71 research outputs found
The "Illimitable Dominion" of Charles Dickens: Transatlantic Print Culture and the Spring of 1842
No full textThis article explores Edgar Allan Poe’s May 1842 edition of Graham’s Monthly Magazine in the context of debates about international copyright circulating in the press at the time of Charles Dickens’s famous tour of the US. I offer a reading of Poe’s short story ‘The Masque of the Red Death’, and his review of Hawthorne’s Twice-Told Tales that sees these texts as interventions in transatlantic debates at the forefront of the public imagination in the Spring of 1842. In particular, through an original close reading of ‘The Masque of the Red Death’ I demonstrate how Poe subtly drew upon penny press exposés to inform the short story’s discussion of class, status and rights of access. I also suggest that the argument Poe made in his review of Nathaniel Hawthorne about the importance of ‘invention, creation, imagination [and] originality’ to the ‘prose tale’ is usefully considered in the same context, as an American response to questions of authorship that were also raised by the popular hysteria surrounding Dickens
Parasitic hypereosinophilia in childhood: a diagnostic challenge
No full textSevere hypereosinophilia (HE) in children is rare, and its etiological diagnosis is challenging. We describe a case of a 30-month-old boy, living in a rural area, who was admitted to our Clinic with a 7-day history of fever and severe hypereosinophilia. A comprehensive diagnostic work-up could not identify the cause of this condition. On day 6, the rapidly increasing eosinophil count (maximum value of 56,000/mm3), the risk of developing hypereosinophilic syndrome, and the patient’s history prompted us to undertake an empiric treatment with albendazole.The eosinophil count progressively decreased following treatment. On day 13, clinical condition and hematological data were satisfactory, therefore the treatment was discontinued and the patient was discharged. Three months later, anti-nematode IgG antibodies were detected in patient serum, thus establishing the etiological diagnosis. In conclusion, an empiric anthelmintic treatment seems to be justified when parasitic hypereosinophilia is strongly suspected, and other causes have been excluded
Once Again to the Question of the Hordes’ Color Terms in the Ulus of Jochi (the Boz-Horde term in the sources of the 16th–19th centuries) »
No full textArticle discusses the features of using the term of Boz Horde in the territory of the ulus of Jochi. By involving the Turkic and Mongolian sources of the 16th–19th centuries, the author compares the term of Boz Horde with widespread color designations of Aq Horde and Kok Horde that were used in the Golden Horde. Thus, the author attempts to clarify the semantics, time, and circumstances of the emergence of this color term. Initially, there was a legend in the Dasht-i Kipchak about how Genghis Khan granted Batu and Ordu, the eldest sons of Jochi, with Aq Horde and Kok Horde symbolizing the two wings of the ulus of Jochi. According to the author, the emergence of the term of Boz Horde could be associated with the strengthening of Shibanids in the Golden Horde and the need to justify their claim to the throne of Sarai in the second half of the 14th century. Later, as a result of the Golden Horde dissolution and degradation of possessions of the heirs of this State, along with the term of “Aq Horde”, the term of “Boz Horde”, apparently, began labeling in general the khan’s yurt / horde / inheritance without specific dynastic affiliation of particular khan. On the other hand, it should be noted that the white color was not only a symbol of the White Horde precedence over the Blue Horde in the wings’ system of the “White Horde – Blue Horde”, but could also be used outside this dichotomy along with the term of the Golden Horde, as equivalent to the term “great, regal”. Thus, we can assume that the representatives of different Jochid branches could appropriate the term of Aq Horde for reasons of prestige in a changing political environment of the ulus of Jochi
A New Approach to Location Routing Problem: Capacitated Periodic Location Routing Problem with Inventory
No full textSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbHIntegration of the Facility Location Problem (FLP) and the Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) is called the Location-Routing Problem (LRP). In this study, using the real data of a food processing company, the best warehouse locations and the customers who are served by these warehouses are tried to be determined by a new mixed-integer formulation in which inventory costs and time periods within the processes are taken into consideration. The problem is called Capacitated Periodic Location Routing Problem with Inventory (CPLRPI) which can be considered a new approach in LRP literature. The objective of this problem is to minimize the total cost of the system that includes warehouse location and vehicle routing. The new mixed-integer formulation is solved using GAMS, but an optimal solution cannot be obtained due to the size and complexity of the problem. Therefore, the problem is solved by Simulated Annealing (SA) meta-heuristic in Matlab. The parameter combination of the SA is generated by an orthogonal array. © 2021, The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG
A Legacy Unrivaled: The Story of John Gagliardi
No full textJohn Gagliardi, who served as the head football coach at Saint John’s University from 1953 to 2012, won more football games than any coach at any level of collegiate ball. His innovative and unconventional approach to coaching— including not allowing tackling during practices— not only helped the team win nearly five hundred games and four national championships, but placed Gagliardi as an inspiring leader, mentor, and father figure to hundreds of student- athletes over his sixty years as a head coach. Gagliardi continues this role as teacher and mentor through his “Theory of Coaching Football” course at Saint John’s, which is one of the most popular classes on campus every year.
A Legacy Unrivaled explores the man, his football philosophy, his life lessons, his sense of humor, and his connections to others through a very personal journey by author and former player Boz Bostrom. Including recollections from former Johnnies, the book offers a firsthand look at how Gagliardi’s high expectations for his students and his focus on making the person rather than the player made him so successful on the gridiron.https://digitalcommons.csbsju.edu/acct_books/1001/thumbnail.jp
RETHINKING ETHNICITY
No full textAuthor: Richard JENKINS,Etnisiteyi Yeniden Düşünmek (Rethinking Ethnicity),Erdoğan BOZ (trans. by),Ankara: Koyusiyah Yayıncılık,2022, 264 p.ISBN: 978-605-69807-9-
Dickens in Byron's Chair:Authenticity, Author Portraits, and Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture
No full textThis essay begins with the illustration to 'Public Dinners', by George Cruikshank, from Charles Dickens's Sketches by Boz (1836). It uses this image to argue that early nineteenth-century visual Byronism, together with the Cruikshanks and Pierce Egan in Life in London (1820-1), provided successful examples of a visual iconography of authorship and the creation of a public persona which the young Dickens drew upon to create his own, and which raised questions about authenticity which are pertinent to Sketches by Boz. I demonstrate that Dickens’s own authorial strategies have their antecedents in imagery drawn from popular canonical and non-canonical texts of the early nineteenth-century. My aim is to show the continuities and the contrasts between early and later 19th-century representations of celebrity authorship, with a particular focus on the writer's body and the writer's chair.© 2018, Cambridge University Press. This is an author produced version of a paper published in Victorian Literature and Culture uploaded in accordance with the publisher’s self- archiving policy. The final published version (version of record) is available online at the link below. Some minor differences between this version and the final published version may remain. We suggest you refer to the final published version should you wish to cite from it
The Rise and Fall of the Caucasian Race: A Political History of Racial Identity
No full textAuthor: Bruce BAUMKafkas Irkının Yükselişi ve Düşüşü: Irksal Kimliğin Siyasal Tarihi (The Rise and Fall of the Caucasian Race: A Political History of Racial Identity)Erdoğan Boz (trans. by.)Ankara: Koyusiyah Yayıncılık2023, 389 p.ISBN: 978-605-72906-3-
Optimizing logistics efficiency: an integrated approach to joint zone picking, order batching, and vehicle routing with time windows: Optimizing logistics efficiency: an integrated approach to joint zone picking, order..: E. Boz et al.
No full textThis paper presents optimized solutions for the Integrated Joint Zone Picking-Order Batching and Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Window (ZPOBVRPTW). The ZPOBVRPTW combines three distinct optimization problems: the Order Batching Problem (OBP), the Zone Picking Problem (ZPP), and Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows (VRPTW). The NP-hard nature of these problems and the need for enhanced customer service levels within and outside Warehouses (WAs) have created a lack of optimization methods that effectively integrate the ZPP, OBP, and VRPTW. This paper addresses practical challenges that have not been extensively explored in previous research on the ZPOBVRPTW. The main objective is to minimize delay costs and travel distance, optimizing customer reach and improving the overall efficiency of WAs. Therefore, small and medium instances are solved by developing a new Mixed Integer Linear Programming (MILP). For large instances, two metaheuristics were proposed which are a Genetic Algorithm (GA) and a Weighted Superposition Attraction (WSA) algorithm. The proposed solution methods for the ZPOBVRPTW were evaluated using experiments in four zoning scenarios of a single-block WA. The computational results showed that the algorithms successfully solved the ZPOBVRPTW. The optimal solutions were obtained in a relatively short time by GA, WAS, and CPLEX Solver. Nonetheless, for medium and large-scale datasets (instances), GA (27 faster) outperforms WSA. This research fills gaps in the literature and by advancing the management practices of WAs provides a solution that integrates the different problems that comprise the ZPOBVRPTW. © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature 2024
Clustering faces of comic characters: An experimental investigation
No full textFace clustering is a subfield of computer vision and pattern recognition with many applications such as face recognition and surveillance. Accurate clustering of faces can also help us to create labeled datasets. However, in the domain of comics, face clustering is not well studied. Therefore, it is uncertain which methods of feature extraction and clustering perform well on faces of comic characters. In this paper, we investigate the effectiveness of comic face clustering. To conduct our investigation, we implement two pipelines: one that automatically extracts character faces from comic strips, and another that clusters the extracted faces. Using Dilbert Comics for our experiments, we examine the performance of various feature extraction and clustering methods. Additionally, we experiment with combining feature extraction methods and removing noisy samples to increase the clustering accuracy. We show that using color information is crucial for accurate clustering, and combining color with shape features further improves accuracy. However, our experiments indicate that accuracy improvement is not guaranteed for every combination of feature extraction methods. We also demonstrate that removing noisy samples using hierarchical clustering can increase clustering precision. Using our findings, we achieve an F1 score of 0.752 based on our Dilbert Comics dataset of 77,768 face images. We obtain this result by clustering 20,988 non-noisy face images into 35 clusters with a precision of 0.886.CSE3000 Research ProjectComputer Science and Engineerin
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