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I prototipi di Yasmeen Lari: diffusione e valore sociale di due moduli abitativi
No full textIl contributo propone la rilettura critica di due prototipi abitativi di Yasmeen Lari, rivelatori di un approccio progettuale trasversale capace di integrare nozioni di giustizia sociale e ambientale, democratizzare la concezione di spazio e costruzione, traducendo e trovando sintesi nelle architetture progettate dall’architetta pakistana e nella loro diffusione. Un primo fuoco riflette su matericità e riproducibilità dei prototipi abitativi, sottolineando la complementarità tra le esperienze fisiche e digitali. Un secondo fuoco riflette sul potenziale
di queste architetture nel diventare uno strumento di empowerment per le donne, sviluppando la tematica dell’integrazione in una prospettiva gender-sensitive. In ultima analisi il testo analizza l’impatto di queste architetture minime per la comunità che le accoglie.The contribution proposes the critical reinterpretation of two housing prototypes by Yasmeen Lari, revealing a transversal design approach capable of integrating notions of social and environmental justice, democratizing the conception of space and construction, translating and finding a synthesis in the designed architectures and their diffusion. A first focus reflects on the materiality and reproducibility of housing prototypes, underlining the complementarity between physical and digital experiences. The second focus, dealing with the issue of integrating a gender-sensitive perspective, reflects on the potential of these architectures in becoming an empowerment tool for women. Ultimately, the text opens up to the impact of these minimal architectures on the society that welcomes them
Hair removal and Animal Husbandry Method
No full textPATENT: P. I. Hynd, N. M. Penno. US 2005/0072372 A1 filed Aug 19, 2004; published Apr 7, 2005.Long term removal of hair is achieved by delivering a collagen cleaving agent intradermally or subdermally. This is thought to disrupt the fine collagen network anchoring the hair follicles within the dermis and additionally by altering the normal functioning of the dermal papilla cells located in the base of the hair follicle. The method of removal is applicable to animal husbandry methods such as maintaining the breech of sheep hairless and thus has application as a substitute to mulesing. The method is also applicable for cosmetic hair removal.Invented by P. I. Hynd, N. M. Penno; Coleman Sudol Sapone agents for inventors.http://www.patentlens.net/patentlens/patent/US_2005_0072372_A1/en
A Multi-Language Comparison of Influences on Author Verification using Character N-Grams
No full textWe create a new multi-language corpus for author verification based on Wikipedia talkpages, and evaluate the influence that differences in topic and time have on character n-gram author profiles. Topic alignment between two texts is found to increase author verification precision, and an authors writing style is found to change over time, but not more significantly after 3 years than after 1 year.Information ArchitectureWISElectrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Scienc
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
No full textWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
The vanishing author in computer-generated works: a critical analysis of recent Australian case law
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The use of software is ubiquitous in the creation of many copyright works, yet the requirement in copyright law that every work have a human author who engages in independent intellectual effort means that its use may prevent copyright subsistence. Several recent Australian cases have refocused attention on authorship as an essential criterion of copyright subsistence, and these cases suggest that much computer-produced output may be authorless and thus lack copyright protection. This article, the first in a two-part series, analyses how each case deals with the question of authorship of computer-produced works and why the use of software diminishes copyright protection for a significant number of computer-generated works. The article critiques the application of conventional notions of human authorship developed in the pre-computer age to modern productions and suggests alternative approaches to authorship that satisfy both the major objectives of copyright policy and the need to adapt to the computer age. The article argues that, without a broader judicial approach to authorship of computer-generated works, Parliament must remedy the lacuna in protection for these ‘authorless’ works. Possible solutions for reform are suggested. In a forthcoming article, the author comprehensively examines those reform proposals
Diffusive author(s), cohesive author: Analysis of S/N (1994)
No full textThis study indicates the ways in which various aspects of the author(s) are brought forth in Dumb type’s performance art, the S/N production. Previous research has suggested a non-hierarchical organization of Dumb type and the absence of a “privileged author” in Dumb type’s collaborative work, S/N. However, the results that I have investigated from member’s interviews on the creative process of S/N along with my analysis of the recorded images of S/N, indicate a different aspect of the author(s). First, S/N was created through, so to speak, the collective ideas of the members of Dumb type. Further, S/N has at least nine quotations from previous performances, installations, and printed writings, besides the work-in-progress technique. Explicating one of the “author functions” as given by Michel Foucault, each text has plural subjects of the author. However, it has been revealed from members’ interviews that Teiji Furuhashi had a decision-making role in selecting the members’ ideas within the performance. Since then, S/N has had plural subjects of creation; however, Furuhashi is one of the subjects of creation along with the “privileged author.” S/N has plural authors (diffusive authors) yet at the same time, it has a “privileged author,” Teiji Furuhashi (cohesive author)
Non-prototypicality by (discontinuous) reduplication: the N-non-N construction in Italian
No full textThis paper contributes to the research on the morphological expression of approximation by analysing the discontinuous reduplication pattern N-non-N in Italian, giving rise to complex nominals (e.g., sapone non sapone, lit. soap NEG soap, ‘non-soap/soap-free cleanser’). The analysis is based on a dataset of 4609 tokens and 692 types extracted from corpora and annotated for orthographical, phonological and categorical parameters. Given its unpredictable formal and semantic properties, N-non-N is analysed as a semi-schematic and productive construction, which is hypothesized to have emerged microdiachronically from the entrenchment and reanalysis of the expression tessuto non tessuto ‘nonwoven fabric’. We claim that the N-non-N construction bears a general function of ‘non-prototypicality’ and produces expressions with complex and specific meanings that are generated in context, by deviating from the ‘prototypical’ N concept in various ways. Despite its productivity, very few N-non-N expressions are conventionalised, making this device similar to other approximative strategies and to evaluative morphology in general
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