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Volckaert (Jozef). En dat alles voor een paar tirannen. Herinneringen van een socialistische arbeider.
No full textMommen André. Volckaert (Jozef). En dat alles voor een paar tirannen. Herinneringen van een socialistische arbeider.. In: Revue belge de philologie et d'histoire, tome 64, fasc. 4, 1986. Histoire - Geschiedenis. p. 890
Les tribulations d'un architecte belge en Chine: Gustave Volckaert, au service du Crédit Foncier d'Extrême-Orient, 1914-1954
No full textThomas COOMANS & Leung-kwok Prudence LAU, "The tribulations of a Belgian architect in China: Gustave Volckaert, in service of the Crédit Foncier d’Extrême-Orient, 1914-1954".
Belgian companies made large investments and developed important businesses in China during the first half of the 20th century. Several architects were employed by these companies and made a career in the Far-East. Contrary to the architects working in Belgian Congo, the Belgian architects in China remain largely unknown. This article follows one of them, Gustave Volckaert (1888-1978), who worked for the Crédit Foncier d’Extrême-Orient (C.F.E.O.), a Belgian-French company specialized in mortgage-loan, real-estate, and all activities related to construction business in the main treaty ports of China. Volckaert worked in Tianjin and Beijing from 1914 to 1922, in Tianjin from 1934 to 1946 and in Hong Kong from 1947 to 1954. His work includes houses, offices, educational buildings, churches and convents for both Western and Chinese clients. The article pays attention to Volckaert’s professional relationships and reveals a fascinating network of influent Catholic people including the Ghent contractor René Van Herrewege, the Chinese diplomat Lou Tsien-Tsiang, the missionary-architect Alphonse De Moerloose, the Jesuit naturalist Émile Licent, the expert in reinforced-concrete professor Gustave Magnel, several directors of the C.F.E.O., and major missionary orders (Jesuits, Lazarists, Paris Foreign Missions, Maryknoll Sisters, etc.). Although Volckaert was not at the front line of innovation, he was a conscientious architect, a good technician and fully devoted to his company. His career spans four decades during which the Chinese society opened up to modernity, especially in semi-colonial cities like Tianjin and in the British colony of Hong Kong. Architecture, one of the most visible expressions of modernity, evolved from classic and historic styles to art deco and modernist buildings with concrete structures, modern comfort and technologies. This article therefore examines Volckaert’s works under the evolution of modern architecture in China.status: Publishe
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
A Novel Edge-to-Cloud-as-a-Service (E2CaaS) Model for Building Software Services in Smart Cities
Full text linkThe main goal of a smart city is to enhance the quality of life of its inhabitants by providing services using Information and Communications Technology (ICT) components in a city. ICT components include not only Internet of Things (IoT) data sources spread across the city, but also traditional non-IoT data sources. Managing all ICT components in a smart city can be challenging and results in many complexities. Consequently, there is a need for ICT management architectures. Traditional solutions are often based on a centralized ICT architecture using Cloud technologies. Recently, the number of ICT components, services, and their corresponding complexities are growing, leading to large-scale ICT architectures. Centralized Cloud solutions cannot cope with the ever-expanding demands of this kind of architectures. The limitations of the centralized approaches necessitate the design of a new ICT architecture, using distributed technologies, for every layer and element of the city. Many solutions for management from Edge-to-Cloud (E2C) through distributed technologies are forthcoming, including Decentralized-to-Centralized ICT (DC2C-ICT) and Distributed-to-Centralized ICT (D2C-ICT) architectures. The DC2C-ICT architecture and its components work on their own tasks and are solely communicating with a centralized platform. On the other hand, components of the D2C-ICT architecture can work together to provide the services for the citizens across different layers from E2C. Therefore, the D2CICT architecture is less dependent on the central Cloud-based entity, but harder to design and manage. In this paper, an “Edge-to-Cloud-as-a-Service (E2CaaS) ” model is proposed together with a model on how to build efficient software services in smart cities through different layers of E2C. The most important tasks for building these services are the management of“Data/Database,” “Resources,” and “Network Communication and Cybersecurity issues”
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Intent-based Decentralized Orchestration for Green Energy-aware Provisioning of Fog-native Workflows
No full textAppropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe 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
Intent-based Decentralized Orchestration for Green Energy-aware Provisioning of Fog-native Workflows
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