427 research outputs found
"Re-collecting" Caravan: an Architecturalisation of the New Zealand Cultural Relic
No full text“Re-collecting” Caravan re-interprets caravaning as the basis of a 21st century New Zealand vernacular architecture. Two themes run through this thesis: the caravan as an article of nostalgia, and the caravan in architecture as marginal. The final design outcome is a new typology of holidaying vessels within New Zealand’s camping grounds. This thesis begins with the specific history of the caravan within New Zealand and the facts that surround the reality of caravaning in today’s society: the caravan has become a celebrated cultural relic of our recent past of which is now continually used as a symbol or icon of New Zealand. A fear for the loss of the caravan as a living holiday reality sparked a cultural nostalgia and the foundations for this research. To prevent the loss of the adored functional domestic vessel, the caravan was next analysed for its compositional and phenomenal attributes of which could later help inform an architectural response. It was the ‘retro’ aesthetic combined with the fact that ephemeral cultural artefacts (such as the caravan) do not typically ‘belong’ in the architectural realm that bought about the second theme. Kitsch as a by-product of a re-interpreted retro artefact is addressed before moving on to the design process and final design.
Although orientated specifically toward the caravan, this thesis addresses the wider issues of celebrating and liberating the architectural influences of the margins. It deals with kitsch, lifestyles, nostalgia, miniature, popular culture, media, tourism, mobility, and iconism
Ancient caravan routes of Western Saryarka
No full textThe article examinesthe ancient caravan and overland routesthat passed through Saryarka and other areasof the Kazakh Steppe.The purposeof the study isto investigatethe caravan routesof the Late and Medieval periods that passed throughthe western partof Saryarka, particularlythe Turgai Steppe. The paper revealsthe historical significanceof the Ulytau—Turgai Steppe asan important link between Siberia and Central Asia since ancient times, providing data on 19th century caravan routes. The articlealso analyzesseveral medieval historical eventsassociated with these routes, such as Tamerlane's campaign against Khan Tokhtamysh in 1391,the Sibanid campaign againstthe Ulytau in 1582, and the journeyof the Italian ambassador Rubruk in1252—1253.The author demonstrates that these events followed the same route, particularlythe section passing through Betpakdala. Based on this research, the author proposes a new perspective on Guillaume de Rubruck's journey throughthe Kazakh Steppe.The caravan and overland trailshave been mapped andare presented for studyby the historical community. The study employedthe methodologiesof field ethnography and comparative historical analysis
Caravan At The Edge Of The World
No full textDuring a windswept caravan holiday with Dean’s parents Sara has to decide between true love and her place at Universit
Lacey Erickson with the Twins Caravan
No full textThe Minnesota Twins Caravan stopped through Grand Forks and UND\u27s Lacey Erickson caught up with Manager Ron Gardenhire (recently named the 2010 American League Manager of the Year), hitting coach Joe Vavra, pitcher Jeff Manship, and catcher Drew Butera.
If you didn\u27t know, MN Twins President Dave St. Peter is a UND graduate, Class of 1989, as well as Bismarck, ND, native
An Introspection: Get the Caravan Moving
No full textThe author\u27s reflection about cultural activism and his role and involvement in the Afrikan Hiphop Caravan, in particular the experiences he collected along the road, travelling with the comrades
"Nats!" - Peter Costello sitting with Meg Lees insects flying over their heads, Costello is holding a G.S.T. paper with caravan park renters tax assistance package $33.M, 2000 [picture] /
No full textTitle devised by cataloguer.; Published in the Canberra Times on 24 June 2000.; Part of the Pryor collection of cartoons and drawings.; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn5013342."Nats!" - Peter Costello sitting with Meg Lees insects flying over their heads, Costello is holding a G.S.T. paper with caravan park renters tax assistance package $33,000,000, 2000 [picture
The Afrikan Hiphop Caravan: Building a Revolutionary Counterculture
No full textIn this article, the author provides a brief outline of the lessons to be learned from a decade of Hip Hop activism on the African continent. In addition to providing a short historical overview of the roots of the Afrikan Hiphop Caravan, he outlines the vision of the project: the creation of a coherent Afrikan Hiphop Movement based upon a strategic orientation towards social movements of the working class and the oppressed
Code accompanying the paper "Bayesian wavelet de-noising with the caravan prior"
No full textThe code implements the wavelet de-noising method with caravan prior from Gugushvili et al. (2018). A synthetic data example (de-noising the Bumps signal) is provided.</p
Bayesian wavelet de-noising with the caravan prior
No full textAccording to both domain expert knowledge and empirical evidence, wavelet coefficients of real signals tend to exhibit clustering patterns, in that they contain connected regions of coefficients of similar magnitude (large or small). A wavelet de-noising approach that takes into account such a feature of the signal may in practice outperform other, more vanilla methods, both in terms of the estimation error and visual appearance of the estimates. Motivated by this observation, we present a Bayesian approach to wavelet de-noising, where dependencies between neighbouring wavelet coefficients are a priori modelled via a Markov chain-based prior, that we term the caravan prior. Posterior computations in our method are performed via the Gibbs sampler. Using representative synthetic and real data examples, we conduct a detailed comparison of our approach with a benchmark empirical Bayes de-noising method (due to Johnstone and Silverman). We show that the caravan prior fares well and is therefore a useful addition to the wavelet de-noising toolbox
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