scholarly journals The Postcolonial Writer in Performance: J. M. Coetzee’s Summertime

2013 ◽  
pp. 101
Author(s):  
Serena Guarracino
Keyword(s):  
Nobel Prize ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Postcolonial Literature ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
The Third ◽  
To Come ◽  
The Many

This essay focuses on the elaboration of postcolonial literature as an event emerging from the interaction among the many and diverse agencies which allow the postcolonial work to come into being. This formulation both highlights the repetition of tropes in postcolonial literature and the variations to the tropes themselves, which can become ethically and politically relevant by creating an interruption in accepted notions of what a postcolonial work should sound like. Following this lead, the essay will outline a methodological approach which interprets the literary work as a performative act in the complex nexus of discourses constituting the postcolonial writer as a figure of the global collective imaginary, taking as case study J. M. Coetzee’s work with particular focus on his Nobel Prize lecture and the third instalment of his memoir series, Summertime (2009). His work, together with others, is taken as a symptom of how public lectures and statements, together with the literary work proper, have all become an expression of the writer’s own performativity as a writer; while these phenomena have an impact on literature as a whole, the essay focuses on the postcolonial writer figure as historically endowed with what Kobena Mercer has famously termed “the burden of representation.”

The Potential Usages of Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces in Product Design

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samira Sadeghi ◽  
Caroline Hayes
Keyword(s):  
Product Design ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Design Domain ◽  
Natural Approach ◽  
Design Office ◽  
Potential Applications ◽  
Interactive Tabletops ◽  
The Many

This is a “concept” paper. It explores the potential usages of interactive tabletops and surfaces in product design. Interactive tabletops and surfaces are a family of display technologies coupled with sensors that enable a more natural approach for interacting with computers. Previous research demonstrates the many possible uses for interactive tabletops and surfaces in design domain through several applications. This paper explores the potential of this technology to enhance the performance of designers and design groups. This paper highlights the benefits of interactive tabletops and surfaces in design through discussion of different potential applications and their possible advantages. The methodological approach for developing interactive tabletops and surfaces application for design has been presented and supported through a case study. Through the proposed approach we aim to gain a better understanding of practical challenges that need to be considered when integrating interactive tabletops and surfaces technology into a design office.

scholarly journals ahat ilī – siostra bogów Olgi Tokarczuk i Aleksandra Nowaka. Od powieści do operowego libretta

2020 ◽  
pp. 157-176
Author(s):  
Paulina Zgliniecka-Hojda
Keyword(s):  
Nobel Prize ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
Nobel Prize Winner ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The Third ◽  
Unique Path

ahat ilī – Sister of Gods by Olga Tokarczuk and Aleksander Nowak: From the Novel to the Opera Libretto In 2018, the third opera composition by Aleksander Nowak (*1979), ahat ilī – Sister of Gods had its premiere., The libretto was created by Polish Nobel Prize winner Olga Tokarczuk, on the basis of her own novel. This kind of combination of literature and opera, reinforced by the unique situation in which the author of the text-inspiration and the libretto is the same person, suggests that the work should be defined as a literary opera. The aim of the article is to present the composition in terms of its genres as well as to show the unique path of its content from literary work to operatic, together with the analysis of the libretto from the librettological perspective.

scholarly journals Expert Approach Methodology as Basis for Sailing Boat Outfitting Improvement – Case Study

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (Special edition 2) ◽  
pp. 155-166
Author(s):  
Tin Matulja ◽  
Marko Hadjina
Keyword(s):  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Optimal Solution ◽  
Cfd Analysis ◽  
Fourth Stage ◽  
Second Stage ◽  
The Third ◽  
Third Stage ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Sailing Boat

The market conditions demanded the adaptation of exclusively touristic sailing yachts to specific race requirements. The hydrodynamic aspects of this problem have been successfully solved using modern tools for CFD analysis. But, the practical aspects of outfitting such vessels to meet the highest tourist requirements while respecting specific racing requirements for deck equipment required a different methodological approach. In fulfilling these requirements, the author indirectly participates in multi-year cooperation with the prominent European manufacturer of sailboats. For the purpose of cooperation, a special methodology was developed for the improvement of the equipment of the defined sailing boat in four stages. In the first stage, an analysis of the impact of sailing equipment and deck configuration of the existing B40S model on sailing performance is suggested using RaceQs computing application and expert approaches for different sea and wind conditions. In the second stage, the analysis of the collected data is carried out by expert approach towards guidelines for improvement. The third stage impacts on redesigning the existing model by implementing the obtained results. In the fourth stage, the effects on the upgraded new B41S model are analyzed repeating the first stage. The methodology is iterative and converges to the optimal solution for the defined criteria.

scholarly journals The impact of COVID-19 on clinical research for Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs): A case study of bubonic plague

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (12) ◽  
pp. e0010064
Author(s):  
Tsinjo Fehizoro Rasoanaivo ◽  
Josephine Bourner ◽  
Ravaka Niaina Randriamparany ◽  
Théodora Mayouya Gamana ◽  
Voahangy Andrianaivoarimanana ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Research ◽  
Neglected Tropical Diseases ◽  
Tropical Diseases ◽  
Health Centres ◽  
Accrual Rate ◽  
To Come ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Near Future

Background Among the many collaterals of the COVID-19 pandemic is the disruption of health services and vital clinical research. COVID-19 has magnified the challenges faced in research and threatens to slow research for urgently needed therapeutics for Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) and diseases affecting the most vulnerable populations. Here we explore the impact of the pandemic on a clinical trial for plague therapeutics and strategies that have been considered to ensure research efforts continue. Methods To understand the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the trial accrual rate, we documented changes in patterns of all-cause consultations that took place before and during the pandemic at health centres in two districts of the Amoron’I Mania region of Madagascar where the trial is underway. We also considered trends in plague reporting and other external factors that may have contributed to slow recruitment. Results During the pandemic, we found a 27% decrease in consultations at the referral hospital, compared to an 11% increase at peripheral health centres, as well as an overall drop during the months of lockdown. We also found a nation-wide trend towards reduced number of reported plague cases. Discussion COVID-19 outbreaks are unlikely to dissipate in the near future. Declining NTD case numbers recorded during the pandemic period should not be viewed in isolation or taken as a marker of things to come. It is vitally important that researchers are prepared for a rebound in cases and, most importantly, that research continues to avoid NTDs becoming even more neglected.

Where the book ends and the album begins: Extra-illustrating the work of James MacPherson LeMoine1 in nineteenth-century Quebec

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 107-139 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Knazook
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
Quebec City ◽  
Canadian History ◽  
The Third ◽  
James Macpherson ◽  
Maple Leaves

This article is a case study of photographs as extra-illustrations using as an example the third volume in the series of Maple Leaves books by Sir James MacPherson LeMoine (1825‐1912), published in 1865 under the subtitle Canadian History and Quebec Scenery, which was the first literary work in Canada to be commercially illustrated with photographs. Original albumen photographs made by photographer Jules-Isaïe Benoît dit Livernois (1830‐65) depicted many of the country villas described by the author in the section referred to as ‘Our Country Seats’. The readers of Maple Leaves turned this work into a complex and intimate record of a community by liberally augmenting the official photographs with individual prints selected independently for their copies. The surviving books collectively serve as a kind of regional album, preserving the tastes and aspirations of some of the 500 subscribers living in and around Quebec City in the mid-nineteenth century.

scholarly journals Mythological Names and dróttkvætt Formulae III: From Metric-Structural Type to Compositional System

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-33
Author(s):  
Frog
Keyword(s):  
Language Use ◽  
Semantic Category ◽  
Structural Type ◽  
Old Norse ◽  
Oral Poetry ◽  
The Third ◽  
General Preference ◽  
To Come ◽  
Compositional System

This article explores patterns of language use in oral poetry within a variety of semantic formula. Such a formula may vary its surface texture in relation to phonic demands of the metrical environment in which it is realised. This is the third part of a four-part series based on metrically entangled kennings in Old Norse dróttkvætt poetry as primary material. Old Norse kennings present a semantic formula of a particular type which is valuable as an example owing to the extremes of textural variation that it enables. The study concentrates on two-element kennings meaning ‘battle’. The first part in this series introduced the approach to kennings as semantic formulae and illustrated their formulaicity through evidence of the preferred lexical choices with which they were realised. The second part presented a case study illustrating that preferred word choices could extend beyond the kenning to additional elements in the line like rhyme words. The third case study presented here concentrates on the potential for a formula of this type to develop a general preference for elements of the kenning to come from one semantic category rather than another without such choices being metrically motivated per se.

scholarly journals Distribution center logistics optimization model – City of Rijeka case study

Pomorstvo ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 185-194
Author(s):  
Mladen Jardas ◽  
Tomislav Krljan ◽  
Ana Perić Hadžić ◽  
Neven Grubišić
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Transport Process ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Distribution Center ◽  
Transport Costs ◽  
City Center ◽  
Gravity Center ◽  
The Many ◽  
The City

The optimization of the goods delivery to Rijeka’s city center presents a complex organizational framework where many parameters must be taken into account and a diverse multi-methodological approach, needs to be utilized. The building of a distribution center is asserted here to be one notable way to improve the existing delivery service. The grouping of freight in a distribution center would result in a reduction of transport costs due to a smaller number of vehicles entering the city center, in turn reducing the traffic burden incumbent on the city’s transport network. In this paper, two of the many possible methods related to the optimization of goods delivery in city centers, have been used. Based on the data collected through the study’s questionnaire, conducted in the area of the city of Rijeka, the method of gravity center has been used to determine the location of the distribution center. Then, based on the tentative location of the distribution center, the method of optimization of the transport process has been applied by resorting to transport problem-solving methods, including several different implementation scenarios. From the proposed solutions, and based on the results detailed, the solution that was found to be the most credible was arguably the best match with the default criterion.

scholarly journals Crossroads Corpus creation: Design and case study

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-32
Author(s):  
Abbie Hantgan-Sonko
Keyword(s):  
Speech Act ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Linguistic Landscape ◽  
The Third ◽  
Naturally Occurring ◽  
Corpus Design ◽  
Corpus Creation ◽  
Linguistic Behavior ◽  
Language Context

Abstract This paper illustrates a methodological approach to the design of an annotated corpus using a case study of phonetic convergences and divergences by multilingual speakers in southwestern Senegal’s Casamance region. The newly compiled corpus contains approximately 183,000 annotations of multilingual, spoken data, gathered by eight researchers over a ten year span using methods ranging from structured lexical elicitation in controlled contexts to naturally occurring, multilingual conversations. The area from which the data were collected consists of three villages and their primary languages, and yet many more contribute to the linguistic landscape. Detailed metadata inform analyses of variation, the context in which a speech act took place and between whom, the speakers’ linguistic repertoires, trajectories, and social networks, as well as the larger language context. A potential path for convergence or divergence that emerged during data collection and in building and searching the corpus is the crossroads in the phonetic production of word-initial velar plosives. Word-initial [k] emerges in one language where only [ɡ] is present in the other; the third utilizes both. The corpus design makes it feasible, not only to identify areas of accommodation, but to grasp the context, enabling a sociolinguistically informed analysis of the speakers’ linguistic behavior.

scholarly journals Working college students’ profile Case Study: Faculty of Engineering Sibiu, Romania

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 337-341
Author(s):  
Roxana Săvescu ◽  
Ana Maria Stoe ◽  
Mihaela Rotaru
Keyword(s):  
Research Topic ◽  
The Third ◽  
Industrial Companies ◽  
Stress Symptoms ◽  
Working Students ◽  
Increasing Demand ◽  
To Come ◽  
Time To Learn ◽  
Loss Of Appetite

Abstract Faculty of Engineering in Sibiu is facing an increasing demand from industrial companies to employ students not only by the time of graduation but even during university studies. The scope of the study was to provide an insight on working students’ profile and the problems they are confronting with. Forty working students from the third year of Faculty of Engineering Sibiu were interviewed with regard of the research topic. Results of the study reflect the fact that a majority of working students face difficulties in school, having low grades or failed exams. The exam session seems to be a hard period for working students, and many of them find difficulties in attending all lectures or finding time to learn. Having a job while studying impacts personal activities, as well. Stress symptoms like: loss of appetite or overeating, difficulties in focusing, difficulties in taking decisions or feelings of restless are mentioned by the majority of working students. The results of the study are useful for the management of the faculty to come up with some measures to increase working students’ lectures attendance. Student support programs for reducing the stress among the group of working students must be developed as well.

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