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Author Meets Reader: Not the Marrying Kind: A Feminist Critique of Same-Sex Marriage
No full textThis is an audio recording of an author meets reader session held at the SLSA Annual Conference, University of York, 27 March 2013. Nicola Barker's book, Not the Marrying Kind: A Feminist Critique of Same-Sex Marriage, was the winner of the 2013 Hart SLSA Book Prize. In the session she introduces the book and then engages in discussion about it with Daniel Monk
Author Meets Reader Session: 'Not the Marrying Kind'
No full textThis is an audio recording of an author meets reader session held at the SLSA Annual Conference, University of York, 27 March 2013. Nicola Barker's book, Not the Marrying Kind: A Feminist Critique of Same-Sex Marriage, was the winner of the 2013 Hart SLSA Book Prize. In the session she introduces the book and then engages in discussion about it with Daniel Monk
Dingkong – the blogger monk in Southern China
No full textSocial media became a defining feature of the new China after the late 1980s. That is also the time when Han Buddhism was offered a new public visibility and engaged in a modernizing process that has influenced modalities of preaching and practice. Nevertheless, Buddhism is still framed within the official scheme and must “serve the Party.” This renewed and yet politically constrained environment is where the monk Dingkong (1976–present) has been educated and is now preaching
Monk Picnic
No full textOn his first day in Bhutan, the author remembers witnessing a sunrise and meeting monk Tenzin. They embark on a journey to a monk picnic, welcomed warmly by Buddhist nuns into a van. The author’s clumsy attempt to offer khadar causes laughter, but the accomplished master kindly corrects him. They enjoy a colorful feast, share laughter, and forget their ride home. Tenzin expresses gratitude, and the author reciprocates, walking back, shoes muddy but heart aglow. The author considers the sunset\u27s promise of many more suns and moons to come in the Kingdom. A tale of friendship, laughter, humility and cultural exchange
The Monk Line Segmentation (MLS) Dataset
No full text<p>Overview</p>
<p>The MLS dataset available from this page consists of 31 handwritten page scans. The dataset contains medieval, historical and contemporary manuscripts, and has the purpose of testing line-segmentation algorithms. The collection contains a wide variation of the common problems in handwriting recognition: lines with overlapping ascenders/descenders, slightly rotated scans and curved base lines. <br>
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<p>The MLS dataset was collected from the Monk system as of Friday May 17 14:15:04 CEST 2013. It was collected by Lambert Schomaker in May 2013 at the Institution of Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Engineering (ALICE), University of Gronigen. </p>
<p>The tar.gz file contains the image dataset for historical manuscripts. For more details please refer to the README file in the tar.gz file. The dataset downloaded for research use only. © 2013 Copyright. <br>
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<p>@INPROCEEDINGS{Surinta:2014:ICFHR,<br>
author = {O. Surinta and M. Holtkamp and M. F. Karaaba and JP. van Oosten and L. R. B. Schomaker and M. A. Wiering},<br>
title = {A* Path Planning for Line Segmentation of Handwritten Documents},<br>
booktitle = {Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition (ICFHR), 2014 14th International Conference on},<br>
year = {2014},<br>
month = {Sep},<br>
pages = {175-180},<br>
numpages = {6},<br>
isbn = {978-1-4799-4335-7},<br>
issn = {2167-6445},<br>
publisher = {IEEE},<br>
doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICFHR.2014.37},<br>
}</p>
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TEI Texts that Play Nicely: Lessons from the MONK Project
No full textText curation, like most human endeavors, requires tools. A technique developed for the MONK Project, schema harvesting, provides a useful platform for facilitating the digital conversion and curation of text corpora. The author describes Abbot, an XSLT-based application that has had success in converting various Text Creation Partnership collections, and others, during and after MONK
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No full textText curation, like most human endeavors, requires tools. A technique developed for the MONK Project, schema harvesting, provides a useful platform for facilitating the digital conversion and curation of text corpora. The author describes Abbot, an XSLT-based application that has had success in converting various Text Creation Partnership collections, and others, during and after MONK
Thelonious Monk, le sculpteur de silence
No full textIci, je ne parle pas en spécialiste du jazz, je prends appui sur le jazz pour questionner l’anthropologie et l’usage qu'elle fait de la notion de croyance. Ici, je ne parle pas de Thelonious Monk mais de « Thelonious Monk », c'est-à-dire du pianiste et de sa réputation. Renonçant à une perspective descriptive de type immanentiste, écartant les termes de la coopération artistique comme facteur d’explication, je me tourne vers l’interaction. Comment une croyance en « Thelonious Monk » est-elle activée dans les instants ritualisés d'une mise en présence ? J’isole quelques-uns de ces instants et je scrute la formation des croyances plutôt que leur contenu. Sans s’y réduire, notre rapport à « Thelonious Monk » passe par des instances qui sont nommées. J'en ai choisi trois parmi une infinité de possibles – improvisation, intériorité, silence –, trois instances qui, loin de nous être livrées par une nature omnipotente, sont elles-mêmes le produit de nos constructions culturelles.Thelonious Monk, The Sculptor of Silence. – Herein, the author does not adopt the stance of a specialist in jazz but, instead, uses jazz in order to raise questions about anthropology and its use of the notion of “belief”. Herein, he does not discuss Thelonious Monk as such but, instead, the pianist and his reputation. Refusing an immanent sort of description and avoiding recourse to “artistic cooperation” as an explanatory factor, he focuses on interaction. How is a belief in “Thelonious Monk” activated in the ritualized moments of a presence? A few of these moments are isolated; and the forming of beliefs rather than their contents, examined. Our relation to Thelonious Monk involves three elements (selected out of an infinity) – improvisation, “interiority”, silence – that, far from being delivered to us by an omnipotent nature, are, themselves, the product of our cultural constructions
Stable Isotopes Confirm a Coastal Diet for Critically Endangered Mediterranean Monk Seals
No full textUnderstanding the ecology and behaviour of endangered species is essential for developing effective management and conservation strategies.We used stable isotope analysis to investigate the foraging behaviour of critically endangered Mediterranean monk seals (Monachus monachus) in Greece.We measured carbon and nitrogen isotope ratios (expressed as δ13C and δ15N values, respectively) derived from the hair of deceased adult and juvenile seals and the muscle of their known prey to quantify their diets.We tested the hypothesis that monk seals primarily foraged for prey that occupy coastal habitats in Greece.We compared isotope values from seal hair to their coastal and pelagic prey (after correcting all prey for isotopic discrimination) and used these isotopic data and a stable isotope mixing model to estimate the proportion of coastal and pelagic resources consumed by seals. As predicted, we found that seals had similar δ13C values as many coastal prey species and higher δ13C values than pelagic species; these results, in conjunction with mean dietary estimates (coastal = 61 % vs. pelagic = 39 %), suggest that seals have a diverse diet comprising prey from multiple trophic levels that primarily occupy the coast. Marine resource managers should consider using the results from this study to inform the future management of coastal habitats in Greece to protect Mediterranean monk seals
Fascination „Monk”: Richard Voss’s novella The Monk of Berchtesgaden (1891) in its relationship to Matthew Gregory Lewis’ novel The Monk (1796) and Ambrose Bierce’s tale The Monk and the Hangman’s Daughter (1892)
No full textBestselling author Richard Voss was one of the literary pioneers of naturalism in the German Empire. Until the 1880s he wrote numerous naturalistic works. Among those works there is the now forgotten tale Der Mönch von Berchtesgaden which had been translated into English by Ambrose Bierce. Bierce’s version The Monk and the Hangman’s Daughter became successful. The new punch line of the translation indicates that Bierce was familiar with Voss’s most important literary source: Matthew Gregory Lewis’s famous novel The Monk. The essay examines the so far unnoticed connection between those three texts and Lewis’s impact on the naturalistic period
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