161 research outputs found
Ruimte-intensivering EMO-schiereiland
No full textThe space in the Port of Rotterdam is getting scarce due to the growth of the port. This is the reason why the port authority shows the ambition to intensify the space in the port. The EMO-peninsula on the first Maasvlakte is one of the areas in the port where there is a lack of space. There are three companies who are based on the peninsula. These are: EMO (dry bulk terminal), Electrabel (new coal/biomass power plant) and Gasunie (small LNG-storage). The lack of space on the peninsula is caused by: enlargement of a port basin, the new coal/biomass power plant and the expected growth of EMO. A capacity analysis shows that the EMO-peninsula is indeed short of space. The focus, of the intensification of space, is laid on the dry bulk storage of EMO and the handling and storage of biomass on the peninsula. All the alternatives to increase space capacity are generated by a brainstorm. The alternative keerwand (see picture) is elected as the best solution for the dry bulk storage problem of EMO. For the handling and storage of biomass, the best alternatives are the same as the current ideas. That is why only the alternative keerwand is developed and looked at in this study. Alternative keerwand The alternative keerwand contains of a retaining wall on both sides of the storage to enlarge the volume of the storage. Moreover, the volume will also be increased by adjusting the machine that is used for stacking and reclaiming the dry bulk, this machine is called the kombi. This will lead to more storage volume on top of the storage. The alternative shows benefits on different levels. These are: gain in space, financial positive, technically feasible and environmental attractive. The keerwand alternative results in a gain of space of 15,3%. The investment and the operational costs are relatively low. The construction of the retaining wall and the transformation of the kombi are technically feasible. Because of the relation between the surface and the volume of the storage is small, dust will be reduced to a minimum. A disadvantage of the alternative is the freedom of movement of shovels and dumpers. They have to drive around the construction to reach their destination. In comparison to many other alternatives to increase storage capacity in the port, this study proves that space intensification (keerwand) is really interesting for a dry bulk terminal. It is even more attractive than expanding or move the terminal to a new location. Especially the financial benefits are very positive. The investment and operational cost are considerably low. The most important argument against this alternative is the limited freedom of movement. Space intensification EMO-schiereiland The main conclusion of this study is that space intensification on the EMO-peninsula is feasible and interesting. By the use of space intensification there is no necessity for companies to expand on another location outside of the peninsula on the first Maasvlakte. The study “Space intensification EMO-peninsula” contributes to the ambition of the port authority of Rotterdam to intensify the space in the port.Hydraulic EngineeringCivil Engineering and Geoscience
Authenticity After Cock Rock : Emo and the Problem of Femininity
No full textThe author examines the inter-relationship between authenticity, music and gender in relation to a particular contemporary genre, emotional hardcore or emo. Noting how hard rock often defined itself as authentic in contrast to (feminine) pop music, the author argues that it is possible to see the ‘persistence of masculinism’ in wider debates around the performance of (appropriate) fandom. Drawing on a wealth of online data from platforms such as Reddit, Tumblr and Facebook, the author observes that even as male fans of emo distance themselves from hyper-masculine forms of hard (or cock) rock, they also critique the presence of female fans as ‘inauthentic’
Is Emo Metal? Gendered Boundaries and New Horizons in the Metal Community
No full textThis article examines debates in Kerrang! magazine around emo’s position in the metal community. The author asks: Why is emo vilified and rejected in British metal magazines, what can debates around emo reveal about the gendered nature of metal, and what potential for new envisionings of metal do they encapsulate? As the only British weekly magazine to focus on metal and hard rock, Kerrang! fulfils a pedagogical role in the metal community, establishing a canon of musical works, and a history and ideology of the genre. Fans are vividly represented in its letters pages, their words and images used to disseminate Kerrang!’s ideology of metal. The reported increase in female readership in 2006 has been attributed to the coverage of “emo” bands, such as My Chemical Romance, who have a majority of women fans. This coverage has provoked debate and censure in the magazine’s letters pages, debate that illuminates gender relations and allows new consideration of the gendering of the metal community. Inspired by Barthes’s Mythologies, the author performs a semiotic reading of Kerrang!’s June letters pages between 2000 and 2008 in order to understand the gendered myths forged and propagated by the design, images, content and editorial treatment portrayed. Employing Thornton’s concept of the gendered mainstream, the author delineates the implications of Kerrang!’s myths for female fans, arguing that the influx of female emo fans reading Kerrang! has caused a revolt amongst fans of more established metal bands, who represent the magazine and emo as feminised, akin to the mainstream. The author concludes that whilst debates around emo are rooted in the metal community’s conservative ideas about gender, the presence of many vocal young fans open to ideas of fluidity of gender allows us to conceive of a more inclusive metal community in which gender boundaries are less constrained
The genre fandom shaped: new media, emo and gender.
No full textThis book explores how online fandom has shaped the definition of emo, with significant
implications both for millennial constructs of gender and contemporary fan studies. ‘Emo’, an
abbreviation of emotional hardcore, refers to both a music genre and a youth scene notable
for its androgynous style and queer performativity. Utilizing the theoretical tools of Foucault
and Butler, I will demonstrate fandom’s key role in defining ‘emo’ as a concept and genre
after 2001, especially its implications for gender constructions through popular music.
In the early 2000s, it was still common for young people to dismiss bands and styles for being
‘gay’, as an insult roughly equivalent to ‘feminine’. By 2017, the spaces in which emo is
defined are almost universally queer-positive. Simultaneously, whilst music journalist Andy
Greenwald could claim in 2003 that ‘no-one knows what [emo] is’ (Greenwald [2003] 2012,
1-2), a well-developed fandom would indicate otherwise, certainly by the later 2010s.
Investigation is required as to how and by what processes this has happened. I reflect
particularly on the changing relationship of fan practices with the music industry and trade
press: without overstating fandom’s influence or falling into technological determinism, we
can chart a trajectory in the invention of modern emo that moves gradually from sites and
practices that are more like a broadcast model, towards sites and practices that are more like
‘bottom up’ UGC. This is why I claim that fandom ‘shaped’ the genre rather than ‘made’ it.
Discourse is always in flux – signifiers are never closed totally – but it is nonetheless
reasonable to posit that the early website MySpace and associated blogs helped establish the
terms and boundaries which initiated this discursive struggle, even if many of its users would
not have described themselves or their bands as ‘emo’. The book is thus structured around
sites with a loosely temporal progression, demonstrating the spread of emo fandom from
MySpace origins to LiveJournal, YouTube and Tumblr. I am particularly concerned with
three phenomena:
● The expanding possibilities of masculinity and the ways in which these articulations
both uphold and compromise White male privilege
● The creative uses fans make of media material as technologies of the self in the new
media environment.
● The possibilities web 2.0 affords for the citation and spread of discourse, crossing and
redefining the lines of (sub?)cultures that would once have been relatively
This book answers Marchart's (2004) call for the reconnection of micro-level and macro-
level aspects of socio-political practice in the field of subcultural studies. Further, it
contributes to the feminist project instigated by Angela McRobbie (1980), demonstrating the
creative uses of male-dominated media by girls and women. Adapting the methodological
tools I developed in Fanfiction and the Author (Fathallah 2017), I am concerned to show
how fans' creative responses to media resonate in broader culture. In this book, I will argue
that at least in certain cases, we need to abandon the idea that the media produce texts and
ideologies which fans reshape and adapt - this is ultimately still a reception studies argument.
In this research, I have found that rather than taking up and altering discourse of popular
media, there is no coherent object called emo before fandom defines it, and that fandom’s
definitional work has to some extent been re-uptaken and legitimized by the music industry
and trade press. This study will then have significant implications for the changing
relationship between fandoms and industry, not only with regard to genre and categorization
but definitional and boundary construction in general
Is stage-gay queerbaiting?:The politics of performative homoeroticism in emo bands
No full textQueerbaiting is a fast-expanding topic in media and cultural studies. In 2015, this author attempted to define queerbaiting as a strategy by which writers and networks attempt to gain the patronage of queer viewers via the suggestion of queer relationships, before denying and laughing off the possibility. Joseph Brennan’s 2019 edited volume has greatly developed the concept of queerbaiting to include a range of meanings, from media industries’ pledges of allegiance to LGBT causes that are not delivered upon to courting queer viewers via paratexts that imply queer relationships that don’t exist in text. Applying the concept of queerbaiting to bands complicates these ideas, as the “truth” or “delivery” of queer representation lies not in a fictional text but the public persona of real performers. Through an examination of stage-gay, the notorious practice of queer performativity on stage by straight performers in the emo music subculture, I investigate how a restrictive notion of “truth” in discussions of queerbaiting can actually close off the very possibilities of transformation and open-ended configurations of sexuality that Alexander Doty’s formulation of queerness promised. Emo bands are the natural case study here, as emo is an offshoot of hardcore and punk that sought to complicate the hegemonic masculinities dominating those genres, both in its musical and lyric content, and the public and paratextual performativity of its artists
Export marketing in higher education: an international comparison
No full textPurpose
How higher education institutions (HEIs) approach the recruitment of international students is an area of global interest (James-MacEachern, 2018, Ross et al., 2013), but there is limited focus on how institutions in different parts of the world approach international student recruitment as an export marketing orientation (EMO). The purpose of this paper is to examine the similarities and differences of export marketing orientation amongst three higher education institutions.
Design/methodology/approach
This study uses export marketing concepts to compare three universities from Canada, Hong Kong and the UK to explore how institutions use international student recruitment as export marketing in international markets.
Findings
The study finds a number of similarities and differences in how HEIs react and respond to market and global environments, and responses impact the level of EMO. It argues that institutions rely differently on export marketing in their approach international students and highlights the need to understand how various factors such as national policy and institutional strategy impacts institutional adoption of an EMO in higher education.
Originality/value
By comparing HEIs from different parts of the world, this paper shows differences in export marketing orientation that are shaped by national policy frameworks and organizational culture. This is the first time three institutions from Canada, Hong Kong and the UK have been compared for EMO, and this study provides new insights into the factors that contribute or hinder EMO for HEIs
Fogo, destruição e criação: a arte de Anselm Kiefer e a filosofia de Andrea Emo
No full textBased on an environmental issue about the problem of forest fires in Brazil, this paper deals with the correlation between destruction and regeneration in nature and art. Taking into account tragedies caused by fire that have ruined historical and artistic heritage over time, I will analyze the affinities between an artist and a philosopher. On one side is Anselm Kiefer, with emphasis on the paintings he produced for an exhibition at the Palazzo Ducale in Venice, a place affected by a major fire in 1577; on the other, the thought of Andrea Emo, a recently rediscovered author. As will be demonstrated, the notion that images are born from iconoclastic gestures arises here as a central part of a program in which destruction and creation merge and manifest themselves everywhere.À partir d’une question environnementale sur le problème des incendies dans des forêts au Brésil, cet article traite de la corrélation entre destruction et régénération dans la nature et l’art. En prenant en compte des tragédies causées par des incendies qui, tout au long de l’histoire, ont détruit le patrimoine historique et artistique, on va analyser les affinités qui existent entre un artiste et un philosophe. D’un côté se trouve Anselm Kiefer et les peintures qu’il a réalisées pour une exposition au Palazzo Ducale de Venise, lieu touché par un grand incendie en 1577 ; de l’autre, la pensée d’Andrea Emo, un auteur récemment redécouvert. Comme nous le démontrerons, l’idée selon laquelle les images naissent des gestes iconoclastes est présentée ici comme un élément central d’un programme dans lequel destruction et création se confondent et se manifestent partout.A partir de uma questão ambiental sobre o problema das queimadas no Brasil, trata-se, neste artigo, da correlação entre destruição e regeneração na natureza e na arte. Levando em conta tragédias causadas pelo fogo que, ao longo da história, arruinaram o patrimônio histórico e artístico, serão analisadas as afinidades existentes entre um artista e um filósofo. De um lado coloca-se Anselm Kiefer, com destaque para as pinturas produzidas para uma exposição no Palazzo Ducale de Veneza, local acometido por um grande incêndio em 1577; de outro, o pensamento de Andrea Emo, autor recentemente redescoberto. Como será demonstrado, a noção de que as imagens nascem de gestos iconoclastas apresenta-se aqui como parte central de um programa em que destruição e criação se fundem e se manifestam por toda parte
"Men du inser att folk som ser dig och dina kompisar tänker "emo"?"- om hur media målar upp bilden av en ungdomsgrupp
No full textABSTRACT Author: Lisa Myrefelt & Rebecka Shev Title: “But you realise that when people see you and your friends they think “emo”?” – about how media describes a teenage group (translated title) Supervisor: Olle Frödin Assessor: The purpose of this essay was to study how the Swedish newspapers presented a subculture that they called “emo” between January 1, 2007 and March 31, 2009. In particular we studied the attributes that the articles depicted as typical for the subculture (music, appearance and mental health). We also studied the articles’ description of the surroundings’ reactions to the subculture and the way the articles related how the teenagers in the subculture wanted to define themselves. The essay was based on a CDA (critical discourse analyse) of 33 articles. To analyse the result we used Becker’s (2006) theory about outsiders. In the primary information we found five discourses: music, appearance, mental health, harassment and how the teenagers defined themselves. The conclusion was that the articles’ starting point was that the subculture had some specific properties (clothes, appearance and mental health) that characterized the group in general. The articles describe the subculture as a group that is exposed to bulling and harassment from their surroundings. In general the articles do not take into consideration the teenagers protests against misconceptions (especially mental health) that the group was associated with
On Spanning Trees with Low Crossing Numbers
No full textEvery set S of n points in the plane has a spanning tree such that no line disjoint from S has more than O( p n) intersections with the tree (where the edges are embedded as straight line segments). We review the proof of this result (originally proved by Bernard Chazelle and the author in a more general setting), point at some methods for constructing such a tree, and describe some algorithmic and combinatorial applications. 1 Introduction. Over the recent years there has been considerable progress in the simplex range searching problem. In the planar version of this problem we are required to store a set S of n points such that the number of points in any query triangle can be determined efficiently. One of the combinatorial tools developed for this problem are spanning trees with low crossing numbers. Let S be set of n points in the plane. For a spanning tree on S and a line h, the crossing number of h in the tree is defined as c h = a + b 2 , where a is the number of edges ..
An Improved Evolutionary Multi-Objective Clustering Algorithm Based on Autoencoder
No full textEvolutionary multi-objective clustering (EMOC) algorithms have gained popularity recently, as they can obtain a set of clustering solutions in a single run by optimizing multiple objectives. Particularly, in one type of EMOC algorithm, the number of clusters k is taken as one of the multiple objectives to obtain a set of clustering solutions with different k. However, the numbers of clusters k and other objectives are not always in conflict, so it is impossible to obtain the clustering solutions with all different k in a single run. Therefore, evolutionary multi-objective k-clustering (EMO-KC) has recently been proposed to ensure this conflict. However, EMO-KC could not obtain good clustering accuracy on high-dimensional datasets. Moreover, EMO-KC’s validity is not ensured as one of its objectives (SSDexp, which is transformed from the sum of squared distances (SSD)) could not be effectively optimized and it could not avoid invalid solutions in its initialization. In this paper, an improved evolutionary multi-objective clustering algorithm based on autoencoder (AE-IEMOKC) is proposed to improve the accuracy and ensure the validity of EMO-KC. The proposed AE-IEMOKC is established by combining an autoencoder with an improved version of EMO-KC (IEMO-KC) for better accuracy, where IEMO-KC is improved based on EMO-KC by proposing a scaling factor to help effectively optimize the objective of SSDexp and introducing a valid initialization to avoid the invalid solutions. Experimental results on several datasets demonstrate the accuracy and validity of AE-IEMOKC. The results of this paper may provide some useful information for other EMOC algorithms to improve accuracy and convergence
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