14,306 research outputs found
Come to Daddy? Claiming Chris Cunningham for British Art Cinema
No full textTwenty years after he came to prominence via a series of provocative, ground-breaking music videos, Chris Cunningham remains a troubling, elusive figure within British visual culture. His output – which includes short films, advertisements, art gallery commissions, installations, music production and a touring multi-screen live performance – is relatively slim, and his seemingly slow work rate (and tendency to leave projects uncompleted or unreleased) has been a frustration for fans and commentators, particularly those who hoped he would channel his interests and talents into a full-length ‘feature’ film project. There has been a diverse critical response to his musical sensitivity, his associations with UK electronica culture – and the Warp label in particular – his working relationship with Aphex Twin, his importance within the history of the pop video and his deployment of transgressive, suggestive imagery involving mutated, traumatised or robotic bodies. However, this article makes a claim for placing Cunningham within discourses of British art cinema. It proposes that the many contradictions that define and animate Cunningham's work – narrative versus abstraction, political engagement versus surrealism, sincerity versus provocation, commerce versus experimentation, art versus craft, a ‘British’ sensibility versus a transnational one – are also those that typify a particular terrain of British film culture that falls awkwardly between populism and experimentalism
D. P. Johnston & J. M. Cunningham Subdivision of the North 300 feet of Block 22 of Bellevue Ridge, Abilene, Texas
No full textMap of D. P. Johnston and J. M. Cunningham Subdivision in the city of Abilene, Texas divided by Meander and Dallam streets. The block is divided into numbered segments showing property divisions
The effect of fracture roughness on the onset of non-linear flow, supplementary data
No full textSupplementary material for Cunningham, D., Auradou, H., Shojiei-Zaden, S., and Drazer, G. article, "The effect of fracture roughness on the onset of non-linear flow.
Curing Cholera: Pathogens, Places and Poverty in South Asia
No full textIn this paper I will seek to provide a new understanding of endemicity of disease in India. Through a study of cholera research in the twentieth century I will argue that disease and its endemicity has to be understood in biological factors as well as within a wider social and economic context. I will discuss the medical efforts at locating the causality of cholera from the nineteenth century in Indian climate, water bodies and human anatomy to show that cholera is no more a biological phenomena than water is an ecological or environmental problem. Both are essentially political and economic questions
Second floor lobby and corridors design proposal
No full textState flower, 1899 -- State bird, 1927 -- State song, 1927 -- State tree, 1939 -- State fish, 1961 -- State rock, 1965 -- State animal, 1969 -- State dance, 1977 -- State insect, 1979 -- State gem, 1987 -- State nut,1989 -- State seashell, 1991 -- State mushroom, 1999 -- State mother, 1987 -- State father, 1957 -- Sacagawea -- Chief Joseph -- Book of knowledge with owls -- Tree of knowledge -- Book of knowledge with owls (State of the art, Spring 2001)Dennis CunninghamTitle from captionThis archived document is maintained by the State Library of Oregon as part of the Oregon Documents Depository Program. It is for informational purposes and may not be suitable for legal purposesElectronic reproduction Salem, Or. State Library of Oregon 2023 Electronic reproduction from print version OrMode of access: Internet from the Oregon Government Publications CollectionText in Englis
FS Poseidon Cruises P343, 04 Oct-17 Oct 2006 and P345, 28 Nov-07 Dec 2006. RAPID-MOC Autumn 2006 Eastern Boundary moorings refurbishment cruises
No full textThis report describes the Autumn 2006 Eastern Boundary moorings refurbishment cruises for the RAPID-MOC programme Monitoring the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation at 26.5°N. Two cruises are reported here: FS Poseidon cruise P343 (4 OCT – 17 OCT) and FS Poseidon cruise P345 (28 NOV – 7 DEC). Both cruises sailed to and from Las Palmas, Gran Canaria.Six moorings were recovered during P343 and 13 deployed. Parafil failures on EB1 and EB2 (5000m long moorings located near 24°N, 24°W) during deployment necessitated immediate recovery. This led to an emergency cruise P345 to recover EB2 and to redeploy EB1 and EB2. P343 was also notable for the first deployment of seven mini-moorings consisting of a single microcat between 500m and 50m depth
Developing agent interaction protocols graphically and logically
No full textAlthough interaction protocols are often part of multi-agent infrastructures, many of the published protocols are semi-formal, vague or contain errors. Formal presentations can counter such disadvantages since they are amenable to verification of correctness. On the other hand, a diagrammatic representation of system structure is easier to comprehend. To this end, this paper bridges the gap between formal specification and intuitive development by: (1) proposing an extended form of propositional dynamic logic for expressing protocols completely, with clear semantics, that can be converted to a programming language for interaction protocols and (2) developing extended statecharts as a diagrammatic counterpart
Featuring Australia : the cinema of Charles Chauvel
No full textThis study follows the career of Charles Chauvel, one of Australia's pioneer film-makers, and the films he made between the 1920s and 1950s. Believing that Chauvel has not received the attention he deserves, the author probes the obstacles to a deeper appreciation of Chauvel's strange, ambitious and fascinating films, and the industrial and cultural environment from which they emerged. "Featuring Australia" shows that Chauvel's career and films were shaped by issues of colonialism, nationalism and internationalism, by the attractions and difficulties of independence, and by stylistic options very much alive today. "Featuring Australia" tells a story of remarkable relevance to today's film industry, showing that Chauvel's career and films are shaped by issues of colonialism, nationalism, and internationalism, by the attractions and difficulties of independence, and by stylistic options very much alive today. Students and teachers of Australian culture, history and film will welcome the book, while film-industry personnel, policy-makers and fans will find much to interest them in this informative study of one of Australia's greatest film-makers. Stuart Cunningham gained postgraduate qualifications from universities in Canada, the United States and Australia, and is presently Senior Lecturer in Communication and Cultural Studies, Queensland University of Technology. He is a well known writer on the history, products and policy of Australian film and television; he has also been a full-time policy analyst and part-time video maker and poet. He has worked on the editorial boards of several jourmals and magazines, including Cinema papers, Filmnews, Culture and policy, Metro, Continuum, and Cultural studies. This book is intended for students and researchers in cultural studies and film studies
RRS Discovery Cruises 277/278, RAPID mooring cruise report, February - March 2004
No full textThis report describes the mooring operations conducted during RRS Discovery Cruises D277 and D278. These cruises were conducted between 26 February 2004 and 30 March 2004, as part of the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) funded RAPID Programme to monitor the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation at 26.5N.Cruise D277 was from Tenerife to the Bahamas with participants from the Southampton Oceanography Centre (SOC), with cruise D278 a barter cruise also involving participants from the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science (RSMAS), University of Miami.An array of moorings were deployed across the Atlantic in order to set up a pre-operational prototype system to continuously observe the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (MOC). This array will be refined and refurbished during subsequent years.The deployed mooring array consisted of 19 moorings from the SOC, with 3 from the RSMAS. Moorings are focused at the Eastern and Western boundaries, along with a grouping at the Mid Atlantic Ridge.The instruments deployed on the array consists of a variety of current meters, bottom pressure recorders and CTD loggers which, combined with time series measurements of the Florida Channel Current and wind stress estimates, will be used to determine the strength and structure of the MOC at 26.5N
A formal framework for the semantics of agent interactions
No full textAlthough informative, the semantic definition proposed for the most standard agent communication language (FIPA ACL 1997) is complicated and contentious, while published inter-action protocols (IPs) tend to be ambiguous, incomplete, and unverified with respect to message semantics. To clarify and help rectify these problems, this paper proposes an integrated framework based on Propositional Dynamic Logic and Belief and Intention modalities (called the PDL-BI language). Specifically, we provide an axiomatisation of PDL-BI and for an agent's propositional attitudes (beliefs and intentions) and social attitudes (such as sincerity and trustworthiness). Then, we suggest a revised and simpler core semantics for many of the FIPA ACL speech acts, which, in turn, lead to the specification of the semantics of IPs. As a case study, we specify the semantics of the contract net protocol (CNP) in PDL-BI, which allows to prove that the CNP terminates
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