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Michael Fried and beholding video art
Full text linkIn this paper, I consider Michael Fried’s recent contribution to the debate around the experience of video art, made in relation to the work of Douglas Gordon. Fried speculates that issues of antitheatricality may in fact be key to specifying the medium of video installation. While Fried’s position offers a useful way of framing the relation with the beholder in video art, in a way that pointedly moves beyond tautological notions of activating spectatorship, I question how theatricality is to be thus defined. Referencing the beholding of painting, I distinguish the implicit beholder from the literal spectator, and claim that the distinction has relevance for video art. However, I welcome what seems to be an explicit acknowledgment from Fried that the position of the spectator is a contributory factor in what he terms empathic projection. I argue that video art as a spatial practice offers a distinct mode of reception by positioning the spectator in relation to two-dimensional figurative space to which she is excluded
John H. E. Fried Collection 1815-1995
No full textThe John H. E. Fried Collection contains legal briefs prepared by Fried as a legal consultant to the Nuremberg Tribunal. Manuscripts, legal briefs, clippings, offprints, and memoranda by Fried, Justice Robert Jackson, John J. McCloy and others, cover a range of topics including war crimes, National Socialism, international law, and human rights. The collection contains proceedings of war crimes trials, in particular those of the Nuremberg Tribunal. Also of interest are drafts and research notes by Fried for books on human rights and international justice.The following individuals are mentioned in this collection: Werner Best, Hans Biebow, Robert Bloom, Leon Blum, Carl Clauburg, J. Daniel, J. Dauticourt, L. de Jong, Adolf Eichmann, Ernst von Falkenhausen, James W. Garner, Hans Globke, Rudolf Hess, Robert M. Jackson, Herbert Kappler, Hans Kelsen, Albert Kesselring, Ilse Koch, Jacque Lambert, Heinrich Luebke, von Manstein, Jean Pierre Maunoir, John J. McCloy, Frank Mecklenburg, Leonhard Mosley, C. A. Pompre, Walter Reder, Hermann Roechling, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Walter Schreiber, Fritz Schubert, Courtney Whitney, Simon Wiesenthal, Kurt Wolff, and Quincy Wright.Born in Vienna in 1905, John H. E. Fried was a lawyer and political scientist. He emigrated to the United States in 1938, and received his doctorate at Columbia University in 1942. He served as a special consultant to the U.S. War Crimes Tribunal at Nuremberg from 1947 to 1949, and afterwards as a professor of political science at Lehman College of the City University of New York and with the human rights and technical assistance divisions of the United Nations. He died in New York in 1990.digitize
Simulation and numerical analysis of dendritic growth
No full textDendritic growth is a nonlinear process, which falls into the category of self-organizing pattern formation phenomena. It is of great practical importance, since it appears frequently and, in the case of alloys, affects the engineering properties of the resulting solid.
In the first part of this article we report on an analysis of spatially semi-discrete approximations to the Stefan problem for two-dimensional, pure dendrites. A priori error estimates for the temperature field, the parametrization of the free boundary, relevant geometric and measuring quantities are presented and discussed.
The second part describes a new algorithm for the two--dimensional Stefan problem. Here the free boundary is represented as a level set. This allows to handle topological changes of the free boundary. The accuracy of the method is verified and various numerical simulations, including topological changes of the free boundary, are presented
Transformations of Boolean Functions
Full text linkBoolean functions are characterized by the unique structure of their solution space. Some properties of the solution space, such as the possible existence of a solution, are well sought after but difficult to obtain. To better reason about such properties, we define transformations as functions that change one Boolean function to another while maintaining some properties of the solution space. We explore transformations of Boolean functions, compactly described as Boolean formulas, where the property is to maintain is the number of solutions in the solution spaces. We first discuss general characteristics of such transformations. Next, we reason about the computational complexity of transforming one Boolean formula to another. Finally, we demonstrate the versatility of transformations by extensively discussing transformations of Boolean formulas to "blocks," which are solution spaces in which the set of solutions makes a prefix of the solution space under a lexicographic order of the variables
Numerical analysis of the settlement induced damage to Palazzo Loggia in Brescia.
No full textone of the main causes of failure of historic buildings is represented by the differential settlements of foundations. Finite element analysis provides a useful tool for predicting the consequences of given ground displacements in terms of structural damage and also assesses the need of strengthening techniques. The actual damage classification for buildings subject to settlement bases the assessment of the potential damage on the expected crack pattern of the structure. In this paper, the correlation between the physical description of the damage in terms of crack width and the interpretation of the finite element analysis output is analyzed. Different discrete and continuum crack models are applied to simulate an experiment carried on a scale model of a masonry historical building, the Loggia Palace in Brescia (Italy). Results are discussed and a modified version of the fixed total strain smeared crack model is evaluated in order to solve the problem related to the calculation of the exact crack width
Not fried green tomatoes but fried German potatoes: Weimar from the perspective of oral history
No full textBogdal K-M. Not fried green tomatoes but fried German potatoes: Weimar from the perspective of oral history. In: Kniesche TW, Brockmann S, eds. Dancing on the volcano : Essays on the Culture of the Weimar Republic. Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture. Columbia, SC: Camden House; 1994: 47-56
M. Joh. Fried. Rommershausens der Fürstlichen Stipendiaten zweyten Majors Vorlesungen über seinen Entwurf zu einer Einleitung in das Alte Testament
No full textM. JOH. FRIED. ROMMERSHAUSENS DER FÜRSTLICHEN STIPENDIATEN ZWEYTEN MAJORS VORLESUNGEN ÜBER SEINEN ENTWURF ZU EINER EINLEITUNG IN DAS ALTE TESTAMENT
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Fried foods, olive oil and colorectal cancer
No full textBackground: The epidemiologic evidence for an etiologic role of fried foods and heterocyclic amines in colorectal carcinogenesis is inconsistent. Patients and methods: We have investigated the relation between fried foods and colorectal cancer risk using data from a large, multicentric case-control study conducted in Italy and Switzerland between 1992 and 2000, with 1394 cases of colon cancer, 886 cases of rectal cancer and 4765 controls. Results: After allowing for major relevant covariates, the multivariate odds ratios (ORs) for an increment of one portion per week of fried foods were 0.97 [95% confidence interval (CI) = 0.93-1.01] for colon cancer and 1.04 (95% CI = 1.00-1.09) for rectal cancer. When we analyzed the type of fats mainly used for frying, we found that olive oil, but not other types of oils, appeared to protect from colon cancer risk (OR = 0.89, 95% CI = 0.82-0.98). Conclusions: Our results do not indicate a relevant role of fried foods on colorectal cancer risk. We found a possible favorable effect of (fried) olive oil on colon cancer risk but not on rectal cancer risk
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