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Journal articles on the topic "Multi-media thesis"
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Wang, Zhen, and Jian Bo He. "On Combination of Multi-Media Technology and Language Learning." Applied Mechanics and Materials 644-650 (September 2014): 5958–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.644-650.5958.
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With the development of modern society, the application of multi-media technology is becoming more and more popular in all fields, including foreign language learning. Since it’s a new method, there are a lot of defects in multimedia technology, and there are also many problems in language learning. This thesis mainly analyzes the importance of multi-media technology and focuses on how to solve the problems in foreign language learning caused by the using of multi-media technology.
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Mishra, Shubhanshu. "Information extraction from digital social trace data with applications to social media and scholarly communication data." ACM SIGIR Forum 54, no. 1 (June 2020): 1–2. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3451964.3451981.
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Information extraction (IE) aims at extracting structured data from unstructured or semi-structured data. The thesis starts by identifying social media data and scholarly communication data as a special case of digital social trace data (DSTD). This identification allows us to utilize the graph structure of the data (e.g., user connected to a tweet, author connected to a paper, author connected to authors, etc.) for developing new information extraction tasks. The thesis focuses on information extraction from DSTD, first, using only the text data from tweets and scholarly paper abstracts, and then using the full graph structure of Twitter and scholarly communications datasets. This thesis makes three major contributions. First, new IE tasks based on DSTD representation of the data are introduced. For scholarly communication data, methods are developed to identify article and author level novelty [Mishra and Torvik, 2016] and expertise. Furthermore, interfaces for examining the extracted information are introduced. A social communication temporal graph (SCTG) is introduced for comparing different communication data like tweets tagged with sentiment, tweets about a search query, and Facebook group posts. For social media, new text classification categories are introduced, with the aim of identifying enthusiastic and supportive users, via their tweets. Additionally, the correlation between sentiment classes and Twitter meta-data in public corpora is analyzed, leading to the development of a better model for sentiment classification [Mishra and Diesner, 2018]. Second, methods are introduced for extracting information from social media and scholarly data. For scholarly data, a semi-automatic method is introduced for the construction of a large-scale taxonomy of computer science concepts. The method relies on the Wikipedia category tree. The constructed taxonomy is used for identifying key computer science phrases in scholarly papers, and tracking their evolution over time. Similarly, for social media data, machine learning models based on human-in-the-loop learning [Mishra et al., 2015], semi-supervised learning [Mishra and Diesner, 2016], and multi-task learning [Mishra, 2019] are introduced for identifying sentiment, named entities, part of speech tags, phrase chunks, and super-sense tags. The machine learning models are developed with a focus on leveraging all available data. The multi-task models presented here result in competitive performance against other methods, for most of the tasks, while reducing inference time computational costs. Finally, this thesis has resulted in the creation of multiple open source tools and public data sets (see URL below), which can be utilized by the research community. The thesis aims to act as a bridge between research questions and techniques used in DSTD from different domains. The methods and tools presented here can help advance work in the areas of social media and scholarly data analysis.
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Feng, Zhi Ren. "Numerical Simulation of Seismic Wave Propagation in Different Media." Applied Mechanics and Materials 596 (July 2014): 616–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.596.616.
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Theory of elastic waves layered homogeneous medium or even medium for the study can not meet the actual demand for seismic exploration, especially for fine rock to construct reservoirs for the study, had to consider small-scale heterogeneity of seismic wave propagation effects. In this thesis, multi-scale model of a complex medium, in ensuring the premise to further improve simulation accuracy simulation efficiency issue, the introduction of a variable grid numerical simulation techniques, and were analyzed for different types of grid difference, establish a different media model simulation results verify the validity of simulation and analyzes its efficiency and accuracy problems.
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Pham, Phien Van, and Huong Thuy Nguyen. "Optimization of fermentation process to achieve bacterial cellulose on molasses medium and sugarcane juice medium." Science and Technology Development Journal 16, no. 3 (September 30, 2013): 30–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.32508/stdj.v16i3.1636.
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The objective of this thesis is studying the condition of fermentation using Acetobacter xylinum on molasses medium and sugarcane juice medium. Multi-objective optimization method was used to optimized the factors of fermentation process in order to achieve the highest yield of Bacterial Cellulose. The results showed that pepton: 1.0%; glucose 2.78% ; pH 4.9, tempurature 30oC in 107 hours were optimal fermentation conditions for molasses medium while pepton: 0.93% ; glucose: 3.65% ; pH 5.2; tempurature 30.5 oC in 102 hours were optimal fermentation conditions for sugarcane juice medium. These two media above can be used as new media for the culture of Acetobacter xylinum in comparision to coconut milk medium.
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Gao, Yun Hui, and Xiang Feng Suo. "Audio Decoding Chip in the Application of Embedded System." Applied Mechanics and Materials 556-562 (May 2014): 1987–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.556-562.1987.
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Embedded system is a kind of special computer system that has certain function. Combining it with Multi Media and network technology could increase intelligence and agility of the devices. The use of embedded technology is becoming wider and wider with rapid development of information technology and rapid increase of consumers’ need. This thesis analyzes and studies the application of embedded system through actual project firstly. And then designs an embedded system based on ARM9 processor. Using audio CODEC UDA1341, this design have good effect .
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Veres, Bálint. "Intermedia and Intermittency." Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Film and Media Studies 9, no. 1 (December 1, 2014): 155–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ausfm-2015-0008.
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Abstract It is commonly known that medial reflections have been initiated by attempts to secure the borders of discrete medial forms and to define the modus operandi of each essentialized medial area. Later on, the focus of study has shifted to plurimedial formations and the interactions between predefined medial genres. In the last few decades, taxonomic approaches to various multi-, inter-, and transmedial phenomena dominated the discussions, which offered invaluable support in mapping the terrain, but at the same time hindered the analysis of the ephemeral, time-dependent aspects of plurimedial operations. While we explore the properties of each medial configuration, we lose sight of the actual historical drivers that produce ever-new configurations. My thesis is that any discourse on intermediality should be paralleled by a discourse on cultural intermittency, and consequently, media studies should involve an approach that focuses on the “ecosystem” of the constantly renewing media configurations from the point of view of their vitalizing potential and capability to trigger heightened experiences. This approach draws much inspiration from K. Ludwig Pfeiffer’s media anthropology that gives orientation in my paper.
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Mishra, Shubhanshu. "Information extraction from digital social trace data with applications to social media and scholarly communication data." ACM SIGWEB Newsletter, Autumn (March 2021): 1–4. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3460304.3460307.
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Shubhanshu is a Machine Learning Researcher at Twitter working on the Content Understanding Research team. He finished his Ph.D. at the iSchool, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he worked as a research assistant with Dr. Jana Diesner and Dr. Vetle Torvik on projects funded by NIH, NSF, KISTI, and Army Research Lab. Shubhanshu's research work is at the intersection of machine learning, information extraction, social network analysis, and visualizations. His work won then Best Student Paper Award at ASIS&T SIGMET workshop. Shubhanshu has published multiple open source projects as well as open datasets related to his research. More information about Shubhanshu can be found at: https://shubhanshu.com. In his thesis, Shubhanshu worked on unifying the concept of information extraction from social media data and scholarly data under the framework of Digital Social Trace Data (DSTD). This framework allow us to answer questions like conceptual novelty, expertise in scientific communities as well as influential users in social media corpus. He further proposed improved information extraction techniques for social media text by using active, semi-supervised, and multi-task machine learning along with the inclusion of meta-data. Additionally, his work resulted in the development of a visualization framework for DSTD along with multiple open source tools and datasets. For more details visit https://shubhanshu.com/phd_thesis/.
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Makarova, Alexandra S. "REALIZATION OF TRANSFORMATION AND CREATIVE POTENTIAL OF THE KRYLATIKA IN MEDIA DISCOURSE." RUDN Journal of Language Studies, Semiotics and Semantics 10, no. 2 (December 15, 2019): 273–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.22363/2313-2299-2019-10-2-273-287.
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The modern process of the mediatisation of all spheres of public life affects both the volume of speech creation and the media texts themselves. The mass character and the multi-language openness of media discourse allow us to consider winged units as a means for representing and imple- menting phraseological innovations. The role of mass media in the formation of new sustainable turns is being actively studied, which speaks of their significance in this process, since it is the media discourse that demonstrates most clearly the current usage and viability of phraseological innovations in language and speech. The media discourse has a large number of ways of influencing the mass addressee, and, as recent studies of Russian media texts show, the fund of winged units as an integral part of the phraseological corpus of the national language is widely used in it. Various phrase resources (idioms, winged expressions, paremias, aphorisms, etc.) are often used both in a strong text position - the title or ending of the publication, and in the creation of media texts connecting the verbal and visual parts in which their transformational and creative potential is most clearly realized, multiplying their linguo-pragmatic effect on the addressee. The analysis of the media content of the site “Orthodox Laughs” revealed the tendency of creative use of folklorism “Баю-баюшки-баю, не ложися на краю. Придет серенький волчок - И укусит за бочок!”, which has not yet been fixed by lexicographical practice, as well as its variants that are the result of various methods of transformation language units. Structural and semantic transformations of various categories of phraseological units are an effective means of implementing specific expression in the media text. Previously, fiction was considered the main source of winged units, today the situation is changing, and the leadership belongs to synthetic art forms (cinema, television, pop, etc.). The analyzed potential winged unit has not one source of appearance: along with Russian and German folklore, this is German literature, but the expression in the Soviet animated film “The Bremen Town Musicians” was actualized. In analyzing the publications of this site, interdisciplinary methods of studying media content were used: discursive, descriptive-analytical, linguocultural, and media linguistic. The conducted research has shown that the functioning of the considered potential winged unit and its transforms confirms the thesis that these language units are in demand and widely used in modern media texts, since they have productive mechanisms of meaning formation.
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Trinova, Zulvia, Remiswal Remiswal, Nini Nini, and Alfurqan Alfurqan. "Lecturers’ Work Performance of Islamic Education." FITRAH: Jurnal Kajian Ilmu-ilmu Keislaman 7, no. 1 (June 30, 2021): 31–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.24952/fitrah.v7i1.3632.
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Many problems were found in the field related to lecturers. Lecturers who are supposed to be disciplined come to class to teach, but some come late to class and end class early before the time runs out. There are lecturers who come and fill out the attendance list at the picket and go straight to class to teach, but there are also those who are not in class to teach because they have other purposes. Some senior lecturers ask their juniors or teaching assistants to teach classes. Some lecturers conduct proposal seminars, comprehensive examinations or conduct counseling for students as academic advisers, or provide student thesis guidance. In the learning process, the approach taken to students sometimes does not have a positive effect on them, the learning methods used are also less varied. The purpose of this study was to obtain an overview and contribution given by the work situation and achievement motivation to lecturer performance. This research is descriptive quantitative. The main data were obtained from observations, questionnaires, interviews, and documentation. Sources of data in this study are lecturers of the Department of Islamic Religious Education and several students. Researchers performed qualitative data analysis by means of data reduction, categorization, and data verification, so that it can be concluded from the data obtained. Based on the results and discussion, it can be concluded that the work situation and individual achievement motivation affect the work performance of the lecturers of the Islamic Education Department, Tarbiyah and Teacher Training Department, UIN Imam Bonjol Padang. The learning approaches used are expository, inquiry, emotional, PAKEM approach and andragogy. The learning method applied is multi-method in the form of active learning. The media used are lecturers of Islamic Religious Education, both printed media in the form of discussion papers and electronic media.
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Jankovic, Ivana. "Vladan Radovanovic's "syntheѕic art"." Muzikologija, no. 3 (2003): 141–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/muz0303141j.
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In the course of his artistic career, which has lasted for more than fifty years now, Vladan Radovanovic (b. Belgrade, 1932) has created works in the domains of electroacoustic music, mixed electronics, metamusic, visual arts artifugal projects, tactile art, literature, drawings of dreams, polymedial and vocovisual projects, as well as art theory. Central to his poetics is the theme of synthesic art. Based on a synthesis of the arts and a fusion of media, the flow of his opus disturbs the limitations of art. His synthesis of media-lines is neither a product of rational decision, nor is it inspired by the works of other artists. Its initial form appears in the mind of the artist as a sensation or a representation that emerges from sleep and dream or from his exploration of the mysteries of his inner being. In an attempt to create a classification of the arts that would suit his understanding of the nature of art, Radovanovic has suggested a basic division into single-media and multi-media arts. Single-media arts include music, poetry and painting, whereas the remaining arts belong to the multi-media group. The latter contains works created by an expansion of mixed forms such as theatre, opera and ballet, but in which the media involved accomplish greater integrity - mixedmedia (for example: happening, fluxus etc) multimedia (opera, film, environment) and intermedia (a term which possesses two meanings: a new media that is in-between media, or a new media in which all the elements are equal and integrated). Radovanovic prefers the second meaning, but he uses the term polymedia for such works. This term is analogous to polyphony, because Radovanovic has aimed to create a polymedia form in which separate media lines would be treated in counterpoint, in order to remain complementary and mutually dependant. In 1957, Radovanovic began to sketch his theoretical thesis, initiated by his concrete artistic output. Although he had distinguished his diverse artistic output according to formal and designative characteristics, later he subordinated his work to the term synthesis art. Synthesic art is, according to Radovanovic, one of the models of multi-medial arts. We have analyzed the works of Vladan Radovanovic, which do indeed belong to the category of synthesic art, on many levels. First of all we tried to locate his opus in the context of Serbian and European art. Radovanovic's avant-garde poetics was born in the context of Serbian art in the second half of the 20th century, which was dominated by 'moderate modernism'. His works did not fit into the existing world of art, and therefore were marginalized and underestimated. Despite his innovative spirit, hunger for novelty, and aim to transcend the materiality of materials, which are all characteristics of high-modern avant-garde poetics, Radovanovic claims autonomy. His latest works do not fit into the current world of art either, because he does not want to place his poetics in the domain of contemporary post-modern poetics and theories. His intentional evasion of fashionable currents is a product of his conscience, which asks that he remain faithful to himself and his inner artistic vision. Another theoretical challenge when addressing the works of this artist was to locate his synthesic art within the larger historical and contemporary manifestations of the total world of art, especially where his works compare with Richard Wagner's Gesamtkunstwerk. Radovanovic believes that his concept of synthesic art is similar to Gesamtkunstwerk, but in no way equal. Therefore, we have examined all the controversies about the usage of the term Gesamtkunstwerk, as well as different theoretical approaches to this concept and its evolution; then, we have analyzed it in terms of the theoretical and practical realization of synthesic art. By formulating in detail his theory of synthesic art, Radovanovic has given us a key for the understanding and analysis of his works of art. For example, we have analyzed several of his earlier multi-media works (Dreams, vocovisual works Desert (Pustolina), Polyaedar, Ball, Change and Vocovisual omages, and polymedia projects Electrovideoaudio, Building of Rooms-Signs, The Great Sounding Tactyzone, Polim 2, Polim 3, video-work Variations for TV) as well as one of his latest synthesic works, Constellations, in order to describe the practical realization of his theory, and to demonstrate how his poetic model is equally precise and flexible. Radovanovic both realizes and recognizes his artistic output and theoretical thought as a united product as they were both created in his synthesic mind.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Multi-media thesis"
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Olson, William Mathew. "Effectiveness and cost benefit review of multi-media training." Menomonie, WI : University of Wisconsin--Stout, 2005. http://www.uwstout.edu/lib/thesis/2005/2005olsonw.pdf.
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Smith, Hollie M. "Organizations, media & power in a multi-stakeholder conflict the Colorado roadless rule /." Pullman, Wash. : Washington State University, 2010. http://www.dissertations.wsu.edu/Thesis/Spring2010/h_smith_033010.pdf.
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Thesis (M.A. in communication)--Washington State University, May 2010.Title from PDF title page (viewed on May 14, 2010). "Edward R. Murrow College of Communication." Includes bibliographical references (p. 68-74).
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Potgieter, Paul Stephanus. "South African unit standards for sight-singing, realised in a multi-media study package." Pretoria : [s.n.], 2003. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-09292004-070324.
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Lay, Ruth Ann. "The Memory and the Legacy: The Whittlin' Whistlin' Brigade -- The Young Company 1974-2001." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2002. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/2838.
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The Memory and The Legacy: The Whittlin' Whistlin' Brigade - The Young Company 1974-2001, is a history of the children's theatre of Brigham Young University. The Whittlin' Whistlin' Brigade - The Young Company acts as a training ground for graduate students working in theatre for young audiences. Then directing a production for The Whittlin' Whistlin' Brigade - The Young Company, students are instructed to perform all functions required of a professional company. As the The Whittlin' Whistlin' Brigade - The Young Company (WWB-TYC) spends much of its performance time on tour, those responsibilities are relegated to the students. Developed and headed by Dr. Harold R. Oaks of Brigham Young University, WWB-TYC produced children's theatre for local, regional, national and international audiences. The history includes production photos, budgets and business plans. A survey of former company members was conducted assessing the long-term affect on participants in relationship to their personal and professional life. This thesis is also in electronic form using animation, musical and narrative audio, an interactive menu and a photo-gallery. Text is available in HTML and PDF format with 'print' capability. A tutorial is included to aid in possible navigational concerns. Working within an electronic medium has facilitated the accessibility of a considerable collection of material highly diverse in nature. Twenty-seven years of production notes, performance programs, production photos, music, scripts, budgets, permissions, required licensing, travel arrangements and itineraries, performance schedules, educational/clientele data and historical developmental notes of the children's theater program itself presented not only volumes of material but also brought specific inclusion needs. In addition, the results of a program survey of the program will be presented in graph and chart format. Determined needs include: 1. A history of children's theater both nationally and at Brigham Young University. 2. Supporting documentation of program development and implementation. 3. Survey results of WWB-TYC participants.
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Kowalczuk, Jacques. "On the design and implementation of algorithms for multi-media systems /." [S.l.] : [s.n.], 1994. http://library.epfl.ch/theses/?nr=1188.
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Zurich, Mark A. "A life-cycle analysis of a multi-media teleconferencing network." Master's thesis, This resource online, 1991. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-02162010-020144/.
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Schoolcraft, Ashley Nicole. "DREAMING REALITY." OpenSIUC, 2019. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/2628.
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My work has always been about subjects I am very passionate about and I use them in a way to relate to others by creating a message. For my thesis, I delve deeper into my own life experience to create a piece more personal to me yet relatable to all. I am using creative storytelling and symbolism to create a narrative using not only the lens of a camera but also 3-D animation. “Dreaming Reality” is a statement of female empowerment and independence. Through this story, I hope to bring to light that young women can overcome their insecurities and become independent, driven, successful, and confident. Through the use of the dream process to overview life experiences, all audience members, not only women, can enjoy and connect with the story, as well as feel empowered to create their own life story through their creative lens.
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Sylaidis, Peter. "Multi media applications in medical education : evaluation of an interactive CD-ROM on practical skin wound management for medical undergraduate learning /." Title page, contents and summary only, 1999. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09MS/09mss984.pdf.
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Soria, Luz Rosalia. "Portfolio of original compositions." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2016. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/portfolio-of-original-compositions(721ea6ce-c0bc-4bd3-aa2d-1d0cecbb684e).html.
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This portfolio of compositions investigates the adaptation of state-space models, frequently used in engineering control theory, to the electroacoustic composition context. These models are mathematical descriptions of physical systems that provide several variables representing the system’s behaviours. The composer adapts a set of state-space models of either abstract, mechanical or electrical systems to a music creation environment. She uses them in eight compositions: five mixed media multi-channel pieces and three mixed media pieces. In the portfolio, the composer investigates multiple ways of meaningfully mapping these system’s behaviours into music parameters. This is done either by exploring and creating timbre in synthetic sound, or by transforming existing sounds. The research also involves the process of incorporating state-space models as a real-time software tool using Max and SuperCollider. As real-time models offer several variables of continuous evolutions, the composer mapped them to different dimensions of sound simultaneously. The composer represented the model’s evolutions with either short/interrupted, long or indefinitely evolving sounds. The evolution implies changes in timbre, length and dynamic range. The composer creates gestures, textures and spaces based on the model’s behaviours. The composer explores how the model’s nature influences the musical language and the integration of these with other music sources such as recordings or musical instruments. As the models represent physical processes, the composer observes that the resulting sounds evolve in organic ways. Moreover, the composer not only sonifies the real-time models, but actually excites them to cause changes. The composer develops a compositional methodology which involves interacting with the models while observing/designing changes in sound. In that sense, the composer regards real-time state-space models as her own instruments to create music. The models are regarded as additional forces and as sound transforming agents in mixed media pieces. In fixed media pieces, the composer additionally exploits their linearity to create space through sound de-correlation.
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Pack, Derik Leroi. "Rethinking the web structure focusing on events to create better information and experience management /." Thesis, Available online, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2004:, 2004. http://etd.gatech.edu/theses/available/etd-07092004-011223/unrestricted/pack%5Fderik%5Fl%5F200407%5Fmasters.pdf.
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Thesis (M.S.)--School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2005. Directed by Jain Ramesh.Ramesh Jain, Committee Chair ; Linda Wills, Committee Member ; Jim McClellan@ece.gatech.edu, Committee Member. Vita. Includes bibliographical references.
Books on the topic "Multi-media thesis"
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Spencer-Hall, Alicia. Medieval Saints and Modern Screens. NL Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789462982277.
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This ground-breaking book brings theoretical perspectives from twenty-first century media, film, and cultural studies to medieval hagiography. Medieval Saints and Modern Screens stakes the claim for a provocative new methodological intervention: consideration of hagiography as media. More precisely, hagiography is most productively understood as cinematic media. Medieval mystical episodes are made intelligible to modern audiences through reference to the filmic - the language, form, and lived experience of cinema. Similarly, reference to the realm of the mystical affords a means to express the disconcerting physical and emotional effects of watching cinema. Moreover, cinematic spectatorship affords, at times, a (more or less) secular experience of visionary transcendence: an 'agape-ic encounter'. The medieval saint's visions of God are but one pole of a spectrum of visual experience which extends into our present multi-media moment. We too conjure godly visions: on our smartphones, on the silver screen, and on our TVs and laptops. This book places contemporary pop-culture media - such as blockbuster movie The Dark Knight, Kim Kardashian West's social media feeds, and the outputs of online role-players in Second Life - in dialogue with a corpus of thirteenth-century Latin biographies, 'Holy Women of Liège'. In these texts, holy women see God, and see God often. Their experiences fundamentally orient their life, and offer the women new routes to knowledge, agency, and belonging. For the holy visionaries of Liège, as with us modern 'seers', visions are physically intimate, ideologically overloaded spaces. Through theoretically informed close readings, Medieval Saints and Modern Screens reveals the interconnection of decidedly 'old' media - medieval textualities - and artefacts of our 'new media' ecology, which all serve as spaces in which altogether human concerns are brought before the contemporary culture's eyes.
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Baker-Bates, Piers, and Irene Brooke, eds. Portrait Cultures of the Early Modern Cardinal. NL Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789463725514.
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The visual legacy of early modern cardinals constitutes a vast and extremely rich body of artworks, many of superb quality, in a variety of media, often by well-known artists and skilled craftsmen. Yet cardinal portraits have primarily been analyzed within biographical studies of the represented individual, in relation to the artists who created them, or within the broader genre of portraiture. Portrait Cultures of the Early Modern Cardinal addresses questions surrounding the production, collection, and status of the cardinal portrait, covering diverse geographies and varied media. Examining the development of cardinals' imagery in terms of their multi-layered identities, this volume considers portraits of 'princes of the Church' as a specific cultural phenomenon reflecting cardinals' unique social and political position.
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Halsema, Annemie, Katja Kwastek, and Roel Oever, eds. Bodies That Still Matter. NL Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789463722940.
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Since the appearance of her early-career bestseller Gender Trouble in 1990, American philosopher Judith Butler is one of the most influential thinkers in academia. Her work addresses numerous socially pertinent topics such as gender normativity, political speech, media representations of war, the democratic power of assembling bodies, and the force of nonviolence. The volume Bodies That Still Matter: Resonances of the Work of Judith Butler brings together essays from scholars across academic disciplines who apply, reflect on, and further Butler’s ideas in their own research. It includes a new essay by Butler herself, from which it takes its title. Organized around four key themes in Butler’s scholarship – performativity, speech, precarity, and assembly – the volume offers an excellent introduction to the contemporary relevance of Butler’s thinking, a multi-perspectival approach to key topics of contemporary critical theory, and a testimony to the vibrant interdisciplinary discourses characterizing much of today’s humanities research.
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Barham, Jeremy. Mahler and the Game of History. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199316090.003.0017.
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For obvious reasons, the understanding and writing of music history have favoured a linear model founded in causality and chronology. Like many disciplines, however, historiographical studies have been subjected to critiques of various theoretical and imaginative types, particularly, but not exclusively, in recent times. These critiques are outlined here, and three historiographical models critically applied to the understanding of Mahler’s music: historicism, historical materialism (after Walter Benjamin), and a more radical rhizomatic model (after Deleuze). Posited, put into operation and questioned, these models cast multi-perspectival and multi-temporal light on how Mahler’s music continues to participate in contexts of contemporary mass-media and public consciousness.
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Vásquez, Manuel A., and David Garbin. Globalization. Edited by Michael Stausberg and Steven Engler. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198729570.013.46.
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This chapter explores the key factors involved in the interaction between religion and globalization. It highlights the roles played by transnational networks, fields, and regimes, as well as migrant and religious diasporas, mass culture, and electronic media in the global circulation and appropriation of religious practices, beliefs, symbols, artifacts, and identities. Using the examples of religious networks associated with Islam, Hinduism, and Christianities, the chapter also argues that while the economic dimensions of religion in a context of globalization are central, the dynamics of global religious fields cannot be reduced to those of the world capitalist system. Religious flows and networks are multi-directional. There is thus a need to develop interdisciplinary and multi-sited approaches to these flows and networks, examining the ways in which they challenge fixed center–periphery models and produce alternative power/geometries shaping religious identities, cultures, and embodied as well as spatialized ontologies.
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Pribram, E. Deidre. Circulating Emotion. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252036613.003.0003.
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Crash (Paul Haggis, 2005) follows a range of diverse but intersecting characters who, in their entirety, are meant to represent a social landscape: modern American urban existence. Through an ensemble cast and a multi-story structure, the film depicts a circuitous society in which one part affects other parts that, in turn, affect all parts. This chapter takes up the complex, multi-discursive world depicted in Crash in order to explore the place—or absence—of emotion in genre studies. Looking specifically at the moments of collision between characters in which the issues of race and gender are inseparable, it considers how anger specifically, and perhaps emotion in general, can be understood to ignite and fuel complex social relations. Such an analysis tells us about the ways in which emotions as cultural phenomena are understood or, equally, overlooked in media and other social representations.
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Murphy, Patrick D. Battle of the Blogosphere. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252041037.003.0005.
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This chapter examines how the multinational agricultural biotechnology corporation Monsanto has attempted to re-brand itself from a chemical company to a food company through the elaboration of a highly interlaced, multi-platform on-line media strategy. This image enhancement operation is a response to its many critics—from citizen-based groups in India and Mexico to prominent food security activists like Michael Pollan and Vandana Shiva. At the center of analysis is how Monsanto has used the trope of “sustainability” to craft a proactive profile that is responsive to the challenges that the planet is facing. Foregrounding the issue of environmental agency, the chapter provides an assessment of what kinds of environmental discourses the company privileges through its media operations, and how these have been produced as a means to combat those who have challenged Monsanto’s vision of food production and “responsible” environmental stewardship.
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Nixdorff, Uwe, Stephan Achenbach, Frank Bengel, Pompillio Faggiano, Sara Fernández, Christian Heiss, Thomas Mengden, et al. Imaging in cardiovascular prevention. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199656653.003.0006.
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Imaging tools in preventive cardiology can be divided into imaging modalities to assess pre-clinical and clinical atherosclerosis and functional assessments of vascular function or vascular inflammation. To calculate the likelihood of pre-clinical atherosclerosis intima-media thickness as well as coronary calcium scoring are most frequently used. However, beyond these two there are other parameters derived by ultrasound and multi-detector computed tomography as well as magnetic resonance imaging and nuclear/molecular imaging which are discussed in the chapter. Functional tests include flow-mediated dilatation, pulse wave analysis, and the ankle-brachial index. In clinical research other invasive measurements such as intravascular ultrasound/virtual histology/elastography, optical coherence tomography as well as thermography are being used. However, their value in clinical prevention still needs to be established.
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Stirr, Anna Marie. Singing Across Divides. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190631970.001.0001.
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An ethnographic study of music, performance, migration, and circulation, this book examines how forms of love and intimacy are linked to changing conceptions of political solidarity and forms of belonging, through the lens of Nepali dohori song. The book describes dohori: improvised, dialogic performed poetry that is sung, in which a witty repartee of exchanges is based on poetic couplets with a fixed rhyme scheme, often backed by instrumental music and accompanying dance, performed between men and women, with a primary focus on romantic love. The book tells the story of dohori’s relationship with changing ideas of Nepal as a nation-state, and how different concepts of national unity have incorporated marginality, in the intersectional arenas of caste, indigeneity, class, gender, and regional identity. In the aftermath of Nepal’s ten-year civil war, changing political realities, increased migration, and circulation of people, media, and practices are redefining concepts of appropriate intimate relationships and their associated systems of exchange. Through multi-sited ethnography of performances, media production, circulation, reception, and the daily lives of performers and fans in Nepal and the United Kingdom, this book examines how people use dohori to challenge (and uphold) social categories, while also creating affective solidarities.
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Rai, Shirin M., and Carole Spary. Performing Representation. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199489053.001.0001.
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Breaking new ground in scholarship on gender and politics, Performing Representation is the first comprehensive analysis of women in the Indian Parliament. It explores the possibilities and limits of parliamentary democracy and the participation of women in its institutional performances. Performing Representation offers a new, multi-method analysis of the gendered nature of India’s Parliament. Through an examination of electoral data, media reports, and life stories of women MPs it sheds light on the performance, aesthetics, and norms of parliamentary life. It explores how the gendered axis of power underpins the performance of Parliament and its members as well as the political economy in which they are embedded. The book makes a strong case for taking parliamentary politics seriously in these times of populism, without either a utopian framing of women MPs as challengers of masculinized institutional politics or seeing them simply as docile actors in a gendered institution. Performing Representation raises critical questions about the politics of difference, claim-making, representation, and intersectionality. It addresses these questions as part of global feminist debates on the importance of women’s representation in political institutions.
Book chapters on the topic "Multi-media thesis"
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Sheikh, Maham Mobin, and Rauf Ahmed Shams Malick. "Community Detection in a Multi-layer Network Over Social Media." In Complex Networks & Their Applications IX, 124–36. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-65347-7_11.
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Ye, Xinyue, Bo Zhao, Thien Huu Nguyen, and Shaohua Wang. "Social Media and Social Awareness." In Manual of Digital Earth, 425–40. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-32-9915-3_12.
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Abstract The human behaviors and interactions on social media have maintained themselves as highly dynamic real-time social systems representing individual social awareness at fine spatial, temporal, and digital resolutions. In this chapter, we introduce the opportunities and challenges that human dynamics-centered social media bring to Digital Earth. We review the information diffusion of social media, the multi-faced implications of social media, and some real-world cases. Social media, on one hand, has facilitated the prediction of human dynamics in a wide spectrum of aspects, including public health, emergency response, decision making, and social equity promotion, and will also bring unintended challenges for Digital Earth, such as rumors and location spoofing on the other. Considering the multifaceted implications, this chapter calls for GIScientists to raise their awareness of the complex impacts of social media, to model the geographies of social media, and to understand ourselves as a unique species living both on the Earth and in Digital Earth.
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Jarke, Juliane. "Co-Creation in Practice II: Co-creating a Digital Walking Guide (Bremen Hemelingen)." In Public Administration and Information Technology, 117–65. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-52873-7_6.
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Abstract This chapter reports on a co-creation project that was conducted in the city district Bremen Hemelingen. A core group of seven local service providers steered the process in which 46 older residents participated. One of the tasks of social care service providers is to organise outdoor activities for older residents (also to facilitate social participation). To support their work, this co-creation project resulted in a digital walking guide that provides multi-media information on walks in different parts of the district. The walks were defined and organised by social care service providers as well as individual older residents. Older participants defined relevant information needs. A core group of five older residents defined design requirements and created content for the digital walking guide. The chapter describes different kinds of co-creation walking methods such as ideation walks, data walks and user test walks. It concludes with lessons learned.
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Joseph, Batieno Benoit, Poda Saadon Leandre, Barry Silamana, Compaore Evelyne, Zongo Hamadou, Sidibe Hamadou, Gnankambary Karidiatou, Sanou Ouedraogo Adelaide, and Neya B. James. "Cowpea Innovation Platform Interventions and Achievements in TL III Project in Burkina Faso." In Enhancing Smallholder Farmers' Access to Seed of Improved Legume Varieties Through Multi-stakeholder Platforms, 157–70. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-8014-7_11.
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AbstractIn June 2015, four multi-stakeholder platforms (Sanguie, Zondoma, Soum, and Association Yiye) were established in different regions of Burkina Faso to promote agricultural activities. By 2018, more than 200 farmers had already been trained on different aspects of the cowpea value chain including grain production, storage, and food processing skills. The platforms played a key role in the dissemination of new cowpea varieties through demonstrations, field days, the mass media, and social media. About 160 demonstrations were established by the members of the platforms every year from 2015 to 2018. Each platform was supported to produce 10 ha of certified seeds making a total of 40 ha each year and 160 ha during the four-year period. Due to the demand for foundation seeds that was increasing year after year in Burkina Faso and the inability of INERA to produce enough seeds, the most successful platform members were contracted by the INERA Seed Unit to produce foundation seeds in order to meet the high demand in the country for certified seed production. Although there are no official statistics about certified seeds produced in Burkina Faso in terms of demand, recent happenings have shown their increased production. For instance, in 2018 about 1000 tons of certified seeds were produced compared to previous years which had less than 700 tons.
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Gao, Song, Yu Liu, Yuhao Kang, and Fan Zhang. "User-Generated Content: A Promising Data Source for Urban Informatics." In Urban Informatics, 503–22. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-8983-6_28.
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AbstractThis chapter summarizes different types of user-generated content (UGC) in urban informatics and then gives a systematic review of their data sources, methodologies, and applications. Case studies in three genres are interpreted to demonstrate the effectiveness of UGC. First, we use geotagged social media data, a type of single-sourced UGC, to extract citizen demographics, mobility patterns, and place semantics associated with various urban functional regions. Second, we bridge UGC and professional-generated content (PGC), in order to take advantage of both sides. The third application links multi-sourced UGC to uncover urban spatial structures and human dynamics. We suggest that UGC data contain rich information in diverse aspects. In addition, analysis of sentiment from geotagged texts and photos, along with the state-of-the-art artificial intelligence methods, is discussed to help understand the linkage between human emotions and surrounding environments. Drawing on the analyses, we summarize a number of future research areas that call for attention in urban informatics.
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Iorlamen, Teryima, Lucky O. Omoigui, Alpha Y. Kamara, Umar Garba, Nater Iyorkaa, Temitope Ademulegun, and Reuben Solomon. "Developing Sustainable Cowpea Seed Systems for Smallholder Farmers through Innovation Platforms in Nigeria: Experience of TL III Project." In Enhancing Smallholder Farmers' Access to Seed of Improved Legume Varieties Through Multi-stakeholder Platforms, 125–42. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-8014-7_9.
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AbstractLimited access to and low use of quality seed of improved varieties rank among the topmost causes of persistently low cowpea yields in Nigeria. This paper presents experiences under the Tropical Legume III (TL III) project in facilitating the access of smallholder farmers to seeds of improved cowpea varieties through the establishment of innovation platforms (IPs) that were introduced in 2015 as part of the activities of the TL III project. There was rapid adoption and use of newly released varieties by farmers as a result of increased awareness of improved varieties through multi-media and user-friendly communication strategies and tools. During the four years of the project (2015–2018), a total of seven multi-stakeholder platforms (MSPs), which comprised six seed companies, 46 farmer groups, five public seed enterprises, two NGOs, and 718 individual seed entrepreneurs and other stakeholders, were established/strengthened to link actors in the cowpea value chain. Community-based seed producers were linked to seed companies while seed companies were linked to research institutions to access early generation seed (EGS). These activities led to the production of over 532 tons of basic seed and 8366 tons of certified/QDS seed of improved cowpea varieties that were entrenched in the seed system. Yield also increased almost twofold from 500 to 900 kg/ha on farmers’ field. Women and youth incomes increased as a result of seed entrepreneurship activities. The small packs approach was an efficient and cost-effective means of reaching more farmers with affordable quantities of seed and a wide range of preferred varieties.
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Mandelli, Elisa. "The Multi-media Museum: The 1960s–70s." In The Museum as a Cinematic Space, 61–70. Edinburgh University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474416795.003.0005.
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This chapter discusses the spreading of film projections and other multi-media and interactive devices in museum galleries in the 1960s–70s, due to the advent of video and technological innovations that rendered these machines more easily available, as well as to the growing importance accorded to the visual design of exhibitions. The chapter also focuses on the curatorial debate about several key issues. It addresses the relationships between museums and their visitors, and the role of multi-media in shaping their interactions. The chapter analyses a seminar held in 1967 by Marshal McLuhan and Harley Parker. In this meeting with museum professionals, the famous communication theorist discussed emerging trends in the communication strategies of museums, which included the role of audio-visual and multi-media devices.
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Azad, Mahnaz. "Dynamic Assessment and Multi-Media Language Instruction." In Computer-Assisted Language Learning, 360–81. IGI Global, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-7663-1.ch017.
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ABSTRACT Dynamic Assessment (DA) illustrates classroom interactions in which teaching and assessment must be integrated as a single activity seeking to identify learner abilities by actively supporting their ongoing developmental process. DA is based on the Vygotskian notion of the Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD) which captures the uniquely human potential to exceed our present capabilities by working in cooperation with others. Moreover, with prevalence of multimedia language learning materials in foreign/ second language classrooms, their design is an important avenue of research in computer assisted language learning. This chapter will present an in-depth analysis of DA's application to particular problems of L2 development. It includes detailed discussions of the core DA theoretical tenets as well as implementing multi-media based DA principles in L2 classrooms. The information can be beneficial for language teacher educators, language testers, students and researchers in the areas of SLA, language pedagogy, and assessment.
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Azad, Mahnaz. "Dynamic Assessment and Multi-Media Language Instruction." In Multiculturalism and Technology-Enhanced Language Learning, 230–51. IGI Global, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-1882-2.ch014.
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ABSTRACT Dynamic Assessment (DA) illustrates classroom interactions in which teaching and assessment must be integrated as a single activity seeking to identify learner abilities by actively supporting their ongoing developmental process. DA is based on the Vygotskian notion of the Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD) which captures the uniquely human potential to exceed our present capabilities by working in cooperation with others. Moreover, with prevalence of multimedia language learning materials in foreign/ second language classrooms, their design is an important avenue of research in computer assisted language learning. This chapter will present an in-depth analysis of DA's application to particular problems of L2 development. It includes detailed discussions of the core DA theoretical tenets as well as implementing multi-media based DA principles in L2 classrooms. The information can be beneficial for language teacher educators, language testers, students and researchers in the areas of SLA, language pedagogy, and assessment.
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Ma, Aiyesha, Ishwar K. Sethi, and Nilesh Patel. "Multi-Label Classification Method for Multimedia Tagging." In Methods and Innovations for Multimedia Database Content Management, 43–60. IGI Global, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-1791-9.ch004.
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Community tagging offers valuable information for media search and retrieval, but new media items are at a disadvantage. Automated tagging may populate media items with few tags, thus enabling their inclusion into search results. In this paper, a multi-label decision tree is proposed and applied to the problem of automated tagging of media data. In addition to binary labels, the proposed Iterative Split Multi-label Decision Tree (IS-MLT) is easily extended to the problem of weighted labels (such as those depicted by tag clouds). Several datasets of differing media types show the effectiveness of the proposed method relative to other multi-label and single label classifier methods and demonstrate its scalability relative to single label approaches.
Conference papers on the topic "Multi-media thesis"
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Qi, Jinwei, Yuxin Peng, and Yuxin Yuan. "Cross-media Multi-level Alignment with Relation Attention Network." In Twenty-Seventh International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence {IJCAI-18}. California: International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence Organization, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2018/124.
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With the rapid growth of multimedia data, such as image and text, it is a highly challenging problem to effectively correlate and retrieve the data of different media types. Naturally, when correlating an image with textual description, people focus on not only the alignment between discriminative image regions and key words, but also the relations lying in the visual and textual context. Relation understanding is essential for cross-media correlation learning, which is ignored by prior cross-media retrieval works. To address the above issue, we propose Cross-media Relation Attention Network (CRAN) with multi-level alignment. First, we propose visual-language relation attention model to explore both fine-grained patches and their relations of different media types. We aim to not only exploit cross-media fine-grained local information, but also capture the intrinsic relation information, which can provide complementary hints for correlation learning. Second, we propose cross-media multi-level alignment to explore global, local and relation alignments across different media types, which can mutually boost to learn more precise cross-media correlation. We conduct experiments on 2 cross-media datasets, and compare with 10 state-of-the-art methods to verify the effectiveness of proposed approach.
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Khalil, Samar Samir, Sherin M. Youssef, and Sherine Nagy Saleh. "A Multi-Layer Capsule-based Forensics Model for Fake Detection of Digital Visual Media." In 2020 International Conference on Communications, Signal Processing, and their Applications (ICCSPA). IEEE, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/iccspa49915.2021.9385719.
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Billon, F., F. Taborda, and J.-O. Lesage. "Unique Fracture Behaviour of Multi-Perforated Media." In ASME 2012 Pressure Vessels and Piping Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/pvp2012-78532.
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Concerning the risk of fast fracture, multi-perforated tubesheets have a unique behavior. For the fracture analysis, it is assumed that a small ligament is fully cracked from the skin and that failure leads into the two holes on either side of this ligament in a square pitch. This approach is referred to as a “Broken Ligament Approach”, which can be analyzed using four main steps: (a) Calculation of the elementary stresses in all the tubesheet using a global 3D Finite Element model, (b) Conversion of the elementary stresses in membrane stresses and bending stresses along the thickness of the tubesheet at the location of the assumed broken ligament, (c) Creation of a Representative Local Volume (RLV) containing the broken ligament to which boundary loads are applied to obtain the stresses defined in the global model, (d) Calculation of the Stress Intensity Factor (SIF) along the crack front of the broken ligament with different depth of the crack. The result is that the SIF passes through a maximum value as the depth of the broken ligament increases through the thickness of the tubesheet. It is thus possible to find an absolute maximum value of the SIF (called SIFam) over the tubesheet for its most severe loadings. Under these conditions, if the toughness of the tubesheet material is greater than SIFam, there is no risk of a fast fracture of the tubesheet. The existence of SIFam is a strong characteristic of the fracture behavior of multi-perforated media.
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DiCarlo, David A. "Non-Monotonic Saturation and Pressure Profiles as a Testing Ground for Dynamic Multi-Phase Flow Models." In ASME 2008 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. ASMEDC, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/imece2008-67753.
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There has been great recent interest in dynamic models of multi-phase flow. This is for two reasons: one, theoretical arguments suggest that the traditional multi-phase flow equations are not complete; two, various experimental measurements are unable to be described by the traditional models. In this talk, we discuss the observation that constant flux infiltrations into sands produce non-monotonic saturation and pressure profiles. We show how this non-monotonic behavior is the strongest evidence of dynamic effects in porous media, as other reported experimental evidence can be the result of varying measuring volumes, and/or media heterogeneities. Thus the extensive data set obtained for these non-monotonic provides the best testing ground for the various proposed dynamic extensions.
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Jia, Jia. "Mental Health Computing via Harvesting Social Media Data." In Twenty-Seventh International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence {IJCAI-18}. California: International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence Organization, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2018/808.
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Mental health has become a general concern of people nowadays. It is of vital importance to detect and manage mental health issues before they turn into severe problems. Traditional psychological interventions are reliable, but expensive and hysteretic. With the rapid development of social media, people are increasingly sharing their daily lives and interacting with friends online. Via harvesting social media data, we comprehensively study the detection of mental wellness, with two typical mental problems, stress and depression, as specific examples. Initializing with binary user-level detection, we expand our research towards multiple contexts, by considering the trigger and level of mental health problems, and involving different social media platforms of different cultures. We construct several benchmark real-world datasets for analysis and propose a series of multi-modal detection models, whose effectiveness are verified by extensive experiments. We also make in-depth analysis to reveal the underlying online behaviors regarding these mental health issues.
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Zhao, Zhou, Lingtao Meng, Jun Xiao, Min Yang, Fei Wu, Deng Cai, Xiaofei He, and Yueting Zhuang. "Attentional Image Retweet Modeling via Multi-Faceted Ranking Network Learning." In Twenty-Seventh International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence {IJCAI-18}. California: International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence Organization, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2018/442.
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Retweet prediction is a challenging problem in social media sites (SMS). In this paper, we study the problem of image retweet prediction in social media, which predicts the image sharing behavior that the user reposts the image tweets from their followees. Unlike previous studies, we learn user preference ranking model from their past retweeted image tweets in SMS. We first propose heterogeneous image retweet modeling network (IRM) that exploits users' past retweeted image tweets with associated contexts, their following relations in SMS and preference of their followees. We then develop a novel attentional multi-faceted ranking network learning framework with multi-modal neural networks for the proposed heterogenous IRM network to learn the joint image tweet representations and user preference representations for prediction task. The extensive experiments on a large-scale dataset from Twitter site shows that our method achieves better performance than other state-of-the-art solutions to the problem.
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Pal, Gopalendu, Anquan Wang, and Michael F. Modest. "A k-Distribution-Based Spectral Module for Radiation Calculations in Multi-Phase Mixtures." In ASME 2009 Heat Transfer Summer Conference collocated with the InterPACK09 and 3rd Energy Sustainability Conferences. ASMEDC, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/ht2009-88245.
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k-distribution-based approaches are promising models for radiation calculations in strongly nongray participating media. Advanced k-distribution methods were found to achieve close-to benchmark line-by-line (LBL) accuracy for strongly inhomogeneous multi-phase media accompanied by several orders of magnitude smaller computational cost. In this paper, a k-distribution-based portable spectral module is developed, incorporating several state-of-the-art k-distribution methods along with compact and high-accuracy databases of k-distributions. The module construction is flexible — the user can choose among various k-distribution methods with their relevant k-distribution databases, to carry out accurate radiation calculations. The spectral module is portable, such that it can be coupled to any flow solver code with its own grid structure, discretization scheme, and solver libraries. This open source code module is made available for free for all noncommercial purposes. This article outlines in detail the design and the use of the spectral module. The k-distribution methods included in the module are briefly described with a discussion of their advantages, disadvantages and their domain of applicability. Examples are provided for various sample radiation calculations in multi-phase mixtures using the new spectral module and the results are compared with LBL calculations.
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Pal, Gopalendu, and Michael F. Modest. "A New Hybrid Full-Spectrum Correlated k-Distribution Method for Radiative Transfer Calculations in Nonhomogeneous Gas Mixtures." In ASME/JSME 2007 Thermal Engineering Heat Transfer Summer Conference collocated with the ASME 2007 InterPACK Conference. ASMEDC, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/ht2007-32673.
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The full-spectrum k-distribution (FSK) approach is a promising model for radiative transfer calculations in participating media. FSK achieves line-by-line (LBL) accuracy for homogeneous media at a tiny fraction of LBL’s high computational cost. However, inhomogeneities in gas temperature, total pressure and component-gas mole fractions change the spectral distribution of the absorption coefficient and can cause inaccuracies in the FSK method. In this paper, a new hybrid FSK method is proposed that combines the advantages of the multi-group FSK (MGFSK) method for temperature inhomogeneities in a single gas specie and the multi-scale FSK (MSFSK) method for concentration inhomogeneities in gas mixtures. In this new hybrid method the absorption coefficients of each gas specie in the mixture are divided into M spectral groups depending on their temperature dependence. New and accurate MGFSK databases are constructed for combustion gases, such as CO2 and H2O. This paper includes a brief mathematical development of the new method, method of database construction and sample heat transfer calculations for 1-D inhomogeneous gas mixtures with step changes in temperature and species mole-fractions. Performance and accuracy are compared to LBL and traditional FSK calculations. The new method achieves high accuracy in radiative heat transfer calculations in participating media containing extreme inhomogeneities in both temperature and mole fractions using as few as M = 2 spectral groups for each gas specie, accompanied by several orders of magnitude lower computational expense as compared to LBL solutions.
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Wosczyna-Birch, Karen, Paola Jaramillo, John Birch, and Ronald Adrezin. "Problem Based Learning Initiative in Collaboration With the CT College of Technology’s Center for Life Support and Sustainable Living." In ASME 2008 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. ASMEDC, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/imece2008-66229.
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The Connecticut (CT) College of Technology with funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) has established the Center for Life Support and Sustainable Living. The Center is the result of partnerships with the CT Community Colleges, four-year institutions, local hospitals and industry, and the collaboration with NASA through the CT Space Grant College Consortium. The primary goals of the Center are the following: (1) to provide teams of community colleges and four-year university students opportunities to apply science, engineering and technology knowledge as well as professional skills necessary to be successful in future employment to real-world problems that address life support and sustainable living issues; (2) to strengthen the 2+2+2 pathways between community colleges and four-year institutions; (3) provide professional development opportunities for community college faculty; (4) implement strategies to recruit and retain a diverse population of students interested in STEM disciplines; and (5) develop multi-media curriculum modules using contextual or problem-based-case-based learning (PBCL). The project has instituted interdisciplinary teams of community college and university students who are initiated into the program with intensive instruction and project planning and management, leadership, teamwork, and behavioral diversity using DISC behavioral analysis profiles during an intense three-week period during the winter intersession. In addition to the initial training, student participants must commit to working approximately 250 hours during their school year for which they are working on their respective team-based projects. As part of their hours, they must meet as a full team a minimum of twice each month. Participating students are currently mentored by two and four-year faculty and industry representatives. So far, the research has been conducted during the summer months and the academic year on life support and sustainable living projects for NASA, the U.S. Coast Guard, medical facilities, such as the CT’s Children’s Medical Center, and industry partners such as Hamilton Sundstrand and Kaman Aerospace. As a result of these research projects, the community college and four-year faculty are implementing real-world life support and sustainable living projects and collaboratively are writing multi-media Project-Based-Case Based Learning modules, which incorporate technology and science skill standards. The Problem-Based-Case-Based multi-media modules are being piloted at the CT College of Technology’s community colleges and universities.
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Dahlström, Jessica, Öivind Andersson, Martin Tunér, and Håkan Persson. "Effects of Spray-Swirl Interactions on Heat Losses in a Light Duty Diesel Engine." In ASME 2015 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/imece2015-53606.
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Heat loss is one of the greatest energy losses in engines. More than half of the heat is lost to cooling media and exhaust losses, and they thus dominate the internal combustion engine energy balance. Complex processes affect heat loss to the cylinder walls, including gas motion, spray-wall interaction and turbulence levels. The aim of this work was to study and improve the heat transfer characteristics of conventional diesel combustion. Speed, load, injection pressure, swirl level, EGR rate and air/fuel ratio (λ) were varied in a multi-cylinder engine. Temperature measurements in the engine cooling media were used to set up the engine energy balance and find out how much heat was lost to cooling media in different parts of the engine. Based on these calculations and heat release analysis, conclusions could be drawn regarding how heat losses in different parts of the engine were affected by changes in these parameters. Load was found to be more influential than speed, swirl did not have any effect on heat transfer, and EGR and λ both increased cooling water losses while piston losses were reduced.