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Repositioning the graphic designer as researcher
No full textIn academic terms, the discipline of graphic design is relatively young. Consequently the position of the discipline within academic territory, and the role of the designer, continue to be debated. In part, these debates have been a product of attempts to define and defend the discipline’s borders from within, in order to establish a sense of the role of graphic design and the graphic designer as commensurate with other disciplines both within and beyond art and design. In recent years graphic designers have variously been defined as ‘authors’, ‘producers’ and ‘readers’, yet none of these definitions seem to have provided any kind of productive or lasting impact within the academy. This paper suggests that rather than continue to seek territorial definitions and positions from within, it could be more productive to look beyond the confines of the discipline. Gaining a broader, interdisciplinary perspective on, and understanding of, qualitative research methods from other disciplines may enable the graphic designer to more fully position his or her practice within the wider academy. Such a perspective could help facilitate the repositioning and redefinition of the graphic designer as ‘researcher’ - a move that would be productive in relation to the future development of postgraduate research within the discipline
Mining e-mail content for author identification forensics
No full textWe describe an investigation into e-mail content mining for author identification, or authorship attribution, for the purpose of forensic investigation. We focus our discussion on the ability to discriminate between authors for the case of both aggregated e-mail topics as well as across different email topics. An extended set of e-mail document features including structural characteristics and linguistic patterns were derived and, together with a Support Vector Machine learning algorithm, were used for mining the e-mail content. Experiments using a number of e-mail documents generated by different authors on a set of topics gave promising results for both aggregated and multi-topic author categorisation
Poetiche e interpretazioni dello spazio. Dagli spazi poetici all'abitare
No full textLAUREALa tesi analizza il tema dello spazio attraverso diverse forme d’interpretazione. Nella parte iniziale vorremmo analizzare il testo filosofico “La poetica dello spazio” di Gaston Bachelard attraverso il quale il filosofo francese illustra come l’abitare sia generato dallo spazio intimo e poetico. Nella seconda parte del nostro lavoro, vorremmo analizzare il testo di Bruno Zevi “Saper vedere l’architettura” in cui si evidenzia come lo spazio architettonico sia indissolubilmente collegato all’esperire dell’essere umano. Nella terza parte cercheremmo di evidenziare ciò che è stato trattato dai precedenti capitoli attraverso la manifestazione di alcuni casi studio in Frank Lloyd Wright e di Le Corbusier. Nelle opere di Frank Lloyd Wright si ricercherà il concetto di continuum spaziale tra l’interno architettonico e lo spazio esterno della natura, che coincide con la relazione tra lo spazio intimo e il cosmo nella filosofia di Gaston Bachelard, a questo si aggiungerà lo spazio intimo delle sue case che si manifesta nella centralità dei camini, e nella scelta dei luoghi in cui il progetto prende vita. Nelle opere di Le Corbusier ricercheremo il concetto di spazio intimo raggiunto dall’uso di Le Modulor in alcune delle sue realizzazioni, in cui il concetto di spazio intimo, e raccolto, di Gaston Bachelard è molto forte. Questo lavoro vorrebbe interpretare il concetto di abitare: l’uomo nello stesso istante in cui abita genera spazio. Uno spazio intimo e poetico per Gaston Bachelard ed uno spazio architettonico per Bruno Zevi. L’incontro di queste due forme di spazio viene oggettivamente riscontrato nel racconto architettonico di Frank Lloyd Wright e di Le Corbusier.The thesis analyzes the theme of space through different forms of interpretation. In the initial part we would like to analyze the philosophical text "The poetics of space" by Gaston Bachelard through which the French philosopher illustrates how living is generated by intimate and poetic space. In the second part of our work, we would like to analyze Bruno Zevi's text "Knowing how to see architecture" which highlights how the architectural space is inextricably linked to the experience of the human being. In the third part, we would try to highlight what has been covered by the previous chapters through the manifestation of some case studies in Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier. In the works of Frank Lloyd Wright the concept of spatial continuum between the architectural interior and the external space of nature will be sought, which coincides with the relation between the intimate space and the cosmos in the philosophy of Gaston Bachelard, to this will be added the intimate space of his houses which is manifested in the centrality of the fireplaces, and in the choice of the places where the project comes to life. In Le Corbusier's works, we will look for the concept of intimate space achieved by the use of Le Modulor in some of his creations, in which Gaston Bachelard's concept of intimate space is very strong. This work would like to interpret the concept of inhabiting: man generates space in the same instant in which he inhabits. An intimate and poetic space for Gaston Bachelard and an architectural space for Bruno Zevi. The meeting of these two forms of space is objectively found in the architectural story of Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier
Vacant and underutilized land in Boston
No full textThesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2004.This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 62-63).by Alison E. Mori.S.M
Assessing the international use of health technology assessments: exploring the merits of different methods when applied to the National Institute of health Research Technology Assessment (NIHR HTA) Programme
No full textObjectives: This study presents findings from a study that explores the merits of different methods for assessing the international use of UK funded research by the National Institute of Health Research Health Technology Assessment (NIHR HTA) Programme.Methods: The study adopted an exploratory approach and used three core methods: (i) Academic use was explored through bibliometric and citation analysis of the top ten most cited health technology assessment (HTA) reports. (ii) Internet use was assessed using Webtrends software to identify the proportion of international visits of the top ten most downloaded HTA reports from January 1, 2004 to June 30, 2010. (iii) International HTA use was assessed by searching the Center for Reviews and Dissemination (CRD) HTA database to explore the citation of NIHR HTA reports in reports by non-UK HTA agencies.Results: Bibliometric analysis identified published output and international citations with 41 percent of the 549 journals citing NIHR HTA reports being based in the United States. Nine of ten most downloaded reports from the NIHR HTA Web site (www.hta.ac.uk) had in excess of 50 percent of visits outside the United Kingdom. Four of five selected NIHR HTA reports were cited in twenty-eight other HTA reports, eighteen of these outside the United Kingdom.Conclusions: Assessing international use is important when exploring the uptake of research evidence. Methods used in identifying research impact, such as bibliometrics and Webtrends, are helpful in generating evidence of international use. HTA agencies should consider these techniques and international use when assessing the uptake of findings from research they undertake and/or commission
Language and gender author cohort analysis of e-mail for computer forensics
No full textAbstract. We describe an investigation of authorship gender and lan-guage background cohort attribution mining from e-mail text documents. We used an extended set of predominantly topic content-free e-mail document features such as style markers, structural characteristics and gender-preferential language features together with a Support Vector Machine learning algorithm. Experiments using a corpus of e-mail doc-uments generated by a large number of authors of both genders gave promising results for both author gender and language background co-hort categorisation.
Detailed summaries of peer-reviewed journal articles with Alison Snow Jones as primary author
No full textAnnotated guide to the scholarly work of Alison Snow Jones, created by Lauren J. Bruce for inclusion in "An Uncommon Woman: Alison Snow Jones Unleashed!
A latent semantic analysis of gender stereotype-consistency and narrowness in American English
No full textVision and Desire in Postcolonial Australia: A Conversation with Alison Ravenscroft
No full textAlison Ravenscroft, author of The Postcolonial Eye: White Australian Desire and the Visual Field of Race, discusses her book with Kira Randolph.</p
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