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Ksavers Andermanis – LU Akadēmiskās nozīmītes meta autors
Get PDFRaksts tapis kā turpinājums 2024. gada septembra mēneša priekšmetam par Latvijas Universitātes (LU) Akadēmisko nozīmīti, kur uzmanība pievērsta LU Akadēmiskās nozīmītes meta autoram, LU Arhitektūras fakultātes studentam un novadpētniekam, vācbaltietim Ksaveram Andermanim. K. Andermanis ne tikai ir sniedzis ieguldījumu Latvijas etnogrāfijas pētniecībā, bet arī LU simbolu izgatavošanā, kas mūsdienās saglabā savu unikalitāti un vērtību. Meta autora piederība pie LU saimes sakņojusies jau viņa ģimenē, jo viņa tēvs ir absolvējis Rīgas Politehnisko institūtu, LU priekšteci starpkaru periodā, un strādājis LU Saimniecības padomē par inspektoru.The article is a continuation of the September 2024 Museum Object on the Academic Badge of the University of Latvia (UL), which focuses on the author of the UL Academic Badge design, the student of the Faculty of Architecture and local historian, the Baltic German Ksavers Andermanis. K. Andermanis has not only contributed to the research of Latvian ethnography, but also to the production of symbols of the UL, which today retain their uniqueness and value. The author's belonging to the UL family is rooted in his family, as his father graduated from the Riga Polytechnic Institute, the predecessor of UL during the interwar period, and worked as an inspector at the UL Economical council
Letter from Lu Hui Ching to Elizabeth Burchneal (April 30, 1949)
No full textThis is a copy of a letter written by Lu Hui Ching to Elizabeth Burchneal of the Folk Arts Center in Brooklyn. It is dated April 30, 1949. The letter talks about her visit at the AAPE convention in Boston and the possibilities of getting together over the summer.For more information about Lu Hui-chʻing, see:https://springfield.as.atlas-sys.com/agents/people/97
Ten Minute speech given by Lu Hui Ching (April 17, 1949)
No full textThis five-page document is a ten-minute speech delivered at the Annual Banquet of The American Academy of Physical Education on April 17, 1949 by Lu Hui Ching. The speech has to do with the promotion of health and physical education in China. There are handwritten notes and changes to the text within the document.For more information about Lu Hui-chʻing, see:https://springfield.as.atlas-sys.com/agents/people/97
Letter from Lu Hui-Ching to Dr. Paul Limbert (February 25, 1949)
No full textThis is a copy of a litter from Lu Hui-Ching to Dr. Paul Limbert, the president of Springfield College. The letter is dated February 25, 1949. The letter is about possible teaching fellowships at the school having to do with the establishment of a Research and Training Institute for Physical and Health Education in China.For more information about Lu Hui-chʻing, see:https://springfield.as.atlas-sys.com/agents/people/97
Mobile Exam System – MES: Architecture for Database Management
No full textAs the mobile applications are constantly facing a rapid development in the recent years especially in the academic environment such as student response system (Lópeza, Royoa, Labordab & Calvoa, 2009; Ngai & Gunasekaran, 2007; Mary & Biju, 2008; Nayak & Erinjeri, 2008; Roth, Ivanchenko & Record, 2008; Lu, Stav & Pain, 2009; Lu, 2009; Turning technologies, 2010) used in universities and other educational institutions; there has not been reported an effective and scalable Database Management System to support fast and reliable data storage and retrieval. This paper presents Database Management Architecture for an Innovative Evaluation System based on Mobile Learning Applications. The need for a relatively stable, independent and extensible data model for faster data storage and retrieval is analyzed and investigated. It concludes by emphasizing further investigation for high throughput so as to support multimedia data such as video clips, images and documents
Lu Xun's Revolution : Writing in a Time of Violence /
No full textRecognized as modern China’s preeminent man of letters, Lu Xun (1881–1936) is revered as the nation’s conscience, a writer comparable to Shakespeare or Tolstoy. Gloria Davies’s vivid portrait gives readers a better sense of this influential author by situating the man Mao Zedong hailed as "the sage of modern China" in his turbulent time and place.Widely recognized as modern China’s preeminent man of letters, Lu Xun (1881–1936) is revered as the voice of a nation’s conscience, a writer comparable to Shakespeare and Tolstoy in stature and influence. Gloria Davies’s portrait now gives readers a better sense of this influential author by situating the man Mao Zedong hailed as "the sage of modern China" in his turbulent time and place. In Davies’s vivid rendering, we encounter a writer passionately engaged with the heady arguments and intrigues of a country on the eve of revolution. She traces political tensions in Lu Xun’s works which reflect the larger conflict in modern Chinese thought between egalitarian and authoritarian impulses. During the last phase of Lu Xun’s career, the so-called "years on the left," we see how fiercely he defended a literature in which the people would speak for themselves, and we come to understand why Lu Xun continues to inspire the debates shaping China today. Although Lu Xun was never a Communist, his legacy was fully enlisted to support the Party in the decades following his death. Far from the apologist of political violence portrayed by Maoist interpreters, however, Lu Xun emerges here as an energetic opponent of despotism, a humanist for whom empathy, not ideological zeal, was the key to achieving revolutionary ends. Limned with precision and insight, Lu Xun’s Revolution is a major contribution to the ongoing reappraisal of this foundational figure.Recognized as modern China’s preeminent man of letters, Lu Xun (1881–1936) is revered as the nation’s conscience, a writer comparable to Shakespeare or Tolstoy. Gloria Davies’s vivid portrait gives readers a better sense of this influential author by situating the man Mao Zedong hailed as "the sage of modern China" in his turbulent time and place.Widely recognized as modern China’s preeminent man of letters, Lu Xun (1881–1936) is revered as the voice of a nation’s conscience, a writer comparable to Shakespeare and Tolstoy in stature and influence. Gloria Davies’s portrait now gives readers a better sense of this influential author by situating the man Mao Zedong hailed as "the sage of modern China" in his turbulent time and place. In Davies’s vivid rendering, we encounter a writer passionately engaged with the heady arguments and intrigues of a country on the eve of revolution. She traces political tensions in Lu Xun’s works which reflect the larger conflict in modern Chinese thought between egalitarian and authoritarian impulses. During the last phase of Lu Xun’s career, the so-called "years on the left," we see how fiercely he defended a literature in which the people would speak for themselves, and we come to understand why Lu Xun continues to inspire the debates shaping China today. Although Lu Xun was never a Communist, his legacy was fully enlisted to support the Party in the decades following his death. Far from the apologist of political violence portrayed by Maoist interpreters, however, Lu Xun emerges here as an energetic opponent of despotism, a humanist for whom empathy, not ideological zeal, was the key to achieving revolutionary ends. Limned with precision and insight, Lu Xun’s Revolution is a major contribution to the ongoing reappraisal of this foundational figure.Electronic reproduction. :Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.DaviesGloria: Gloria Davies is a literary scholar and historian of China at Monash University in Australia. She is also Adjunct Director of the Australian Centre on China in the World at the Australian National University.Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher’s Web site, viewed May 26, 2011
Lu X
No full texteditorial reviewedThe comic series Little Lulu, created in 1935 by Marjorie Henderson Buell, better known as Marge, is a foundational work in American comics history, as it features one of the medium's first heroines. The series not only subverted gender norms but also achieved great commercial and critical success. Marge, as a pioneer of women-created comics, successfully penetrated the predominantly male sphere of mainstream comics, quickly expanding beyond newspapers into a wide range of merchandise, despite the pervasive sexism that her contemporaries faced.
In an unprecedented exploration at the intersection of comics (as both Bande Dessinée and Big Data), Ilan Manouach's latest conceptual book compiles all crowd scenes from Little Lulu, offering a panoramic view of crowds through the lens of one of the most influential media of the 20th and 21st centuries. As both a sponge and mirror of its sociocultural environment, comics have long been recognized as one of the mass media most capable of shaping and reflecting the values and ideologies of their time. Lu X not only concentrates human realities such as love, hate, humor, fertility, or aggression, but also contains the cultural zeitgeist, the spirit of its time, as a "total social phenomenon."
The conceptual relevance of Lu X is deeply rooted in the work of researchers on crowd movement, mass popular movements, and the rise of fascism in post-war Europe. Gabriel Tarde's notion of imitation as a primary social process is strikingly illustrated by the uniformity of collective behaviors in Lulu's world. Gustave Le Bon's description of the crowd as a singular entity susceptible to certain ideas, particularly during the rise of fascism, finds an echo in the representation of mass movements and public assemblies in the comic. Elias Canetti's ideas about the psychological foundations of crowds, particularly their tendency to grow and create a sense of equality among their members, are reflected in the masses that are both varied and unified depicted in the series.
The Lu book series represents an exploration of comics as machine-interpretable information systems. By focusing specifically on crowd scenes in Little Lulu, Manouach's work engages with how computational systems can extract, classify, and interpret visual information from comics. Using machine learning algorithms, the project demonstrates how comics can be deconstructed into data points that machines can process—panel structures, character arrangements, crowd densities, and compositional patterns become quantifiable elements that can be clustered according to various criteria such as visual similarity, temporal sequence, or narrative function. This computational approach reveals entirely new taxonomies invisible to traditional human reading—patterns of collective behavior representation that emerge only when hundreds of crowd scenes are analyzed simultaneously by algorithmic systems. The work thus functions as a meditation on how our understanding of comics is transformed when the "reader" is an artificial intelligence rather than a human interpreter. As comics increasingly exist as digital datasets rather than merely printed artifacts, Lu anticipates a future where comics historiography might be fundamentally reshaped by machine-learning approaches that identify formal patterns, visual genealogies, and evolutionary developments invisible to traditional analytical methods.
240 x 340 mm 104 pages CMYK Paperback 978-2-39008-102-9 Essaim Collection 05-11-2024 €27.0
Lu 0
No full texteditorial reviewedThe comic series Little Lulu, created in 1935 by Marjorie Henderson Buell, better known as Marge, is a foundational work in American comics history, as it features one of the medium's first heroines. The series not only subverted gender norms but also achieved great commercial and critical success. Marge, as a pioneer of women-created comics, successfully penetrated the predominantly male sphere of mainstream comics, quickly expanding beyond newspapers into a wide range of merchandise, despite the pervasive sexism that her contemporaries faced.
In an unprecedented exploration at the intersection of BD (as both Bande Dessinée and Big Data), Ilan Manouach's latest conceptual book collects all panels from the Lulu series in which human characters are absent. This assemblage presents a silent narrative, a world without human protagonists, inviting contemplation of spaces and objects that usually go relatively unnoticed.
The conceptual significance of Lu 0 is deeply connected to posthumanist discourse, which challenges anthropocentric conceptions of the world and reconsiders humanity's role within a larger ecological system in light of the ravages of the Anthropocene. By stripping the narrative of its human elements, Lulu 0 echoes a call for a critical examination of human exceptionalism and recognition of the intrinsic value of all life forms. It serves as a silent yet powerful commentary on the potential future of our planet, a world from which human traces would be absent and where nature would have reclaimed its rights. This assemblage not only functions as a visual archive of the spaces we inhabit but also as a profound reminder of the volatility of human existence and the resilience of nature in the context of the ecological crisis and ongoing transformations on our planet.
The Lu book series represents an exploration of comics as machine-interpretable information systems. By focusing specifically on panels devoid of human presence in Little Lulu, Manouach's work engages with how computational systems can extract, classify, and interpret visual information from comics. Using machine learning algorithms, the project demonstrates how comics can be deconstructed into data points that machines can process—empty backgrounds, architectural elements, natural landscapes, and inanimate objects become quantifiable elements that can be clustered according to various criteria such as visual similarity, spatial composition, atmospheric qualities, or narrative function. This computational approach reveals entirely new taxonomies invisible to traditional human reading—patterns of environmental representation and object relationships that emerge only when hundreds of human-absent panels are analyzed simultaneously by algorithmic systems. The work thus functions as a meditation on how our understanding of comics is transformed when the "reader" is an artificial intelligence rather than a human interpreter. By privileging panels traditionally considered as "setting" or "background," Lu 0 inverts conventional narrative hierarchies and highlights the non-human world typically subordinated to character action. As comics increasingly exist as digital datasets rather than merely printed artifacts, Lu 0 anticipates a future where comics historiography might be fundamentally reshaped by machine-learning approaches that identify formal patterns, environmental representations, and non-anthropocentric visual genealogies invisible to traditional analytical methods focused primarily on character and plot.
240 x 340 mm 104 pages CMYK Paperback 978-2-39008-102-9 Essaim Collection 05-11-2024 €27.0
Lu-177-Labeled Hetero-Bivalent Agents Targeting PSMA and Bone Metastases for Radionuclide Therapy
No full textProstate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA) is an excellent
target
for imaging and radionuclide therapy of prostate cancer. Recently,
[177Lu]Lu-PSMA-617 (Pluvicto) was approved by the FDA for
radionuclide therapy. To develop hetero-bivalent agents targeting
both PSMA and bone metastasis, [177Lu]Lu-P17-079 ([177Lu]Lu-1) and [177Lu]Lu-P17-081 ([177Lu]Lu-2) were prepared. In vivo biodistribution studies of [177Lu]Lu-PSMA-617, [177Lu]Lu-1, and [177Lu]Lu-2 in mice bearing PC3-PIP (PSMA positive) tumor showed high
uptake in PSMA-positive tumor (14.5, 14.7, and 11.3% ID/g at 1 h,
respectively) and distinctively different bone uptakes (0.52, 6.52,
and 5.82% ID/g at 1 h, respectively). PET imaging using [68Ga]Ga-P17-079 ([68Ga]Ga-1) in the same mouse model displayed
excellent images confirming the expected dual-targeting to PSMA-positive
tumor and bone. Results suggest that [177Lu]Lu-P17-079
([177Lu]Lu-1) is a promising candidate for further development
as a hetero-bivalent radionuclide therapy agent targeting both PSMA
expression and bone metastases for the treatment of prostate cancer
Lu-177-Labeled Hetero-Bivalent Agents Targeting PSMA and Bone Metastases for Radionuclide Therapy
No full textProstate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA) is an excellent
target
for imaging and radionuclide therapy of prostate cancer. Recently,
[177Lu]Lu-PSMA-617 (Pluvicto) was approved by the FDA for
radionuclide therapy. To develop hetero-bivalent agents targeting
both PSMA and bone metastasis, [177Lu]Lu-P17-079 ([177Lu]Lu-1) and [177Lu]Lu-P17-081 ([177Lu]Lu-2) were prepared. In vivo biodistribution studies of [177Lu]Lu-PSMA-617, [177Lu]Lu-1, and [177Lu]Lu-2 in mice bearing PC3-PIP (PSMA positive) tumor showed high
uptake in PSMA-positive tumor (14.5, 14.7, and 11.3% ID/g at 1 h,
respectively) and distinctively different bone uptakes (0.52, 6.52,
and 5.82% ID/g at 1 h, respectively). PET imaging using [68Ga]Ga-P17-079 ([68Ga]Ga-1) in the same mouse model displayed
excellent images confirming the expected dual-targeting to PSMA-positive
tumor and bone. Results suggest that [177Lu]Lu-P17-079
([177Lu]Lu-1) is a promising candidate for further development
as a hetero-bivalent radionuclide therapy agent targeting both PSMA
expression and bone metastases for the treatment of prostate cancer
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