273 research outputs found
The Bust of Ottavio Farnese at the J. Paul Getty Museum: An Addition to the Corpus of Giovanni Battista della Porta
No full textThe various sculpted busts of Ottavio Farnese (1524–86), duke of Parma and Piacenza, are still at the center of debates of attribution. Focusing on the bust in Carrara marble in the collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, the author proposes a new attribution to Lombard-born sculptor Giovanni Battista della Porta (1542–97), one of the protagonists of the Roman artistic scene in the second half of the sixteenth century. While archival sources attest to Della Porta’s ambition to work in the service of the duke and to Farnese’s awareness of the sculptor’s artistic achievements, the attribution is largely based on comparisons with Della Porta’s works. Finally, the author discusses hypotheses related to the dating of the bust, the occasion of its creation, its original location in Parma, and the bust’s movements prior to its entry into the Getty collection
Museum malpractice as corporate crime? The case of the J. Paul Getty Museum
No full textWithin a corporate criminological framework, this paper examines the antiquities acquisition policies and activities of the J. Paul Getty Museum particularly during the curatorship of Marion True, whose indictment by the Italian government was part of a broader investigation into the trade of illicitly obtained Italian antiquities. Specifically, we employ two theoretical perspectives – that of differential association and anomie – to examine malpractice among Getty officers and suggest that both museum cultures and the psychology of collecting may in fact be criminogenic. In light of such criminological insight, we conclude the paper with suggestions for broad reforms of museum governance
From Wunderkammern to Kinect: The Creation of 'Shadow Worlds'
No full textThis paper focuses on two projects, Still Life No. 1 and Shadow Worlds | Writers' Rooms [Brontë Parsonage], to reveal the creative approaches the authors take to site, technology, and the self in their production of shadow worlds as sites of wonder. Informed by the uncanny (re-animation and the double) and an interest in the limen (thresholds in the real and virtual realms), the projects explore white light and infrared digital 3D scanning technologies as tools for capture and transformation. The authors will discuss how they suture the past with the present and ways that light slips secretly between us, revealing other realms
A new book on stalinism by J. Arch Getty = Новая монография Дж. А. Гетти о сталинизме
No full textThe author reviews the latest monograph by J. Arch Getty, Professor of History at the University of California at Los Angeles, which offers a new installment in his long running inquiry into the practices of repression and power under Josef Stali
A new book on stalinism by J. Arch Getty = Новая монография Дж. А. Гетти о сталинизме
No full textThe author reviews the latest monograph by J. Arch Getty, Professor of History at the University of California at Los Angeles, which offers a new installment in his long running inquiry into the practices of repression and power under Josef Stali
Perinatal choline status, metabolism, and brain development in the piglet
No full textSubmission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2017-12-01Although recognized as an essential nutrient in 1998, more than 90% of adults (including pregnant women) in the United States are consuming choline at levels below recommendations. Choline is required for normal neurodevelopment; but, there is relatively little research evaluating the impact of maternal choline intake on infant or childhood health, development, or intelligence outcomes. Numerous rodent studies have reported diminished performance in learning and memory tasks of offspring following choline deficiency during gestation; however, rodents may not be the most appropriate model to study early life choline status. As such, pigs were chosen as a translational model for the human infant due to striking similarities in digestive physiology, neuroanatomy, and neurodevelopmental trajectory. We hypothesized that pigs would exhibit several negative effects of choline deficiency such as: metabolic and clinical health outcomes similar to humans, learning and memory outcomes similar to rodents, and long-term neurodevelopmental and growth delays.
In order to evaluate these hypotheses, two similar experiments were conducted. For both experiments, sows were provided either a choline deficient (CD) or choline sufficient (CS) diet for the last 65 d of gestation (prenatal intervention). Piglets were weaned from the sow 48 h after farrowing and provided either a CD or CS milk replacer (postnatal intervention) for 29 ± 2 d, resulting in a factorial arrangement of 4 treatment (prenatal/postnatal) groups: CS/CS, CS/CD, CD/CS, and CD/CD. To evaluate long-term impacts of choline deficiency, half of the littermate piglets in the second experiment were transferred to standard University of Illinois swine production diets at 29 ± 1 d until 89 ± 2 d of age. The first experiment evaluated the metabolomic and clinical health outcomes of perinatal choline deficiency in neonatal piglets. Overall, the piglet appears to be a sensitive model for choline deficiency during the perinatal period, as piglets did exhibit clinical health outcomes similar to humans. Specifically, liver enzymes such as ALP and GGT were elevated in postnatally CD piglets as compared to their postnatally CS counterparts. Additionally, plasma cholesterol concentrations were lower in postnatally CD piglets as compared to postnatally CS piglets, suggesting impaired VLDL excretion from the liver. In the second experiment, neurodevelopment and function were evaluated using magnetic resonance imaging procedures (macrostructural analysis, voxel-based morphometry, diffusion tensor imaging, and magnetic resonance spectroscopy) and cognitive performance in a spatial T-maze learning and memory task. We observed that perinatal choline deficiency delays brain development in terms of both overall brain size and white matter maturation, and alters hippocampal metabolite concentrations, but learning and memory performance was only minimally impacted. Additionally, long-term growth performance and health outcomes were evaluated. Provision of CS diets following the neonatal period reversed many of the observed negative impacts of perinatal choline in piglets; however, differences in growth performance persisted in older pigs. Taken together, maternal and early postnatal choline intake have both short- and long-term impacts on overall health status and growth performance of domestic pigs.The student, Caitlyn Getty, accepted the attached license on 2015-12-01 at 10:17.The student, Caitlyn Getty, submitted this Dissertation for approval on 2015-12-01 at 10:19.This Dissertation was approved for publication on 2015-12-02 at 11:31.DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #8888 on 2016-03-02 at 14:07:23Made available in DSpace on 2016-03-02T20:24:03Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2
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The Economic Value of Sangiran Museum, Central Java, Indonesia Application of Travel Cost Method
No full textThis research is an application travel cost method (TCM) at Sangiran Museum which aims to estimate the total value of
benefit for visitors Sangiran Museum, willingness to pay (WTP) visitors to the activities of the addition of new facilities at the
Sangiran Museum and analysed factors that affect the significant impact on the level of visits per 1000 population per year to the
Sangiran Museum. This sample size was 180 people, the election is done by way of probability sampling. The results of this study
indicate that the total value of benefits at Sangiran Museum admission fee is equal to zero for Rp. 728,013,743.7 (USD 80,890.42),
while the total value of benefits per year, Sangiran Museum in admission rates applicable to Rp. 300,- (USD 0.03) to
Rp. 532,788,743.7,- (USD 59,198.75). Magnitude average maximum willingness to pay (WTP) of visitors to the activities of the
addition of new facilities at the Sangiran Museum is Rp. 11,102.63 (USD 1.23). Form of empirical model functions best in this study is
the log-log form. The results of regression analysis showed that the variable cost of travel (LnTC), education (LnEDC), income
(LnNC), distance (LnDIS) and age (LnAGE) significantly affect the level of significance level of 5% of visits per 1000 population per
annum (LnV) the Sangiran Museum.
Keywords— Travel cost method; total benefits; willingness to pay; Sangiran Museum
AI IN MEDICINE: ENABLING INTELLIGENT IMAGING, PROGNOSIS, AND MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY
No full textWhile an extremely rich research field, compared to other applications of AI such as natural language processing (NLP) and image processing/generation, AI in medicine has been much slower to be applied in real-world clinical settings. Often the stakes of failure are more dire, the access of private and proprietary data more costly, and the burden of proof required by expert clinicians is much higher. Beyond these barriers, the often typical data-driven approach towards validation is interrupted by a need for expertise to analyze results. Whereas the results of a trained Imagenet or machine translation model are easily verified by a computational researcher, analysis in medicine can be much more multi-disciplinary demanding. AI in medicine is motivated by a great demand for progress in health-care, but an even greater responsibility for high accuracy, model transparency, and expert validation.This thesis develops machine and deep learning techniques for medical image enhancement, patient outcome prognosis, and minimally invasive robotic surgery awareness and augmentation. Each of the works presented were undertaken in di- rect collaboration with medical domain experts, and the efforts could not have been completed without them. Pursuing medical image enhancement we worked with radiologists, neuroscientists and a neurosurgeon. In patient outcome prognosis we worked with clinical neuropsychologists and a cardiovascular surgeon. For robotic surgery we worked with surgical residents and a surgeon expert in minimally invasive surgery. Each of these collaborations guided priorities for problem and model design, analysis, and long-term objectives that ground this thesis as a concerted effort towards clinically actionable medical AI.
The contributions of this thesis focus on three specific medical domains. (1) Deep learning for medical brain scans: developed processing pipelines and deep learn- ing models for image annotation, registration, segmentation and diagnosis in both traumatic brain injury (TBI) and brain tumor cohorts. A major focus of these works is on the efficacy of low-data methods, and techniques for validation of results without any ground truth annotations. (2) Outcome prognosis for TBI and risk prediction for Cardiovascular Disease (CVD): we developed feature extraction pipelines and models for TBI and CVD patient clinical outcome prognosis and risk assessment. We design risk prediction models for CVD patients using traditional Cox modeling, machine learning, and deep learning techniques. In this works we conduct exhaustive data and model ablation study, with a focus on feature saliency analysis, model transparency, and usage of multi-modal data. (3) AI for enhanced and automated robotic surgery: we developed computer vision and deep learning techniques for understanding and augmenting minimally invasive robotic surgery scenes. We’ve developed models to recognize surgical actions from vision and kinematic data. Beyond model and techniques, we also curated novel datasets and prediction benchmarks from simulated and real endoscopic surgeries. We show the potential for self-supervised techniques in surgery, as well as multi-input and multi-task models
Conservation Management Plan Cheste Workers University Auditorium (Spain). A Getty Foundation Keeping it Modern Grant
No full text[EN] Universidades laborales, or workers¿ universities, were set up throughout Spain during the years of the dictatorship and were aimed at professionally training the working classes. The architect Fernando Moreno Barberá was the author of four centers: those of Las Palmas, 1970¿73, Toledo, 1970¿78, Malaga 1972¿78 and Cheste 1967¿69, his work reflecting an undoubted assimilation of the Modern legacy. Cheste Workers University was a guidance center designed to house as many as 5,000 boarding students of up to 14 years of age. The auditorium, currently closed for safety reasons, is an important architectural symbol and, as such, has been included in the Ministry of Culture¿s National Plan for the Conservation of the 20th Century Heritage. A Conservation Management Plan is currently being drafted on the initiative of the Getty Foundation. This paper explains some details of this initiative and provides a preview of the strategy employed.Jordá Such, C.; Palomares-Figueres, M.; Iborra Bernad, F.; Gradolí-Martínez, C.; Herrero Vicent, P.; Usó-Martín, F. (2020). Conservation Management Plan Cheste Workers University Auditorium (Spain). A Getty Foundation Keeping it Modern Grant. International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences (Online). 44:861-869. https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-XLIV-M-1-2020-861-2020S8618694
Emily Dickinson's "There Came a Wind like a Bugle--": A Singer's Analysis of Song Settings by Ernst Bacon, Lee Hoiby, and Gordon Getty
No full textabstract: Emily Dickinson is a well-known American poet of the nineteenth century, and her oeuvre consists of nearly 2,000 posthumously published poems. Written largely in hymn form with unique ideas of punctuation and grammar, her poetry attracts composers with its inherent musicality. The twentieth-century American composers Aaron Copland, Ernst Bacon, Lee Hoiby, and Gordon Getty have created song settings of Dickinson's poetry. Copland's song cycle Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson (1949-50) is admired by many as an illustration of poetry; however, the Dickinson cycles by Bacon, Hoiby, and Getty are also valuable, lesser-known representations of her writing. Settings of one poem, "There came a Wind like a Bugle--", are common among Copland's Twelve Poems, Bacon's cycle Songs from Emily Dickinson: Nature, Time, and Space (1930), Hoiby's Four Dickinson Songs (1988), and Getty's The White Election (1982). These latter three settings have previously undergone some theoretical analysis; however, this paper considers a performance analysis of these songs from a singer's point of view. Chapter 1 provides background for this study. Chapter 2 consists of a biographical overview of Dickinson's life and writing style, as well as a brief literary analysis of "There came a Wind like a Bugle--". Chapters 3, 4, and 5 discuss Ernst Bacon, Lee Hoiby, and Gordon Getty, respectively; each chapter consists of a short biography of the composer and a discussion of his writing style, a brief theoretical analysis of his song setting, and commentary on the merits of his setting from the point of view of a singer. Observations of the depiction of mood in the song and challenges for the singer are also noted. This paper provides a comparative analysis of three solo vocal settings of one Emily Dickinson poem as a guide for singers who wish to begin studying song settings of this poem. The Bacon and Hoiby settings were found to be lyrical, tonal representations of the imagery presented in "There came a Wind like a Bugle--". The Getty setting was found to be a musically starker representation of the poem's atmosphere. These settings are distinctive and worthy of study and performance.Dissertation/ThesisD.M.A. Music 201
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