445 research outputs found
The Bayesian estimators of polytomous item response theory models with approximated conditional likelihood and their mathematical optimalities
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Time sense: cultural difference and the creation, construction and reception of animated film
No full text© 2012 Dr. Takuya SuzukiThis dissertation explores cultural differences in animated film production, investigating the influence of the filmmaker and viewer in the creation, the construction and the sensibility of film. A notion of inter-subjective time is applied to the discussion of microscopic and macroscopic perception of animation movement via 20th century philosophers, such as Edmund Husserl (1859-1938), Henri Bergson (1859-1941), J.M.E. McTaggart (1866-1925), Martin Heidegger (1889-1976), Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908-1961) and Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995). This is an exploration of scientific perspectives of time as well as an investigation of cultural differences in the intentionality and the direction of time to the discussion of international animation phenomena.
Understanding animation as an intersection of human perception, cultural and social movement, the author introduces his theoretical notion, time-sense, which is a combination of subjective and inter-subjective time, giving rise to archetype and our awareness of the quality of slowness and fastness of movement and its tracked shape, this dissertation reconsiders the influence of complex phenomenon of hybridized time-sense, and its close relationship to the microscopic movement of Japanese animation film.
Focusing on the temporal space or ma used in anime series Puella Magi Madoka Magica (2011), the animated film Spirited Away (2001) and The Sky Crawlers (2008) as well as the movement of Hatsune Miku and Japanese video sharing website Nico Nico Dôga, this thesis identifies a cross-cultural/ intercultural time theory in search of more specific understanding of differences and similarities between cultures particularly as it relates to animation
Investigating the Form-Meaning Mapping in the Acquisition of English and Japanese Measure Phrase Comparatives
No full textWe present a set of experiments investigating how English- and Japanese-speaking children interpret Measure Phrase comparatives (e.g., X is 10 meters taller than Y / X-wa Y-yori 10-meters takai). We show that despite overt cues to the comparative interpretation (i.e., the comparative -er morpheme in English, and explicit linguistic and visual reference to a contextual standard), children representing both languages diverge from their adult counterparts in that they access a non-adult-like ‘absolute measurement’ interpretation (i.e., X is 10 meters tall). We propose to account for their response pattern by appealing to proposals by Svenonius and Kennedy (2006) and Sawada and Grano (2011) that Meas in the head of the DegP, which houses the differential, selects for an absolute minimal value: zero. We argue that young children appeal to this absolute zero minimum in lieu of the correct derived standard, and must learn to override this value by appealing to the context to set the standard of comparison when interpretation requires them to do so.Peer reviewe
Patentopia: A multi-stage patent extraction platform with disambiguation for certain semantic challenges
No full textBibliographic name disambiguation is an major semantic challenge, but critical to social sciences studies of important intellectual assets. Here we contribute to innovation research in several ways. We show a significant synonym problem in author names and discuss how a pre-processing heuristic step standardizing name variants helps, but homonyms generated with Chinese names are particularly difficult to resolve and manifest in an associated location list. Here we identify a new phenomenon of "onomastic profusion," the frequent use of certain words in firm names for semantic reasons that can confound disambiguation clustering algorithms. We illustrate these concerns with Patentopia, our customized platform accessing the PatentsView portal for the United States Patent and Trademark Office database and available for free academic use. This multi-stage system uses heuristics in concert with the PatentsView clustering process and reports meta-data to further assist analysis. As highly relevant use cases, we illustrate system performance with data derived from two important public innovation programs, I-Corps and Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR), and we close with implications for bibliometric analysis of current patent data.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.Delft Centre for Entrepreneurshi
Position sensitive, continuous wavelength tunable laser based on photopolymerizable cholesteric liquid crystals with an in-plane helix alignment
No full textThis article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and AIP Publishing. This article appeared in Hiroyuki Yoshidaa, Yo Inoue, Takuya Isomura, Yuko Matsuhisa, Akihiko Fujii, and Masanori Ozaki, Appl. Phys. Lett. 94, 093306 (2009) and may be found at https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3089846.Position sensitive lasing with continuous wavelength tunability and emission in the cell-plane direction is demonstrated from a photopolymerized cholesteric liquid crystal film. The device has a gradually dilating helix lying in the cell-plane direction and is fabricated by applying a vertical electric field in a conventionally rubbed wedge cell while cooling the sample from the isotropic phase. Tuning range of ~ 100 nm is achieved by translating the device with respect to the pump beam. Photopolymerizable materials are especially useful in this configuration since a freestanding film, not requiring any external voltage to maintain the molecular ordering, can be prepared
Requirement for STAT3 and its target, TFCP2L1, in self-renewal of naïve pluripotent stem cells in vivo and in vitro.
No full textWe previously demonstrated gradual loss of epiblast during diapause in embryos lacking components of the LIF/IL6 receptor. Here, we explore the requirement for the downstream signalling transducer andactivator of transcription STAT3 and its target, TFCP2L1, in maintenance of naïve pluripotency. Unlike conventional markers, such as NANOG, which remains high in epiblast until implantation, both STAT3 and TFCP2L1 proteins decline during blastocyst expansion, but intensify in the embryonic region after induction of diapause, as observed visually and confirmed using our image-analysis pipeline, consistent with our previous transcriptional expression data. Embryos lacking STAT3 or TFCP2L1 underwent catastrophic loss of most of the inner cell mass during the first few days of diapause, indicating involvement of signals in addition to LIF/IL6 for sustaining naïve pluripotency in vivo. By blocking MEK/ERK signalling from the morula stage, we could derive embryonic stem cells with high efficiency from STAT3 null embryos, but not those lacking TFCP2L1, suggesting a hitherto unknown additional role for this essential STAT3 target in transition from embryo to embryonic stem cells in vitro. This article has an associated First Person interview with the first author of the paper
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