40 research outputs found
I remember Estonian community activities at Seabrook
No full textIn this "I remember" memoir, Juhan Simonson of the Estonian American National Council, recalls his youth at Seabrook. He feels grateful that he was welcomed to Seabrook Farms as a World War II refugee from Estonia. He is proud of how well Estonians in the United States worked to establish councils and committees to preserve the Estonian heritage. The Seabrook Educational and Cultural Center has been soliciting current and past residents of Seabrook Farms for an "I remember" project. Residents are asked to create narratives regarding their experiences at Seabrook Farms. These memories help preserve the history and multi-cultural heritage of Seabrook Farms
At Hoover Village Summer 1951
No full textJuhan Simonson, part of the Estonian community at Seabrook Farms, in front of her home at Hoover Village summer of 195
An Attempt to Account for Distributed Cognition in Translating the Poetry of Juhan Viiding
No full textThis article continues the author’s research into the creative process of writing and translating poetry. It is preparatory work for translating the poetry of one of Estonia’s most widely read and appreciated poets, Juhan Viiding (1948–1995), who wrote under the pseudonym Jüri Üdi until 1978. It proposes that an understanding of Viiding’s work is enhanced when viewed in the wider human perspective of distributed cognition, as elaborated by neuroanthropologist Merlin Donald. In contrast to traditional approaches that look to socio-historical background to contextualise literature and translation research, the distributed cognition model places greater emphasis on the creative processes in culture that take place outside individual minds and focuses less on the capacities and talents of the author as the unique source of creativity. This approach is helpful for the translator of Viiding’s poetry who aspires to produce translated poems that do in another language what the original poems do in their language, for it entails thinking through language to access the working of the individual and the collective minds in the text. The significant role that social connections and public reception play in Viiding’s creative work is illustrated by an essay by Elo Viiding, a poet and Juhan Viiding’s daughter, in which she describes nine types of reader of Juhan Viiding’s poetry, each of which creates their own distinct ‘Juhan Viiding’. Drawing on poet and literary critic Hasso Krull’s study of Viiding’s poetry, Elo Viiding analyses Juhan Viiding’s method of negation as essential to his creative work and engagement with his audience. In this article the author lays theoretical groundwork for the translation of Juhan Viiding’s poetry into English
Open space and recreational needs in the Hackensack Meadows
No full textHIGHLIGHTS 4c-1;
CONCEPT OF OPEN SPACE 4c-4;
CONCERN FOR OPEN SPACE 4c-6;
DEMAND FOR OPEN SPACE 4c-8;
OPEN SPACE IN THE NEW YORK METROPOLITAN REGION 4c-10;
DISTRIBUTION OF OPEN SPACE 4c-17;
MAJOR OPEN SPACE PROPOSALS IN THE NEW YORK METROPOLITAN REGION 4c-20;
THE REGIONAL SETTING OF THE MEADOWS 4c-25;
OPEN SPACE - TYPE AND LEVELS OF JURISDICTION 4c-28;
QUANTITATIVE ASPECTS OF OPEN SPACE 4c-31;
OPEN SPACE DEFICIENCIES - MEADOWS AND ITS ENVIRONS 4c-34;
RECREATIONAL ACTIVITIES SUITABLE FOR THE HACKENSACK MEADOWS 4c-42;
EXISTING OPEN SPACE FACILITIES IN THE MEADOWS 4c-45;
OPEN SPACE PROPOSALS - MEADOWS AND ITS IMMEDIATE SURROUNDINGS 4c-50;
OPEN SPACE POTENTIALS IN THE MEADOWS 4c-55
Movement patterns, Hackensack Meadows
No full textPreface 3B-1;
Traffic Volumes ;
Introduction 3B-2;
Historic Trends 3B-6;
AADT Volumes on the Meadows Network 3B-11;
Composition of Traffic 3B-14;
Variations in Volumes 3B-21;
Highway Capacity 3B-22;
Bus Passenger Volumes 3B-29;
Rail Passenger Volumes 3B-40;
Appendix A 3B-45
THE NEW LIFE OF AMEEN RIHANI’S “JUHAN” AS A HYPOTEXT FOR THE HYPERTEXT IN MATHIAS ENARD’S NOVEL “COMPASS”
No full textThe paper aims to reveal the traces of one of the early texts
by Ameen Rihani (a Lebanese bilingual author and representative of
Arabic Emigre Literary School “Mahjar”) the story of “Juhan” in the
popular postmodern novel “Compass” by Mathias Enard (a modern
French Orientalist, writer and translator), which was published in
2015 and awarded the Goncourt Prize in the same year. The presented
scientific work also intends to interpret this text as a new variant
of an intertextual dialogue.
The East-West paradigm follows both the pretext and the hypertext
from beginning to end. In both texts, the East-West binary opposition
is closely intertwined with the stories of happiness achieved
through power and love, the possession of other, and domination
over other. The main idea of the pretext (hypotext) of Ameen Rihani’s
“Juhan” has been somewhat transformed into “Compass.” Although
its historical, geographical and temporal context has changed, it is
still easy to identify it with many hints and clues.
I believe that the choice of the author of “Compass” to employ
the plot of the text published in New York in 1917, must have been the
East-West theme. The novel “Compass” is loaded with the features
characteristic of the Orient, richly saturated with intertexts built on
the East-West controversy
Decision framework for selecting structural strength of new facility on the airbase
No full textSince World War I and II, airbases have become the most high-value targets for the enemy during war. This is because in order to block the enemy's air force, it is a more advantageous strategy to prevent the aircraft from taking off from the airbase than to attack the aircraft in the air. Therefore, when the air force's decision-makers build a facility in which major assets are operated, the structural strength of the building is designed to withstand explosions. Air forces in most countries, including NATO and USDOD, provide design criteria to assist in selecting the appropriate structural strength for new buildings through risk assessments based on traditional probability theory.
The decision prediction model based on the traditional probability theory assumes that the decision-makers have risk-neutral attitude. However, various studies have found that decision-makers are not always risk-neutral, and it has also been confirmed that decision-makers' attitude toward risk have a significant influence on decision-making outcomes. Therefore, the currently used design criteria need to be improved to reflect the decision-makers’ attitude toward risk. This study proposes how to improve the decision-making framework for determining the structural strength of new airbase buildings by applying the utility theory and cumulative prospect theory to capture and reflect decision-makers' attitude toward risk. In addition, through simulation, it will be shown how much the decision-maker's attitude toward risk affects the decision-making outcome in the newly proposed framework.Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2023-05-01The student, Juhan Park, accepted the attached license on 2021-04-28 at 16:40.The student, Juhan Park, submitted this Thesis for approval on 2021-04-28 at 16:55.This Thesis was approved for publication on 2021-04-29 at 15:07.DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #16608 on 2021-09-16 at 20:14:45Made available in DSpace on 2021-09-17T04:06:57Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2
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dim-sim
No full textThe dim-sim dataset is a collection of user-annotated music similarity triplet ratings used to evaluate music similarity search and related algorithms. Our similarity ratings are linked to the Million Song Dataset (MSD) and were collected for the following paper:
Disentangled Multidimensional Metric Learning for Music Similarity
Jongpil Lee, Nicholas J. Bryan, Justin Salamon, Zeyu Jin, and Juhan Nam.
Proceedings of the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP). IEEE, 2020.
@inproceedings{Lee2019MusicSimilarity,
title={Disentangled Multidimensional Metric Learning For Music Similarity},
author={Lee, Jongpil and Bryan, Nicholas J. and Salamon, Justin and Jin, Zeyu, and Nam, Juhan},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)},
year={2020},
organization={IEEE}
}
We kindly request that articles and other works in which this dataset is used cite the paper as listed above.
Please see our paper or visit https://jongpillee.github.io/multi-dim-music-sim for more information
Juhan Liivi käsitus luulekunstist / Juhan Liiv's Conception of Poetics
No full textTeesid: Artikkel tutvustab Juhan Liivi (1864–1913) luulekäsitust. Liivi mõtlemise selgust ja rangust on senistes tõlgendustes alahinnatud. Uurimuses näitan, et Liivi mõtteavaldustest vormub selge esteetiline programm. Liivi arusaam luulekunstist ilmneb kõige terviklikumal kujul tema kirjutises „Ääremärkused“. Selline lähenemine oponeerib kultuuri üldises teadvuses kajastuvale kujutlusele Liivist kui traagilise saatusega nõrgameelsest luuletajast.
S U M M A R Y
This paper gives an overview of Juhan Liiv's (1864–1913) poetic analysis and concludes that Liiv's observations form a clear aesthetic framework, a claim that subverts the general cultural depiction of Liiv as a weak-minded poet with a tragic destiny. However, one could argue that the clarity and strictness of Liiv's poetic comprehension has been greatly underestimated – a comprehension that is especially direct and profound in his essay ”Marginalia“ (”Ääremärkused“).
In the first section, the author observes how Liiv's artistic sense has been viewed in earlier interpretations. Although Liiv's artistic perceptions were analyzed to some degree by Friedebert Tuglas, the first important researcher of Liiv's work, they have gained ground in the new millennium with the work of Jüri Talvet, whose selection of verses and fragments of Liiv’s poetry show Liiv’s poetic understanding in a new light.
The second section maps the manifestations of Liiv’s viewpoints, which are also reflected outside of Liiv’s poetic creations. From the perspective of poetic analysis, ”Marginalia“, written in the final years of his life, conceptualizes poetry much more than any of his previous work, but because the manuscript has received less attention, it is not considered to be the heart of Liiv’s canon. This paper thus aggregates Liiv’s artistic observations of his remaining work into one system.
The third section focuses on the interpretation of ”Marginalia“, drawing from the manuscript since the essay itself was published only as excerpts. Vague and ambiguous imagery has been a defining feature of Liiv’s literary style, which has often confused readers, but he consistently uses basic forms of expression and few concepts in his discussion. As a whole, ”Marginalia“ follows a logical train of thought to highlight Liiv’s core viewpoints and describes principles and poetic techniques that are useful for nurturing the effects of poetic content.
This paper’s fourth section observes Liiv’s understanding of aesthetics. Since Liiv’s poetry is considered improvisational, his strict poetic observations are surprising, and while his train of thought loosely follows that of realism, it does not adhere to the canon of realism. Liiv suggests that to best portray an experience in poetry, one must depict the object of that experience as clearly as possible. Life, then, must be depicted as realistically as possible to most efficiently communicate the described experience and thus increase the impact of poetry. Therefore, it is pointless to view Liiv’s aesthetic principles as canonized aesthetic comprehension, but rather as a representation of the inner workings of his thoughts based on the points he has stressed. This interpretation of poetics encourages a depiction of only the most shallow aspects of life, and as such, one could consider Liiv’s aesthetic interpretations to be the aesthetics of poverty.
The final section of this paper deals with Liiv’s understanding of poetics. When observing poetry in ”Marginalia“, Liiv first examines the smallest poetic unit—the poetic word—and then attempts to define poetic wording. According to Liiv, the most important function of the poetic word is the referential function, and the poetic function is only as important as its ability to amplify the referential function of a word. He claims that it is unnecessary to distinguish a word with poetic devices or highlight the wording of the poem itself; rather, words should be made invisible in order to bring their meaning to the foreground. The poetic function aims to simplify word use and applies to an entire poem: just as an individual word should be simple and referential, so too must the whole of the poem and its expression.
Liiv also analyses how to use specific poetic devices to achieve simplicity in expression. He stresses the ”plasticity“ of expression as an integral means of communicating the experience one wishes to portray and exemplifies this idea in a section of his essay detailing poetic technique and imagery in which he describes how to clearly and exactly express ”plastic“ depictions in poetics. First he argues the necessity of a cornerstone image, meaning the ability to create space for that which is being described, thereby allowing the image in a piece to work. He also draws attention to the importance of contrast in poetry, which occurs with the use of two poetic techniques that he calls ”subtraction“ and ”addition.“ With subtraction, one presents the concepts individually in order for them to have greater poetic influence; whereas, with addition, these individual images are presented together. Liiv’s handling of poetic language could be called simplified poetics, as the significance of art is hidden in its simplicity. Simplified poetics works in combination with his broader aesthetic framework: the goal is to portray simple things using intrinsically simple and influencial expressions
Construction Management Project for the Reconstruction of Support Road no 36 Jõgeva-Mustvee km 25,7-33,7 Torma-Võtikvere Section
No full textLõputöö eesmärgiks oli leida vajalikud ressursid ning ehitustööde ajalised kestused, et töökorraldus objektil oleks sujuv ning kulgeks ilma tõrgeteta. Püstitatud eesmärk saavutati, antud lõputöö annab hea ülevaate nii töö autorile, kui ka tervele objektimeeskonnale, tööde teostamiseks. Lõputöö annab ülevaate ehitusprojektist, tööde mahtudest ning nende tootlikusest ning lisadena on esitatud ressursside tabel ja ajagraafikud nii avatud kui ka kinnisel meetodil, näitamaks tööde kestusi eri meetoditel. Lõputöö autor leiab, et võimaluse korral kasutada ümbersõitu, tuleks seda teha, kuna kinnisel meetodil ehitamine on ajaliselt kiirem ning maandaks riske tööde teostamisel. Kuna antud objektil, ei ole ettenähtud liikluse sulgemist või ümbersuunamist, lähtutakse tööde teostamisel avatud meetodile. Tööde algus on planeeritud 2.05.2017 ning tööde lõpp ajagraafiku alusel on 8.09.2017.The purpose of the thesis, was to find necessary resources and duration of the construction process, so that the work management on the construction site would run without any glitches. The objective was fulfilled; the present thesis gives a good overview for carrying out the construction to the author of the thesis as well as to the entire site crew. The present thesis gives an overview of the construction project, volumes of work that are being carried out and their productivities, in addition, a resources table and time schedules for carrying out the works with open method as well as closed method, showing the difference of time consumption, between two methods, have been added to the extras of the given thesis. The author of the thesis, finds that if it possible to divert the traffic, it should be considered, because construction with closed method is less time consuming and reduces the risks of carrying out the works on site. Since that on the given site there is no diversion intended, the works are meant to be carried out using the open method. The works are planned to start on 02.05.2017 and finished on 08.09.2017
