This volume puts together a first-of-a-kind handbook, and contains the most important termini technici, expressions, and techniques connected to the traditional art of Persian calligraphy, ...calligraphy as well as related arts, like illumination, historiated painting, book binding, etc. The content is based on thirty prominent classical Persian treatises, composed between twelfth and twentieth centuries.
Much of the literary and cultural theory developed throughout the twentieth century relied on modernist texts and artefacts as both example and paradigm. This Dictionary collects, categorises and ...intersects literary, aesthetic, political and cultural terms that in one way or another came into being through the debates, conflicts, co-operations, experiments – individual and collective – that characterised modernism. In concise entries from international experts, it presents the terms, categories, concepts, tropes, movements, forged through the modernist upheavals (at once aesthetic and political), highlighting their genealogy, their modernist ‘newness’, and their historical longevity.
The virilio dictionary Armitage, John
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The first dictionary dedicated to the work of Paul Virilio, offering you clear and contemporary direction through the work of Virilio, the French critic of art and technology.
Dictionary of Arabic Loanwords in the Languages of Central and East Africa analyzes around 3000 Arabic loanwords in more than 50 languages in the area, and completes the work started in a previous ...similar work on West Africa.
In this paper, we propose a novel fine-grained dictionary learning method for image classification. To learn a high-quality discriminative dictionary, three types of multispecific subdictionaries, ...i.e., class-specific dictionaries (CSDs), universal dictionary (UD), and family-specific dictionaries (FSDs), are simultaneously uncovered. Here, CSDs and UD, respectively, model the patterns for each class and the patterns irrespective of any class. FSDs can help reveal the shared patterns between multiple image classes, by filling the gap between the patterns in CSDs and UD. The dependence among image classes is revealed by the shared FSDs, and a common FSD can be assigned to several classes to represent their residual. Finally, the most discriminative FSD for each class is identified by minimizing the sparse reconstruction error. Extensive experiments are conducted on different widely used data sets for image classification. The results demonstrate the superior performance of the proposed method over some state-of-the-art methods.
Auch deskriptive, nach wissenschaftlichen Kriterien erstellte Wörterbücher sind nicht frei von Wertungen. Dies zeigt sich insbesondere bei den Gebrauchshinweisen für die verzeichneten Lemmata, die ...unter anderem abwertende und diskriminierende Wörter als solche kennzeichnen. Gesellschaftliche Diskussionen zu diskriminierungsfreiem Sprachgebrauch, aber auch die sprachwissenschaftliche Diskriminierungsforschung sind für die Dudenredaktion immer wieder Anlass, Lemmalisten, Definitionen, Hinweise und Beispiele in den verschiedenen Wörterbüchern zu überarbeiten. Dabei kann die Darstellung im Wörterbucheintrag selbst Gegenstand von Zuschriften, Debatten oder gar medialen Empörungswellen werden. Anhand zweier Fallbeispiele wird dieser Aspekt lexikografischer Arbeit der Dudenredaktion exemplarisch dargestellt.
iFor a concise edition of his legendary arts dictionary of information and opinion, the distinguished critic and arts historian Richard Kostelanetz selects entries from the 2018 third edition. ...Typically he provides intelligence unavailable anywhere else, no less in print than online, about a wealth of subjects and individuals. Focused upon what is truly innovative and excellent, Kostelanetz also ranges widely with insight and surprise, including appreciations of artistic athletes such as Muhammad Ali and the Harlem Globetrotters and such collective creations as Las Vegas and his native New York City. Continuing the traditions of cheeky high-style Dictionarysts, honoring Ambrose Bierce and Samuel Johnson (both with individual entries), Kostelanetz offers a "reference book" to be enjoyed, not only in bits and chunks but continuously as one of the ten books someone would take if he or she planned to be stranded on a desert isle.
This comprehensive desktop reference addresses the diverse terms and acronyms that form the backbone of 21st century energy technologies, applications of those technologies, and the sustainability ...sector of the U.S. economy. The convergence of these disciplines has resulted in an explosion of specialized terms, acronyms, and jargon. The references encompass a wide range of legacy as well as emerging renewable energy technologies including the finance and sustainable segments of business that form an integral part of those technologies.
This dictionary gives professionals and laymen alike, across the multi-disciplinary fields of energy, a tool to better understand and communicate energy matters and understand the energy issues and opportunities faced. There are over 8,000 entries, making it the largest dictionary ever compiled on these specific subjects. Although the book includes some highly technical terms, the writing and explanations are sufficiently clear for both academia and practitioners including students, professors, architects, accountants, attorneys, engineers, public policy makers, regulators, developers, real estate professionals, debtors, borrowers, standards setting organizations, journalists, and boards of directors.
The author has created this dictionary to help both novices and experts cut through the confusion and understand the vocabulary of this fast-growing field. This comprehensive body of knowledge explains these technologies and thousands of other new technical terms and acronyms. Three sectors—energy, efficiency, and sustainability—are at the heart of the economic low-carbon future growth of our economy. The result is a practical tool that should find a central place on the desk of anyone involved in energy, management, and development of sustainability issues anywhere in the world.
The paper presents some results of the study of precedent names of a Chinese cultural space and describes the main methods of fixing and circulating precedent names (PN) in a modern Chinese ...discourse. According to the author, the main ways include epithets-invariants of the perception of referents of precedent names in dictionaries and textbooks, and, therefore, in the minds of the Chinese who went to school; special dictionaries and collections with images of PN referents (more often these are historical personalities) and very brief encyclopedic information about them; adapted chapters from precedent texts with headings in the form of precedent names-eventonyms in books for children and teenagers; phraseological units and set expressions of Chinese language of all types which are connected with the precedent phenomena; frame works; precedent names, precedent texts. The author believes that epithets represented by phraseological units, phraseological units as such, name variants and precedent texts can be attributed to primary basic methods. These methods show the specifics of the Chinese cultural space and serve the basis for PN preservation, fixation and translation. Special dictionaries and collections, adapted texts of chapters from classic novels with names in the form of PN eventonyms and frame works are secondary derived methods and tools that demonstrate the great demand of the Chinese linguistic and cultural community for precedent names and are based on language-saved knowledge of PN and other precedent phenomena.
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