242 research outputs found
Joni Mitchell: New Critical Readings
No full textJoni Mitchell: New Critical Readings presents a wide range of critical approaches for thinking about the oeuvre of musician and artist Joni Mitchell. It showcases work by leading academics from the fields of popular music and culture on subjects as varied as Mitchell’s environmentalism, the politics of ageing in her work, and her often fraught relationship with feminism.</p
Joni Mitchell: New Critical Readings
No full textJoni Mitchell: New Critical Readings presents a wide range of critical approaches for thinking about the oeuvre of musician and artist Joni Mitchell. It showcases work by leading academics from the fields of popular music and culture on subjects as varied as Mitchell’s environmentalism, the politics of ageing in her work, and her often fraught relationship with feminism.</p
The role of cooperatives in the provision of water services in Finland
No full textThis article discusses the role played by water-services cooperatives in Finland, and provides an overview of the situation, in the context of Nordic countries. Water cooperatives have a long history in Finland, dating back to the early Twentieth Century, though most cooperatives in existence were created since the 1950s. Cooperatives have been responsible for the provision of water and sanitation services particularly in rural areas, but also in small and medium cities. Currently, around 10 percent of the country’s population is supplied by around 1,500 water cooperatives. The article concludes with a review of the challenges and opportunities facing water cooperatives in a context of rising user expectations and stricter service standards.
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This is Article 1, Vol. 5, No 4, of the WATERLAT-GOBACIT Network Working Papers (http://waterlat.org/publications/working-papers-series/)
This issue is part of the activities of the WATERLAT-GOBACIT Network’s Thematic Area 3 (TA3), the Urban Water Cycle and Essential Public Services (http://waterlat. org/thematic-areas/ta3/). TA3 brings together academics, students, professionals working in the public sector, workers’ unions, practitioners from Non-Governmental Organizations, activists and members of civil society groups, and representatives of communities and users of public services, among others. The remit of this TA is broad, as the name suggests, but it has a strong focus on the political ecology of urban water, with emphasis on the politics of essential water services. Key issues addressed within this framework have been the neoliberalization of water services, social struggles against privatization and mercantilization of these services, the politics of public policy and management in the sector, water inequality and injustice in urban areas, and the contradictions and conflicts surrounding the status of water and water services as a public good, as a common good, as a commodity, as a citizenship right, and more recently, as a human right. The publication is a product of a long-term collaboration with the Capacity Development of Water and Environmental Services (CADWES) Research Group, which holds the UNESCO Chair in Sustainable Water Services at Tampere University of Technology (TUT) in Finland under the coordination of the issue’s co-editor, Prof. Tapio S. Katko. The idea of developing a series of publications on the history and relevance of water-service cooperatives around the world has been an important component of our common research plans and initiatives, and we decided to start with this issue on the challenges and opportunities facing cooperatives in the current context. Consistently with our Network’s inter- and transdisciplinary approach, the authors include academics and post-graduate students from the social sciences, history, and engineering, as well as professionals and leaders of civil society organizations working in areas relevant to the topics addressed in the publication.
The issue features four articles, two of them addressing the situation of waterservice cooperatives in Finland, and the other two focused on experiences from Argentina. Article 1 is authored by Pekka E. Pietilä from CADWES-TUT and Joni Vihanta, who is the Managing Director of Kannus Water Cooperative in Kannus Municipality, Finland and simultaneously a PhD student doing research on water cooperatives at TUT. The paper presents a synthetic overview of the situation of water cooperatives in Finland, including an analysis of the challenges and opportunities they face in a context of rising consumer expectations and stricter service standards. Article 2 by Petri S. Juuti and Riikka P. Rajala, also from TUT, complements the first paper by focusing attention on the case of the first water cooperative created in Finland, Pispala Water Cooperative, which was founded in 1907 near the city of Tampere in the south of the country. Both articles highlight the fact that in the late Nineteenth Century, before becoming independent from Russia in 1917, Finland decided that essential water and sanitation services should be delivered by municipal public bodies or cooperatives run by users and community organizations, rather than by profit-making private companies, which remains a significant principle for the organization of these services in the country until today. Article 3 is led by Melisa Orta, a PhD student in Politics at the National University of Rosario (UNR) on a studentship from the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), Argentina, and was co-authored with Margarita Portapila, from the International French-Argentinean Centre of Information Sciences and Systems (CIFASIS), CONICET and UNR, Alberto Muñoz, from Argentina’s Union of Users and Consumers, and Iván Pérez, from the country’s Cooperative Funds Managing Institute (IMFC). The article discusses in some detail the history of the cooperative movement in Argentina since the late Nineteenth Century, and the development of water-service cooperatives in the country. It focuses on the case of water-service cooperatives in the Province of Santa Fe and highlights the significance of cooperatives in the provision of services in small and medium cities and rural areas. The authors also address the wide range of obstacles and threats facing water cooperatives, from the lack of safe water sources and adequate financial and technical resources to the systematic antagonism showed since the 1980s by neoliberal governments that seek to erode and eventually dismantle the cooperative movement, which they see as an obstacle to their plans to fully privatize essential services and other important areas. Finally, Article 4 was authored by Joaquín Ulises Deon, a PhD student in Social Agrarian Studies at the National University of Cordoba (UNC) on a studentship from CONICET, Argentina, also working on a joint PhD on Urban-Regional Studies between the Bauhaus Universität Weimar, Germany, and UNC, Argentina. The article partly complements the previous one by addressing important aspects of the history of the cooperative movement in Argentina, highlighting the fact that not all cooperatives adhere to cooperative principles, and many are in fact private enterprises in disguise. The paper addresses the development of cooperatives, and particularly water-service cooperatives, in the arid Province of Cordoba, Argentina, and focuses in more depth on four cases that the author considers are examples of genuine cooperative experiences. The article presents a very critical assessment of government policies against water-service cooperatives at the national, provincial and local levels, and shows evidence of the multiple pressures facing the cooperative movement in the province. Cooperatives have developed successful strategies to cope with these pressures, by establishing alliances with social movements and civil society organizations, exercising legitimate leadership in local and regional struggles to defend their water sources from the aggressive expansion of extractivist activities, including mining, agribusinesses, and private urbanizations
Humor Writer of the Month: Joni B. Cole
No full textJoni B. Cole, our Humor Writer of the Month, is a writing instructor and author of seven books, including the acclaimed new essay collection Party Like It\u27s 2044
Malka Marom in conversation with Dr Ruth Charnock [Court and Spark: An International Symposium on the Work of Joni Mitchell]
No full textMalka Marom, author of 'Joni Mitchell: In Her Own Words' in conversation with Dr Ruth Charnock as part of Court and Spark: An International Symposium on the Work of Joni Mitchell, July 3rd, 2015. Thanks to Adam O'Meara for making this film.</p
Large Water cooperatives in Finnish Municipalities
No full textSuomessa oli vuonna 2012 noin 1500 vesihuoltolaitosta, joista suurin osa on osuuskuntia. Nämä vesiosuuskunnat voidaan jakaa viiteen ryhmään niiden perustamisajankohdan ja tyypin perusteella. Erään näistä ryhmistä muodostavat ns. suuret vesiosuuskunnat, joita on Suomessa toiminnassa laskentatavasta riippuen noin 20 kappaletta. Noin puolella näistä osuuskunnista on mukana toiminnassaan sekä vedenjakelu, että viemäröinti ja yhtä lukuunottamatta se on ollut osa toimintaa alusta alkaen.
Suomen taajamien suuret vesiosuuskunnat on perustettu vuosina 1946-1963 toimipaikkakuntiensa keskustaajamiin. Aikojen saatossa niiden toiminta on useimmiten levittäytynyt kattamaan koko kunnan alueen (silloin kun se on ollut teknis-taloudellisesti järkevää) ja nykyisin ne ovat taloudellisesti vakaita ja suurimmaksi osaksi lähes velattomia laitoksia.
Suurten vesiosuuskuntien toiminnassa korostuu osuustoimintaideologia, mikä voidaan havaita useiden ilmiöiden kautta. Lisäksi niiden olemassaolo tiedostetaan huonosti jopa vesialan ammattilaisten keskuudessa. Tietyt osuuskuntamuotoisen organisaation ominaisuudet tekevät osuuskunnasta hyvän organisaatiomuodon keskitetyn vesihuollon järjestämiseen ja tulevaisuudessa on mahdollista, että erityisesti haja-asutusalueiden jätevesihuollon järjestämisessä osuuskunnilla tulee olemaan merkittävä rooli
Analisis Stilistika dalam Cerpen Dongeng Penunggu Surau Karya Joni Ariadinata
No full textCerita pendek merupakan salah satu karya sastra yang memiliki keunikan tersendiri dibandingkan dengan karya sastra yang lain. Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk menganalisis stilistika atau gaya bahasa yang digunakan oleh penulis dalam merangkai ceritanya menjadi sebuah cerita pendek yang menarik. Ada beberapa unsur yang harus diperhatikan dalam pokok bahasan analisis ini. Unsur tersebut antara lain, unsur leksikal, unsur gramatikal, penggunaan retorika, penggunaan kohesi dalam cerpen “Dongeng Penunggu Surau†karya Joni Ariadinata. Metode penelitian yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini ialah dengan menggunakan metode deskriptif kualitatif.  Hasil dan pembahasan dari penelitian ini secara singkat dapat dijelaskan bahwa terdapat data yang telah ditemukan baik secara leksikal maupun gramatikal. Dalam cerpen ini terdapat 953 kata yang terdiri dari 425 kata benda, 220 kata sifat, 215 kata kerja, 58 kata tugas, 35 kata bilangan. Hal tersebut jika ditinjau dari unsur leksikal. Sedangkan, dari unsur grmatikal jenis frase dan klausa juga terlihat jelas dalam cerpen tersebut. Terdapat frase edosendtrik dan frase eksosentrik serta berbagai jenis klausa,, kompleksitas kalimat. Sedangkan pada aspek retorika juga ditemukan beberapa aspek antara lain permajasan, penyiasatan struktur, dan pecitraan.Kata kunci : analisis stilistika, cerpen, dongeng penunggu surau A short story is a literary work that is unique in comparison to other literary works. The purpose of this study is to analyze the stylistics or language styles used by the author in compiling the story into an interesting short story. There are several elements that must be considered in the subject of this analysis. These elements include lexical elements, grammatical elements, the use of rhetoric, and the use of cohesion in the short story "Dongeng Penunggu Surau" by Joni Ariadinata. The research method used in this research is to use a qualitative descriptive method. The results and discussion of this study can briefly be explained that there are data that have been found both lexically and grammatically. In this short story there are 953 words consisting of 425 nouns, 220 adjectives, 215 verbs, 58 assignments, 35 numbers. This is when viewed from the lexical element. Meanwhile, from the grammatical elements, the types of phrases and clauses are also clearly visible in the short story. There are edosendritic and eccentric phrases as well as various types of clauses, sentence complexities. Meanwhile, in the rhetorical aspect, several aspects were also found, including explication, structural manipulation and imagery.Keywords: stylistic analysis, short stories, dongeng penunggu sura
Comic Arts: Approachable Means for Disseminating a Feminist Message on Aging
No full textThis supporting thesis attempts to argue for the use of comics and comic arts as an effective visual language with which to disseminate the question of female ageism (prejudice or discrimination on the basis of one’s age). Through familial and self-reflexive references, my hope is to bring attention to the ubiquitous yet undervalued loss of voice of the middle-aged woman by means of an art form that has historically been dismissed within the fine art world. Through minimal black and white line-work, 2D comic-art iterations are placed in the gallery as a representation of the struggle middle-aged women have endured for a place in contemporary Western society. While intersectional feminism attempts to include all races, economic and social demographics within feminist discourse, ageism has been a silently pervasive phenomenon
Projector-camera calibration with non-overlapping fields of view using a planar mirror
No full textProjector-camera systems have numerous applications across diverse domains. Accurate calibration of both intrinsic and extrinsic parameters is crucial for these systems. Intrinsic parameters include focal length, distortion parameters, and the principal point, while extrinsic parameters encompass the position and orientation of the projector and camera. A non-overlapping projector-camera system is required in certain scenarios due to practical limitations, physical arrangements, or specific application requirements. These systems pose a more complex calibration challenge because the devices have no direct correspondences or overlapping fields of view, necessitating intermediate objects or methods. This paper proposes a calibration method for non-overlapping projector-camera systems using a planar mirror. The method involves a straightforward process that requires a calibrated camera and a separate mirror calibration step. In this setup, the projector displays a pattern on a planar calibration board, and the camera has an indirect view of this calibration board through the mirror. Using homography, 3D-2D correspondences of the projector are established, enabling the calibration of the system. This method is empirically evaluated using real-world setups and quantitatively assessed in a synthetic environment. The results demonstrate that the proposed method achieves precise calibration across various setups, proving its effectiveness. This approach is an easy-to-use and accessible calibration process for non-overlapping projector-camera systems, made possible by a mirror.This research was partly funded by the European Union
(HORIZON MAX-R, Mixed Augmented and Extended Reality Media
Pipeline, 101070072), the Flanders Make’s XRTwin SBO project
(R-12528), the Special Research Fund (BOF) of Hasselt University
(R-14360) and the specialized FWO fellowship grant (1SHDZ24N).
Data availability The datasets generated during and/or analyzed during
the current study are available from the corresponding author on
reasonable request
Photonic reservoir computing for nonlinear equalization of 64-QAM signals with a Kramers-Kronig receiver
No full textPhotonic reservoir computing is a promising processing solution for the equalization of fiber optic communication signals. We simulate the nonlinear equalization of 64 Quadrature-Amplitude Modulated signals using a fully passive space multiplexed reservoir. The system deploys direct detection using the recently proposed Kramers-Kronig receiver. (C) 2022 The Author(s
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