160 research outputs found
The 'auto cannibal'
No full textThe relentless triumph of technology is increasingly dismissive of the human desire for interaction; we are deprived of experiences with the ordinary and become less aware of the potential such objects contain. The author primarily considers art as a means of understanding the world and his practice is based on personal observations and autonomous processes. This can often lead to an over-analysis of the mundane, which is directly confronted in each of my projects through an enthusiasm for the objects we not only take for granted, but do so to the extent that we barely notice their existence. Drawing inspiration from literature, philosophy and ideas which surround permanence in a society which is frequently considered throwaway, the author is influenced by personal insecurities and have developed a creative style that not only explores construction - in the obsessive means by which a work is made; but also one that celebrates the process of destruction - in that the materials the author uses have the potential to instigate their own demise in a process I generally refer to as autocannibalism
Cloning and characterization of a DNA damage-inducible gene from Arabidopsis thaliana
No full textThesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Biology, 1996.Includes bibliographical references.by Kathleen N. Smith.Ph.D
The role of rhizobium meliloti exopolysaccharide in nodulation of alfalfa
No full textThesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Biology, 1987.Includes bibliographies.by Shoshana Klein.Ph.D
Development of a genetic system in Rhizobium meliloti.
No full textThesis. 1977. Ph.D.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Biology.MICROFICHE COPY AVAILABLE IN ARCHIVES AND SCIENCE.Includes bibliographical references.Ph.D
Jon Fosse: The Singer and Signer of Existential Blues
No full textThe year twenty-twenty-three has been a baccate year for Jon Olav Fosse, a Norwegian author, dramaturge, and translator. It is the year in which he has bagged the Nobel prize in literature “for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable” (indianexpress.com). His literary realm provokes the mysticism of mundane life, discerning the essence of life, love, loss, logic, and light with the volition of opening a new horizon for the betterment of the coevals and the coming generations. His literary world offers such a spellbinding phenomenon where there is a prominent colouration of the philosophical inquiries of existentialism—that chiefly deals with human beings\u27 existence and essence—especially of existential blues to which this paper proffers to probe exploring, analyzing, and discussing the available material on e-media. This paper attempts to answer the question of whether Jon Fosse is the singer and signer of Existential Blues, or not. To answer this question, existential themes, thoughts, and theories of the great existentialists will be presented as touchstone as possible, and they will help in exploring, analyzing, and discussing the available contents on Fosse’s existential blues on e-media
The Crisis of the Midlist Author in American Book Publishing
No full textOn apprendra ici comment un syndicat aide les auteurs obscurs, ceux qui se trouvent «au milieu» du catalogue d'un éditeur, et qui sont les plus nombreux, à protéger leurs œuvres et leurs revenus. C'est lors de la signature de leur contrat qu'ils doivent comprendre les enjeux et limiter l'arbitraire des éditeurs, des grosses maisons surtout ; mais le but recherché est de signer des accords généraux sur quelques principes avec les éditeurs, comme l'ont fait les Britanniques.Mattera Philip. The Crisis of the Midlist Author in American Book Publishing. In: Revue Française d'Etudes Américaines, N°78, octobre 1998. L'édition américaine en mouvement. pp. 38-47
Beat Signer
No full textMultimodal interfaces have shown to be ideal candidates for interactive systems that adapt to a user either automatically or based on user-defined rules. However, user-based adaptation demands for the corresponding advanced software architec-tures and algorithms. We present a novel multimodal fusion algorithm for the development of adaptive interactive systems which is based on hidden Markov models (HMM). In order to select relevant modalities at the semantic level, the algorithm is linked to temporal relationship properties. The presented algorithm has been evaluated in three use cases from which we were able to identify the main challenges involved in de-veloping adaptive multimodal interfaces. Author Keywords Multimodal interaction, multimodal fusion, HMM-base
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