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Riflessi del IV Concilio Lateranense nel Tesaur di Peire de Corbian

Abstract This article intends to prove that the first constitution of the IVth Lateran Council, Firmiter, is a direct source for Peire de Corbian’s Tesaur. This allows establishing a more sicure terminus post quem for this Provençal enyclopaedic poem (1215). The references in question affirm the trinitarian faith in One God, Creator ex nihilo of the material and the immaterial world and hence oppose contrary Cathar teachings. As is shown by the character of the manuscript tradition, this intentional antiheretic bias of the text was determining for the poem’s fortune. Still, the simultaneous presence of the idea of man as a remplacement for fallen angels demonstrates that Peire did not rely consistently on the Council’s promulgations: rejected opinions could persist in generally orthodox texts.

Enhanced 3D Point Cloud from a Light Field Image

The importance of three-dimensional (3D) point cloud technologies in the field of agriculture environmental research has increased in recent years. Obtaining dense and accurate 3D reconstructions of plants and urban areas provide useful information for remote sensing. In this paper, we propose a novel strategy for the enhancement of 3D point clouds from a single 4D light field (LF) image. Using a light field camera in this way creates an easy way for obtaining 3D point clouds from one snapshot and enabling diversity in monitoring and modelling applications for remote sensing. Considering an LF image and associated depth map as an input, we first apply histogram equalization and histogram stretching to enhance the separation between depth planes. We then apply multi-modal edge detection by using feature matching and fuzzy logic from the central sub-aperture LF image and the depth map. These two steps of depth map enhancement are significant parts of our novelty for this work. After combing the two previous steps and transforming the point–plane correspondence, we can obtain the 3D point cloud. We tested our method with synthetic and real world image databases. To verify the accuracy of our method, we compared our results with two different state-of-the-art algorithms. The results showed that our method can reliably mitigate noise and had the highest level of detail compared to other existing methods.

FORMING UNIVERSITY STUDENTS’ INTEGRATED OUTLOOK PERCEPTION OF NATURE

The article addresses the issue of shaping a person’s integral world outlook as premises of scientific worldview. This objective is pursued via a number of methods and techniques designed on the basis of the causative-systemic approach and the algorithms suggested by the universal laws of nature. The paper considers a number of universal concepts connecting natural-scientific and humanitarian components of a worldview and approaches a student’s development as a multi-factor process. The article discusses the theoretical background of the model of forming universal scientific worldview with the latter being accountable for pedagogical university students’ responsible and integrative attitude towards nature. The paper considers methodology of implementing the model within the structure of an experimental optional academic course and discusses the most relevant results of the experiment. The notion of “the image of the world” is considered as a professional factor of a future teacher’s educational activity. The paper provides analysis of a number of relevant approaches and concepts. The image of the world is then tackled from the standpoint of philosophy, theory of education, psychology and the fundamental concepts of natural science. The paper differentiates the notions of “worldview” and “world outlook”. The suggested model of forming universal scientific worldview explicates basic “nuclear” clusters of methodological, natural-scientific and didactic nature. Potential implementation of the model into the integrated content of education is expected to increase the level of future teachers’ theoretical synthetic thinking. The paper attempts to verify whether the current content of high school biological education complies with the fundamental laws of nature. It analyses a number of concepts introduced in modern manuals in natural studies used at the university level of education. The article provides methodological argumentation for the stages of forming natural-scientific worldview regarding their correlation with the didactic conditions and methods. The paper presents the results obtained in the course of prolonged work with worldview-related notions implemented in the experimental curriculum. The experiment registered positive dynamics of changes in the level of students’ theoretical thinking as well as the growth in the pace of learning. The article highlights the idea of conscious introduction and comprehension of the worldview-level notions during the learning process on the basis of the suggested model.

Świat wartości współczesnej młodzieży a klasyka literacka – świadectwa szkolnego odbioru lektury

Niniejszy tekst wyrasta z potrzeby badań aktualnego świata wartości uczniów, którego obraz należy traktować jako fundament edukacyjnej refleksji i organizacji procesu dydaktycznego. Pierwszym punktem odniesienia dla wyżej wskazanego zagadnienia było przywołanie badań nad wizerunkiem aksjologicznym młodego pokolenia, które zostały przeprowadzone na przestrzeni ostatnich trzydziestu lat. Drugim polem odwołań były doświadczenia odbioru klasyki we współczesnej szkole. Wskazane w temacie zagadnienie było omówione w odniesieniu do zebranego materiału egzemplifikacyjnego – zapisu wypowiedzi uczniowskich, które powstawały na lekcjach języka polskiego poświęconych pierwszemu odbiorowi wybranych do analizy tekstów literackich. Analiza zgromadzonych wypowiedzi udokumentowała znaczące przesunięcia w obrębie uczniowskiego świata wartości – coraz wydatniejszą dewaluację wartości moralnych, relatywizację zasad etycznych, a także coraz znaczniejszą dominację wartości pragmatycznych, wiązanych z materialnym i wymiernym interesem jednostki. Wykazuje także coraz wyraźniejszy odwrót młodego pokolenia od obiektywistycznego myślenia o wartościach. W konkluzji autor tekstu zaznacza, że świadomość istniejącego stanu rzeczy może mieć ogromne znaczenie dla właściwej organizacji procesu dydaktycznego – pozwala chronić się przed działaniami naiwnymi i nieskutecznymi, umożliwia podjęcie działań adekwatnych do zdiagnozowanego stanu rzeczy, uruchomienia odpowiedniej strategii wychowawczej.

Echo state network‐based feature extraction for efficient color image segmentation

SummaryImage segmentation plays a crucial role in many image processing and understanding applications. Despite the huge number of proposed image segmentation techniques, accurate segmentation remains a significant challenge in image analysis. This article investigates the viability of using echo state network (ESN), a biologically inspired recurrent neural network, as features extractor for efficient color image segmentation. First, an ensemble of initial pixel features is extracted from the original images and injected into the ESN reservoir. Second, the internal activations of the reservoir neurons are used as new pixel features. Third, the new features are classified using a feed forward neural network as a readout layer for the ESN. The quality of the pixel features produced by the ESN is evaluated through extensive series of experiments conducted on real world image datasets. The optimal operating range of different ESN setup parameters for producing competitive quality features is identified. The performance of the proposed ESN‐based framework is also evaluated on a domain‐specific application, namely, blood vessel segmentation in retinal images where experiments are conducted on the widely used digital retinal images for vessel extraction (DRIVE) dataset. The obtained results demonstrate that the proposed method outperforms state‐of‐the‐art general segmentation techniques in terms of performance with an F‐score of 0.92 ± 0.003 on the segmentation evaluation dataset. In addition, the proposed method achieves a comparable segmentation accuracy (0.9470) comparing with reported techniques of segmentation of blood vessels in images of retina and outperform them in terms of processing time. The average time required by our technique to segment one retinal image from DRIVE dataset is 8 seconds. Furthermore, empirically derived guidelines are proposed for adequately setting the ESN parameters for effective color image segmentation.

Distant augmented reality: Bringing a new dimension to user experience using drones

Augmented Reality (AR) is a live view that blends real world images with virtual information such as 3D models or sounds. AR is used to virtually reconstruct the ancient buildings of cultural heritage sites. Such sites can be presented to tourist groups in the form they were built in the past. AR can be implemented using mobile phones, tablets or smart glasses. Here, we present a new dimension to AR for cultural heritage using drones. We name it “Distant Augmented Reality”. The goal of this study is to augment video imagery acquired using drones with 3D models of the Roman Baths which is an important cultural heritage site in Turkey. For this purpose, two different tracking techniques were implemented: GPS based drone tracking and monocular camera based scene tracking. With these two techniques drone position and orientation was detected and tracked for augmenting the 3D model of the baths.

Single Image De-Raining via Improved Generative Adversarial Nets.

Capturing images under rainy days degrades image visual quality and affects analysis tasks, such as object detection and classification. Therefore, image de-raining has attracted a lot of attention in recent years. In this paper, an improved generative adversarial network for single image de-raining is proposed. According to the principles of divide-and-conquer, we divide an image de-raining task into rain locating, rain removing, and detail refining sub-tasks. A multi-stream DenseNet, termed as Rain Estimation Network, is proposed to estimate the rain location map. A Generative Adversarial Network is proposed to remove the rain streaks. A Refinement Network is proposed to refine the details. These three models accomplish rain locating, rain removing, and detail refining sub-tasks, respectively. Experiments on two synthetic datasets and real world images demonstrate that the proposed method outperforms state-of-the-art de-raining studies in both objective and subjective measurements.

La imagen del mundo hispánico en Polonia: hispanismo, relaciones hispanopolacas y su reflejo en la enseñanza del español a través de los manuales de ELE

The Image of the Hispanic World in Poland: Hispanicism, Spanish-Polish Relations and Their Reflection in the Teaching of Spanish through the ELE Manuals
 There is evidence of medieval Polish pilgrimages to (place) and the first Polish writings about Latin America date back to the 16th century. Since then the Hispanic World has raised the interest of the Polish population and its perception has been reflected not only in literary works but also in Spanish teaching books. This paper aims to approach the concept of country image, and it will reflect on the first trips of Polish citizens to Spain and Latin America and the first writings, treatises and bilateral relationships between these countries. It will also reflect on the beginnings of the teaching of Spanish as a Second Language in Poland and the use of the first teaching methods in the country. An analysis of the image of the Hispanic world in the manual Język hiszpański dla lektoratów (1971) by Oskar Perlin and the interpretation of some examples from the manual will follow.

Christian motifs and images in A. G. Rumyantsev lyrical cycle “At The Black Doorstep”

This article is dedicated to examination of Christian imagery in lyrical cycle “At The Black Doorstep” by the Buryat poet A.G. Rumyantsev. The subject of this research is semantic correlation of the key images and motifs of the cycle with the Christian values. The object of this research is literary comprehension of Christian symbolism in a lyrical text. The central theme in the cycle – tragedy of a father who lost his son – is reflected in the motif pairs “darkness – light”, “curse – forgiveness”, as well as theme of apocalypses and reference to the images of natural world. Methodology is based on the axiological principle, according to which the defining in artistic consciousness of the poet is his personal values and priorities. For determination of Cristian code of the images and motifs, the author applied structural-semiotic method. The scientific novelty consists in carrying out a motif and imagery analysis of A. G. Rumyantsev lyrical cycle “At The Black Doorstep” from the perspective of Christian symbolism. A conclusion is formulated that Christian imagery encompasses a recurring for the entire cycle theme of soul revival of a lyrical character, a path he walked from personal apocalypses and inner darkness to light through acceptance and forgiveness.

Images of the World and the Inscription of War

Images of the World and the Inscription of War

PREREQUISITES AND PROSPECTS OF FESTIVAL TOURISM DEVELOPMENT IN ODESSA REGION

Introduction. This article is devoted to the analysis of festival tourism development in Ukraine and in Odessa region, in general. One of the main trends in modern tourism is the orientation to meet the diverse needs of tourists. Festival tourism has ancient roots, but its research has begun relatively recently. The main purpose of this type of tourism is timed to a specific event. The main feature of festival tourism is its orientation on a wide range of consumers. Festival tourism as a kind of cultural and cognitive, event and entertainment one creates a significant contribution to the employment of professionals in many specialties, which are currently in our country are not on the list of highly paid and wealthy. Festival tourism is a resource of rising of the world image of Ukraine and a source of rising of economic well-being of separate regions and cities. It creates a basis for significant growth and diversification of employment, creation of the ground for material well-being and cultural level of population of these territories. The purpose of the article is to analyse festival tourism in the Odessa region, its current state and prospects of use for the tourism needs. Results. The article examines the weak sides of Odessa region that can prevent the development of festival tourism: lack of high quality infrastructure, unwillingness of investors to invest, lack of sufficient tourist information about the possibility of making festivals in certain areas, no knowledge of foreign languages and sometimes etiquette, not very attractive image of Ukraine in the eyes of foreigners, almost absent indication of tourist routes, etc. Conclusions. Odessa region has great opportunities for further development of festival tourism and there are great prospects for achieving of positive results. A large number of tourists is guaranteed by the fact that the region is close to the Moldova border, has access to the sea, as well as good rail and road connections. Also, in the region itself there is a relatively well-developed transport network of roads, which is a favourable factor for the arrival of tourists not only from Ukraine and Europe, but also from the United States and Asia or Africa. Keywords: festival tourism, tourist product, tourist services, travel agency, event tourism, new tourist product, tourist market.

Memahami Dunia Anak Melalui Puisi di dalam Tabloid Lintang

Children express their feelings and thoughts in literary works (poetry) that are created naturally and honestly. They express their world in a beautiful and happy way. Therefore, it is important to understand the world of children expressed in the literary works they create. In this study, discussed about the world of children depicted in children's poetry published in the Lintang tabloid published in January to November 2017. The problems discussed are (1) how the child's world image in poetry contained in the Lintang Tabloid; and (2) how children express their world through poetry in the Lintang tabloid. The method used is a qualitative method that focuses on library studies with techniques of reading, listening, note taking, and interpretation. The theory used is semiotic theory. The results showed that the children's poetry in the Lintang Tabloid published in the Lintang tabloid published in January to November 2017 generally contained five themes, namely: the environment, animals or animals, profession, plants, and love of the motherland. All these themes are expressed with the feelings and thoughts of the child's world and dominantly expressed by using the language style of repetition, metaphor, and personification.

"Life, a Drop of Water:" The Dilemma of Perception and Reality in Jibanananda's Poems

The present study conveys Jibanananda Das’s notion about perceptual reality. Through a close reading of some of his poems, the paper demonstrates how unlike an ordinary person the poet found the truth about the world elusive. He felt that the objective truth of a thing remains inaccessible to a person forever. In this respect, his idea of truth corresponds with the image of the phenomenal world expounded by the illustrious German thinker, Immanuel Kant in his works. The paper attempts to analyse the Bengali poet’s conception about perceptual reality as presented in his poems in the light of Kant’s theory of phenomena. With this, the article also aims at showing how the poet, becoming conscious about the limitations of human knowledge, attempts to fashion a second phenomenal world with the aid of imagination and seek fulfilment there.

Let The Sunshine in: Sun Glare Detection on Automotive Surround-view Cameras

Haze is one of the sources cause image degradation. Haze affects contrast and saturation of not only for the real world image, but also the road scenes. Most haze removal algorithms use an atmospheric scattering model for removing the effect of haze. Most of haze removal algorithms are based on the single scattering model which does not consider the blur in the haze image. In this paper, a novel haze removal algorithm using a multiple scattering model with deconvolution is proposed. The proposed algorithm considers blurring effect in the haze image. Down sampling of the haze image is also used for estimating the atmospheric light efficiently. The synthetic road scenes with and without haze are used to evaluate the performance of the proposed method. Experimental result demonstrates that the proposed algorithm performs better for restoring images affected by haze both qualitatively and quantitatively.

Multi-weighted nuclear norm minimization for real world image denoising

The noise in real world images is much more complicated than additive Gaussian white noise that most existing denoising methods are designed for. The performances of the denoising methods aiming at additive Gaussian white noise on real world images are not satisfactory. A major feature of noise in real world images is that the noise levels vary with regions. We propose a denoising model named multi-weighted nuclear norm minimization according to the characteristic of the noise in real images which is the noise levels varying with regions. In our model, the objective function is divided into two parts: the data fidelity term and the regularization term. The regularization term is a weighted nuclear norm. We use two weight matrices on the data fidelity term to balance the data between channels and between regions, respectively. Since the objective function has no analytical solution, we use alternating direction method of multipliers to decompose the objective function into sub-problems with analytical solutions. We prove the effectiveness of the proposed model by experiments.

ОСОБЕННОСТИ СОЦИАЛИЗАЦИИ ПОДРОСТКОВ-СИРОТ

The results of a comparative empirical study on the characteristics of the socialization of family adolescents and their peers brought up outside the family are presented in the article. The study examined the parameters of social adaptation, autonomy, the locus of control in the field of achievements and interpersonal relationships, the need to maintain social ties, attitude towards vulnerable groups and readiness to create your own family. There are significant differences in the process of socialization of adolescents-orphans and their peers who are brought up in a family. In particular, teenage orphans have a low level of social adaptation, autonomy, and activity. School has little impact on the socialization process, and the teenage group has a strong impact. Orphans show low interest in education; a low need for real friends and a lack of confidence that they themselves can be real friends. Orphans are dominated by the external locus of control. They assume that romantic relationships can negatively affect their lives, while at the same time they approve of sexual relations among peers. Thus, the image of the world and social relations in the view of teenage orphans differs significantly from the image of the world of family children.

Global Value Networks of Manufacturing: Accounting Framework, Power Centers and World Images

Based on the global value chains theory and social network analysis, this paper constructs the global value networks accounting framework for manufacturing by selecting the data of domestic value-added in exports from 2005 to 2015. Density and centralization were used to measure the spatio-temporal evolution of network cohesion and heterogeneity, the multi-dimensional quantitative indexes about centrality power were used to measure the country's core and control force in the field of manufacturing, and the agglomeration subgroup and block model were used to analyze the global spatial structure and power change of the manufacturing industry. Research findings show that the cohesion of global value network is increasing, but the imbalance of internal value creation is developing in polarization. Concentration of the value added created by the global manufacturing industry is increasing, but the absorption capacity of major developed economies to the value of the manufacturing industry is decreasing. The power control of manufacturing network in the United States began to be weakened obviously, while the power center is transferring to China, and it is still difficult. The world image dominated by China, the United States and Germany has been formed. China's manufacturing is in the center of the world, and the East Asian manufacturing network integrated by China supports global manufacturing. With the strong development of China's manufacturing, the competition of manufacturing against the United States and Germany will continue to face enormous cooperative challenges and power games. This paper provides theoretical basis and situation research for China to optimize its position in the global value network of manufacturing and enhance its international economic governance capacity.

The image of the national world in phraseology (In the interpretation of french and uzbek folk proverbs)

The image of the national world in phraseology (In the interpretation of french and uzbek folk proverbs)

САКРАЛЬНАЯ СЕМАНТИКА ТУВИНСКОГО ТРАДИЦИОННОГО КОСТЮМА

The relevance of the work is due to the need to study the features of the cut and decoration of the Tuvan costume, which are, on the one hand, a bright unique ethnic image, and on the other hand, carry the universal laws of the Universe inherent in the cultures of all the peoples of the Earth. The traditional costume is included in the “cultural core” of the Tuvan people and contributes to the preservation of its national identity. The aim of the work is to study the sacred semantics of a traditional costume. The object of research is the Tuvan folk costume, the subject is the sign-symbolic nature of the traditional Tuvan costume. The study uses a cultural-historical analysis that reveals the specifics of the Tuvan national clothing and its types, as well as the structural-semiotic method, which allows you to explore the features of the symbolic and symbolic nature of national clothing. National clothing is a complex structure that includes numerous types of upper and lower clothes, hats, shoes, jewelry, personal items and hairstyles. Tuvan clothes are classified according to their age and sex and eight traditional types are distinguished: children’s, girls’s suits, boys’s suits, bridesmaids suits, women’s suits, men's suits, and older’s suits. The traditional costume of Tuvans is a ritual object that has rich sacred semantics. The Tuvan costume is considered not only as a thing, but also as a symbolic sacred form, a sign in the context of culture. This semantic status of folk clothes was to be read and understood both by its owner and other members of traditional cultural communities, as a “sign (symbol, code, artistic image), composed of clothing, shoes, accessories, external behaviors, characteristics of the figure and human personality. The costume language is an image of the real world, the accumulated spiritual experience of people, the practical and aesthetic values of previous generations. Each element of the traditional costume had both functional significance and sacred semantics. The forms of cut and elements of the traditional Tuvan costume acquired particular semantic significance and translated the unity of the “earthly” and “sacred” worlds of mythological consciousness. The traditional Tuvan costume as the most important element of the material culture of the Tuvan people is a “mirror of myth”, reflecting various spheres of life, both material and spiritual. The traditional costume captures the diversity of all aspects of human life, the complexity of social relations and human behavior patterns in material embodiment. The entire costume complex is an integral system of ordered and interconnected signs and symbols, through which the accumulation, organization and transfer of cultural experience is carried out. The result of the study is the systematization of the cultural types of costume and the identification of their symbolic sound in a specific material expression (form, cut, decoration elements).

Utopian Film Studies

304 SCIENCE FICTION STUDIES, VOLUME 47 (2020) makes a strong case that these and similar mechanics should be analyzed closely for the role they play in popular understandings of science and technology. Falling under “Inspiring Science,” Erika Lorraine Milam’s essay “Old Woman and the Sea: Evolution and the Feminine Aquatic” is also noteworthy. Like Willis’s analysis of sleep, Milam’s article compares works of sf literature with scientific discourses to understand better their interrelationships. But unlike Willis, Milam is interested in speculative science, mostly in the form of Elaine Morgan’s controversial Descent of Woman (1972), which “imbued agency in humanity’s female ancestors by adding a controversial aquatic phase to the narrative of human evolution” (199). Milam reads this revisionist take on evolution alongside two works of sf that imagine how oceans and aquatic life can transform evolutionary trajectories—specifically, Kurt Vonnegut’s Galapagos and Joan Slonczewski’s A Door into Ocean, both published in 1985. She finds that the novels share Morgan’s interest in imagining “in the aquatic a realm of conceptual possibility that potentially avoided the violence of terrestrial landscapes” (199-200). For Slonczewski in particular, this was part of a feminist conceptualization that freed women from the constraints of patriarchy, capitalism, and biological reproduction. Milam closes her article with the suggestion that envisioning aquatic pasts and futures could be highly relevant in the age of climate change and the Anthropocene, since these and similar efforts help us to “conceptualize ourselves as part of the natural world rather than independent of it” (215). By using sf as a tool to think beyond the conventional histories of science, the other articles in this volume of Osiris can be seen to do something quite similar, and this is important work. In fact, the current trajectory of devastating climate transformation, unfettered capitalism, and uncontainable viral outbreaks, all of which can be tied to a particular history of technoscience, makes it clear that new concepts and fictions are required to make sense of how we got here. We may very well live in desperate times, a reality that demands we take hold of even more desperate futures to orient ourselves and plot a path forward. Whether readers are interested in this broader humanist project, or more simply in the various and complex ways in which sf can contribute to the history of science, this is a vital collection that demands attention from sf researchers, historians of science, and especially those who travel freely across such disciplinary boundaries.—Chad Andrews, Independent Scholar Utopian Film Studies. Simon Spiegel. Bilder einer besseren Welt. Die Utopie im nichtfiktionalen Film [Images of a Better World: The Utopia in Nonfiction Film]. Marburg: Schüren, 2019. 432 pp. €48 pbk. Open online access at . There are tons of dystopian sf films, but utopian sf films seem to be nonexistent . Utopian studies scholars have tried repeatedly to find utopia in fictional films, but to no avail. Sf films narrate alternative technologies, times, places, and beings, and of course they can also narrate alternative social 305 BOOKS IN REVIEW orders. There is no logical reason why these should always be horrific. Better societies can certainly be imagined, as the genre of utopian literature shows, but while literary dystopias have often been adapted for film, utopias have been neglected by the film industry. Why is this? Utopian scholars have long known that fictional films need a narrative plot with conflict at its core and that utopias lack this core because they are discursive rather than narrative and address harmonious societies without conflict. So a fictional utopian film would be quite boring and nobody has bothered to shoot one yet. At this point the scholarly debate on utopian film is usually aborted. Simon Spiegel, on the contrary, uses this finding as a starting point for an extensive study of utopian film. His idea is that if fictional film is incapable of depicting utopias, one should start looking for nonfictional utopian films. He has analyzed documentaries and propaganda films and actually found a quite diverse set of filmic utopias, and now he shows them to us—literally. Spiegel has hyperlinks to many of them on his website (). In Bilder einer...