Modern Representations Research Articles

Machine learning for semi-automated scoping reviews

Scoping reviews are a type of research synthesis that aim to map the literature on a particular topic or research area. Though originally intended to provide a quick overview of a field of research, scoping review teams have been overwhelmed in recent years by a deluge of available research literature. This work presents the interdisciplinary development of a semi-automated scoping review methodology aimed at increasing the objectivity and speed of discovery in scoping reviews as well as the scalability of the scoping review process to datasets with tens of thousands of publications. To this end we leverage modern representation learning algorithms based on transformer models and established clustering methods to discover evidence maps, key themes within the data, knowledge gaps within the literature, and assess the feasibility of follow-on systematic reviews within a certain topic. To demonstrate the wide applicability of this methodology, we apply the here proposed semi-automated method to two separate datasets, a Virtual Human dataset with more than 30,000 peer-reviewed academic articles and a smaller Self-Avatar dataset with less than 500 peer-reviewed articles. To enable collaboration, we provide full access to analyzed datasets, keyword and author word clouds, as well as interactive evidence maps.

Unpeeling the banana dance: The quare fugitivity of Joséphine Baker

Unpeeling the banana dance: The quare fugitivity of Joséphine Baker

Max Weber’s typology of medieval cities and the origins of modern representation

ABSTRACT From the very outset of his work, Max Weber shows an intense interest for medieval cities and their role of transition to the modern era. His analysis focuses at first on economic aspects, but it progressively entails a sociological inquiry which provides an articulated typology of different kinds of cities in the Middle Ages, and a political analysis highlighting the origin of representative institutions at that time. In general, life in the city guaranteed individual freedom and instated a process of democratization, which simultaneously required new offices and institutions. In this context, Weber takes into account Italian local parliaments as well as the process of formation of the English Parliament. He also stresses the function exerted by the guilds in order to ensure forms of political organization and a purposeful representation of interests.

MATHEMATICAL DESCRIPTION AND ALGORITHM FOR SOLVING THE MODEL OF THE IONITE REGENERATION PROCESS IN THE ION EXCHANGE METHOD OF WATER SOFTENING

Based on the modern representation of the water softening process by the ion exchange method, modeling was carried out, an algorithm was developed and the ionite regeneration process was calculated in a water softening plant with a fixed ionite layer. To solve the system of equations of the model, special, but simple enough for use in engineering calculations, techniques and methods have been developed and applied. The constructed model and its solution algorithm can be used to predict the process of ionite regeneration in an ion exchange apparatus. It can also be used to calculate the time of the ionite regeneration process.

The Rise of Ping-Pong as a Sport in France (1932–1933)

Abstract Following the 1929 stock market crash, the “fashionable” sport of ping-pong in France took advantage of the European crisis and international restructuring to recruit foreign players and promote the image of table tennis as a legitimate sport. During a period in which hygiene and eugenics were promoted through the practice of collective and orderly gymnastics, table tennis was a driving force behind a shift in French physical culture. Modern representations of sport are analyzed through the corporal values conveyed (speed and sweat), which contributed to the adoption of a more energetic lifestyle that was still uncommon in French physical culture. Moreover, the transformation of ping-pong into a sport between 1932 and 1933 was also visible in the display of the standardization of its equipment, the work of the written press, and manufacturers and retailers, even if the latter sometimes used it as a simple promotional technique.

Radio espacio estacion broadcast Fordlândia

On September 16th and 17th, 2017, the nomadic online radio station radioee broadcast from Fordlândia, today a district of the city of Aveiro, state of Pará, in the Brazilian Amazonia. Produced by artist Augustina Woodgate along with cultural producers Stephanie Sherman and Hernan Woodgate and several other partners in every new location, Radio Espacio Estacion/radioee was conceived as a multilingual, mobile, online radio station set up around 24-hour/36-hour long events broadcast from different parts of the world to discuss issues of migration, mobility, transportation, environment, and climate change. In Transmissão Fordlândia, radioee revisited the legendary history of the site’s foundation by the Ford Motor Company in 1927. The broadcast questions the official narrative of desertion after Ford’s enterprise failed, which implies ideas of underdevelopment associated with a colonial modern economy of representation of Latin America. Adopting live and online radio communication, based on immediacy, synchronicity, and accessibility, Transmissão Fordlândia combined research, interviews, and first-hand descriptions of the site in a continual multilingual conversation, producing a non-linear narrative enriched with a bustling soundscape of people, birds, water, motorcycles, boats, and everyday activities, transmitted to a global audience. This paper investigates how Transmissão Fordlândia articulates an ecocritical approach to space through site-oriented practices and sonic-spatial imagination, challenging colonial modern representations of tropical landscapes based on spatial rationalization and the duality of culture–nature. This paper also explores the sonic-spatial effects of live radio transmission as an aesthetic device for imagining place.

Classification of 1-absorbing comultiplication modules over a pullback ring

One of the aims of the modern representation theory is to solve classification problems for subcategories of modules over a unitary ring R. In this paper, we introduce the concept of 1-absorbing comultiplication modules and classify 1-absorbing comultiplication modules over local Dedekind domains and we study it in detail from the classification problem point of view. The main purpose of this article is to classify all those indecomposable 1-absorbing comultiplication modules with finite-dimensional top over pullback rings of two local Dedekind domains and establish a connection between the 1-absorbing comultiplication modules and the pure-injective modules over such rings. In fact, we extend the definition and results given in [17] to a more general 1-absorbing comultiplication modules case.

Girls’ Fashion and Khaleeji Pop Culture: The cultural fortunes of the gambūʿa, from hairdo to Internet meme

In the late 2000s, the gambūʿa, a beehive-style hairdo, made its apparition in the cities of the Arab Gulf. Sported by young women and characterized by a large hump above the head, it gave the impression of long and voluminous hair under the veil. The extravagant height of the hairdo and its association with the consumerist environment of Khaleeji commercial spaces soon made it the object of various condemnations. As the gambūʿa started declining in popularity, it simultaneously gained in visibility on social media, effectively turning into an Internet meme. Based on interviews conducted at the time with young Emirati women, and on an analysis of online cultural productions dedicated to the gambūʿa, this paper explores how the cultural fortunes of this controversial hairdo shed light on some of the tensions at play in contemporary Khaleeji societies, notably around representations of morality, national identity, and modernity. These tensions took on a gendered dimension, targeting specifically the category of “girls” (al-banāt). As the gambūʿa turned into a meme, however, the meanings attributed to the hairdo shifted, making it an object of online humor and ridicule rather than moral blame, and allowing young women to participate in the cultural productions around the hairdo. Ultimately, I show how the gambūʿa became an element of cultural intimacy through its integration into a regional Khaleeji pop culture.

Connections between Deep Equilibrium and Sparse Representation Models with Application to Hyperspectral Image Denoising.

In this study, the problem of computing a sparse representation of multi-dimensional visual data is considered. In general, such data e.g., hyperspectral images, color images or video data consists of signals that exhibit strong local dependencies. A new computationally efficient sparse coding optimization problem is derived by employing regularization terms that are adapted to the properties of the signals of interest. Exploiting the merits of the learnable regularization techniques, a neural network is employed to act as structure prior and reveal the underlying signal dependencies. To solve the optimization problem Deep unrolling and Deep equilibrium based algorithms are developed, forming highly interpretable and concise deep-learning-based architectures, that process the input dataset in a block-by-block fashion. Extensive simulation results, in the context of hyperspectral image denoising, are provided, which demonstrate that the proposed algorithms outperform significantly other sparse coding approaches and exhibit superior performance against recent state-of-the-art deep-learning-based denoising models. In a wider perspective, our work provides a unique bridge between a classic approach, that is the sparse representation theory, and modern representation tools that are based on deep learning modeling.

REPRESENTASI BABAD PASANGGRAHAN MADUSITA MENGENAI MODERNITAS DAN HEDONISME PADA AWAL ABAD XX

This research aims to analyse the representation of Babad Pasanggrahan Madusita on modernity and hedonism. The hedonist lifestyle of the royal elite was influenced by modernity in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. During the Paku Buwana X era, Surakarta Hadiningrat Sultanate carried out modernisation. This study used qualitative data analysis methods using the point of view of cultural studies. The research problems are how modernity characterises the lifestyle of hedonism in Babad Pasanggrahan Madusita, the form of representation, and the meaning of Babad Pasanggrahan Madusita. Several previous studies focused on aspects of a manuscript’s locality, moral values, education, culture, and religion. Therefore, this study has arranged to fill the gap in the study of the representation of modernity and hedonism in manuscripts influenced by discourses resulting from the interaction of Javanese culture and European culture. The results showed that Babad Pasanggrahan Madusita was written when modernity became the zeitgeist. At the end of the nineteenth century, hedonism was the lifestyle of the aristocrats, supported by modernisation. The form of Babad Pasanggrahan Madusita was represented by the narrative of the journey and recording of Pesanggrahan Madusita’s assets. The meaning was related to the progress and splendour during the period of Paku Buwana X as the Emperor of Java in the modern era.

Scraton Method for Solving nth Order State-Space Equations of Linear Continuous-Time Control Systems

The paper presents a developed method with algorithms written in Matlab language to find the numerical solution of nth-order state-space equations (SSE) of linear continuous-time control system by using Scraton method. State-space equation is the modern representation to analysis continuous-time system. It was treated numerically to the single-input-single-output (SISO) systems as well as multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) systems by using fourth-order Scraton method. Scraton method employed to find the output values of the state-space equations. Comparisons between the numerical and exact results are given for some numerical examples to conciliate the accuracy of the proposed method.

Is the Reindeer Run Endless?

Abstract This article presents an anthropological analysis of the relationship between landscape, culture, and identity of Indigenous Peoples of the North of Yakutia. The topic of the study is focused on an important marker and resource of identity that encompasses the landscapes of the North, its physical, geographical, natural, and climatic features, the integrated system of northern occupations and traditional practices—the domestic reindeer. This research also considers various cultural texts and personal and collective narratives of the “imagination” and “experience” of the cold space associated with reindeer in the construction and modern representations of the ethnicity of Indigenous Peoples of the North.

Wragge-Morley, Alexander. Aesthetic Science: Representing Nature in the Royal Society of London, 1650–1720

Wragge-Morley, Alexander. <i>Aesthetic Science: Representing Nature in the Royal Society of London, 1650–1720</i>

Blacksmithing Art in the Cultural and Art Environment of Ukraine

The paper analyzes the body of literature on the blacksmithing art and delineates the main lines ofstudy of the latter as a phenomenon of contemporary culture and art. Reconsideration of the experience of the blacksmiths, both craftsmen and artists, contributes to revealing the national, regional, and local cultural features, asthe culture of blacksmithing art, on the one hand, islinked to the past, and on the other hand it serves as a modern representation and symbol of the nation. The aim of the work is to study Ukrainian blacksmithing art in the sociocultural context of contemporary time. Methodologically, the research was based on generalization, on the systemic-structural, and structural-functional methods that enabled revealing and examining the traditional and innovative basis of Ukrainian blacksmithing art in the cultural and art environment of Ukraine.

Aïda Muluneh’s Photographic Memory

This article contextualizes the work of contemporary photographer Aïda Muluneh within a broader discussion of Ethiopia’s recent political climate. The author argues that Muluneh visually interprets narratives of place, exile, and agency, with particular regard to issues of displacement, by showing photographic representation of Ethiopian modernity structured around Muluneh’s invocation of her personal history and reference to Ethiopia’s many ethnic groups. For the purpose of clarifying the term “modern,” this assignation refers to the demarcation of time in Ethiopia’s history beginning with the Zemema Mesafint, or Era of Princes (ca. 1760– 1855), which laid the groundwork for the emergence of centralized imperial power that was later dissolved by the 1974 revolution. The article explores the consequences of state power and nationalism post-revolution in definitions of modernity as well the political messages Muluneh embeds within her images.

Constructing and Deconstructing the Modern Hero in The Dark Knight Trilogy

This article aims to reveal the various representations of modernity and postmodernity in Christopher Nolan’s Batman Begins (2005), The Dark Knight (2008) and The Dark Knight Rises (2012). Across all three movies, it is asserted that Batman’s values correspond to modernity specifically in terms of his self-reflexive construction of the hero persona and his relationship with Gotham city. Furthermore, the way in which the villains confront Batman in a deconstructionist manner corresponds to the postmodern critique of modern values and constructs. What continues to make Batman a hero are precisely said to be his efforts and belief in modern values, both in his personal and social construction, despite facing endless accusations throughout the movies.

Report of How Zen Became Chan: Pre-modern and Modern Representations of a Transnational East Asian Buddhist Tradition (July 29–31, 2022)

Report of How Zen Became Chan: Pre-modern and Modern Representations of a Transnational East Asian Buddhist Tradition (July 29–31, 2022)

Tech-based Prototypes in Climate Governance: On Scalability, Replicability, and Representation

‘[T]he “mainstream” of global governance has changed course’ and in so doing, might well have ‘outrun the standard tools of critical, progressive, and reform-minded international lawyers’, Fleur Johns wrote in 2019. It is especially the critical tools of ‘appeals to history, context, language [and] the grassroots’ in response to universalist planning that Johns sees absorbed in the turn to prototyping as a new ‘style’ of governance. In this article, we take on this observation and explore how the ‘lean start-up mentality’ that Johns described has taken hold of tech-based climate governance. We base our reflections on the ‘Tech for Our Planet’ challenge that took place over 2021 and was showcased at the UNFCCC COP26 in Glasgow. While a turn ‘from planning to prototypes’ is observable, we question how exactly this ‘change of course’ affects the high modernist style of global governance and its critique by international lawyers. The ‘digital solutions for climate challenges’ that were showcased in Glasgow are indeed based on localized experiments with data science, thereby seemingly overcoming high modernist impulses towards universalist ideals. Yet, these experimental prototypes are developed with the ambition of being replicable and scaled up, to become a stack of tools deployable in any given scenario. This form of scaling up neither breaks with modernist aspirations based on technologically-mediated replicability—of moving the same logic inscribed in code to different sites and contexts—nor with a modernist understanding of knowledge as universal in its application. In our analysis, the determining feature is then not so much a matter of planning or prototyping in ideal type forms, but of replicability of knowledge production and scalability of technological know-how that underpin both planning and prototyping. Prototyping in the start-up space does not depart from, but rather reinscribes, a modernist representation of the human subject that forces its epistemological lens onto a world of nonhuman objects amenable to governance. Critical international lawyers’ toolkits must therefore be reconfigured with a focus on a governance style of disembodied knowledge production that runs through both planning and prototyping.

Alperin weight conjecture and related developments

The Alperin weight conjecture is central to the modern representation theory of finite groups, and it is still open, despite many different approaches from different points of view. This paper surveys methods and results relating the Alperin weight conjecture, especially the recent developments in the inductive investigation.

Wydawnicza kolekcja dramaturgiczna jako otwarta antologia: „Kolekcja teatralna” Wydawnictwa Anetty Antonenko

The article considers the publishing project “Theatrical Collection”, which was launched in 2015 by the Lviv private publishing house Anetta Antonenko, offering Ukrainian readers and theatres books of classics and modern representations of world drama in Ukrainian translations – made directly for these publications – considering the current state of Ukrainian literature and the experience of translators who actively cooperate with modern Ukrainian theatres. The Theatrical Collection project has been inscribed in the context of modern book editions of European drama by other publishers, as well as in the general typology and periodization of contemporary Ukrainian drama anthologies, in particular, with anthologies of the collection stage. It shows how a niche publishing project in a short period of time creates its image through connections with theatres, cultural institutions, cooperation with translators and project managers, internal sociology, powerful promotions, and performative practices, some of which were available online under quarantine restrictions.