44 research outputs found
The politically motivated murder of Grigoris Lambrakis : the literary and cinematic realizations in their socio-critical point of view
No full textDie vorliegende Diplomarbeit beschäftigt sich mit den literarischen und filmischen Realisierungen des politischen Mordes am Abgeordneten Grigoris Lambrakis in Saloniki (1963). Diese Affäre rund um den Tod des Abgeordneten beeinflusste in ungeahnter Weise die politische Landschaft. Die lange Regierungszeit des konservativen Premierministers Karamanlis endete im selben Jahr abrupt, und es folgte eine instabile Phase, in welcher sich die Bevölkerung in Richtung einer liberalen Demokratie zu orientieren begann. In dieser Zeit wechselnder Regierungen bis 1967 veröffentlichte der Journalist und Autor Vassilis Vassilikos seinen Roman „Z“. Die literarische Aufbereitung durch Vassilikos zeigt auf teils journalistische und teils philosophisch-poetische Weise, welche Auswirkungen ein politischer Skandal auf die Betroffenen haben kann und versucht mit seiner Darstellung die zu diesem Zeitpunkt laufende Verhandlung gegen die moralischen und tatsächlichen Mörder Lambrakis‘ zu beeinflussen. Als der griechisch-französische Regisseur Constantin Costa-Gavras im Jahr 1966 den Roman liest, ist für ihn sofort klar, dass er ihn verfilmen will. Allerdings übertrug er den Inhalt des Romans in ein allgemein auf politische Morde anwendbares Format. Es zeigt sich also, dass sich zwei im linken politischen Spektrum zu positionierende Künstler in ganz eigener Weise mit dem Mord an einem linken Politiker, während einer schwierigen politischen Phase Griechenlands, auseinandergesetzt haben.This thesis deals with the politically motivated murder of Grigoris Lambrakis, a Member of Parliament, in its historical context as well as its literary and cinematic realizations. The affair surrounding Lambrakis death (1963 in Thessalonika) had an unexpected impact on the political landscape of the time. The long reign of conservative Prime Minister Karamanlis ended abruptly in 1963, followed by an unstable phase in which the political disposition of the population shifted towards a liberal democracy. During this period of change, which lasted until 1967, the politically motivated novel "Z" was published by the journalist and author Vassilis Vassilikos. His literary interpretation of events illustrates the effects of the political scandal on the affected parties through partly journalistic and partly philosophical-poetic means. Moreover, he attempted to use his portrayal of events to influence the ongoing trial against the people involved in Lambrakis` murder. After reading Vassilikos novel in 1966, the Greek-French director Constantin Costa-Gavras immediately decided to make a film out of it. However, he transferred the content of the novel into a format generally applicable to political murders. These two artists, both belonging to the left-wing political spectrum, each dealt in their own way with the murder of a left-wing politician during a difficult political phase in Greece. The focus of this thesis is on the intersection between history, politics, literature and film. This raises the question of what stylistic means the author and director use to clarify their socio-critical point of view.vorgelegt von Anna Rosa PufferAbweichender Titel laut Übersetzung des Verfassers/der VerfasserinDiplomarbeit Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz 2021 3.146Zusammenfassungen auf Deutsch und Englisc
The politically motivated murder of Grigoris Lambrakis : the literary and cinematic realizations in their socio-critical point of view
No full textDie vorliegende Diplomarbeit beschäftigt sich mit den literarischen und filmischen Realisierungen des politischen Mordes am Abgeordneten Grigoris Lambrakis in Saloniki (1963). Diese Affäre rund um den Tod des Abgeordneten beeinflusste in ungeahnter Weise die politische Landschaft. Die lange Regierungszeit des konservativen Premierministers Karamanlis endete im selben Jahr abrupt, und es folgte eine instabile Phase, in welcher sich die Bevölkerung in Richtung einer liberalen Demokratie zu orientieren begann. In dieser Zeit wechselnder Regierungen bis 1967 veröffentlichte der Journalist und Autor Vassilis Vassilikos seinen Roman „Z“. Die literarische Aufbereitung durch Vassilikos zeigt auf teils journalistische und teils philosophisch-poetische Weise, welche Auswirkungen ein politischer Skandal auf die Betroffenen haben kann und versucht mit seiner Darstellung die zu diesem Zeitpunkt laufende Verhandlung gegen die moralischen und tatsächlichen Mörder Lambrakis‘ zu beeinflussen. Als der griechisch-französische Regisseur Constantin Costa-Gavras im Jahr 1966 den Roman liest, ist für ihn sofort klar, dass er ihn verfilmen will. Allerdings übertrug er den Inhalt des Romans in ein allgemein auf politische Morde anwendbares Format. Es zeigt sich also, dass sich zwei im linken politischen Spektrum zu positionierende Künstler in ganz eigener Weise mit dem Mord an einem linken Politiker, während einer schwierigen politischen Phase Griechenlands, auseinandergesetzt haben.This thesis deals with the politically motivated murder of Grigoris Lambrakis, a Member of Parliament, in its historical context as well as its literary and cinematic realizations. The affair surrounding Lambrakis death (1963 in Thessalonika) had an unexpected impact on the political landscape of the time. The long reign of conservative Prime Minister Karamanlis ended abruptly in 1963, followed by an unstable phase in which the political disposition of the population shifted towards a liberal democracy. During this period of change, which lasted until 1967, the politically motivated novel "Z" was published by the journalist and author Vassilis Vassilikos. His literary interpretation of events illustrates the effects of the political scandal on the affected parties through partly journalistic and partly philosophical-poetic means. Moreover, he attempted to use his portrayal of events to influence the ongoing trial against the people involved in Lambrakis` murder. After reading Vassilikos novel in 1966, the Greek-French director Constantin Costa-Gavras immediately decided to make a film out of it. However, he transferred the content of the novel into a format generally applicable to political murders. These two artists, both belonging to the left-wing political spectrum, each dealt in their own way with the murder of a left-wing politician during a difficult political phase in Greece. The focus of this thesis is on the intersection between history, politics, literature and film. This raises the question of what stylistic means the author and director use to clarify their socio-critical point of view.vorgelegt von Anna Rosa PufferAbweichender Titel laut Übersetzung des Verfassers/der VerfasserinDiplomarbeit Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz 2021 3.146Zusammenfassungen auf Deutsch und Englisc
Stability Optimisation of the top armour row of a breakwater with Xbloc<sup>Plus</sup> units
No full textThe XblocPlus (referred to as Xbloc+) is a new, uniformly placed single layer armour unit, developed by Delta Marine Consultants (BAM Infraconsult). Although a breakwater armour layer with XblocPlus combines material saving and easy placement with increased stability, the transition between the armour layer and the crest is not adequately stable. The XblocPlus units of the top armour row (crest units) become easily displaced. In this research, several solutions to this problem are investigated through physical modelling, in order to determine the best one. Firstly, tests are performed on a breakwater with single, XblocPlus crest elements without rear support, in order to determine the most important parameters and mechanisms contributing to failure. The criterion for initiation of failure for the top armour row is 10%, so when 1 of the 10 crest units fails. Failure of a unit is defined as the condition where contact with the units of the row underneath is lost under at least one of the two wings. During wave run-up, under the forces resulting from the wave velocities, the XblocPlus crest units initially rotate and, subsequently, make a combined motion consisting of rotation, vertical and horizontal translation. The main parameters of influence to this movement are the crest freeboard (Rc/Dn) and wave steepness (sop): for Rc/Dn≥1.7, stability increases for increasing Rc/Dn and for increasing sop (from 2% to 4%). For zero freeboard, wave impact forces at breaking proved to be an important mechanism in the case of sop=4%, where collapsing breakers occurred. Failure and partial displacement were initiated at stability numbers (Ns=Hs/(ΔDn)) of 1.39 and 0.74, respectively, for Rc/Dn≤1.7, which are much lower than the stability number for displacement of the armour layer (Ns>3.88). A second set of tests was conducted, in order to investigate a way of optimising the stability of the transition area between the armour layer and the crest. Under the most critical conditions of the first tests, 7 crest configurations, based on their potential ability to resist the failure mechanisms, were investigated: 2 orientations of the Xbloc+ crest units (with the tail or nose tilted upwards), 2 different ways of placement of Xbloc at the crest, placement of Xbloc with a concrete crown wall element, underlayer rock material at the crest and underlayer rock material with a concrete crown wall element. From the above “trial and error” approach, it was concluded that the most effective way of increasing stability (optimised configuration) is the provision of a backwards support, which fulfils the criteria of no erosion and no uplift and resists rotation by bringing the rotation point of the Xbloc+ crest elements further to the back. The form of this concept tested was the placement of underlayer material between the Xbloc+ crest units and under their tails and a concrete element behind, which functions as backwards support to prevent erosion of the rock fill. No displacement of the Xbloc+ crest elements occurred for Rc/Dn≤1.7, 2%≤sop≤4% and no failure happened for Rc/Dn=0, sop=4% for a stability number up to 3.55. Rocking was decreased to zero. Failure and rocking of 10% happened only at the case of Rc/Dn=1.7, sop=2% for Ns≥2.78, due to the erosion of the fill, resulting from the uplift of the supporting crest element, with the final damage (at Ns=3.49) being repairable and limited at the 4 upper rows of the breakwater.Civil Engineerin
Wave Climate and Coastline Response of the Dutch Coast: Investigating the effect of large-scale offshore wind farm developments in the North Sea
No full textTo counteract the effect of climate change, a global agreement was put into force in 2016, aiming to limit the increase in average global warming and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. In that respect, European countries are investing in cleaner sources of energy and predominantly offshore wind, which has seen a rapid growth over the last years. The North Sea is a region suitable for developing offshore wind energy, given its strong wind climate and the relatively shallow waters. Many large-scale offshore wind farm (OWF) developments are currently ongoing in that region, while many more are planned and consented for the coming decades. The concept of large-scale OWF developments has spurred many discussions addressing its potential effect on the greater North Sea region. However, the long-term effect on the surrounding coastal areas has never been studied in detail. Especially for a low-lying country as the Netherlands, assessing the impact of large-scale OWFs is of great importance. This study aims at exploring the effect of future large-scale OWFs in the North Sea, focusing on the wave climate and the coastline response of the Dutch coast. Based on the roadmap for developing offshore wind energy until 2050, existing and future designated OWF areas are accounted in the North Sea region. The effect of OWFs on wind is introduced in a schematized way, with a constant decrease in wind speed of 20% inside the OWF areas, based on literature knowledge. Supplementary, based on the vision of creating an artificial energy island for storing and redistributing the wind farm generated electricity, a 5 km2 island is introduced, approximately 30 km away from the Dutch coast. The effect on the nearshore wave climate is studied using the numerical model SWAN, while the resulting effect on the alongshore morphology is assessed using coastline model Unibest-CL+. The impact of future OWFs on the nearshore wave climate is found to be dependent on the size, shape, orientation and distance from the coast of the individual wind farms. Results show a mean decrease in significant wave height in the order of 1 – 2%. In addition, slight changes in wave direction are observed. The effect on wave climate reduces the alongshore sediment transport at the Dutch coast, by an order of 10% with respect to present values. This results in net-induced erosion, which requires nourishment. The study shows that the areas north of Zandvoort and Petten need the greatest nourishment volumes, in the range of 1.5 – 2.5 m3/m/year. This is an additional 1% on the current annual nourishment volumes supplied along the Dutch coast. The underlying study has proved to be effective in quantifying the chain of effects of OWFs and identifying potential hot-spots along the Dutch coast. The knowledge acquired from these effects can be used to optimize future OWF planning in relation to coastline maintenance policies.Civil Engineerin
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No full textAbstract: A general web rule (markup) language has several purposes. It may serve as a lingua franca to exchange rules between different systems and tools. It may be used to express derivation rules for enriching web ontologies by adding definitions of derived concepts or for defining data access permissions; to describe and publish the reactive behaviour of a system in the form of reaction rules; and to provide a complete XML-based specification of a software agent. Further uses may arise in novel web applications. In this paper, we consider the problem of how to design a general web rule language that can be used for these and for future emerging purposes. Given the great diversity of rule concepts and existing rule languages, such a language will consist of several overlapping sublanguages that share a common metamodel. The development of this rule metamodel is a difficult conceptualisation and integration problem
Anisotropic stars in 4D Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity
No full textWe wish to thank the anonymous reviewer for comments and suggestions. The author T. T would like to thank the financial support from the Science Achievement Scholarship of Thailand (SAST) . A. Pradhan thanks to IUCCA, Pune, India for providing fa-cilities under associateship programmes. The author G. P. thanks the FundacAo para a Ciencia e Tecnologia (FCT) , Portugal, for the financial support to the Center for Astrophysics and Gravitation-CENTRA, Chile, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Universidade de Lis-boa, Portugal, through the Project No. UIDB/00099/2020 and No. PTDC/FIS-AST/28920/2017
Racial and Ethnic Group Spatial Assimilation in Inner and Outer Suburban Rings
No full textThe present study examines inner and outer suburban ring attainment outcomes among racial and ethnic groups that reside in the nation’s metropolitan areas. The main objective is to evaluate the extent to which the relationship between racial and ethnic group’s socioeconomic status characteristics and residence between inner and outer suburban rings conforms to the tenets of the spatial assimilation model. Using micro-level data from the five-year 2012⁻2016 American Community Survey, the author calculates binomial logistic regression models to determine the effects of socioeconomic status (SES) and other relevant predictors on residence within the nation’s metropolitan area’s suburban inner and outer rings. The results both confirm and contradict the main tenets of the spatial assimilation model. To the extent that income, education, and homeownership are positively related to residence in both suburban rings, the findings also suggest that access to inner and outer rings is hierarchically stratified by race and ethnicity
Surface Based Object Detection in RGBD Images
No full textInternational audienceViewpoint variation is one of the main challenges for object-detection frameworks. In this work we describe strategies to improve object detection pipelines by introducing viewpoint based mixture components. We learn accurate mixtures of object detectors for RGB-Depth (RGBD) data using the latent SVM framework. Our contributions are threefold. First, we use surface-based object representations (3D mesh models) from available 3D object model repositories to learn strongly supervised viewpoint classifiers. These are used to guide the first stages of model learning, and help avoid inaccurate local minima of latent SVM training. Second, we develop a geometric dataset augmentation scheme that uses scene geometry to 'take another look' at the training data, simulating the effect of camera viewpoint changes. Third, to better exploit depth information, we develop a novel depth-based dense feature extraction method that provides a robust statistical description of scene geometry. We evaluate our learned detectors on the NYU dataset, and demonstrate that each of our advances results in systematic performance improvements over the traditional HOG-based detection pipeline
Slowly rotating dark energy stars
No full textWe thank the anonymous reviewer for useful comments and suggestions. The authors G.P. and I.L. thank the Fundacao para a Ciencia e Tecnologia (FCT), Portugal, for the financial support to the Center for Astrophysics and Gravitation-CENTRA, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Universidade de Lisboa, through the Grants No. UID/FIS/00099/2013 and No. PTDC/FIS-AST/28920/2017. The author A.R. acknowledges Universidad de Tarapaca for financial support
