The Ethics of Elie Wiesel`s Storytelling as a New Theoretical Approach in Representing the Holocaust

Grounded on Giorgio Agamben's assertion that once the historical, technical and legal context of the Jewish genocide has been sufficiently clarified, we are facing a serious challenge when we really seek to understand it and becomes more thought-provoking when we try to represent it. The difference between what we know about the Holocaust and how this delicate issue should be represented is facing major challenges in the context of content abundance onboth Holocaust classical analyses or contemporary digital formats. Contemporary society is facing ethical and emotional limitation regarding Holocaust representation. What is the right way to represent the Holocaust after eight decades since the Holocaust took place is one of the relevant questions that arises in this context? How to live, what to do, and how do the consequences of my actions affect society after the Holocaust experience,are some of the questsof Elie Wiesel’s life.The paper will highlight how his storytelling provides some guidelines for shaping a possible good way of representing the Holocaust and what are its resources. It will also illustrate what are the ethical components of his storytellingthat constitute an example of ethical conduct and give some relevant suggestions on how to instrument them in order to place Holocaust representation on a progressive way of reflection.

Image quality assessment

Quality assessment is an integral stage in the processing and analysis of digital images in various automated systems. With the increase in the number and variety of devices that allow receiving data in various digital formats, as well as the expansion of human activities in which information technology (IT) is used, the need to assess the quality of the data obtained is growing. As well as the bar grows for the requirements for their quality.The article describes the factors that deteriorate the quality of digital images, areas of application of image quality assessment functions, a method for normalizing proximity measures, classes of digital images and their possible distortions, image databases available on the Internet for conducting experiments on assessing image quality with visual assessments of experts.

The Recorded Brahms Corpus (RBC): A Dataset of Performative Parameters in Recordings of Brahms's Cello Sonatas

This report describes the open-source Recorded Brahms Corpus (RBC) dataset, as well as the methods employed to extract and process the data. The dataset contains (micro)timing and dynamic data from 21 recordings of Brahms's Cello Sonatas, Opp. 38 and 99, focusing on note and beat onsets and duration, tempo fluctuations, and dynamic variations. Consistent manual annotation of the corpus in Sonic Visualiser was necessary prior to automatic extraction. Data for each recording and measurement unit are given as TXT files. Scores in various digital formats, the original SV files and diamond-shaped scape plots visualizations of the data are offered too. Expansion of the corpus with further movements of the sonatas, further recordings thereof and other compositions by Brahms is planned. The study of the data may contribute to performance studies and music theory alike.

Short Science Comics for a Broad Audience - An Interview with Jessica Burton and Serge Haan from LUX:plorations

The University of Luxembourg launched a series of science comics called “LUX:plorations”. This collection of eight stories about science and research in Luxembourg is available in four different languages. Produced in collaboration between local scientists and artists, this science communication project serves as a proof of concept for multi-lingual and collaborative comic productions. The comic is available for free in the form of hard copies as well as in several digital formats online under a Creative Commons licence. This article introduces the concept behind LUX:plorations via an interview with two members of the organization team, namely Serge Haan and Jessica Burton. It gives insights into the production and translation process as well as the distribution of the comic.

SEARCHING 3D MOTION PATTERNS OF VIETNAMESE TRADITIONAL DANCES

Vietnam has many traditional dances suchas Xoan singing, “tuồng” or “chèo”. They all urgentlyneed to be preserved in digital formats, especially in3D motion capture format for dances. In digitalformats, they bring many values such as the ability toautomatically classify and search for content ofdances' movement. In this paper, we propose asystem for 3D movement search of Cheo dance 'spostures and gestures. The system applies slidingwindow technique, Dynamic Time Warpingalgorithm and a novel feature selection methodnamed CheoAngle. Results show that the proposedsystem reach good scores in several metrics. We alsocompare CheoAngle with other feature selectionmethods for 3D movement and show that CheoAnglegive the best results

Digitalizing Higher Education in Light of Sustainability and Rebound Effects—Surveys in Times of the COVID-19 Pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic has focused attention not only on health and social issues, but on the issue of digital transformation as well. Within a very short time, universities had to convert their courses to digital formats and university life was reduced to a minimum. To shed light on how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected universities, we investigated the following questions: How was this transformation accomplished? What advantages and disadvantages did it bring with it? How sustainable was this transformation? and What can the future of higher education look like? This study is based on the responses to two questionnaires for university staff and students conducted at the Chemnitz University of Technology between mid-July and September, 2020 (n = 369), and between February and March, 2021 (n = 252). Both questionnaires were analysed using descriptive statistics and qualitative content analysis. The results show wide variations in response to digital teaching and learning. Digital teaching and working/learning from home have brought both multiple benefits and multiple challenges at the same time. Working and learning from home was perceived as both enriching and overwhelming—even for the same individual. Respondents appreciated the flexibility associated with digital teaching, even though digital teaching was perceived as imposing excessive demands. This study reveals striking gaps in our knowledge and our actions linking digital transformation and sustainability and highlights how digital teaching can be further developed.

Digital Formats for Community Participation in Health Promotion and Prevention Activities: A Scoping Review

Objectives: Digital technologies in public health are primarily used in medical settings and mostly on an individual and passive way of use. There are research gaps on digital media facilitating participation, empowerment, community engagement, and participatory research in community settings. This scoping review aims to map existing literature on digital formats that enable participation in the field of health promotion and prevention in community settings.Design: The databases Medline, EMBASE, and PsycINFO were used to identify studies published from 2010 up to date (date of literature search) onward that used digital formats in all or in the main sequences of the process to enable high levels of participation in health promotion and prevention activities in community settings.Results: This review identified nine out of 11 included studies relevant to the research question. We found five studies that applied qualitative participatory research, two studies on peer support and one study each on empowerment and crowdsourcing. The digital technologies used varied widely and included social media platforms, bulletin boards, online forum webpages, and customized web providers and programs. Most studies mentioned anonymity, flexibility, and convenience as benefits of digital interventions. Some papers reported limitations such as difficulties by interpreting written-only data or the possibility of selection bias due to the digital divide.Conclusion: This scoping review identified only few studies relevant to our objective, indicating an existing gap in research on this topic. Digital formats were found to be particularly suitable for purposes where anonymity and flexibility are beneficial, such as for online peer exchange and peer support programs.

Long-term storage of information about nuclear waste. 100 000 years and beyond

In the 20th century, intertwined with the topic of “final nuclear repository”, the ethical requirement to warn about the danger of radioactive radiation over a period of 1 million years was debated. In the meantime, a narrative is beginning to gain acceptance – also in public – that postulates that a repository should be described in terms of content and location in such a way that future generations are capable of making their own informed decisions. After all, nuclear waste consists of materials ranging from dangerous to precious. From the concept of sustainability and responsible usage of resources comes the demand to not isolate, bury and forget nuclear waste in the biosphere forever, but rather to leave the information about it in such a way that even if the transmission of information is interrupted, it can be reconstructed by a technically industrialized civilization. The materials that we store in the depths, especially in places where one would not expect them geologically, could represent valuable resources for future generations. The following questions arise: What time horizons are we talking about? In what form can information exist for so long? What language or symbols do we use for this? Who are the addressees? Conventional information carriers are unsuitable for these purposes. Even the most durable, even with optimal storage, have a shelf life that is orders of magnitude below the temporal safety requirements of nuclear waste repositories. In this lecture, the latest technologies and methods for long-term storage of information are introduced. Ceramic-based data carriers. Ceramic-based data carriers with a durability extending to millions of years even under the most extreme conditions. Originating from the Memory of Mankind project in Hallstatt, Austria, a research program is being carried out at the Vienna University of Technology for data carriers which, in addition to an extremely long durability, also have a high data density. Data formats. There is no guarantee that the digital formats used today will be readable in the near or distant future. Information that is intended for addressees in thousands of years must therefore be recognized as such and be directly legible. Data formats must be intuitively decodable and readable. And finally, universal icons are needed for a “manual”, in order to describe the location and contents of a nuclear waste repository to a distant technical civilization.

PTPARL-D: an annotated corpus of forty-four years of Portuguese parliamentary debates

In a representative democracy, some decide in the name of the rest. These elected officials are commonly gathered in public assemblies, such as parliaments, where they discuss policies, legislate, and vote on fundamental initiatives. A core aspect of such democratic processes are the plenary debates, where important public discussions take place. Many parliaments around the world are increasingly keeping the transcripts of such debates and other parliamentary data in digital formats that are accessible to the public. This is meant to increase transparency and accountability, but these records are often only provided as raw text or even as images, with little, if any, annotation and in inconsistent formats, making them difficult to analyse. Here, we present ptarl-d, an annotated corpus of debates in the Portuguese Parliament, covering the years 1976 to 2019 and representing the entire period of Portuguese democracy.