633 research outputs found
Vicky Henderson
No full textthis paper. The second author is supported by an Advanced Fellowship from the EPSRC. The third author acknowledges partial financial support from DAAD, EPSRC and KW
Johnnie To Kei-Fung\u27s Where a Good Man Goes
No full textREVERTING TOSOCIAL ORDER BY CONTAINMENT: JOHNNIE TO KEI-FUNG\u27S WHERE A GOOD MAN GOES The 1999 Hong Kong International Film Festival hailed the Hong Kong director Johnnie To Kei-Fung as a Director in Focus, featuring eleven of his films. The opening film of the Festival was his world premiere, Where a Good Man Goes, casting Lau Ching-wan and Ruby Wong, telling a story of the return of a prodigal son. The film, in short, evolves around a central theme "home". The author of this article suggests that this "home" is of the concept of a traditional home held by the Chinese, from ancient days to the present, and is also patriarchal. The film\u27s story also tells of the "grand narratives" governing the order of the Chinese society since the early ages, which incidentally coincide with the Western view, that no evil can escape judgment and if a prodigal son returns,..
Bayesian mixture estimation for perceptual grouping
No full textPerceptual grouping is the process by which a set of image elements is divided into distinct “objects” or components. In this dissertation I propose a Bayesian framework for understanding perceptual grouping, in which the goal of the computation is to estimate the organization that best explains the observed configuration of image elements. I formalize the problem of perceptual grouping as a mixture estimation problem, where it is assumed that the configuration of elements is generated by a set of distinct components (or ”objects”), whose underlying parameters one seeks to estimate. In the first part of this dissertation I will propose a simplified version of the framework and show how it can be used to estimate the number of objects, more specifically clusters of dots, present in the image. Across two experiments I show how the model gives an accurate and quantitatively precise account of subjects’ numerosity judgments, while at the same time outperforming more standard accounts for dot clustering. In the second part of the dissertation this simplified framework is expanded to estimate a hierarchical representation of the image elements. This framework can easily be adjusted to different subproblems of perceptual grouping. Here I will show how an instantiation of our framework for contour integration, part decomposition, and shape completion can account for several key perceptual phenomena and previously collected human subject data.Ph. D.Includes bibliographical referencesby Vicky Froye
Confronting Existential Dilemmas: An In-Depth Analysis of Vicky Cristina Barcelona through the Philosophies of Sartre and Camus
No full textIn this paper, the author analyzes Woody Allen's film Vicky Cristina Barcelona through an existential lens, drawing parallels with the philosophies of Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus. The characters Vicky, Cristina, Juan Antonio, and María Elena embody existential dilemmas, exploring themes of individual freedom, choice, and the search for meaning in an indifferent world. The analysis delves into Sartrean concepts of bad faith and radical freedom, contrasting Vicky's societal conformity with Cristina's Camusian pursuit of meaning through experiences. The characters' interactions reflect the unpredictable and absurd nature of human relationships, echoing Camus's exploration of the absurdity of emotions. The non-linear narrative structure aligns with existential themes, emphasizing life's unpredictability, and Barcelona serves as a metaphor for the complexities of existence. Woody Allen's narrative and artistic choices invite viewers to reflect on the intricate interplay of love, desire, and chance encounters in the context of existentialism
From Pausanias to Baedeker and Trip Advisor: Textual proto-tourism and the engendering of tourism distribution channels
No full textThe key aim of this article is to provide an interdisciplinary look at tourism and its diachronic textual threads bequeathed by the ‘proto-tourist’ texts of the Greek travel author Pausanias. Using the periegetic, travel texts from his voluminous Description of Greece (2nd century CE) as a springboard for our presentation, we intend to show how the textual strategies employed by Pausanias have been received and still remain at the core of contemporary series of travel guides first authored by Karl Baedeker (in the 19th century). After Baedeker, Pausanias’ textual travel tropes, as we will show, still inform the epistemology of modern-day tourism; the interaction of travel texts with travel information and distribution channels produces generic hybrids, and the ancient Greek travel authors have paved the way for the construction of networks, digital storytelling and global tourist platforms
Abstrak
Bahasa merupakan alat komunikasi antar sesama manusia dalam kehidupan. Sehingga, mempelajari bahasa merupakan hal yang penting. Di jaman modern saat ini, banyak media pembelajaran bahasa misalnya melalui serial web. Dalam penelitian ini ditelaah implikatur percakapan dalam serial web Tiongkok ??? ? Tia?n Xi?ng Zhi? Lu? episode 1. Penulis memfokuskan pada dua rumusan masalah. Pertama, jenis implikatur percakapan pada percakapan antartokoh dalam serial web Tiongkok ???? Tia?n Xi?ng Zhi? Lu? episode 1 karya Vicky Wong. Kedua, fungsi implikatur percakapan pada percakapan antartokoh dalam serial web Tiongkok ???? Tia?n Xi?ng Zhi? Lu? episode 1 karya Vicky Wong. Jenis penelitian ini adalah penelitian deskriptif kualitatif. Teknik pengumpulan data yang digunakan adalah simak dan catat, sedang teknik analisis data yang digunakan adalah teknik menafsirkan data yang berupa percakapan antartokoh dalam serial web Tiongkok ???? Tia?n Xi?ng Zhi? Lu? episode 1 ke dalam bentuk deskripsi. Hasil penelitian ini, penulis menemukan 3 jenis implikatur percakapan adalah implikatur percakapan umum, implikatur percakapan khusus, dan implikatur percakapan berskala.
Kata Kunci: implikatur, percakapan, serial web Tiongkok ???? Tia?n Xi?ng Zhi? Lu?. Abstract
Language is a means of communication between human beings in life. Learning the language is very important. In this modern area, there are many language learning media you can use, for example through web series. In this study, the conversational implicatures in the Chinese web series ???? Tia?n Xi?ng Zhi? Lu? episode 1. The author focuses on two problem formulations. First, the types of conversational implicature in the conversation between characters in the Chinese web series ???? Tia?n Xi?ng Zhi? Lu? episode 1 by Vicky Wong. Second, the function of conversational implicature in the conversation between characters in the Chinese web series ???? Tia?n Xi?ng Zhi? Lu? episode 1 by Vicky Wong. Types of research this is a qualitative descriptive study. The data collection technique used is listening and recording, while the data analysis technique used is a technique of interpreting data in the form of conversations between characters in the Chinese web series ???? Tia?n Xi?ng Zhi? Lu? episode 1 into descriptive form.
Keywords: implicature, conversation, Chinese web series ???? Tia?n Xi?ng Zhi? Lu?
Transactional coherence and consistency
No full textent sets of rules known as m e m o ry c o n - sistency models. Over the years, these models haveprogressed from easy-to-understand but sometimes performance-limiting sequential consistency schemes to more modern schemes such as relaxed consistency. The complex interaction of coherence, synchronization, and consistency makes the job Lance Hammond Brian D. Carlstrom Vicky Wong Michael Chen Christos Kozyrakis Kunle Olukotun Stanford University TCC S M P L I F I E S PARA L L E L HARDWAR E AND SO F T WAR E D E S I GN BY E L M NAT NG T H E N E E D F OR CONV E N T ONA L CACH E COH E R E NC E AND CONS S T E NCY MOD E L S AND L E T T I NG P ROGRAMM E RS PARA L L E L I Z E A W D E RANG E O F A P P L I CAT ONS W T H A S M P L E , L OCK -F R E E T RANSAC T ONA L MOD E L . TRANSACTIONAL COHERENCE AND CONSISTENCY: SIMPLIFYING PARALLEL HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE Published by the IEEE Computer Society 0272-1732/04/$20.00 # 2004 IEEE of parallel programming difficult. Existing a p p roache
A Holding Space
No full textVicky Hunter is a Practitioner-Researcher and Professor in Site Dance at the University of Chichester,
UK. Her research explores site dance and corporeal engagements with space, place and lived
environments. Since 2004 she has presented site dance in a range of sites including basements,
woodlands and beaches. She is co-author of (Re) Positioning Site Dance: Local Acts, Global Themes (2019) with
Melanie Kloetzel and Karen Barbour, and editor of Moving Sites: Investigating Site-Specific Dance Performance
(Routledge, 2015). Her monograph Site, Dance and Body: Movement, Materials and Corporeal Engagement was
published by Palgrave in 2021
The real costs of Open Source Sustainability
No full textIn 2016 Nadia Eghbal released "Roads and Bridges: The Unseen Labor Behind Our Digital Infrastructure," which shines a light on how few people maintain the software that underpins a large amount of the internet and the services that run on it.
The software world has rallied around Open Source Sustainability. Going with what they know, folks mostly focus on paying FOSS developers. Funding drives were funded. Foundations were founded. Startups started up. Venture capitalists ventured that capital.
Money isn't the only part of sustainable FOSS projects. Sustainability is a multi-faceted concept that can't work if people focus on only one of its many elements.
This talk will:
Review literature around the concept of sustainability
Propose a definition that more accurately details what "sustainable" means to FOSS
Provide tips for starting with your FOSS sustainability efforts
About the speaker
VM (aka Vicky) spent most of her twenty-plus years in the tech industry leading software development departments and teams, providing technical management and leadership consulting for small and medium businesses, and helping companies understand, use, release, and contribute to free and open source software in a way that's good for both their bottom line and for the community. Now, as the Director of Open Source Strategy for Juniper Networks, she leverages her nearly 30 years of free and open source software experience and a strong business background to help Juniper be successful through free and open source software.
She is the author of Forge Your Future with Open Source, the first and only book to detail how to contribute to free and open source software projects. The book is published by The Pragmatic Programmers and is now available at https://fossforge.com.
Vicky has been a moderator and author for opensource.com, an author for Linux Journal, the Vice President of the Open Source Initiative, and is a frequent and popular speaker at free/open source conferences and events. She's the proud winner of the Perl White Camel Award (2014), the O’Reilly Open Source Award (2016), and two Opensource.com Moderator's Choice Awards (2018, 2019). She blogs about free/open source, business, and technical management at {anonymous => 'hash'};.</p
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