Modern Visualization Research Articles

Aesthetic Transfer in Modern Visual Arts Education: Emphasizing 'Learning by Making' and Experimental Approaches for Future Creative Success

Aesthetic Transfer in Modern Visual Arts Education: Emphasizing 'Learning by Making' and Experimental Approaches for Future Creative Success

Hamlet and Inoculation

ABSTRACT This article surveys Shakespeare’s biopolitical thought, with a focus on the semantic feature of “inoculat[ion]” in Hamlet. Today, the word “inoculation” means a way to produce artificial immunity by inserting a pathogenic material taken from an external entity through a small incision. This medical procedure, widely practiced in the eighteenth century, is called inoculation because it was like grafting—mixing one body with another. By using “inoculat[ion]” as a rhetorical device, Hamlet explores the politics of immunity before the dawn of modern immunology. Shakespeare’s work negotiates legal and medical thoughts on immunity: in particular, Hamlet is an intriguing text because it balances two different features of immunity, signifying at once juridical exception (as a signature of sovereign authority) and the negative protection of a body (through the metaphor of corpus politicum). Like the metaphor of inoculation (i.e. grafting), a practice that needs the other’s body, Hamlet shows that the body politic can be secured only when the realm elects the same invading foreign entity. In Shakespeare’s early modern imagination, immunity is not a strict boundary between self and non-self; rather, it is a much more negotiable boundary open to alterity and creaturely existences.

Analysis of the Artistic Expression Ability of Traditional Chinese Elements in Modern Visual Communication

Analysis of the Artistic Expression Ability of Traditional Chinese Elements in Modern Visual Communication

Geometry import into virtual reality visualization engine for HEP experiments at BM@N

Modern visualization and multimedia platforms, such as Unity, provide immersive interaction for HEP experiment data analysis. In this work, we present the method for importing the detector geometry, solids hierarchy, and materials from GDML format directly to Unity. This method is based on parsing files in GDML format and generating the geometry using mesh generation algorithms and Constructive Solid Geometry methods. The provided method is applied to the BM@N experiment at NICA accelerator complex in Joint Institute of Nuclear Research and can be used in virtual reality and augmented reality applications for data analysis and outreach events in high energy physics experiments.

Motives of Ethnodesign in Modern Visual Culture

Motives of Ethnodesign in Modern Visual Culture

Reconciling Religion, Reform and Modernity: A Study of Early Muslim Women’s Periodicals from South India

This study analyses the women’s periodicals that were in circulation among the Muslims of Kerala, South India, during the early twentieth century. They were published by small-scale print houses and Muslim women associated with these periodicals as writers, editors and publishers, shaping a highly porous public sphere unlike the nationalist and colonial homogenous imaginations of the public. These early writings from Muslim women expose the entanglement of imagined rights and community identity embodied in faith and piety in colonial modernity. They ought to be studied to understand how social identity drew considerably from the domains of religion and community, if not region, and that gender and nation played less significant roles in their imagination of modernity. Moreover, their engagement with the West was not determined in the context of resistance to colonial administration alone, but also in a deeper and more complex history of Islam’s encounters with it.

Unfinished Modernity: Tan Kah Kee’s Housing and Sanitation and His Modern Imagination of Reconstruction of China After Post World War II

<p>1937-45年的抗戰時期，中國許多城市與鄉村因戰爭而受到很大的破壞。1944年，時任南洋華僑籌賑祖國難民總會主席的陳嘉庚，回國慰勞軍民，見街衢及鄉村屋宅之衛生狀況不佳，甚至不及20年前的英屬海峽殖民地新加坡。有感於此，陳氏參考新加坡的經驗，提出城市規劃、住屋興建、衛生改良等概念，寫下《住屋與衛生：戰後建國首要》一書，希冀提供戰後中國重建的指導原則。不過，這份著作並未受到廣泛的重視。本文旨在分析陳嘉庚針對居住環境與公共衛生改良所提出來之現代性計畫，藉此討論他對於二次大戰之後的中國重建的願景及想像。首先，以二戰前後的福建金門為例，討論中國農村的環境衛生課題；接著引介陳氏《住屋與衛生》中的現代性論述，特別是關於公共衛生與民康國強的連結。再來指出英屬新加坡城市治理如何成為陳嘉庚的現代性範式，以及他對中國城鄉發展與住屋空間改造的構想；最後，本文通過衛生的現代性到主體性的建構之分析，指出陳嘉庚對於中國現代化的社會實踐與文化想像。</p> <p> </p><p>During 1937-45, many Chinese cities and countries were destroyed by Japanese invasion. 1944, Tan Kah Kee---the president of the South-east Asia Federation of China---returned to express sympathy and solicitude for homeland’s people. He found the sanitation of Chinese streets and housing during the war was worse than the colony Singapore twenty years ago. Therefore he consulted the experiences of Singapore and wrote down the book---Housing and Sanitation: An Important Proposal for the Reconstruction of China After Post-World War II ---to provide the ideas of city planning, housing reconstruction and sanitation reform. But this book could not attach important to society.This paper will analyze the Tan’s historical project of modernity for Chinese housing and public sanitation. First, I will apply the materials of overseas Chinese’s newsletters during 1930s-40s to point out some issues of environmental sanitation of counties, Fujiang. Moreover, to introduce the Tan’s Housing and Sanitation, and to discuss that how he transplant the urban planning and housing regulation of Singapore to provide the ideas of spatial development and reform in China. Finally, I will make through study for the Tan’s discourse of transplantation and imagination of modernity.</p> <p> </p>

"Sit Down. Take Pen and Ink and Write. Are You Ready?" Sitting in the Early Modern Imagination

Abstract: Sitting might be associated in our minds with a break in action; less a gesture than a slump into inertia. However, by analyzing John Milton's Samson Agonistes (1671), John Webster's The Duchess of Malfi (1614), and texts on melancholy and Hercules's attack on the Pygmies, we argue that manifold ideas about madness and melancholy are encapsulated in the early modern sitting body. Hercules, Samson, and the Duchess are explicitly written—or can be read—as mad and melancholy. Like Lucas Cranach and Albrecht Dürer's depictions of Melancholia, these characters are seen in a sitting posture. By sitting decisively, the Duchess and Samson alert us to their early modern context which is rife with visual and textual depictions of sitting. Thereby, they invite us to read their sitting bodies as sites where madness and rationality, power and dependency, and different genders, incline into and towards each other.

Enhancing Accessibility and Navigation of Heritage Collections Through Interactive Spatiotemporal Maps

Visualizing data allows us to interactively explore and analyze datasets, which can be dynamic, noisy, and heterogeneous. In the field of cultural heritage, more and more museums and cultural institutions are exploiting modern visualization systems to disseminate their content in an attractive, usable, and interactive way, which involves displaying data on spatiotemporal maps. The SeMap project has built an online resource that displays more than 200,000 cultural objects from the CER.ES repository, which was created by a network of more than 100 Spanish museums. In this repository, SeMap analyzes the textual data to extract meaning, showing the results on interactive spatiotemporal maps, which bring new experiences and perspectives around such objects. This article explains the strategies to visualize such information, as well as an evaluation of the finalized tool by second-year university students on a Data Science graduate programme, as part of the subject of Data Visualization. Results show that most of the students find the tool usable although they do not fully understand the cultural-related content.

Landscapes of Sociotechnical Imaginaries in Education: A Theoretical Examination of Integrating Artificial Intelligence in Education

AbstractThe vision of integrating artificial intelligence in education is part of an ongoing push for harnessing digital solutions to improve teaching and learning. Drawing from Jasanoff and Hasse, this paper deliberates on how sociotechnical imaginaries are interrelated to the implications of new technologies, such as AI, in education. Complicating Hasses’s call for the development of Socratic ignorance to consider our predispositions about new technologies and open new prospects of thought, this paper revisits postphenomenology and Feenberg’s critical constructivist theories. While embracing the notion of Socratic ignorance, this paper stresses the importance of developing a nuanced understanding of technology that realizes its lack of neutrality and supports the creation of a deeper understanding of how knowledge is produced, deployed, and interpreted in the digital age. Thus, this paper argues that an amalgam of Hasse’s call for advancing Socratic ignorance combined with postphenomenology and critical constructivism can support students in developing a critical understanding of technology and opening new landscapes of imaginaries.

Современные средства обучения русскому языку как иностранному

In the modern system of teaching RFL, an important role is given to teaching aids, tools of the educational process, ensuring the achievement of the main goal of teaching RFL – the formation of communicative competence among students. The purpose of this article is to analyze modern means of teaching RFL, assessing their effectiveness and illustrating their use in the process of teaching the disciplines “Russian Verb” to 1st-year undergraduates, “Modern means of teaching RFL” to 2nd-year undergraduates studying in the field of “Philology” (profile “Theory and practice of teaching RFL (Russian as a foreign language)”; discipline “General Proficiency” to 3rd year bachelor students of the Faculty of Philology (profile “Russian Language and Literature”) at the University of Moscow State University-PPI in Shenzhen. In the course of study, methods of observation, description, and classification were used. During the research it was established that in the modern methods of teaching RFL, the role of teaching tools increases significantly due to modern information and communication resources, Internet technologies and digital educational resources. The most relevant teaching aids have been identified and characterized (communicative RFL textbooks, information and communication tools, including university electronic libraries, the university information learning environment Moodle, electronic textbooks, corpus resources; audiovisual tools, including modern visualization techniques, etc.), their use has been illustrated in the practice of teaching various philological disciplines to Chinese philology students. It has been established that the use of the latest various teaching tools ensures the maximum inclusion of each student in the educational process, a person-oriented approach to students, the development of practical skills, an increase in the share of student independence, the development of students’ skills in setting and solving cognitive problems, structuring information flows, and applying practice of acquired knowledge, etc.

Early Modern Imaginations of the Nation and Their Insights: An Examination Centered on Liang Qichao and Liang Shuming

Chinese people have formed a rich vision of the “nation,” with Liang Qichao and Liang Shuming serving as representative figures, throughout the process of moving from “all under heaven” to “nation.” The two Liangs’ imaginations show different traits as well as consistency. The two Liangs’ modern national imaginations stand out for their interaction between “people” and “country” in terms of imaginative features. Regarding continuity, Liang Shuming’s rural building movement may be understood as the application of Liang Qichao’s theoretical vision. Nonetheless, the opposition faced by the rural building movement highlights the challenges this imagination has in attempting to come to pass. In light of the ‘national’ imagination and associated practices of early modern Chinese society, what becomes clear is that, against the backdrop of historical transitions, an idealistic national imagination can, in fact, serve as a conceptual basis for national construction as well as an uplifting and guiding force. However, the challenge and secret to creating a modern nation is understanding how to organize the “people” to forge a concrete bond with the “country.” Examining and considering these ideas and actual initiatives is still very significant for nation-building in the modern day.

Review of heterozygosity visualization approaches in the context of conservation research

The assessment of heterozygosity level is one of the key metrics in conservation biology, as it contributes to the accurate design of conservation programs for endangered species. With the development of whole-genome sequencing technologies, it is now possible to more accurately estimate heterozygosity not only at the organismal level, but also at the population and species level. Contemporary conservation studies involve the processing of large volumes of whole-genome data, leading to problems of interpretation and necessitates the study of modern visualization methods for clear and correct presentation of results. In this review, we comprehensively examine the main types of visualization of heterozygosity assessments obtained using various approaches. We delve into the theory underlying each visualization method and discuss their characteristics using examples from studies of non-model species with different conservation statuses. The review provides insight into current tools for heterozygosity assessment and subsequent visualization, as well as current trends in this field.

Modern visualization diagnostic methods of non-invasive breast carcinomas (review of literature)

Relevance. Breast carcinomas (BC) remain one of the most actual problems of modern oncology. According to statistics, the incidence of BC is steadily increasing, making it the most common cancer pathology among women. In this situation, the aspect of diagnosing BC at early, non-invasive stages, is certainly important, which still reduces mortality, increases the possibility of organ-preserving treatment, duration and quality of life of patients.The purpose of study. The purpose of study is to investigate and perform a comparative analysis of imaging techniques for the diagnosis of non-invasive breast carcinomas.Materials and methods. Modern Russian and foreign literature about the diagnosis of non-invasive breast carcinomas was analyzed. Publications not older than 7 years published in specialized medical editions were taken into account Results. Not only main, but also new, promising imaging modalities that are not currently part of routine practice were analyzed. The main imaging patterns in non-invasive breast carcinomas (DCIS, LCIS and Paget's breast cancer), feasibility and prognostic value of certain diagnostic methods in different nosologies of this disease were also discussed.Conclusion. The statistics provided explain the importance of breast carcinomas problem, as well as the relevance of its diagnosis at non-invasive stages. According to the authors, the issue of accurate diagnosis of breast cancer in situ is subject to further discussion and study, but we would like to note that when non-invasive breast carcinoma is suspected and doubtful imaging results are obtained, one should not limit oneself only to routine methods of imaging studies, but expand further diagnostic tactics until accurate results are obtained and a final diagnosis is made.

Художник Святослав Воинов: христианское искусство в эпоху модернизма

This paper explores the life and art of Svyatoslav Voinov (1890–1920), a modernist painter and a drawing artist from St. Petersburg, barely remembered today but nevertheless a remarkable example of both art and spirituality of his time. Both paintings and drawings of Voinov lay bare a distinctive character of the period when symbolism and modernism crossed ways. His art offers a glimpse on a unique creative atmosphere of the period of the Russian Revolution and the Civil War (1917–1922), the time when his most significant work was done. Voinov’s art is typical for religious currents in the Russian art of early 20th century. It is closely linked to their preceding formative period but was also influenced by the modernist discovery of the aesthetic value of Russian icons. Voinov’s art is rooted in a complex synthesis of tradi-tional icon-painting and symbolism grafted with newer expressionistic and futuristic trends, such a synthesis being typical for quite a few Russian artists of the period. What makes Voinov and his art unique is that he aspired to cross the boundaries of purely secular spirituality and offered an original and effective example of how modern visuality can work together with ancient tradition of icon painting. Voinov transcends the contours of narrative formulas of religious themes and boldly moves towards the theology in paint. The drawings and compo-sitional sketches of Svyatoslav Voinov were examined by the author in the collections of the State Russian Museum (St. Petersburg, Russia). Some of the drawings are published here for the first time.

Atypical course of incarcerated post-traumatic diaphragmatic hernia

The article focuses on the instrumental imaging methods which greatly enhance the possibilities when arriving at correct and quick diagnosis of acute surgical pathology. Analysis of clinical and anamnestic data of the disease course and the results of instrumental research methods made it possible to arrive at clear clinical diagnosis, determine the indications for surgical treatment in this specific clinical case. The use of modern visualization methods while examining the patients prevents errors in diagnosis and helps to determine the optimal treatment tactics.

Fine-Grained Emotional Calculation of Emotional Expression in Modern Visual Communication Designs

Abstract In the context of the information age, mining for emotions has become a popular topic today, and deep learning plays an important role in the task of sentiment analysis. In this study, we propose a LE-CNN-MBiLSTM fine-grained sentiment analysis model for the task of fine-grained sentiment computation for emotional expression in visual communication design. The model combines the ERNIE model and introduces a parallel CNN and dual-channel BiLSTM structure, which first mines multiple local key features in the text with CNN, then extracts the contextual semantics with BiLSTM, and extracts the fusion features by CNN-BiLSTM. Fine-grained sentiment analysis tasks are well-served by the model in this paper, with an accuracy of 93.58% and a loss function value of 0.18, respectively. Using the model to analyze the corpus of comments on visual communication design works, positive and negative emotions dominated the samples, each accounting for 50%, and the expression of sadness was particularly prominent. The model in this paper can be applied in fine-grained sentiment computation for visual communication design and can be migrated to other natural language processing domains, thus providing a new idea for the construction of network models for text sentiment analysis.

Features of using CT and MRI in planning radiation therapy in patients with squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck

Background. Squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck (SCCHN) holds a significant position in global oncology. The quality of radiotherapy greatly depends on the accuracy of diagnostic procedures and radiation dosing, as even a minor increase in radiation volume can significantly raise the risk of radiation toxicity. Modern visualization methods and dose calculation algorithms are key in ensuring treatment effectiveness and reducing side effects, thereby improving patients’ quality of life. Purpose. To enhance the effectiveness of radiotherapy for SCCHN through the optimization of topometric preparation using modern visualization methods. Materials and Methods. The study was conducted at the State of Organization «Grigoriev Institute for Medical Radiology and Oncology of the National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine», from January 2020 to October 2022. The study group comprised 41 cases where radiotherapy planning was performed using both CT and MRI. The comparison group included 64 cases using only CT. Radiation planning was carried out on TPS Eclipse, and irradiation was performed on a Clinac 600C linear accelerator in a classical fractionation mode with a daily dose of 2 Gy to a total dose of 66–70 Gy. Results. The clinical effectiveness of radiotherapy was not dependent on the method of planning, and a reduction in radiation volume by 11% using MRI did not affect the outcomes. It was noted that the development of grade III radiation dermatitis in patients with stage III–IV SCCHN was 2.4 times higher when using only CT compared to using both CT and MRI, which is thought to be due to a larger radiation volume. Grade III radiation mucositis was observed 2.25 times more frequently in the comparison group than in the study group. In patients with stage I–II SCCHN, there was no significant difference in effectiveness and toxicity, hence the use of MRI at these stages is not justified. Conclusions. It is necessary to use MRI with CT for planning radiotherapy in patients with stage III–IV SCCHN. This reduces the risk of grade III radiation dermatitis and mucositis compared to using only CT. For planning radiotherapy in patients with stage I–II disease, the use of CT alone is sufficient.

Methodology for Rationalization of Pre-Production Processes Using Virtual Reality Based Manufacturing Instructions

This article deals with the rationalization of manufacturing processes within the product life cycle with emphasis on the pre-production phase of production. A new methodology for evaluating the applicability of modern visualization tools in manufacturing processes is presented. This methodology includes a modified Z-score for categorizing manufacturing processes and has been validated by the successful implementation of 10 real projects. Ultimately, the methodology provides a practical decision-making aid for manufacturing companies in deploying such Computer Aided Instruction tools. For the pre-production phase of products and their development, the possibilities of using modern visualization tools to support CAD instructions and assembly instructions are being explored. These modern visualization tools are video tutorials, augmented reality tutorials and virtual reality tutorials. This paper explores the use of these tools for rationalization of pre-production processes. A methodology was designed to select the most appropriate tool for rationalizing process execution in preparation for production. The functionality of the methodology was verified by applying the methodology in industrial practice and subsequent implementation of the recommended solutions. The methodology was validated by testing key combinations that can arise based on the methodology directly in the operations of manufacturing companies. A total of 10 implementations in real production processes were tailored to this study and carried out over 2 years and the functionality of the methodology was confirmed (that consisted also of a new software development). It was found that there is a dependency between the visualization tools chosen to create the instructions in the context of organizational production preparation and the nature of the production processes.

Psychological and didactic fundamentals of modern educational technologies of visualization

The relevance of the studied issues is that the introduction of modern technologies of visualization of educational information in the educational environment of higher school is a tool for ensuring the quality of professional training. Accordingly, there is a need to determine the psychological and didactic fundamentals of this process in order to use them as efficiently as possible. The purpose of the given study is to determine the psychological and didactic fundamentals of modern educational technologies of visualization and to formulate practical recommendations for their implementation in the educational process of higher school. Based on the outlined features of the cognitive activity of modern generation (the ability to quickly switch between different semantic fragments, high speed of information processing, preference for perceiving information in a figurative form, inability to perceive linear information, etc.), the most significant cognitive needs of modern students are characterized. Prospective technologies for visualizing educational information (mind maps, scribing, video scribing, etc.) and methodical features of their use in the process of professional training are characterized. The tasks of modern visualization tools are defined (tool for improving the educational process, concentrated presentation of educational material, provision of the correspondence of educational material corresponds to the psychophysiological characteristics of students and rational organization of educational and cognitive activities of students). The author's experience in the use of modern visualization technologies, which are based on the application of modern software products, in the process of professional training of future specialists has been presented.