146 research outputs found
Mythologizing the transition : a comparative study of Bahram Beyzaee and Wolfe Soyinka
No full textBahram Beyzaee, the Iranian playwright, screenwriter and filmmaker, and Wole Soyinka, the Nigerian poet, playwright, and novelist have produced artistic works that transcend the limitations of time and locality to become powerful comments on human life and socio-political and cultural institutions. This research study examines the major themes and dramatic techniques of these two writers to demonstrate how, in two very different cultural settings, traditional modes and themes appear in modem art forms to renegotiate cultural identity. I argue that both writers place themselves in a post postcolonial position which rather than being concerned about 'writing back against the centre' reflects on the cultural shortcomings that leaves their people at the mercy of vicious internal and external forces. I also demonstrate how they demythologize the traditional superstitious beliefs that haunt the present, foreground the inauthenticity of the modern hybrid obsessions that distort everyday life in their countries and mythologize and glorify the positive aspects of history and contemporary life to redefine cultural identity in terms of the best their cultures can offer. The first two chapters give an account of the history of Iranian and Nigerian performance forms in the context of socio-political, cultural, literary and artistic movements and traditions. The third chapter proceeds to present a short discussion of the theatrical vision and themes of Beyzaee and Soyinka and embarks on a general comparison of the two writers. Chapter four is focused on Beyzaee and Soyinka's depiction of the intellectuals as sacrificial heroes whose death may initiate social purgation and cultural regeneration and liberation. Chapter five is less mythical and more sociopolitical. It is a reflection on the writers' portrayal of women in their works and their success or failure in transcending literary and cultural stereotypes in a world where the means of production and socio-economic facts and the cultural developments associated with them demand a rapid movement away from patriarchal values. Chapter six is devoted to the study of another major issue in the process of cultural transition, namely, redefining the position of ethnic minorities in the myth of nationhood. This last chapter is followed by a brief conclusion, discussing the results and the future possibilities of drama in the context of rapid transition
Development of a multifunctional dressing for epidermal wound monitoring and on-site drug delivery
No full textThe treatment of epidermal wounds, particularly chronic wounds, is one of the most ubiquitous medical challenges and has imposed a considerable financial burden on the global health care system. Several factors in epidermal wounds lead to severe medical conditions among which infection comprises a large number of mortalities. To tackle this issue, great efforts have been made in the last decades to incorporate antimicrobial agents into wound dressings in order to inhibit microorganism colonization. Additionally, various wound monitoring systems have been developed to detect and track infections using different indicators such as bacterial by-products. However, the integration of these infection sensors with wound dressings – most of which have benefited from electrochemical detectors – has been a major bottleneck due to the electrode failure in the wound environment and the need for electrical power supply. Other approaches have focused on the development of point-of-care devices that simplify the detection of infection. This study aims to address the aforementioned challenge by developing a multifunctional hydrogel-based wound dressing – made of alginate 1.5% (w/v) – for on-site infection monitoring via colourimetric and image processing methods. Taking advantage of wound acidity as an indicator of bacterial infection, the developed wound dressing was composed of an array of pH sensors, fabricated by 3-dimensional (3D) bioprinting. Brilliant Yellow and cabbage juice as two pH-responsive dyes were immobilized in the pH sensors to facilitate a wireless wound monitoring. In this system, Brilliant Yellow afforded a higher accuracy in image processing while cabbage juice provided a better visual observation of the wound condition. The functionality of the developed dressing in detecting bacterial infection was evaluated via an ex-vivo test on pig skin samples, infected by Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and the presence of bacteria was detected within 30 minutes after the placement of the dressings on the skin samples. Moreover, the inclusion of gentamicin-loaded components into the wound dressing facilitated the inhibition of bacterial growth, which was evaluated in vitro on the same strain of bacteria. In this experiment, 2 mg/ml of gentamicin in the hydrogel led to the eradication of P. aeruginosa. This incorporation of antibiotic delivery along with the simple colourimetric infection detection holds a great promise for managing acute and chronic wounds by inhibition of bacterial growth and monitoring infection in real-time without a need for dressing removal.Graduate2018-08-1
The theatrical works of Bahram Beyzaie : the traditional form of theater and its modernization.
No full textBahram Beyzaie, né en 1938 en Iran, est considéré comme un très grand cinéaste et auteur dramatique de sa génération. Si certains de ses films sont bien connus, son théâtre est moins célèbre à l’étranger parce qu’il a été peu traduit et peu joué. Pour lui le théâtre est le lieu par excellence où renouer avec les formes traditionnelles de spectacle non pas pour les reconstituer mais pour parler au public d’aujourd’hui et lutter contre l’amnésie. Il nourrit donc ses pièces de théâtre, ses films, ses contes et ses narrations de l’héritage culturel oublié de son pays. Cette thèse propose d’examiner l’influence, dans son oeuvre dramatique, des spectacles traditionnels d’Iran tels que le Ta’zieh, le Naghâli ou l’Art du conteur, les marionnettes, la farce du Siyâh Bâzi, ainsi que la trace des mythes et de l’histoire de l’Iran. Dans tout ce qu’il écrit, une importance extrême est accordée à la langue perse utilisée avec virtuosité. De nombreux extraits d’ouvrages de recherche et de pièces sont proposés ici en traduction française. Une importante iconographie accompagne cette étude et rend compte des spectacles que Bahram Beyzaie a mis en scène. Il continue son travail artistique en Californie car il est actuellement un auteur en exil.Born in 1938 in Iran, Bahram Beyzaie is considered as a great filmmaker and playwright of his generation. While some of his films are well known, his theater is less famous abroad because it has been little translated or performed. For him theater is the place where to keep in touch with tradition, not to just preserve it, but to reach today’s public and fight against amnesia. He thus feeds his plays, his films, his tales and his narrations of the forgotten dramatic legacy of his country. This thesis proposes to examine the influence, in his dramatic work, of traditional Iranian performances such as Ta'zieh, Naghali or the Art of Storytelling, Puppet Theater and Siyâh Bâzi or Farce, as well as the traces of the myths and history of Iran. In everything he writes, a prominent place is dedicated to the Persian language used with utmost virtuosity. Many excerpts of texts on the theater and plays are here translated for the first time into French. A very rich iconography, mainly of his own staging of his plays, illustrates the study. Beyzaie continues his artistic work in California where he is presently an author in exile
Dataset of 17K-Graffiti
No full textDownload the 17K-Graffiti dataset and its pre-trained weights on detecting Graffiti. The dataset provides larger graffiti instances containing a variety of graffiti types and annotated boundary boxes.
For additional material regarding Code and data processing, please see the following GitHub repository at
https://github.com/visual-ds/17K-Graffiti
Please cite the published paper, if you find this dataset helpful on your research work:
@conference{visapp22,
author={Bahram Lavi and Eric K. Tokuda and Felipe Moreno-Vera and Luis Gustavo Nonato and Claudio T. Silva and Jorge Poco},
title={17K-Graffiti: Spatial and Crime Data Assessments in São Paulo City},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 17th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications (VISIGRAPP 2022) - Volume 4: VISAPP},
year={2022},
pages={968-975},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0010883300003124},
isbn={978-989-758-555-5},
Iranian culture in Bahram Beyzaie’s cinema and theatre:paradigms of being and belonging (1959-1979)
No full textSince the beginning of his artistic career in 1959, Bahram Beyzaie's oeuvre has incorporated various aspects of Iranian, Euro-American, Chinese, Japanese, and Indian performance traditions and cinema. Beyzaie's work reformulates indigenous artistic and ritual forms and cultural narratives in plays and films whose emancipatory aesthetics have influenced several generations of writers, playwrights, and filmmakers. This book examines the origins and development of what the author identifies as Beyzaie's unique sense of creativity, using an interdisciplinary method of semiotic and cultural analysis to identify its manifestations in Beyzaie's films and plays of the 1960s and 1970s. It focusses on Beyzaie's early works, such as Downpour and Uncle Moustache, and how they engage with neglected aspects of Iranian culture to challenge mainstream approaches to writing and directing plays and films. In this way, the author argues, Beyzaie's work questions notions of being and belonging, by subverting exclusionist discourses on art, politics, society, culture, self and other, personal and collective identity, gender relations, intellectuals, heroes and villains, and children
Particle detection using closed-loop active model diagnosis
No full textWe demonstrate a novel closed-loop input design technique on the detection of particles in an imaging system such as a fluorescence microscope. The probability of misdiagnosis is minimized while constraining the input energy such that for instance phototoxicity is reduced. The key novelty of the closed-loop design is that each next input is designed based on the most recent information. Using updated hypothesis probabilities, the input energy distribution is optimized for detection such that unresolved pixels have increased illumination next image acquisition. As compared to conventional open-loop, the results show that (regions of) particles are diagnosed using less energy in the closed-loop approach. Besides the closed-loop approach being viable for particle detection in fluorescence microscopy measurements, it can be developed further to apply in different areas such as sequential object segmentation for reliable and efficient product inspection in Industry 4.0.Team Michel VerhaegenTeam Carlas Smit
Representing the image of women in the travelogue "From Paris to Paris " Bahram Rezaei visheh sorai 1 | Mohammad Ali Khazane Darlo2 | Mahmoud Ranjbar3
No full textOne of the most important works in which the image of another, both "intra-cultural other" and "extra-cultural other" is reflected, is the travelogue. In this type of writing, images of women, men, cities, special places of pilgrimage, tourism, etc. can be the subject of imagery. This article is written in a descriptive-analytical way by combining the three approaches of critical discourse analysis, representation and imagery. The purpose of this research is to analyze the representation of various types of images of women and the assumptions that the author made in the framework of this type of representation. The results of the research show that in the travelogue "From Pariz to Paris" women with eastern and western nationalities are divided into two categories: historical women and contemporary women. The author represents the images of historical women indirectly and through the study of texts (intertextual) and the representation of images of contemporary women - who is either directly connected with them through personal experience or indirectly or directly , through communication with others (impersonal),has heard about them - with a combined experience (combination of face-to-face and impersonal experience).In this travelogue, the various titles of the author are placed in the shadow of the identity of "master intellectual of history" and with this identity, the image of contemporary women and historical court women and public women in the East and West is represented
Blending Electronics with the Human Body: A Pathway toward a Cybernetic Future
No full textAt the crossroads of chemistry, electronics, mechanical engineering, polymer science, biology, tissue engineering, computer science, and materials science, electrical devices are currently being engineered that blend directly within organs and tissues. These sophisticated devices are mediators, recorders, and stimula-tors of electricity with the capacity to monitor important electrophysiological events, replace disabled body parts, or even stimulate tissues to overcome their current limitations. They are therefore capable of leading humanity forward into the age of cyborgs, a time in which human biology can be hacked at will to yield beings with abilities beyond their natural capabilities. The resulting advances have been made possible by the emergence of conformal and soft electronic materials that can readily integrate with the curvilinear, dynamic, delicate, and flexible human body. This article discusses the recent rapid pace of development in the field of cybernetics with special emphasis on the important role that flexible and electrically active materials have played therei
A Morphological Analysis of Ergonomic Design Reconfigurations for Crutch Versatility in the Environment of Use
No full textNowadays, there are complications in the environments where the crutch is being used, which cause discomfort for users throughout the use and therapy period. There are many flaws in cities’ infrastructure. Using a simple search on the internet, it can be claimed that standard crutches have an array of design faults and ergonomic problems, and users seek to fix the problems with non-industrial solutions and home treatments. For this reason, various accessories for crutches are being produced, and even designers have proposed new types of crutches as replacements. However, the majority of them still didn’t pass the human-centered research procedure.Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.Applied Ergonomics and Desig
Synthesis and spectroscopic identification of a new series of 2-iminothia-zolidin-4-one compounds from aromatic heterocyclic primary amines
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