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The pedagogical ideas of Aleksander Groza. A serries of Alphabet Books
No full textAleksander Groza was the author of a series of three alphabet books: The greater alphabet book, The lesser alphabet book and The little alphabet book. This series was created in the Ukraine in 1860. Aleksander Groza was, first of all, a writer and poet, a representative of the so-called “Ukrainian school” in Polish literature, a nobleman and a representative of the middle-class gentry. The aim of the article is to characterize the alphabet books both in terms of structure and content. I will be interested in the values that Aleksander Groza intended to foster in his students, as well as how his ideas presented themselves against the epoch
Crop classification
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Conţiu, Ştefan, and Adrian Groza. "Improving remote sensing crop classification by argumentation-based conflict resolution in ensemble learning." Expert Systems with Applications 64 (2016): 269-286
The defeat of the Anthropocene The social and environmental agencies in the literature of Philip K. Dick, Frank Herbert and Ayn Rand
No full textThe dissertation focuses on the speculative science fiction genre in order to put into a thematic and ideological discourse three authors, Philip K. Dick (1928-1982), Ayn Rand (1905-1982) and Frank Herbert (1920-1986). In spite of the fact that they were active largely during the same period, their literary works, philosophy and approach to their craft tends to be varied; they coincide in some cases and heavily diverge in others. They witnessed the events of World War Two, although at slightly different ages, lived through the paranoid and fear-inducing climate of the Cold War and contemplated the socio-political spheres of their historical period. In their writings, they reflected on various themes that would later become important academic points of analysis. However, my dissertation is not about how they might be perceived as prophetic or avant-garde, although they certainly problematized various subject matters ahead of their time. The discourse I want to establish is not based on what the intertextuality tells us today, but rather focus on the motives that made them write on those thematic nodes in the ‘60 and ’70.
My work is divided into two main sections. The first focuses on the analysis of the dystopian elements, the representation of the socio-political and economic themes depicted by the three authors in the respective fictional realities of their literary works. The second part is concerned with the ecological and ecocritical viewpoints that the novels present. The ecocritical perspective intertwines with the dystopian part because of how it problematizes the social and political aspects related to the environmental issues.
The quintessential leitmotifs that dominate Philip K. Dick’s fictional worlds are the usage of drugs, theological and ontological contemplation and the falsehood of reality. These three themes intertwine and permeate constantly within his world building, characters and plots. In his critique, he reflected on politics, economics and mass media, or technology more in general. Dick creates a divide between the lower and upper echelons of society, usually based on financial status; the resulting political system, in similar cases, always results into some form or other of authoritarianism. His texts, as such, veil a certain sense of discontent towards a manipulative form of government, which in most cases is either revealed to be corrupt or is just openly unjust. This overwhelming sense of dissatisfaction, which in the best of cases can be forgotten by the fictional characters through the use of drugs, also derives from the awareness of the futility of trying to change or fight the system.
Dune, Frank Herbert’s magnum opus, on the other hand lends itself to an analysis of complex environmental, economic and political ecosystems. The saga is, for all intents and purposes, an ecological novel; it takes into account the phenomena that shape an entire ecosphere, from the macroscopic level to the global scale. These aspects however are not isolated, but intertwine with the socio-political dimensions of the fictional characters living, not only on the desert planet where most of the plot events take place, but in the entire galaxy as well. Herbert achieves this by creating a delicate equilibrium based on the economy of melange, a spice extracted from the planet of Dune and the only resource that enables space travel. As soon as a despot radically changes this status quo, then all of the previously established socio-political equilibriums crumble. Ultimately, Herbert uses his protagonists, heroes-become-tyrants, to create a cautionary message about the dangers correlated with the cult of personality, its prophets and its heroes. His critique points not only towards the fallacy of the hero and the prophet, but towards the fallacy of those who blindly follow them just as easily.
Finally, the misuse of power in a seemingly totalitarian regime, as well as the concept of blindly following a leader, is also taken into account by Ayn Rand. In Anthem, this is achieved by reverting society to a primitive form where political agents use the oblivion accompanying said regression to take control over the entire population. It is up to the protagonist to understand that he in fact can detach himself from these political machinations through the use of his own reason. Individuality and critical thinking, as such, become quintessential in Rand’s critique. In Atlas Shrugged it is a particular form of greedy capitalism that puts into motion the entirety of the plot. In this case, it is once again through reason and detachment from the social imposed behaviour that the protagonists are able to fight back. Furthermore, in Atlas Shrugged, the solution reached by the ‘men of the mind’ is to simply go on strike and let the technological infrastructure crumble. Ultimately, Rand creates a severe brain drain, where the intellectual human capital has detached itself from the social reality, and by doing so, reclaimed its right to be treated justly.
In all of these cases, it is only because of the potential of speculative science fiction that it becomes possible to trace a link between the fictional and the real world. Through a process of estrangement, the reader experiences both displacement and recognition simultaneously; this is achieved because of a dialectical interaction between a familiar dimension and an alienating one, fundamental mechanism in the narratological construction of the science fiction genre.
Philip K. Dick saw, more than most of his generation, not only the shifts in civilization, but the complex interactions between economics, politics and technology within the social connective tissue. His texts may be considered somewhat pessimistic, or at the very least cynical or nihilistic, but it is important where does this general point of view originates. There is a certain fear, similar to an anxious form of dread, in the visions of not only Philip K. Dick, but Frank Herbert and Ayn Rand as well (although admittedly in a diminished degree). In part this attitude of bleak uncertainly towards the future is routed deeply into their socio-political and historical dimension, but goes beyond that. The grim and pessimist outlook towards the future is not because of society as a whole, but rather because of how it can be manipulated; their fear regards the abuse of power and, to a degree, how technology can facilitate this.
The three authors end up creating fictional worlds where the main antagonizing element is the oppression perpetuated by a socio-political hierarchy. Their protagonists end up either needing (or even having to realize the need in the first place) to react against the repressive conditions they face. Given how these novels start or build up from a situation of utter discontent and, in many cases, the ending does not necessarily provide a resolution to their situation, or a positive outcome altogether, the guiding leitmotif that has been emphasised through my analysis is the theme of defeat. Ayn Rand, Frank Herbert and Philip K. Dick ultimately faced the nature of late capitalism and, through their texts, it is possible to perceive a certain sense of uneasiness when confronted with the what if scenarios that stem from it. If this is a reflection of their perception of their own society, and if it is possibly a line of reasoning that is still ongoing, then I would argue that it is worth revisiting the literary examples that touched on it. For this reason the Ayn Rand, Frank Herbert and Philip K. Dick have been chosen for my investigation
A Novel Decision Tree Approach for the Handling of Time Series
No full textTime series play a major role in many analysis tasks. As an example, in the stock market, they can be used to model price histories and to make predictions about future trends. Sometimes, information contained in a time series is complemented by other kinds of data, which may be encoded by static attributes, e.g., categorical or numeric ones, or by more general discrete data sequences. In this paper, we present J48SS, a novel decision tree learning algorithm capable of natively mixing static, sequential, and time series data for classification purposes. The proposed solution is based on the well-known C4.5 decision tree learner, and it relies on the concept of time series shapelets, which are generated by means of multi-objective evolutionary computation techniques and, differently from most previous approaches, are not required to be part of the training set. We evaluate the algorithm against a set of well-known UCR time series datasets, and we show that it provides better classification performances with respect to previous approaches based on decision trees, while generating highly interpretable models and effectively reducing the data preparation effort
The rights of asylum seekers and refugees in the context of the European Convention on Human Rights
No full textDarbu izstrādāja Latvijas Universitātes Juridiskās fakultātes Tiesību zinātņu bakalaura 3. kursa students Dāvids Groza. Darba tēma – “Patvēruma meklētāju un bēgļu tiesības Eiropas Cilvēktiesību konvencijas kontekstā.” Darba mērķis ir analizēt svarīgākos Eiropas Cilvēktiesību tiesas spriedumus par patvēruma meklētāju un bēgļu tiesībām un to izveidoto tiesu praksi šajā jomā kopš 2015. gada straujā patvēruma meklētāju un bēgļu skaita pieauguma Eiropā. Darbā veikta vispārēja Eiropas Cilvēktiesību konvencijas un Eiropas Cilvēktiesību tiesas izveidotās tiesu prakses apskate, kā arī jaunāko un nozīmīgāko Eiropas Cilvēktiesību tiesas spriedumu bēgļu un patvēruma meklētāju tiesību jomā apskate. Ņemot vērā atklāto informāciju, tiek veikti secinājumi.The thesis was developed by Dāvids Groza, 3rd year student of the Bachelor of Laws of the Faculty of Law of the University of Latvia. Theme: "The rights of asylum seekers and refugees in the context of the European Convention on Human Rights." The aim of the work is to analyze the most important judgments of the European Court of Human Rights on the rights of asylum seekers and refugees and their case law in this field since 2015, with the growing number of asylum seekers and refugees in Europe. A general review of the European Convention on Human Rights and the European Court of Human Rights judgments regarding the rights of refugees and asylum seekers has been carried out, as well as a review of the latest and most important judgments of the European Court of Human Rights in the field of refugee and asylum seeker rights. Taking into account the information found, conclusions are drawn
SolarXchange
No full textThis project supports the publication: Julia M. Groza, Seyyed Ali Sadat, Koami S. Hayibo, Joshua M. Pearce, Using a ledger to facilitate autonomous peer-to-peer virtual net metering of solar photovoltaic distributed generation, Solar Energy Advances, 4,2024,100064, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.seja.2024.100064.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S266711312400014
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
SolarXchange
No full textThis project supports the publication: Julia M. Groza, Seyyed Ali Sadat, Koami S. Hayibo, Joshua M. Pearce, Using a ledger to facilitate autonomous peer-to-peer virtual net metering of solar photovoltaic distributed generation, Solar Energy Advances, 4,2024,100064, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.seja.2024.100064.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S266711312400014
Ukraine And Polish-Ukrainian Relations In The Works of Aleksander Groza (1807–1875) Based on the Example of Starosta Kaniowski
No full textAleksander Karol Groza (1807–1875) był jednym z pomniejszych twórców tzw. „szkoły ukraińskiej” w poezji polskiej. Inspirując się rodzimym folklorem i eksplorując najbliższe miejscu zamieszkania tereny – zgodnie z zaleceniem swojego przyjaciela i mistrza, Michała Grabowskiego – Groza stworzył zarówno sugestywne i krwawe powieści poetyckie z silnie zarysowaną postacią Kozaka (Starosta kaniowski, Hryć), jak i przepełnione malowniczym krajobrazem stepów dumy, będące często autorską „wariacją na temat” bajek ukraińskich. Mówiono, że „przyswoił sobie świat tak zwanej wiary w duchy żywiołowe (...), na wierze, czyli jak dziś mówimy, na zabobonie gminu oparte”. Najbardziej znanym tekstem poety pozostaje do dziś powieść poetycka Starosta kaniowski. W artykule analizuje się utwór pod kątem obrazu Ukrainy wyłaniającego się z tekstu, by odpowiedzieć na pytanie, jakie były Kresy Aleksandra Grozy oraz czy jego twórczość może być dowodem na to, że Ukraina polskich poetów to sztuczny, fałszywy, zmyślony konstrukt.Aleksander Karol Groza (1807–1875) was one of the minor authors of the
so-called “Ukrainian school” in Polish poetry. Inspired by native folklore and exploring
the areas closest to his place of residence – in accordance with the recommendation
of his friend and mentor, Michał Grabowski – Groza created both suggestive and bloody
poetic novels with a strongly outlined figure of a Cossack (Starosta kaniowski, Hryć), and
dumy, poems filled with a picturesque landscape of pride steppes, often offering an original
“variation on” Ukrainian fairy tales. It was argued that “he assimilated the world of the
so-called belief in elemental spirits (...), on faith, that is, as we say today, on the common
people’s superstitions”. The poet’s best-known text is still the verse novel Starosta kaniowski.
The article analyses the work in terms of the image of Ukraine emerging from the text.
What was the Ukraine of Aleksander Groza like? Can his works prove that the Ukraine
of Polish poets is an artificial, false, made-up construct, or maybe, on the contrary, the poet tried to faithfully reflect all the richness of the customs of this land and its inhabitants,
among whom he grew up
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