scholarly journals 'My Name to me a Sadness Wears': Self and Other According to 'Diary by E. B. B.'

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 209-226
Author(s):  
Yana Rowland
Keyword(s):  
Human Perception ◽  
Prose Fiction ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Self And Other ◽  
Perception Time ◽  
Definition Of

This paper dwells on the issue of selfhood in Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Diary (1831 – 1832). It explores individuation against three major presences in the poetess’s life: her father (and family), Hugh Stuart Boyd, and literature. The employed strategy of research includes a phenomenological (interspersed with feminist touches) focus on select excerpts from the Diary which reveal the writer’s concern for Self as the recognition of the priority of a precursory Other. Observations are made on the limits of human perception, time and space as human variables, the ontological essence of interpretation, and memory as a premise for cognizing life as care. A rare example of prose-fiction in the poetess’s oeuvre, her diary could be read as an instance of simultaneous self-nullification and self-affirmation, which offers possibilities for a dialectical definition of female genius as dialogue through narrative.

Delving into Horror

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (5) ◽  
pp. 135-150
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
The Third ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Perception Of Time ◽  
Definition Of

The springboard for this essay is the author’s encounter with the feeling of horror and her attempts to understand what place horror has in philosophy. The inquiry relies upon Leonid Lipavsky’s “Investigation of Horror” and on various textual plunges into the fanged and clawed (and possibly noumenal) abyss of Nick Land’s work. Various experiences of horror are examined in order to build something of a typology, while also distilling the elements characteristic of the experience of horror in general. The essay’s overall hypothesis is that horror arises from a disruption of the usual ways of determining the boundaries between external things and the self, and this leads to a distinction between three subtypes of horror. In the first subtype, horror begins with the indeterminacy at the boundaries of things, a confrontation with something that defeats attempts to define it and thereby calls into question the definition of the self. In the second subtype, horror springs from the inability to determine one’s own boundaries, a process opposed by the crushing determinacy of the world. In the third subtype, horror unfolds by means of a substitution of one determinacy by another which is unexpected and ungrounded. In all three subtypes of horror, the disturbance of determinacy deprives the subject, the thinking entity, of its customary foundation for thought, and even of an explanation of how that foundation was lost; at times this can lead to impairment of the perception of time and space. Understood this way, horror comes within a hair’s breadth of madness - and may well cross over into it.

scholarly journals Electronic Orientation Aid for Visually Impaired using Graphics Processing Unit (GPU)

2020 ◽  
Vol 32 ◽  
pp. 03054
Author(s):  
Akshata Parab ◽  
Rashmi Nagare ◽  
Omkar Kolambekar ◽  
Parag Patil
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
Visually Impaired ◽  
Graphics Processing Unit ◽  
Human Perception ◽  
Processing Unit ◽  
Surrounding Environment ◽  
Visually Impaired People ◽  
Impaired People ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Graphics Processing

Vision is one of the very essential human senses and it plays a major role in human perception about surrounding environment. But for people with visual impairment their definition of vision is different. Visually impaired people are often unaware of dangers in front of them, even in familiar environment. This study proposes a real time guiding system for visually impaired people for solving their navigation problem and to travel without any difficulty. This system will help the visually impaired people by detecting the objects and giving necessary information about that object. This information may include what the object is, its location, its precision, distance from the visually impaired etc. All these information will be conveyed to the person through audio commands so that they can navigate freely anywhere anytime with no or minimal assistance. Object detection is done using You Only Look Once (YOLO) algorithm. As the process of capturing the video/images and sending it to the main module has to be carried at greater speed, Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) is used. This will help in enhancing the overall speed of the system and will help the visually Impaired to get the maximum necessary instructions as quickly as possible. The process starts from capturing the real time video, sending it for analysis and processing and get the calculated results. The results obtained from analysis are conveyed to user by means of hearing aid. As a result by this system the blind or the visually impaired people can visualize the surrounding environment and travel freely from source to destination on their own.

scholarly journals The Architecture and the Pace of the Press-Marathon of the President of Ukraine V. Zelensky

2020 ◽  
pp. 113-120
Author(s):  
Kostyantin Hrubych
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Literature ◽  
Human Perception ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Structural Basis ◽  
The Press ◽  
Food Market ◽  
Empirical Research Methods ◽  
Main Components ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Structural Base

The main schemes of architectonics, which is a structural base of television action, general outward form of construction and interrelation of its parts, their correlation to each other are determined. The pattern of application of archetypical principle of human perception of stories from Aristotle’s first works to use of communication technologies of proportionality of journalist’s text construction by contemporary TV reporters and screenwriters are researched. The novelty of the study is in an attempt to segregate clearly the notions of script composition from architectonics, the essence of difference of priority of the rhythm category namely for architectonics. The objective of the study is to determine the basic schemes of architectonics which is the structural basis of television action, the general appearance and interrelation of its parts, their correlation with each other. Such empirical research methods as observation, abstraction and analysis have been applied. The result of the study was the analysis of television scripts of various programs, definition of main components of architectonics – its beginning, middle and end parts, as well as presentation of structural diagrams of script architectonics. It is emphasized that the action in the scenario should be organized in such way that the dramatic tension curve and the viewer interest curve are being evenly raised from the beginning to the end of the spectacle. The scenario construction of a record-breaking press-marathon with the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyi that took place on October 10, 2019 in the capital of Ukraine at Kyiv Food Market was first studied in the scientific literature.

The Flesh Made Word

Janus Head ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-54
Author(s):  
Carolyn M. Tilghman ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Difference ◽  
Space Form ◽  
Symbolic Order ◽  
Western Civilization ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Self And Other ◽  
Physical Environments ◽  
Mind And Body ◽  
Body Self ◽  
At Home

Luce Irigaray's concept of the "sensible transcendental" is a term that paradoxically fuses mind with body while, at the same time, maintaining the tension of adjacent but separate concepts, thereby providing a fruitful locus for changes to the symbolic order. It provides this locus by challenging the monolithic philosophical discourses of the "Same" which, according to Irigaray, have dominated western civilization since Plato. As such, the sensible transcendental refuses the logic that demands the opposed hierarchal dichotomies between time and space, form and matter, mind and body, self and other, and man and woman, which currently organize western civilization's discursive foundations. Instead, it provides a useful means for helping women to feel at home in their bodies, and it signifies the implementation of an ethical praxis based on the acknowledgment of sexual difference. Such a praxis demands philosophical, theological, juridical, and scientific accountability for systemic sexism and, in its acknowledgment and validation of the alterity of sexual difference, it respects life in its various forms and its vital relationship with biological and physical environments.

Introduction

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Phillip S. Meilinger
Keyword(s):  
Academic Career ◽  
Military History ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Over Time

ALTHOUGH MOST OF MY publications have concerned aviation theory, doctrine, and practice, the bulk of my academic career was spent teaching the broader area of military history. This forced me to see airpower in context over time and place, and also led me to issues I ordinarily might have missed, such as the definition of decisive victories or the nature and purpose of second front operations. I wrote and published a number of essays dealing with war over the centuries. In most cases, time and space constraints limited my ability to fully explore a subject; the papers in this collection therefore tend to be longer, more detailed, and better sourced than accounts formerly published. Other essays have not been printed previously....

The Integration of Qualitative Orientation and Named Distances: Application to a Qualitative Navigation Simulator

1997 ◽  
Vol 06 (04) ◽  
pp. 451-480 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Teresa Escrig ◽  
Francisco Toledo
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Reasoning ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Human Perception ◽  
Positional Information ◽  
Qualitative Spatial Reasoning ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Operational Model ◽  
Distance Information ◽  
Spatial Concepts ◽  
Definition Of

Human beings reason about different aspects of space (such as relative orientation, cardinal directions, distance, size and shape of objects) quite easily. With the aim of simulating human behavior, several models for these spatial concepts have been developed in the recent years. Cognitive considerations have made these frameworks qualitative, because they seem to deal better with the imprecision that human perception provides. However, an operational model to reason with all these spatial aspects in an integrated way has not been developed, up to now. The first aim of our research work has been the integration of different spatial concepts into the same spatial model which has been accomplished thanks to the definition of an operational model based on Constrain Logic Programming extended with Constraint Handling Rules. Although other aspects of space have been successfully represented by these techniques [2], in this paper we focus our attention in positional information, that is, orientation integrated with distance information. The Constraint Solver developed for managing positional information has a temporal complexity of O(n) 3, where n is the number of spatial landmarks considered in the reasoning process. The second aim of our work is to apply qualitative spatial reasoning to develop a Qualitative Navigation Simulator.

From Contour to Texture: Static Texture Flow is a Strong Cue to Surface Shape

Perception ◽  
1997 ◽  
Vol 26 (1_suppl) ◽  
pp. 205-205
Author(s):  
D C Knill
Keyword(s):  
Human Perception ◽  
Surface Shape ◽  
Flow Mode ◽  
Flat Surfaces ◽  
Developable Surfaces ◽  
Local Texture ◽  
Planar Texture ◽  
Oriented Texture ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Source Of Information

Contours projected from geodesic boundaries of developable surfaces (as are formed by folding and twisting flat surfaces) are particularly salient cues to 3-D surface shape. Textures which are strongly anisotropic (highly oriented) provide a similar source of information. The natural definition of homogeneity for such textures leads to the constraint that the oriented ‘flow’ of texture on a surface follows geodesics of the surface (on average). In the current work, it is shown that the shapes of contours projected from geodesics of developable surfaces, and analogously of oriented texture flow, reliably determine the shapes of the surfaces. On the basis of this analysis, it is suggested that human perception of surface shape from texture has two modes of operation: an isotropic mode, in which the visual system infers surface shape from local texture compression information, and a texture flow mode, in which the curvature of local texture flow determines local surface curvature, based on a geodesic constraint. In order to test the theory, planar texture patterns have been isometrically mapped with varying degrees of global orientation (ranging from isotropic to purely oriented) onto developable surfaces. The theory predicts that subjects' ability to make judgements about surface shape will be good for the isotropic textures and for highly oriented textures, but not for anisotropic textures that are only weakly oriented. As predicted, images of the surfaces with isotropic texture patterns induce strong percepts of shape, as do those of highly oriented textures. Images of anisotropic, weakly oriented patterns, however, elicit only weak percepts of shape.

Bringing back the image into its frame: Barthes’ soldier and the contextual frame of human perception and interpretation of signs

Semiotica ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 (229) ◽  
pp. 87-100
Author(s):  
Sarvenaz Safavi ◽  
Agah Gümüş
Keyword(s):  
Human Perception ◽  
Background Knowledge ◽  
Roland Barthes ◽  
Situational Context ◽  
New Model ◽  
Sign System ◽  
Semiotic Approach ◽  
Definition Of

AbstractIn this article, the authors try to review the Paris-Match cover page (No. 326 from 1955) analyzed by Roland Barthes and introduces a new model of analyzing sign system from a new semiotic approach based on the new definition of the context. This research is based on three layers of the context and shows that understanding the cover page of a magazine or any other kind of text is not only absolute but also somehow relative due to the different background knowledge of the audience. This means that human sees the Context A, or what is designed, in the situation of Context B, or situational context, and interpret based on their Context C, or background knowledge of the audience.

scholarly journals A systematic approach to the scale separation problem in the development of multiscale models

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (5) ◽  
pp. e0251297
Author(s):  
Pinaki Bhattacharya ◽  
Qiao Li ◽  
Damien Lacroix ◽  
Visakan Kadirkamanathan ◽  
Marco Viceconti
Keyword(s):  
Fundamental Problem ◽  
Multiscale Modelling ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Scale Separation ◽  
Multiscale Problems ◽  
Modelling Methodology ◽  
The Many ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Quantities Of Interest ◽  
Modelling Approach

Throughout engineering there are problems where it is required to predict a quantity based on the measurement of another, but where the two quantities possess characteristic variations over vastly different ranges of time and space. Among the many challenges posed by such ‘multiscale’ problems, that of defining a ‘scale’ remains poorly addressed. This fundamental problem has led to much confusion in the field of biomedical engineering in particular. The present study proposes a definition of scale based on measurement limitations of existing instruments, available computational power, and on the ranges of time and space over which quantities of interest vary characteristically. The definition is used to construct a multiscale modelling methodology from start to finish, beginning with a description of the system (portion of reality of interest) and ending with an algorithmic orchestration of mathematical models at different scales within the system. The methodology is illustrated for a specific but well-researched problem. The concept of scale and the multiscale modelling approach introduced are shown to be easily adaptable to other closely related problems. Although out of the scope of this paper, we believe that the proposed methodology can be applied widely throughout engineering.

scholarly journals In my remembered country: what poetry tells us about the changing perceptions of volcanoes between the nineteenth and twenty-first centuries

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-87
Author(s):  
Arianna Soldati ◽  
Sam Illingworth
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Human Perception ◽  
Time Frame ◽  
Negative Events ◽  
Culturally Appropriate ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Selection Of

Abstract. In this study we investigate what poetry written about volcanoes from the 1800s to the present day reveals about the relationship between volcanoes and the societies and times represented by poets who wrote about them, including how it evolved over that time frame. In order to address this research question, we conducted a qualitative content analysis of a selection of 34 English-language poems written about human–volcano interactions. Firstly, we identified the overall connotation of each poem. Then, we recognised specific emerging themes and grouped them in categories. Additionally, we performed a quantitative analysis of the frequency with which each category occurs throughout the decades of the dataset. This analysis reveals that a spiritual element is often present in poetry about volcanoes, transcending both the creative and destructive power that they exert. Furthermore, the human–volcano relationship is especially centred around the sense of identity that volcanoes provide to humans, which may follow from both positive and negative events. These results highlight the suitability of poetry as a means to explore the human perception of geologic phenomena. Additionally, our findings may be relevant to the definition of culturally appropriate communication strategies with communities living near active volcanoes.

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