185 research outputs found
Personal performance: the resistant confessions of Bobby Baker
Get PDFAn analysis of the confessional performances of performance artist, Bobby Baker, in particular 'Box Story'
Prosodic Contours of “Buy Bobby a Puppy”.
No full textFig 5A–5D Vocal fo contour extraction, transformation, model simulation, and model synthesis output shown for two intonation patterns. (a) Original recordings recorded from author F.H.G. (male 100 Hz vocal fo). (b) A baseline vocal fo increase of 30 Hz was applied to all extracted pitch contours to match case B model mean vocal fo of 134 Hz. The pitch contours were smoothed using a 5-point moving-average. (c) Transformed pitch contours were then fed as vocal fo target contours to the model and a sequence of simulations were carried out until the output vocal fo contour matched the target contour. (d) output signal and vocal fo contour produced by LaDIVA acoustic synthesizer. (e) Simulated vocal fo contours of four different intonation patterns of producing the sentence ‘Buy Bobby a Puppy’ time warped to be the same duration in time. Bolded and underlined sections highlight stressed words. Note: model parameters were set as following for these simulations (learning rate = 0.5; feedback gain = 1). The contour convergence process can be faster or slower based on the parameters used.</p
Performing the comic side of bodily abjection: A study of twenty-first century female stand-up comedy in a multi-cultural and multi-racial Britain
Get PDFThis thesis was submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy and awarded by Brunel University.This thesis is a socio-cultural study of the development of female stand-up comedy in the first decade of the twenty-first century within a multi-racial and multi-cultural Britain. It also engages with the theory and practice of performance and asks the question: ‘In what ways can it be said that female stand-up comics perform the comic side of bodily abjection?’ This question is applied to three groups of female case-studies which include: those who came into stand-up comedy in the 1980s; second-generation transnationals who became established at the end of the twentieth century; and twenty-first century newcomers to stand-up comedy. This third group also includes the author of this thesis who uses her own embodied experience as research, and Lynne Parker whose Funny Women organization was set up in 2002 to facilitate female entry into stand-up comedy. Alongside these three groups the subject of females as audience of female stand-up comedy is also explored.
The issue of bodily abjection is explored in relation to seminal works on abjection by Julia Kristeva (1982) and Mary Douglas (1966) and regarding theories of the grotesque as posited by Mikhail Bakhtin (1984) and Mary Russo (1995). These texts are used in this thesis to argue that abjection is a significant aspect of both the context and content of contemporary female stand-up comedy and that the orifices, surfaces and processes of the body are still pertinent to twenty-first century female stand-up comedy
Leading Beautifully: How Mastery, Congruence and Purpose Create the Aesthetic of Embodied Leadership Practice
Get PDFThis paper explores the territory of leading as an embodied activity through the
lens of the aesthetic category of ‘the beautiful’. Its starting point is that
although much of the literature about effective leadership practice focuses on
leadership behaviours, little is written about the way in which those behaviours
are actually enacted. The musician, Bobby McFerrin serves as a case study for
identifying three key aspects of leading beautifully: mastery, congruence
between form and content, and purpose. These are further considered through
reference to the concept of beauty as theorised by the philosophers Plato and
Plotinus. The paper then considers how ‘leading beautifully’ might differ from
other conceptualisations of leadership and discusses the particular insight it
brings to understanding the nature of leading as a relational ph
A prediction-based curriculum analysis using the modified artificial bee colony algorithm
No full textDue to the vast amount of students' information and the need of quick retrieval, establishing databases is one of the top lists of the IT infrastructure in learning institutions. However, most of these institutions do not utilize them for knowledge discovery which can aid in informed decision-making, investigation of teaching and learning outcomes, and development of prediction models in particular. Prediction models have been utilized in almost all areas and improving the accuracy of the model is sought- after this study. Thus, the study presents a Scoutless Rule-driven binary Artificial Bee Colony (SRABC) as a searching strategy to enhance the accuracy of the prediction model for curriculum analysis. Experimental verification revealed that SRABC paired with K-Nearest Neighbor (KNN) increases the prediction accuracy from 94.14% to 97.59% than paired with Support Vector Machine (SVM) and Logistic Regression (LR). SRABC is efficient in selecting 14 out of 60 variables through majority voting scheme using the data of the BSIT students of Davao Del Norte State College (DNSC), Davao del Norte, Philippines. © 2019 International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications
Predicting Classification of Telecommunication Subscribers Based on Polytomous Logistic Regression Usage Model
No full textImplementing Randomized Salt on Round Key for Corrected Block Tiny Encryption Algorithm (XXTEA)
No full textPerformance evaluation of lightweight advanced encryption standard hardware implementation
No full textAdvanced Encryption Standard (AES) is one of the most secured encryption algorithm because of its robustness and complexity. Because of its complexity, AES has slow computation. This paper presents a Lightweight Advanced Encryption Standard (LAES) design by replacing the MixColumn transformation of the traditional AES with a 128-bit permutation to lessen its computational complexity. Implementation of hardware cryptographic encryption aims to find the best trade-off between throughput and resource utilization. The proposed design is synthesized on various Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) devices and achieves the maximum clock frequency of 480.50 MHz with the highest throughput of 6.15 Gbps when synthesized on Virtex 7 XC7VX690T. The results on other devices show a higher throughput, better performance efficiency, and lesser area utilization when compared to the existing AES hardware implementation. © BEIESP
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