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Biopolitics and Hegemony in Contemporary Russian Cultural Policy
2018
Since 2011, Russian ‘licensing civil society’ 1 has predominated through censorship and the restrictive regulation of arts and cultural societies. The current conservative project has turned artistic space into public space, indicating moral abuse and a threat to the spiritual health of the Russian nation. Consequently, the symbolic borders of human creativity and individual freedom in arts and cultural societies have been reduced to patriotism, nationalism and moral deductive functions of the state-approved program. This paper will explore Russian state cultural policy and argue that biopolitics is its mainstream strategy. It examines how the ensemble of sovereign and disciplinary power de…
Designing Dissensual Common Sense: Critical Art, Architecture, and Design in Jacques Rancière’s Political Thought
2021
How can design be socially engaged and politically efficient, as proposed by discourses labeled as critical design? This article introduces a conceptualization and historiography of politically charged design discourse based on philosopher Jacques Rancière’s work on the intersections of politics, aesthetics, and critical artistic practices. By focusing especially on Rancière’s reading of the genealogy of design from Ruskin to constructivism and the Bauhaus, the article aims to show that there is an important connection between design and politics present in Rancière’s thought. Rather than solely revealing the oppressive dimension embedded in designed forms, for Rancière, design is itself a …
‘Teachers see nothing’ : exploring students’ and teachers’ perspectives on school bullying with a new arts-based methodology
2020
Even though bullying is a perennial problem, there are still significant gaps in the research. The sensitive nature of the issue prompted us to develop and test a new arts-based method – a set of incomplete, problem-focused comic strips that were given to the participants for creative completion and were subsequently used as individualised interview prompts. The study took place in Russia with 14 teachers and 39 school children. The findings indicated that students and teachers agreed that instances of bullying should not be reported. However, there is a significant difference in how bullying is perceived by teachers and students. The majority of teachers indicated either seeing no bullying…
Segmentation Integrating Watershed and Shape Priors Applied to Cardiac Delayed Enhancement MR Images
2017
International audience; Background: In recent years, there has been a rapid rise in the use of shape priors applied to segmentation process of medical images. Previous approaches on left ventricle segmentation from Delayed-Enhancement Magnetic Resonance Imaging (DE-MRI) have focused on the extraction of myocardium or just diseased region in short axis orientation. However these studies did not take into account the segmentation of non-diseased myocardium from DE-MRI. The segmentation of non-diseased myocardium from DE-MRI, has some useful applications. For instance it can simplify the PET-MR registration process.Methods: This paper presents a novel semi-automatic segmentation method of non-…
Applying a Data Quality Model to Experiments in Software Engineering
2014
Data collection and analysis are key artifacts in any software engineering experiment. However, these data might contain errors. We propose a Data Quality model specific to data obtained from software engineering experiments, which provides a framework for analyzing and improving these data. We apply the model to two controlled experiments, which results in the discovery of data quality problems that need to be addressed. We conclude that data quality issues have to be considered before obtaining the experimental results.
A completely automated CAD system for mass detection in a large mammographic database.
2006
Mass localization plays a crucial role in computer-aided detection (CAD) systems for the classification of suspicious regions in mammograms. In this article we present a completely automated classification system for the detection of masses in digitized mammographic images. The tool system we discuss consists in three processing levels: (a) Image segmentation for the localization of regions of interest (ROIs). This step relies on an iterative dynamical threshold algorithm able to select iso-intensity closed contours around gray level maxima of the mammogram. (b) ROI characterization by means of textural features computed from the gray tone spatial dependence matrix (GTSDM), containing secon…
Fuzzy technique for microcalcifications clustering in digital mammograms
2012
Abstract Background Mammography has established itself as the most efficient technique for the identification of the pathological breast lesions. Among the various types of lesions, microcalcifications are the most difficult to identify since they are quite small (0.1-1.0 mm) and often poorly contrasted against an images background. Within this context, the Computer Aided Detection (CAD) systems could turn out to be very useful in breast cancer control. Methods In this paper we present a potentially powerful microcalcifications cluster enhancement method applicable to digital mammograms. The segmentation phase employs a form filter, obtained from LoG filter, to overcome the dependence from …
Exudate-based diabetic macular edema detection in fundus images using publicly available datasets
2010
International audience; Diabetic macular edema (DME) is a common vision threatening complication of diabetic retinopathy. In a large scale screening environment DME can be assessed by detecting exudates (a type of bright lesions) in fundus images. In this work, we introduce a new methodology for diagnosis of DME using a novel set of features based on colour, wavelet decomposition and automatic lesion segmentation. These features are employed to train a classifier able to automatically diagnose DME through the presence of exudation. We present a new publicly available dataset with ground-truth data containing 169 patients from various ethnic groups and levels of DME. This and other two publi…
Modulārs MIDI sintezators ar bezvadu datu protokolu MDI iekārtu savienošanai.
2017
Kvalifikācijas darba mērķis ir izstrādāt Arduino bāzētu Modulāru MIDI sintezatoru un pielāgot bezvadu datu pārraides protokolu datu apmaiņai starp sintezatora moduļiem, kuros ietilpst skaņas sintēzes moduļi, kontrolieri un MIDI interfeisi. Darbs ir izstrādāts Arduino vidē, C valodā ar C++ tipa klašu implementāciju bibliotēku formā. Darbā iekļauti izstrādātie dokumenti, programmatūras prasību specifikācija, programmatūras projektējuma apraksts un pielikumā pievienoti izstrādāto moduļu programmatūras kodu fragmenti.
Efektīva IPTV bezvadu pārraide mājas tīklā
2016
Bakalaura darba uzdevums ir mājas apstākļos izveidot datortīklu, kurā saņemtā Interneta Protokola televīzijas plūsma pirms nonākšanas televīzijas iekārtā tiek pārraidīta bezvadu tīkla, tādējādi ļaujot izvairīties no papildu tīkla kabeļu ievilkšanas. Mērķis ir šajā tīklā panākt efektīvu datu plūsmu bez tīkla traucējumiem un citiem nevēlamiem blakusefektiem. Mērķa sasniegšanai darbā pētīti un izmēģināti vairāki tīkla konfigurācijas varianti, analizēta televīzijas plūsmas ietekme uz pārējo bezvadu tīklu, kā arī aprakstītas novērotās sekas un to iespējamie cēloņi. Datortīkla izveidē izmēģinātas divu ražotāju tīkla iekārtas. Darba noslēgumā ir izveidots strādājošs tīkls, kurā televīzijas pārraid…