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Zheng, Yixian, Wenchao Wu, Nan Cao, Huamin Qu, and Lionel M. Ni. "Focus+context grouping for animated transitions." Journal of Visual Languages & Computing 48 (October 2018): 61–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jvlc.2018.06.006.
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Heer, Jeffrey, and George Robertson. "Animated Transitions in Statistical Data Graphics." IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 13, no. 6 (2007): 1240–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/tvcg.2007.70539.
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Kim, Junghan, and Arun Lakshmanan. "Do Animated Line Graphs Increase Risk Inferences?" Journal of Marketing Research 58, no. 3 (2021): 595–613. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00222437211002128.
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This article shows that animated display of time-varying data (e.g., stock or commodity prices) enhances risk judgments. We outline a process whereby animated display enhances the visual salience of transitions in a trajectory (i.e., successive changes in data values), which leads to transitions being utilized more to form cognitive inferences about risk. In turn, this leads to inflated risk judgments. The studies reported in this article provide converging evidence via eye tracking (Study 1), serial mediation analyses (Studies 2 and 3), and experimental manipulations of transition salience (graph type; Study 3) and utilization of transitions (global trend; Study 4 and investment goals; Study 5) and, in the process, outline boundary conditions. The studies also demonstrate the effect of animated display on consequential investment decisions and behavior. This article adds to the literature on salience effects by disambiguating the role of inference making in how salience of stimuli causes biases in judgments. Broader implications for visual information processing, data visualization, financial decision making, and public policy are discussed.
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Łucjan, Kamila, and Paweł Wojtanowicz. "Continuous or discontinuous? Empirical study on animated maps." Polish Cartographical Review 50, no. 3 (2018): 127–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/pcr-2018-0008.
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Abstract Advancements in computer technology that have occurred in recent decades have enabled an intensive development in cartographic methods for direct representation of phenomena dynamics. Even with the appearance of ever more advanced technical solutions, the theoretical basis still needs supplementing. The previous cartographic literature emphasises the importance of congruence and isomorphism principles preservation that aims at increasing the effectiveness of dynamic displays. Nevertheless, it is frequently the case that discontinuous phenomena are depicted with the use of smooth transitions. For this reason, it is vital that experimental research should lead to defining which representation methods are appropriate for a given type of content. Our study was focused on the cartographic design of scene transitions in animated maps. Two main conclusions of the research indicate that 1) mode of transition influences the interpretation of the content of cartographic animation depicting discrete changes, 2) maps executed in a smooth mode demonstrate lower effectiveness when compared with animations using an abrupt and abrupt with decay effect transitions.
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Kim, Younghoon, Michael Correll, and Jeffrey Heer. "Designing Animated Transitions to Convey Aggregate Operations." Computer Graphics Forum 38, no. 3 (2019): 541–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cgf.13709.
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Bach, Benjamin, Emmanuel Pietriga, and Jean-Daniel Fekete. "GraphDiaries: Animated Transitions andTemporal Navigation for Dynamic Networks." IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 20, no. 5 (2014): 740–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/tvcg.2013.254.
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Wang, Yong, Daniel Archambault, Carlos E. Scheidegger, and Huamin Qu. "A Vector Field Design Approach to Animated Transitions." IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 24, no. 9 (2018): 2487–500. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/tvcg.2017.2750689.
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Von Wyss, Martin. "The Production of Smooth Scale Changes in an Animated Map Project." Cartographic Perspectives, no. 23 (March 1, 1996): 12–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.14714/cp23.765.
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The proliferation of home and business computers has resulted in a dramatic increase in the number of animated maps in private, institutional, commercial, and academic settings. As authoring software that allows the production of such maps becomes cheaper and easier to use, animated maps will continue to become more numerous and sophisticated. This increase in the number and complexity of animated maps and the resultant need to automate their design and production calls for novel cartographic approaches. This paper stems from a project involving the design of animated maps for a typical multimedia product. An important element of the animations were the transitions between maps of different scales. An explanation of an algorithm to choose map scales suggests how aesthetic judgments can be incorporated into the automated production flow for the finished product.
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Leca, Bernard, Charles-Clemens Rüling, and Dominique Puthod. "Animated Times: Critical Transitions and the Maintenance of Field-Configuring Events." Industry and Innovation 22, no. 3 (2015): 173–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13662716.2015.1033839.
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Elster, Jon. "Reason, interest and passion in the East European transitions." Social Science Information 38, no. 4 (1999): 499–519. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/053901899038004001.
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The politics of transitions to democracy include both the forward-looking task of constitution-making and the backward-looking task of transitional justice. To study these processes and to explain their outcomes, one must among other things identify the motives of the political actors that are involved. Following the French moralists, the article tries to identify and assess the importance of interest, passion and reason as motives of the actors. The article also discusses the tendency for actors to misrepresent their motivations, and the frequent formation of alliances between actors animated by different motives that converge on specific policy issues.
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Chevalier, Fanny, Pierre Dragicevic, and Steven Franconeri. "The Not-so-Staggering Effect of Staggered Animated Transitions on Visual Tracking." IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 20, no. 12 (2014): 2241–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/tvcg.2014.2346424.
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LONGENECKER, BRUCE W. "Lukan Aversion to Humps and Hollows: The Case of Acts 11.27–12.25." New Testament Studies 50, no. 2 (2004): 185–204. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0028688504000128.
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Rhetoricians of the ancient world make reference to a technique useful for signalling that a transition is being made from one text unit to another. Ancient texts spanning centuries and provenance testify to the utility of this technique, not least texts of the NT. In this essay, four Lukan examples of this technique are cited, focusing particularly on what is perhaps the most intriguing of them: Acts 11.27–12.25. After demonstrating the way in which this passage is animated by the transition technique under consideration, the structural implications of these Lukan transitions are discussed in relation to the narrative of the Acts of the Apostles.
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Jelesijević, Nenad. "International Puppet Festival LUTKE 2014." Maska 31, no. 179 (2016): 138–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/maska.31.179-180.138_1.
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The article considers fragments of performances from the Ljubljana International Puppet Festival, especially emphasizing Antigone and Georges Méliès’ Final Trick. It places at its centre the hybridisation of the bodies of puppet and puppeteer as a phenomenon that creates unexpected transitions of form and sensuality – that is, a trans-situation, in which sensual distribution occurs not only among living individuals but also among (animated) objects. A trans-situation allows for a wider space of sensual distribution within the temporary bounds of the performance.
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Biørn-Hansen, Andreas, Tor-Morten Grønli, and Gheorghita Ghinea. "Animations in Cross-Platform Mobile Applications: An Evaluation of Tools, Metrics and Performance." Sensors 19, no. 9 (2019): 2081. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s19092081.
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Along with the proliferation of high-end and performant mobile devices, we find that the inclusion of visually animated user interfaces are commonplace, but that research on their performance is scarce. Thus, for this study, eight mobile apps have been developed for scrutiny and assessment to report on the device hardware impact and penalties caused by transitions and animations, with an emphasis on apps generated using cross-platform development frameworks. The tasks we employ for animation performance measuring, are those of (i) a complex animation consisting of multiple elements, (ii) the opening sequence of a side menu navigation pattern, and (iii) a transition animation during in-app page navigation. We employ multiple performance profiling tools, and scrutinize metrics including frames per second (FPS), CPU usage, device memory usage and GPU memory usage, all to uncover the impact caused by executing transitions and animations. We uncover important differences in device hardware utilization during animations across the different cross-platform technologies employed. Additionally, Android and iOS are found to differ greatly in terms of memory consumption, CPU usage and rendered FPS, a discrepancy that is true for both the native and cross-platform apps. The findings we report are indeed factors contributing to the complexity of app development.
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Kassim, Murizah, Ahmad Syahir Arif Mohd Zaid, Azlina Idris, Shahrani Shahbudin, Roslina Mohamad, and Cik Ku Haroswati Che Ku Yahaya. "3D modeling of multimode and single mode fiber." Indonesian Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science 16, no. 3 (2019): 1398. http://dx.doi.org/10.11591/ijeecs.v16.i3.pp1398-1406.
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<span>This paper presents a design of 3D modeling of Multimode and Single Mode Fiber using SolidWorks. Fiber technology is essential that presents optical fiber is the fastest optical cable laid by Internet Service Providers in network communication. The current design of both fibers has less detail animation on technical specifications of light propagations and cladding. Thus, characterization difficulties occur between this two fiber optics cables. It also has less promotion in media publications such as 3D model design as guidance to users. This paper presents details on 3D modeling of multimode mode and single mode fiber specifications held in the industry market. A 3D design with SolidWorks and comparison of both fiber characteristics are presented. Based on the 3D designed model, users are analyzed on their perspective and searching information which benefits telecommunication’s company. Technical calculations like core-cladding diameter ratio in microns are animated. The propagation of light in 3D single mode and multimode fiber is simulated using SolidWorks animator that presents it real fiber conditions. Result presents 10 most country searching used of both fiber cables and the difference in users search for both cables. A number of user’s search presents 3% more of multimode than single mode fiber search cases. This research is significant in presenting an animator of single and multimode fiber to users of network infrastructure development especially network developers and Telecommunications Company which can present it lively with animator transitions.</span>
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Halfon, Efraim. "Data Animator — Software that Visualizes Data as Computer-Generated Animation on Personal Computers: an Application to Hamilton Harbour." Water Quality Research Journal 31, no. 3 (1996): 609–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.2166/wqrj.1996.034.
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Abstract Data Animator, V1.0, is a scientific visualization package for microcomputers. Its main purpose is to generate two-dimensional animations from any data set collected over time. Geographical references such as a shore and/or bathymetry information, etc., may be added for additional clarity. Visualization of data as animations greatly simplifies the interpretation of field measurements. Data Animator is designed (but not restricted) to display data collected in aquatic environments, lakes, rivers, estuaries, oceans, etc., in a clear, concise way using colour to represent ranges of data values. Data sets can also be displayed as static images (keyframes). A graphic user interface allows the user to choose viewpoint, fonts, colour palette, data and keyframes. All Data Animator's options can be accessed through a graphical user interface (GUI). Point-and-click mouse operations allow the user to manipulate many features, with immediate on-screen feedback. Animations are generated by defining keyframes of known data, each located at a specific time. The program can then interpolate over time, between keyframes, to create smoothly animated transitions (in-between frames). Two types of graphs can be rendered with Data Animator. Plane-type graphs are horizontal slices at a depth specified by the user. Transect-type graphs are vertical slices along a straight line defined by the user. Data Animator can make use of both shore outline information and three-dimensional bathymetry information. This allows for the generation of realistic-looking graphs that follow the shape of the aquatic environment. Animations can be displayed on a computer monitor or transferred to video tape. pH data from Hamilton Harbour have been visualized and the results are discussed.
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McAra, Lesley, and Susan McVie. "Negotiated order: The groundwork for a theory of offending pathways." Criminology & Criminal Justice 12, no. 4 (2012): 347–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1748895812455810.
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This article explores the role which formal and informal regulatory orders play in the development of offender identity. Drawing on quantitative and qualitative data from the Edinburgh Study of Youth Transitions and Crime, it argues that the cultural practices of formal orders (such as those imposed by schools and the police) and informal orders (such as the rules governing peer interactions) mirror each other in respect of their fundamental dynamics – animated primarily by an inclusionary–exclusionary imperative. Formal orders differentiate between categories of young people on the basis of class and suspiciousness. Informal orders differentiate between individuals on the basis of adherence to group norms, territorial sovereignty, and gender appropriate demeanour. Being excluded by either set of orders undermines the capacity of the individual to negotiate, limits autonomy and constrains choice. This renders the individual more likely to absorb identities ascribed to them with damaging consequences in terms of offending behaviour and the individual’s sense of self.
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Spira, Tamara Lea. "Postrevolutionary Affect and the Consolidation of Zionism: The Case of Mercedes Sosa." boundary 2 46, no. 4 (2019): 119–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/01903659-7859165.
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This essay traces the Zionist conversion of iconic revolutionary folk singer Mercedes Sosa to theorize the shifting forms of racial empire in the movement from the Dirty War to the War on Terror. I read Sosa’s story as emblematic of the thwarted revolutionary dreams of the late twentieth century and the subsequent forms of recolonization—and in this case Zionism as settler colonialism—that came to flourish in their stead. The arc of Sosa’s work spans the transitions of the epoch and their attendant affective economies: from the revolutionary hopes of the 1960s–1970s, to the deep sorrows of the early military regimes, to the infinite deferrals of justice that animated the neoliberal project. In closing, I examine solidarity responses to the 2014 attack on Gaza. Embodying the rejuvenation of joint decolonial struggle, they rupture the Zionist stronghold that has shaped dominant structures of feeling, overwhelmingly laying purchase on the popular imagination.
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Martin-Gutierrez, Jorge, Marta Sylvia Del Rio Guerra, Vicente Lopez-Chao, René Hale Soto Gastelum, and Jose Fernando Valenzuela Bojórquez. "Augmented Reality to Facilitate Learning of the Acoustic Guitar." Applied Sciences 10, no. 7 (2020): 2425. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/app10072425.
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Many people wishing to learn a musical instrument opt to learn using alternative or informal methods instead of the traditional Master–Apprentice model that requires a greater cognitive load. This paper presents an augmented reality (AR)-based application designed to teach and train guitar chords, with the novelty that it is also used to teach short melodies consisting of four chord transitions so that users have to change hand and finger positions. The app uses high-quality 3D models of an acoustic guitar and animated hand to indicate correct finger positions and the movements required when changing from one chord to another. To follow the animated instructions, the learner overlaps the 3D model onto the neck of the physical guitar and his or her own hand. A system usability scale (SUS) questionnaire was used to measure the usability of the application. A score of 82.0 was obtained, which is higher than the average of 68 points that indicates the application is good from a user experience perspective, thus satisfying the purpose for which it was created. Having analysed the data for both groups—individuals with no prior experience of playing a musical instrument versus individuals with prior experience—it was concluded that the application provided a useful learning approach for all participants involved in the study, regardless of experience. That said, those possessing prior experience of playing an instrument learnt faster. It should be noted that the research revealed significant difference in learning by gender, with male participants learning faster than female participants. Similar results have been detected in other research performed in the field of music, as well as in other fields. As this study required spatial reasoning when viewing the 3D model, the differences identified this case may well have arisen as a consequence of differences in men and women’s spatial awareness, thereby leaving open an alternative line of research.
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Baker, Charles, Sheelagh Carpendale, Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz, and Michael Surette. "GeneVis: Simulation and Visualization of Genetic Networks." Information Visualization 2, no. 4 (2003): 201–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.ivs.9500055.
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GeneVis simulates genetic networks and visualizes the process of this simulation interactively, providing a visual environment for exploring the dynamics of genetic regulatory networks. The visualization environment supports several representational modes, which include: an individual protein representation, a protein concentration representation, and a network structure representation. The individual protein representation shows the activities of the individual proteins. The protein concentration representation illustrates the relative spread and concentrations of the different proteins in the simulation. The network structure representation depicts the genetic network dependencies that are present in the simulation. GeneVis includes several interactive viewing tools. These include animated transitions from the individual protein representation to the protein concentration representation and from the individual protein representation to the network structure representation. Three types of lenses are used to provide different views within a representation: fuzzy lenses, base pair lenses, and the network structure ring lens. With a fuzzy lens an alternate representation can be viewed in a selected region. The base pair lenses allow users to reposition genes for better viewing or to minimize interference during the simulation. The ring lens provides detail-in-context viewing of individual levels in the genetic network structure representation.
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Najafi, Hossein. "Displacement of self-continuity: An heuristic inquiry into identity transition in a 3D motion-capture-based animated narrative short film." Animation Practice, Process & Production 8, no. 1 (2019): 165–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/ap3_00010_1.
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This practice-led artistic research considers how a fictional allegory might be employed to examine issues of acculturation, displacement and identity transition. Using the story of a refugee family, the study explores through artistic practice the implications of identity reconstruction inside the body of a new culture. The animated short film Stella is designed to serve as a provocative vehicle for considering the social implications of identity loss and transition. Methodologically, the project is shaped by an heuristic inquiry. Inside this journey, the researcher generates a narrative that draws upon experience and theory. The artist creates an experimental animation in which the self of the artist is investigated through iterations of creative explorations. These experimental explorations not only span the conceptual and storytelling side of the creative process but also touch upon technological achievements. In this process a relationship results that elevates both the self (the writer/director/animator) and the body of knowledge, through the process of making and reflection. Beyond its contribution to understanding processes and implications of acculturation, displacement and identity transition, the project’s technological significance lies in its propensity to extend the application and demonstrate the potential of performance capture (using motion capture technology), 3D laser scanning and photogrammetry.
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Poland, Blake D., and Roxanne Cohen. "Adaptation of a structured story-dialogue method for action research with social movement activists." Action Research 18, no. 3 (2017): 353–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1476750317745955.
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Dialogue and story-telling are essential elements of many qualitative methodologies and action research itself, reflecting the constructivist paradigm in which qualitative research (QR) and action research (AR) are grounded, and the co-construction of knowledge that takes place amongst research participants (in group settings) and researchers. This paper reports on the adaptation of a structured story-dialogue method for research with social movement activists undertaken in the form of a series of regional weekend workshops animated by researchers and attended by Transition movement leaders and participants from multiple locales, as part of a larger study ( www.transitionemergingstudy.ca ). We draw upon participant observation, animator reflections, research team meetings, participant feedback, as well as workshop materials, in relation to two different adaptations of Labonte and Feather’s original formulation (1996) and subsequent reflections (2011), setting this in the context of a broader literature on structured story-dialogue methods with groups. The potential of structured story-dialogue methods for research on, with and for social movements is highlighted.
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Krueger, Rex. "Aaron McGruder’sThe Boondocksand its Transition from Comic Strip to Animated Series." Animation 5, no. 3 (2010): 313–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1746847710377576.
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Zhang, Huan, Jun Tao, Fang Ruan, and Chaoli Wang. "A study of animated transition in similarity-based tiled image layout." Tsinghua Science and Technology 18, no. 2 (2013): 157–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/tst.2013.6509099.
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Traxler, Elizabeth G., Amy L. Morgan, Jessica E. Kiss, and Mary-Jon Ludy. "Animated Case Study Videos: A Creative Approach for Exploring Health in the High School to College Transition." Health Promotion Practice 21, no. 1 (2019): 16–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1524839919874053.
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While the college years present an ideal time for chronic disease prevention, students often do not seek services or perceive themselves to be at health risk. Researchers at Bowling Green State University have been exploring the health patterns of first-year university students for several years, initially as a health-based research study (August 2012 to May 2016) and currently through a first-year seminar course for students transitioning from high school to college (August 2016 to present). This article describes the evolution of data sharing techniques from passively presented paper feedback sheets (focusing on individual health assessments) to highly interactive classroom discussions stemming from viewings of animated case study videos (designed based on whole group themes). Qualitative feedback from students and faculty has been positive, suggesting that animated case study videos are an effective strategy for engaging students in critical thinking about physical and mental health concerns affecting their peer group. Practical recommendations for using animated case studies in diverse educational settings are provided.
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McMichael, A. J. "Environmental and social influences on emerging infectious diseases: past, present and future." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences 359, no. 1447 (2004): 1049–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2004.1480.
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During the processes of human population dispersal around the world over the past 50 000–100 000 years, along with associated cultural evolution and inter–population contact and conflict, there have been several major transitions in the relationships of Homo sapiens with the natural world, animate and inanimate. Each of these transitions has resulted in the emergence of new or unfamiliar infectious diseases. The three great historical transitions since the initial advent of agriculture and livestock herding, from ca . 10 000 years ago, occurred when: (i) early agrarian–based settlements enabled sylvatic enzootic microbes to make contact with Homo sapiens ; (ii) early Eurasian civilizations (such as the Greek and Roman empires, China and south Asia) came into military and commercial contact, ca . 3000–2000 years ago, swapping their dominant infections; and (iii) European expansionism, over the past five centuries, caused the transoceanic spread of often lethal infectious diseases. This latter transition is best known in relation to the conquest of the Americas by Spanish conquistadores , when the inadvertent spread of measles, smallpox and influenza devastated the Amerindian populations. Today, we are living through the fourth of these great transitional periods. The contemporary spread and increased lability of various infectious diseases, new and old, reflect the combined and increasingly widespread impacts of demographic, environmental, behavioural, technological and other rapid changes in human ecology. Modern clinical medicine has, via blood transfusion, organ transplantation, and the use of hypodermic syringes, created new opportunities for microbes. These have contributed to the rising iatrogenic problems of hepatitis C, HIV/AIDS and several other viral infections. Meanwhile, the injudicious use of antibiotics has been a rare instance of human action actually increasing ‘biodiversity’. Another aspect of this fourth transition is that modern hyper–hygienic living restricts microbial exposure in early life. This, in the 1950s, may have contributed to an epidemic of more serious, disabling, poliomyelitis, affecting older children than those affected in earlier, more endemic decades. As with previous human–microbe transitions, a new equilibrial state may lie ahead. However, it certainly will not entail a world free of infectious diseases. Any mature, sustainable, human ecology must come to terms with both the need for, and the needs of, the microbial species that help to make up the interdependent system of life on Earth. Humans and microbes are not ‘at war’; rather, both parties are engaged in amoral, self–interested, coevolutionary struggle. We need to understand better, and therefore anticipate, the dynamics of that process.
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Roux, Natacha, Pauline Salis, and Vincent Laudet. "Les larves de poissons coralliens : un nouveau modèle d’étude de la métamorphose et des hormones thyroïdiennes." Biologie Aujourd'hui 213, no. 1-2 (2019): 27–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/jbio/2019010.
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Les transitions (développementales, écologiques, etc.) au cours du cycle de vie des organismes sont essentielles à la survie de nombreuses espèces animales. Cependant, les mécanismes contrôlant ces événements sont encore largement méconnus. Les poissons des récifs coralliens vivent plusieurs transitions majeures au cours de leur vie. En effet, les adultes se reproduisent à proximité du récif, émettant des œufs qui se dispersent et éclosent dans l’océan où les larves vont se développer. Les larves retournent ensuite vers les récifs où elles s’installent et persistent, cette étape constituant le recrutement larvaire. Cette transition écologique (du grand bleu au récif) qui a lieu au cours du recrutement larvaire est accompagnée d’une transition développementale permettant à la larve de devenir un juvénile. Cette transition essentielle, considérée comme une métamorphose, est contrôlée par les hormones thyroïdiennes (TH : T4, T3) et leurs récepteurs nucléaires (TRαa, TRαb et TRβ). Ainsi, une augmentation des taux de TH et de l’expression des TR chez les larves entraîne le déclenchement de leur métamorphose leur permettant ainsi de s’installer dans les récifs à l’état de juvénile. Nous avons observé ces évènements chez différentes espèces de poissons coralliens, laissant à penser qu’ils pourraient intervenir chez toutes. Du fait de ce contrôle hormonal, la transition de la larve en juvénile peut être affectée par des perturbateurs endocriniens dans l’environnement ainsi que par d’autres polluants. Nous avons notamment montré qu’un pesticide, le chlorpyrifos, perturbe la métamorphose du poisson chirurgien et du poisson clown, diminuant ainsi la qualité des juvéniles sortant de cette transition. La métamorphose et le recrutement larvaire étant essentiels au maintien des populations de poissons et, par voie de conséquence, à la résilience des récifs coralliens, il est important de mieux comprendre aux niveaux moléculaire, développemental et comportemental, comment le changement global et la pollution peuvent menacer les écosystèmes récifaux.
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You, Chengcheng. "Aesthetic Dilemmas of Adaptation and the Politics of Subjectivity: Animating the Chinese ClassicJourney to the West." International Research in Children's Literature 12, no. 1 (2019): 34–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/ircl.2019.0289.
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This article reviews four major Chinese animated adaptations based on the classic Journey to the West. It shows how these adaptations, spanning four historical phases of modern China, encapsulate changes in Chinese national identity. Close readings underpin a developmental narrative about how Chinese animated adaptations of this canonical text strive to negotiate the multimodal expressions of homegrown folklore traditions, technical influences of western animation, and domestic political situations across time. This process has identified aesthetic dilemmas around adaptations that oscillate between national allegory and individual destiny, verisimilitude and the fantastic quest for meaning. In particular, the subjectivisation of Monkey King on the screen, embodying the transition from primitivistic impulse, youthful idealism and mature practicality up to responsible stewardship, presents how an iconic national figure encapsulates the real historical time of China.
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Gilebbi, Matteo. "Testimoni dei macelli. Esseri umani e animali nella poesia di Ivano Ferrari //Witnesses of the Slaughters. Humans and Animals in Ivano Ferrari’s Poetry // Testigos de las matanzas. Humanos y animales en la poesía de Ivano Ferrari." Ecozon@: European Journal of Literature, Culture and Environment 7, no. 1 (2016): 94–111. http://dx.doi.org/10.37536/ecozona.2016.7.1.981.
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Quando le rappresentazioni e le simbologie animali ridimensionano e mettono in discussione lo statuto umano, ci si trova di fronte al passaggio dal teriomorfismo alla questione animale. Ciò significa che, da semplici tropi, le figure animali divengono operatori epistemologici che forzano un ripensamento dell’antropocentrismo e mettono in luce i limiti dello specismo. Le raccolte di poesie Macello (2004) e La Morte Moglie (2013) di Ivano Ferrari sono, all’interno della letteratura italiana, tra i più recenti ed intensi esempi di questo passaggio dal teriomorfismo alla questione animale. Queste poesie costituiscono un diario in presa diretta del periodo che Ivano Ferrari ha trascorso come operaio al mattatoio di Belfiore, presso Mantova. La sua scrittura testimonia le tensioni presenti nel rapporto umano-animale quando questi, fuori e dentro il mattatoio, diventano rispettivamente carnefice e vittima, svelando anche i profondi legami tra crudeltà verso l’animale (interspecifica) e crudeltà verso l’umano (intraspecifica). I componimenti di Ferrari mostrano inoltre come, proprio nell’inumanità dello spazio del mattatoio, sia possibile un contatto con l’animale che riduce la distanza tra specie causata dall’antropocentrismo. Abstract When animal representations and symbols reconfigure and challenge human status, we are then confronted with a transition from theriomorphism to the so-called Animal Question. This means that, from simple tropes, animal figures become epistemological operators that force a reconsideration of anthropocentrism and highlight the limits of speciesism. Ivano Ferrari’s poetry collections Macello (2004) and La morte moglie (2013) are, within Italian literature, among the most recent and intense examples of this shift from theriomorphism to the Animal Question. The poems constitute a type of diary of the period Ferrari spent working in the abattoir in Belfiore, near Mantua. His writing bears witness to the tensions present in the relationship between humans and animals when, inside and outside of the slaughterhouse, they become respectively executioner and victim, revealing even the profound links between cruelty to the animal (interspecific) and cruelty to the human (intraspecific). Ferrari’s compositions also show how, precisely in the inhumane space of the slaughterhouse, contact with the animal is possible, contact that reduces that distance between species caused by anthropocentrism.Resumen Cuando las representaciones y símbolos de animales reconfiguran y cuestionan el estatus de lo humano, nos enfrentamos a la transición del teriomorfismo a la llamada Cuestión Animal. Esto significa que las figuras animales pasan de ser simples tropos a operadores epistemológicos que fuerzan una reconsideración del antropocentrismo y resaltan los límites del especismo. Los poemarios Macello (2004) y La morte moglie (2013) de Ivano Ferrari se encuentran, dentro de la literatura italiana, entre los ejemplos más recientes e intensos de este cambio del teriormofismo hacia la Cuestión Animal. Los poemas constituyen un tipo de diario del periodo que Ferrari pasó trabajando en el matadero en Belfiore, cerca de Mantua. Su escritura da testimonio de las tensiones contemporáneas en la relación entre humanos y animales cuando, dentro y fuera del matadero, estos se vuelven verdugo y víctima respectivamente, revelando inclusive los profundos vínculos entre crueldad hacia los animales (inter-específico) y crueldad al humano (intra-específico). Las composiciones de Ferrari también muestran cómo, precisamente en el espacio inhumano del matadero, el contacto con lo animal es posible, un contacto que reduce la distancia entre las especies causado por el antropocentrismo.
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ARROYO, J., L. FORTUN-LAMOTHE, J. P. DUBOIS, F. LAVIGNE, and A. AUVERGNE. "Conduite et gestion des transitions alimentaires chez les oies destinées à la production de foie gras." INRAE Productions Animales 25, no. 5 (2012): 419–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.20870/productions-animales.2012.25.5.3229.
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Le mode de conduite alimentaire des oies destinées à la production de foie gras nécessite de nombreux changements de rythme d’ingestion et de nature d’aliments. L’objectif de cette synthèse est, après avoir présenté l’anatomie, les besoins nutritionnels, la croissance et la conduite alimentaire, d’identifier les causes et les solutions envisageables pour affronter ces périodes sensibles. En effet, afin de préparer les oies à recevoir une forte quantité d’aliments dans une période courte (gavage), les oies sont soumises tout au long de leur vie à des changements d’aliments et de rythmes d’accès aux mangeoires afin d’augmenter leur capacité d’ingestion. Lors de chacune de ces phases de transitions, on observe fréquemment des baisses de consommation, ce qui entraine une hétérogénéité entre les lots et une réduction des performances des animaux. La gestion de ces transitions vient se confronter aux capacités d’adaptation comportementale et digestive des animaux face à des modifications des caractéristiques sensorielles et physico-chimiques des aliments : couleur, texture, taille des particules, capacité de rétention hydrique, composition nutritionnelle dont la nature de l’amidon (ratio amylopectine/amylose). La gestion de ces transitions consiste à trouver un compromis entre les préférences alimentaires des animaux et leur préparation à la période de gavage pour la production de foie gras.
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Marselia, Maya, and Cita Meysiana. "Pembuatan Animasi 3D Sosialisasi Penggunaan Jalur Simpangan dan Bundaran Ketika Berkendara." VOCATECH: Vocational Education and Technology Journal 2, no. 2 (2021): 108–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.38038/vocatech.v2i2.55.
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 The purpose of this research is to make a 3D animated video that is used to provide information about the ethics of driving at intersections and roundabouts in accordance with the rules that apply to the public or vehicle users, in order to reduce the level of traffic accidents. The making of this 3-dimensional animated video starts with the initial stage, namely determining the idea, the data collection stage, to designing the storyboard. After that, the modeling, texturing, rigging animating, and rendering stage are carried out, using the Blender and Makehuman applications which then produce several 3-dimensional animated video pieces. After the rendering process is complete, the next stage is final editing by providing text, images, transition effects using the Adobe Premiere Pro application and adding audio as voice over to the story script. The last stage is the final rendering which produces a 3-dimensional animated video in the MP4 file format.
 
 
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 Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah pembuatan video animasi 3D yang digunakan untuk memberikan informasi tentang etika berkendara di simpangan dan bundaran sesuai dengan aturan yang berlaku bagi masyarakat atau pengguna kendaraan, agar dapat mengurangi tingkat kecelakaan lalu lintas. Pembuatan video animasi 3 dimensi ini, dimulai dengan tahap awal yaitu penentuan ide, tahap pengumpulan data, hingga perancangan storyboard. setelah itu dilakukan proses modelling, texturing, rigging animating, hingga tahap rendering, dengan menggunakan
 aplikasi Blender dan Makehuman yang kemudian menghasilkan beberapa potongan-potongan video animasi 3 dimensi. Setelah proses rendering selesai, tahap selanjutnya adalah final editing dengan memberikan teks, gambar, efek transisi menggunakaan aplikasi Adobe Premiere Pro serta menambahkan audio sebagai pengisi suara pada naskah cerita. Tahap terakhir adalah final rendering yang menghasilkan video animasi 3 dimensi dengan format file MP4.
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Takagi, Tomohiko, Shogo Morimoto, Yuki Ue, and Yoshiro Imai. "Animated Graphics-based Training Support Method and Prototype Tool for Bug Fixing of Extended Place/Transition Nets." Journal of Robotics, Networking and Artificial Life 5, no. 4 (2019): 278. http://dx.doi.org/10.2991/jrnal.k.190402.001.
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Takagi, Tomohiko, Shogo Morimoto, Yuki Ue, and Yoshiro Imai. "Prototype of an Animated Graphics-Based Training Support Tool for Bug Fixing of Extended Place/Transition Nets." Proceedings of International Conference on Artificial Life and Robotics 24 (January 10, 2019): 152–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.5954/icarob.2019.os6-1.
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Luna, Juan Pablo, María Victoria Murillo, and Andrew Schrank. "Latin American Political Economy: Making Sense of a New Reality." Latin American Politics and Society 56, no. 01 (2014): 3–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1531426x0000368x.
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This brief article is designed to highlight an unfortunate discrepancy in the field of Latin American political economy. The field’s raison d’être has never been more compelling. Latin American societies have simultaneously been experiencing profound transformations—including democratic consolidation, demographic transition, and the growth of identity politics—and a palpable sense of déjà vu animated by the recovery of commodity prices and the return of populism. In a nutshell, the region is undergoing a deep economic transformation, which takes place in the context of unprecedented levels of political participation.
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JOUVEN, Magali, Laurence PUILLET, Christophe PERROT, et al. "Quels équilibres végétal/animal en France métropolitaine, aux échelles nationale et « petite région agricole » ?" INRA Productions Animales 31, no. 4 (2019): 353–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.20870/productions-animales.2018.31.4.2374.
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L’ajustement des activités d’élevage aux ressources localement présentes est un des leviers de la transition écologique, permettant une autonomie des territoires et une moindre consommation d’intrants nécessitant un transport. Le travail présenté ici a été réalisé dans le cadre de l’étude INRA EFESE-écosystèmes agricoles. Il propose une méthode simple basée sur la statistique agricole et plusieurs sources complémentaires pour calculer sur une base annuelle l’équilibre végétal/animal d’un territoire. La capacité d’un territoire à nourrir sa population d’animaux d’élevage (CAPA) est définie comme le rapport entre les ressources végétales disponibles pour l’alimentation animale et la consommation par le cheptel localement présent. Elle peut être calculée en Matière Sèche (MS) ou azotée (MAT), à l’échelle nationale ou des Petites Régions Agricoles (PRA). Les PRA comportant des populations animales trop faibles sont exclues de l’analyse ; de même, l’incertitude sur les données d’effectifs et de consommation des chevaux n’a pas permis de les comptabiliser. Au niveau national, la CAPA globale est bonne (0,98 en MS ; 0,81 en MAT) mais cache un déficit en protéines, avec une CAPA en MAT de 0,42 pour les concentrés, à associer à la dépendance aux tourteaux de soja importés. Au niveau PRA, une typologie fait apparaître cinq groupes distincts en termes d’équilibre végétal/animal. La cartographie de ces groupes permet de distinguer des zones homogènes, et d’autres présentant plusieurs groupes donc des synergies potentielles au niveau supra. Ces résultats originaux mériteront d’être affinés en précisant certains calculs, puis mobilisés pour accompagner la transition écologique des territoires.
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Crosthwait, George. "The Afterlife as Emotional Utopia in Coco." Animation 15, no. 2 (2020): 179–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1746847720937443.
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This article situates the Pixar computer animation Coco (dir. Lee Unkrich and Adrian Molina, 2017) within a recent selection of afterlife fictions and questions why such narratives might appeal to our contemporary moment. The author’s response is structured around the idea of utopia. In Coco, he identifies several conceptions of utopic space and ideals. The afterlife fiction places characters and viewers in a reflexive location which affords them the opportunity to examine their lives as lived (rather than in death). Transplanting Richard Dyer’s work on classic Hollywood musicals as entertainment utopia to a contemporary animated musical, the article proposes that such a film can be seen as adhering to a kind of ‘new cinematic sincerity’. Coco’s particular depiction of The Day of the Dead fiesta and the Land of the Dead has its roots in the Mexican writer Octavio Paz’s poetic and romantic treatise The Labyrinth of Solitude (1950). A comparison between these two texts suggests that willing encounters with death can be connected to an openness to transitional states of being. Through close readings of key musical sequences in Coco, the author demonstrates how the properties of the musical are combined with animation aesthetics (baby schemata, virtual camera) to lead viewers into their own utopian space of heightened emotions and transition.
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Kornetis, Kostis. "PROJECTIONS ONTO THE PAST: MEMORIES OF DEMOCRATIZATION IN SPAIN, GREECE, AND PORTUGAL DURING THE GREAT RECESSION*." Mobilization: An International Quarterly 24, no. 4 (2019): 511–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.17813/1086-671x-24-4-512.
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This article engages the argument that the 2008–2009 Great Recession forced a revisiting of the period of transitions in Spain, Greece, and Portugal as “political masterpieces,” especially among a younger generation of activists. It argues that this radical reevaluation turned the conflicting generational recollections of the past into pivotal components of present political contestation. Moreover, it shows how the redeeming power of the transitions animates the political, cultural, and public discourse of young politicized people who, although (or precisely because) they have not experienced these events directly, keep returning to them to make sense of contemporary politics. The complex relations between past and present are analyzed using oral histories with the so-called Generation 2 of the transitions, namely people who have only “projective memories” of these events during the 1970. Especially relevant is the effects of their participation in the 2011 indignados movements.
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Stan, Lavinia. "Vigilante justice in post-communist Europe." Communist and Post-Communist Studies 44, no. 4 (2011): 319–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.postcomstud.2011.10.001.
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Five cases in which the names of former secret informers who supplied information to the communist secret political police were unofficially disclosed are discussed in terms of the motivations of their authors, their timing relative to 1989 and their countries’ lustration and file access legislation, and the information they make available to the general public. After contrasting them with civil society efforts to promote transitional justice and unofficial truth projects, it becomes evident that these unofficial disclosures were animated by revenge as much as the quest for unveiling the truth about communist repression.
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Bongers, Amanda, Berthorie Beauvoir, Nicholas Streja, Georg Northoff, and Alison B. Flynn. "Building mental models of a reaction mechanism: the influence of static and animated representations, prior knowledge, and spatial ability." Chemistry Education Research and Practice 21, no. 2 (2020): 496–512. http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c9rp00198k.
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In chemistry, novices and experts use mental models to simulate and reason about sub-microscopic processes. Animations are thus important tools for learning in chemistry to convey reaction dynamics and molecular motion. While there are many animations available and studies showing the benefit of learning from animations, there are also limitations to their design and effectiveness. Moreover, there are few experimental studies into learning chemistry from animations, especially organic reaction mechanisms. We conducted a mixed-methods study into how students learn and develop mental models of a reaction mechanism from animations. The study (N = 45) used a pre-/post-test experimental design and counterbalanced static and animated computerized learning activities (15 min each), plus short think-aloud interviews for some participants (n = 20). We developed the tests and learning activities in a pilot study; these contained versions of an epoxide opening reaction mechanism either as static (using the electron-pushing formalism) or animated representations. Participants’ test accuracy, response times, and self-reported confidence were analyzed quantitatively (α = 0.05) and we found that, while participants showed a learning effect, there were no significant differences between the static and animated learning conditions. Participants’ spatial abilities were correlated to their test accuracy and influenced their learning gains for both conditions. Qualitative framework analysis of think-aloud interviews revealed changes in participants’ reasoning about the test questions, moving toward using rule- and case-based reasoning over model-based reasoning. This analysis also revealed that dynamic and transitional features were incorporated into participants’ working mental models of the reaction mechanism after learning from animations. The divergence of participants’ mental models for reasoning and visualization could suggest a gap in their mental model consolidation.
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Chen, Jinshi. "Multimodal Discourse Analysis of Judges’ Footing Shifts in Criminal Courtroom." Chinese Journal of Applied Linguistics 43, no. 1 (2020): 5–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/cjal-2020-0002.
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AbstractThe paper, based on the concept of FOOTING, makes a multimodal discourse analysis of the relationship between the judge’s discourse and his footing shifts in a criminal courtroom. The results show that in the interaction, multimodal resources in judges’ discourse include conversational features (prolonging keywords, interrupting, repeating, taking turns, etc.), acoustic ones (ascending F0 for pitches and dB for intensity, transition tracks between consonants and formants of vowels, duration of some keywords in important sentences, etc.), and visual ones (facing other parties, facing the materials, etc.). The multimodal resources activate different judges’ footings, including ANIMATOR, ANIMATOR + AUTHOR and ANIMATOR + AUTHOR + PRINCIPAL, and identify the judge’s footing shifts in the courtroom. The results also demonstrate that the judge’s footing shifts perform the functions of trial organizing, information confirming, fact investigating, spokesperson of the collegial panel, law educating and so on in criminal trials.
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Volkan, Kevin. "Hoarding and Animal Hoarding: Psychodynamic and Transitional Aspects." Psychodynamic Psychiatry 49, no. 1 (2021): 24–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1521/pdps.2021.49.1.24.
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Hoarding is a disorder that has only recently begun to be understood by researchers and clinicians. This disorder has been examined from a biopsychosocial perspective and has features that overlap with obsessive-compulsive disorder as well as some unique characteristics. Hoarding disorder is widespread and maybe related to the evolution of collecting and storing resources among humans and other animals. While there have been a number of non-analytic theories related to hoarding and its treatment, psychoanalytic thinkers have rarely described the disorder or explored its underlying psychodynamics. Beginning with Freud, it is possible to understand hoarding in relationship to the vicissitudes of the anal stage of development. However, loss of a loved object, especially loss of the mother, can play an important role in the development of hoarding behavior in adults. The hoarding of inanimate items, examined from a developmental object-relations perspective, appears to involve transitional phenomena. Animal hoarding also involves transitional phenomena, but animals, which can serve as animated transitional objects, also have a repetition compulsion function. These psychodynamic characteristics are relevant for establishing a working transference with the analyst or therapist, in order to promote positive therapeutic outcomes.
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Miyano, Juan Pablo, Irene Lantos, Norma Ratto, and Martín Orgaz. "ANIMALES E INCAS EN EL OESTE TINOGASTEÑO (CATAMARCA, ARGENTINA)." Latin American Antiquity 28, no. 1 (2017): 28–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/laq.2016.7.
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This paper explores the diverse human practices related to the use of animals during the Inca occupation of west Tinogasta (Catamarca, Argentina). We argue that the Inca state sponsored festivities in the San Francisco site (transitional puna of Chaschuil), where wild animal meat, mainly meat and bone marrow of adult vicuñas, was shared and consumed. These wild camelids were captured during the chaku, a collective hunting regulated by social and cultural mechanisms. Llamas were used as beasts of burden in caravans transporting ceramic vessels (aríbalosandaribaloides) from the pottery production center of Batungasta to San Francisco. We postulate that thearíbalosandaribaloides, which were designed for alcoholic beverages, were lined with camelid bone marrow to make their inner walls impermeable. Lastly, we argue that bones of birds and rodents were used to and the skin of a puma (important symbolic animal for the Incas) was processed in the San Francisco site.
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KOCZURA, Madeline, and Bertrand DUMONT. "Accompagner la transition agroécologique des systèmes laitiers de montagne : quels outils d’évaluation prennent en compte la diversité intra-exploitation ?" INRAE Productions Animales 34, no. 1 (2021): 47–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.20870/productions-animales.2021.34.1.4710.
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Afin d’accompagner la transition agroécologique des systèmes d’élevage, il est nécessaire de disposer d’outils permettant de caractériser leur diversité et d’évaluer ses conséquences sur la multiperformance du système. Nous nous intéressons ici à l’évaluation des systèmes laitiers de montagne par cinq outils d’évaluation multicritère, plus ou moins spécifiques de ces systèmes. Nous analysons la capacité de chaque outil à caractériser la diversité intra-exploitation et les processus écologiques sous-jacents à son fonctionnement, et à révéler les services écosystémiques qu’elle fournit. Deux des cinq outils (DIAG et BOT) permettent d’établir un diagnostic global, alors que les trois autres approfondissent des éléments clés du système. Ainsi, l’outil CAP évalue l’impact environnemental des exploitations d’élevage, en particulier leur bilan carbone. Les deux derniers outils (LAU et DIAM) sont propres aux systèmes laitiers de montagne, l’un évaluant la durabilité environnementale des exploitations de la filière Cantal AOP, l’autre permettant un diagnostic multifonctionnel du système fourrager. Malgré un objectif commun d’évaluer la durabilité des systèmes d’élevage, ces outils présentent donc une diversité d’approches et de modalités d’évaluation. Les outils dédiés aux systèmes laitiers de montagne permettent de bien évaluer la gestion de la ressource en herbe, la diversité des prairies, et établissent un lien avec des éléments-clés de valorisation de ces systèmes, les services écosystémiques qu’ils fournissent et la qualité sensorielle et nutritionnelle des produits. Ils laissent cependant de côté d’autres aspects, tels que la santé des animaux ou l’engagement des éleveurs dans la transition agroécologique, qui sont pris en compte par les outils moins spécifiques. Ce sont finalement ces outils globaux qui semblent les plus à même de traduire la logique de reconception des systèmes agroécologiques. Toutefois, la caractérisation de la diversité animale reste limitée dans tous les outils que nous avons analysés, qu’il s’agisse de la variabilité intra-troupeau, de la mixité d’espèces ou de la diversification des produits, et il s’agira d’y remédier dans les futurs outils d’évaluation.
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Lagouanère, Jérôme. "Le De quantitate animae d’Augustin, un dialogue philosophique ?" Zeitschrift für Antikes Christentum / Journal of Ancient Christianity 23, no. 2 (2019): 252–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/zac-2019-0014.
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Abstract Saint Augustine’s De quantitate animae is a dialogue often neglected by scholars who have studied the question of Augustinian dialogue. This study aims to remedy this lack of interest and to show the strategic place of this dialogue in the Augustinian production of the years 386–390. Firstly, after stating the question, the article questions the genre of dialogue and shows that the De quantitate animae of Augustine perfectly meets the criteria defining the genre of the philosophical dialogue. Secondly, this study examines the stakes and the place of the dialectic in this work. In fact, our paper emphasizes, following the analyzes proposed by Giovanni Catapano, the importance of considering the kind of dialogue in Augustine by the yardstick of his epistemological presuppositions. In this perspective, the De quantitate animae appears as a work of transition, which is based on the epistemology of Contra Academicos and the notions of doubt and inconcussum, while announcing the epistemology of the inner Master developed in the De magistro.
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Xu, Tianchen, Mo Chen, Ming Xie, and Enhua Wu. "A Skinning Method in Real-time Skeletal Character Animation." International Journal of Virtual Reality 10, no. 3 (2011): 25–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.20870/ijvr.2011.10.3.2818.
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With regard to skeletal character animation, the question on how to ensure the quality of transition between key frames is of crucial importance. The lack of properly defined motion ranges based on movements would leave the animator with no choice but intervene the result based on camera perspective afterwards, thus creating a lot more work for the animator to modify or clean up the animation curves. Although a number of methods have been raised in these years, such as the Linear Blending Skinning (LBS), they may still have shortcomings in some specific cases, one of which is the obvious unnatural deformation around the joint areas. The primary investigation in this paper is directed to address the problem and improve the framework of rendering in real-time environment with satisfactory skinning effect to the aforementioned scenario, with assistance of GPU computation
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DOREAU, M., A. FARRUGGIA, and P. VEYSSET. "Aménités et impacts sur l’environnement des exploitations françaises élevant des bovins pour la viande." INRA Productions Animales 30, no. 2 (2018): 165–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.20870/productions-animales.2017.30.2.2242.
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L’ambition de cet article est de dresser un bilan environnemental de l’élevage de bovins pour la viande en France, aussi exhaustif que possible, à partir des données scientifiques et statistiques disponibles. Les impacts environnementaux abordés sont les émissions de gaz à effet de serre, la pollution de l’eau et des sols, l’utilisation des ressources naturelles (énergie, phosphore, eau), l’utilisation des terres et la biodiversité végétale et animale. Les méthodologies d’évaluation et les indicateurs utilisés sont justifiés et discutés. Lorsque l’unité d’expression est le kg de viande, l’essentiel des impacts environnementaux provient de l’atelier naisseur en raison de la longue phase d’élevage pour obtenir un broutard. Les résultats sont très différents lorsque les impacts sont calculés par unité de surface, que le stockage de carbone dans les prairies est pris en compte et que les impacts positifs de ces systèmes sur la biodiversité et sur le paysage sont intégrés à l’analyse. Bien qu’ayant des atouts pour aborder la transition agroécologique du fait de la part importante de prairies permanentes leur permettant de tirer avantage des régulations biologiques, les systèmes naisseurs sont cependant engagés depuis 20 ans dans un processus d’agrandissement au détriment de leur durabilité.
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SERVIÈRE, Gérard, Sophie CHAUVAT, Nathalie HOSTIOU, and Sylvie COURNUT. "Le travail en élevage et ses mutations." INRA Productions Animales 32, no. 1 (2019): 13–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.20870/productions-animales.2019.32.1.2418.
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Pour les éleveurs, la diversité des tâches, la liberté d'agir à sa guise, la proximité avec la nature et les animaux expliquent l'attrait, souvent passionné, pour une profession en constante mutation suite aux évolutions techniques et sociologiques. Les gains d'efficience et de productivité sont rognés par l'augmentation de la taille des structures et la charge de travail reste toujours importante. Aujourd'hui les éleveurs cherchent un meilleur équilibre vie privée/vie professionnelle, à préserver leur santé et une reconnaissance de leur rôle sociétal, ce qui implique des conditions de travail correctes et plus de sérénité au quotidien. L'automatisation et la robotisation demandent d'acquérir une maîtrise technologique mais apportent de la souplesse et permettent des gains de temps. Le développement du salariat et de la féminisation des chefs d'exploitation, modifient le rapport au métier et pourraient contribuer davantage au renouvellement des générations. Les préoccupations, environnementales et vis-à-vis du bien-être animal, suscitent des infléchissements, notamment agro-écologiques qui nécessitent de nouveaux apprentissages et des transitions toujours complexes. Les remises en cause, parfois frontales, de l'élevage côtoient des initiatives démontrant son utilité sociale comme pourvoyeur d’emplois, d’identité locale et de produits sains. La diversité dans les territoires des modèles d’élevage, les complémentarités entre eux et avec d'autres activités, agricoles ou non, ainsi que le renouvellement des outils de conseil sont autant de perspectives pour susciter le désir de « devenir éleveur ». Cet article présente, à la lumière des mutations sociales, sociétales et économiques, les questions en débat autour du travail et du métier des éleveurs.
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Bennett, Jason Patrick. "Apple of the Empire: Landscape and Imperial Identity in Turn-of-the-Century British Columbia." Ottawa 1998 9, no. 1 (2006): 63–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/030492ar.
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Abstract With the dawn of a new century, the British Empire faced the world with a new monarch as the Dominion of Canada braced for one of the largest immigration movements in its brief history. These currents of change also mirrored broader societal transformations marked by dramatic industrial expansion and exploding urban growth. In this period of great transition, many well-to-do Britons found a powerful antidote to their fears and insecurities in the far-away province of British Columbia. Aggressively promoted by private land developers, immigrants found affinity with a radically-altered landscape defined by the agricultural practice of fruit farming. Representing a wealth of finance, culture, and refinement, notions of the land animated and perpetuated the values and identity of the new community. Although these settlers were eager to exclude difference and achieve a “natural” balance with nature, the intertwining of landscape and Empire could not preclude change, nor exorcise its own profound flaws.
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QUINIOU, N., L. BROSSARD, J. VAN MILGEN, et al. "La variabilité des performances animales en élevage porcin : description et implications pratiques." INRAE Productions Animales 25, no. 1 (2012): 5–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.20870/productions-animales.2012.25.1.3191.
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La variabilité de la prolificité est maîtrisable par l'éleveur tant que le nombre de porcelets nés vivants n'excède pas le nombre de tétines fonctionnelles dans la maternité : des adoptions entre portées permettent alors d'ajuster le nombre de porcelets allaités aux capacités laitières des truies. Quand la prolificité est très élevée, la gestion des porcelets devient plus compliquée et la variabilité de leurs poids de naissance pénalise les chances de survie des individus les plus petits. S’ensuit aussi une variabilité accrue des performances de croissance. Des solutions à court terme peuvent être mises en oeuvre, en particulier l'adaptation selon le poids des animaux des soins pratiqués aux porcelets à la naissance, la constitution de lots de porcs sur la base du poids au sevrage et à l'entrée en engraissement, et l'adaptation des transitions alimentaires en fonction du poids moyen de chaque lot. Malgré ces pratiques, la variabilité des poids au sein d'une bande persiste jusqu’en fin d'engraissement, compliquant l'organisation des départs pour l'abattoir. Ceux-ci sont généralement gérés au mieux de l'intérêt économique de l'éleveur en relation avec la grille de paiement basée en partie sur le poids de carcasse. Sans attendre les progrès de la sélection génétique pour limiter la variabilité des performances des truies et des porcelets, la prise en compte précoce des besoins individuels des truies au sein d'une bande permettrait de gérer l'évolution de l'adiposité maternelle pendant la gestation et faciliter le déroulement des mises bas. La prise en compte de l'évolution des besoins nutritionnels au cours de la gestation par des plans d'alimentation adaptés améliore la vitalité des nouveau-nés, mais jusque-là ne joue pas sur la variabilité des poids intra-portée. Ces améliorations sont obtenues le plus souvent dans des troupeaux expérimentaux, et restent à généraliser dans les élevages de production.
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MARTIN, C., L. BROSSARD, and M. DOREAU. "Mécanismes d’apparition de l’acidose ruminale latente et conséquences physiopathologiques et zootechniques." INRAE Productions Animales 19, no. 2 (2006): 93–108. http://dx.doi.org/10.20870/productions-animales.2006.19.2.3488.
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Alors que sa forme aiguë est devenue rare, l’acidose ruminale se développe dans nos systèmes de production intensive sous sa forme latente, plus discrète mais touchant un nombre important d’animaux avec des impacts financiers négatifs. L’acidose ruminale aiguë a pour origine une surconsommation accidentelle de glucides rapidement fermentescibles. Elle apparaît comme un état de perturbation bien défini&nbsp;: chute du pH à des valeurs inférieures à 5, associée à une accumulation de lactate dans le rumen. Ceci est dû à l’appauvrissement de l’écosystème microbien ruminal (protozoaires, bactéries) au profit d’une flore productrice de lactate acido-tolérante. L’acidose latente apparaît plus spécialement lors des périodes de transitions alimentaires vers des régimes à forte densité énergétique. Elle représente un état de déséquilibre transitoire plus ou moins fréquent ou durable. La baisse du pH, proche des valeurs physiologiques inférieures (pH moyen entre 5 et 6,25), n’est pas liée à l’accumulation de lactate, mais à celle des acides gras volatils. La proportion d’acétate diminue en relation avec la baisse de l’activité cellulolytique. Pour une baisse de pH modérée, les protozoaires se développent et les fermentations s’orientent vers le butyrate. Pour des pH plus faibles, les protozoaires disparaissent au profit des bactéries amylolytiques, avec une orientation fermentaire vers le propionate. Ces modifications ruminales peuvent avoir des conséquences physiopathologiques à plus ou moins long terme au niveau digestif (inhibition de la motricité ruminale, diarrhées, lésions de la paroi ruminale…), des troubles métaboliques ou encore des complications infectieuses et locomotrices. Les conséquences négatives sur les quantités ingérées et les performances, bien que réelles, sont très difficiles à quantifier du fait que les régimes acidogènes, riches en concentré, vont généralement de pair avec des quantités ingérées et des performances élevées. L’état d’acidose se traduirait par des diminutions de courte durée, et donc une plus grande irrégularité de l’ingestion et de la production.