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Keynote: Jon Gertner
No full textThe symposium will start on the evening of April 16 with a keynote address by Jon Gertner. Jon is a journalist, historian, and feature writer for The New York Times Magazine
as well as the author of the NYTimes bestseller, The Idea Factory. His address will focus on the issue of intellectual property and the ethical questions around the huge amount of human-generated content that large language models use as they are developed
Jon Mirande eta ironia
No full textLa ironía es un elemento que ha ido siempre unido a la poesía, y especialmente a la poesía moderna.Tras un pequeño repaso a esta en diferentes épocas, se pasa a describir las tres diferentes ironías de Jon Mirande: la intelectual, la social y la filosófica. Todo ello acompañado de ejemplosIrony is an element that has always been united to poetry, and especially to modern poetry. After a small revision of irony in different eras, the author then describes the three different ironies of Jon Mirande: intellectual, social and philosophical irony. All this illustrated with example
Hyperspectral Imaging of Stained Glass
No full textSince its first applications in cultural heritage, hyperspectral imaging (HSI) has become avaluable tool for documenting and analyzing many kinds of artworks, thanks to the possibility of obtaining spectral information regarding relatively large areas in a non-invasive way. In the last decades, HSI has been successfully used to study paintings on panels, canvas and plaster, manuscripts, and photographic materials, and has allowed for successfully characterizing the distribution of pigments and colorants in the artwork under study.
The work presented in this thesis focuses on evaluating the advantages and limitations of performing HSI on stained-glass windows. Compared to the abovementioned types of artworks, prior HSI applications on stained-glass windows are very limited due to the numerous challenges related to the optical properties of the glass and external factors that can negatively impact the quality of the image acquisition. For example, since stained-glass windows are mainly transparent, a setup for spectral transmittance measurements is necessary. If the stainedglass windows are still part of a building and cannot be removed, the intensity of sunlight (used as the light source) can vary throughout the day, and the presence of vegetation or buildings in the background can affect the actual color of the glass. In addition, accessing the stained glass with the instrument could also be an issue if no support is available (e.g., scaffolding).
One of the research project’s main objectives is thus to propose new acquisition methodologies that allow for carrying out HSI of stained glass in different situations, from relatively small, detached panels, to stained-glass windows in situ. The characteristics of each setup will be thoroughly discussed to highlight advantages and limitations.
The second objective is to validate the data obtained from the proposed setups to demonstrate HSI’s capabilities in characterizing the materials used in stained glass. This validation process has been carried out from two perspectives; first, the correctness of the obtained spectra has been verified by comparing them with results from UV-VIS-NIR spectroscopy, which is extensively used for chromophore identification. Second, X-Ray fluorescence spectroscopy (XRF) has been used as a complementary analytical technique to determine the elemental composition of the glass and verify the presence of the chromophore identified by HSI.
Image analysis solutions for automatically identifying and mapping stained glass components were also explored. Besides the traditional classification methodologies, unsupervised unmixing approaches were also investigated, which showed promising results
Jon Pineda, 32nd Annual ODU Literary Festival
No full textJon Pineda is the author of The Translator\u27s Diary, winner of the Green Rose Prize for Poetry, and BIrthmark, winner of the Crab Orchard Award Series in Poetry Open Competition. His memoir, Sleep in Me, is forthcoming in 2010 from the University of Nebraska Press. He teaches in the low-residency MFA program at Queens University of Charlotte
Cool: The Social History of Jon Speck
No full textCool: The Social History of Jon Speck is an original novel exploring sexuality, perceptions of masculinity, and the search for identity in a celebrity-obsessed culture. Twenty-four, Jon lives a solitary life in New York working a job he can't respect, missing a hip college girlfriend whom he's convinced once made him whole, and failing into new love affairs with pornography, popular culture, drugs, and alcohol. The bleak situation changes when two characters re-enter his life: Greg, a drug-dealing ladies man on the run from the police; and Mac, a coke-snorting investment banker living with his rich and dysfunctional parents. When Jon loses his job and best friend in a blur of substance abuse, the three of them leave on a road trip. Across America he rediscovers old lovers, loses Greg and Mac to their own tragedies, and finally questions his values and determines what it really means to be cool.</p
Interview with Jon Baskin--May 15, 2015
No full textJon Baskin is co-founder and editor of The Point magazine in Chicago. He is also a graduate student at the University of Chicago's Committee on Social Thought and the author of many essays and works of criticism for venues such as The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Nation, n+1, The New York Observer, BookForum, Salon, and The Point. Earlier in his career he was a fact checker for various magazines, including Popular Science, Inc Magazine, The Atlantic Monthly, and n+1. The interview was conducted at the office of The Point in Chicago on May 15, 2015.1_izzia9z
Jon Sands, 41st Annual ODU Literary Festival
No full textJon Sands is the author of The New Clean (2011), as well as the co-host of The Poetry Gods podcast. His work has been published widely, and anthologized in The Best American Poetry. He’s a youth mentor with Urban Word-NYC, and teaches creative writing for adults at Bailey House in East Harlem (an HIV/AIDS service center). He’s a recent MFA graduate in fiction from Brooklyn College, where his work won the Himan Brown Award for short stories, and he has represented New York City multiple times at the National Poetry Slam. He lives in Brookly
Essay piece by Jon Hawkins on an altercation that broke out in Portland\u27s Old
No full textEssay piece by Jon Hawkins on an altercation that broke out in Portland\u27s Old Port on Dec. 31 that was characterized by police as a riot. The author, who was the disc jockey at an Old Port pub that night and witnessed the incident, claims the 12 people arrested were reacting to excessive force being used by the police department
Kepentingan Amerika Serikat dalam Proses Denuklirisasi Korea Utara. BY AUTHOR: Javira Ardiani Bima Jon Nanda Zulkifli Harza
No full textKepentingan Amerika Serikat dalam Proses Denuklirisasi Korea Utara. BY AUTHOR: Javira Ardiani Bima Jon Nanda Zulkifli Harz
In-Process Breakage Analysis of Tempered Glass Based on Fluid-Structure Interaction Approach
No full textIn recent decades, there has been a perceptible transformation in how glass is perceived, evolving from being used for its aesthetic appeal to being acknowledged for its structural capabilities. Structural glass components are most often heat treated to increase their ultimate strength. For this purpose, the tempering process is applied. In this context, air is the quintessential cooling technique employed to rapidly cool and fortify the material due to its associated low cost. Nevertheless, it may encounter certain limitations when quenching low thickness components, making other techniques, such as spray mist cooling, to gain traction. Additionally, glass is a very brittle and sensitive material to local stress concentrations. Thus, depending on how the tempering process is performed, an excessive and/or non-homogeneous cooling might result in local residual stresses, which may exceed the allowable strength and cause premature fracture of the material. To this end, a fluid-structure interaction approach is proposed to consider the local phenomena during the glass cooling process. The defined nozzle configuration is observed to play a significant role on the residual stress distribution of heat treated components. In addition, water mist cooling is able to temper thin glass but, at the same time, large tensile residual stresses might develop during the cooling down process. The obtained numerical results are in good agreement with previous experimental investigations available in the literature
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