4 research outputs found
Nord ed Europa. Identità scandinava e rapporti culturali con il continente nel corso dei secoli. The North and Europe. Scandinavian Identity and Cultural Relations with the Continent through the Centuries. Atti del Convegno Internazionale di Studi, Genova, 25-27 Settembre 2003.
No full textThis paper examines the different attitudes of Nordic linguists and scholars towards
foreign words through the centuries. It has been included in the proceedings of an
International Congress of Scandianvian Studies (“The North and Europe.
Scandinavian Identity and Cultural Relations with the Continent through the
Centuries”) that the author himself organized 2003 in collaboration with Gianna
Chiesa Isnardi. The Congress had an interdisciplinary character and was open to
various themes and disciplines (from fiction to the arts, from history to the theatre,
from religion to anthropology and so on – see Table of contents). The author is also
editor of the proceedings
Hat Plato in der “ungeschriebenen Lehre“ eine “dogmatische Metaphysik und Systematik“ vertreten? Einige Bemerkungen zum Status Quaestionis
Get PDFThe paper gives an overview of the philosophical positions regarding Plato’s “so called unwritten doctrines” and the systematic goal of his philosophy. One group of commentators (especially the Tübingen school with Hans Krämer and Konrad Gaiser) argues that in these doctrines, Plato has a closed (finite) concept of philosophy, while another group, in the tradition of Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher and August Wilhelm Schlegel (for example, Ernst Heitsch, Margarita Isnardi-Parente and Wolfgang Kullmann), denies the philosophical relevance of the unwritten doctrines and favours an open (infinite) concept of philosophy which they find mainly in the dialogues. The author discusses and criticizes H. Krämer’s position and tries to show that a third position between finitism and infinitism is possible, that is, an approximation of the presupposed truth, a position anticipated under the label “scepsi costrutttrice” of Luigi Stefanini’s interpretation of the 7th letter
Computational appearance models for quantitative dermatology
No full textSkin appearance modeling using high-resolution imaging has led to advances in recognition, rendering and analysis. In dermatology, workforce shortage and long patient wait time has motivated the need for computational methods to assist the dermatologists. In recent automated image recognition tasks, deep learning with convolutional neural nets (CNN) has achieved remarkable results. However in many clinical settings, training data is often limited and insufficient for CNN training. Furthermore, skin images have subtle differences and are very different from the typical images used for computer vision tasks. This moti- vates the need of developing methods that can be used for limited and unique datasets. In this research, we propose computational models using deep learning approaches for novel problems in quantitative dermatology. First, we develop a photo-realistic facial style transfer method (FaceTex), which trans- fers facial texture from a new style image while preserving most of the original facial structure and identity. FaceTex has implications in commercial applications and dermatol- ogy, such as visualizing the effects of age, sun exposure, or skin treatments (e.g. anti-aging, acne). We suppress the changes around the meso-structures (eyes, eyebrow, nose, lips and lower facial contour) by introducing the Facial Prior Regularization that smoothly slows down the updating. Additionally, we tackle the challenge of preserving facial shape by minimizing a Facial Structure Loss, which we define as an identity loss from a pre-trained face recognition network that implicitly preserves the facial structure. Our results demonstrate superior texture transfer than state-of-the-art methods because of the ability to maintain the identity of the original face image. Second, we develop a computational skin texture model to characterize image-based patterns from ultraviolet and blue fluorescence multimodal images and link them to distri- bution of microbes on the skin surface, i.e. the skin microbiome. The intersection of ap- pearance and microbiome clusters reveals a pattern of microbiome that is predictable with high accuracy based on skin appearance. We present a new approach, appearance-driven multiview co-clustering (AMCO), which incorporates both multiview and co-clustering in order to discover which microbiome parameters are linked to appearance. Finally, to measure the thickness of skin layers, we develop a hybrid deep learning method to classify reflectance confocal microscopy images. We also use CNNs to classify the images and demonstrate that smaller training datasets are insufficient for CNN training and feature extraction is essential in such cases. We compare our method with a suite of texture recognition methods for RCM images and show that hybrid deep learning outperforms the state-of-the-art with a test accuracy of 81.73%. Using a patch-based approach and pre- trained CNNs for feature extraction, we achieve a peak classification accuracy of 89.87%.Ph.D.Includes bibliographical referencesby Parneet Kau
On the road to feminization: a study of the corporal intervention practices of transvestites in the area of influence of Santa Clara Hospital, Bogotá
No full textEste libro analiza las prácticas de intervención corporal utilizadas por travestis en la zona de tolerancia del centro de Bogotá. La autora estudió los registros médicos de los miembros de esta comunidad tratados en el Hospital Santa Clara por complicaciones de los procedimientos riesgosos que utilizan para lograr una apariencia femenina. El propósito es hacer visibles los problemas de salud que enfrenta esta comunidad, a menudo excluida y marginada.This book analyzes the practices of corporal intervention used by transvestites in the tolerance zone of downtown Bogotá. The author studied the medical records of members of this community treated in Santa Clara Hospital for complications of the risky procedures they use to achieve a feminine appearance. The purpose is to make visible the health problems faced by this community, often excluded and marginalized
