Search results for "DOUGLAS"

Physics and metaphysics in the Hitchhiker Series (1979-1992) by Douglas Adams

2006

Chasing Shakespeare: The Impurity of the “Not Quite” in Norry Niven’s From Above and Abbas Kiarostami’s Where Is My Romeo

2017

The essay situates the “not Shakespeare” of this volume within the theoretical problematics of the “post-textual.” It re-elaborates the “post-textual” as the uncanny re-appearance of Shakespeare in the form of heterogeneous fragments that are made to cohabit with various textual and media environments. These media products include a “Shakespeare” that is not quite Shakespeare, an “entity” that becomes the site of unceasing transactions (for instance, between an “outside” and an “inside,” between visibility and invisibility, between the “original” and its iteration) and multiple contaminations (through media, characters, and plays).

Process art as an aesthetic alternative

2022

The present chapter examines Creed’s early career, particularly the artistic connection to his hometown as well as his peculiar conception of creativeness, for which Douglas Gordon emerges as an influential point of reference. This link to Glasgow has been widely overlooked by critics so far, who rather analyse Creed from a London-centred perspective. Hence, the principal aim of this chapter is to broaden the research scope and possibly detect some strains of early philosophical reasoning and artistic ontogenesis that gradually shaped Creed’s early production. My investigation covers roughly a decade from the late 1980s – Creed’s art school years in London – to the end of the century, short…

Digitālā mārketinga komunikācija: A/S “Drogas” un SIA “Douglas” piemēri

2020

Bakalaura darba tēma ir “Digitālā mārketinga komunikācija: A/S “Drogas” un SIA “Douglas” piemēri”. Darba mērķis ir noteikt, cik lielā mēra sociālo mediju komunikācija starp uzņēmumu un klientu ietekmē auditorijas viedokli, cik svarīga mūsdienās ir komunikācija sociālajos medijos, kā arī kāds saturs piesaista lielāko uzmanību. Bakalaura darbs sastāv no trīs daļām. Pirmā daļa balstās uz teoriju par mārketingu un sociālajiem medijiem un mārketinga komunikāciju sociālajos medijos. Otrajā daļā aprakstītas metodes, kas tiks izmantotas darba tapšanas procesā- kvalitatīvā kontentanalīze, aptauja un intervija. Trešajā daļā tiek aprakstīti iegūtie rezultāti un izvirzīti priekšlikumi. Atslēgvārdi: soc…

Suicidi

2020

I suicidi, eventi drammatici come pochi altri, hanno da sempre costituito una sfida per l’immaginazione sociologica. Se Emile Durkheim aveva dimostrato le capacità esplicative della sociologia, le sociologie costruzioniste – e, in particolare, interazionismo simbolico, etnometodologia, fenomenologia – hanno operato la resa dei conti con gli approcci positivisti. I saggi che qui presentiamo offrono una summa di grande interesse dei modi originali con cui le sociologie costruzioniste hanno re-immaginato lo studio dei suicidi andando oltre la rigidità dello schema “cause e cure” degli approcci positivisti ed arricchendo di sfumature la nostra comprensione del fenomeno. Di fronte a un panorama …

La Parola di Dio iscritta sulla pelle nella prassi artistica post-concettuale di Douglas Gordon

2021

The paper offers an analysis of how tattoos, although they only very recently established a niche of their own in contemporary art, became an important medium of religious art, particularly for Christianity. A central character is identified in Scottish artist Douglas Gordon, a celebrity of todays art world, who addressed the relationship with the Word of God already in his early works. Indeed, Gordon's tattoos are textual and inscribe the body with words. Penance and faith, possession and salvation are at the center of his creativity and find tattoos to be a convenient vehicle to confer a newly rediscovered sacred dimension to the body. In Gordons works the inscription acquires a religious…

An Algorithm for Discretization of Real Value Attributes Based on Interval Similarity

2013

Discretization algorithm for real value attributes is of very important uses in many areas such as intelligence and machine learning. The algorithms related to Chi2 algorithm (includes modified Chi2 algorithm and extended Chi2 algorithm) are famous discretization algorithm exploiting the technique of probability and statistics. In this paper the algorithms are analyzed, and their drawback is pointed. Based on the analysis a new modified algorithm based on interval similarity is proposed. The new algorithm defines an interval similarity function which is regarded as a new merging standard in the process of discretization. At the same time, two important parameters (condition parameterαand ti…

Qualité et performance de plants de Douglas soumis à différentes contraintes hydriques

1999

An experiment was carried out on 12 Douglas fir seedlings lots that were 3 years old and had all originated from the same seed lot. Treatments consisted in combining stock type with three different height to diameter ratios, storage duration and method (long at 2°C or short in various conditions), and protection from desiccation (by bagging or not). Seedling lots were assessed at planting by root electrolyte leakage (REL), root moisture content (RMC) and predawn shoot water potential (Ywp). They were planted simultaneously in well-watered or water-stressed conditions. Performance level was based on survival and height growth at the end of the growing season. Slender seedlings not bagged had…

Microbial Community Structure and Density Under Different Tree Species in an Acid Forest Soil (Morvan, France)

2005

Overexploitation of forests to increase wood production has led to the replacement of native forest by large areas of monospecific tree plantations. In the present study, the effects of different monospecific tree cover plantations on density and composition of the indigenous soil microbial community are described. The experimental site of "Breuil-Chenue" in the Morvan (France) was the site of a comparison of a similar mineral soil under Norway spruce (Picea abies), Douglas fir (Pseudotuga menziesii), oak (Quercus sessiflora), and native forest [mixed stand dominated by oak and beech (Fagus sylvatica)]. Sampling was performed during winter (February) at three depths (0-5, 5-10, and 10-15 cm…

The humour in science fiction litterature : identification ans specification of its contours, its attributes, its techniques and its variations

2014

This thesis is divided in two parts. The first part suggests a theory of humour, it starts studying that concept by explaining its enunciative, logical or syntactical structures in order to draw a clear vision of it, before offering a first attempt to define it. Then it establishes necessary distinctions between the various categories of the risible to refine the delineation of the contours of humour. Once the concept is marked out, the theory of humour suggests an original typology of humourous themes and a study of the three main variations of humour, before focusing on its purpose. The second part discusses, in the light of certain concepts developed in the first part, the question of hu…