Characters Of Representations Research Articles

3D Modelling: A Review

Three-dimensional (3D) modeling is a transformative process in the digital realm that involves the creation of virtual representations of objects, environments, or characters. This multifaceted discipline plays a pivotal role across diverse industries, encompassing animation, gaming, virtual reality, architecture, product design, and more. The fundamental components of 3D modeling include vertices, edges, and faces, forming meshes that define the object's geometry. Techniques such as polygonal modeling, NURBS modeling, and subdivision surfaces offer varying approaches to sculpting digital forms. UV mapping ensures precise texture application, while rigging and animation breathe life into models through skeletal structures and movement. The integration of textures, materials, and lighting enhances the realism of rendered images or animations. Computer-Aided Design (CAD) modeling caters to engineering precision, and sculpting tools enable intricate detailing for characters or organic shapes. As technology advances, 3D modeling continues to evolve, influencing the way we visualize, design, and interact with virtual worlds. This abstract provides an overview of key concepts in 3D modeling, highlighting its significance in shaping digital experiences and pushing the boundaries of creative expression and technical innovation.

BUDDHIST MYSTERY «TSAM»: ITS STRUCTURE AND FUNCTIONS

The Buddhist theatrical mystery tsam is an artistic structure in which all the elements are functionally interconnected with each other. According to its features tsam shows commonality with the universal specifics of the folk thea-ter, where the audience often fulfills the function of an artist and a director, and the stage space is created and expanded by involving the spectator into the action. The costume, mask and dance-pantomime are functionally connect-ed with the ritual in the performance, and the dialogue − with representations of comic character.

Collage Poetry from a Postmodernist Perspective

The main feature of postmodernist literature is the self-referential nature of the text, so that the form of collage poetry can be seen as its new discursive paradigm, and its anti-logical form reveals a reflection on the traditional character representation system. While introducing three-dimensional objects into the two-dimensional plane, "things" freely appear in the expressive form of collage poetry, and the "sense of things" embodied by rupture and heterogeneity leads to the proposition of contemporary art. In the open space of meaning constructed by collage poetry, the viewer interacts with the author, presenting a contemplation and rebellious innovation in the era of mechanical reproduction, thus achieving "art towards philosophy".

Perjuangan Kesetaraan dalam Novel Fatatu As-Sajair Karya Ratih Kumala (Kajian Kritik Sastra Feminis)

Abstract: This study explains the struggle for gender equality of female figures in several of its parts. The novel Fatatu As-Sajair presents a female characters who has an influence on the development of cigarettes in Indonesia. The representation of female characters in this novel not only places women in an inferior position, but can also be in a superior position. The purpose of this study is to explain the socialist feminism contained in the novel. This study uses a qualitative descriptive analysis method with a type of literary criticism approach, namely feminist literary criticism. The research results from the novel Fatatu As-Sajair show that the novel contains female characters fighting for gender equality by working in the clove cigarette sector.

Analisis Semiotika Terhadap Tokoh Utama Perempuan dalam Film Perempuan Tanah Jahanam

Horror is still a popular genre in the growth of Indonesian films. Female characters are often featured iconically in the narrative of a horror film. However, there is a negative stigma about the presence of female characters in horror films who appear as antagonistic characters. Female characters often play the role of ghosts, victims of crimes, and other complementary characters. This study uses qualitative research and Roland Barthes semiotics to analyze the representation of female characters in Perempuan Tanah Jahanam. This research focuses on the main female characters in the movie. The results of this study explain the denotation that describes the female characters in Perempuan Tanah Jahanam as women who become the main characters in filling various important roles in horror films, while in the connotation there are various meanings that the main female characters have social strengths such as courage in fighting patriarchal culture, supporting fellow women, working hard and being independent, from the denotation and connotation that the author found formed a myth in the form of elements of feminism that were constructed on the four main characters in the film. Researchers found that the main female character is no longer represented as a victim or a seductive and sexy ghost. Female characters are also not used as a means of supporting the success and interests of commercialism in a horror film.

Tenacious Stereotypes and Inflated Expectations. Review of the Book “Admiring the Academic Class: Reflection of the Social History of Soviet Science in Literature, Art and Public Rhetoric” by K. Frumkin

The review notes the significance of the monograph. In his book, the cultural studies scholar Konstantin Frumkin has collected unique materials on the evolution of the theme of science and scientists in Soviet (Russian) culture throughout the 20th century. The author develops two parallel story lines. The first line presents an analysis of the historical development of Russian science in the 20th century. The second line presents a detailed list of templates and stereotypes of the academic environment that have developed in art. It is shown that the most widespread and iconic in Soviet art is the representation of the positive character of scientist as a self-sacrificing enthusiast. Other stereotypes under discussion include scientists’ self-sacrifice and their fighting qualities which allow them to resist impostors in science. The themes of struggle with academic plagiarism and careerism were developed. Under the sign of state impatience and inflated expectations, the obligatory theme of the connection between science and production was elaborated. An important conclusion is drawn about the tenacity of stereotypes which were not hindered by the evolution of Soviet society’s attitude to science.

Tenor timbre images in the Giacomo Puccini’s operas: the experience of systematisation

The relevance of the article. An essential requirement for a musician-performer of any specialty is a deep understanding of the stylistics of the works performed, based on an analysis of the artistic and figurative foundations of the musical language. For opera singers, an important factor of professional level is knowledge of the basics of opera drama, the style of the era, possession of appropriate means of vocal expressiveness. Addressing the chosen topic determines the relevance and scientific novelty of the issues of this article, in which arias for tenor in the operas of Giacomo Puccini are considered systematically for the first time, in the context of the evolution of the composer's work. The main purpose of the article was to determine the criteria and implement the systematization of tenor arias in Giacomo Puccini's operas through the prism of their dramatic role in the focus of imagery, genre-stylistic and form-creating features, for further typology of the role of "Puccini's voice" — the tenor-spinto. The research methodology is based on the methods of complex-historical, typological, structural-functional and comparative analysis, which allows us to understand the individual approach of Giacomo Puccini to the creation of his "own musical theater", the dramaturgy of the image of an operatic character, and to determine the criteria for the systematization of operatic arias of the tenor role.
 Results and conclusions. The tenor timbre corresponds as much as possible to Puccini's "vision" of a theatrical character, so almost every opera has a main character with this type of voice. The tenor-spinto (lyrical-dramatic tenor) attracts the composer's special attention, which testifies to the composer's clear imagination of a certain timbre-image as a carrier of artistic and meaningful meaning. Aria, as a fragment of an opera that focuses the attention of the listener on the image of the hero and the voice of the performer, in the history of opera-drama has always created a dilemma between the need for continuous action and its stopping in solo episodes of the performers. Puccini's ability to combine thorough musical development with fixation on dramatically important moments is a special feature of his author's vision. The article proposes a systematization of tenor arias in Puccini's operas according to their place in the action of the play. Two large groups are distinguished: musical portraits of the hero and arias of spiritual elevation (the culminating episode of the character's development, often the climax of the opera). The criteria for the systematization of tenor arias are defined: artistic content (differentiation according to the emotional and figurative criterion); compositional and structural features (identification of common and individual features of the construction of musical forms); the predominant type of means of vocal expressiveness (features of Puchchin's melodism). This approach allows the performer to better understand the principles of Puccini's thinking as a playwright. A deep understanding of the stylistic principles of the composer's work, the stylistics of the author's writing, gives the singer the opportunity to create his own performance interpretation, which evokes a response from the audience and becomes a real artistic asset. Further research in the proposed scientific field will contribute to the expansion of ideas about the author's theater of Giacomo Puccini, will help to better understand the principles of Puccini's thinking as a playwright and the degree of his innovation.

Emerence from The Door, and the ‘Dog Woman’ as ‘Manly-Woman’ from Sexing the Cherry

This paper explores the concept of feminism and the representation of female characters in Hungarian and English novel, pointing out their similarities and dissimilarities regarding the period and different cultures in which they were written. Consideration is given to Magda Szabó’s The Door (1987) in Hungarian literature, and her contemporary Jeanette Winterson’s Sexing the Cherry (1989) in English literature. The ways in which these significant female authors deal with women’s problems, their position in society and their attributed roles and identities from different perspectives, are examined in detail. In each of these works, the female protagonist takes a stand against the identities and expected duties imposed on her as a woman and the abstract barriers constructed between female and male that aim to control her life. These works of fiction enable the female voice, so often disparaged and disregarded by men, to be heard; and enable us to observe how female writers characterize women. Therefore, these selected novels escape the precedent of male patriarchy and the representation of women in the works of male writers. What differentiates this study is to allow women’s voices from different cultures to be heard and their stories’ being transmitted from female authors who could provide an insight into the minds of women both in Britain and Hungary. Finally, critical points of feminism and the position of women in Hungarian and British society are compared so as to illustrate the persistent exclusion of women from active social life.

Siri Hustvedt’s "The Summer Without Men" and "The Blazing World"

This paper aims to analyse Siri Hustvedt’s The Summer Without Men (2011) and The Blazing World (2014) from the perspective of the female Künstlerroman or Künstlerinroman to show the convergences and divergences between Hustvedt’s contemporary artist heroines and twentieth-century ones. Through the methodological framework, I discuss Linda Huf’s study of the female artist novel and Evy Varsamopoulou’s subsequent revision of it, focusing on the protagonist’s interpersonal and social relationships. It could be concluded that Hustvedt’s portrayal of the artist heroine is still a result of living in a patriarchal system, but it opens the way for complex representations of female characters, establishing strong emotional bonds between women.

Representation in Media Accessibility

This article is a theoretical essay discussing the potential for the analysis of media accessibility contents and practices (AD, SDH, Sign Language Interpreting, etc.) through a queer feminist lens, which makes it possible to tackle the representation of diversity and non-normativity. Based on a literature review of previous works on the intersection of Queer and Feminist Studies, and Media Accessibility and Disability Studies, it shows the need for this approach based on the nature of media accessibility services, which primarily cater for people with disabilities, a historically excluded minority actively involved in the claim for socio-cultural space and representation. It then proposes a method of work and analysis that combines queer and feminist translation strategies – a method, which is subsequently applied to commercial instances of audio description of diversity. The conclusions highlight the need to bring accessibility closer to contemporary concerns in research, i.e., gender, queer, feminist, and postcolonial issues. Some future lines of research are proposed, such as the expansion of this model of analysis to other accessibility services or the call for interlinguistic studies. Lay summary This article presents theoretical essay which describes the potential of the analysis of media accessibility, those services for the visually impaired and the Deaf, such as audio description, subtitling and Sign Language Interpreting, through a queer feminist lens able to tackle the representation of non-normative characters and narratives: racialised or queer individuals, for instance. Based on a literature review that gathers previous works on Queer and Feminist Studies, and Media Accessibility and Disability Studies, it shows the need for this approach based on the nature of media accessibility services, which target people with disabilities, a minority actively involved in the claim for socio-cultural representation. It then proposes a method of work and analysis that combines queer and feminist translation strategies, which is subsequently applied to real excerpts of audio description of series. The conclusions highlight the need to bring accessibility closer to contemporary concerns in research, i.e. gender, queer, feminist, and postcolonial issues. Some future lines of research are proposed, such as the expansion of this model of analysis to other accessibility services or the call for studies combining different languages.

Exploration of the Character Representation of DNA Chiral Conformations and Deformations via a Curved Surface Discrete Frenet Frame.

While undergoing structural deformation, DNA experiences changes in the interactions between its internal base pairs, presenting challenges to conventional elastic methods. To address this, we propose the Discrete Critical State (DCS) model in this paper. This model combines surface discrete frame theory with gauge theory and Landau phase transition theory to investigate DNA's structural deformation, phase transitions, and chirality. Notably, the DCS model considers both the internal interactions within DNA and formulates an overall equation using unified physical and geometric parameters. By employing the discrete frame, we derive the evolution of physical quantities along the helical axis of DNA, including geodesic curvature, geodesic torsion, and others. Our findings indicate that B-DNA has a significantly lower free energy density compared to Z-DNA, which is in agreement with experimental observations. This research reveals that the direction of base pairs is primarily governed by the geodesic curve within the helical plane, aligning closely with the orientation of the base pairs. Moreover, the geodesic curve has a profound influence on the arrangement of base pairs at the microscopic level and effectively regulates the configuration and geometry of DNA through macroscopic-level free energy considerations.

Where Have All the Girls Gone? Examining Gender Representation Within Children’s Picture Books

ABSTRACT The underrepresentation of women and girls in children’s picture books and the use of gender stereotypes persists, as seen in a sample of 335 books published between 2010 and 2020. Previous research showed a significant lack of female representation in children’s picture books and stereotyped presentation. A pilot study was conducted to establish stereotypes for coding gender representation of characters in children’s picture books. This article shows that children’s picture books continue to be a significant source of gendered stereotypes, specifically that females should engage in domestic tasks and care while males should be aggressive and breadwinners. Additionally, this article identifies an ongoing disparity in numerical representation, with a female-to-male ratio of 1:1.35 in the picture books sampled. Future research should address the impact of this underrepresentation and stereotyping in picture books on a child population.

Transitivity Analysis on ‘The Clay Marble’ Novel by Minfong Ho

The need to study language use in literary texts arises due to linguistic complexity, writers’ linguistic choices and subjective understanding of the contextual meaning conveyed by writers. By using Halliday’s (1994) transitivity system, this study analysed ‘The Clay Marble’ novel which highlights the Cambodian Civil War and its implications through the representation of events and characters. By looking at the transitivity processes through the clausal structures and word choices, findings showed that all six processes were employed with material process (69 clauses) used most, followed by relational (42 clauses) and mental (31 clauses) process. Material and relational process is dominantly used to represent themes such as the effects of war, community life among refugees as well as the growth and character development of young refugees during the war. Therefore, transitivity analysis on literary texts helps to uncover writer’s language use and the contextual meaning conveyed through the writer’s linguistic choices.

Fusion of SoftLexicon and RoBERTa for Purpose-Driven Electronic Medical Record Named Entity Recognition

Recently, researchers have extensively explored various methods for electronic medical record named entity recognition, including character-based, word-based, and hybrid methods. Nonetheless, these methods frequently disregard the semantic context of entities within electronic medical records, leading to the creation of subpar-quality clinical knowledge bases and obstructing the discovery of clinical knowledge. In response to these challenges, we propose a novel purpose-driven SoftLexicon-RoBERTa-BiLSTM-CRF (SLRBC) model for electronic medical records named entity recognition. SLRBC leverages the fusion of SoftLexicon and RoBERTa to incorporate the word lexicon information from electronic medical records into the character representations, enhancing the model’s semantic embedding representations. This purpose-driven approach helps achieve a more comprehensive representation and avoid common segmentation errors, consequently boosting the accuracy of entity recognition. Furthermore, we employ the classical BiLSTM-CRF framework to capture contextual information of entities more effectively. In order to assess the performance of SLRBC, a series of experiments on the public datasets of CCKS2018 and CCKS2019 were conducted. The experimental results demonstrate that SLRBC can efficiently extract entities from Chinese electronic medical records. The model attains F1 scores of 94.97% and 85.40% on CCKS2018 and CCKS2019, respectively, exhibiting outstanding performance in the extraction and utilization efficiency of clinical information.

The Psychological Conflict of A Woman in Her Family as Seen in Jane Austen’s Persuasion

This research aims to describe the main character, the forms of psychological conflict get by the main character, and the main character efforts to resolve the psychological conflict in the novel Persuasion by Jane Austen. This research uses a literary psychology approach with Hippocrates character theory, Freud's personality, Freud's classification emotions, and Freud's ego defense mechanism. Method of collecting the data in this research is descriptive method. Method of analyzing the data in this research is a qualitative analysis method. Data collection technique of collecting the data in research obtained by library techniques, reading techniques, and notes-taking technique. The data analysis technique of analyzing data in this research is categorization step. The results of the research showed that the main character has a kind, patient, caring, act quickly and logistically, want to be love and love, pessimistic, and willing to sacrifice. The forms of psychological conflict that the main characters get are id, ego, superego, the concept of guilt, shame, hate, and love. The main character efforts to resolve psychological conflict get are regression, sublimation, estimation, repression, rationalization, reaction formation, and displacement.

Performing Nature’s Valuation: The art of natural capital accounting

Accounting for nature as capital is touted as a promising way of aligning environmental conservation with global capitalism by valuing nature like economic assets. Both its proponents and detractors speculate on what its promises might achieve if they were fully realized, i.e., if nature were actually accounted for, capitalized or commodified. There is, however, an enduring disjunction between vision and execution in this field: the promises simply do not materialize. Economizing nature proves to be extremely complex, raising not only technical hurdles but also intractable conceptual and ontological issues. We suggest taking a critical realist approach to natural capital accounting, acknowledging the inherent resistance of nature to being treated as capital. We consider the arenas dedicated to natural capital accounting as the sites of singular dramaturgical performances, whose effects extend beyond the integration of nature into economic decision making. Drawing on documents, interviews and observations at events dedicated to natural capital accounting, we highlight their theatrical character and reveal the effects they produce. This article aims to contribute to the investigation of environmental governance arenas by emphasizing their significance as venues for symbolic performance and achievement, extending beyond the traditional emphasis on regulatory and hoped-for environmental transformations.

Gender Representation in Children’s EFL Textbooks: A Comparison between Private Primary Schools and Language Centers in Fes

It is commonly assumed that the social and cultural values of societies are always ingrained in their educational systems, particularly in teaching and learning materials. Textbooks are one of the materials in which gender stereotypes have been documented worldwide. In the Moroccan context, children's EFL (English as a foreign language) textbooks used in primary schools may transmit typical patterns and discriminatory images about gender, which perpetuate more gender disparities. To this end, this research aims to determine the way gender is depicted in four EFL textbooks for the 4th grade published between 2012 and 2020 in Morocco. It also tends to exhibit the major differences between EFL textbooks used at language centers (Super Minds 4 and Let’s Go 4) and private primary schools (English Pass Pack 4 and Passport to English 4). The research is conducted both qualitatively and quantitatively. The results of this study show that there are equal gender representations in EFL textbooks used at language centers compared to textbooks used at primary schools in terms of nouns and proper names, pronouns, non-human character representations, and roles associated with males and females.

The Evolution of Female Character Representations in Video Games from a Feminism Perspective

The Evolution of Female Character Representations in Video Games from a Feminism Perspective

Remarks on Conjectures in Block Theory of Finite Groups

In this paper, we focus on Brauer’s height zero conjecture, Robinson’s conjecture, and Olsson’s conjecture regarding the direct product of finite groups and give relative versions of these conjectures by restricting them to the algebraic concept of the anchor group of an irreducible character. Consider G to be a finite simple group. We prove that the anchor group of the irreducible character of G with degree p is the trivial group, where p is an odd prime. Additionally, we introduce the relative version of the Green correspondence theorem with respect to this group. We then apply the relative versions of these conjectures to suitable examples of simple groups. Classical and standard theories on the direct product of finite groups, block theory, and character theory are used to achieve these results.

Glimpse of New Woman & Evolution of Feminine Power in Manju Kapur's "Difficult Daughters"

The purpose of this paper is to study the evolution of feminist power and the emergence of new woman in the novel "Difficult Daughter's". Manju Kapur is an eminent novelist who can be put in the category of those women writers who brought a remarkable transformation in the representation of women characters. As a woman she is concerned with the problems of Indian woman in the patriarchal family and deals with various feminist Issues as gender equality, freedom from discrimination,right to education, marriage, abortion, autonomy, women's property rights, oppression etc. In the novel *Difficult Daughter's* Virmati is a typical daughter to her mother as she opposes the patriarchal norms for self identity. Women are discriminated and devoid of their basic rights in the patriarchal society Her female protagonists are educated women with independent thinking who follow their own ideology. Her novels present the position of women and their struggle in the contemporary Indian society .As a woman, she successfully highlights the feminist struggle against patriarchy, exploitation. Her female characters reveal feminist power and represent the new women who are thinking, questioning and rational beings and raise a voice for basic rights, self identity and Survival.