Image Of World Research Articles

Концепт ЖЕНА/WIFE в языковом сознании носителей русского и английского языков

This paper aimed to study the content of the concept of wife in Russian and English-speaking linguocultures. The research will broaden the understanding of linguistic consciousness of Russian and English native speakers as well as identify some peculiarities of their world image. It is important to study the national world image today, as it can help to improve mutual understanding between cultures and simplify the assimilation process for those who decide to immigrate for some reason or other. The author utilized the methods of linguocultural and comparative analysis, as well as of associative-verbal nets study suggested by Yu.N. Karaulov. They include comparing associative-verbal nets by respondents’ first two reactions, identifying the most frequent types of answers, and grouping the responses into semantic zones. Further, the article analyses the synonymic chains of the word wife and explains the significance of this concept in Russian and English-speaking linguocultures, as well as identifies common semantic groups for the concept (wedding, household) and determines a common response to the stimulus in the two linguocultures. In addition, the paper traces differences in the perception of the concept of wife and singles out various semantic zones and their key elements. The research found that for many Russian native speakers, this concept contains such features as faith and belonging to someone, while in English linguistic consciousness it includes gender and partnership.

IMAGE OF THE FUTURE: DESIGN AND REPRESENTATION

Problem statement. It is shown that the main scientific vectors of the study of the personality image of the future can be considered philosophical, sociological, psychophysiological and psychological. In psychology, the future is revealed as a property of the mental. It is determined that the psychological phenomenology of the image of the future is that it is a holistic view of the individual about the future. It is in the mind and constantly affects behavior, activities, and its emotional state. The ability of an individual to construct his own future is due to the peculiarities of his individual psychological representations. This aspect is little studied in psychological science. The purpose of the article is to present methods and techniques of research of representations and designing the world image of the future by the person. Results of the research. It is noted that the process of forming the image of the future is not only a vision of the end result, but also the impact on the assessment of behavior, consolidation of moral, volitional, intellectual efforts to realize their own expectations. This emphasizes the subjective nature of this process. In the framework of the research of mental representations and the peculiarities of constructing personality images of the future in a particular individual context were identified the mediative and moderative components that influence this phenomenon. The author’s method of assessing the world image of the future is presented. It is a technique of subjective scaling — that is, it shows how the individual imagines his future. To assess the relationship between the studied indicators, which are operationalized as concepts of psychosemantic analysis, a multidimensional deployment was used. Conclusions and prospects for further research. It is concluded that the psychosemantic approach is the most informative in the identified abilities of the individual to construct images of their own future. It is noted that the prospects for further research will be to identify the re lationship between forms and strategies for building mental representations of the image of the future with strategies for individual behavior in difficult life situations.

The language image of a person in the turkish proverbs and sayings

One of the central places among the lexical means of the language, reflecting the system of cultural values of a particular people. The linguistic description of the proverbs and sayings that characterize a person, the representation of the language’s image of a person based on the analysis of various lexical associations from a bearer of Turkish linguistic culture has not yet been consistently reflected in the scientific literature and in educational lexicography, which determines the novelty of the research. The proposed classification of proverbs and sayings that characterize a person can give a fairly complete picture of the scope of their usage and the possibilities of using them in the language. In this regard, since all the diverse manifestations of personality, its qualities and properties are reflected in the language, it is possible to postulate the existence of not only the linguistic world image, but also the linguistic image of a person.

Коммуникационные технологии в сфере культуры и новая антропотехническая реальность

The communication basis upon which cultural institutions are based and through which have developed has undergone significant changes in the last few months. Social distance, isolation, decrease in communication contacts involve producers and consumers of cultural products in new forms of interaction. he changed format, the ban on visiting and organizing mass events, which cultural institutions are forced to take, is intensifying the search for new platforms and communication methods that can not only compensate for isolation from the cultural context, but also provide support to both visitors and and employees. The transformation of the image of the communication world, communication channels, the communicant itself, the communicative community corrects and complicates the functioning of cultural institutions, regardless of their specificity. The article analyzes the specifics of current communications in the field of culture in the situation of a new anthropotechnical reality, and also illustrates the role of communication technologies in the conditions of transforming reality using the example of Russian museums. The reorganization of the museum sector, the use of digital resources, the imaging component are key factors for shaping the modern look of the museum. Revealing the mutual influence of communication technologies and cultural heritage will allow us to carry out not only theoretical understanding, but also the practical development of projects, ideas, and searches.

Libros de viajes, libros de trajes. Singularidad y tipificación del repertorio iconográfico americano en el siglo XVI

El artículo diferencia la producción de un repertorio iconográfico singular sobre América de su uso etno-iconográfico en los libros de trajes producidos en la segunda mitad del siglo XVI. Examina, en primer lugar, la forma en que la experiencia americana fue “traducida” en textos e imágenes inteligibles al lector europeo. Seguidamente, pone el foco en la segunda de las operaciones intelectuales mencionadas, pues analiza la presencia de imágenes sobre el Nuevo Mundo en nuevas cadenas de referencialidad y sentido. La incorporación de la iconografía americana en los libros de trajes revela sus potencialidades y limitaciones como dispositivos visuales y globales del saber temprano-moderno.

Personality’s Perceptions of Other People in Connection with the “World Image” and the “World Picture”

Introduction. This article presents a study that is devoted to the problem of relationship of a subject’s perceptions of other people and the phenomenon of the “world image” of a personality. This problem is relevant for humanities scholars in different countries of the world in conditions of exacerbation of intercultural and interethnic conflicts. Materials and Methods. An empirical study was carried out with the purpose of a comparative analysis of the features of the “world image” in people who differ in metaphorical perceptions of “friends” and “foes”. The subject of the research was the metaphors of “friend” and “foe”, the basic beliefs of the person and the types of the “world image” presented in narratives. The following methods were applied: metaphor content analysis, testing, narrative analysis, methods of mathematical statistics (quartiles, Kruskal – Wallis H-test, regression analysis). Results. The scientific novelty of the conducted study is the original development of parameters for the analysis of narrative “world images” of the personality. For the first time, interconnections of different types of metaphors of “friends” and “foes” as partners in communication and various parameters of the narrative “world image” of the subject are revealed. It is concluded that the attribution of positive or negative and ambivalent socio-psychological metaphorical characteristics for “friends” and “foes” is associated with a positive or ambivalent “world image” of the “conceptual” or “perceptual” type. Conclusion. The results of the study generally indicate that the subject’s metaphorical ideas about “friends” and “foes” affect the subject’s “world image”.

Поетика кольоропозначень у мові пейзажу Олексія Довгого

. The peculiarities of the use of linguistic units for the designation of color as constituents of individual-author 's images of the realities of the surrounding world are analyzed in the article. The purpose of the article is to carry out a linguistic analysis of color notations in the structure of poetic images of nature and to find out the role of such units as visualizers of the natural world in Oleksii Dovhyi's poetry. During the research the author made a number of theoretical generalizations concerning the problems of artistic text as a phenomenon of individual creativity. The special nature of poetic text has been proved as a text capable of performing two functions – informative and communicative-suggestive. The researcher covered the question of the functioning of poetic means and techniques in the text as a guarantee of adequate emotional and expressive perception by its reader. The study emphasized the particular role of visualization in the communication process between author and reader. The exceptional function of the tokens of color in the process of visualization of the poet's impressions and experiences of the lyrical hero and the transmission of such emotions to the reader was noted. Research has shown that in Oleksii Dovhyi's poetic language, visualizers of copyrighted images of nature often appear to be tokens for the designation of blue, yellow, white, gray and black. It has been found that blue color markings are often used by the poet to explicate the celestial space tier and to create a sense of perspective in the text. Nominations of yellow, often correlated with the names of gold, are involved in the poetic expression of the sacred images of the sun and light as elements of the divine principle. Combining in the artistic and poetic context of tokens of yellow and blue, the poet creates in the text a sense of connection of the lyrical hero with the main world images – water and sun. White in the color paradigm of the natural world is a symbol of lightness, purity and light. Opposition is his nominations for the realities associated with black as a symbol of death and negative phenomena. The tokens of gray are used by the poet to depict the melancholy mood of his lyrical hero.

В поисках выхода: анализ мотивно-образных комплексов прошлого и настоящего в сборнике рассказов «Булчут» Н. Р. Калитина

The paper aims to identify specificity of motive-figurative representation of past and present in stories from the collection “Bulchut” by N. R. Kalitin. Scientific originality of the study is conditioned by the fact that the motive-figurative structure of N. R. Kalitin’s stories has not been previously investigated in this aspect. The article considers the opposition “present - past” realized through recurrent images and motives. The researchers identify and analyse meaning-generative images of the material world, develop a typology of the main personages, reveal their role and functional load. The findings indicate that the choice of objective-figurative and motive complexes is conditioned by the author’s intention to emphasize urgent problems of the modernity: generation gap, loss of national and cultural identity.

Architecture, urban planning and collective identity: Bilbao as a case study.

The emergence of a collective identity, a complex social and psychological process, may be linked to a specific place and a particular urban layout. Architecture demarcates interior and exterior spaces that not only frame our relationships but can also generate a mirror image of the internal world. The authors examine relevant contributions from the sparse psychoanalytic literature on this subject, to support their hypothesis that changes to a city's landscape, design, or architecture, when wholeheartedly embraced by its citizens, can serve to forge a new collective identity that helps to deal with absence, pain, and loss. They present the city of Bilbao, Spain, as a case study. This once thriving industrial city had collapsed into economic ruin, rife with social conflict, but since the 1990s, in an urban renewal, has emerged as a unique tourist destination. It has become a modern art and cultural center, symbolized by its most famous piece of contemporary architecture.

3D shape estimation in a constraint optimization neural network

One of the most important aspects of visual perception is the inference of 3D shape from a 2D retinal image of the outside world. The existence of several valid mapping functions from object to data makes this inverse problem ill-posed and therefore computationally difficult. In human vision, the retinal image is a 2D projection of the 3D world. The visual system imposes certain constraints on the family of solutions in order to uniquely and efficiently solve this inverse problem. This work specifically focused on the minimization of standard deviations of 3D angles (MSDA) for 3D perception. Our goal was to use a Deep Convolutional Neural Network based on biological principles derived from visual area V4 to achieve 3D reconstruction using constrained minimization of MSDA. We conducted an experiment using novel shapes with human subjects to collect data and test the model. The performance of the network largely agreed with how humans estimated novel 3D shapes. The results show that the constraint of MSDA in 3D shape can be implemented in a neural network and produce human-like results. Additional visual constraints can be added to the network in the future to fully test the theory of visual constraints as a basis of 3D shape perception.

Nostalgia in Print and Performance, 1510–1613: Merry Worlds. Harriet Phillips. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. vii+239.

<i>Nostalgia in Print and Performance, 1510–1613: Merry Worlds</i>. Harriet Phillips. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. vii+239.

«Симбиоз» национальных языковых моделей в «Конармии» И. Бабеля и приемы его анализа

Isaak Babel has always been a “mystery” for researchers. Russian Russian Russian literature and language, he created different images of national worlds: Russian, Polish, Cossack, Jewish. Moreover, these worlds did not exist separately from each other, they were included in the dialogue, thus embodying the “patchwork” of the world of a new social culture, built on the ruins of the Russian Empire. “Konarmiya” showed the possibilities of such a dialogue, and the huge selection of artistic means used to create it makes the author an object of special interest both from literary critics and linguists.

Image Processing Techniques Based Crowd Size Estimation

Image processing algorithms are the basis for image computer analysis and machine Vision. Employing a theoretical foundation, image algebra, and powerful development tools, Visual C++, Visual Fortran, Visual Basic, and Visual Java, high-level and efficient computer vision techniques have been developed. This paper analyzes different image processing algorithms by classifying them in logical groups. In addition, specific methods are presented illustrating the application of such techniques to the real world images. In most cases more than one method is used. This allows a basis for comparison of different methods as advantageous features as well as negative characteristics of each technique is delineated. The main objective of this paper is to use image processing techniques to estimate the size of a crowd from a still photograph. The simulation results show that the different images have different efficiencies.

Healthy and Unhealthy Leaf Classification using Convolution Neural Network and CSLBP Features

Once applied to real world images, most machine learning models for the automated identification of diseases have limited efficiency. Plant diseases cause major agricultural production and economic loss. These illnesses also show visible signs, including lines, streaks and shift in color, on leaf surfaces. Many researchers have recently researched the potential use of image treatment and computer processing in plants and leaves to diagnose disease. There is space for improved performance though several methods and computer procedures have been developed in this area of investigation. Several previous models only deal with a few morphological features of the diseased regions. A new method for detecting plant leave's disease using the segmentation, and CNN approach based on GLCM and LPQ features of the Basil and Guava leaves feedback imagery has been established in the present paper. The findings revealed that the suggested model is as effective as possible, for both basil and guava leaves, to better distinguish healthy and unhealthy leaves. The overall accuracy of the Guava dataset is 97.1% and the basil dataset is 92.1%.

The Emotional Component in K. Kesey's "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"

The research objective was to study the negative emotional background as a component of the linguistic world image in "One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest" by Ken Kesey. The research featured the lexical means that make up the emotional background of the novel. The author used field method and the method of vocabulary definitions, as well as componential, linguistic, and contextual analyses. The field method and the componential analysis helped to structure the linguistic world image of the work according to invariant lexical meanings. "Negative emotion" appeared to be the archiseme of the text. The nuclear elements of the linguistic world image were formed with the vocabulary of emotions. They were united into three groups: fear, rage, and hate. The peripheral elements were represented by emotional vocabulary. They displayed ways of expressing and perceiving emotions, as well as mental and emotional conditions. The characters of Nurse Ratched, Randle McMurphy, patients, and asylum personnel were the denotative universals of the novel. Methods of vocabulary definitions, linguistic comparison, and contextual analysis revealed the meaning structure of the lexical units and specific features of the emotional background. The linguistic reality created by K. Kesey proved to be based on antithesis. Emotive text elements did not merely express the archiseme "negative emotion" but could also be united into groups with opposite semantic features, which made the text more vivid and emotional. The research results can be used in professional linguistic studies and university courses.

Transformation of Space-Temporal and Value-Semantic Components of the Image of the World during the University Studies

The study features the image of the world of the university students and verifies its structural and content model of chronotopic characteristics. It includes subjective space-temporal and value-semantic components. An empirical study resulted in a phenomenological description of the image of the world that students develop at university. The paper focuses on the transformation of these spatial-temporal and value-semantic components in the learning process. The study involved 450 students from 10 cities of the Russian Federation. They showed a low level of development and insufficient dynamics of subjective chronotopic characteristics of the world image. This result was especially prominent in students working for their Master's degree. Neither did they reveal any progress in professional, civil, and ideological identity, nor any semantic connection between the past, present, and future. The participants demonstrated a low level of meaningfulness of life and individual time locus. The value disorientation manifestations were high, while the significance of the bottom materialistic values was low. The authors believe that students need a better system of psychological and pedagogical support to develop an integral chronotopic system of the image of the world. The article introduces some priority directions of psychological and pedagogical support that could help students to develop identity, time perspective, and the system of value and semantic orientations.

THE MOTIVES OF TRAVEL AND ESCAPE IN THE PROSE OF MODERN WOMEN-WRITERS (O. TOKARCHUK, L. ULITSKAYA, L. PETRUSHEVSKAYA)

The article analyzes the motives of travel and escape, which are pretty common in modern women prose and appears closely related to each other. The connection between travel and self-knowledge is also obvious. In female prose, it is presented through the motive of physicality. In the works of modern writers, these motives work differently: in the texts of the Polish writer Olga Tokarchuk, travel and escape function as motives that define the world and the human body in their mirror image, which creates the illusion of the absence of borders between the external and internal worlds. In the work of Lyudmila Ulitskaya, such a function is endowed with only a flight motive, which manifests itself in the image of the inner world of heroes. The autobiographical work of Lyudmila Petrushevskaya demonstrates a strategy in which travel and escape are associated with the idea of creative search and creative independence. The analysis of the sustainable motives of female prose allows us to conclude that the writers have their special view on the problem of self-knowledge.

Food tourism and its impact on attracting customers to the Egyptian hospitality sector

Tourism is a key part of the economy of contemporary experience, where food plays an important role. It is also an essential part of all cultures, a key element of the immaterial world heritage, and an increasingly important attraction for tourists. The links between food and tourism also provide a platform for local economic development. The Egyptian hotel, restaurant, and institutional sector are showing signs of recovery and growth after several slow years. Sales in hotels and resorts are increasing with the recovery of tourism and the study has reached many results, including a strong moral relationship between both the efficiency of workers performance and customer satisfaction, as well as a moral relationship between food tourism as an independent variable and visitor numbers as a dependent variable. A clear increase in the number of tourists coming to Egyptian hospitality institutions.

Old Dreams Retold

Abstract As a champion of May Fourth enlightenment and a critic of Chinese tradition, Lu Xun is less understood as a prescient critic of the myth of science and technological rationality. Walter Benjamin invoked the utopian reconciliation of humans and nature from premodern culture in critiques of modernity. Similarly, Lu Xun conjured up images of the ancient world where rural folks lived in reciprocity with nature, worshiped supernatural beings, and observed time-honored rituals. Lu Xun linked the myth of progress and technology to a destructive chorus of “malevolent voices” by a hypocritical gentry, a technocratic elite that sought power, status, and profit in the name of enlightenment and rationality. He proclaimed that it is urgent to “rid of ourselves of this hypocrite gentry; ‘superstition’ may remain.” Invoking Benjamin's insight and affinity with Lu Xun, this article explores the Chinese writer's recovery of the mythical and ecological images from the past in the critique of modernity. Confronted with the fetishism of progress and technology in China's early modernization, Lu Xun sought to uncover and redeem primordial images from archaic traditions.

Finding key points in a hand image using heatmaps

This paper presents an approach to finding key points in the image of a hand using heat maps. For this, a convolutional model of a neural network and a training method on heatmaps were combined. An open bank of palm photos, supplemented by a set of own images and synthetic data, was used as a dataset. Direct and inverse transformations of two-dimensional coordinates on the plane into heat maps with a 2D Gaussian function centered at coordinate points were applied, data was prepared, the model was trained and tested. As a result of this approach, a neural network model able to recognise real world images was obtained.