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Journal articles on the topic "Description"

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van Vuuren, Rex J. "An Exploration of the Role of Description in Psychology as a Descriptive Science." South African Journal of Psychology 19, no. 2 (June 1989): 65–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/008124638901900202.

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From a phenomenological point of view psychology as a human science is a descriptive science. Psychology as a descriptive science and psychology as an explanatory science are two distinct types of science and should not be viewed as two phases of science. The major arguments of Amedeo Giorgi's theoretical justification of descriptive science are presented. His arguments are the grounds on which two leading questions are explicated: What is description and what is the role of description in qualitative research? In reflecting on the context of gathering, creating and analysing descriptions, a distinction between description1 (concrete life-world descriptions) and description2 (psychological description of a phenomenon) is made. Descriptions are placed in the context of the researcher's interest; the researcher's request for a description by a subject; the subject as a narrator; the meaning of a description as a text; the researcher as a reader of descriptions and the researcher as author of description2. The conclusion consists of what might be ‘good’ descriptions.
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Houser, Heather. "Shimmering Description and Descriptive Criticism." New Literary History 51, no. 1 (2020): 1–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/nlh.2020.0000.

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Brosseau, Marc. "L’espace littéraire en l’absence de description." Cahiers de géographie du Québec 52, no. 147 (May 13, 2009): 419–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/029869ar.

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Résumé Dans les rapports que les géographes entretiennent avec la littérature, l’attention se concentre souvent sur les passages descriptifs supposés contenir l’essentiel de la matière géographique du roman. Cette description topologique obstrue le regard des géographes sur les autres instances du récit qui contribuent aussi à la création d’espaces littéraires. Cela a eu pour effet de privilégier des oeuvres où la description des lieux abonde, et à négliger les autres où elle se fait rare. Fidèles en cela aux idées classiques selon lesquelles le temps appartient au récit et l’espace à la description, les géographes se sont surtout intéressés à une manifestation de l’espace dans la littérature et beaucoup moins aux diverses formes de spatialités. Nous examinons ici les écrits de fiction de Charles Bukowski (1920-1994) dont l’oeuvre, pauvre en passages descriptifs, est pourtant porteuse d’une spatialité complexe. À partir de l’examen d’un thème cher à Bukowski – l’être piégé –, nous constatons qu’il est possible de saisir l’espace littéraire en l’absence de descriptions topologiques étoffées.
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Stouffs, Rudi. "Description grammars: A general notation." Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science 45, no. 1 (September 5, 2016): 106–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0265813516667300.

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A description grammar, in conjunction with a shape grammar, serves to generate verbal descriptions of designs, next to the spatial descriptions. These verbal descriptions can also assist in guiding the generative process. This paper presents a general notation for descriptions and description rules that accounts, extensively if not entirely, for many of the applications of description grammars found in literature. Specifically, a review of the notation with respect to these description schemes supports the explication of its strengths and limitations and the identification of future work. A follow-up paper revisits selected applications of description grammars and demonstrates the applicability of this general notation to these case studies.
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Stouffs, Rudi. "Description grammars: Precedents revisited." Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science 45, no. 1 (September 5, 2016): 124–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0265813516667301.

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A description grammar, in conjunction with a shape grammar, serves to generate verbal descriptions of designs, next to the spatial descriptions. These verbal descriptions can also assist in guiding the generative process. This paper revisits applications of description grammars found in literature and demonstrates how they can be recast and redeveloped to make use of a general notation and implementation for description grammars. The review of this notation was the topic of a previous paper; this paper is both meant as an illustration and as a confirmation of those review analysis results.
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Haberstock, Lauren. "Participatory description: decolonizing descriptive methodologies in archives." Archival Science 20, no. 2 (October 28, 2019): 125–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10502-019-09328-6.

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Morawski, Jill. "Description in the Psychological Sciences." Representations 135, no. 1 (2016): 119–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/rep.2016.135.1.119.

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This essay uses the case of scientific psychology to explore modes of description and the broader objectives underlying these modes, reporting on both the complexities and potentials of psychological description. It examines the description techniques of the classic Milgram experiment and offers a redescription of the resulting data to show both how psychology’s practices of description entail more than objective accounts of observed behavior and how these descriptions can influence the social world and our understandings of ourselves. The case of Stanley Milgram’s experiments in obedience suggest the material and social powers of the descriptions psychologists “give away” for human benefit.
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Takashina, Nao. "Linking multi-level population dynamics: state, role, and population." PeerJ 10 (May 12, 2022): e13315. http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13315.

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The dynamics of an ecological community can be described at different focal scales of the species, such as individual states or the population level. More detailed descriptions of ecological dynamics offer more information, but produce more complex models that are difficult to analyze. Adequately controlling the model complexity and the availability of multiple descriptions of the concerned dynamics maximizes our understanding of ecological dynamics. One of the central goals of ecological studies is to develop links between multiple descriptions of an ecological community. In this article, starting from a nonlinear state-level description of an ecological community (generalized McKendrick–von Foerster model), role-level and population-level descriptions (Lotka–Volterra model) are derived in a consistent manner. The role-level description covers a wider range of situations than the population-level description. However, using the established connections, it is demonstrated that the population-level description can be used to predict the equilibrium status of the role-level description. This approach connects state-, role-, and population-level dynamics consistently, and offers a justification for the multiple choices of model description.
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Kreuzer, Marcus. "The Structure of Description: Evaluating Descriptive Inferences and Conceptualizations." Perspectives on Politics 17, no. 1 (February 13, 2019): 122–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1537592718001068.

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Explanation presumes description. Description explores the who, when, where, and how, and its answers furnish the raw material for theorizing and explaining. This connection between description and allegedly serendipitous exploration contributed to the notion that description is inherently subjective and thus incapable of being evaluated. I challenge this notion of “mere” description. I show that description has a distinct structure that consists of discreet analytical stages facing distinct inferential challenges. The quality of description thus becomes a function of how well it addresses those challenges. I explicate distinct criteria for evaluating how well a describer handles those challenges. I illustrate their utility by applying them to the controversy in the late 1990s between Daniel Goldhagen and Christopher Browning over what explained the willingness of ordinary Germans to kill Jews.
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O'Keeffe, K. A. "Job description — description of jobs." Psychiatric Bulletin 13, no. 9 (September 1989): 511. http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/pb.13.9.511-a.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Description"

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Karamanoukian, Charry. "Les systèmes linguistiques du descriptif, suivi de Exilée." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape9/PQDD_0028/MQ50530.pdf.

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Wang, Qin, and 王沁. "Knowledge and description." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2012. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B47869896.

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It has been debated whether knowledge attributions are descriptions of the world. Descriptivists argue that they are. Non-cognitivists discover that knowledge attributions have characteristics that are not shared by paradigm cases of descriptions. Most forms of non-cognitivism therefore deny that knowledge attributions are descriptions of the world. This thesis approaches the debate using data from the ordinary use of language. It is argued that a prominent form of descriptivism, attributor contextualism, is in conflict with treating ordinary use of simple knowledge attributions as true. This treatment of ordinary language is adopted by prominent contextualists, and is what distinguishes contextualism from its main rival, invariantism. The conflict is generalized to descriptivism in general so that either descriptivism or the treatment of simple ordinary use of the language as true has to be given up. Various arguments for and against such treatment of ordinary language and descriptivism’s alternative, non-cognitivism, are examined respectively. It is held that although many forms of non-cognitivism are problematic, whether non-cognitivism is a true thesis still remains open. It is also argued that despite its initial plausibility, the treatment of simple ordinary use of indicative language as true is not as attractive as it first appears to be. Since we are not forced to accept treating simple ordinary knowledge attributions as true, as far as the conflict between the two goes, we are not forced to give up descriptivism, either. However, non-cognitivism remains an attractive alternative to descriptivism.
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Beheshti, Soosan 1969. "Minimum description complexity." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/8012.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2002.
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The classical problem of model selection among parametric model sets is considered. The goal is to choose a model set which best represents observed data. The critical task is the choice of a criterion for model set comparison. Pioneer information theoretic based approaches to this problem are Akaike information criterion (AIC) and different forms of minimum description length (MDL). The prior assumption in these methods is that the unknown true model is a member of all the competing sets. We introduce a new method of model selection: minimum description complexity (MDC). The approach is motivated by the Kullback-Leibler information distance. The method suggests choosing the model set for which the model set relative entropy is minimum. We provide a probabilistic method of MDC estimation for a class of parametric model sets. In this calculation the key factor is our prior assumption: unlike the existing methods, no assumption of the true model being a member of the competing model sets is needed. The main strength of the MDC calculation is in its method of extracting information from the observed data.
(cont.) Interesting results exhibit the advantages of MDC over MDL and AIC both theoretically and practically. It is illustrated that, under particular conditions, AIC is a special case of MDC. Application of MDC in system identification and signal denoising is investigated. The proposed method answers the challenging question of quality evaluation in identification of stable LTI systems under a fair prior assumption on the unmodeled dynamics. MDC also provides a new solution to a class of denoising problems. We elaborate the theoretical superiority of MDC over the existing thresholding denoising methods.
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Perder, Emil. "A Grammatical Description of Dameli." Doctoral thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för lingvistik, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-93888.

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This dissertation aims to provide a grammatical description of Dameli (ISO-639-3: dml), an Indo-Aryan language spoken by approximately 5 000 people in the Domel Valley in Chitral in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province in the North-West of Pakistan. Dameli is a left-branching SOV language with considerable morphological complexity, particularly in the verb, and a complicated system of argument marking. The phonology is relatively rich, with 31 consonant and 16 vowel phonemes. This is the first extensive study of this language. The analysis presented here is based on original data collected primarily between 2003-2008 in cooperation with speakers of the language in Peshawar and Chitral, including the Domel Valley. The core of the data consists of recorded texts and word lists, but questionnaires and paradigms of word forms have also been used. The main emphasis is on describing the features of the language as they appear in texts and other material, rather than on conforming them to any theory, but the analysis is informed by functional analysis and linguistic typology, hypotheses on diachronical developments and comparisons with neighbouring and related languages. The description is divided into sections describing phonology, morphology and syntax, with chapters on a range of individual subjects such as particular word classes and phrase types, phonological and syntactical phenomena. This is not intended to be an exhaustive reference grammar; some topics are only touched upon briefly while others are treated in more detail and suggestions for further research are given at various points throughout the work.
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Essebei, Omar. "Quantum description of inflation." Master's thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2019. http://amslaurea.unibo.it/19309/.

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In this thesis I want to analyze what happens when an inflationary space-time is studied as a collection of quanta. Classically the inflationary universe can be described by the equation of moto for the metric tensor field and for the inflaton field. My purpose is to deal the two fields as systems of particles, called respectively gravitons and inflatons. Thus, the fundamental quantum quantities that are taken into account to describe these systems, are the particle occupation numbers and the constant couplings between them. Therefore, in addition to the equations of moto for the classical quantities, had to be deduced the temporal evolution for the number of quanta of the two systems. What I will show is that, the equation for the classical and quantum models will give the same interpretation for the space-time, untill the microscopic interactions between quanta become important. The quantum correction that rises, leads to a new interpretation of the inflationary universe. Briefly, in the inflaton model exists a limit in wich can be recovered the well know de Sitter metric, instead this is not more true when the quantum interactions between quanta of the classical fields are are taken into account.\\ Before analyzing the quantum model of inflation, I will show in the second chapter, the corpuscolar interpretation of the black hole. Indeed, it constitutes an instructive model in wich is present only the gravitational field, and the dynamics of the quanta associated, is very similar to that of the inflationary model. The reason can be searched in the statistichal features of the respectively systems. In both models, I will prove that they are Bose-Einstein condensates, constitued by many very weakly interagent quanta, at critical phase point.\\ To conclude, in the last chapter I will show an alternative theory of gravity that inside itself, encodes the inflationary universe, and I will try to quantizy it.
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Opheim, Mads. "CREEK and Description Logics." Thesis, Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet, Institutt for datateknikk og informasjonsvitenskap, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:no:ntnu:diva-26768.

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Creek is a system for diagnosis and problem solving. It makes heavily use of general knowledge, and is intended for open and weak theory domains. The system uses this general knowledge in combination with experiences from previous cases to solve new problems.We have implemented the core parts of Creek inside the Colibri studio framework, and shown that it is both possible and realistic to create a thorough Creek implementation. This has resulted in a system named Colibreek.In this implementation, we have replaced the knowledge representation in Creek, switching from the original frames to description logics. This has proven successful, and promising for further development.We have tested our system on the turbine sensor domain, and shown how our system can be used for condition monitoring on sensor-monitored equipment such as turbines. By doing this, we have also shown how the system can solve real problems people, companies and organisations have.
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RIBEIRO, TIAGO DA SILVA. "NETSPEAK: DESCRIPTION AND USES." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2011. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=18158@1.

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COORDENAÇÃO DE APERFEIÇOAMENTO DO PESSOAL DE ENSINO SUPERIOR
PROGRAMA DE SUPORTE À PÓS-GRADUAÇÃO DE INSTS. DE ENSINO
As relações interpessoais são hoje, mais do que nunca, virtuais. E-mails, chats, listas de discussões, Twitter, entre outras ferramentas de comunicação estão em expansão, seja em ambientes profissionais, seja na vida pessoal. Por conta da chamada revolução virtual, muito se fala sobre a linguagem da Internet, porém pouco se faz para descrevê-la e aproveitá-la como fonte de estudos sobre o português atual. Acreditamos que o entendimento da estrutura do internetês seja útil para diversas áreas de pesquisa, como a Linguística de Corpus. Partindo desse pressuposto, esta tese procura descrever os processos de síntese do internetês, a fim de comprovarmos que há regras na formação de abreviaturas e outras palavras que são típicas dessa nova forma de expressão. Encontramos, por meio de uma pesquisa quantitativa, padrões de formação do internetês, o que prova que essa linguagem não se configura como um desvio anárquico da língua padrão. Esses padrões refletem a fonética e a estrutura silábica do português de forma bastante sistemática, demonstrando o conhecimento implícito dos falantes sobre a gramática da língua e sua preocupação em seguir os princípios de comunicabilidade. Encontramos também diferenças quantitativas e qualitativas no uso da abreviação de acordo com o gênero textual em que aparecem. Acreditamos que a maior compreensão sobre os processos do internetês seja importante para o ensino da escrita formal e que sua descrição pode trazer respostas às críticas a essa forma de se comunicar, que advêm tanto de professores quanto de alunos. Por isso, na parte final deste trabalho, sugerimos tarefas que aproveitem a maior atividade de leitura e escrita proporcionada pela grande expansão das comunicações on-line, para alcançar níveis mais sofisticados de letramento. Mais do que descrever as abreviaturas do internetês, sem propor como lidar com elas, tentaremos trazer um novo olhar a estudiosos de diversas áreas que lidam com a linguagem da Internet, a professores e alunos que têm uma visão equivocada sobre essa linguagem.
Interpersonal relationships are more than ever virtual. E-mails, chats, discussion lists, Twitter, and other communication tools are expanding their use, both in professional environments and in personal life. On account of the virtual revolution, a lot has been said about the language of the Internet, but little effort is made to describe and use it as a source of studies on the current Portuguese language. We believe that the understanding of the structure of the netspeak is useful for several research areas, such as the Corpus Linguistics. Based on this assumption, this paper aims at describing the synthesis processes found on Internet texts in order to prove that there are rules on the formation of abbreviations and other words that are typical of this new form of expression. We found, through quantitative research, patterns of the netspeak, which proves that this language is not configured as an anarchic deviation of cultivated language. These patterns reflect the phonetic and syllabic structure of the Portuguese language rather systematically, showing the speakers implicit knowledge of the grammar and its eagerness to follow the principles of communicability. We also found qualitative and quantitative differences in the use of abbreviation according to the textual gender in which they appear. We believe that the understanding of the processes of the language used on the internet is important for the teaching of writing as well as its formal description can provide answers to criticisms against this form of communicating, which coming from both teachers and students. So, at the end of this thesis, we suggest some tasks that make better use of the increasing activity of reading and writing provided by the boom in online communications, in order to achieve more sophisticated levels of literacy. Rather than describing the abbreviations used on the Internet without suggesting how to deal with them, we try to provide a new perspective to scholars from various fields that deal with the Internet language, as well as to teachers and students who have a wrong view about this language.
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Rydin, Evy. "Concept description genom klustring." Thesis, Högskolan i Borås, Institutionen Handels- och IT-högskolan, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hb:diva-18521.

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Concept description är en data mining-uppgift som strävar efter en begripligbeskrivning av koncept och klasser, inte exakta prediceringar. Syftet medstudien är att visa hur prototypbaserad klustring kan skapa förståelse för endatamängds underliggande domän, enligt concept description. Experimenthar utförts med data från pokerdomänen. Datamängden samlades in från ettlow-limit, shorthanded bord, hos en av de stora Internetsiterna för onlinepokerspel. De två experimenten utfördes med samma datamängd, men däruppsättningen attribut skiljde sig åt. Klustringen utfördes med denprototypbaserade klustringsalgoritmen K-means. För att data mining–uppgiften skulle lösas på tillfredställande vis, presenterades experimentensresultat i diagram och tabeller som var möjliga att analysera. Klustren somexperimenten resulterade i visar sig vara väl separerade. Den doldainformationen, som lyftes fram av klustringsexperimenten, kunde verifierasav domänens teori. Analysen av resultatet visade att klustring med denprototypbaserade klustringsalgoritmen K-means är en metod som går bra attanvända för att skapa förståelse i en datamängds underliggande domän.
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Silber, Jenna. "Scientific description of society." Thesis, Boston University, 1998. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/27770.

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PLEASE NOTE: Boston University Libraries did not receive an Authorization To Manage form for this thesis. It is therefore not openly accessible, though it may be available by request. If you are the author or principal advisor of this work and would like to request open access for it, please contact us at open-help@bu.edu. Thank you.
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Jarrouche, Lisette Tohmé. "Descriptions et descriptif dans la prose romanesque de Théophile Gautier." Paris 3, 1997. http://www.theses.fr/1998PA030044.

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L'étude de l'oeuvre romanesque de Théophile Gautier révéle la prééminence du descriptif grâce a sept principaux types: le tableau, la description documentaire, ambulatoire, procédurale, parlée, onirique et négative. Ses intrigues sont peu complexes, le descriptif monopolise le texte. Toute nouveauté dans le récit entraine et justifie une expansion descriptive qui forme un système a partir d'un terme-clé décline en une nomenclature a laquelle s'associe un groupe de prédicats et s'organisent des opérations d'ancrage. Les descriptions analysées selon ce modèle montrent qu'en s'attachant a une vision, un être ou un objet aussi beaux ou insignifiants soient-ils, le descripteur gautérien les transforme en sujets dignes de description. A l'interface de la narration et de la description, se crée une thématique nécessaire à la naturalisation du passage de l'une a l'autre: signaux typographiques et morphologiques, intrusions du narrateur, termes métalinguistiques, prétérition et apparition d'un personnage-descripteur. Les modes d'organisation interne des systèmes descriptifs privilégient les critères de quantité, de complétude et d'homogénéité. Le descriptif agit comme actant collectif de la narration: opposant, adjuvant, destinateur et destinataire. Le descripteur favorise les trois genres canoniques: le portrait, la topographie et la chronographie. Dans les portraits, il s'intéresse à l'aspect physique. Les lieux suggèrent des descriptions ou se déploient les lexiques spécifiques d'un paysage ou d'un style architectural. L'habitat du héros se présente comme un espace de solitude; la quête de l'identité et du bonheur nécessite un déplacement dans l'ailleurs. L'exotisme dans le temps anime le héros surtout dans les contes fantastiques. Les époques privilégiées sont l'antiquité, le moyen-âge, le règne louis xiii, le XVIIIème et le XIXème siècles. Dans sa critique, Gautier s'attache a transposer l'œuvre d'art sous forme d'ekphrasis. Sa littérature de voyage présente des concordances avec les descriptions des romans rédigés plus tard et situes dans les mêmes pays. L'ironie et l'intertextualité caractérisent les descriptions émaillées de références artistiques, littéraires ou mythologiques ou le descripteur en créant l'écriture artiste se décrit décrivant et détruit l'illusion romanesque
The study of Theophile Gautier's novels reveals the predominance of the descriptive due to seven principal types: the scene, the documentary, ambulatory, procedural, spoken, oneiric and negative description. His plots aren't very complex, the descriptive monopolizes the text. Each novelty in the narrative gives rise to and justifies a descriptive expansion which forms a system from a key-word declined in a nomenclature, to which are associated a group of predicates and are organized anchoring operations. The descriptions analyzed according to this model show that by attaching to a vision, a creature or an object, whether beautiful or insignificant as it may be, the gautierian descriptor transforms them to subjects worth being described. At the interface of the narration and the description, is created a set of themes necessary to the naturalization of the passage from one to another: typographic and morphological signals, narrator's interference's, metalinguistic terms, preterition and appearance of a descriptor-character. The modes of internal organization of descriptive systems privilege the criteria of quantity, exhaustiveness and homogeneity. The descriptive operates like a collective actant of the narration: opponent, adjuvant, sender and addressee. The narrator-descriptor favorizes three canonical types: the portrait, the topography and the chronoghraphy. In the portraits, he is interested by the physical appearance. The places suggest descriptions where are deployed specific lexicons of a landscape or an architectural style. The gautierian hero's residence appears like a space of loneliness. The quest of identity and happiness requires travelling in the elsewhere. The exoticism in the time animates the hero mainly in the fantastic novels. The privileged epochs are the antiquity, the middle ages, the reign of Louis XIII, the XIII and the XIX centuries. In his critic, he is attached to transposing the work of art under the ekphrasis form. His travelogue shows concordances with the descriptions of the novels written later and located in the same countries. Irony and intertextuality characterize the descriptions studded with artistic, literary and mythological references, where the descriptor by creating the artist ‘writing, describes himself describing and destroys the novelistic illusion
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Books on the topic "Description"

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Tanselle, G. Thomas. A description of descriptive bibliography. Washington: Library of Congress, 1992.

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Maszerowska, Anna, Anna Matamala, and Pilar Orero, eds. Audio Description. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/btl.112.

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Mann, William C., and Sandra A. Thompson, eds. Discourse Description. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1992. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/pbns.16.

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Thorne, Sally. Interpretive Description. Second edition. | New York ; London : Routledge, [2016] | Series:: Routledge, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315545196.

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Bailly, Jean Christophe. Description d'Olonne. [Paris]: C. Bourgois, 1992.

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Port of San Francisco (Calif.). Project description. [San Francisco, Calif: Port of San Francisco, 1989.

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Jean-Michel, Adam. La Description. Paris: Presses universitaires de france, 1993.

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Jewett, Kira Sherwood. Program description. Somerville, MA: Eagle Eye Institute, 2000.

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Snodgrass, Richard. The Interface Description Language: Description and use. Rockville, Md: Computer Science Press, 1989.

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Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 and Néret Gilles, eds. Description of Egypt =: Beschreibung Ägyptens = Description de l'Egypte. Köln: Benedikt Taschen, 2001.

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Wells, A. J. "Standard Descriptions and Description Numbers." In Rethinking Cognitive Computation, 106–12. London: Macmillan Education UK, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-06661-9_9.

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Alberg Jensen, Peter. "Narrative Description or Descriptive Narration." In Verbal Aspect in Discourse, 383. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1990. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/pbns.5.20alb.

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Alexander, Mike. "Description." In Management Planning for Nature Conservation, 183–204. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5116-3_12.

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Köhncke, Michael. "Description." In Advances in Anatomy Embryology and Cell Biology, 9–39. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 1985. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-70404-8_3.

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Grant, Darren. "Description." In Springer Texts in Business and Economics, 93–107. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01734-7_7.

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Hurley, Ursula. "Description." In How To Write Fiction (And Think About It), 175–79. London: Macmillan Education UK, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-230-20789-9_24.

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Plewig, Gerd, and Albert M. Kligman. "Description." In ACNE and ROSACEA, 433. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 1993. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-97234-8_38.

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Weik, Martin H. "description." In Computer Science and Communications Dictionary, 388. Boston, MA: Springer US, 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-0613-6_4760.

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Graham, Robert, and Ursula Hurley. "Description." In How to Write A Short Story (And Think About It), 157–64. London: Macmillan Education UK, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-51708-1_15.

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Hughes, Aaron W., and Russell T. McCutcheon. "Description." In Religion in 50 Words, 70–75. London: Routledge, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003140184-13.

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Conference papers on the topic "Description"

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Stouffs, Rudi. "Implementing a Description Grammar Interpreter - A Notation for Descriptions and Description Rules." In eCAADe 2015 : Real time - Extending the reach of computation. eCAADe, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2015.1.471.

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Artale, Alessandro, Andrea Mazzullo, Ana Ozaki, and Frank Wolter. "On Free Description Logics with Definite Descriptions." In 18th International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning {KR-2021}. California: International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence Organization, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.24963/kr.2021/7.

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Definite descriptions are phrases of the form ‘the x such that φ’, used to refer to single entities in a context. They are often more meaningful to users than individual names alone, in particular when modelling or querying data over ontologies. We investigate free description logics with both individual names and definite descriptions as terms of the language, while also accounting for their possible lack of denotation. We focus on the extensions of ALC and, respectively, EL with nominals, the universal role, and definite descriptions. We show that standard reasoning in these extensions is not harder than in the original languages, and we characterise the expressive power of concepts relative to first-order formulas using a suitable notion of bisimulation. Moreover, we lay the foundations for automated support for definite descriptions generation by studying the complexity of deciding the existence of definite descriptions for an individual under an ontology. Finally, we provide a polynomial-time reduction of reasoning in other free description logic languages based on dual-domain semantics to the case of partial interpretations.
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Dai, Zhuang, Xinghong Huang, Weinan Chen, Chuangbing Chen, Li He, Shuhuan Wen, and Hong Zhang. "Keypoint Description by Descriptor Fusion Using Autoencoders." In 2020 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA). IEEE, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/icra40945.2020.9197205.

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Sokic, Emir, and Samim Konjicija. "Shape description using phase-preserving Fourier descriptor." In 2015 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME). IEEE, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/icme.2015.7177425.

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Holmes, Stephen. "Project X Facility Description and Plan." In Project X Facility Description and Plan. US DOE, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.2172/1967457.

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Shang, Mianyou, Jing Pan, Yanwei Pang, and Yuan Yuan. "Integrating kAS and SIFT-like Descriptor for Image Description." In Graphics (ICIG). IEEE, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/icig.2011.164.

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Akyol, E., A. M. Tekalp, and M. R. Civanlar. "Scalable multiple description video coding with flexible number of descriptions." In rnational Conference on Image Processing. IEEE, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/icip.2005.1530491.

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Oro, Ermelinda, and Massimo Ruffolo. "Description Ontologies." In 2008 Third International Conference on Digital Information Management (ICDIM). IEEE, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/icdim.2008.4746710.

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"Workshop Description." In 2016 4th International Workshop on Energy Efficient Supercomputing (E2SC). IEEE, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/e2sc.2016.004.

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Grewe, Sylvia, Sebastian Erdweg, André Pacak, and Mira Mezini. "System Description." In PPDP '18: The 20th International Symposium on Principles and Practice of Declarative Programming. New York, NY, USA: ACM, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3236950.3236960.

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Andreasen, F., M. Baugher, and D. Wing. Session Description Protocol (SDP) Security Descriptions for Media Streams. RFC Editor, July 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.17487/rfc4568.

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McKinley, M. S. Problem Description. Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), November 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.2172/1498464.

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Küsters, Ralf, and Ralf Molitor. Computing Most Specific Concepts in Description Logics with Existential Restrictions. Aachen University of Technology, 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.25368/2022.108.

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Computing the most specific concept (msc) is an inference task that can be used to support the 'bottom-up' construction of knowledge bases for KR systems based on description logics. For description logics that allow for number restrictions or existential restrictions, the msc need not exist, though. Previous work on this problem has concentrated on description logics that allow for universal value restrictions and number restrictions, but not for existential restrictions. The main new contribution of this paper is the treatment of description logics with existential restrictions. More precisely, we show that, for the description logic ALE (which allows for conjunction, universal value restrictions, existential restrictions, negation of atomic concepts) the msc of an ABox-individual only exists in case of acyclic ABoxes. For cyclic ABoxes, we show how to compute an approximation of the msc. Our approach for computing the (approximation of the) msc is based on representing concept descriptions by certain trees and ABoxes by certain graphs, and then characterizing instance relationships by homomorphisms from trees into graphs. The msc/approximation operation then mainly corresponds to unraveling the graphs into trees and translating them back into concept descriptions.
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Baader, Franz, Silvio Ghilardi, and Carsten Lutz. LTL over Description Logic Axioms. Technische Universität Dresden, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.25368/2022.164.

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Most of the research on temporalized Description Logics (DLs) has concentrated on the case where temporal operators can occur within DL concept descriptions. In this setting, reasoning usually becomes quite hard if rigid roles, i.e., roles whose interpretation does not change over time, are available. In this paper, we consider the case where temporal operators are allowed to occur only in front of DL axioms (i.e., ABox assertions and general concept inclusion axioms), but not inside of concepts descriptions. As the temporal component, we use linear temporal logic (LTL) and in the DL component we consider the basic DL ALC. We show that reasoning in the presence of rigid roles becomes considerably simpler in this setting.
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Deshpande, Alina. BSV Gateway Description. Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), March 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.2172/1177172.

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Engel, D. W., and B. P. McGrail. AREST model description. Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), November 1993. http://dx.doi.org/10.2172/140363.

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Scaief, C. C. TMACS system description. Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), October 1995. http://dx.doi.org/10.2172/425208.

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Benoit, N., and D. Paradis. Aquifer system description. Natural Resources Canada/ESS/Scientific and Technical Publishing Services, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.4095/298891.

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Briscoe, Jack A. Database Functional Description. Fort Belvoir, VA: Defense Technical Information Center, September 1996. http://dx.doi.org/10.21236/ada314926.

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Stevens A. J. N-shield, description. Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), July 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.2172/1157481.

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