322 research outputs found
The Life and Music of Emahoy Tsege-Mariam Gebru
No full text358 pagesSupplemental file(s) description: "Quo Vadis," by Emahoy Tsege-Mariam Gebru, performed by the author, 2024, "Quo Vadis," by Emahoy Tsege-Mariam Gebru, performed by the author, 2022, "Quo Vadis," by Emahoy Tsege-Mariam Gebru, performed by the author, 2021, "Grande Valzer Improvisata," by Emahoy Tsege-Mariam Gebru, performed by the author, 2023.Emahoy Tsege-Mariam Gebru (1923-2023) was an Ethiopian composer, pianist, and nun. Despite international acclaim, a devoted cult following, and widespread media influence and coverage, the absence of critical discourse about Emahoy Tsege-Mariam has maintained about her an aura of exotic mystery. In redress, this dissertation establishes a critical (and culturally contextualized) biography, stages a stylistic analysis, discusses challenges of musical interpretation, and catalogs her output. Drawing from a wide range of archival, historical, and music-theoretical sources, as well as interviews and practical fieldwork, this comprehensive study reconfigures Emahoy Tsege-Mariam as a cosmopolitan, modernist, and concretely historical figure, out of the realm of legend
Performing 'The Tragedy of Mariam' and Constructing Stage History
No full textSince the rediscovery of Elizabeth Cary’s drama, The Tragedy of Mariam, the play and its author have generated a veritable critical industry. Yet little has been written about performance, a lacuna explained by a reluctance to think about Mariam as a theatrical creation. This article challenges the current consensus by arguing for the play’s theatrical imprint and by analysing two 2013 performances – a site-specific production at Cary’s birthplace, and a production by the Lazarus Theatre Company. Throughout, Mariam is engaged with in terms of casting, costume, lighting, set and movement, issues that have mostly been bypassed in Cary studies. This article is 7084 words
Experiencing the armed struggle : the Soweto generation and after
No full textIncludes bibliographical references (p. 354-369).This study explores the experiences of the rank-and-file soldiers of Umkhonto we Sizwe and the Azanian People's Liberation Anny. Extensive interviews by the author and other researchers reveal the voices of the soldiers themselves. The African National Congress and Pan African Congress archives at the University of the Western Cape and the University of Fort Hare supplement and verify these oral testimonies, as do some published sources. Most previously published materials about the armed struggle against apartheid have already focused on diplomacy, strategy and tactics, operations, leadership, and human rights abuses to the neglect of the soldiers' actual experiences. This study complements these with significant new oral history materials from the Soweto generation of soldiers and their successors. When dealing with MK, many authors have documented issues of the camp structure in Angola, and operations inside South Africa, so much of this detail is only addressed briefly, leaving space to explore the soldiers' experiences. In the case of APLA, very little has been written on its history, and more detail is provided on these subjects. This study therefore deals with the soldiers' politicisation and motivation for joining the armed struggle, their experiences in leaving South Africa and training in exile, the crises in exile which limited their effectiveness for a time, their return to fight in South Africa, and their difficulties in the "new" South Africa. These materials reveal that vast problems remain facing these veterans of the struggle against apartheid, and that they have the potential, if properly supported and employed, to contribute substantially to the development of present day South Africa. Conversely, if their neglect continues, they also have the potential to bring vast harm to the country. Further use of the investigative tools of oral history, especially if extended to the former soldiers' vernacular languages, is necessary to augment the history of South Africa, and these soldiers' contributions
Early Modern Women Theatre Makers. Performing The Tragedy of Mariam and Constructing Stage History
No full textSince the rediscovery of Elizabeth Cary’s drama, The Tragedy of Mariam, the play and its author have generated a veritable critical industry. Yet little has been written about performance, a lacuna explained by a reluctance to think about Mariam as a theatrical creation. This article challenges the current consensus by arguing for the play’s theatrical imprint and by analysing two 2013 performances — a site-specific production at Cary’s birthplace, and a production by the Lazarus Theatre Company. Throughout, Mariam engages with casting, costume, lighting, set, and movement, issues that have mostly been bypassed in Cary studies
Intégration d'un agent conversationnel dans un robot d'assistance sociale
No full textEn raison notamment d'une augmentation de la durée de vie moyenne, la population mondiale vieillit. D'ici à 2050, le nombre de personnes âgées, de 60 ans et plus, passera à 2 milliards contre 900 millions en 2015. Une proportion croissante de personnes âgées ont des symptômes dépressifs et sont isolés socialement.
Les efforts s'intensifient pour contrer l'isolement. Les agents conversationnels, communément appelés Chatbots, prouvent de plus en plus leur utilité pour réduire l'isolement social des personnes de tout âge. Cependant, les études réalisées auprès des personnes âgées ont ciblé, essentiellement, celles qui ont de l'aisance avec les technologies de l'information et de la communication. En effet, l'acceptabilité des agents conversationnels auprès des aînées est limitée. Ceci est dû à diverses contraintes, y compris la langue et les moyens de communication utilisés. De plus, une distance mentale se crée à cause de l'interaction avec une machine qui n'a pas conscience de son environnement. Ainsi, il serait pertinent d'étendre la portée des personnes bénéficiaires des agents conversationnels en simplifiant et en enrichissant ces interactions. Par ailleurs, il a été monté que les agents conversationnels incarnés sur des robots sont plus efficaces que les agents conversationnels, en version Web ou en application sur téléphone, en permettant de réduire la distance mentale. La littérature est plutôt riche dans le domaine des agents conversationnels, mais pauvre dans le domaine des robots intégrant des agents conversationnels dédiés aux aînées.
Dans ce mémoire, nous proposons d'implémenter un agent conversationnel sur un robot équipé de capteurs audios et visuels avancés. L'objectif est de créer des interactions engageantes avec les personnes âgées pour diminuer leur sentiment d'isolement social. Pour ce faire, le modèle GPT3.5 Turbo de OpenAI est intégré au robot de table T-Top. Le but de cette implémentation est triple: simplifier la communication avec l'aîné en privilégiant sur la parole plutôt que sur l'écriture; ajouter d'autres formes de communication non verbale comme les expressions faciales et le mouvement de la tête du robot; enrichir cette interaction en ajoutant la reconnaissance des objets de l'environnement pour orienter la conversation afin d'améliorer l'expérience de l'utilisateur.
Menées avec 18 adultes de la population générale dans des environnements de la vie courante, les expérimentations visent à observer la robustesse et la fiabilité du système dans des environnements naturels, en vérifiant la capacité du robot à engager des conversations ouvertes de manière cohérente et réactive.
Elles permettent de valider le fonctionnement de la gestion du dialogue et de l'intégration de GPT3.5 Turbo sur T-Top, y compris la reconnaissance des objets et leur intégration dans les conversations, la fluidité des interactions et la compréhension repérage des indices conversationnels non verbaux.
Les résultats suggèrent que T-Top comme robot conversationnel est utilisable pour mener à bien des expérimentations visant à étudier l'isolement social et la solitude auprès des personnes âgées, comme le confirme des essais préliminaires.
Ce projet ouvre la porte à une panoplie d'avenues de recherche sur les robots conversationnels d'assistance sociale
The tragedy of Mariam, the fair queen of Jewry
No full textThe Tragedy of Mariam (1613) is the first original play by a woman to be published in England, and its author is the first English woman writer to be memorialized in a biography, which is included with this edition of the play. Mariam is a distinctive example of Renaissance drama that serves the desire of today's readers and scholars to know not merely how women were represented in the early modern period but also how they themselves perceived their own condition.With this textually emended and fully annotated edition, the play will now be accessible to all readers. The accompanying biography of Cary further enriches our knowledge of both domestic and religious conflicts in the seventeenth century
Tagging of Biomedical Articles on CiteULike: A Comparison of User, Author and Professional Indexing
No full textThis paper examines the context of online indexing from the viewpoint of three different groups: users, authors, and professional indexers. User tags, author keywords and descriptors were collected from academic journal articles, which were both indexed in Pubmed and tagged on CiteULike, and analysed. Descriptive statistics, informetric measures, and thesaural term comparison shows that there are important differences in the use of keywords between the three groups in addition to similarities which can be used to enhance support for search and browse. While tags and author keywords were found that matched descriptors exactly, other terms which did not match but provided important expansion to the indexing lexicon were found. These additional terms could be used to enhance support for searching and browsing in article databases as well as to provide invaluable data for entry vocabulary and emergent terminology for regular updates to indexing systems. Additionally, the study suggests that tags support organisation by association to task, projects and subject while making important connections to traditional systems which classify into subject categories
The Genre Poetics of Mariam Petrosyan's Novel "The House, that..."
No full textAnna Kļimjuka Mariamas Petrosjanas romāna "Māja, kurā..." žanra poētika: maģistra darbs. – Rīga, 2016. - 76 lpp. Šīs pētījums ir veltīts mūsdienu Marjamas Petrosjanas romāna “Māja, kurā…” žanra poēti-kai. Pētijuma mērķis ir identificēt mūsdienu romāna nozīmes un uzbūves pamatprincipus gan literārā žanra ietvaros, gan Marjamas Petrosjanas literārajā darbā. Darbs ir sadalīts četrās daļās. Pirmajā daļā ir iezīmētie galvenie teorijas un praktikas jautā-jumi par romāna žanra kanonisko izpratni; otrajā, trešajā un ceturtajā daļās – saskaņā ar izvirzītiem mērķim tiek identificētas un parādītas mūsdienu romāna transformācijas iezīmes, romāna kinematografitātes, kā arī postfeminsma probēmas atspoguļojums mūsdienu literārajā romāna žanrā kopumā, kā arī Marjamas Petrosjanas mākslinieciskājā jaunradē “Māja, kurā…”. Darbs ir ieteicams filoloģijas studentiem, literatūrzinātniekim, kā arī plašam cilvēku lokam, kuri interesējas par mūsdienu romāna transformācijas iezīmem un Marjamas Petrosjanas kopumā. ATSLĒGVĀRDI Modernais romāns, kino proza, literārā montāža, audiovizuālizāte, postfeminisms, lasītājs līdzautors.Anna Kļimjuka The Genre Poetics of Mariam Petrosyan's Novel " The House, that...": Master Thesis. - Rīga, 2016. – 76. p. Research is devoted to the study of the poetics of the modern Mariam Petrosyans novel "The house in which ...". The research goal is to identificate the basic principles of meaning and the construction of the modern novel as an example work of Mariam Petrosyan. The work is divided into four parts. The first part outlines the main theoretical and practical issues of relevance of the canonical understanding of the genre of the novel genre itself, as well as issues relating to the understanding of the novel of Marjam Petrosyan, the second, third and fourth parts of the thesis, in accordance with the tasks, offers the overview of the cinematic prose and postfemenism influence in developing the modern novel genre. The work is recommended for students of philology, literary critics, literature researchers, as well as a wide range of people interested in the development and transformation of the mod-ern genre of the novel, in particular work of Mariam Petrosyan "The house in which ...". KEYWORDS The modern novel, cinematic prose, literal installation, audiovisualisation, postfeminism, reader co-author
IBPP Research Associates: Uganda
No full textThe article discussed - Love asks why, it is conditional, by Mariam Nakisekka - was posted on the June 13, 2003 issue of The Monitor (Uganda). Copyright permissions for the article were not available, and it is not provided in Scholarly Commons for download.
The author considers the concept of unconditional love, ultimately concluding that it is a fantasy not available from others or offerable by oneself
Between belief and knowing
No full textBetween Belief and Knowing is a 30-something black woman’s exploration of the intersections of faith, family, and feminism in her own life and a meditation on black female sexuality within the culture of the southern black church. I attempt to answer the questions, “Can black women love God and sex?” and “When is a black woman’s body ever her own?” At the age of twenty-eight, I walked away from a relationship with the man I believe to have been the love of my life because of my commitment to a belief system I later finds many flaws in. The personal responsibility I feel, however, developed within a larger historical and socio-cultural context. By contextualizing my lived experience, this memoir shows how history and culture trickle down to affect black women in very personal and intimate ways.M.F.A.by Mariam William
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