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Object-database approach for a hypervideo platform
No full textWeb users are seizing on interactive capabilities that software suppliers have developed, and are eagerly awaiting new interactive capabilities now being demonstrated. The capabilities currently being explored include video browsing. This paper focuses on the development of a rich information environment based on a customized platform that enables hyperlinks on objects within a digital video. With the help of such an environment, the user is able to view multiple videos concurrently and browse them spatially and temporally, with the help of an object database. Specifically, the platform is expected to enable users to traverse through that object by linking, and such links have been explored. The links may connect to within a video, or multiple running videos and/or World Wide Web object. The issues such as open hypermedia link base and object database versus multiple videos are also investigated
ADAM SMITH'S OPTIMISTIC TELEOLOGICAL VIEW OF HISTORY
No full textAdam Smith's four-stage theory provides the framework for his writings on history. The fourth stage is the commercial epoch; the culmination of history in this stage is a key component in the conventional interpretation of Adam Smith as a prophet of commercialism. In two historical case studies Smith shows the capacity of commercial society to regenerate itself. This potent capacity suggests that commercial society is inevitable. At a certain point in time it also overcomes the major obstacles to its permanence. Smith's philosophy of history anticipates the end of history views of Kant and Hegel.Political Economy,
Apaq-Khoja (Afaq-Khoja, Apakh-Khoja) Mausoleum, Kashgar
No full textAba Khoja tomb in Haohan village, 5km northeast of Kashgar. This 17th century tomb is the family cemetery of the Kashgar area Islamic leader Aba Khoja (Apa Khoja).Medium resolution jpeg derived from raw digital photograph.Original file format: DCRCamera: Kodak, DCS Pro 14nx.</div
How Might Adam Smith Pay Professors Today?
No full textAdam Smith’s proposal for paying professors was intended to induce increased faculty knowledge. If students have imperfect information about what they learn, and universities can only imperfectly measure the input of faculty time in student learning, publications may be used to measure faculty knowledge. If professors’ ability to publish is positively related to their ability to produce student learning, which universities can imperfectly measure, publications may be necessary to attract more able professors. Since research signals faculty knowledge, schools that do not value publications per se could require higher publication standards and pay higher wages than schools that value only publications.
Apaq-Khoja (Afaq-Khoja, Apakh-Khoja) Mausoleum, Kashgar
No full text<div>Aba Khoja tomb in Haohan village, 5km northeast of Kashgar. This 17th century tomb is the family cemetery of the Kashgar area Islamic leader Aba Khoja (Apa Khoja).</div><div><br></div><div>Medium resolution jpeg derived from raw digital photograph.</div><div><br></div><div><div>Original file format: DCR</div><div><br></div><div>Camera: Kodak, DCS Pro 14nx.</div><div><br></div></div>
Development of Hypervideo Platform Using Object Databases
No full textWeb users are seizing on interactive capabilities that software suppliers have developed so far, and are eagerly awaiting new interactive capabilities now being demonstrated. This paper focuses the development of rich information environment based on a customized platform enabling hyperlinks on objects within a digital video. With the help of such environment, the viewer is able to view multiple videos concurrently and browse them temporally as well as spatially with the help of an object database. Specifically, the platform enables to traverse through that object by linking, and such links have been explored and created. The link may connect to within a video, or multiple running videos and/or World Wide Web object. The issues such as open hypermedia link base (static, generic or dynamic) and object database versus multiple videos are also investigated
Semantic Web Approach to Academic Program Assessment
No full textGenerally, the engineering program assessment process in line with an accreditation body involves some cyclic and tiring paperwork before any weakness is identified in the system. Additionally, the current state of such systems is that the assessment data are spread over many sub-systems, and there is no way to use them intelligently for better academic process management. It has been a desire of academic institutions to develop these processes in such a way that program management is also facilitated through an integrated system connecting all stakeholders of the program. This paper describes an electrical engineering program assessment process that has been developed and implemented using web semantics to provide intelligent services through an integrated system. The integrated system provides a value-added semantics layer where activities such as annotation, querying and reasoning can be carried out to support management. The framework is developed with a case study of a United Arab Emirates (UAE) University program assessment process to show how semantic web technologies can be used to facilitate program management
ADAM SMITH'S VIEW OF HISTORY: CONSISTENT OR PARADOXICAL?
No full textThe conventional interpretation of Adam Smith is that he is a prophet of commercialism. The liberal capitalist reading of Smith is consistent with the view that history culminates in commercial society. The first part of the article develops this optimistic interpretation of Smith's view of history. Smith implies that commercial society is the end of history because 1) it supplies the ends of nature that he identifies; 2) it is inevitable; and 3) it is permanent. The second part of the article shows that Smith has some dark moments in his writings where he seems to reject completely such teleological notions. In this more civic humanist mood he confesses that commercial society does not supply the ends of nature, nor is it inevitable, nor is it permanent. Both views exist in Smith and the commentator is forced to choose between passages in Smith's work in order to support a particular interpretation of the former's view of history.Political Economy,
Nourishing Cultures: An Interview with Farangis Nurulla-Khoja
No full textIn this interview with Terri Hron, Tajik-Québécoise composer Farangis Nurulla-Khoja describes moving from Tajikistan to study in Europe, and eventually, to live and work in Canada. She speaks of her experience composing a series of chamber ensemble works using poetry about the refugee experience. She shares her thoughts on being an immigrant composer in Quebec and Canada and the challenges and successes she has experienced. These include creating music in collaboration with oriental and occidental instrumentalists and finding inventive ways of working and notating.Dans cette entrevue avec Terri Hron, la compositrice Tadjik-Québécoise Farangis Nurulla-Khoja décrit son départ du Tadjikistan pour étudier en Europe et éventuellement pour travailler et vivre au Canada. Elle parle de la composition d’une série d’oeuvres pour ensemble basée sur des poèmes décrivant l’expérience des réfugié·e·s. Elle partage ses réflexions sur son expérience en tant que compositrice immigrante au Québec et au Canada, ainsi que sur les défis et les succès qu’elle a connus, lesquels concernent la création musicale en collaboration avec des instrumentistes orientaux et occidentaux, et la recherche de façons inventives de travailler ensemble et de noter cette musique
Thematic Indexing in Video Databases
No full textThis thesis presents a novel video database system, called tv-DbMS, which caters for complex and long videos, such as documentaries and educational videos. As compared to relatively structured format videos like news or commercial advertisements, this database system has the capacity to work with long and relatively unstructured videos, by using the thematic indexing model. Thematic indexing is a novel way to track a story in a video. A video contains many themes, which are implicitly related to each other. In order to resolve queries about particular scenes in a video, the scenes are stored hierarchically, which provides “is-a” or “have-part” relations between them. In tv-DbMS video metadata is stored in a database. This metadata is used for indexing and querying the video. In this model, metadata contains information about segments (combinations of frames) and scenes (collections of segments that represent the same content). The metadata is organized in such a way that it can be used to navigate a theme (concept or idea). Annotations describing scenes are linked in a hierarchical manner to create a story line in the video, and thematic indexing is used to develop a video catalogue. Thematic indexing support the processing of complex queries in a video database and tracking story lines. Integrating open hypermedia capabilities, providing facilities for navigation, further enhances the tv-DbMS model. The model has been tested on documentaries made for television by the Earl Mountbatten of Burma. The results show that a user can easily query for natural scenes or events. The model is also tested on an educational video namely the inaugural lecture of Prof. W. Hall. The results show how queries on abstract topics discussed in the lecture, can be handled by using thematic indexing. The database system has been designed to ensure MPEG-7, and RDF compatibility. The metadata and other information are kept in such a format that it could be easily converted as captions to Audio Video Objects (AVOs)
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