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Burgess, Geoffrey. "‘Le théâtre ne change qu'à la troisième scène’: the hand of the author and unity of place in Act V of Hippolyte et Aricie." Cambridge Opera Journal 10, no. 3 (November 1998): 275–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0954586700005437.
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In the original version of the libretto of Hippolyte et Aricie, the librettist Simon-Joseph Pellegrin prefaced Act V with the rubric ‘le théatre ne change qu'à la troisiéme scéne’ [‘the stage changes only at the third scene’]. This is one of the few acts in the entire repertoire of tragédies en musique where the conventional formula ‘le théatre représente …’ [‘the stage represents … ’], followed by a description of what the stage was intended to depict, was not used. The annotation in Hippolyte warned audiences that, instead of the change of scenery that would normally occur during the entr'acte, the first two scenes of Act V retained the setting of Act IV (‘a wood by the sea, consecrated to Diana’), and the new décor (‘a delightful garden comprising the avenues of the Forest of Aricie’) was revealed only in the third scene. The sense of discontinuity at this ‘internal’ scenery change was also heightened by a break of liaison de presence (that is, none of the actors in scene 2 remained on stage for scene 3). A dispute arose over this breach of convention, and resulted in the first two scenes being omitted from performances sometime during the opera's first season in 1733, ostensibly to avoid the breach of unity of place caused by the change of scenery. This was not the only revision made to the opera in that season, but it was arguably the most significant.
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ARNOUX, P., and A. M. FISHER. "THE SCENERY FLOW FOR GEOMETRIC STRUCTURES ON THE TORUS: THE LINEAR SETTING." Chinese Annals of Mathematics 22, no. 04 (October 2001): 427–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s0252959901000425.
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Mosler, Saruhan. "Presenting Past Landscapes: An Approach to Visual Landscape Integrity as a Tool for Archeological Heritage Management." International Journal of Cultural Property 16, no. 1 (February 2009): 25–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0940739109090055.
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Archaeological sites are composed of unique, complex landscape settings including architectural remains, visually and spatially interrelated spaces, and ecologies with topographical features and landforms framing them. Today, they are subject to many pressures caused by developmental changes as well as improper conservation and planning strategies. One reason is that heritage conservation is still heavily focused on architectural features and less on the landscape setting. Wider landscape components set an authentic backdrop for cultural heritage and make the setting vivid and legible. Concentrating on this trend, this article explores the visual values of archaeological sites from the tripartite conceptualization view of visual landscape integrity, namely considering the archaeological landscape setting as an artifact, three-dimensional space, and scenery. Using the archaeological site complex of Bergama in Western Turkey as a case study, I propose a visual landscape–oriented approach as a tool for the sustainable conservation and presentation of heritage sites in the process of cultural resource management.
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Sternberg, Rolf. "FANTASY, GEOGRAPHY, WAGNER, AND OPERA*." Geographical Review 88, no. 3 (July 1998): 327–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1931-0846.1998.tb00111.x.
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ABSTRACT. Wilhelm Richard Wagner fused fantasy based on epic and lore with seamless scores, using landscapes and urban images to forge spatial order on stage. As a footloose composer‐conductor, Wagner was considered a globetrotter for his time, and from trans‐European tours he drew inspiration for numerous stagings. Nine of his operas have rustic pastoral settings, with actors silhouetted against geological formations, forests, vistas of undulating terrain for pilgrimages, or raging seas, all visually believable scenery. Rienzi and Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg are urban in setting, whereas Die Feen and Das Liebesverbot are set in a castle‐like format.
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Merkt, Martin, Sabrina Lux, Vincent Hoogerheide, Tamara van Gog, and Stephan Schwan. "A change of scenery: Does the setting of an instructional video affect learning?" Journal of Educational Psychology 112, no. 6 (August 2020): 1273–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/edu0000414.
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Troy, Cassandra L. C., and Chris Skurka. "Being outdoorsy indoors: Nature connectedness through 360-degree images and video." Journal of Environmental Media 4, no. 1 (April 1, 2023): 27–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/jem_00095_1.
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Nature connectedness could be an important motivator for addressing environmental issues via pro-environmental behaviour. While people can connect with nature by spending time outdoors in natural settings, such places are not always accessible. Mediated portrayals of nature offer a promising alternative for connecting with nature. Media that evoke high levels of vividness and spatial presence may be particularly effective. This study uses an online experiment with a 3 (setting: coral reef vs. forest vs. urban) × 3 (media format: 360-degree image vs. 360-degree video vs. traditional video) between-subject design to examine the effects of media type and setting on vividness, presence, nature connectedness and public and private pro-environmental behaviour intentions. Vividness, presence and nature connectedness mediated the relationship between 360-degree images and intentions to engage in public behaviours. Additionally, scenery type was a more substantial contributor to nature connectedness than media format.
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TAOFIQUROHMAN, Ankiq, Sheila ZALLESA, and Ibnu FAIZAL. "COASTAL SCENIC ASSESSMENT IN PANGANDARAN DISTRICT, WEST JAVA PROVINCE, INDONESIA." GeoJournal of Tourism and Geosites 46, no. 1 (March 31, 2023): 184–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.30892/gtg.46120-1014.
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This study aims to classify the ten coasts of the Pangandaran District using the Coastal Scenic Evaluation System (CSES). The CSES objectively assesses coastal characteristics and is rarely used in Southeast Asia, especially Indonesia. Pangandaran District was chosen in this study because it is part of a National Tourism Strategic Area in Indonesia, especially for marine tourism, which means it is at risk of physical changes to the environment due to the growth of tourism. The study results show that most coasts were classified as natural, but Class 1, as the top natural, was not obtained. The low quality of the scenery is because its physical parameters are lower than its human parameters. In order to improve the quality of the scenery, it can be done by handling garbage and waste, setting up utilities' development, and zoning for tourism types.
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Robinson, Tom. "An Evaluation of Climbing as a Sport Tourist Activity, Using the Robinson and Gammon (2004) Conceptual Framework." Atna - Journal of Tourism Studies 1, no. 1 (January 1, 2006): 39–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.12727/ajts.1.4.
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The sport of climbing has seen a tremendous increase in popularity over the last 20 years. The sport tourism potential of climbing is clearly evident in the different types and guises that the sport entails. This is enhanced by the outdoor setting of the sport often in outstanding scenery and beauty. However the rapid increase in the number of indoor climbing walls has also created a new type of visitor predominantly in an urban setting. The differing climbing types and competitions lend it particularly to a classification based on the motivation of the consumer. This paper assesses the sport tourism potential of climbing in general applying the Robinson and Gammon (2004) conceptual framework.
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Ermawati, Pitri. "ORIENTASI FOTOGRAFI PENGUNJUNG ANJUNGAN WISATA DI KAWASAN MANGUNAN: KAJIAN FUNGSI FOTO POTRET DI MEDIA SOSIAL INSTAGRAM." spectā: Journal of Photography, Arts, and Media 2, no. 2 (April 24, 2019): 105–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.24821/specta.v2i2.2551.
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Abstrak Penelitian ini bermaksud menjelaskan orientasi fotografi pengunjung yang berfoto di anjungan wisata kawasan Mangunan dengan objek penelitian berupa foto potret di media sosial Instagram. Menerapkan metode penelitian deskriptif-kualitatif, analisis kritis dilakukan dalam pembacaan foto-foto potret menggunakan telaah fungsi foto potret Soeprapto Soedjono, serta telaah aspek teknis-fisik fotografi potret yang dikemukakan oleh Famous Photographers School. Mengambil sampel berupa lima foto dari lima akun Instagram yang berlatar di lima anjungan wisata di kawasan Mangunan, hasil penelitian menunjukkan tiga fungsi foto potret yang diunggah oleh para pengunjung yang merupakan subjek foto sekaligus pemilik akun Instagram; yaitu fungsi personal, sosial, dan komersial. Dalam upaya mewujudkan foto potret yang sesuai dengan fungsi-fungsi tersebut, pengunjung tampak memperhitungkan aspek teknis-fisik fotografi potret berupa pencahayaan, pose, dan background. Adapun poperti, kurang mendapatkan perhatian dikarenakan tidak semua anjungan menyediakannya. Kata kunci: fotografi, anjungan, foto potret, Instagram AbstractVisitors’ Photography Orientation of Scenery Stages in Mangunan Tourism Area: Study of The Functions of Portrait Photos in Social Media Instagram. This research explains the photography orientation of visitors who taking photograph of theirselves (portrait) on the scenary stages (selfie spots) in Mangunan tourism area, by studying their portraits in social media Instagram. This research allows the descriptive-qualitative method. It uses the study of the portrait functions explained by Soeprapto Soedjono to read and to analise the portrait photos. It also studies the physical-technical aspect in portrait photography explained by Famous Photographers School applied by the visitors. There are five portrait photo samples from five Instagram accounts which setting are on scenery stages in Mangunan tourism area. This research conclusion shows three functions of the portrait photos uploaded by the visitors, either as the Instagram account owners and the subjects (sitters) of those photos: personal function, social function, and commercial function. In order to make her/ his portrait matches on the function desired, visitor seems to care about physical-technical aspects on portrait photography: lighting, pose, and background. Another element is property, which is the most ignorable element due to it’s rare availability on the spot. Keywords: photography, scenary stage, portrait photo, Instagram
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Virdis, Daniela Francesca. "Sexualised landscapes and gentry masculinity in Victorian scenery: An ecostylistic examination of a pornographic novel from the magazine The Pearl." Journal of Literary Semantics 48, no. 2 (October 25, 2019): 109–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/jls-2019-2013.
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Abstract This article is an ecostylistic examination of Sub-Umbra, one of the six serialised novels in the Victorian pornographic magazine The Pearl (1879–1881). It explores the stylistic strategies utilised to depict landscapes and masculinity – stylistic choices at word- and phrase-level, collocation and compounding, semantic crescendo, humour and point of view – applying an ecostylistic approach. The investigation reveals that the unfolding of the licentious narrative develops from the description of the setting, more precisely the landscape and natural scenery, as feminised and sexualised (Kolodny. 1975. The lay of the land: Metaphor as experience and history in American life and letters. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press). It also demonstrates that the sociological model of gentry masculinity (Connell. 2005. Masculinities. Oxford: Blackwell), characterised by landownership and domination of the physical environment, is the most appropriate to define the main character and narrator interacting with the gendered countryside setting.
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Rosalina, Happy, Sujianto Sujianto, and Sofyan Husein Siregar. "Strategi Pengembangan Ekowisata di Kawasan Waduk Pembangkit Listrik Tenaga Air (PLTA) Koto Panjang Kabupaten Kampar." Dinamika Lingkungan Indonesia 1, no. 2 (July 14, 2014): 97. http://dx.doi.org/10.31258/dli.1.2.p.97-108.
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The aims of this study are to determine the general condition of the HydroelectricDam area at Koto Panjang as a tourism , analyzing the potential of ecotourism to support theuse of Hydroelectric dam Koto Panjang and formulate the ecotourism development strategyof hydroelectric dam Koto Panjang by using descriptive qualitative method. The studyinvolved 76 people consist of 30 local people, 30 tourists , 6 businesses, and 10 officialsassociated with the utilization of hydroelectric dam Koto Panjang, to obtain the informationfrom the society in the hydroelectric dam area of Koto Panjang and from the tourist wasdistributed the questioners Randomly. The study was conducted from April to October 2012 atKampar regency that divided in several related institutions at Kampar Regency and in thePekanbaru city. The object and appeal of ecotourism that was potential to developed in thehydroelectric dams area at Koto Panjang were : 1) Dam with beautiful scenery floating netcages and small islands located in the dam, with fishing, boating, swimming, eating at afloating restaurant and watching the unloading of fish cages, 2) Deer Lake was located on thebanks of the dam with beautiful scenery, equipped playground for children that used as amotocross arena, 3) Aquari Beach was in the middle of the dam has a beautiful view of thewater tourism activities such as jet skis and canoes, and also the venue to routine cultureevent, Balimau Kasai. 4) The Peak Panorama was transitory (resting area) and strategicallylocated at the cross-roads between provinces with the very beautiful scenery towards the dam.5) Ketangka island has a gently sloping coastal island which overlooking the dam withbeautiful scenery was very suitable to be developed as a tourist hiking, camping, fishing,swimming and boating. 6) First bridge across the province road were on used to be atransitory because of the beautiful scenery under the bridge which was the dam with floatingnet attraction. The ecotourism development strategies in the hydroelectric Dam, KotoPanjang were: 1) Keeping our environment by setting zoning conservation and zoningdesignation of the activities in the dam, through the dam area authorities were authorized todetermine the rules.2)Conducting a variety of cultural events and activities in thehydroelectric Dam area, Koto Panjang which supported the availability of sufficient financialresources to completing the infrastructure. 3) Increasing the government's commitment toestablish authorities of hydroelectric dam area, Koto Panjang. 4) Implementing theRegulation in the Ecotourism area by involving the local communities, it supported by thefinancial support to completed adequate facilities and infrastructures, thus attracted touriststo open up new business opportunities for the local community.
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El-Feki, Sameh, and Taher Abdel-Ghani. "The architectural features of socio-spatial transformation in Hassan Al-Imam’s Cairo Trilogy." Journal of Urban Cultural Studies 9, no. 2 (December 1, 2022): 199–222. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/jucs_00055_1.
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The urban scenery that dominated Cairo since the nineteenth century was a spatial superimposition of tradition and modernity, represented in the social and architectural composition of the city. The cinematic medium in Egypt attempted to visualize such overlap through a vivid depiction of spatial transformations occurring within the micro and macro urban levels revealing hidden aspects of social order and organizational behaviour. This article sheds light on Egyptian filmmaker Hassan Al-Imam’s Cairo Trilogy films, based on the critically acclaimed novels by Nobel Prize laureate Naguib Mahfouz, where the story takes place in the heart of early twentieth-century Cairo spanning from 1917 to 1944. The films’ physical features illustrate the morphology of time and urban space constituting to the socio-spatial narratives of the local setting, a theoretical framework adopted by the authors named cine-spatial representation. Through the examination of such connection within the settings across the three films, the article reveals the influence of non-physical elements on the physicality of architectural and urban space, creating a visual narrative from social collectivism to individualist fragmentation.
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Singh, Dr Gurdip. "Smart Tourism: An Overview on Tourist Perception with Special Reference to Himachal Pradesh." INTERANTIONAL JOURNAL OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH IN ENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENT 08, no. 04 (April 2, 2024): 1–5. http://dx.doi.org/10.55041/ijsrem29942.
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The swiftly growing concept of "Smart Tourism" utilizes advanced technologies to enhance the overall travel experience. It is important to comprehend how tourists view smart tourism initiatives in Himachal Pradesh, a popular Indian holiday spot known for its breathtaking scenery and cultural significance, to promote sustainable development and visitor satisfaction. This article's aim is to give an overview of the unique tourism initiatives in Himachal Pradesh and explore how tourists perceive and interact with them. This study aims to explore the benefits and challenges of implementing smart tourism strategies in Himachal Pradesh, a region known for its diversity and fast-paced environment, by analyzing the relationship between technology and tourism in this unique setting. Keywords: Smart tourism technology, Smartphone applications, Tourist Perception
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Ye, Fan. "Application of Photoshop Graphics and Image Processing in the Field of Animation." Journal of Sensors 2021 (October 18, 2021): 1–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2021/8677479.
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With the rapid development of digital art and machine science and technology, the production form of modern animation tends to be diversified, and with the important role of animation color in the animation film foil and rendering, more and more attention was paid by the animation design industry. Computer graphic technology is a new type of artistic creation method, and its birth and development are closely related to computer technology. The purpose of this paper is to make some analysis and induction from the perspective of science and technology and culture and to explore the application of Photoshop graphics and image processing technology in the field of animation. First, the definition of “animation” and the extension of the animation category are introduced. Then, the main functions of Photoshop image processing technology are described in detail. According to the research content, this paper designs a self-made experimental short film “future city.” After the simulation of experimental animation film and the setting and positioning of the experimental scene, Photoshop software was used to show the animation scene. The experimental results show that the color changes in the short film “future city.” After the saturation of sunny scenery is reduced by 3 points and the brightness is reduced by 20 points and the filter, mode change, and color adjustment are carried out, a complete rainy scenery can be obtained. The self-made experimental short film has guiding significance for the creation and practice.
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Arntson, Cheryl. "Designed to Fail: Media Representations of Racialized Classrooms and Schools." Canadian Journal of Family and Youth / Le Journal Canadien de Famille et de la Jeunesse 12, no. 2 (January 1, 2020): 1–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.29173/cjfy29503.
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Educational institutions are assumed to be racially neutral. However, media represents the achievement and ability of individual students and schools disparately and gives these attributes racial meaning. The scenes and sets in movies in the background seldom enter our consciousness and are assumed natural and normal in the context of movies and the stories they communicate. However, audiences, media institutions and set designers draw on shared cultural understandings to communicate and interpret the racial implications behind objects, placement of bodies, and scenery (Entman, 1993, pp. 52-53). Negative media portrayals of Black students and their school environments suggest that there is a problem with urban education. These representations and images suggest that the setting and the objects within it have purpose and meaning that is important in relaying the intended message. This study examines physical elements represented in classroom and school spaces in four movies: Akeelah and the Bee (2006), Finding Forrester (2000), Coach Carter (2005), High School Musical (2006). Utilizing a visual analysis of scenes depicting classrooms and school exteriors in these films, this study sought to examine how these representations of schools are presented as racialized spaces. Based on the data collected, the study concluded school spaces are represented disparately if they are assumed to contain Black racialized bodies than they are if they are assumed to be white spaces. Representations of urban schools with Black student populations contain multiple elements of surveillance, control and categorization.
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Mt Akhir, Norizan, Siti Rasidah Md Sakip, Mohamed Yusoff Abbas, and Noriah Othman. "Literature Survey on How Planting Composition Influence Visual Preferences: A Campus Landscape Setting." Journal of Social Sciences Research, SPI6 (December 25, 2018): 783–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.32861/jssr.spi6.783.790.
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Campus landscape is a created for aesthetically pleasing, educationally satisfying and environmentally sustaining. Unlike other places, the university has a distinct characteristic. The demand for high education required more space for students living. Previous research has mentioned on viewing landscape with stress recovery and reduce mental fatigue. Furthermore, several studies also suggested to university to provide a classroom with a window for viewing the landscape. The benefits gain from that has correlated with enhance positive emotions, mental health, quality of life as well as students’ academic performance. Vegetation is an essential element in visual landscape assessment. Plants traits able to attract viewers attention. Better landscape scenery often composed of various plant properties with properly design based on principles guidelines. However, the study on planting composition seems neglected. Therefore, this study is to explore the significance of planting composition in visual interest within the campus context. Different context anticipated different composition depends on the location, concept or function. Crucially, students are exposure with a lot of stress and challenges. Moreover, less daily contact with nature, spend more time indoors and continuously technology connectedness has predicted to negative impact on student performance. Thus, this study is suggestive to encourage nature connectedness. Before that, the preferred planting composition must be reviewed to ensure the effectiveness in visual preferences. The review process then analyses using qualitative software Atlas.ti© Version 8.0. The precedents literature was recorded and categorised in coding. The result demonstrates that there are the factors that should be pursued to influence more visual interest, particularly on campus.
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Zahavi, Dan. "Manhattan Dynamite and no pancakes: Tradition and normality in the work of Tove Jansson." SATS 19, no. 1 (July 26, 2018): 5–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/sats-2017-3001.
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Abstract It is not uncommon to read the Moomin tales through existentialist lenses. Although there might be natural reasons for focusing on and privileging the nine classical Moomin books, it would, however, be a mistake to overlook Jansson’s comic strips. This is so, not only because of the quality of Jansson’s drawings and because of the way she innovatively worked with and developed that graphic medium, but certainly also because of the stories they contain. When read alongside the books, the comic strips add important aspects and nuances to Jansson’s portrayal of human existence. By allowing herself the freedom to radically change the setting and scenery of the stories, Jansson was able to explore quite different topics than was possible in the novels, and in particular to offer a somewhat different account of the role of customs, normality and tradition.
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Smith, Andrea. "Noise, narration and nose-pegs: Adapting Shakespeare for radio." Radio Journal:International Studies in Broadcast & Audio Media 19, no. 1 (April 1, 2021): 41–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/rjao_00033_1.
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The BBC’s first director general, John Reith, believed the plays of Shakespeare were perfect for radio, with ‘little in the way of setting and scenery’ and relying chiefly on plot and acting. However, a closer look at the texts reveals that many require a good deal of adaptation to work in sound only. That has not stopped BBC radio producers creating hundreds of productions over the past century. Instead, it has spurred many of them on to greater creativity. Initially reliant on narration, producers began to devise a wide range of techniques to make Shakespeare comprehensible without visuals. These include specially devised sound effects, soundscapes and music, as well as distorting the actors’ voices in various ways, including using nose-pegs and the assistance of the Radiophonic Workshop. This article uses audio and written evidence to uncover those techniques and examines how successful they have been deemed to be.
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Ray, Karen. "Embedding Landscape in the Education of Young Planners." Transactions of the Association of European Schools of Planning 5, no. 2 (December 1, 2021): 95–112. http://dx.doi.org/10.24306/traesop.2021.02.002.
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Understanding the relationships between a development and its wider setting is not new to planning. This often delicate balance has been contemplated by planners since well before the ground-breaking European Landscape Convention emerged in 2000. Nevertheless, and in the sustainable management of change, the ELC and its interpretations in domestic laws serve as conscious reminders of landscape as being more value-laden and complex than mere scenery. They support arguments for why meaningful engagement must and should be done - arguments that are most compelling during the education of young planners. In a world where rapid environmental change leads to more deadlines for decision-makers, and in which approaches to prescriptive environmental standards can result in mediocre compliance, it might seem idealistic to expect engagement with landscape in this way. Sharing experiences from University College Cork, this paper explores methods for equipping students with the skills necessary to make efficient and objective yet value-sensitive judgements on landscape at strategic and project levels.
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Deka, Aditi. "Scenography and Societal Change and the Creation of Artworks in Contemporary Art: An Analysis of the Practice of Scenography in Nabajyoti Nagar, Guwahati, Assam, India." Journal of Humanities,Music and Dance, no. 43 (May 10, 2024): 11–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.55529/jhmd.43.11.22.
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The most beautiful visual element of a theater is its scenery. It entails placing a performance in a distinct and recognizable setting, defining the characters in terms of costumes and the accessories and qualities that go along with them, and lighting the performance appropriately to maximize the audience's enjoyment of the performance. Therefore, in addition to a mastery of architectural principles, the practice of scenography requires a sufficient understanding of the fundamentals of design, fair knowledge of graphics, and a working knowledge of the fine and practical arts, carpentry, tailoring, and electrical engineering. Because of this, the scenographer needs to be a well-rounded artist with enormous creative potential. Scenography can be used to create a civilization in the right way. Scenography investigates societal influence. In this study, the practice of scenography in Nabajyoti Nagar, Guwahati, Assam, India, is analyzed in relation to societal change and the creation of art works in contemporary art.
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Bormans, R. P. A., R. C. Lindenbergh, and F. Karimi Nejadasl. "INFLUENCE OF DOMAIN SHIFT FACTORS ON DEEP SEGMENTATION OF THE DRIVABLE PATH OF AN AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE." ISPRS - International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences XLII-2 (May 30, 2018): 141–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-xlii-2-141-2018.
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One of the biggest challenges for an autonomous vehicle (and hence the WEpod) is to see the world as humans would see it. This understanding is the base for a successful and reliable future of autonomous vehicles. Real-world data and semantic segmentation generally are used to achieve full understanding of its surroundings. However, deploying a pretrained segmentation network to a new, previously unseen domain will not attain similar performance as it would on the domain where it is trained on due to the differences between the domains. Although research is done concerning the mitigation of this domain shift, the factors that cause these differences are not yet fully explored. We filled this gap with the investigation of several factors. A base network was created by a two-step finetuning procedure on a convolutional neural network (SegNet) which is pretrained on CityScapes (a dataset for semantic segmentation). The first tuning step is based on RobotCar (road scenery dataset recorded in Oxford, UK) while afterwards this network is fine-tuned for a second time but now on the KITTI (road scenery dataset recorded in Germany) dataset. With this base, experiments are used to obtain the importance of factors such as horizon line, colour and training order for a successful domain adaptation. In this case the domain adaptation is from the KITTI and RobotCar domain to the WEpod domain. For evaluation, groundtruth labels are created in a weakly-supervised setting. Negative influence was obtained for training on greyscale images instead of RGB images. This resulted in drops of IoU values up to 23.9 % for WEpod test images. The training order is a main contributor for domain adaptation with an increase in IoU of 4.7 %. This shows that the target domain (WEpod) is more closely related to RobotCar than to KITTI.
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Breiby, Monica Adele, and Terje Slåtten. "The role of aesthetic experiential qualities for tourist satisfaction and loyalty." International Journal of Culture, Tourism and Hospitality Research 12, no. 1 (March 5, 2018): 1–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijcthr-07-2017-0082.
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Purpose The aim of this study is to examine the role of aesthetic experiential qualities for tourist overall satisfaction and three types of loyalty. Design/methodology/approach A national tourist route in Norway was chosen as an empirical context for this study. Totally, the role of five aesthetic experiential qualities were examined, namely, scenery, cleanliness harmony, art/architecture and genuineness. Findings The findings reveal that the three aesthetic experiential qualities, scenery, harmony and genuineness, were all positively related to tourist overall satisfaction with the tourist road. Moreover, tourist overall satisfaction had a direct influence on three types of loyalty, referring to tourists’ intentions to recommend the tourist road to other, to revisit same tourist road and to visit similar tourist roads in the future. However, the findings reveal that only two aesthetic qualities, cleanliness and genuineness, had a direct effect on intention to revisit the same tourist road, and thus indicates a more complex explanatory pattern concerning tourist loyalty. Research limitations/implications This study is limited to five aesthetic experiential qualities in a specific nature-based tourist context. The results open up some of the areas for future research on the role of aesthetics in man-made environments (in addition to the natural environment) in nature-based tourism. When most of the other variables are similar, aesthetic experiential qualities may make a difference to a nature-based product’s performance, and thus provide the competitive edge. Practical implications Destination managers and marketers should focus on aesthetic experiential qualities to increase tourist satisfaction and loyalty, and thereby strengthen a destination competitiveness and value creation. Originality/value Responding to the need to focus on aesthetic experiential qualities in a nature-based tourism context, this study measures the effects of the aesthetic experiential qualities for tourist satisfaction and loyalty in an original destination setting.
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Pracintya, Ida Ayu Etsa, I. Nyoman Darma Putra, and Putu Sucita Yanthy. "Tourism Promotion Symbols for Bandung City in a Teenager Romantic Film ‘Dilan 1990’." Mudra Jurnal Seni Budaya 37, no. 4 (October 18, 2022): 374–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.31091/mudra.v37i4.2084.
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Film induced tourism is one of the fastest growing sectors in the tourism industry because cinematographic history is able to persuade the audience to travel to places that are used as the setting places of several scenes in a film. This study aims to examine the message of tourism promotion in a teenager romantic film set in Bandung, West Java, entitled ‘Dilan 1990’ which was adapted from a novel by Pidi Baiq of the same title. The data were collected by observing the film using observation tables, as well as audience reviews obtained through internet searches as a reference in interpreting symbols and knowing the audience's reception of this film. The audience’s reviews were taken from various websites including the Internet Movie Database, TripAdvisor, and from several independent travel blogs articles. The analysis used a qualitative descriptive method using three theories, namely, the theory of semiotics, reception, and promotion. The analysis shows that symbols of tourism promotion in the content of the film ‘Dilan 1990’ included the beautiful and clean city of Bandung, Bandung’s natural scenery, and Bandung’s heritage iconic buildings. The positive images of Bandung city were aesthetically presented on the film through well-structured of plot story, scene, and acting, thus make the promotion of Bandung become indirectly powerful. This study also stresses that the ‘Dilan 1990’ not only provide a powerful form of promotion for Bandung city but also has inspired the local government to build new city parks namely ‘Taman Dilan 1’ and ‘Taman Dilan 2’ that boosted the images of Bandung as an attractive city to visit.
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Andarani, Pertiwi, Dwi Fitri Lestari, Arya Rezagama, and Sariffuddin Sariffuddin. "Sustainable Ecotourism Development based on Participatory Rural Appraisal: A Case Study of Thekelan Village, Central Java, Indonesia." E3S Web of Conferences 73 (2018): 02019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/20187302019.
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Thekelan Village, Kopeng District has a special potency of ecotourism. Thekelan Village is located at an altitude of + 2000 masl with magnificent scenery and surrounded by protected forest areas. The social characteristics of the community are homogeneous, distinctive, and strong highland culture. Thekelan Village has annually received visits from universities and schools for both comparative study and live-in programs. However, the sustainability of the tourism needed to be evaluated since the community has not participated much in the tourism activity (just lodging and communication). Indicators were established to evaluate the sustainability of existing tourism in Thekelan Village. Moreover, a survey, in-depth interview, and focus group discussion have been conducted to the community to assess the readiness to develop sustainable ecotourism. The results showed that the existing tourism has failed to be sustainable. Nevertheless, the community are ready to implement a new program to improve the management of community participation in the rural tourism setting. Therefore, a sustainable ecotourism can be developed and bring more economic benefits to the local people.
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Gong, Zhiming. "There May Be the Most Beautiful Scenery in the World, but There Is No Such Thing as the Best Translation: A Suitable Translation is the Best Translation." Scientific and Social Research 4, no. 2 (February 21, 2022): 154–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.26689/ssr.v4i2.3634.
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Translation is a vital activity with a lengthy history that touches every aspect of human life. Translation is a complex activity with rich connotations, and Chinese and Western scholars have long debated what is the “best translation.” This paper examines the translation theories of Lu Xun’s stiff translation, “Catford’s Translation Linguistics,” and “Qian Zhongshu’s Huajing” in order to discuss what kind of translation is acceptable in the setting of the times.
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Terkelsen, Christian Juhl. "Response to commentaries by Kildemoes and Kristiansen." International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care 21, no. 3 (July 2005): 419–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0266462305230556.
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§1.1. Recent data documents that not a “majority” but only 40% of Danish patients arrive at the hospital within 30 minutes of ambulance call (7;8). §1.2. The Dutch study confirmed that, even in areas with 13 minutes transport time to the hospital, comparable to the Danish scenery, a prehospital thrombolytic strategy reduced treatment delay by nearly 1 hour (5). §1.3. We appreciate that the authors confirm our viewpoint, that is, quoting that “the mortality reduction more than doubles up,” “if hospital delay is totally eliminated (corresponding to a delay reduction of 1 hour).” In the future, patients should be diagnosed before hospital admission and either treated before hospital admission with thrombolysis or transferred directly to interventional center for primary PCI. In both settings, the delay at the local hospital, averaging 1 hour, would be eliminated (1;8). §2.0. Kildemoes and Kristiansen may have misunderstood our arguments regarding the Boersma formula. We recommend that they read our previous viewpoint (9). We have no reason to believe that distribution of patient delay in Denmark differs significantly from other countries. Moreover, we are surprised that the case fatality estimates implemented by Kildemoes and Kristiansen differs significantly from findings in a recent Danish Health Technology Assessment and findings in previous meta-analyses (2;4;6). §3.1. For 7 years, the present group of authors have worked with telemedicine in the prehospital evaluation of patients. Our close collaborators, the ambulance operators and the company delivering telemedicine equipment, have confirmed our cost data, whereas they disagree with the cost data implemented by Kildemoes and Kristiansen. §3.2. Equipment for twelve-lead ECG acquisition is necessary when implementing prehospital diagnosis, irrespective of whether the diagnoses are established by telemedicine, by paramedics, or by physicians. §5. A 1-hour reduction in treatment delay is achievable by a prehospital diagnostic strategy, both in the setting of prehospital thrombolysis and in the setting of prehospital referral to interventional centers for primary PCI (6;8). This reduction in treatment delay should have a major impact on AMI fatality (also in Denmark; 3;6).
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Baenziger, Nancy L. "Reaching Out, Helping Hands Helping Minds: A Hawai'ian Model for Aiding Friends Coping With Dementia." Creative Nursing 25, no. 2 (May 1, 2019): 113–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1891/1078-4535.25.2.113.
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Reaching a certain age places one in a particular landscape in which dementia may be part of the scenery. This costly public health problem is personally devastating not only for dementia sufferers but for their surrounding interpersonal circle, which is not limited to immediate family. Indeed, friends often become the family you choose; their issues become, at some level, shared issues. In this setting the impulse of a life scientist to offer knowledgeable assistance to a friend fits naturally into a cornerstone of culture in present-day Hawai'i for mobilizing relevant aid from all corners. This model, called “forming a hui”, comprises a network of not only formal professional relationships but potentially even more importantly, the informal ones: friendships, serendipitous contacts, someone who knows someone who knows someone, the essence of connectedness on behalf of friends coping with dementia. Storytelling as a means of communication holds a place of prominence in Hawai'ian culture; exchange of ideas, as well as reminiscence, is called “talk story.” In this article, lives now built around coping with dementia are woven into a story fabric as into a Hawai'ian quilt.
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Sang, Xiaokun, and Lijuan Xu. "Research on the Generation of Creative Animation Driven by Deep Learning Model." Scientific Programming 2022 (April 21, 2022): 1–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2022/5815693.
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It is a very interesting and practical task to transform real-world images such as portraits or scenery into creative animation images. Since this concept was put forward, it has aroused extensive research interest in the field of computer vision. The generative adversarial networks (GAN) model is widely used in this field. Depth convolution GAN (DCGAN) and Wasserstein GAN (WGAN) improve the original GAN, but there are still problems existing in creative animation generation such as model collapse. To solve these problems, the Wasserstein distance is introduced to replace the JS divergence in the GAN model to measure the gap between the sample distribution generated by the generator and the real distribution, and the loss function is improved. In order to achieve a better animation generation effect, the training of the model is further optimized through the adjustment of the network model structure and the setting of parameters. Through the comparison with DCGAN and WGAN models in the animation data set and CelebA data set and the quantitative analysis and comparison of the generation effects of different models, the effectiveness and generalization of the improved GAN model are verified.
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Ben Shoshan, Liat Savin. "Architecture, cinema, and images of childhood in 1950s Britain." Architectural Research Quarterly 22, no. 2 (June 2018): 115–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s135913551800043x.
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In 1956, Independent Group member Eduardo Paolozzi, close friend and collaborator of Alison and Peter Smithson, starred in the film Together, directed by Lorenza Mazzetti, who had met him while a student at the Slade School of Fine Art. Strikingly, the imagery and setting of the film shares much in common with the images used by the Smithsons in their work, particularly those by Nigel Henderson, of children playing in the East End. Together is a 52-minute film screened in 1956, as part of Free Cinema programme. East London, with its narrow streets, riversides, docks, and multiple bomb sites, as well as the manner in which this location was shot, expressed the sense of disharmony – even chaos; a scenery patched together out of the remnants of prewar daily routines; a mix of dwellings, cranes, industry, and children running among the ruins. Looking more closely at Free Cinema's use of image and at the postwar concern with childhood allows us to better understand how and why children figured in the Smithsons’ work and how they came to inspire a new creative consciousness in New Brutalism more generally.
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Mihajlovic, Jelena, and Zoran Lazovic. "Drvengrad and Andricgrad in developing the idea and the concept of heterotopic spaces -theme parks and “theme towns”." Facta universitatis - series: Architecture and Civil Engineering 15, no. 2 (2017): 265–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/fuace160520020m.
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Heterotopic spaces represent a more present phenomenon in contemporary architecture since the utopic thought, concept, narrative and revolutionary programme in architectural discourse as well as generally in socio-political setting has arguably come to an end. The aim of this paper is to explain the heterotopic concept broadly as well as to offer the possibility of viewing and clarifying it through conceptualization of theme parks and ?theme towns?. While theme parks ?improve? corporative scenery, theme towns came into being as a product of an artistic initiative, which alongside their conceptualization in the sense of fa?ade formation have the tendency to promote both commercial and artistic content. The very thesis of the paper is based on the possibility of detecting phenomena which point at the presence of ?otherness? in architecture beyond what belongs to the category of everydayness and commonness. It is assumed that the realizations present in the development of an idea and the conception of the theme parks and ?theme towns? as forms of artistic aspirations, especially regarding domestic examples of Drvengrad and Andricgrad, are the reflection of the current tendencies within heterotopic discourse.
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Fahrezzi, Ahmad Yusuf, and Eva Elviana. "Konsep Hotel Resort dengan Pendekatan Arsitektur Neo Vernakular di Kawasan Bromo." Jurnal Ilmiah Universitas Batanghari Jambi 23, no. 3 (October 29, 2023): 2776. http://dx.doi.org/10.33087/jiubj.v23i3.3934.
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The Mount Bromo vacation spot is a well-known tourist destination that attracts both local and foreign visitors. Many tourists come for the breathtaking natural scenery. Needless to say, accommodation and hotels are essential to provide a comfortable stay for tourists who want to explore the tourist areas of Bromo. Resort hotels offer travelers a respite from the hustle and bustle of the city. The design process uses exploratory techniques. Exploratory research is research that involves conducting research and expanding the concept of exploitation to include broader conceptual aspects of research. The hotel design layout is meant to assist authorities' efforts to enhance tourism withinside the Mount Bromo region, which includes leveraging its herbal ability in tourism. The architectural goal of this resort hotel is to build accommodations that help to harness and capitalize on the tourism potential of the Mount Bromo region. The design of the Mount Bromo Tourism Center is based on a neo-vernacular approach, which is a construction concept that incorporates modern elements and attempts to adapt to the environment. The concept encompasses significant aspects of form, functionality, and technology and blends seamlessly with the present-day setting.
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Seong, JuYong, Rahul Ranjan, Joongeup Kye, Seungjae Lee, and Sungchul Lee. "Enhancing Industrial Communication with Ethernet/Internet Protocol: A Study and Analysis of Real-Time Cooperative Robot Communication and Automation via Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol." Sensors 23, no. 20 (October 19, 2023): 8580. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s23208580.
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This study explores the important task of validating data exchange between a control box, a Programmable Logic Controller (PLC), and a robot in an industrial setting. To achieve this, we adopt a unique approach utilizing both a virtual PLC simulator and an actual PLC device. We introduce an innovative industrial communication module to facilitate the efficient collection and storage of data among these interconnected entities. The main aim of this inquiry is to examine the implementation of Ethernet/IP (EIP), a relatively new addition to the industrial network scenery. It was designed using ODVA’s Common Industrial Protocol (CIP™). The Costumed real-time data communication module was programmed in C++ for the Linux Debian platform and elegantly demonstrates the impressive versatility of EIP as a means for effective data transfer in an industrial environment. The study’s findings provide valuable insights into Ethernet/IP’s functionalities and capabilities in industrial networks, bringing attention to its possible applications in industrial robotics. By connecting theoretical knowledge and practical implementation, this research makes a significant contribution to the continued development of industrial communication systems, ultimately improving the efficiency and effectiveness of automation processes.
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Gonçalves, Bento C., and Heather J. Lynch. "Fine-Scale Sea Ice Segmentation for High-Resolution Satellite Imagery with Weakly-Supervised CNNs." Remote Sensing 13, no. 18 (September 8, 2021): 3562. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rs13183562.
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Fine-scale sea ice conditions are key to our efforts to understand and model climate change. We propose the first deep learning pipeline to extract fine-scale sea ice layers from high-resolution satellite imagery (Worldview-3). Extracting sea ice from imagery is often challenging due to the potentially complex texture from older ice floes (i.e., floating chunks of sea ice) and surrounding slush ice, making ice floes less distinctive from the surrounding water. We propose a pipeline using a U-Net variant with a Resnet encoder to retrieve ice floe pixel masks from very-high-resolution multispectral satellite imagery. Even with a modest-sized hand-labeled training set and the most basic hyperparameter choices, our CNN-based approach attains an out-of-sample F1 score of 0.698–a nearly 60% improvement when compared to a watershed segmentation baseline. We then supplement our training set with a much larger sample of images weak-labeled by a watershed segmentation algorithm. To ensure watershed derived pack-ice masks were a good representation of the underlying images, we created a synthetic version for each weak-labeled image, where areas outside the mask are replaced by open water scenery. Adding our synthetic image dataset, obtained at minimal effort when compared with hand-labeling, further improves the out-of-sample F1 score to 0.734. Finally, we use an ensemble of four test metrics and evaluated after mosaicing outputs for entire scenes to mimic production setting during model selection, reaching an out-of-sample F1 score of 0.753. Our fully-automated pipeline is capable of detecting, monitoring, and segmenting ice floes at a very fine level of detail, and provides a roadmap for other use-cases where partial results can be obtained with threshold-based methods but a context-robust segmentation pipeline is desired.
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Baek, Jonghyun, Yeeun Kim, Hyun Kim, and Hwasung Song. "Understanding Visitors at an Urban Park by Profiling of Destination Attributes." Sustainability 13, no. 7 (April 5, 2021): 4036. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su13074036.
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A park has a variety of attributes, providing beautiful natural scenery and a place to rest as well as a cultural space in which performances and events are held. This study aimed to examine the various destination attributes that a place has, specifically, the resources of an urban park, by profiling visitors according to these destination attributes. The study setting, Gwanggyo Lake Park (GLP), is located in Suwon City and is in the limelight as an eco-friendly leisure and tourism destination in South Korea. As a result of profiling 595 visitors through an application of Latent Profile Analysis (LPA), three types of profiles were obtained: “Relaxation Leisure Seekers (RLS),” “Nature Environment Seekers (NES),” and “Ecological Experience Seekers (EES).” There were differences by type in visiting patterns, environmental propensity, distance from residence, and income. The results allow a better understanding of the various attributes of the park as an ecological tourism destination by visitor profile and profile-specific characteristics. Due to COVID-19, more people are visiting parks, which are natural outdoor spaces. This study provides implications for both theoretical and practical aspects of natural resource management in that it profiles visitors by highlighting parks as both leisure and tourism destinations.
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Wells, Gary. "The Moon in the Landscape: Interpreting a Theme of Nineteenth Century Art." Culture and Cosmos 16, no. 1 and 2 (October 2012): 373–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.46472/cc.01216.0259.
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The image of the moon in the rural landscape is such a familiar and common theme in nineteenth century art that we should ask what made this theme so popular, widespread, and persistent. The similarity among these depictions borders on formula: a field or rustic farm, a broad horizon, a full moon rising or a thin crescent moon setting, perhaps a shepherd or field worker silhouetted against the twilight sky. But what made this image so appealing to nineteenth century artists and their audiences? This paper will examine the theme of the moon in the landscape, and will suggest that the persistence of the motif masks an evolving set of ideas about time, nature and change. From the personal visions of Samuel Palmer and Vincent van Gogh, to the contemplation of nature’s sublimity in Caspar David Friedrich and Thomas Moran, the expressive range of the subject is significant. But a common thread emerges when these images are seen within the context of the nineteenth century’s rapid industrialization, urbanization, and materialism. Rather than romantic invention or picturesque scenery, images of the moon in nineteenth century landscape art were used to explore a broad range of ideas about modernity, nature and humanity in an age of science and industry.
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Jo, Hyunju, Chorong Song, and Yoshifumi Miyazaki. "Physiological Benefits of Viewing Nature: A Systematic Review of Indoor Experiments." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 16, no. 23 (November 27, 2019): 4739. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16234739.
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Contact with nature has been proposed as a solution to achieve physiological relaxation and stress recovery, and a number of scientific verification outcomes have been shown. Compared with studies of the other senses, studies investigating the visual effects of nature have been at the forefront of this research field. A variety of physiological indicators adopted for use in indoor experiments have shown the benefits of viewing nature. In this systematic review, we examined current peer-reviewed articles regarding the physiological effects of visual stimulation from elements or representations of nature in an indoor setting. The articles were analyzed for their stimulation method, physiological measures applied, groups of participants, and outcomes. Thirty-seven articles presenting evidence of the physiological effects of viewing nature were selected. The majority of the studies that used display stimuli, such as photos, 3D images, virtual reality, and videos of natural landscapes, confirmed that viewing natural scenery led to more relaxed body responses than viewing the control. Studies that used real nature stimuli reported that visual contact with flowers, green plants, and wooden materials had positive effects on cerebral and autonomic nervous activities compared with the control. Accumulation of scientific evidence of the physiological relaxation associated with viewing elements of nature would be useful for preventive medicine, specifically nature therapy.
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Sadewa, Tio Cahya. "Penggambaran Bentang Alam dalam Serat Rama dan Kakawin Ramayana." Jumantara: Jurnal Manuskrip Nusantara 15, no. 1 (June 4, 2024): 93–111. http://dx.doi.org/10.37014/jumantara.v15i1.4936.
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Landscapes are natural scenery or areas with various forms of the earth's surface (mountains, rice fields, valleys, rivers, and so on) which together constitute a single entity. Many depictions of landscapes are recorded in old literary works. One of the Javanese literary works that records the depiction of landscapes is Serat Rama. Serat Rama is a new Javanese literary work composed by R. Ng. Yasadipura in Surakarta which is derived from the Kakawin Ramayana in Old Javanese. Both texts tell the story of Prabu Rama's journey to rescue his wife, Dewi Sinta, who was kidnapped by Prabu Rahwana in Alengka. During his journey, Prabu Rama has passed through various landscapes accompanied by obstacles and obstacles. This paper attempts to answer the problem, namely how is the landscape depicted in Serat Rama and Kakawin Ramayana? By knowing the depiction of landscapes in old literary works, there will be a little picture for today's readers about natural conditions in the past. This paper applies a philological research method with an ecocritical approach. Data collection was done by inventorying the stanzas in Serat Rama and Kakawin Ramayana that describe landscapes to be translated, described, and compared. The depictions of landscapes in Serat Rama and Kakawin Ramayana were sorted into (1) depictions of forests, (2) depictions of mountains, and (3) depictions of waters. The results show that the depiction of landscapes in Kakawin Ramayana appears more detailed and some are still influenced by the Indian natural setting. In Serat Rama, the author tries to depict landscapes by localizing them to suit the Javanese natural setting. There are several names of landscapes that exist in Kakawin Ramayana but are not found in Serat Rama. There are also some differences in mentioning the names of landscapes that arise due to word-cutting errors and different interpretations when recomposing the kakawin.
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Furlani, Stefano, Fabrizio Antonioli, Emanuele Colica, Sebastiano D’Amico, Stefano Devoto, Pietro Grego, and Timmy Gambin. "Sea Caves and Other Landforms of the Coastal Scenery on Gozo Island (Malta): Inventory and New Data on Their Formation." Geosciences 13, no. 6 (June 2, 2023): 164. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/geosciences13060164.
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Sea caves are a type of cave formed primarily by the wave action of the sea. The coastal scenery of the Gozitan coast is very interesting in that sea caves and other coastal landforms, such as sea arches, develop at the sea level. We mapped seventy-nine semi-submerged sea caves opening at the sea level, five completely submerged sea caves, seven sea arches, one sea stack, and one shelter around the coast of Gozo, mainly in the Western and Eastern parts of the island, due to favorable lithological and topographical conditions. Additionally, we surveyed the topography of the emerged part of nine sea caves using the iPhone build-in LiDAR sensor, and eight sea caves in the submerged part using SCUBA equipment. This inventory represents the most detailed example of a database of coastal caves and related forms in the Mediterranean, mainly sourced from a swimming survey along the entire island. Thanks to the combination of outputs of the above-water emerged and submerged surveys, we defined three types of semi-submerged sea caves: (i) box caves, (ii) joint caves, and (iii) complex caves. Moreover, we added a cave-like landform above the sea level on calcarenites called shelter, or a little extended notch deeply carved into the cliff. The shape mainly depends on the structural and lithological setting of sea cliffs. In the Western sector of the island, we also discovered the only sea cave in Gozo, measuring 122 m in length and 10 m in width, with its floor developing above the mean sea level. This cave base is of interest due to rounded landforms related to marine erosion. In the innermost part of the cave, there is also a beach with rounded pebble at an elevation of about 7 m asl. Considering the tectonic stability of the island, it could be possibly related to the MIS 5.5 highstand.
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Akiyoshi, Suzuki. "How to Employ Nagasaki: Kazuo Ishiguro’s A Pale View of Hills (1982)." IAFOR Journal of Literature & Librarianship 9, no. 2 (December 14, 2020): 69–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.22492/ijl.9.2.04.
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Not a few scholars believe that representation of scenery in Nagasaki is a mockery in Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel A Pale View of Hills (1982). However, Etsuko’s narration faithfully represents individual facts about Nagasaki, but her combinations of facts are not consistent with the real world. Overall, Ishiguro’s narrative strategy is to represent as realistically as possible how a person’s memory works; at a time when rigid opposition between history and fiction collapsed as a result of the expanding literary theory of postmodernist positivism. A somewhat distorted narrative of recollections holds true not only in Etsuko but in human beings generally. If everything in the record of one’s past life is fictional, realizing how one’s memory is distorted or colored is impossible. Thus, Ishiguro wrote Etsuko’s reminiscences by faithfully describing facts of Nagasaki, for instance, nonlinguistic artifacts and relics, but making them anachronistic or discordant in time and space. This strategy resists the postmodern view of history and simultaneously emphasizes human memories’ ambiguities and distortions. Nagasaki, as a faithful background setting for Etsuko’s memories, is entirely plausible because Ishiguro was born and raised there until he was six years old. Yet, the realism of A Pale View of Hills encompasses a universal story of reminiscence or human testimony by employing the narratives of an atomic-bomb victim and a war bride.
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Xie, Junfang, Binyi Liu, and Mohamed Elsadek. "How Can Flowers and Their Colors Promote Individuals’ Physiological and Psychological States during the COVID-19 Lockdown?" International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18, no. 19 (September 29, 2021): 10258. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph181910258.
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The global spread of COVID-19 has disrupted the normality of people’s daily lives, leading the population to social distancing and isolation. The closure of green areas also affected the well-being of the individual during the COVID-19 pandemic. Viewing flowers is expected to have similar positive effects to viewing natural scenery. Therefore, this study investigates how white, red, and yellow flower colors affect individuals’ psychological and physiological well-being. The experiment was conducted in an office-like setting with 50 participants. Participants looked at each flower color for 3 min. Electroencephalograms (EEGs), heart rate variability, and skin conductivity were measured to evaluate physiological responses along with both the semantic differential questionnaire (SD) and the Profile of Mood States (POMS) to assess psychological responses. EEGs showed that the mean values of alpha relative power in the prefrontal lobe were significantly higher when viewing yellow and red flowers vs. white flowers. Furthermore, heart rate variability revealed that viewing yellow and red flowers increased parasympathetic nerve activity significantly. After viewing the yellow and red flowers, the average results for each subscale of the POMS questionnaire improved. The vigor (V) subscale and overall mood status values were significantly improved. The results of the SD method revealed that viewing yellow and red flowers resulted in a significantly higher sense of relaxation, cheerfulness, and comfort than viewing white flowers.
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Chandrakar, Gunjan. "Provisions in the Development Plan of Cities / Towns of Different Characters - A Comparative Study." International Journal for Research in Applied Science and Engineering Technology 9, no. VI (July 15, 2021): 630–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.22214/ijraset.2021.36407.
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Dating back to the history of development which starts near the resources or the Euclidean type planning where only physical planning is considered the time has come where planners need to consider the social aspects as well as the character of the city while setting goals or making policies for the same. Every place has its own uniqueness it may a cool new hi-tech building or an antique ancient monument, a busy booming mall or a quiet peaceful natural scenery. The need of this study of urban system is important to understand the human values, development, and the interactions they have with their physical environment. Development plan aims to promote growth and regulate the present and future development of towns and cities. In its simplest form, it is about improving the standard of living of the residents. While planning for a city, we should not only think about development as a tool for improving the physical and material conditions of the citizens but also consider the changes in built environment of the city which forms an important part of the city character and also gives clues related to the social and cultural life in that city The richness of the values forming the identity and character of the built environment is also an expression of the richness of the social and cultural life in that city .
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Wojciechowska-Solis, Julia. "ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN RURAL AREAS: EDUCATIONAL HOMESTEADS AND AGRITOURISM FARMS." Annals of the Polish Association of Agricultural and Agribusiness Economists XXV, no. 3 (August 14, 2023): 317–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0053.8071.
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The aim of this article is to characterise two forms of entrepreneurship in rural areas that are an alternative to agricultural activity and an additional source of income: educational homesteads and agri-tourism farms. The main research question was what are the reasons for using the offer of educational homesteads and agrotourism farms. A total of 158 respondents took part in the survey. The research was conducted in August-September 2021. Descriptive statistics, Pearson’s Chi2 and Mann-Whitney U tests of the STATISTICA 13.1 PL programme were used to compile the results. Among the respondents surveyed, more than half of the respondents use the leisure offer at least once a year, more than one-fifth of the men and one-third of the women surveyed try to visit agro-tourism farms or educational homesteads several times a year. Among the most important reasons for choosing the offer of rural enterprises are: „peace and quiet” offered by the rural enterprises’ offers, followed by „rural scenery”, „opportunity to learn about local culture” and „family atmosphere”. Respondents spoke highly of the level of service provided in the enterprises they used, but in their free opinions suggested that it would be good to establish cooperation between agritourism farms and educational homesteads: combining relaxation in a rural setting with education in order to benefit as much as possible from their stay in rural areas.
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Kopek, Wojciech. "Elements of the Mime in Horace’s Epode “Quid tibi vis, mulier”." Roczniki Humanistyczne 67, no. 3 SELECTED PAPERS IN ENGLISH (October 29, 2019): 45–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.18290/rh.2019.67.3-3en.
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The Polish version of the article was published in Roczniki Humanistyczne vol. 61, issue 3 (2013).
The aim of this article is to discover the literary context for Horace’s Epode 12 by juxtaposing it with Herondas’ mimes, particularly Mime 5, titled The Jealous Woman. The description of the relationship between these works is based on the ancient theory of rhetoric and on elements of Horace’s Ars poetica. It has been established that Epode 12 has numerous features of the literary mime: it is an apparent dialogue (sermocinatio, παρῳδή) recited by a single performer (mime), most probably in the scenery of an ancient feast. A participant in the feast becomes an actor, who first performs the role of a male lover (iuvenis) and then the role of a superannuated female lover (mulier). These character types are typical of both Old and New Comedy styles, but the whole dramatic setting seems to bear the greatest resemblance to Mime 5, in which the same literary protagonists are found in a scene analogous to a lovers’ quarrel. On the one hand, specific rhetorical figures (imitatio / μίμησις) indicate that the literary original was used in a creative manner. On the other, Mime 5 can also be used in the interpretation of Epode 12. This interpretation can be built on the processes of liberation and subjugation as part of the lovers’ relationship (actual subjugation in Mime 5 and metaphorical—financial—in Epode 12, where the iuvenis is the mulier’s “kept man”).
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Yuan, Xiaodong, Xize Jiao, Mingshen Wang, Huachun Han, Shukang Lv, and Fei Zeng. "Pricing Strategies for Distribution Network Electric Vehicle Operators Considering the Uncertainty of Renewable Energy." Processes 12, no. 6 (June 15, 2024): 1230. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/pr12061230.
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In the future, the active load of the distribution network side will be dominated by electric vehicles (EVs), showing that the charging power demand of electric vehicles will change with the change in charging electricity price. With the popularity of electric vehicles in the distribution network, their aggregation operators will play a more prominent role in pricing management and charging behavior, and setting an appropriate charging price can achieve a win–win situation for operators and electric vehicle users. At the same time, the proportion of scenery in the distribution network is relatively high, and the uncertainty of self-output has a certain impact on the pricing strategy of operators and the charging behavior of electric vehicle users, which has become an important research topic. Based on the above background, an EV operator pricing strategy considering the landscape uncertainty is proposed, a Stackelberg game model is established to maximize the respective benefits of operators and EV users, and the two-layer model is further transformed into a single-layer model through the Karush–Kuhn–Tucker (KKT) condition and duality theorem. Finally, the IEEE 33 system is simulated with the CPLEX solver, and the global optimal pricing strategy is obtained. Simulation results prove that electric vehicle operators experience a maximum profit increase of 2.6% due to the impact of maximum capacity of energy storage equipment and the uncertainty of renewable energy output can result in electric vehicle operators losing approximately 20% of their profits at most.
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Yu, Meng, Shaojie Han, Tengfei Wang, and Haiyan Wang. "An Approach to Accurate Ship Image Recognition in a Complex Maritime Transportation Environment." Journal of Marine Science and Engineering 10, no. 12 (December 5, 2022): 1903. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jmse10121903.
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In order to monitor traffic in congested waters, permanent video stations are now commonly used on interior riverbank bases. It is frequently challenging to identify ships properly and effectively in such images because of the intricate backdrop scenery and overlap between ships brought on by the fixed camera location. This work proposes Ship R-CNN(SR-CNN), a Faster R-CNN-based ship target identification algorithm with improved feature fusion and non-maximum suppression (NMS). The SR-CNN approach can produce more accurate target prediction frames for prediction frames with distance intersection over union (DIOU) larger than a specific threshold in the same class weighted by confidence scores, which can enhance the model’s detection ability in ship-dense conditions. The SR-CNN approach in NMS replaces the intersection over union (IOU) filtering criterion, which solely takes into account the overlap of prediction frames, while DIOU, also takes into account the centroid distance. The screening procedure in NMS, which is based on a greedy method, is then improved by the SR-CNN technique by including a confidence decay function. In order to generate more precise target prediction frames and enhance the model’s detection performance in ship-dense scenarios, the proposed SR-CNN technique weights prediction frames in the same class with DIOU greater than a predetermined threshold by the confidence score. Additionally, the SR-CNN methodology uses two feature weighting methods based on the channel domain attention mechanism and regularized weights to provide a more appropriate feature fusion for the issue of a difficult ship from background differentiation in busy waters. By gathering images of ship monitoring, a ship dataset is created to conduct comparative testing. The experimental results demonstrate that, when compared to the three traditional two-stage target detection algorithms Faster R-CNN, Cascade R-CNN, and Libra R-CNN, this paper’s algorithm Ship R-CNN can effectively identify ship targets in the complex background of far-shore scenes where the distinction between the complex background and the ship targets is low. The suggested approach can enhance detection and decrease misses for small ship targets where it is challenging to distinguish between ship targets and complex background objects in a far-shore setting.
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Koniak, Gili, Efrat Sheffer, and Imanuel Noy-Meir. "Recreation as an ecosystem service in open landscapes in the Mediterranean region in Israel: Public preferences." Israel Journal of Ecology and Evolution 57, no. 1-2 (May 6, 2011): 151–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1560/ijee.57.1-2.151.
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In recent years awareness has increased of the importance of open landscapes (natural and semi-natural) for human use, including provision of life-supporting ecological benefits and services. In addition there has been an increase in awareness and demand for recreational activities in nature: cultural, social, sport, and spiritual activities outside of the urban setting. A partial list of all of the environmental benefits or services could add up to dozens of economical, biological, and social benefits. Social benefits such as recreation are just one component of the spectrum of benefits and services that can be derived from natural systems.In this research we assessed the ecosystem service of recreation in a natural setting in the Mediterranean region in Israel. We focused on two specific benefits: picnics and hikes. We assessed recreationers' preferences using questionnaire-based surveys that were carried out directly at the research site, Ramat Hanadiv Park (RH park), while people were conducting the particular activity (picnic or hike). The research aim was to estimate the preferences of hikers and picnickers for different types of natural vegetation formations. We found that visitors preferred to hike in the open garrigue compared to either the dense scrub or the pine forest, whereas for picnics both the open garrigue and the planted pine forest were preferred over the dense scrub. We tested the attractiveness of each component of the landscape (e.g., trees, flowers, animals, archaeology) for hikers and picnickers. Surveys showed that scenery was highly and unanimously ranked. Flowering plants, birds, native trees, and to some extent gazelles, deer, and butterflies were ranked high, while reptiles, beetles, and cattle received a much lower attractiveness rank. The ranking of archeological sites and pine forest was more variable, and intermediate to the two main groups above. We analyzed these preferences according to different age and population distributions of visitors to the park and found only slight effects of the level of education.The answers from this research can facilitate land managers and decision-makers in providing the ecosystem service of recreation, and to guide management for obtaining the desired vegetation formations for this aim, according to the preferences of hikers and picnickers.
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Rasmus, Agnieszka. "What bloody film is this? "Macbeth" for our time." Multicultural Shakespeare: Translation, Appropriation and Performance 18, no. 33 (December 30, 2018): 115–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.18778/2083-8530.18.08.
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When Roman Polanski’s Macbeth hit the screens in 1971, its bloody imagery, pessimism, violence and nudity were often perceived as excessive or at least highly controversial. While the film was initially analysed mostly in relation to Polanski’s personal life, his past as a WWII child survivor and the husband of the murdered pregnant wife, Sharon Tate, in retrospect its bleak imagery speaks not only for his unique personal experience but also serves as a powerful comment on the American malaise, fears and paranoia that were triggered, amongst other things, by the brutal act of the Manson Family. We had to wait forty four years for another mainstream adaptation of the play and it is tempting not only to compare Kurzel’s Macbeth to its predecessor in terms of how more accepting we have become of graphic depictions of violence on screen but also to ask a more fundamental question: if in future years we were to historicise the new version, what would it tell us about the present moment? The paper proposes that despite its medieval setting and Scottish scenery, the film’s visual code seems to transgress any specific time or place. Imbued in mist, its location becomes more fluid and evocative of any barren and sterile landscape that we have come to associate with war. Seen against a larger backdrop of the current political climate with its growing nationalism and radicalism spanning from the Middle East, through Europe to the US, Kurzel’s Macbeth with its numerous bold textual interventions and powerful mise-en-scène offers a valid response to the current political crisis. His ultra brutal imagery and the portrayal of children echo Polanski’s final assertion of perpetuating violence, only this time, tragically and more pessimistically, with children as not only the victims of war but also its active players.
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Monkman, Janet. "Setting the scene." Elderly Care 2, no. 8 (December 1990): 15–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.7748/eldc.2.8.15.s26.
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Holyoake, Dean-David, Jane Brown, Chris Buswell, and Moyra Baldwin. "Setting the scene." Nursing Standard 17, no. 51 (September 3, 2003): 22. http://dx.doi.org/10.7748/ns.17.51.22.s32.
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Lindsey, Kiera, and Mariko Smith. "'Setting the Scene':." Public History Review 28 (June 23, 2021): 1–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.5130/phrj.v28i0.7789.
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This article provides an outline of the current statue wars in Australia, England, America, New Zealand and Eastern Europe before reviewing the many of the acts of public history making these contestations have inspired among both protestors and protectors. Commencing with the unveiling of the contested statue of Captain James Cook in Sydney's Hyde Park in 1879, the authors trace the connections and contestations between past and present history making before reflecting upon the role of public historians as communities strive to develop frameworks that can foster careful conversation, consultation and collaboration processes that help to reckon with the past.