Immediately following his repatriation in 1936, Prokofiev composed a film score for a screen adaptation of Pushkin's The Queen of Spades. Although the film was never finished, Prokofiev's completed ...score reveals an idiosyncratic approach to film music, one that is strikingly different than that found in his better known scores such as Alexander Nevsky. Reconstruction of the production and its context demonstrates how Prokofiev's aesthetic goals of a "new simplicity," characterized by lyricism, spare textures, and avoidance of dissonance, would successfully intersect with the ideological goals of a Jubilee celebration planned by the Soviet government for the centenary of Pushkin's death.
Simulations are an excellent tool for studying AI. However, the simulation technology in use by and designed for, the AI community often fails to take advantage of much of the work in the larger ...simulation community to produce stable, repeatable, and efficient simulations. I present spades (system for parallel‐agent discrete‐event simulation) as a simulation substrate for the AI community. spades focuses on the agent as a fundamental simulation component. The “thinking time” of an agent is tracked and reflected in the results of the agents' actions. spades supports and manages the distribution of agents across machines while it is robust to variations in network performance and machine load. spades is not tied to any particular simulation and is a powerful new tool for creating simulations for the study of AI.
In order to produce inversely angled forms in injection molds, it is necessary to develop a mechanical bracelet in order to enable production at low investment costs for the producers. Particularly, ...seasonal production is done by injection molds. Due to seasonal production, producers are reluctant to make heavy mold investments. It is possible to produce these products of concern with low investment costs.
Pushkin’s (literary) games with The Queen of Spades Literary play can be explained as an operation carried out by the author who modifies or confirms a stereotype that a reader has in mind. Alexander ...Pushkin – playing with the convention of romantic short story – leads the reader into a meta-reality which does not correspond to either the real world or fantastical tales. Thus, he has an opportunity – which is not deprived of the extraordinary – to slip the truth about a man, here and now, with all his weaknesses and urges.
An aesthetic, historical, and theoretical study of four scores, Russian Opera and the Symbolist Movement is a groundbreaking and imaginative treatment of the important yet neglected topic of Russian ...opera in the Silver Age. Spanning the gap between the supernatural Russian music of the nineteenth century and the compositions of Prokofiev and Stravinsky, this exceptionally insightful and well-researched book explores how Russian symbolist poets interpreted opera and prompted operatic innovation. Simon Morrison shows how these works, though stylistically and technically different, reveal the extent to which the operatic representation of the miraculous can be translated into its enactment. Morrison treats these largely unstudied pieces by canonical composers: Tchaikovsky's Queen of Spades, Rimsky-Korsakov's Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevroniya, Scriabin's unfinished Mysterium, and Prokofiev's Fiery Angel. The chapters, revisionist studies of these composers and scores, address separate aspects of Symbolist poetics, discussing such topics as literary and musical decadence, pagan-Christian syncretism, theurgy, and life creation, or the portrayal of art in life. The appendix offers the first complete English-language translation of Scriabin's libretto for the Preparatory Act. Providing valuable insight into both the Symbolist enterprise and Russian musicology, this book casts new light on opera's evolving, ambiguous place in fin de siècle culture.
This paper examines the short novel Queen of Spades (1824) by the Swedish romantic writer Clas Livijn in respect to four groups of signs found throughout the work. These involve card games and ...playing cards, different designations for metals, proper names, and the titles of religious literature.
The theme of battle is paramount in the text. This is already visible in the choice of “Queen of Spades” as the name for the protagonist’s beloved, as this card has been illustrated with a portrait of Pallas Athena, the Goddess of War, since late medieval times. Livijn’s main character, Zachäus Schenander, views himself as a righteous Christian crusading against the moral and aesthetic decay of his contemporaries, who are associated with the forces of evil. The virgin Goddess of War is his muse. Schenander’s pretensions of authority are, however, obscured by irony.
The investigation of the semiotic and rhetorical strategies that Livijn employs emphasizes the dynamic nature of the signs he uses, that is, the differing and often contrary meanings of a given sign are actualized in respect to different points of view. This results in a text in which virtually every sentence undergoes numerous ironic twists. A central example of such sign usage is the “Queen of Spades” herself, who combines Schenander’s positive view with the negative views held by his antagonists. But the negative connotations, which also dominate Pushkin’s Queen of Spades (1834), cannot be vanquished. The poet-hero is defeated by the hostile corrupted world and is driven insane.
In this work, we present Simul-A 2 , a simulator based on a multi-agent architecture. Using this simulator, we can make test with Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS). Simul-A 2 has been ...developed using Webots and libraries that have been developed by ROS Project. In order to introduce more realism, the virtual worlds in the simulator contain several agents that control the vehicles regardless of the user's actions. These agents make the simulation more real by producing more reaction and anxiety in the driver who is using Simul-A 2 .
To develop a parallel discrete-event simulation from scratch requires in-depth knowledge of the mapping process from the physical model to the simulation model, and also a substantial effort in ...coping with the numerous issues concerning the underlying synchronization protocols in use. Languages and libraries could reduce the devel opment effort significantly by providing the user with a pre-built parallel simulation kernel as well as application development tools. This pa per contains a survey of the existing languages and libraries for parallel discrete-event simula tion. It is divided into two major sections: one on the languages, the other on the libraries. The discussions are mainly focused on the following aspects: user model, programming framework and language features, library API, protocols, and system support and environment. The re ported performances of some packages are also summarized.
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