O presente artigo desenvolve uma análise comparada de três romances publicados na passagem da década de 1920 para a de 1930: Contraponto (1928 2014), de Aldous Huxley, Berlin Alexanderplatz (1929 ...2019a), de Alfred Döblin, e Vile Bodies (1930 2012), de Evelyn Waugh. A análise pauta-se no conceito de crise do romance para investigar como esses escritores responderam às crises estéticas, políticas e sociais da primeira metade do século XX, traçando novos caminhos para o gênero novelístico a partir de procedimentos que envolvem contenção e dispersão, variação de pontos de vista, polifonia e autorreflexividade formal. A abordagem comparatista, centrada em autores de diferentes nacionalidades (dois ingleses e um alemão), permite uma compreensão mais abrangente desse momento crucial para a história do mundo tal qual representado pela ficção. Para tanto, é preciso também levar em conta as relações entre literatura e outras artes: a música erudita, em Huxley, e o cinema, em Döblin e Waugh.
Adapted from a lecture given to the Southeastern Jurisdiction Cabinets, this article re-examines John Wesley’s submission to “be more vile” as a potential avenue for continuing United Methodists to ...reclaim their missional impetus for the current moment.
Environmental sound feature extraction and classification are important signal analysis tools in many applications, such as audio surveillance, multimedia retrieval, and auditory source ...identification. However, the non-stationarity and discontinuity of environmental signals make quantification and classification a formidable challenge. Hence, researchers proposed to use the time-frequency image representation to quantify these non-stationarity, resulting in higher classification accuracy. In this paper, a time-frequency representation method is proposed to represent environmental sound signals. Our approach consists of three stages: Firstly, we propose an adaptive variational modal decomposition (AVMD) based on central angular frequency difference to decompose environmental sounds into a series of modes. Secondly, we use the pseudo Wigner-Vile distribution (PWVD) to accurately obtain the instantaneous frequency characteristics of mode signals. Thirdly, time-frequency images of sound signals are obtained by combining the mode signals with PWVD. Finally, we put the time-frequency image into a convolutional neural network (CNN) for classification. The method is tested on the Real World Computing Partnership (RWCP) Sound Scene Database of 50 classes in mismatched conditions. Results show that our method is robust to noise and achieves the best average recognition accuracy compared with several state-of-art methods under clean and various noisy conditions.
Rolling element bearing and gear are the most common used rotating parts in rotating machinery and they are also the fragile mechanical part. Studying the effective method of timely diagnosis of them ...is very necessary. The Wigner-Vile spectrum (WVS) is an effective time-frequency analysis and common used method for diagnosis of rotating machinery. However, it would not work effectively when the impulsion characteristic fault signal of rotating machinery is buried by strong background noise. To solve the above problem, the property of cyclostationarity of the rotating machinery signal is used, and the cyclic spectral density basing on second order cyclostationarity statistic is combined with the WVS, and the cyclic spectral density Wigner Vile spectrum (CSDWVS) time-frequency method is proposed in the paper. Through the analysis results of simulation and experiment, the CSDWVS method has the advantages of much more noise-resistant than traditional WVS method, and it could extract the fault feature of the vibration signal of rotating machinery buried in strong background noise. Besides, it also has better time frequency aggregation effect.
À l’heure où les communautés religieuses traversent une étape inédite de leur histoire, marquée notamment par le vieillissement de leurs membres, il convient d’examiner le patrimoine qu’elles nous ...lèguent. Cet ouvrage propose un survol de l’histoire des Sœurs du Bon-Pasteur de Québec. Il convie le lecteur à la découverte d’un patrimoine marqué du sceau de l’intervention sociale, un patrimoine dont les fondements sont toujours vivants de nos jours, en société.
Surprisingly little attention is paid to the role of digital technology and related forms of data production, storage, processing, and sharing in humanitarian governance. This paper uses Michael ...Barnett's () conceptualisation of humanitarian governance when arguing for a better accounting of technology in literature on humanitarian governance. Specifically, it proposes a two‐fold alertness to governance of (a) the uses of new technology and (b) that which is produced by digital technologies. This elucidates important issues, including that of access to digitalised data collected from humanitarian subjects, with implications for their (in)security. The paper concludes by suggesting that access is no longer ‘only’ about challenges of gaining access to vulnerable populations, but also about challenges of preventing access to vulnerable digital bodies and their use for aggressive purposes. In short, access and protection acquire a new dimension and analyses of humanitarian governance must be more attentive to the role of digital technology.
This paper presents new data and reviews the available evidence pointing to the existence of three main ingredients of militant extremist mindset (MEM). Three different methods of item development ...identified factors that we have labeled Nastiness, Grudge, and Excuse. In other words, there are in our midst nasty people who are more prepared than others to accept, approve, or even advocate the use of violence. When such people feel a grudge, in that they see somebody as threatening to themselves (or to members of the group they belong to) or think that the world is not a hospitable place in which to live, they may resort to violence. This violence is often accompanied by an excuse or justification that refers to a higher authority or a "noble" principle such as religiosity or utopianism. Although all three ingredients may be open to intervention, Grudge might be the most amenable. Social policies related to immigration and procedures for dealing with protest counterculture may be effective in reducing MEM. The most important, however, is the need to espouse principles of diversity and tolerance.
In the 1970s, Professor Robbins and his coauthors extended the Vile and Wald inequality in order to derive the fundamental theoretical results regarding likelihood ratio based sequential tests with ...power one. The law of the iterated logarithm confirms an optimal property of the power one tests. In parallel with Robbins’s decision-making procedures, we propose and examine sequential empirical likelihood ratio (ELR) tests with power one. In this setting, we develop the nonparametric one- and two-sided ELR tests. It turns out that the proposed sequential ELR tests significantly outperform the classical nonparametric t-statistic-based counterparts in many scenarios based on different underlying data distributions.
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