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Morris H. Turk Correspondence
No full textEntries include a typed letter of presentation from Turk on Williston Church, Congregational, Portland, Maine, stationery and the typed reply of the Maine State library in hopes of biographical information from Turk, presented with a typed transcript of Turk\u27s handwritten inscription for his book They Live -- And Are Not Far Away in the Maine Author Collection
The Mechanical Turk
No full textGavin Turk’s film The Mechanical Turk (2006), presented by the Gervasuti Foundation in collaboration with the Hotel Metropole is a site specific installation within the context of the hotel’s Byzantine, historical and cultural references. The film shows the artist impersonating Wolfgang von Kempelen’s famous automaton ‘The Turk’ (1769) which was capable of playing a game of chess against a human opponent. This ingeniously constructed mechanism was exhibited by its various owners and captivated audiences across Europe and America, until Edgar Allen Poe exposed it in the early 1820s as a hoax. The cabinet beneath the automaton was an elaborate hiding place for a dwarf chess master to secretly play the game. The influential cultural theorist Walter Benjamin compared the Mechanical Turk to a particular view of history, which doesn’t see through the illusions that conceal the true mechanisms of power and he related the automaton to Karl Marx’s concept of historical materialism
Grand Turk Tavern
No full textThe Grand Turk Tavern opened in 1990 and operated out of the c. 1820 Captain William Lane House at 110 Derby Street, across from The House of the Seven Gables. It was named for a ship built by Enos Briggs in 1791 at Derby Wharf. The restaurant closed in 1996 and the building was converted into a private home
Gavin Turk in the house: a reader
No full textWritten and illustrated by Deborah Curtis; with a conversation between Tim Marlow and Gavin Turk
(Turk) (Must) (Do) (Better) A Critical Review of Wittgenstein’s Dream
No full textCan we safely dismiss Freudian psychoanalysis with the lancet of irony? Or does the attempt fail? Gavin Turk at the Freud Museum
Creating a data collection for evaluating rich speech retrieval
No full textWe describe the development of a test collection for the investigation of speech retrieval beyond identification of relevant content. This collection focuses on satisfying user information needs for queries associated with specific types of speech acts. The collection is based on an archive of the Internet video from Internet video sharing platform (blip.tv), and was provided by the MediaEval benchmarking initiative. A crowdsourcing approach was used to identify segments in the video data which contain speech acts, to create a description of the video containing the act and to generate search queries designed to refind this speech act. We describe and reflect on our experiences with crowdsourcing this test collection using the Amazon Mechanical Turk platform. We highlight the challenges of constructing this dataset, including the selection of the data source, design of the crowdsouring task and the specification of queries and relevant items
Cracks in Reality: Gavin Turk / Jens Wolf
No full textWhat is reality and where do its abstraction, original and copy, overlap? Today the boundaries are in flux and are repeatedly dissolving. With the exhibition, "Cracks in Reality - Gavin Turk/ Jens Wolf', Marta Herford presents two artists from its own collection whose works correspond with each other in dialogue form: Gavin Turk, who belongs to the generation of Young British Artists, and Jens Wolf, a representative of new abstraction in painting. Almost forty works, including large-format paintings, filigree sculptures and a temporary mural work created especially for the exhibition, open up a space to think about appropriation and imitation, all the while pointing up astonishing references to art history. Concepts of authorship and originality are scrutinized here by both artists with an ironic, critical undertone
Gavin Turk
No full textGavin Turk is a leading figure in British contemporary art. His 1991 degree show work Cave, a blue ceramic plaque commemorating his occupancy of a studio, and Pop, the waxwork figure of himself as Sid Vicious, are among the iconic artworks of the 1990s. His "self-portrait" signatures and his finely crafted sculptures of everyday objects (such as cardboard boxes cast in bronze) bring the commonplace into an art space and challenge the viewer to engage in new ways. In 2003 he created the major sculpture Her for an exhibition at the New Art Centre Sculpture Park and Gallery. This image of "Ariadne in a sleeping bag" draws together many of his key concerns, including the paintings of early modernism and the complexity of sculptural forms, and ideas of authorship, identity and authenticity. In this engaging film, he discusses Her and a wide range of his earlier work. theEYE is an excellent introduction to contemporary artists and their works and provides an ideal resource for a wide range of audiences, including galleries, museums and colleges, as well as individual art-lover
A case of acute small bowel obstruction due to metastasis of undiagnosed primary carcinoma of the lung
No full textTurk J Gastroenterol., 0–0.A 75-year-old man was admitted to our department
with abdominal pain, nausea and vomiting.
He was a heavy smoker (a packet/day/60 years)
with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Breastfeeding and eating habits of infants in the osredjeslovenska region
No full textDojenje in prehranjevanje z zdravju bolj naklonjenimi živili med dojenčki delujeta kot varovalni dejavnik, ki prinese koristi v obdobju otroštva in kasneje v življenju. Namen dela je predstaviti stanje na področju prehranjevanja dojenčkov. Pilotna longitudinalna študija je potekala leta 2009 in 2010 v osrednjeslovenski regiji, v vzorec je bilo zajetih 333 mater. Uporabljena je bila sledeča raziskovalna metodologija: osebno anketiranje (pet vprašalnikov v petih stikih), komparativna metoda, deskriptivna metoda in statistična analiza (SPSS). Ugotovili smo, da so v porodnišnici vzpostavljale dojenje skoraj vse matere, zatem je dojenje upadalo. V četrtem mesecu dojenčkove starosti so pričele matere v večji meri z dodajanjem mešane prehrane, kar je sicer v skladu s priporočili, se pa vrstni red dodajanja živil ni skladal z njimi. Matere smo lahko glede na prehranjevanje otrok razdelili v štiri skupine: tiste, ki svoje otroke v večji meri prehranjujejo manj zdravotiste, ki svoje otroke v večji meri prehranjujejo mešanotiste, ki svojim otrokom dodajajo manj dejavnikov zdravega in nezdravega prehranjevanjatiste, ki svoje otroke v večji meri prehranjujejo zdravo. Matere, ki so najkrajši čas dojile, so otroke prehranjevale manj zdravo. Rezultati kažejo, da se z višanjem starosti in z višanjem izobrazbe matere podaljšuje trajanje dojenja, povečuje se količina zdravih dejavnikov in znižuje količina nezdravih dejavnikov v prehranjevanju otroka. Kaže, da bi predvsem mlajše matere in tiste z nižjo stopnjo izobrazbe potrebovale prav posebno skrb glede dojenja ter prehranjevanja dojenčkov.Breastfeeding and feeding with healthier foods among babies have an effect of a protective factor that has benefits in the childhood period and also later in life. The purpose of this thesis is to present the state of the feeding of the babies. The experimental longitudinal study took place in the years 2009 and 2010 in the Osrednjeslovenska region and 333 mothers participated in it. We used the following research methodology: personal surveys (five questionnaires in five contacts), comparative method, descriptive method and statistical analysis (SPSS). We established that most of the mothers maintained breastfeeding in the maternity hospital, but after that breastfeeding decreased. The mothers started adding solid foods in the fourth month, which is in accordance with the recommendations, but the order of adding them is not. The mothers were distributed into four groups according to the feeding of their children: mothers that feed a less healthy diet to their children, mothers that feed a diverse diet to their children, mothers that feed neither healthy nor unhealthy diet to their children and mothers that feed their children healthy. The mothers, which were breastfeeding for the shortest time, feed their children the most unsuitably. The results show that if the mother is older and has a higher education, then the breastfeeding period is longer, the amount of healthy factors increases and the amount of harmful factors in the feeding of the child decreases. This indicates that the younger mothers and those with a lower level of education should need a special care regarding the breastfeeding and the feeding of the babies
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