61 research outputs found
Benchmarking of Remote Sensing Segmentation Methods
No full textWe present the enrichment of the Prague Texture Segmentation Data-Generator and Benchmark (PTSDB) to include the assessment of the remote sensing (RS) image segmenters. The PTSDB tool is a Web-based (http://mosaic.utia.cas.cz) service designed for real-time performance evaluation, mutual comparison, and ranking of various supervised or unsupervised static or dynamic image segmenters. PTSDB supports rapid verification and development of new segmentation approaches. The RS datasets contain ten spectral Advanced Land Imager (ALI) satellite images, their RGB subsets, and very-high-resolution GeoEye RGB images, with optional additive-noise-resistance checking. Alternative setting options allow us to also test scale, rotation, or illumination invariance. The meaningfulness of the newly proposed dataset is demonstrated by testing and comparing several RS segmentation algorithms, and showing that the benchmark figures provide a solid framework for the fair and critical comparison among different techniques
World literature in the interim of cultures: about the Russian edition of Letters from Turkey by Kelemen Mikes
No full textThe article provides a detailed critical review of the Russian-language commented scientific
publication of Letters from Turkey by Keleman Mikes, an outstanding monument of Hungarian
narrative prose of the 18th century. The text is analyzed in terms of the currently relevant
category ‘world literature.’ In the course of the analysis, three important points of association
of Letters from Turkey with world literature are revealed. These are namely firstly, a high degree
of internationality of ideas, plots and motifs presented in this work in the form of obvious and
hidden quotations; secondly, the way in which the author designs his own writer’s identity;
thirdly, the specific sharpness and depth of cross-cultural and cross-confessional analysis of
the Islamic context and the particular multicultural “interim” (in contact with the Turkish,
Armenian, Jewish, and Greek cultures), in which the author as a European-educated Hungarian
Christian intellectual lived for several decades. Highlighting some of the shortcomings
of the scientific apparatus of the publication, the author notes the high level of philological
culture inherent in the book as a whole. In the course of comparing the Khotyn episode of
Letters by Mikes with Ode on the Taking of Khotin from the Turks by Mikhail Lomonosov, it was concluded that the literary tasks of the two authors, who were contemporaries, are opposites.
Lomonosov creates an outstanding monument of national literature from the elements
of world literature; on the contrary, Mikes elevates the Hungarian national prose to the level
of world literature
The political thought of Kelemen Mikes in his “Letters from Turkey” (1717-1758)
No full textWydział HistorycznyKelemen Mikes był siedmiogrodzkim szlachcicem seklerskiego pochodzenia i sługą Franciszka II Rakoczego. Wraz ze swoim panem w 1717 roku przyjął on zaproszenie sułtana Turcji, aby osiedlić się w tym kraju. Wtedy to Kelemen Mikes postanowił rozpocząć korespondencję z wyimaginowaną ciotką, która zachowała się pod nazwą Listy z Turcji. Pisał od października 1717 aż do grudnia 1758. Sekler relacjonował swoje przeżycia, dzielił się swoimi przemyśleniami na temat możliwości wyzwolenia Siedmiogrodu i reform w nim, ale także przekazywał własne odczucia, wspominał również swoje rodzinne strony. Przeprowadzając analizę źródła, jakim są Listy z Turcji, w kontekście myśli politycznej Kelemena Mikesa, w sposób szczególny autor skupił się na następujących problemach badawczych: Roli kobiet, jaką seklerski pisarz przypisywał im w społeczeństwie; sposób w jaki sposób Kelemen Mikes budował obraz księcia Franciszka II Rakoczego; jego postulaty dotyczące rezygnacji z walki zbrojnej i podjęcie działań modernizacyjnych w celu wyzwolenia ojczyzny spod panowania Habsburgów; kwestii jansenizmu w budowaniu jego naracji wokół wydarzeń historycznych oraz stosunek siedmiogrodzkiego szlachcica wobec stosunków panujących w Imperium Osmańskim.
Kelemen Mikes was a Transylvanian nobleman of Székely origin and a chamberlain to Francis II Rákóczi. In 1717 he and his master accepted an invitation from the Turkish Sultan to settle in his country. Beginning with October 1717, Kelemen Mikes began writing letters to his imaginary aunt, which are known as Letters from Turkey. He continued the correspondence incessantly for several decades. At first he produced the letters quite frequently, but as years went by they became more sporadic. The correspondence ceased only in December 1758. Kelemen Mikes reported on his own experience, described life in the Ottoman Empire, shared his views on the prospects of liberating Transylvania and reforming the country, and presented his thoughts on history, as well as personal reflections and memories of his native land, landscapes, nature and life in noblemen’s households. In analysing Letters from Turkey by Kelemen Mikes in the context of his political thought, the author of the research focuses on the following issues: Mikes’s view on the social role of women; his methods of creating an image of Prince Francis II Rákóczi; his appeals to resign from armed struggle and begin modernisation in order to liberate his homeland from the reign of the Habsburgs; the role of Jansenism in building his narration of historical events and his attitude towards social relations in the Ottoman Empire
Irony, humour and culture in George Mikes’ How to Be a Brit: relevance-theoretical perspectives
No full textThis paper aims to analyse the role played by humour and irony in the interpretation of George Mikes’ How to Be a Brit. It will be contended that these resources are important for the reader to understand and enjoy the meaning intended to be communicated by the author. Mikes must have sought to show the inconsistencies and incongruities of the British society and culture, under the perspective of an ‘alien’, of an outsider. Therefore, irony and humour become stylistic resources that guide the reader’s interpretation of the text. The framework applied will be relevance theory, a pragmatic approach which highlights the inferential processes involved in the understanding of a message. However, its views on culture have often been neglected or misunderstood.
This paper will therefore seek to trace whether relevance theory as a whole, and concretely, its proposals concerning humour, irony and culture can help the reader to cope with the meaning of the work under analysis. It will be contended that a proper balance between the reader’s inferential derivation of the meaning conveyed by the speaker and his freedom to reach his own conclusions (which are in any case constrained by the text) helps to a better understanding and interpretation of the text
Upscaling of permeability heterogeneities in reservoir rocks; an integrated approach
No full textThis thesis presents a hierarchical and geologically constrained deterministic approach to incorporate small-scale heterogeneities into reservoir flow simulators. We use a hierarchical structure to encompass all scales from laminae to an entire depositional system. For the geological models under consideration we propose a five-scale hierarchy with sedimentary structure and subfacies as key elements. The five scales are the lamina, sedimentary structure or bed, subfacies, facies, and depositional system. We use the term subfacies to denote a rock type, i.e. a body of rock with internally consistent sedimentary properties. The term facies denotes an assemblage of subfacies. The depositional system may be thought of as a sequence, i.e. an assemblage of genetically related deposits formed during periods between "catastrophic" events such as an abrupt sea level rise. Although sedimentary architecture is very complicated, the hierarchical approach lends itself naturally to implementation of heterogeneity in a reservoir simulator. For this reason we distinguish flow units, flow cells and grid cells. Flow units are subfacies schematised in a rectangular structure. The building block of the flow unit is a particular type of flow cell. Flow cells are periodic unit cells (PUC) that contain one or more sedimentary structures. The advantage of the assumed periodicity is that PUC's can be used to obtain average flow characteristics over the representative elementary volume (REV) of the flow unit. Such an REV consists of a large collection of PUC's. For flow simulations on the oil field scale we divide the flow units into rectangular grid cells that contain the flow characteristics of the flow cell. The simulations based on SPE 9th comparative program show the importance of incorporating small-scale heterogeneities.Civil Engineering and Geoscience
Contribution of the National Institute for Nuclear, Chemical and Biological Protection to the Development of Methods and Procedures Related to Safety Engineering
No full textThe paper describes the National Institute for Nuclear, Chemical and Biological Protection involvements with regards to the development of methods and procedures related to Safety Engineering. It provides general information about the Institute's activities, history, presence and objectives for the near future to illustrate its role, tasks and responsibilities. The Institute's added values that consist in its share to the reduction of safety risks and incident consequences are presented and discussed in details
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