130 research outputs found
Art, Biography, Sexuality: Patrick Procktor and Keith Vaughan
No full textThis critical review forms a reflection on the research published within the following publications:
Patrick Procktor: Art and Life (Unicorn Press, 2010)
Keith Vaughan: The Mature Oils 1946-1977, (Sansom & Co., 2012)
The research is on two artists, Patrick Procktor (1936-2003), and Keith Vaughan (1912-1977). The monograph on Procktor – previously one of the least documented of the generation of artists who came to prominence in London in the Sixties – positions him in a history of art from which he had been notably absent. The research on Vaughan asserts a new reading of his work, one that is both deeper and more nuanced in its analysis of the ways in which personal experience and sexuality are encoded autobiographically within his work. Crucially, in both artists biography and work are symbiotically linked; the research therefore examines the links between life and art.
Revisionary in intent, the work examines trajectories of experience of gay British (or rather, English) artists in the twentieth century, artists who sought to express themselves and forge careers within the constraints of a heteronormative society, albeit one in which attitudes to sexuality were undergoing change. As gay men, both were constrained by the social mores of their times, and each used painting as a means to affirm personal and sexual identities. A key research interest is in the ways in which sexuality and persona are reflected in critical responses to the artist’s work: in Vaughan, Procktor and other gay male artists of the period. The writing on both Procktor and Vaughan examines the relationship between their personal and professional/artistic lives, framed within a broader socio-political and art historical context. It asserts the place of biography as a means to understand and form new readings of the work. The work adds substantially to the literature and wider discourse on post-war British painting and social history
The City Vulnerable: New Town Planning, Informality, And The Geography Of Disaster In Kolkata, India
No full textQuantifying And Characterizing Mass Loss From Icefields Using Remote Sensing
No full textGlaciers outside the icesheets currently supply roughly the same amount of water to sea level rise (SLR) as Antarctica and Greenland and will likely constitute a significant fraction of SLR through 2100. SLR is one of the biggest challenges facing humanity, and much uncertainty remains regarding the contribution of glacier mass loss to SLR. Here we examine glaciers in the Patagonia region of southern Chile/Argentina, the Russian High Arctic (RHA) and Alaska, which have all contributed disproportionately to SLR, a trend that is expected to continue through 2100. The RHA is projected to be among the largest contributors, with total mass loss exceeding Alaska for 2006-2100 despite its smaller ice volume. We focus on several icefields, including two that have received relatively little attention, the Cordillera Darwin Icefield (CDI, 69.6? W, 54.6? S, 2,600 km2 of glaciated area) in the Patagonia region of southern Chile, and the Novaya Zemlya Icefield (NovZ, 65? W, 76? N, 22,100 km2 of glaciated area) in the Russian High Arctic. We also examine the Juneau Icefield (JIF, 58.3? N to 59.7? N, 3,830 km2 ) and Stikine Icefield (56.75? N to 58.5? N, 5,800 km2 ) in southeast Alaska. We produce high-resolution maps of surface elevation change rates ( dh ) and dt velocities for these icefields. dh dt are calculated by applying a weighted lin- ear regression to horizontally- and vertically-aligned digital elevation models (DEMs), revealing thinning patterns for individual glacier basins and allowing us to estimate total mass loss for each icefield. To our knowledge, the work presented here includes the first published study to use the technique of DEM time series to study mass loss of entire icefields. Velocities are measured by pixel-tracking applied to satellite image pairs, helping constrain the dynamic component of mass loss and detect acceleration. We provide a brief overview of the impact of changing various pixel-tracking parameters on velocity measurements, demonstrating, for example, how the ability to adjust parameters helps maximize coverage compared to working with fixed parameter values. We find an average mass loss rate at the CDI of -3.9±1.5 Gt yr-1 between 2000 and 2011, the first produced for this icefield. Three marine-terminating glaciers that cover 12% of the icefield area account for 31% of mass loss. Velocity measurements at the largest of these, the rapidly retreating Marinelli Glacier, constrain the lower bound on the annual calving flux as approximately 82±41% of the average mass loss rate for the glacier. The disproportionate mass loss contribution of the three tidewater glaciers, coupled with the high calving flux and retreat at Marinelli Glacier, provide evidence that dynamic mass loss is an important component of thinning at the CDI. At NovZ, we extend estimates of mass loss back to 1952 and up to the present. We find that the recent average thinning rate of -0.41±0.10 m water equivalent yr-1 (m w.e. yr-1 , or elevation change at density of 1000 kg m-3 ) from 2012-2013/2014 is higher than the long-term average of -0.24±0.04 m w.e. yr-1 from 1952-2013/2014. Some of the increase is likely due to warming in the region, as recent thinning is higher than the long-term average at both land- and marine-terminating glaciers. There is also evidence of a dynamic component, because recent thinning, retreat and front velocities are all substantially greater at tidewater-terminating glaciers than land-terminating glaciers. The impact of ice dynamics is particularly apparent at Inostrantseva Glacier (INO), which ac- celerated at some point after 2006, leading to rapid retreat and thinning there. We compare our results at the CDI and NovZ with our dh dt and velocities for the JIF and Stikine in southeast Alaska. We explore how variations in climate, hypsometry and dynamics all contribute to the different magnitudes and patterns of mass loss at each icefield. The methods presented here for the assessment of icefield mass loss will help better constrain their contributions to SLR over the coming century
Three-layered QoS for eGovernment web services
No full textAn applied research for the incremental evolution of a service oriented architecture for local eGovernment portals has been developed. Our reference eGovernment environment, currently adopted by a hundred local public administrations in Veneto region, is a dual model with a G2C interface towards citizens and a complementary G2G interface for municipal government staff, both interconnected and supporting a constellation of web services-based tools and applications. XPDL-compliant, workflow technology is now being applied in order to increase software re-use, process visibility and exchange and to ease process implementation/customization and execution. A case study for a layered model of QoS for eGovernment is presented. Three kinds of quality of services: (a) perceived level of services, (b) effectiveness of processes and (c) system-level efficiency, are measured in close correspondence with the different layers of eGovernment interactions: G2C, process orchestration/WFM and G2G
Distribution and concentration of suspended matter in Delaware Bay
No full textThe author has identified the following significant results. The problem of remote sensing of suspended matter in water was analyzed in terms of the single-scattering albedo, and a semiempirical relationship between satellite radiance measurements and the concentration of suspended matter in the water was developed. The relationship was tested using data from the 7 July 1973 LANDSAT overpass of Delaware Bay with good results. Suspended sediment concentration maps for the entire Delaware Bay were prepared using radiance values extracted from LANDSAT MSS imagery and correlating them with ground truth samples collected from boats and helicopter
Semi-Automatic Construction of a General Purpose Ontology
No full textOntologies are hierarchically organized networks of conceptual information. Used to systematize and model domain knowledge, they play an important role in artificial intelligence, natural language processing, information integration, electronic commerce, and related fields. In this paper, we briefly describe the characteristics of ontologies, and then discuss the Omega ontology, a large general-purpose ontology created semi-automatically from WordNet, Mikrokosmos, and a newly created upper semantic model, and note the relationship between Omega and its predecessor Sensus. We detail the procedures used to create the Omega base ontology and to merge in new ontological information, such as custom ontologies derived from glossaries and instances obtained by data mining. We survey some of the applications in which we have applied Omega. We highlight the tools used and characteristics of the Lisp environment which facilitate the development and maintenance of the ontological structure. We conclude by discussing current and future work
Detection of mastitis
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Postcards from Venice: Life and the City in Paul Morand's Venises
No full textPaul Morand's 1971 book Venises leads the reader on a labyrinthine path not only through the various manifestations of the city of Venice and of the life of the author that it presents, but also through the slippery experience of referentiality as the text engulfs the reader in proper names. This article traces Morand's simultaneous construction and destruction of the notion of a referential self as he pieces together his life in and around the city of Venice. By exploiting the complementary genres of autobiography and travel writing, Morand creates a dialogue between the city and the self, an exchange facilitated by the hydra-like city of Venice. Morand, like Proust, "does not say Venice by chance" as he capitalizes on the ever-receding signifier of Venice in order to provide a space in which to elide that particular self, Morand the collaborator, that he wishes to disappear amid the pluralities of his city of Venice. This pluralistic relationship of the self and the city and its consequent "disappearing act" consciously implicates both the position and the experience of the reader not only of Venises but of referential texts in general
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