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O lugar entre tantos: Akram Zaatari, memórias e experiências
No full textThis work deals with the construction of the “place” in art, based on a work by the Lebanese artist Akram Zaatari, who delivers, in the title, the motto and methodology of his approach: Beirut Exploded Views. In this study, which is also crossed by the researcher's memories, we intend to discuss the methodological and poetic path taken by Zaatari, relating it to the paths and works of other artists aimed at reflecting on the “place”, in its varied contexts and approaches. The research is divided into five chapters, including the author's encounter with the subject and artist, the exploration of Zaatari's methodology and the relevance, for the construction of the “place”, of its spatial, temporal, mnemonic and fictional layers.O presente trabalho trata da construção do lugar na arte, partindo de uma obra do artista libanês Akram Zaatari, que entrega, no título, o mote e a metodologia de sua abordagem: Beirut Exploded Views. Neste estudo, que também é atravessado por memórias do pesquisador, pretendemos discutir o caminho metodológico e poético percorrido por Zaatari, relacionandoo com os percursos e trabalhos de outros artistas direcionados à reflexão sobre o lugar, em seus variados contextos e abordagens. A pesquisa é dividida em cinco capítulos, passando pelo encontro do autor com a temática e artista, a exploração da metodologia de Zaatari e a relevância, para a construção do lugar, de suas camadas espaciais, temporais, mnemônicas e ficcionais
Impact of Climate Variables Change on the Yield of Wheat and Rice Crops in Iran (Application of Stochastic Model Based on Monte Carlo Simulation)
No full textThe Reflection of Islamic Culture and Beliefs in the Stories of Dr. Akram Osman
No full textThe sacred religion of Islam encompasses its own distinct principles, laws, and worldview, as presented through the Holy Quran, a divine guide for humanity. This guidance shapes the beliefs, actions, and morals of Muslims according to an Islamic perspective. Islam is a comprehensive and complete religion that addresses all aspects of individual, familial, social, economic, political, and cultural life. It provides everything necessary for human guidance and prosperity, as conveyed to humanity by Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), the savior of mankind, who is the final prophet, and Islam is the ultimate and final religion. In Islamic societies, the responsibility of promoting and conveying Islamic teachings was not limited to religious scholars alone. Muslim poets and writers also undertake this significant mission, using their literary talents in both poetry and prose to inspire individuals and societies with the values and teachings of this sacred religion. The late Dr. Mohammad Akram Osman, a distinguished author from Afghanistan, made remarkable contributions to storytelling that not only enriched the world of literature but also served as a guide for humanity in learning and understanding Islamic culture and beliefs. This article aims to explore the reflection of Islamic culture and beliefs in the stories of Dr. Mohammad Akram Osman, highlighting his ability to intertwine Islamic teachings with literary expression
Neutralisation state driven single-agent search strategy for solving constraint satisfaction problem / Saajid Akram Ahmed Abuluaih
No full textIn the past seven decades, Constraint Satisfaction (CS) has been extensively studied and remarkably evolved to where the scientific community perceives it as the centre of the intelligent behaviour. Therefore, most of the recent research in the field is devoted to improving the problem solvers that utilize search strategies and techniques. Since Constraint Satisfaction Problem (CSP) is an NP-complete problem, brute-force search algorithms such as Backtracking algorithm (BT) are required as the guarantee to find a solution, when there is one. Moreover, since the establishment of the field, AI pioneers and specialists have setup instructions and guidelines on how to solve this type of problems back in the seventies of the last century and have not been changed or improved. For example, the framework of solving CSP imposes a complete permutation of assignments to all remaining variables in order to derive a valid model. The author argues in this study that the problem can be neutralised and it is not necessary to perform brute-force searching all the time if a search strategy could have guided the process to the level where the values of the remaining variables can be determined implicitly, creating what the author calls Solo-Path of assignments in the problem search tree
Clinical characteristics of critically ill patients infected with COVID-19 in rasoul akram hospital in Iran: A single center study
No full textBackground: Knowledge about clinical features of critically ill patients with COVID-19 still lacks adequate information up to now. Objectives: We aimed to describe and compare the epidemiological and clinical characteristics of critically ill patients with COVID-19 in Rasoul Akram Hospital. Methods: In this case series, 70 critically ill patients with COVID-19 admitted in ICU wards of Rasoul Akram Hospital, Tehran, Iran, from 29 February to 25 April 2020 were enrolled. Demographic and clinical characteristics, laboratory data, and outcomes of the patients were all collected and compared between deceased and recovered patients. Results: Fifty-six cases had died of COVID-19, and 14 patients had fully recovered and discharged. The median age of the patients was 68 years old, ranging from 22 to 91 years, 66 were men, 80 had one or more comorbidities, and hypertension was the most common comorbidities (45 of deceased cases). The most common signs and symptoms at the onset of illness were SPO2 depression (92) and dyspnea (90). Dyspnea was significantly more common in deceased patients (95) than recovered patients (70) (P = 0.048). Most patients had lymphopenia (80). The number of patients who needed mechanical ventilation in the deceased patients was 53 (95), which was significantly more than the recovered patients (10 70%) (P = 0.048). Conclusions: The mortality rate of critically ill patients with COVID-19 is very high, and the patients with dyspnea and required mechanical ventilation are at higher risk for death. © 2020, Author(s)
Akram Khan, Lloyd Newson, and the Challenges of British Multiculturalism
No full textIn a climate riven by national insecurities, anti-immigration movements and competing visions of a post-Brexit future, this paper examines the contentious space multiculturalism has inhabited in 21st-century British choreography. It analyses acclaimed works by Akram Khan and Lloyd Newson to explore starkly differing perspectives on cultural diversity in the UK. Khan’s contribution to the London 2012 Olympics Opening Ceremony (Abide with Me) emphasised the nation’s post-imperialist and cosmopolitan profile. By contrast, Newson’s contemporaneous work Can We Talk about this? (2011/12) was highly critical of current models of multiculturalism and in particular attitudes towards Islam. This paper compares the two choreographies using a theoretical framework that draws on both political thought and dance analysis, to evaluate their contributions to debates around culture, tolerance and diasporic identities and illustrate the broader entanglement between British dance and contemporary politics.@ 2018, Edinburgh University Press. The attached document is an author produced version of a paper accepted for publication in Dance Research, uploaded in accordance with the publisher’s self-archiving policy. Some minor differences between this version and the final published version may remain. Once published, we suggest you refer to the final published version (Version of Record) should you wish to cite from it
A dimension reduction scheme for the computation of optimal unions of subspaces
No full textGiven a set of points F in a high dimensional space, the problem of finding a union of subspaces U_i V_i ⊆ R^N that best explains the data F increases dramatically with the dimension of R^N. In this article, we study a class of transformations that map the problem into another one in lower dimension. We use the best model in the low dimensional space to approximate the best solution in the original high dimensional space. We then estimate the error produced between this solution and the optimal solution in the high dimensional space.Fil: Aldroubi, Akram. Vanderbilt University. Department of Mathematics; Estados UnidosFil: Anastasio, Magalí. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Ciudad Universitaria. Instituto de Investigaciones Matemáticas "Luis A. Santaló". Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales. Instituto de Investigaciones Matemáticas "Luis A. Santaló"; ArgentinaFil: Cabrelli, Carlos. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Ciudad Universitaria. Instituto de Investigaciones Matemáticas "Luis A. Santaló". Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales. Instituto de Investigaciones Matemáticas "Luis A. Santaló"; ArgentinaFil: Molter, Ursula Maria. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Ciudad Universitaria. Instituto de Investigaciones Matemáticas "Luis A. Santaló". Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales. Instituto de Investigaciones Matemáticas "Luis A. Santaló"; Argentin
Learning the Right Model from the Data
No full textSummary. In this chapter we discuss the problem of finding the shift-invariant space model that best fits a given class of observed data F. If the data is known to belong to a fixed—but unknown—shift-invariant space V (Φ) generated by a vector function Φ, then we can probe the data F to find out whether the data is sufficiently rich for determining the shift-invariant space. If it is determined that the data is not sufficient to find the underlying shift-invariant space V , then we need to acquire more data. If we cannot acquire more data, then instead we can determine a shiftinvariant subspace S ⊂ V whose elements are generated by the data. For the case where the observed data is corrupted by noise, or the data does not belong to a shift-invariant space V (Φ), then we can determine a space V (Φ) that fits the data in some optimal way. This latter case is more realistic and can be useful in applications, e.g., finding a shift-invariant space with a small number of generators that describes the class of chest X-rays.Fil: Aldroubi, Akram. Vanderbilt University; Estados UnidosFil: Cabrelli, Carlos. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Ciudad Universitaria. Instituto de Investigaciones Matemáticas "Luis A. Santaló". Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales. Instituto de Investigaciones Matemáticas "Luis A. Santaló"; ArgentinaFil: Molter, Ursula Maria. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Ciudad Universitaria. Instituto de Investigaciones Matemáticas "Luis A. Santaló". Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales. Instituto de Investigaciones Matemáticas "Luis A. Santaló"; Argentin
Blog – gatunek w formie kolekcji czy kolekcja gatunków?
No full textThe aim of the article is to answer the question stated in the title – is it possible to treat blog as a genre in a form of collection or a collection of genres. The research base for theoretical deliberations is Jacek Kłosiński's blog (klosinski.net). In the first part of article, the history of the concept of collection has been presented. It is based on the most important names such as: Lew Wygotski, Jean Piaget, Anna Wierzbicka, Jerzy Bartmiński, Stanisława Niebrzegowska-Bartmińska and Maria Wojtak. The concept of collection has been transferred to linguistics from psychological research on the development of human cognitive process. It has been precisely defined by Jerzy Bartmiński and used in thorough analysis of verbal text by Stanisława Niebrzegowska-Bartmińska. The concept of collection was then transferred to genre research by Maria Wojtak, who presented the conception of two new genre forms: genre in a form of collection and a collection of genres. These forms may be very helpful in the analysis of blog, which is a complex and heterogenic form.The author presents an analysis of Kłosiński’s blog structure, including delimitations and function problems, also establishes relations between parts of blog to check how organised and coherent its structure is. The author comes to the conclusion that, despite not meeting the requirements of genre in form of collection given by Maria Wojtak, blog is a multicomponent, heterogenic genre, the shape of which may be modified thanks to technological possibilities.Celem artykułu jest próba odpowiedzi na zawarte w tytule pytanie – czy blog można uznać za gatunek w formie kolekcji czy za kolekcję gatunków. Podstawę badawczą dla rozważań teoretycznych stanowi blog Jacka Kłosińskiego (klosinski.net). W pierwszej części artykułu zreferowano historię pojęcia kolekcji w refleksji naukowej. Zostały tu uwzględnione najważniejsze nazwiska badawcze i prace: Lwa Wygotskiego, Jeana Piageta, Anny Wierzbickiej, Jerzego Bartmińskiego, Stanisławy Niebrzegowskiej-Bartmińskiej oraz Marii Wojtak. Pojęcie kolekcji do lingwistyki przeniesiono z badań psychologicznych nad rozwojem procesu poznawczego człowieka. Dokładnie zdefiniował je Bartmiński, natomiast na grunt szczegółowych analiz przeniosła Niebrzegowska-Bartmińska, operacjonalizując je do badań nad tekstami ustnymi. Z kolei na płaszczyznę rozważań genologicznych pojęcie kolekcji wprowadziła Wojtak, przedstawiając koncepcję dwóch nowych form genologicznych – gatunku w formie kolekcji oraz kolekcji gatunków. Mogą być one bardzo pomocne w analizie gatunkowej blogu, który jest złożoną i niejednorodną formą wypowiedzi.Autorka przedstawia analizę struktury blogu Kłosińskiego, z uwzględnieniem kwestii delimitacyjnych oraz problemu rozłożenia funkcji poszczególnych komponentów i funkcji całościowej, ustala również relacje między elementami składowymi blogu, aby sprawdzić, w jakim stopniu jest on strukturą wewnętrznie uporządkowaną i spójną. Stwierdza, że blog, choć nie spełnia jednak warunków, jakie gatunkowi w formie kolekcji stawia Wojtak, to jest wieloskładnikowym, heterogenicznym gatunkiem, którego postać może być modyfikowana dzięki możliwościom technologicznym
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