518 research outputs found
Entertainer: Pieter-Dirk Uys
No full textThis booklet celebrates the life and work of Pieter-Dirk Uys, internationally acclaimed playwright, author, role-model and one of South Africa's living treasures
Entertainer: Pieter-Dirk Uys
No full textThis booklet celebrates the life and work of Pieter-Dirk Uys, internationally acclaimed playwright, author, role-model and one of South Africa's living treasures
Entertainer: Pieter-Dirk Uys
No full textThis booklet celebrates the life and work of Pieter-Dirk Uys, internationally acclaimed playwright, author, role-model and one of South Africa's living treasures
Formal Techniques and Self/Other Relations in the Novels of Dirk Bogarde
No full textThe thesis foregrounds the distinctive contribution Dirk Bogarde made to
contemporary writing in a second career that developed in parallel to his screen
commitments. It dispels the notion that Bogarde followed a familiar path as an actor
who wrote books. Instead it establishes his reputation as an innovative writer whose
formal technique was substantially influenced by the textual systems of cinema and
the cross-fertilisation from acting to writing.
In examining the formative factors that steered Bogarde towards authorship, the
thesis addresses the role of performance as a generative factor in the evolution of the
novels, establishing a discursive link with Bakhtinian dialogism, and specifically,
transgredience as a formal imperative. Secondly, it affords a critical insight into why
the major concerns with staging and performativity preoccupy his writing career.
The thesis claims that Bogarde was an empirically dialogical writer whose use
of camera-eye narration fostered the proliferation of competing discourses across the
fiction. This formal dynamic is centred on the relationship between stages and
dialogism, which incorporates the work of Erving Goffinan as a complementary
critique to Bakhtinian theory with its emphasis on self-presentation. The concern
with socially-constructed behaviour leads the thesis to address the associated issues of
stereotyping and 'otherness', which in terms of body politics is articulated by the
mono logic drive to confine the sexual 'other' to a fixed representation.
Bogarde's ability to draw on cinematic and performance techniques identifies
an area of expertise unavailable to most other writers. This is an unusual repository
of skills to bring to writing which is why the thesis makes the claim for his singular
achievement as a contemporary author. There are fruitful points of intersection to be
explored in this respect with the work of Christopher Isherwood, whom Bogarde read
and admired, as a basis for further research. It is hoped that the thesis will play its
part in opening up new possibilities for Bogarde's writing to be re-visited by future
critics
The Social Impact of Natural Language Processing
No full textMedical sciences have long since established an ethics code for experiments, to minimize the risk of harm to subjects. Natural language processing (NLP) used to involve mostly anonymous corpora, with the goal of enriching linguistic analysis, and was therefore unlikely to raise ethical concerns. As NLP becomes increasingly wide-spread and uses more data from social media, however, the situation has changed: the outcome of NLP experiments and applications can now have a direct effect on individual users’ lives. Until now, the discourse on this topic in the field has not followed the technological development, while public discourse was often focused on exaggerated dangers. This position paper tries to take back the initiative and start a discussion. We identify a number of social implications of NLP and discuss their ethical significance, as well as ways to address them
Tree Reconstruction from a Point Cloud using an L-system
No full textStoring accurate models of complex geometries in a compact way has become an increasingly challenging issue, especially when dealing with large datasets. One of such datasets is Cobra-Groeninzicht's database of all trees in the Netherlands. In the gaming industry, a new technique is being used to generate tree models: the L-system. An L-system stores a string representation of the structural model of a tree, with the added possibility for recursive modelling using growing rules. This format proves a promising alternative to more traditional methods of storing complex geometries. However, it remains unclear whether it can be an accurate enough representation for modelling and analysing real-life trees.In this research project, the AdTree algorithm is used to reconstruct a skeleton from a point cloud of a single tree. This skeleton is then transformed to an L-System string format, as well as a CityJSON format (both in JSON structure). The L-system format comes with the advantage that it allows for several methods of increasing its compactness further (growing, generalisation). The overall size of these files also indicates fewer storage space is needed to store the tree geometry. The quality of the L-System skeleton is nearly equal to the input, the skeleton generated by. Assuming it can be read and drawn using a Turtle program, the L-system thus allows for storing the same geometric information more compactly than traditional storage formats, with sufficient accuracy, and the added possibilities of growing or generalising the model.Synthesis Project 2021Geomatic
Letter to Dirk J. Van Bommel (February 11, 1916)
No full textA letter to Dirk J. Van Bommel from someone attached to the Laurence L. Doggetts' office at Springfield College, dated February 11, 1916. The author is unknown. Laurence L. Doggett, president of Springfield College, asked that Van Bommel be contacted. The letter informs Van Bommel that the money he sent was received.Dirk J. Van Bommel graduated from Springfield College in 1911. After graduation, he worked as a secretary for the International Committee in Constantinople. In 1920, Springfield College awarded him an honorary Master of Humanics. Two years later, Van Bommel was hired as secretary to the National Council in Turkey. He died on November 9, 1953
Letter to Dirk J. Van Bommel (February 11, 1916)
No full textA letter to Dirk J. Van Bommel from someone attached to the Laurence L. Doggetts' office at Springfield College, dated February 11, 1916. The author is unknown. Laurence L. Doggett, president of Springfield College, asked that Van Bommel be contacted. The letter informs Van Bommel that the money he sent was received.Dirk J. Van Bommel graduated from Springfield College in 1911. After graduation, he worked as a secretary for the International Committee in Constantinople. In 1920, Springfield College awarded him an honorary Master of Humanics. Two years later, Van Bommel was hired as secretary to the National Council in Turkey. He died on November 9, 1953
Nerium oleander L.
No full text66. Nerium oleander L., Sp. Pl.: 209. 1753 [cited in Nat. Hist. II(4): 389. 1775]. Notes. – A specimen in the Java herbarium is in L (L-898.111-57). It represents material of Plumeria rubra L. (see Nat. Hist. II(2): 178. 1774) (Fig. 2). Two leaves and an inflorescence are mounted with a mid-18th century pot, so far only known from this sheet (G. Thijsse, pers. comm. to the first author). Another specimen without provenance is present in the Thunberg herbarium (UPS-THUNB n° 6128).Published as part of Wijnands, Dirk Onno, Heniger, Johannes, Veldkamp, Jan Frederik, Fumeaux, Nicolas & Callmander, Martin W., 2017, The botanical legacy of Martinus Houttuyn (1720 - 1798) in Geneva, pp. 155-198 in Candollea 72 (1) on page 181, DOI: 10.15553/c2017v721a11, http://zenodo.org/record/572188
Time-Lapse Observation of Crevice Corrosion in Grade 2205 Duplex Stainless Steel
No full textThe objective of this study was to investigate and visualise the initiation and propagation of crevice corrosion in grade 2205 duplex stainless steel by means of time-lapse imaging. Transparent Poly-Methyl-Meth-Acrylate washer and disk were coupled with a duplex stainless steel to create an artificial crevice, with electrochemical monitoring applied to obtain information about the nu-cleation and propagation characteristics. All nucleation sites and corroding areas inside crevices were recorded, in-situ, using a digital microscope set-up. Localised corrosion initiated close to the edge of the washer, where the crevice gap was very tight, with active corrosion sites then propa-gating underneath the disk into areas with wider gaps, towards the crevice mouth. The growth was associated with a rise in anodic current, interlaced with sudden current drops, with in parallel hydrogen gas evolution also observed within the crevice. The current drops were associated with a sudden change in growth direction, and once corrosion reached the crevice mouth, the propagation continued circumferentially and in depth. This allowed different corrosion regions to develop, showing selective dissolution of austenite, a region with dissolution of both phases, followed by a region where only ferrite dissolved. The effect of applied electrochemical potential, combined with time-lapse imaging, provide a powerful tool for in-situ corrosion studies
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