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Henri Temianka Correspondence; (p.p. chiu)
No full textThis collection contains material pertaining to the life, career, and activities of Henri Temianka, violin virtuoso, conductor, music teacher, and author. Materials include correspondence, concert programs and flyers, music scores, photographs, and books.https://digitalcommons.chapman.edu/temianka_correspondence/3693/thumbnail.jp
Installatierede van de Technische Commissie voor de Waterkeringen
No full textRede uitgesproken bij de installatie van de Technische Adviescommissie voor de Waterkeringen door de Minister van Verkeer en Waterstaat, J.G. Suurhoff, en het antwoord van de voorzitter van de TAW op deze rede, prof.ir. P.P. Jansen. De commissie werd ingesteld naar aanleiding van de overstromingen in Tuindorp-Oostzaan in 1960. De commissie is officieel ingesteld op 31 mei 1965, maar de installatierede is in Augustus van dat jaar uitgesprokenTAW/EN
Famous Stories from Panchatantra
No full textI just wrote a few hours ago, a propos of Selected Stories from Panchatantra, that it was curious that the same publisher put out two Panchatantra books by the same author but different illustrators within about four years of each other. Then again, there is yet another Panchatantra book within this series pictured on the back cover of this book! And this is that book pictured on that back cover! It matches its series mate in format: 7 x 9¼. It has the same author, illustrator, and length of 120 pages. It offers 38 numbered fables. There is again a T of C on 3-4. Among many old friends, I have enjoyed reading Jackal Remains Jackal (13). A lioness brings up a jackal with her cubs but notices that the jackal hangs back while the cubs attack an elephant. The lioness tells the jackal what he is and tells him that her cubs will never tolerate the company of a coward. The talkative tortoise here flies with swans (58). The foolish monkeys blow on their non-fire with bamboo pipes (66). La Fontaine's cunning old cat judges between the squirrel and the mouse on 115-18. The curious monkey on 118 loses his tail in the split log. The cover proclaims Illustrated in Colour, and there are one or two larger-than-half-page colored illustrations for each of the stories. Most curious of them may be the detailed presentation of the bedbug and the mosquito on the fat king's bed (29). The most dramatic may be the crab's throttling of the crane in mid-air on 91.Retold by Rashmi Jaiswa
Revealed likelihood and knightian uncertainty
No full textexpected utility theory;uncertainty;revealed preference
Copyright, Creativity, Big Media and Cultural Value: Incorporating the Author by Kathy Bowrey
No full textKathy Bowrey, Copyright, Creativity, Big Media and Cultural Value: Incorporating the Author. London and New York: Routledge. 2021. p.p.218, ISBN: 9780367192068. £120 Hardback; £36.99 E-book
Selected Stories from Panchatantra
No full textIt is curious that the same publisher put out two Panchatantra books by the same author but different illustrators within about four years of each other. Then again, there is yet another Panchatantra book within this series pictured on the back cover of this book! This slightly smaller-format (7 x 9¼) paperback is like Alka's Panchatantra Stories, for which I guessed a date of 2001. It offers 31 numbered fables on 120 pages. There is a T of C on 3-4. This collection features standard Panchatantra stories. New to me is a story prominently pictured on the book's cover: Greed and the Strange Wheel (16) has four friends searching for wealth. The last of them, too greedy to want to share the others' wealth, encounters a man who like him had been searching for diamonds. This man has a wheel revolving around his bloody head. Finding this new searcher at last relieves him of his burden, and now the new victim must wait for another greedy searcher to come. Again here, GGE appears as a Panchatantra story (23), as does MSA (39), again with a washerman as protagonist. On 73, a weaver with a wish to be granted is prevailed upon by his wife to ask for two more hands; the villagers think he is some evil spirit and beat him to death. The second-to-last story involves an iron bar that is allegedly eaten by mice (111). The cover proclaims Illustrated in Colour, and there are one or two larger-than-half-page colored illustrations for each of the stories.Retold by Rashmi Jaiswa
P.P. Bazhov’s style in his fairy tales’ English translations
No full textМагистерская диссертация посвящена анализу англоязычных переводов сказов П.П. Бажова. В работе рассматриваются особенности языка автора (экспрессивная, просторечная, профессиональная лексика, диалектизмы, намеренные нарушения речевых норм, активное использование уменьшительных суффиксов). Выделяются основные переводческие приемы и способы их передачи на английский язык.The master’s thesis presents an analysis of the English translations of P.P. Bazhov’s fairy tales. It describes the author’s language peculiarities (namely colloquial, expressive and original local vocabulary, professional mining vocabulary, advised deviances, using diminutives). The author highlights the main translation techniques being used in the fairy tales’ English translations
Biostratigraphical characteristics of the Turonian-?Maastrichtian p.p. (Upper Cretaceous) deposits in the Simbruini-Ernici Mts. (central Apennines, Italy)
No full textThe biostratigraphical characteristics of three sequences outcropping in the Simbruini-Ernici Mts. are discussed in order to reconstruct the lithobiofacies evolution of the Central-Western Latium-Abruzzi carbonate platform during the Turonian-? Maastrichtian p.p.. For each section the macro- and microbiofacies are discussed, with the former characterized by the presence of rudists (Hippuritoida). The occurrence in the neighborhood of some fossiliferous beds of particular biostratigraphical value, us to make correlations with other areas. -Author
Academic authorship: who, why and in what order?
No full textWe are frequently asked by our colleagues and students for advice on authorship for scientific articles. This short paper outlines some of the issues that we have experienced and the advice we usually provide. This editorial follows on from our work on submitting a paper1 and also on writing an academic paper for publication.2 We should like to start by noting that, in our view, there exist two separate, but related issues: (a) authorship and (b) order of authors. The issue of authorship centres on the notion of who can be an author, who should be an author and who definitely should not be an author, and this is partly discipline specific. The second issue, the order of authors, is usually dictated by the academic tradition from which the work comes. One can immediately envisage disagreements within a multi-disciplinary team of researchers where members of the team may have different approaches to authorship order
Active Grasp Synthesis for Grasping Unknown Objects
No full textManipulation is a key feature for robots which are designed to work in daily environments like homes, offices and streets. These robots do not often have manipulators that are specialized for specific tasks, but grippers that can grasp the target object. This makes grasping a crucial ability that enables many manipulation tasks. Robotic grasping is a complex process with various aspects: design of the gripper, detecting grasping points/regions that lead to a stable grasp (grasp synthesis), avoiding surrounding objects while executing the grasp (obstacle avoidance), detecting task related features of the object, altering the pose of the object to free up graspable regions (pre-grasp manipulation) are some of these aspects. In order to maintain a robust grasping system, all these aspects should work in harmony, aid each other and preferably cover each others mistakes. Among these aspects, vision based grasp synthesis for unknown objects forms a large portion of the robotic grasping literature. These algorithms deal with the problem of detecting grasping points or regions on a target object without an object shape model supplied a priori; instead they utilize visual information provided by the robot's sensors. The majority of these algorithms use one single image of the target object for grasp synthesis, and make implicit or explicit assumptions on the missing shape information of the target object. The missing information is a function of the shape of the object as well as the viewpoint of the vision sensor. So far in literature, there is no reliable grasp synthesis algorithm that can cope with the missing shape information and provide successful grasp synthesis for a large variety of objects and viewpoints. This thesis proposes a novel framework in which grasp synthesis process is coupled with active vision strategies in order to relax the assumptions on the viewpoint of the vision sensor and increase grasp success rate. Unlike prior work which considers grasp synthesis as a passive data analysis process that uses only the provided image of the target object, the proposed framework introduces strategies to improve the quality of the data by leading the sensor to viewpoints by which the grasp synthesis algorithms can generate higher quality grasps. With such a strategy, the burden of the grasp synthesis algorithms is shared with an active vision stage which boosts their success rates. Within the framework two novel methodologies are presented each of which utilizes a different active vision strategy. In the first methodology, local viewpoint optimization methods are analyzed; an extremum seeking control based optimization method is utilized to optimize the viewpoint of the sensor locally by maximizing the grasp quality value continuously. This methodology is easy to implement as it does not necessitate any prior training, but it has a risk of getting stuck at local optima. With this method up to 94\% success rate has been achieved for power grasps. However, it is observed that, noise on the grasp quality value and not being able to avoid local optima affect the performance negatively. In the second methodology, supervised learning algorithms are used to obtain an exploration policy. This strategy has a lower risk of getting stuck at local optima, but requires a training process. Furthermore, with this strategy, the information acquired during the process can be fused, and assumption on the missing object shape data can be relaxed significantly. The experimental results show that the strategy is superior than heuristic based and random search techniques in terms of both success rate and efficiency. With the proposed framework, we hope to encourage a new way of thinking about the grasp synthesis problem by introducing the use of active vision tools. We believe such an approach can have significant contribution for solving this challenging robotics problem.BioMechanical EngineeringMechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineerin
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