Graphic Production Research Articles

Implementation of GIS Application for Water Company Needs

The process of designing and implementing industrial models (or GIS) for underground utility infrastructure (UUI) includes a number of activities related to the analysis of source data to identify objects, pre‑processing the initial data, creating spatial database and development of relevant graphic (maps) and text (registers) products. Nowadays, every organization needs to be flexible and able to respond in a timely and adequate manner to the changes that occur in a complex and dynamic external environment. This is the reason why the paper proposes an approach for the design and development of a geoinformation system (GIS), through the capabilities of modern software for a part of the water supply and sewerage network for the needs of Water Supply and Sewerage Berkovitsa LTD. The purpose of the paper and GIS for maintaining data on UUI is to provide access to digital data for underground utility infrastructure and their characteristics, as well as to assist in the easy creation of references to underground utility infrastructure data in digital and graphic form.

“Media dictionary” as an instrument of national language consciousness study

The purpose of the research is the presentation of a new lexical graphic product, the idea of which is developed by the initiative group of scientists from the High school of journalism and mass communications in St. Petersburg State University. Nowadays there is a wide range of scientific researches devoted to the national language worldview. But there has not yet been an attempt of systematic fixation and linguistic analysis of word complex, building such a part as media view. Meanwhile, modern media are trend-setters for both the language sphere and the mental field. “Media dictionary”, as we believe, is called to, firstly, create a register of words which may be considered the key ones for this moment; secondly, reveal the semantic changes, happening to these words in media discourse; thirdly, follow the further life of the key words in the language. Such work is of a certain interest for completely different reading groups: casual consumers of media content, students of philology and journalism, those who study Russian as a foreign lan-guage, journalists to correct their speech behaviour. But most of all our edition is addressed to the scientific society, because it is meant to become an irreplaceable instrument for studying the cur-rent condition of the language worldview, to reflect the contemporary stage of the thinking history, to fix the last dynamic processes in the lexical system. We find it important to create the dictionary edition in the interactive form, which is correlated to the character of the dictionary: key words are very dynamic and changeable units. The work contains the project of the dictionary article, which helps to present the future lexical graphic edition.

GRAPHIC DISCIPLINES AND DIGITAL PRODUCTION INTERDISCIPLINARY CONNECTIONS

In the article it is considered a topical issue of identification and ordering graphic disciplines and digital production (additive) technologies interdisciplinary connections. It is proposed to include these interdisciplinary connections in the course work program content for graphic disciplines in the technical universities. A new analytical model of the educational process for graphic disciplines is developed. Based on this model interdisciplinary connections with digital production (additive) technologies knowledge area are formulated.

‘No nos representan’: Political Imagination in Gran Hotel Abismo (2016) by Marcos Prior and David Rubín

In a time of popular uprisings such as 15M and the Indignados movement, the Spanish cartoonists Marcos Prior and David Rubin visually recuperate Gyorgy Lukacs’s ‘ideological construct’, the ‘Grand Abyss Hotel’ (1984), in their graphic novel Gran Hotel Abismo (2016) to criticize similar contradictions and forms of exploitation that Lukacs addresses, but in the context of contemporary neoliberal Spain. In this article I address the political imagination in the graphic production of contemporary Spain and, particularly, in the graphic novel Gran Hotel Abismo by Prior y Rubin. In this sense I examine how the political shapes visual devices and cultural artifacts, and how the political repertoire of images, symbols and metaphors expresses three processes: precarization, memorialization and legitimation, and how these processes, as forms of politicization, are respectively articulated. Ultimately, I aim to analyse how political imagination affects graphic narratives such as Gran Hotel Abismo and how these narratives ‘interpellate’ readers and share a repertoire of the social movements in contemporary Spain that are used as tools of politicization in our society.

Nonverbal Communication and Psychopathology in Kidney Transplant Recipients

Transplant recipients have difficulty expressing, identifying, and describing their emotional experiences. The Machover human figure test allows us to bring out the deepest contents of a patient's personality, which are normally hidden and not explained to structured quantitative tests. The study analyzed possible situations of distress and possible symptoms of psychopathology in kidney transplant recipients, emerged from the projective test of the human figure and not easily verbalized to the common standardized tests.The sample included 80 kidney transplant patients (51 men and 29 women; mean age, 47.74 [SD, 12.39] years) during follow-up visits at 12 months after transplant. The Machover test was used to evaluate body image, affective aspects, and personality variables by projective method; the Symptom Checklist-90-R was used for the evaluation of possible psychopathology, and the 36-Item Short Form Health Survey was used for the assessment of perceived quality of life. Resultsshowed that the more anxiety there is in the human figure test, the less somatization dimensions (ANX/SOM R = −331, P < .05), depression (ANX/DEP R = −326, P < .05), and the global index of psychic symptomatology (ANX/GSI R = −367, P < .05) of the Symptom Checklist-90-R are present.This research has confirmed the hypothesis that the spontaneous graphic production of the recipients, through the projective methods, allows them to identify and deepen their psychological contents and to activate and maintain a good psychophysical balance post transplant.

Divergent Memories of Tumen Shan-shui

Focusing on the interplay between memory and place, this article examines the rationale behind the use of axonometric drawings (axons) in a geographical research study of the Tumen/Tuman River region encompassing the borders shared by China, Russia and North Korea. The concepts of “memory of place” and “place of memory” guide the structure of this project and the flow of this article. “Memory of place” emphasises the lived experience of our physical senses, and helps determine the great potential of visual methodologies in the fields of geographical and landscape research and study. Drawn up using the graphic production techniques of abstracting, foregrounding, highlighting and juxtaposing, axons avail themselves of and inform both realist and idealist states of mind. In contrast, “place of memory” references a particular type of materiality and helps us understand Tumen Shan-shui as a library of memories that reveals a profusion of contested aesthetic, cultural and political meanings. Axons serve to tell narratives revealing desires, actions and undertakings that have shaped and continue to shape the substance of the memory sites in question including infrastructure, architecture and signage. Initially adopted by the author as a medium for recording and communicating due to security restrictions imposed in the border areas in question, the creation of axons generated new insights on methods of documentation in landscape research, and the places and landscapes themselves.

El panorama gráfico arquitectónico de los ochenta. Arquitecturas de escape y dibujos de resistencia

&lt;p&gt;Durante los años ochenta del siglo pasado, se dieron las condiciones para reivindicar un pensamiento crítico capaz de extender el discurso de la arquitectura a la sociedad. Desde algunas escuelas de arquitectura que apostaron por una arquitectura más diversa y culturalmente accesible al gran público, se procuró el acceso a su producción gráfica mediante iniciativas de difusión que incluían publicaciones, exposiciones y otros eventos. A través de un dibujo más lúdico que había incorporado elementos de la publicidad o la cultura pop, una nueva generación de arquitectos, pretendían expresar su desacuerdo con el corsé estético impuesto por los postulados de la modernidad. En su diversidad, estas propuestas gráficas poseen una serie de elementos comunes: la transgresión de los sistemas de representación convencionales, la inclusión de elementos dinámicos mediante la incorporación de escenas al más puro estilo cinematográfico, y el deseo de introducir narraciones paralelas al discurso arquitectónico.&lt;/p&gt;

Conocimientos sobre dibujo, escritura y numerales en la producción gráfica materno-infantil, Argentina

(analítico) Este estudio examina los conocimientos sobre las propiedades formales y la función referencial del dibujo, la escritura y los numerales desplegados por madres y sus niños y niñas (2 ½ años y 4 años) en una tarea de producción conjunta. Se construyó un sistema de codificación mediante el método comparativo constante; se analizó mediante pruebas no paramétricas. Las díadas del grupo de 2 ½ años conversaron sobre la función referencial de los tres sistemas, especialmente del dibujo. A los 4 años se incrementó el interés en la escritura, la consideración de las propiedades formales de la escritura y los numerales; así como las producciones infantiles independientes de dibujo y escritura. El estudio mostró a la producción gráfica como una interacción educativa en la familia que estimula la apropiación temprana de las representaciones externas.

Chocolates, jabones y otros reclamos.

El Boom de la Publicidad coincide con la mejora de los procedimientos de producción gráfica sobre cartón, sobre hojalata e incluso sobre cerámica. La exposición que presenta el “Museu de Disseny de Barcelona” hace un recorrido por la publicidad de productos anunciados en escaparates, mostradores, en paredes o en cualquier otro lugar entre los años 1890 y 1950. Son presentadas más de 250 obras de artistas gráficos que permiten observar las estrategias de los contenidos formales y textuales usados por la publicidad de esa época.

Intersticios de la posmodernidad en el manga mexicano Drem

Introducción. En este artículo se analiza el manga[1] mexicano Drem, creado y publicado en México en 2008 por la diseñadora Lorena Velasco Terán. Se parte del supuesto de que Drem es una historieta mexicana en cuyo argumento se ve presente la posmodernidad como dominante cultural, aun cuando conserva rasgos de la narrativa moderna. Objetivo. Analizar la iconografía y gráfica del manga mexicano Drem para identificar los elementos propios de la modernidad y posmodernidad presentes en la narrativa visual y escrita. Método. Análisis de la imagen basado en el paradigma de inferencias indiciales de Carlo Ginzburg, por medio del cual se identificaron detalles en la gráfica de la fuente primaria para después rastrear sus referentes históricos y culturales. Finalmente, se analizan dichos referentes por medio de las propuestas de Jameson y García Canclini. Resultados. La narración retoma elementos del cuento fantástico moderno y del posmoderno, los cuales se entremezclan y separan por momentos. Del cuento fantástico moderno, la narración retoma el sueño y el psicoanálisis para ubicar lo sobrenatural en el interior del sujeto. Del cuento fantástico posmoderno, la narración emplea la multiplicidad del yo del sujeto, el fenómeno religioso intercalado con lo psicoanalítico, la ruptura espacial y temporal. Conclusiones. En este manga mexicano la posmodernidad se presenta como dominante cultural en los primeros seis volúmenes; en el último predomina la modernidad. Drem es un producto creado en un contexto en el que el diálogo entre los diferentes productos gráficos de culturas lejanas y distantes se acentúa y da paso a creaciones nuevas donde la fragmentación y las mezclas espaciales-temporales son constantes en narrativas que se traslapan y rompen como reflejo del mundo posmoderno creado por las borrosas fronteras actuales.

Neuroimaging supports the representational nature of the earliest human engravings.

The earliest human graphic productions, consisting of abstract patterns engraved on a variety of media, date to the Lower and Middle Palaeolithic. They are associated with anatomically modern and archaic hominins. The nature and significance of these engravings are still under question. To address this issue, we used functional magnetic resonance imaging to compare brain activations triggered by the perception of engraved patterns dating between 540 000 and 30 000 years before the present with those elicited by the perception of scenes, objects, symbol-like characters and written words. The perception of the engravings bilaterally activated regions along the ventral route in a pattern similar to that activated by the perception of objects, suggesting that these graphic productions are processed as organized visual representations in the brain. Moreover, the perception of the engravings led to a leftward activation of the visual word form area. These results support the hypothesis that these engravings have the visual properties of meaningful representations in present-day humans, and could have served such purpose in early modern humans and archaic hominins.

Episodios de la cultura gráfica local

Ilustrar e Imprimir. Una historia de la cultura gráfica en BuenosAires, 1830-1930 incluye ocho estudios desarrollados porinvestigadores de distintas disciplinas sobre episodios dela cultura gráfica local. Libros, publicaciones periódicasy álbumes ilustrados, afiches, mapas y tarjetas postalesfueron generados durante un período industrial signadopor profundos cambios culturales. En este marco, se focalizaen el análisis de los fines sociales, políticos y económicosque obraron en los procesos de producción de los objetosgráficos, lo cual implica una doble interpretación quesupone estudiar los sentidos culturales e históricos, asícomo los métodos de producción gráfica.

Tendencies of Usage of Geometrical Ornaments in Graphic Design Projects of Ukraine in the XXI ct.

The aim of the research is to outline the present tendencies of usage of geometrical ornaments functioning as symbols of national culture and cultural identity of the Ukrainian nation. Methods of research. The basic method applied in the research is method of complex analysis. Scientific novelty. The novelty of the research lies in discovering the tendencies of usage of geometrical ornaments in modern graphic design projects and in identifying the methods of transformation of Ukrainian geometrical ornamentation. It has been found out that in the sphere of brand identity geometrical elements of ornaments, losing their connection with traditional technologies of implementation, come under influence of visual transformations, namely, switching to line graphics, using contrform effect and pixelation effect. At the same time in the sphere of sign formation sign elements of the graphical ornaments largely obtain abundance of colouring or become subject to colored characteristics of letter and type elements (logos). In billposters and posters an integral series of geometrical ornamentation in both one-colour and two-colour (red and black) versions of execution is used. In other advertising vehicles and graphic products, such as packaging and advertising booklets, one-colour, or monochrome implementation of ornamental ribbon is most frequently found, which makes it a unique marker of national culture and national traditions. Conclusions. The research proved the idea that geometrical ornaments and their individual elements are used in a wide range of graphic design products. It should be noted though that most of these elements fall onto the sphere of sign formation, brand identity, billposters and posters, and far less are used in packaging and print advertising products. The design of modern advertising and graphic products still does not sufficiently use the potential of the sign elements of Ukrainian geometrical ornaments. In the course of the research it has also emerged that graphic designers in their projects almost do not use motifs and compositional groups from the art of the Ukrainian pysanka (painting of Easter eggs).

Data visualization heuristics for the physical sciences

Data visualization – that is, the graphical representation of numerical information – is foundational to the scientific enterprise. A broad literature base is available providing rules, guidelines, and heuristics for authors of scientific literature to assist in the production of scientific graphics that are readable and intuitive. However, most of the available recent publications are in the bio-, psycho-, or climate sciences literature. In this paper, we address this deficiency and provide data visualization heuristics tuned to the specific needs of the physical sciences, and particularly materials sciences, community. We enumerate six general rules and provide examples of bad and improved data graphics, and provide source code to illustrate the generation of the improved figures. The six rules we enumerate are: (1) Generate figures programmatically; (2) Multivariate data calls for multivariate representation; (3) Showing the data beats mean ± standard deviation; (4) Choose colormaps that match the nature of the data; (5) Use small multiples; and (6) Don't use vendor exports naïvely.

La construcción de noticias en comunidades de aprendizaje

En este artículo se atiende a la importancia de diseñar y considerar tareas de aprendizaje específicas para la formación periodística. El estudio estuvo conformado por 23 asistentes a un taller de producción gráfica realizado en un contexto universitario. Los datos y materiales de recolección fueron observaciones de clases y el análisis de ocho tareas de aprendizaje. Entre los resultados, encontramos que las tareas de aprendizaje propuestas permitieron el trabajo con problemas de aprendizaje genuinos basados en la construcción de noticias y el desarrollo de competencias y habilidades propias del periodista.

Continuous Gradient Temperature Raman Spectroscopy of Fish Oils Provides Detailed Vibrational Analysis and Rapid, Nondestructive Graphical Product Authentication.

Background: Gradient temperature Raman spectroscopy (GTRS) applies the continuous temperature gradients utilized in differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) to Raman spectroscopy, providing a new means for rapid high throughput material identification and quality control. Methods: Using 20 Mb three-dimensional data arrays with 0.2 °C increments and first/second derivatives allows complete assignment of solid, liquid and transition state vibrational modes. The entire set or any subset of the any of the contour plots, first derivatives or second derivatives can be utilized to create a graphical standard to quickly authenticate a given source. In addition, a temperature range can be specified that maximizes information content. Results: We compared GTRS and DSC data for five commercial fish oils that are excellent sources of docosahexaenoic acid (DHA; 22:6n-3) and eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA; 20:5n-3). Each product has a unique, distinctive response to the thermal gradient, which graphically and spectroscopically differentiates them. We also present detailed Raman data and full vibrational mode assignments for EPA and DHA. Conclusion: Complex lipids with a variety of fatty acids and isomers have three dimensional structures based mainly on how structurally similar sites pack. Any localized non-uniformity in packing results in discrete “fingerprint” molecular sites due to increased elasticity and decreased torsion.

Graphical Product Quality and Muscle Activity in Children With Mild Disabilities Drawing on a Horizontally or Vertically Oriented Tablet.

We compared performance level and muscle activity patterns during shape copying and tracing in two positions, while sitting at a desk and while standing in front of a wall, between typically developing (TD) preschool children and children with mild disabilities (MD). Twenty-two TD children (8 boys, 14 girls; mean [M] age = 5.2 yr, standard deviation [SD] = 0.1) and 13 children with MD (9 boys, 4 girls; M age = 4.9 yr, SD = 0.5) participated in this study. The children performed faster and smoother movements when copying shapes on the vertical surface, with no reduction of accuracy, than on the horizontal surface. Children with MD exerted their upper trapezius while performing the short tasks on the vertical surface compared with their muscle activity on the horizontal surface. Incorporating short copying or drawing tasks on a vertical surface may increase the control of proximal muscles and ease graphomotor performance in children with MD.

Teachers of Students with Visual Impairments Share Experiences and Advice for Supporting Students in Understanding Graphics

Introduction Knowing how to gather information from graphics and to use that information to solve mathematics problems is an important skill. Prior research indicates that many students with visual impairments face considerable challenges when attempting to locate information in math graphics. Little is known about how teachers of students with visual impairments support their students in acquiring graphics skills. Methods Eleven teachers of visually impaired students participated in focus groups. Sessions were audio-recorded and transcribed. Themes were identified. Results The teachers described the importance of individualizing instruction for the student, teaching a systematic approach, and ensuring that graphics are clear to them. Discussion From an early age, visually impaired students need explicit instruction in how to access information in graphics. The use of prescribed low vision devices, manipulatives, and systematic instruction are integral to student success, as are the design and production of clear and accurate graphics. Implications for practitioners Teachers of visually impaired students utilize a variety of strategies to support students in accessing information in graphics. A curriculum and guidelines to assist them in supporting a wide range of learners would be valuable to the field of vision loss.

Историзмв современном настенномлисте старообрядцев часовенного согласия

The article is devoted to analysis of reflection of historism (historical knowledge) in modern poster of Old Believers of Chasovenn’s agree. Recently, the religious center of this traditionalist school of Russian Orthodox Christianity, which is located in the remote Siberian preenisei taiga on the Dubtches river, shows an example of rapid development. This, in particular, is manifested in the creation and distribution of graphical products ― traditional icons and new posters devoted to religious issues. At the same time, posters to a large extent are a revival of the traditional pre-revolutionary Old Believer lubok (folk picture). However, the new splint differs markedly from its predecessor, both from the point of view of the technology of creation and from the point of view of its content. Such visual and textual materials were recorded during the complex expeditions of 2016, 2017 and 2018. in the space of pre-Enisey (Tuva, Khakassia, Krasnoyarsk Krai). The researched artwork can be divided into different types according to the genre criterion. A special place in their row are hold by paintings, devoted to different faces and plots of the history of Chasovenn’s agree, which is understood by his followers as a true church. At the same time, the history of own school of Old Believers is considered by them in the context of the all-Russian and world problematics. Therefore, different components and elements of the history of the external socio-cultural, economic and political environment are undergo to interpretations and valuating. The research of new Old Believers’ posters showed that the modern world view and the culture of the Yenisei’s Chasovennye, in spite of the powerful influence of the external society, preserves and develops its own version of the world, national and church history. At the same time, in the capacity of the history of the true church, the history of its agree (the school of the Old Believers as a traditionalist version of Russian Orthodox Christianity) is perceived. It is characteristic that this specific historism is combined with an keen religious criticism of the modern society enthusiasm with excessive technologism, which is associated with sinful modernity and separation from pious history. At the same time, in their doctrine and the cultural product of the Chasovennye the important bring a sense are dichotomous contradistinction of righteousness-sin, skete-city, nature-technology, history-modernity.

Laser‐Induced Forward Transfer: Fundamentals and Applications

AbstractLaser‐induced forward transfer (LIFT) is a digital printing technique that uses a pulsed laser beam as the driving force to project material from a donor thin film toward the receiving substrate whereon that material will be finally deposited as a voxel. This working principle allows LIFT to operate with both solid and liquid donor films, which provides the technique with an unprecedented broad spectrum of printable materials, and thus makes it very competitive over other digital technologies, like inkjet printing. It is not only that LIFT can access a much wider range of ink viscosities and loading particle sizes; the possibility of printing from solid films allows the single‐step printing of multilayers and entire devices, and even makes possible 3D printing. This versatility translates, in turn, into a broad field of applications, from graphics production to printed electronics, from the fabrication of chemical sensors to tissue engineering. This monograph provides an extensive review of the LIFT technique, from its origins to the most recent achievements, focusing on the fundamental aspects of both its working principle and transfer dynamics, as well as on its broad range of applications.