper is to arouse the possibility for potential progress: to propose that we reverse engineer anthropic sentience by using machine sentience as a guide. Similar to the manner in which an equation may be solved through inverse operations, this paper hopes to provoke such discussion and activity. The idea is this: The manifestation of an existential crisis in an artificial agent is the metric by which the presence of sentience can be discerned. It is that which expounds ACI, as distinct from AI, and discrete from AGI.

Design Creativity Education in an International Engineering Class

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenji Iino ◽  
Masayuki Nakao
Keyword(s):  
Common Knowledge ◽  
Functional Requirements ◽  
Knowledge Domain ◽  
Consumer Expectation ◽  
Design Creativity ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Industrial Designers ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Voice Of Customer ◽  
The Voice

Conventional engineering education in Japan encourages students to widen knowledge built upon work and research by our predecessors. Such education has been effective in producing design improvement for higher efficiency and performance, however, not so in coming up with innovative ideas. Building products from within common knowledge cannot surpass the consumer expectation. We earlier reported about our collaboration between mechanical and industrial engineering educators in finding similarities and differences in the designers’ approaches in the two fields. Industrial designers, like mechanical designers, strive to meet the voice of customer (VOC) by dividing and conquering functional requirements. They also, unlike mechanical engineers, place the starting point of new designs outside the knowledge domain in efforts to define products that surpass consumer expectations. We call the starting point a discomforting seed. This paper reports our experience in educating foreign and native graduate students in mechanical engineering to have them recognize the discomforting seeds.

Al Jazeera: Is it a voice for the voiceless?

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Haydar Badawi Sadig ◽  
Catalina Petcu
Keyword(s):  
Arab World ◽  
The Other ◽  
Mutual Respect ◽  
Al Jazeera ◽  
Media Companies ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Press ◽  
The World ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Voice

Al Jazeera’s motto, ‘The opinion and the other opinion’, is the natural starting point for a review of its mission to widen the boundaries of public conversation in the Arab world and the world at large. All responsible mass media have a similar motto or goal: to represent and discover the many voices that comprise one’s community, to provide a place and context for the expression of opinion, and to lead in the granting of mutual respect. The world-regarded Social Responsibility Theory of the press holds this goal as its core. Any conversation about media mission and vision includes the metaphor: voice of the voiceless. What range of voices does Al Jazeera broadcast as duty, privilege, for purposes of peace? What voices would Al Jazeera never cover, and why? How does Al Jazeera keep itself accountable to the ‘mission of voice’ as it negotiates the challenging political, religious and developmental ecology of the Middle East? Finally, what can Al Jazeera teach other media companies and constituencies as it continues to grow and articulate its own mission? The importance of the voice is pertinent in the argument that recovering voice challenges the dominant neoliberal politics opposed to Al Jazeera’s contra flow.

‘Where Was Sarah?’ Depictions of Mothers and Motherhood in Modern Israeli Poetry on the Binding of Isaac

2017 ◽  
pp. 255-282
Author(s):  
Dalia Marx
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Existential Crisis ◽  
Poetic Imagination ◽  
History Of ◽  
Mother Figure ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Moment ◽  
The Voice ◽  
State Of Israel ◽  
The Sacrifice

This chapter analyses the existential crisis that illuminates contemporary Israeli poetry about the binding of Isaac or the akedah. It investigates a series of poems that portray Isaac's mother Sarah and argues that these texts strive to embody and construct the history of the State of Israel. It also reviews earlier poems that entwine Sarah with collective questions of post-Holocaust faith and Jewish national fate, recent texts that turn to individual destiny. The chapter cites Sarah as a mother-figure in the Jewish poetic imagination who struggles with the tensions between an instinctual maternal impulse to preserve life and an ideology rooted in the sacrifice of sons for the sake of the creation and preservation of the State of Israel. It looks at poems that reconstruct the biblical story of Sarah, giving mothers the voice that Sarah lacked at the moment of the akedah.

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