scholarly journals Buildings speak to us

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 227-234
Author(s):  
Jale Erzen
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
Urban Residents ◽  
Urban Forms ◽  
Critical View ◽  
Human Culture ◽  
Urban Structures ◽  
Different Characteristics

Starting with a critical view of the general architectural and urban structures of today my paper will present buildings comparable to the body, thus their expression and the meanings they invoke will be presented as a language of form that affect the behavior and psychology of urban residents. Referring to the architectural criticisms of George Bataille, it is argued that the physicality of buildings are valuable insofar as they transcend materiality and lead to symbols and spirituality. Buildings are viewed as presenting different characteristics and attitudes depending on their form. Architecture is also viewed as the product of labour and thus a communal creation that has its roots in the origins of human culture. Each different institution has evolved historically from different senses becoming cultural articulations and resulting in architectures that connect people in enjoyment of shared interests. It is further argued that urban and spatial forms that are confusing as to their boundaries and appertainance can cause confusion and negative reactions. Thus it is important that urban forms' language is positive and clear.

A Golden Age for a Changing Nation: Polish National Identity and the Histories of the Wilanów Residence of King Jan III Sobieski

2006 ◽  
Vol 49 ◽  
pp. 101-128
Author(s):  
Barbara Arciszewska
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Architectural History ◽  
The Body ◽  
Body Of Knowledge ◽  
New Meanings ◽  
History Of ◽  
Architectural Language ◽  
Social Agendas ◽  
Different Characteristics

As we continue to probe the boundaries of architectural history and to seek new approaches to the complex legacy of the past, we have to reassess the body of knowledge produced thus far, exposing its often-hidden agendas in order to be aware of our own engagement with today’s ideologies. The architectural history of Central Europe, although usually marginalized, serves as a particularly instructive field in which to study the mutability of ideological positions and their impact on interpretation. Scholarship on the Wilanów Palace near Warsaw (c. 1677–96) (Figs 1 and 2) offers some of the most interesting examples of architectural history’s appropriations, oversights and extraordinary intellectual constructions devised solely in order to claim a relationship with the glorious past, or to sever ties with certain aspects of it, depending upon the contemporary ideological agendas. This material demonstrates how a single building has been used over the years to express diverse concepts of national identity, either by subjecting that building to certain physical modifications, or by making it serve as a point of departure for narratives that emphasize different characteristics of precisely the same physical fabric. The vocabulary of classical architecture employed in Wilanów was particularly well suited to such cultural practices. Classicism – the paradigmatic architectural language, positioned at the nexus of the indigenous and the foreign – has traditionally been associated with discourses of national identity. It was a universal idiom of authority, easily reflecting diverse (or even conflicting) social agendas, its visual vocabulary lending itself to a succession of new meanings, in line with shifting expectations and ideological priorities. In Wilanów the classical and the universal were continually redefined in an attempt to express in visual form the national and the particular.

Barrier and Penetration Scores in Relation to Some Objective and Subjective Somesthetic Measures

1984 ◽  
Vol 59 (1) ◽  
pp. 195-202 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicoletta Sabatini ◽  
Vezio Ruggieri ◽  
Maria Milizia
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
The Other ◽  
Inverse Relation ◽  
Direct Relation ◽  
Body Perception ◽  
Muscular Tone ◽  
The Right ◽  
Different Characteristics ◽  
Female Subjects

Barrier and Penetration scores in relation to some variables, such as muscular tone at rest, sensitivity to tickle, and body perception were studied in a group of 35 female subjects. While no correlations appear within the whole group of subjects between Barrier scores and the other variables, an inverse relation emerges between Penetration scores and muscular tone on the left side of the body. Dividing subjects on the basis of Barrier scores, three groups with different characteristics appear: 12 subjects with high Barrier scores show an inverse relation of Barrier scores with sensitivity to tickle on the right side of the body; 12 subjects with middle Barrier scores show a direct relation of Barrier scores with muscular tone and an inverse one with both latency of tickle on the right half of the body and body perception; 11 subjects with low Barrier scores show an inverse relation of Barrier scores with durations of tickle on both sides of the body.

scholarly journals Automatic Brain Tumour Detection using New Structure Algorithm

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (11) ◽  
pp. 3402-3405
Keyword(s):  
Feature Extraction ◽  
Brain Tumor ◽  
Edge Detection ◽  
Clustering Algorithm ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
The Body ◽  
Manual Segmentation ◽  
Tumour Detection ◽  
Structure Algorithm ◽  
Different Characteristics

Tumor is an abandoned development of tissues in any part of the body. Tumors have different treatment for different characteristics of tissues. Brain tumor is a very serious and dangerous, as we know. In developed countries most Research shows that due to the inaccurate detection of tumor many people have died. Normally, CT scan or MRI images will be used for the detection of tumor. In this research, we want to introduce a method which is very advanced and accurate for brain tumor detection based on a new structure algorithm. This technique focuses mainly on pre- processing, Edge detection, segmentation, Feature extraction. Pre-processing will be done first for filtering, after filtering edge detection is applied to the image, then after advanced fuzzy K- means (AFKM) clustering algorithm is used for the segmentation process. Finally thresholding will extract the tumor at a particular point in the image. This technique is very suitable for segmentation with exactness when we compare with the manual segmentation. In addition, it also shrinks the time for examination.

Appropriating Ovid’s Tyrannical Raptures in Macbeth

2019 ◽  
pp. 163-181
Author(s):  
John D. Staines
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
Deleuze And Guattari ◽  
Titus Andronicus ◽  
Human Culture ◽  
The Sublime ◽  
The Uncanny ◽  
Human Understanding

In contrast to Titus Andronicus, Macbeth adapts few Ovidian sources; nonetheless, the play reveals how completely the mature Shakespeare appropriates Ovid’s poetics, especially the element of raptus, seizing and being seized. Macbeth himself is the body rapt, and raped, as he experiences the sublime terror of being swept up and violated by forces at the edge of human understanding. The tyrant is both the rapist and the raped, seized by passions he cannot, or will not, control, tortured in “restless ecstasy” that drives him to greater violations. Using the rhizome and assemblage of Deleuze and Guattari, and the hauntology of Derrida, this chapter sees Shakespeare, Ovid, and human culture as fragmentary records of violent appropriations and traumatized ghosts haunting past, present, and future. The uncanny, spectral experiences Maurizio Calbi finds in postmodern Shakespearean adaptations are thus intensifications of experiences Shakespeare found in Ovid and made central to his art.

Vegetable Rights

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Gelernter
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
Recent Book ◽  
Luce Irigaray ◽  
Human Culture

Human culture denies vegetal existence in its own right; the body of the plant must return to the soul of plants—claims a recent book. Daniel Gelernter reviews Through Vegetal Being: Two Philosophical Perspectives by Luce Irigaray and Michael Marder.

scholarly journals Human beings as islands of stability: Monitoring body states using breath profiles

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kiran Sankar Maiti ◽  
Michael Lewton ◽  
Ernst Fill ◽  
Alexander Apolonski
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Stability Monitoring ◽  
Test Study ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Small Test ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Different Characteristics ◽  
Temporal Profiles ◽  
Concentration Space

Abstract By checking the reproducibility of conventional mid-infrared Fourier spectroscopy of human breath in a small test study (15 individuals), we found that a set of volatile organic compounds (VOC) of the individual breath samples remains reproducible at least for 18 months. This set forms a unique individual’s “island of stability” (IOS) in a multidimensional VOC concentration space. The IOS stability can simultaneously be affected by various life effects as well as the onset of a disease. Reflecting the body state, they both should have different characteristics. Namely, they could be distinguished by different temporal profiles: In the case of life effects (beverage intake, physical or mental exercises, smoking etc.), there is a non-monotonic shift of the IOS position with the return to the steady state, whereas a progressing disease corresponds to a monotonic IOS shift. As a first step of proving these dependencies, we studied various life effects with the focus on the strength and characteristic time of the IOS shift. In general, our results support homeostasis on a long time scale of months, allostasis on scales of hours to weeks or until smoke quitting for smokers, as well as resilience in the case of recovery from a disease.

scholarly journals The Place of Knowledge A Methodological Survey

1991 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adi Ophir ◽  
Steven Shapin
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
Human Culture ◽  
The Core ◽  
Scientific Truth ◽  
Scientific Ideas

A generation ago scientific ideas floated free in the air, as historians gazed up at them in wonder and admiration. From time to time, historians agreed, the ideas that made up the body of scientific truth became incarnate: they were embedded into the fleshly forms of human culture and attached to particular times and places. How this incarnation occurred was a great mystery. How could spirit be made flesh? How did the transcendent and the timeless enter the forms of the mundane and the contingent? Platonist and providentialist perspectives offered ways of speaking about the mystery, but, in general, it remained unresolved at the core of orthodox idealist historiography.1

PENDIDIKAN ISLAM DAN BAHASA ARAB MULTIKULTURAL DI MADRASAH

EMPIRISMA ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahmad Rifa'i
Keyword(s):  
Multicultural Education ◽  
Cultural Diversity ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Arabic Language ◽  
Content Structure ◽  
Human Culture ◽  
School Programs ◽  
Race Ethnicity ◽  
Different Characteristics ◽  
Policies And Practices

Multicultural education means to learn about, prepare for, and celebrate cultural diversity. It requires changes in school programs, policies and practices. Experts agreed that the content, structure and specific practices in multicultural education are different according to the settings. This article will focus its discussion on multural education in teaching Arabic language. It found that multicultural education in teaching and learning Arabic language can be implemented in maḥārah al-arbā’, including learning maḥārah qirā’ah, mahārah kalām, mahārah kitābah, and mahārah istimā’. In globalization era, problems of multiculturalism are inevitable, including in learning Arabic because language is a human culture, which has different characteristics in terms of race, ethnicity, religion, geography and language.Keywords: Pendidikan Multikultural, Bahasa Arab, Maḥārah al-Arbā’

scholarly journals THE ORIGINS AND DIRECTIONS OF LARGE SCALE POST-WAR RESIDENTIAL DISTRICTS / MASINĖS STATYBOS GYVENAMŲJŲ RAJONŲ FENOMENO IŠTAKOS IR KRYPTYS

2011 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 11-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Petras Džervus
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Implementation Process ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Economic Factors ◽  
Residential Areas ◽  
Theoretical Level ◽  
Urban Forms ◽  
Urban Structures ◽  
Post War ◽  
Mass Construction

The present Lithuanian urban structures in particular have had a significant impact, and retains the phenomenon - the mass construction of large scale residential areas. Analyzed and summarized literature published in Lithuania and abroad in the mass construction of a large scale theoretical framework for the implementation process and effects of urban structures. Attention is drawn to the crucial social and political attitudes and economic factors which determined the identical theoretical level concepts become different urban forms.

scholarly journals Cities as Spaces for Opportunities for All: Building Public Spaces for People with Disabilities, Children and Elders

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Transportation Systems ◽  
Urban Systems ◽  
Urban Residents ◽  
Civic Life ◽  
Transit Systems ◽  
Small Children ◽  
Urban Forms

There is no need to justify building cities to benefit all users. Building cities considering only the needs of a fraction of their urban residents is what needs to be justified. And yet, we have grown accustomed to cities urban public spaces and services planned, designed, and built ignoring the needs of people with disabilities, of small children and their caretakers, and of elders, thus limiting access for these groups. Against this background, this monograph aims to advance urban planning practices that can effectively contribute to enabling people with disabilities, children, and elders access to the opportunities for work, socialization, and enjoyment that cities offer. That is, urban forms and urban systems that are purposefully shaped to allow people access to parks and public spaces and transportation systems, and to actively participate in civic life, regardless of their level of ability. For that purpose, the monograph is organized in two parts. Part one provides context to the evolution of the conversation on people with disabilities, particularly from the perspective of cities in LAC. Part two is a compendium of case studies on cities that have built spaces and transit systems that help remove the barriers that people with disabilities, elders, and small children face in cities.

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