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Batsakis, Joanna Elena. "Dennis Hopper, Photographs 1961-1967, Dennis Hopper and Tony Shafrazi (eds)." Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media, no. 16 (January 30, 2019): 109–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.33178/alpha.16.09.
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Martin, Adrian. "The Misleading Man: Dennis Hopper." Film International 5, no. 1 (2007): 32–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/fiin.5.1.32.
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Batsakis, Joanna Elena. "Dennis Hopper: Colors, the Polaroids." New Review of Film and Television Studies 17, no. 1 (2018): 120–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17400309.2019.1554335.
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Smith, Ron Clinton. "A Pilgrimage to Dennis Hopper." River Teeth: A Journal of Nonfiction Narrative 16, no. 1 (2014): 105–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/rvt.2014.0025.
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Batsakis, Joanna Elena. "What does Dennis Hopper Have in Common with Orson Welles and Charles Manson?" Film International 17, no. 4 (2019): 22–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/fiin.17.4.22_1.
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Ford, Michael C. "Dennis Hopper Hopes, Once More, to Replace the Blue Velvet Vaudeville (Or Something like It)." Antioch Review 50, no. 4 (1992): 719. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/4612609.
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Batsakis, Joanna Elena. "The Friendship Between Orson Welles and Dennis Hopper: A Study of Similarities Between Two Hollywood Exiles." Quarterly Review of Film and Video 37, no. 3 (2019): 227–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10509208.2019.1633896.
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King, Noel. "‘At Least a Witness to Myself’: On watchingThe American Dreamerafter learning of the death of Dennis Hopper." Studies in Documentary Film 4, no. 2 (2010): 109–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/sdf.4.2.109_1.
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Terranova, Charissa N. "Mobile Perception and the Automotive Prosthetic." Transfers 1, no. 1 (2011): 73–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/trans.2011.010105.
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This essay focuses on a body of photoconceptual works from the 1960s and 1970s in which the automobile functions as a prosthetic-like aperture through which to view the world in motion. I argue that the logic of the “automotive prosthetic“ in works by Paul McCarthy, Dennis Hopper, Ed Ruscha, Jeff Wall, John Baldessari, Richard Prince, Martha Rosler, Robert Smithson, Ed Kienholz, Julian Opie, and Cory Arcangel reveals a techno-genetic understanding of conceptual art, functioning in addition and alternatively to semiotics and various philosophies of language usually associated with conceptual art. These artworks show how the automobile, movement on roads and highways, and the automotive landscape of urban sprawl have transformed the human sensorium. I surmise that the car has become a prosthetic of the human body and is a technological force in the maieusis of the posthuman subject. I offer a reading of specific works of photoconceptual art based on experience, perception, and a posthumanist subjectivity in contrast to solely understanding them according to semiotics and linguistics.
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Piepiórka, Michał. "Nie tylko „Teleranek”. (Nie)obecność filmów zagranicznych w Telewizji Polskiej w stanie wojennym." Kwartalnik Filmowy, no. 108 (December 31, 2019): 71–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.36744/kf.183.
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Artykuł prezentuje analizę programu Telewizji Polskiej czasu stanu wojennego ze szczególnym uwzględnieniem filmów i seriali zagranicznych. Punktem wyjścia jest konstatacja, że w okresie tym nastąpiło drastyczne odwrócenie proporcji między produkcjami importowanymi z krajów zachodnich i socjalistycznych. Przywołując wypowiedzi ówczesnych przedstawicieli władzy i publicystów, autor rekonstruuje narracje na temat sposobu tworzenia ramówki. Analiza ilościowa filmów i seriali w programie telewizyjnym pogłębia refleksję na temat praktyk decydentów telewizyjnych, którzy uwzględniając konieczność działania propagandowego, musieli jednocześnie dbać o atrakcyjność oferty. Nie było to łatwe zadanie w sytuacji ograniczonych środków finansowych i presji politycznej. Aby mu podołać, włodarze telewizji byli w stanie sięgnąć nawet po filmy kontrowersyjne, wcześniej niedopuszczone do emisji, np. Swobodnego jeźdźca (Easy Rider, 1969) Dennisa Hoppera, którego analiza wieńczy artykuł.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Hopper Dennis"
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Cormier, Christophe. "Contribution de la contre-culture au cinéma nord-américain : le cas de Denis Hopper." Paris 3, 2007. http://www.theses.fr/2007PA030017.
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Cette étude vise à évaluer les apports de la contre-culture au cinéma américain. Les principes énoncés dans l’essai de Theodore Roszak constituent le cadre théorique à l’intérieur duquel la filmographie de Dennis Hopper, choisi pour ses liens avec le Mouvement, est analysée. Célèbre pour son travail de comédien, Hopper professe aussi un intérêt pour les arts visuels qui s’exprime par une activité photographique et une production plastique qui ne sont pas sans effet sur son œuvre cinématographique. Il est en effet possible d’établir des correspondances entre ses choix artistiques et divers courants picturaux du 20e siècle (modernisme, photographie documentaire, expressionnisme abstrait, pop art). Alors que ses partis pris esthétiques s’inscrivent dans un héritage national, la thématique hoppérienne épouse l’essentiel de la plate-forme revendicative de la contre-culture. Le caractère oppositionnel du Mouvement se lit dans la binarité des schémas et dans la représentation de comportements « déviants » mis au service d’une stratégie de réenchantement du monde, menacé par l’emprise croissante de la technocratie. Porté par les valeurs du Mouvement, Hopper est également mû par sa propre vision, et un examen de ses personnages révèle une difficulté à s’émanciper des modèles anciens, imposés par le milieu socio-culturel qui l’a produit ou le cinéma classique qui l’a inspiré. Les aspects de la contestation qui constituent les enjeux les plus contemporains, sont aussi ceux qu’il s’abstient d’explorer avec conviction. Le rapprochement avec d’autres parcours tente de montrer l’existence d’une mouvance, sa trajectoire sur la période 69-94, et son héritage potentiel<br>The purpose of this survey is to assess the counterculture’s contribution to the American cinema through the films directed by Dennis Hopper, chosen for his sympathy for the Movement. His filmography is explored in the light of Theodore Roszak’s 1969 essay. Famous as an actor, Hopper has demonstrated an interest in visual arts, expressed in a continuous creativity in the fields of painting and photography, which shapes his film work. It is legitimate to draw parallels between his artistic choices and various art movements of the 20th century. While Hopper’s aesthetic options originate in the national heritage, his thematic concerns pertain to the counterculture’s claims. The oppositional nature of the Movement is rendered by the dual structure of patterns, both in form and in theme, and by the representation of deviant behaviour. These serve a strategy for the reenchantment of a world threatened by the growing grip of technocracy. Borne by the Movement’s set of values, Hopper is also driven by his own vision. The survey of his characters reveals a difficulty in breaking away from older models, imposed by classic Hollywood, which inspired him, and by his background. Thus the modes of protest that have become most relevant today are precisely not those that he has most thoroughly explored. The comparison with other careers attempts to prove the existence of a collective venture, to describe its evolution over the 69-94 period, and to trace its potential heritage
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Brasebin, Jenny. "Road novel, road movie : approche intermédiale du récit de la route." Thesis, Paris 3, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013PA030088.
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Apparu au lendemain de la Seconde Guerre mondiale avec la publication en 1957 d’On the Road de Jack Kerouac et la sortie, 12 ans plus tard, d’Easy Rider de Dennis Hopper, le road novel et le road movie constituent à nos yeux les deux versants de ce que nous avons choisi de nommer le récit de la route. Devant l’absence de réelle étude conjointe entre les deux formes et la persistance d’amalgames, nous souhaitons mettre en évidence ce qui permettrait de distinguer le road novel et le road movie d’autres récits d’errance. Un tel travail nécessite la mise au jour d’un outil d’analyse intermédial permettant d’embrasser de concert des oeuvres relevant d’expressions médiatiques différentes. Nous proposons donc de recourir au concept de chronotope développé par Bakhtine en littérature, et dont il a été démontré il y a peu qu’il est aussi susceptible de s’appliquer à un objet cinématographique. Nous posons que road novel et road movie reposent sur la combinaison d’un ensemble de chronotopes fondamentaux : celui de la route, dans le contexte de la motorisation et des non-lieux de la postmodernité, et celui du seuil, compris comme l’expression du tournant d’une vie. La présence d’une dimension parodique nous amène en outre à mobiliser un autre concept bakhtinien : celui de carnavalesque, qui s’articulerait justement autour des chronotopes de la route et du seuil définis précédemment. Afin de procéder à cette analyse chronotopique, nous nous appuyons sur un corpus d’oeuvres empruntées au répertoire américain, québécois et allemand, en raison notamment des multiples passerelles susceptibles d’être érigées entre ces différentes cultures<br>Appearing in the wake of World War II, with the publication in 1957 of On the Road by Jack Kerouac,followed 12 years later with the screening of Denis Hopper’s Easy Rider, the road novel and road movie constitute, we argue, two sides of what we call the road narrative. Faced with a lack of comprehensive studies embracing both sides concurrently, and with recurrent amalgams, we reflect on the components differentiating the road novel and road movie from other types of wandering stories. Such a project calls for the construction of an intermedial apparatus, enabling us to jointly encompass artworks belonging to different media formats. Consequently, we build on the concept of the chronotope, as developed by Bakhtin as a tool for literarycriticism, and recently extended by scholars to cinematographic objects. We show how road novels and roadmovies emerge from the combination of two fundamental chronotopes: that of the road, exemplified by a postmodern universe dominated by motor vehicles and non-places, and that of the threshold, understood as the expression of a critical turn in one’s life. The noted presence of a parodic dimension in road narrativescalls for the introduction of an additional bakhtinian concept: the carnivalesque, which, as we show, can be articulated in relation to the previously defined road and threshold chronotopes. For this chronotopical analysis, we selected artworks from the American, Quebecois and German repertoires, a choice justified by the numerous potential connections to be established between those three different cultures
Books on the topic "Hopper Dennis"
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1980-, Dawson Nick, ed. Dennis Hopper: Interviews. University Press of Mississippi, 2012.
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française, Cinémathèque, and Australian Centre for the Moving Image, eds. Dennis Hopper & the new Hollywood. Flammarion, 2009.
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1942-, Fuchs Rudolf Herman, Sassen Jan Hein, and Amsterdam (Netherlands) Stedelijk Museum, eds. Dennis Hopper (a keen eye): Artist, photographer, filmmaker. Stedelijk Museum, 2001.
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Fuchs, R. H. Dennis Hopper: (a keen eye) : artist, photographer, filmmaker. Stedelijk Museum, 2001.
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Winkler, Peter L. Dennis Hopper: The wild ride of a Hollywood rebel. Barricade Books Inc., 2011.
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Petra, Giloy-Hirtz, Hayward Brooke 1937-, and Martin-Gropius-Bau (Berlin Germany), eds. Dennis Hopper: The lost album : vintage prints from the sixties. Prestel, 2012.
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Hopper, Dennis. Dennis Hopper: Photographies de 1961 à 1967 : Kunsthalle Basel, Musée de l'Elysée (Lausanne), Rencontres internationales de la photographie (Arles) = Dennis Hopper : photographs from 1961 to 1967. Kunsthalle, 1988.
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Orgeron, Devin. "Misreading America in Dennis Hopper’s Easy Rider." In Road Movies. Palgrave Macmillan US, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230610217_5.
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Gott, Michael. "Mapping the Hybrid European Road: French Connections, European Traditions and American Influence?" In French-language Road Cinema. Edinburgh University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9780748698677.003.0002.
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This chapter set the stage for an exploration of contemporary French-language European road movies by tracing the interwoven lines of the tradition in its American and European iterations back to the 1960s, the period during which the template for contemporary road cinema crystalized. It argues that the contours of the road movie tradition are not strictly the product of a direct lineage from seminal American films from the late 1960s, such as Easy Rider (Dennis Hopper, 1969, USA), but the result of complex transnational interactions within European cinemas and between European and American cultures. The films covered are Il Sorpasso (Dino Risi, 1962, Italy), Le corniaud/The Sucker (Gérard Oury, 1965, France/Italy) Les petits matins/Hitch-Hike (Jacqueline Audry, 1962, France), Im Lauf der Zeit/Kings of the Road (Wim Wenders, 1977, West Germany), Leningrad Cowboys Go America (Aki Kaurismäki,1989, Finland/Sweden) and Lisbon Story (Wim Wenders, 1994, Germany/Portugal).
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Sölch, Dennis. "Whitehead’s Biological Turn." In Whitehead at Harvard, 1924-1925. Edinburgh University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474461351.003.0006.
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Dennis Sölch discusses Whitehead’s perception that science was undergoing a paradigm shift (especially given the confusion in the field of physics at the time), and hoped to bridge the physical and biological sciences and create a more unified concept of nature. With Lawrence Henderson, Whitehead would emphasize the reciprocal relationship between organism and environment, counter to both the vitalist and reductive materialist theories. He believed that biology would become the dominant science of the coming era, providing the best hope for radical innovations in human understanding.
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"“A young man with a hope”: Side Notes on the Novel Other Leopards." In Denis Williams: A Life in Works. Brill | Rodopi, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789042027923_007.
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Osterweil, Ara. "The Last Place on Earth? Allegories of Deplacialization in Dennis Hopper’s The Last Movie." In Taking Place. University of Minnesota Press, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.5749/minnesota/9780816665167.003.0008.
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"What to Target." In Lectures of the Air Corps Tactical School and American Strategic Bombing in World War II, edited by Phil Haun. University Press of Kentucky, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5810/kentucky/9780813176789.003.0007.
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This chapter presents the final lecture of the Air Force Course, “Primary Strategic Objectives of Air Forces” by Muir Fairchild. In this lecture Fairchild concludes that the fundamental decision in air warfare is whether to attack an enemy’s national economic structure or its military forces. Attacking the economic structure is a purely offensive action, while attacking enemy forces has both offensive and defensive objectives. In modern war, technologically sophisticated weapons play an increasingly important role, and destroying the means of producing such weapons prevents the arming of the enemy’s military. The targeting of the enemy nation’s economic structure thus denies the opponent the hope of victory and increases the costs of continued resistance.
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Elliott, Willliam, and Melinda Lewis. "Going to School in Unequal America." In Making Education Work for the Poor. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190621568.003.0005.
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In the United States, the education system is more than just a mechanism for transmitting knowledge. It is the nation’s most powerful tool for creating economic opportunities and helping individuals secure a good quality of life and parents’ primary plan for securing the well-being of their children. As such, educational attainment is often touted as the proverbial “key to the kingdom” that puts those who hold it on the path to prosperity. This link between economic mobility and education sets the United States apart from much of the rest of the developed world, where most countries have strong welfare systems that allow individuals to succeed routinely without postsecondary education. This international contrast provides an important framework for understanding how the role of education aligns with how Americans see themselves and their futures. More specifically, Americans vest their hopes in education as a means of getting ahead instead of relying on a generous welfare state that ensures that “nobody is in need”—the predominant view, for example, among Europeans. Crucially, the institution of education is supposed to work equally for all Americans, regardless of their starting point. This belief in education as a force for equity as well as opportunity was ensconced in its foundations, as articulated by Horace Mann in 1848, “Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is a great equalizer of the conditions of men—the balance wheel of the social machinery.” It persists, extolled by Arne Duncan, US Secretary of Education in the Obama Administration, “In America, education is still the great equalizer” and National Education Association President Dennis Van Roekel, “Education is the great equalizer . . . opening doors of opportunity for all.” However, there are signs that Americans increasingly doubt the viability of these egalitarian ideals and question whether education can truly realize the promise of a better future. In 2014, only 64% of Americans reported that they still believe in the American dream.
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Sprintzen, David. "A Tragic Vision for a New Millenium." In The Paideia Archive: Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy. Philosophy Documentation Center, 1998. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/wcp20-paideia199821386.
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After 350 years of continual social transformations under the push of industrialization, capitalism, world-wide social revolutions, and the development of modern science, what reasonably remains of the traditional faith in divine transcendence and providential design except a deep-felt, almost 'ontological' yearning for transcendence? Torn between outmoded religious traditions and an ascendant secular world, the contemporary celebration of individuality only makes more poignant the need for precisely that religious consolation that public life increasingly denies. People must now confront the meaning of their lives without the assured aid of transcendent purpose and direction. The resulting sense of absence profoundly marks the contemporary world. Confronted with the theoretical problems posed by the absence of absolute values, and the historical problems posed by contemporary social movements, Camus dramatized the urgency of developing guides to humane conduct in a world without transcendence. He continued to believe that only when the dignity of the worker and the respect for intelligence are accorded their rightful place can human existence hope to realize its highest ideals, and our life find the collective meaning and purpose that alone can truly sustain us in the face of an infinite and indifferent universe.
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Smith, Gary. "Introduction." In The AI Delusion. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198824305.003.0002.
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The Democratic Party’s 2008 presidential nomination was supposed to be the inevitable coronation of Hillary Clinton. She was the most well-known candidate; had the most support from the party establishment, and had, by far, the most financial resources. Two big names (Al Gore and John Kerry) considered running, but decided they had no hope of defeating the Clinton machine. That left an unlikely assortment of lesser-knowns: a U.S. Representative from Ohio (Dennis Kucinich), the Governor of New Mexico (Bill Richardson), and several U.S. Senators: Joe Biden (Delaware), John Edwards (North Carolina), Chris Dodd (Connecticut), Mike Gravel (Alaska), and Barack Obama (Illinois). The nomination went off script. Obama was a first-term senator, a black man with an unhelpful name, but he excited voters. He raised enough money to be competitive in the Iowa caucuses and he persuaded Oprah Winfrey to campaign for him. Obama defeated Clinton by eight percentage points in Iowa and the race was on. Obama won the Democratic nomination and, then, the presidential election against Republican John McCain because the Obama campaign had a lot more going for it than Obama’s eloquence and charisma: Big Data. The Obama campaign tried to put every potential voter into its data base, along with hundreds of tidbits of personal information: age, gender, marital status, race, religion, address, occupation, income, car registrations, home value, donation history, magazine subscriptions, leisure activities, Facebook friends, and anything else they could find that seemed relevant. Some data were collected from public data bases, some from e-mail exchanges or campaign workers knocking on front doors. Some data were purchased from private data vendors. Layered on top were weekly telephone surveys of thousands of potential voters which not only gathered personal data, but also attempted to gauge each person’s likelihood of voting—and voting for Obama. These voter likelihoods were correlated statistically with personal characteristics and extrapolated to other potential voters based on their personal characteristics. The campaign’s computer software predicted how likely each person its data base was to vote and the probability that the vote would be for Obama. This data-driven model allowed the campaign to microtarget individuals through e-mails, snail mail, personal visits, and television ads asking for donations and votes.
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Smith, Gary. "Old Wine in New Bottles." In The AI Delusion. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198824305.003.0010.
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The fashion industry is subject to recurring cycles of popularity that are regular enough to be dubbed the “20-year rule.” Activewear clothing that is suitable for the gym and the street was fashionable in the 1990s and, 20 years later, in the 2010s. Intellectually, the British economist Dennis Robertson once wrote, “Now, as I have often pointed out to my students, some of whom have been brought up in sporting circles, high-brow opinion is like a hunted hare; if you stand in the same place, or nearly the same place, it can be relied upon to come round to you in a circle.” In the same way, today’s data miners have rediscovered several statistical tools that were once fashionable. These tools have been given new life because they are mathematically complex, indeed beautifully complex, and many data miners are easily seduced by mathematical beauty. Too few think about whether the underlying assumptions make sense and if the conclusions are reasonable. Consider data mining with multiple regression models. Rummaging through a large data base looking for the combination of explanatory variables that gives the best fit can be daunting. With 100 variables to choose from, there are more than 17 trillion possible combinations of 10 explanatory variables. With 1,000 possible explanatory variables, there are nearly a trillion trillion possible combinations of 10 explanatory variables. With 1 million possible explanatory variables, the number of 10-variable combinations grows to nearly a million trillion trillion trillion trillion (if we were to write it out, there would be 54 zeros). Stepwise regression was born back when computers were much slower than today, but it has become a popular data-mining tool because it is less computationally demanding than a full search over all possible combinations of explanatory variables but, it is hoped, will still give a reasonable approximation to the results of a full search. The stepwise label comes from the fact that the calculations go through a number of steps, considering potential explanatory variables one by one. There are three main stepwise procedures. A forward-selection rule starts with the one explanatory variable that has the highest correlation with the variable being predicted. Then the procedure adds a second variable, the variable that improves the fit the most.
Conference papers on the topic "Hopper Dennis"
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Scrivner, Ron, and Chris Alexander. "Elements of an Engineering-Based Integrity Management Program." In 2008 7th International Pipeline Conference. ASMEDC, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/ipc2008-64492.
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Establishing pipeline integrity requires an understanding of the specific threats, their relationship to the overall condition of the pipeline, and the mitigating measures required to assure safe operation. In the past, the pipeline industry relied on years of research and experience to develop a set of tools to analyze these threats and apply conservative solutions to ensure pipeline integrity. With the implementation of the Integrity Management Program (IMP) in 2004 by the Pipeline and Hazardous Material Safety Administration (PHMSA), pipeline integrity must be addressed by operators where the analysis methods and results must be documented and defendable. This paper presents a detailed discussion of how existing knowledge, advances in analytical techniques, experimental methods, and engineering rigor are combined to develop field-friendly tools to characterize and ensure pipeline integrity. Two case studies are included, the first, to demonstrate how the proposed method was used to assess the integrity of a corroded elbow, the second, provides the reader with an example of how to develop a tool for evaluating the severity of dents in pipelines using available public-domain research. It is the hope of the authors that the approach presented in this paper will foster further developments and advanced pipeline integrity management.
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Phillips, Winfred M. "Bioengineering: A History With a Future." In ASME 2002 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. ASMEDC, 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/imece2002-32042.
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Bioengineering is a technological miracle of health care and future health hope. From the entrepreneurial contributions of William Kolff with the original handmade dialysis machine to the application of the x-ray to medical diagnostics and treatment, biomedical pioneers brought technology to medical care, often at great personal risk. Few can conceive the magnitude of the impact of technology on our ability to return the sick and disabled to function. The “simple” steel and plastic hip implant is a technological wonder. The human is the most demanding of systems to be repaired by technology. The stress levels, cycle loading, chemical degradation and even biological rejection are without precedent in engineering application. Reliability is expected to be near 100%. Psychological and cosmetic compatibility are severe constraints. The current quality of life of many (if not most) of us is dependent upon technology, and forefront technology at that. The dentist no longer hurts and our teeth last longer. Numerous “replacements” are cosmetically acceptable. Medical diagnosties are everywhere, but have a long way to go. Emergency medicine is high-tech. The wonders of bioengineering are in our present and in our future. It is informative to review our bioengineering heritage from early orthopedics (splints, peg legs and crutches), through mobility facilitation (wheelchairs) and internal repair (aortic patches and arterial replacement) to modern diagnostics (MRI) and organ replacement (artificial hearts, kidneys, etc.). A recent renewed interest in biomedical devices paralleling the decoding of the genome and the proposed genetic future portends what Dr. Francis Fukuyama of Johns Hopkins called “Our Post Human Future.” We will explore our historical pathway to what we will call “our better human future through bioengineering.”
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Chakrabarti, Partha, Ibrahim Abu-Odeh, Adinarayana Mukkamala, et al. "An Overview of the Reassessment Studies of Fixed Offshore Platforms in the Bay of Campeche, Mexico." In ASME 2005 24th International Conference on Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering. ASMEDC, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/omae2005-67051.
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Pemex Exploration Produccio´n owns and operates several fields in the Bay of Campeche, located in the south Gulf of Mexico, for oil and gas production. Many of these fixed offshore platforms were built during the 70s and 80s and have already exceeded their design service life. In order to meet the growing demand for oil and natural gas it is necessary to extend the service life of these platforms by at least another 15 to 30 years. To meet this extended service life, thorough and systematic reassessment studies need to be conducted leading to identification of any structural weakness and possible locations of fatigue problems. To extend the fatigue life of the welded joints, inspections are required to be performed according to a risk based inspection planning procedure. In the present paper, an overview of the reassessment study procedure is outlined and pertinent results are presented for more than twenty platforms which were studied in a recent project. The most important engineering considerations and various analyses involved in the study are discussed in detail. The platforms cover the categories of Drilling, Production, Gathering and Habitation. Depending on the category, Pemex specifications assign different levels of acceptable reliabilities and reserve strength ratios. The ultimate strength of the platforms is determined using a detailed finite element model of jacket, piles and deck structures and a state-of-the-art non-linear progressive collapse analysis technique commonly known as ‘pushover’ analysis. The analytical structural models include local joint flexibility of the jacket joints, soil-pile interaction, geometric non-linearity and material plasticity. They also include the information of damages and deterioration obtained from inspection reports, such as dents, bents, cracks etc. The joint strength modeling is performed using the latest available procedures that use non-linear load-deformation curves. Fatigue analyses are based on spectral analysis technique and include the dynamic response of the structure to wave loads. The structural models for fatigue analysis include the effects of local joint flexibility (LJF) and soil-pile interaction. Results for one typical platform are presented in complete detail to facilitate the understanding of the reassessment study procedure. A typical risk based inspection planning for extending fatigue service life is also presented. Finally, the summary of results for 28 platforms is presented to appreciate the importance of the various analytical parameters. It is hoped that this very wide database of results for platforms of different configurations can serve as a useful resource for the offshore industry in general.
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Hellström, Lisa, and Linda Beckman. Att främja hälsa och förebbygga ohälsa bland ungdomar : En nationell och internationell kartläggning över initiativ och insatser. Malmö universitet, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.24834/isbn.9789178771103.
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Med denna rapport vill vi förmedla hopp till unga, öka kunskapen, med-vetenheten och minska skammen kring psykisk ohälsa. Unga uttrycker själva att de vill ha mer kunskap om psykisk hälsa och skolan lyfts ofta som en bra plattform. Många unga vet inte vart de ska vända sig för att få hjälp med psykiska besvär och de har behov av att bli lyssnade på. När-varande vuxna som lyssnar behövs, dock saknar många vuxna kunskap om psykiska besvär och diagnoser kopplat till psykisk ohälsa.Psykisk hälsa bland unga är en viktig samhällsfråga som de senaste åren har fått mer uppmärksamhet i samhällsdebatten. Flera satsningar har gjorts av civilsamhällesaktörer och offentliga aktörer. Samtidigt visar den internationella kartläggningen att det är svårt att påvisa långsiktiga effek-ter av alla de satsningar som görs. Det kan finnas flera orsaker till detta. Det finns dock insatser som verkar mer lovande och här finns en möjlighet för beslutsfattare att göra skillnad för ungas psykiska hälsa. Förutom att bespara unga onödigt lidande är dessa insatser ofta samhällsekonomisktkostnadseffektiva, eftersom de på sikt leder till minskat vårdsökande och bättre förutsättningar för unga att klara skolan och i förlängningen arbets-livet. Sådana satsningar går även i linje med Barnkonventionen artikel 24 om alla barns rätt till bästa möjliga hälsa, som sedan 2020 är lag i Sverige. Utifrån kartläggningen har vi följande rekommendationer 1. Rusta unga med färdigheter om psykisk ohälsaUnga bör få tillgång till de kunskaper och färdigheter som enligt forsk-ning visat sig lovande för att främja psykisk hälsa och förebygga ohälsa. Internationellt ges flera av dessa insatser inom ramen för sko-lan. De behöver utveckla sina färdigheter i hur man tolkar och förstår sina egna känslor och sin kropp och vad som är vanlig livssmärta, hur man kan hantera den och när man behöver kontakta vården. Därför bör ett nationellt initiativ som når alla barn tas för att främja barn och ungas kunskap och färdigheter om psykisk hälsa för att rusta dem för livet. Det bör även inkludera information om vart man kan vända sig om man behöver ytterligare stöd eller vård. Unga ska vara delaktiga i utformningen av ett sådant initiativ. 2. Ge vuxna kunskap och verktyg om psykisk hälsa – för att underlätta stöd till ungaBarn och unga behöver närvarande vuxna som har förmågan att lyssna, fånga upp och vägleda dem. Det är inte ovanligt att vuxna i barns och ungas närhet upplever osäkerhet och saknar kunskap om psykiska besvär och diagnoser. Därför behöver vuxna, framförallt föräldrar och yrkes-verksamma som jobbar nära unga, få bättre kunskap och verktyg för hur de ska möta unga på ett bättre sätt. Satsningar på att höja föräldrars kun-skap om psykisk hälsa bör göras, exempelvis i form av föräldrastödspro-gram och folkbildning. Lärare bör även ges grundläggande kunskaper om psykisk hälsa inom ramen för lärarutbildningen. 3. Insatser bör följas upp under en längre tidInsatser för att främja psykisk hälsa bör planeras, implementeras och ut-värderas med långtidsuppföljningar (>12 månader). Detta för att bättre kunna bedöma de långsiktiga effekterna och för att kunna utveckla och anpassa insatserna efterhand.