270 research outputs found
Corneille, Molière et les autres. Stilometrische Analysen zu Autorschaft und Gattungszugehörigkeit im französischen Theater der Klassik
No full textThe digital age, by making large amounts of text available to us, prompts us to develop new and additional reading strategies supported by the use of computers and enabling us to deal with such amounts of text. One such "distant reading" strategy is stylometry, a method of quantitative text analysis which relies on the frequencies of certain linguistic features such as words, letters or grammatical units to statistically assess the relative similarity of texts to each other and to classify texts on this basis. This method is applied here to French drama of the seventeenth century, more precisely to the now famous "Corneille / Molière- controversy". In this controversy, some researchers claim that Pierre Corneille wrote several of the plays traditionally attributed to Molière. The methodological challenge, it is shown here, lies in the fact that categories such as authorship, genre (comedy vs. tragedy) and literary form (prose vs. verse) all have an influence on stylometric distance measures and classification. Cross-genre and cross-form authorship attribution needs to distinguish such competing signals if it is to produce reliable attribution results. This contribution describes two attempts to accomplish this, parameter optimization and feature-range selection. The contribution concludes with some more general remarks about the use of quantitative methods in a hermeneutic discipline such as literary studies
A Life Interrupted: Essays in honour of the lives and legacies of Christof Heyns
No full textThis volume of essays, A life interrupted: essays in honour of the lives and legacies of Christof Heyns, honours Christof Heyns, renowned human rights lawyer, advocate, activist and educator, but also down-to-earth family man, friend and colleague. Christof’s sudden and most untimely passing on 28 March 2021 deeply saddened those close to him but also evinced an outpouring of grief from the national and international human rights community. His passing brought a deep sense of loss, in part because, at age 62, he was fully engaged in contributing to the betterment of society and still had so much more to give. His is a life interrupted. But at the same time, looking back over the varied lives he lived, he had already left his mark in so many ways. His influences and impacts are manifold and magical. This collection not only testifies to the legacy that he has left us, but also to the ongoing efforts of many to continue building on his legacy.
This collection contains two sets of essays by family members, friends, colleagues, collaborators and students. Part A contains essays of a more reflective and personal nature, while the contributions in Part B link to the scholarly or academic themes Christof had worked on and explored, including international human rights systems, international law, the right to life, freedom of association, international humanitarian law, the impact of human rights treaties, constitutionalism and legal philosophy. However, a neat distinction between the personal and professional is not possible in respect of such a warm, generous and enthusiastic person as Christof. Most of the essays in Part A integrate some of Christof’s professional and academic achievements, while many of the essays in Part B also reflect on Christof as a person.
The editors, all based at the Faculty of Law, UP, are colleagues and friends who worked closely with Christof. Frans Viljoen succeeded Christof as Director of the Centre for Human Rights. Christof was his doctoral supervisor, mentor and research collaborator. Charles Fombad worked with Christof at ICLA, and took over as ICLA Director after Christof’s passing. Dire Tladi, an ICLA fellow, had his office just across from Christof in ICLA. As member of the International Law Commission, he shared with Christof high level engagement with the UN. While Christof served on the Human Rights Committee, his colleague Ann Skelton serves on the Committee on the Rights of the Child. Magnus Killander worked closely with Christof as co-author and co-editor. Christof was also his doctoral supervisor.
The publication date of this book is 10 January 2022, which is the date marking 63 years since Christof’s birth. The publisher is the Pretoria University Law Press (PULP), of which Christof was also a founder.PublishedThis volume of essays, A life interrupted: essays in honour of the lives and legacies of Christof Heyns, honours Christof Heyns, renowned human rights lawyer, advocate, activist and educator, but also down-to-earth family man, friend and colleague. Christof’s sudden and most untimely passing on 28 March 2021 deeply saddened those close to him but also evinced an outpouring of grief from the national and international human rights community. His passing brought a deep sense of loss, in part because, at age 62, he was fully engaged in contributing to the betterment of society and still had so much more to give. His is a life interrupted. But at the same time, looking back over the varied lives he lived, he had already left his mark in so many ways. His influences and impacts are manifold and magical. This collection not only testifies to the legacy that he has left us, but also to the ongoing efforts of many to continue building on his legacy.
This collection contains two sets of essays by family members, friends, colleagues, collaborators and students. Part A contains essays of a more reflective and personal nature, while the contributions in Part B link to the scholarly or academic themes Christof had worked on and explored, including international human rights systems, international law, the right to life, freedom of association, international humanitarian law, the impact of human rights treaties, constitutionalism and legal philosophy. However, a neat distinction between the personal and professional is not possible in respect of such a warm, generous and enthusiastic person as Christof. Most of the essays in Part A integrate some of Christof’s professional and academic achievements, while many of the essays in Part B also reflect on Christof as a person.
The editors, all based at the Faculty of Law, UP, are colleagues and friends who worked closely with Christof. Frans Viljoen succeeded Christof as Director of the Centre for Human Rights. Christof was his doctoral supervisor, mentor and research collaborator. Charles Fombad worked with Christof at ICLA, and took over as ICLA Director after Christof’s passing. Dire Tladi, an ICLA fellow, had his office just across from Christof in ICLA. As member of the International Law Commission, he shared with Christof high level engagement with the UN. While Christof served on the Human Rights Committee, his colleague Ann Skelton serves on the Committee on the Rights of the Child. Magnus Killander worked closely with Christof as co-author and co-editor. Christof was also his doctoral supervisor.
The publication date of this book is 10 January 2022, which is the date marking 63 years since Christof’s birth. The publisher is the Pretoria University Law Press (PULP), of which Christof was also a founder
Für eine computergestützte literarische Gattungsstilistik
No full textDer vorliegende Beitrag plädiert für eine computergestützte literarische Gattungsstilistik, verstanden als eine Forschungsagenda für die Literaturwissenschaften, welche
hermeneutische und quantitative Methoden verbindet. Diese Agenda wird im Zusammenhang mit einem in Vorbereitung befindlichen Forschungsprojekt zum gleichen Thema formuliert,
das in der romanistischen Literaturwissenschaft angesiedelt ist. Aus diesem Forschungsprojekt werden zwei Zwischenergebnisse berichtet: das erste betrifft die konzeptuelle Verknüpfung von Gattungstheorie und computergestützter Stilistik; das zweite
betrifft die methodische Erweiterung der Principal Component Analysis (PCA) für literaturwissenschaftliche Fragestellungen
Release- and Qualitymanagement (ITIL/CMMI) in Programs with a strong reference to the migration of legacy systems and -processes
No full textQualitativ hochwertige Softwaretechnik zu produzieren ist unerlässlich, um auf dem Markt zu bestehen und optimale Kundenzufriedenheit zu erreichen. Für diese Zielsetzung muss sich die Organisation mit Konzepten des Qualitätsmanagements und der Optimierung der eigenen Prozesse auseinandersetzen. Qualitäts- und Projektmanagement dienen als Querschnittinstanzen und Bindemechanismen zwischen den einzelnen Phasen der klassischen Softwaretechnik. Anerkannte Standards, Vorgehensweisen und qualitätsorientierte Prozesse sind gut in neu aufgesetzten Projekten anzuwenden, allerdings führt die Einführung dieser Modelle in gewachsenen Strukturen und bei der Migration von Altsystemen vielschichtigen Problematiken. Mit diesen Fragen und dem Versuch der Beantwortung auf Basis von Praxisbeispielen setzt sich diese Diplomarbeit auseinander. Im Rahmen der theoretischen State of the Art- Grundlagenarbeit werden Methoden und Vorgehensmodelle für Softwareprojektmanagement, Qualitätsmanagement und Qualitätssicherung sowie die Kernprozesse der Service-Inbetriebnahme und das Change- und Releasemanagement aus dem De-facto-Standard ITIL dargelegt. Die organisatorische und prozessuale Anpassungsfähigkeit, besonders im Release- und Changemanagement, ist dabei ein wichtiger Bestandteil. Im Rahmen der vorliegenden Arbeit werden Effektivität und Effizienz aus in der Fachliteratur beschriebenen Vorgehensmodellen in einen Praxisbezug im Projekt- und Programmmanagement gebracht und die Alltagstauglichkeit anhand praktischer Beispiele aus dem Projektalltag aufgezeigt. Dabei werden Qualitäts- und Releaseprozesse aus dem Theorieteil in der Praxis verwendeten Prozessen gegenübergestellt und Erweiterungen erarbeitet. Im Rahmen der vorliegenden Arbeit wurden diese Ansätze für Release- und Qualitätsmanagement in Projekten im Migrationsumfeld von Altsystemen beleuchtet und daraus ein erkennbarer Regelbetrieb für eine leane Planung und eine Planung bei maximal möglichem Ressourcenstand abgeleitet.To produce high quality software is essential to assert on the market and to achieve an optimum for the customer. Therefore the organization needs to deal with the concepts of quality management and the optimization of its processes. People tend to stress these terms in the theory and practice of software development, but what is behind those concepts and models for this still relatively young discipline software engineering? What do these words mean specifically broken down into the processes of release management and how does a best practice such as ITIL with its definitions fit into practicably approved processes? This piece of work will mainly treat and attempts to answer these questions on the basis of practical examples. As part of the theoretical state of the art basic research, methods and process models for software project management, quality management and quality assurance, as well as the core processes of service transition, change and release management, of the de facto standard ITIL will be described and illustrated. The capability to adapt, organizational and procedural , especially in release and change management is an important part to reach the goals of producing high quality software. The effectiveness and efficiency of the process models described in the literature parts should be approximated to the practical examples. Based on this practical examples, information about the "'suitability for daily use"' of those theoretical concepts can be derived and should form a continuative part in this thesis to get a final summary. The quality and release processes from the theory part should be distinguishable combined with the processes used in the practice part. The goal of this thesis is to shed some light on the release- and software quality management approaches in project management and to derive a distinguishable, experienced controlled operation from those approaches
Timbre-invariant Audio Features for Style Analysis of Classical Music
No full textCopyright: (c) 2014 Christof Weiß et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited
Spitzer on Racine, digitally revisited
No full textThis paper revisits, with today's digital corpora and computational methods of text analysis, Léo Spitzer's famous stylistic reading of the tragedies of French seventeenth-century author Jean Racine [1]. Spitzer's analysis was first published in 1928 and richly illustrates the manifestations of a "dampening effect" ("effet de sourdine") which Spitzer claims is characteristic of Racine's poetic style. The present attempt to reimplement Spitzer's study reveals new insights not only into Racine's style, but also into the respective strengths and limitations of both approaches to stylistic analysis and to the contrasting notions of style which underpin them [2].
References:
* Spitzer, Leo. „Die klassische Dämpfung in Racines Stil“ [1928]. In: Romanische Stil- und Literaturstudien I, Marburg: Elwert, 1931, 135-268.
* Léo Spitzer, "L'effet de sourdine dans le style classique: Racine", Études de style. Paris: Gallimard, 1970, p. 208-335.
* J. Berenike Herrmann, Karina van Dalen-Oskam und Christof Schöch, „Revisiting Style, a Key Concept in Literary Studies“, Journal of Literary Theory, vol. 9, no. 1, p. 25-52, 2015.
* Rockwell, Geoffrey. „Replication as a way of knowing in the digital humanities“. Vortrag, Universität Würzburg, 27. April 2016
Logarithmic lower bounds for Néel walls
No full textMost mathematical models for interfaces and transition layers in materials science exhibit sharply localized and rapidly decaying transition profiles. We show that this behavior can largely change when non-local interactions dominate and internal length scales fail to be determined by dimensional analysis: we consider a reduced model for the micromagnetic N\'eel wall which is observed in thin films. The typical phenomenon associated with this wall type is the very long logarithmic tail of transition profiles. Logarithmic upper bounds were recently derived by the author. In the present article we prove that the latter result is indeed optimal. In particular, we show that N\'eel wall profiles are supported by explicitly known comparison profiles that minimize relaxed variational principles and exhibit logarithmic decay behavior. This lower bound is established by a comparison argument based on a global maximum principle for the non-local field operator and the qualitative decay behavior of comparison profiles.Melcher, Christof. (2003). Logarithmic lower bounds for Néel walls. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/3871
Pavane-Variations for flute, violin, bass viola da gamba, cello, harpsichord
No full textPerformed on October 23, 2010 by Melomanie. Melomanie: Kimberly Reighley, flute; Christof Richter, violin; Donna Fournier, viola da gamba; Douglas McNames, cello; Tracy Richardson, harpsichord. --author-supplied desriptio
CHRISTOF AMRHEIN. 2024. Immersive Journalism and 360-degree Videos. An Experimental Approach and the Perspective of the Experts. Cluj-Napoca: Accent. 128 p.
No full textChristof Amrhein’s book, Immersive Journalism and 360-degree Videos. An Experimental Approach and the Perspective of the Experts, was published in 2024 by Accent, Cluj-Napoca. The book analyses thoroughly the effects of users’ engagement with 360-degree or immersive videos, as well as the prospects for the future development of 360-degree videos, especially for journalism and cinematic storytelling. According to the author, in today’s society, due to the latest technological developments, there has been a significant shift concerning how people search for information and engage with it. Therefore, the central issue addressed in this book is the “phenomenon of communication through 360-degree or immersive videos (IV)” (p.11). This review aims to analyze and summarize thebook, highlighting its strengths and areas for improvement
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