bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Comparison of Random Forest and XGBoost Classifiers Using Integrated Optical and SAR Features for Mapping Urban Impervious Surface
Authors: Shao Zhenfeng , Ahmad Muhammad Nasar , Javed Akib
Published: February 2024

The integration of optical and SAR datasets through ensemble machine learning models shows promising results in urban remote sensing applications. The integration of multi-sensor datasets enhances the accuracy of information extraction. This research presents a comparison of two ensemble machine learning classifiers (random forest and extreme gradient boost (XGBoost)) classifiers using an integration of optical and SAR features and simple layer stacking (SLS) techniques. Therefore, Sentinel-1 (SAR) and Landsat 8 (optical) datasets were used with SAR textures and enhanced modified indices to extract features for the year 2023. The classification process utilized two machine learning algorithms, random forest and XGBoost, for urban impervious surface extraction. The study focused on three significant East Asian cities with diverse urban dynamics: Jakarta, Manila, and Seoul. This research proposed a novel index called the Normalized Blue Water Index (NBWI), which distinguishes water from other features and was utilized as an optical feature. Results showed an overall accuracy of 81% for UIS classification using XGBoost and 77% with RF while classifying land use land cover into four major classes (water, vegetation, bare soil, and urban impervious). However, the proposed framework with the XGBoost classifier outperformed the RF algorithm and Dynamic World (DW) data product and comparatively showed higher classification accuracy. Still, all three results show poor separability with bare soil class compared to ground truth data. XGBoost outperformed random forest and Dynamic World in classification accuracy, highlighting its potential use in urban remote sensing applications.
Nighttime Thermal Infrared Image Translation Integrating Visible Images
Authors: Yang Shihao , Sun Min , Lou Xiayin , Yang Hanjun , Liu Dong
Published: February 2024

Nighttime Thermal InfraRed (NTIR) image colorization, also known as the translation of NTIR images into Daytime Color Visible (DCV) images, can facilitate human and intelligent system perception of nighttime scenes under weak lighting conditions. End-to-end neural networks have been used to learn the mapping relationship between temperature and color domains, and translate NTIR images with one channel into DCV images with three channels. However, this mapping relationship is an ill-posed problem with multiple solutions without constraints, resulting in blurred edges, color disorder, and semantic errors. To solve this problem, an NTIR2DCV method that includes two steps is proposed: firstly, fuse Nighttime Color Visible (NCV) images with NTIR images based on an Illumination-Aware, Multilevel Decomposition Latent Low-Rank Representation (IA-MDLatLRR) method, which considers the differences in illumination conditions during image fusion and adjusts the fusion strategy of MDLatLRR accordingly to suppress the adverse effects of nighttime lights; secondly, translate the Nighttime Fused (NF) image to DCV image based on HyperDimensional Computing Generative Adversarial Network (HDC-GAN), which ensures feature-level semantic consistency between the source image (NF image) and the translated image (DCV image) without creating semantic label maps. Extensive comparative experiments and the evaluation metrics values show that the proposed algorithms perform better than other State-Of-The-Art (SOTA) image fusion and translation methods, such as FID and KID, which decreased by 14.1 and 18.9, respectively.
The Impact of Liver Abscesses on Performance and Carcass Traits in Beef Cattle: A Meta-Analysis Study
Authors: Torres Rodrigo de Nazaré Santos , da Silva David Attuy Vey , Chardulo Luis Arthur Loyola , Baldassini Welder Angelo , de Almeida Rafael Assis Torres , Almeida Marco Tulio Costa , Curi Rogério Abdallah , Pereira Guilherme Luis , Schoonmaker Jon Patrick , Machado Neto Otavio Rodrigues
Published: February 2024

The use of high-grain diets in feedlots is associated with the development of acidosis and ruminitis, which can lead to the occurrence of liver abscesses (LAs). However, the effect of LA on carcass traits is not well known. This study assessed the effects of LA on the performance and carcass traits of beef cattle. Nine peer-reviewed publications with forty-seven treatment means were included in the data set. The effects of the LA were evaluated by examining the weighted mean difference (WMD) between LA (animal with LA) and control treatment (animal without LA). Heterogeneity was explored by meta-regression, followed by a subgroup analysis of the scores and percentages of liver abscess and concentrate level in the feedlot diet. Animals affected by LA showed a reduction in dry matter intake (−1.03%) and feed efficiency (−1.82%). Animals with an LA score of “A” (one or two small abscesses) exhibited a decrease in carcass weight (WMD = 3.41 kg; p = 0.034) and ribeye area (WMD = −1.37 cm2; p = 0.019). When assessing the impact of LA on carcass traits, the most reliable finding indicates a 1.21% reduction in the ribeye area, with no adverse effects observed on subcutaneous fat thickness or the marbling score in the carcass.
Multiplex Serology for Sensitive and Specific Flavivirus IgG Detection: Addition of Envelope Protein Domain III to NS1 Increases Sensitivity for Tick-Borne Encephalitis Virus IgG Detection
Authors: Valle Coralie , Shrestha Sandhya , Godeke Gert-Jan , Hoogerwerf Marieke N. , Reimerink Johan , Eggink Dirk , Reusken Chantal
Published: February 2024

Tick-borne encephalitis is a vaccine-preventable disease of concern for public health in large parts of Europe, with EU notification rates increasing since 2018. It is caused by the orthoflavivirus tick-borne encephalitis virus (TBEV) and a diagnosis of infection is mainly based on serology due to its short viremic phase, often before symptom onset. The interpretation of TBEV serology is hampered by a history of orthoflavivirus vaccination and by previous infections with related orthoflaviviruses. Here, we sought to improve TBEV sero-diagnostics using an antigen combination of in-house expressed NS1 and EDIII in a multiplex, low-specimen-volume set-up for the detection of immune responses to TBEV and other clinically important orthoflaviviruses (i.e., West Nile virus, dengue virus, Japanese encephalitis virus, Usutu virus and Zika virus). We show that the combined use of NS1 and EDIII results in both a specific and sensitive test for the detection of TBEV IgG for patient diagnostics, vaccination responses and in seroprevalence studies. This novel approach potentially allows for a low volume-based, simultaneous analysis of IgG responses to a range of orthoflaviviruses with overlapping geographic circulations and clinical manifestations.
Vaccine Strategies to Elicit Mucosal Immunity
Authors: Song Yufeng , Mehl Frances , Zeichner Steven L.
Published: February 2024

Vaccines are essential tools to prevent infection and control transmission of infectious diseases that threaten public health. Most infectious agents enter their hosts across mucosal surfaces, which make up key first lines of host defense against pathogens. Mucosal immune responses play critical roles in host immune defense to provide durable and better recall responses. Substantial attention has been focused on developing effective mucosal vaccines to elicit robust localized and systemic immune responses by administration via mucosal routes. Mucosal vaccines that elicit effective immune responses yield protection superior to parenterally delivered vaccines. Beyond their valuable immunogenicity, mucosal vaccines can be less expensive and easier to administer without a need for injection materials and more highly trained personnel. However, developing effective mucosal vaccines faces many challenges, and much effort has been directed at their development. In this article, we review the history of mucosal vaccine development and present an overview of mucosal compartment biology and the roles that mucosal immunity plays in defending against infection, knowledge that has helped inform mucosal vaccine development. We explore new progress in mucosal vaccine design and optimization and novel approaches created to improve the efficacy and safety of mucosal vaccines.
Une relecture de la Bible
Authors: Pavlov Aleksandr Valentinovitch
Published: February 2024

Re-reading the Bible.

The three words mentionned, Enlightenment, Messianism and revolution were not specific to Russia. They had a European meaning and Russia would appear as an hypertrophied Europe, pushed to its logical limits. Understanding Russia is understanding Europe in its limits. European Enlightenment is embodied in the metaphor of the Book. The Bible, through the conflicts of opinions and aspirations it provokes is this fruitful grain from which blossomed European civilization. Europe is the only part of the world whose history is an interpreted process and not spontaneous one. All streams of thoughts have their origin in the Bible and the history of Europe is itself a book. Its Enlightenment goes back to the Fathers of the Church and themselves to the Bible. Peter I’s reforms introduce Russia to European space at a time when science acquires a major importance. As Orthodoxy prepares neither theology nor philosophy, the philosophers of the Enlightenment borrow an exclusively scientific way. Soviet civilisation, logical product of Peter’s reforms, was born from a handbook : «An Absolute Knowledge of the World. » The Soviet Idea is not only communism but also the triumph of science over religion. The crisis of sciences caused by their application to a sphere to which it did not belong, did not concern Soviet values. The failure of the 1990s reforms, applied in the Soviet way, in an immoral, cynical way, is considered by a humiliated public opinion as tremendously stupid. A worrying symptom.

Like the phoenix of the fable, Russia is periodically reborn from its ashes. The schism existing between science and religion did not lead to irreligiosity but to a questioning of the meaning of life, once communism had been discredited. To renew the dialogue between Russia and Europe, the Bible should be re-read to enable orthodoxy to dialogue with science and for Russia to retrieve its place.
Immigration post-soviétique. La certitude n’est plus ce qu’elle était (exemple montréalais)
Authors: Proujanskaïa Ludmila
Published: February 2024

Post-Soviet Immigration : certainty is no Longer what it Used to be (Montreal as an exemple ).

Post-Soviet immigration, the fourth wave of immigration during the past century, is the most heterogeneous. It did not form a collectivity according to the standards of the Loi canadienne sur le multiculturalisme. Its common denominator, the Russian language is not a sufficient criterion. The atheism of the majority as does not allow, as for some other ethnic groups, to make religion the central factor of a communitarian gathering.

The first wave, «The White Russians» one, immersed itself in the nostalgia of Holy Russia and the distrust of the USSR ; the second one, fleeing Stalin’s camps after the war, tried to pass unnoticed and blend into the mass of people ; the third one, Jewish in majority convinced that it would conquer the right to be Jewish on northern American territory, showed eagerness to forget its sad past. The fourth one, was free to leave, attracted by the opulence of the New World. Convinced of their capacity to have the same positions they had in the USSR, many had to face disappointment and be content with casual jobs. The unexpected development of Moscow, the capacity of Russian people to master I.T. modified the dilapidated image of the country they had left. Although they had abandoned «the spiritual values» acquired at Soviet schools, most of the immigrants remained attached to their past : their children went to Russian schools, they bought books published in Russia, they had Russian tv via satellites installed, they flew back to their native country for their holiday. It is an indispensable compensation when you can’t make yours the culture of your country. Michael Epstein translates this strange ambiguity between two realities, the one you willingly abandoned and the other that you chose. Is it nostalgia ? A form of patriotism you were not aware of before leaving ? And of a country which no longer exist anymore ? Or of a country which emerged and in which there is no places for you any longer ?
Le droit et l’idée. Le transfert et le fonctionnement des concepts juridiques occidentaux en Russie contemporaine
Authors: Kossov Valéry
Published: February 2024

Le Droit et l’Idée : How were the Legal Concepts borrowed from the West and How they Work in Contemporary Russia.

Since the 1990s, Russia has been transformed particulary be the influence of a liberal ideology ; economic determinism has replaced former political determinism. The new radicalism, tinted with a certain form of Bolshevism, had the same utopian goal, «pull to pieces» the old system and rebuild a better world. «The miracle recipe» consisted in transferring to Russia the western liberal experience as had occured in Germany. The 1993 Constitution was inspired by the Constitutions of the USA, France and Germany with a main ambition : to differ from Soviet law which put the emphasis on collective interests to the prejudice of individual rights and to make a reference to concepts borrowed from the 1789 universal Declaration of the rights of man and citizen. But the application of the decisions taken by constitutional justice remains unsettled. As regards elections, the applications of principles is confronted to the political reality of the country. While being independent, justice is influenced by the executive power and in particular, the ministers so-called «reinforced» (siloviki). The confrontation between the legislature and the executive in October 1993, enabled to enhance in the Constitution the institution of a strong presidential power, using USA and French models. The only counterbalance to this institution is the possibility of destitution by the Federation Council. The English word «impeachment» has even been adopted. However, the procedure remains heavy and difficult to start. The pupil has excelled his master in the subjects which were of interest to him, especially powers. After Eltsine’s departure, the word «vertical» inspired by the American system of unity of the executive power, created no suspicion.

Russia adopted a federal model, on the model of «symmetrical» German or American federations, but having inherited the asymmetrical and complex Soviet organisation, it could not do without the use of Soviet notions. The attempt to establish symmetrical relations comes up against reality. Being a promoter of a constitutional state V. Putin keeps asserting that social life is based on the law. Wass the messianic role assigned to western juridical concepts by liberal politicians in the 1990s not wholly utopian ? But do Russian people understand human rights in the same way as in the West ? More than a lexical mistake, it is a semantic and cultural error. In this context of the gap of cultures, isn’t «the legalistic discourse» of the Russian president a way to value the law as a repressive instrument ? Any juridical system has repressive elements. From their balanced use depends social relationships.
Я и Другой : Altérité в современной зарубежной русской литературе
Authors: Aptekman Marina
Published: February 2024

L’altérité dans la littérature russe contemporaine de l’émigration.

L’article étudie comment la conception que donne E. Lévinas de l’altérité, comme connaissance de soi-même à travers la reconnaissance de l’autre, se reflète dans la littérature russe de l’émigration, à l’époque post-soviétique. L’auteur s’appuie sur l’exemple de deux romans russes récents, Voici venir le Messie, de Dina Roubina, romancière israélienne écrivant en russe, - et Le cheveu de Vénus, de Mikhail Chichkine, qui vit depuis dix ans en Suisse. Elle montre que la chute du mur de Berlin et la liberté des déplacements ont radicalement modifié la conscience qu’a l’écrivain russe émigré de son appartenance ou de son hétérogénéité à une culture ou à l’autre. Elle se fait désormais par la mise en scène assumée des multiples «moi» de l’auteur, et par le dialogue que celui-ci entretient avec soi-même à travers ses alter ego.
Traduire l’au-delà. Le Poème du Nouvel An de Tsvétaeva en français
Authors: Louyest Marina
Published: February 2024

Статья посвящена анализу переводов на французский язык поэмы Марины Цветаевой «Новогоднее», выполненных Евой Мальре и Каролин Беранже. В «Новогоднем», созданном в 1927 по случаю кончины Райнера Мария Рильке, Цветаева использует различные языковые средства (паронимия, пунктуация, игра слов...) для передачи метафизического состояния, к которому приобщается поэт перед лицом смерти. Проделанный анализ показывает, каким образом данный опыт принимает разнообразные формы на французском языке.
Проза С. Довлатова как питейная школа
Authors: Sharipov Alisher
Published: February 2024

Dovlatov’s prose as a drinking school.

This paper is a part of research on principles for representing drinking practices in texts of Soviet culture, considering rhetoric of recording negative aspects of drinking into ironic and fatalistic way. The paper investigates the representation of drinking habits in a literary text. One hundred passages on drinking extracted from Dovlatov’s novel are classified and summarized, giving a wide picture of soviet drinking practices, and their role in everyday life. Discursive analysis shows how a literary text represents cultural habit of drinking as a natural phenomenon, implementing the idea of drinking as a social norm into a worldview of a reader. Positive characteristics of pragmatic drinker legitimize the daily alcohol consumption that helps to overcome an existential horror of existence, treats spiritual and physical injuries, gives a feeling of freedom, stimulates the communication and leads a drinker to heroic deeds.
Шерлок Холмс по-советски : путешествие из кино в фольклор
Authors: Visani Federica
Published: February 2024

Les anekdoty sur Sherlock Holmes et Watson commencent à circuler suite à la sortie de la série televisée «Priključenija Šerloka Cholmsa i doktora Vatsona» (1979-1986). Ces anekdoty se présentent comme la parodie des héros au centre du film. Donc, on peut les considérer comme la continuation du film, mais selon une vision humoristique. L’approche ironique du réalisateur vers les personnages de Conan Doyle, ainsi que les nombreuses anecdotes dont le film abonde déclenchent la production d'anekdoty. Le film fournit un texte prototypique qui est reproduit dans les anekdoty. Le but de cet article est d’analyser le fonctionnement de ce cycle d’anekdoty en relation à son prototexte filmique. totypique qui est reproduit dans les anekdoty. Le but de cet article est d’analyser le fonctionnement de ce cycle d’anekdoty en relation à son prototexte filmique.
Images exportées, images partagées. Les pouvoirs de l’Extrême Orient autour de l’Occident sur l’affectivité artificielle
Authors: Cardoso Stéphanie
Published: February 2024

Image archaïque de l’être artificiel, image fictionnelle, image prospective, l’exportation des robots humanoïdes en Occident véhicule de manière analogique une partie de la cyberculture nipponne. Or, la représentation anthropomorphe et stéréotypée de l’intelligence artificielle à travers la science fiction semble remettre en question les rapports sensibles face à cette production visuelle, ceci autant en Occident qu’en Extrême Orient. Il s’avère alors intéressant d’étudier l’image et ses pouvoirs culturels sur les potentialités d’affectivité envers le factice.
Version latine : l’éphémère selon Calzolari
Authors: Moullier Cédric
Published: February 2024

Pier Paolo Calzolari est, à bien des égards, une “ figure” fascinante de l’Arte Povera. Remo Guidieri détecte dans son travail une réelle pensée de l’éphémère, qu’il qualifie d’“authentique tonalité épiphanique”. Lorsque Calzolari met en scène trois blocs de glace et un chien albinos, il s’agit bien d’un dispositif précaire et fugace. Mais n’est-ce que cela ? Et d’abord, comment fonctionne cette oeuvre, qui tient momentanément debout ? Plusieurs hypothèses peuvent être essayées : nature-morte “minute” ? Approche “réfrigérée” du sublime ? Il semble en tout cas que quelque chose de latin passe dans cette oeuvre, connectant l’éphémère à des forces et à une civilisation passée.
L’inflexion: Grâce, Charites, sprezzatura
Authors: Prévost Bertrand
Published: February 2024

L’une des difficultés majeures dans la construction d’un concept rigoureux de grâce tient sans doute à sa contamination par la théologie. Pourtant, non seulement la grâce ne serait pas le privilège de Dieu, mais plus encore, il n’y aurait de grâce véritable qu’athéologique. Dit très rapidement, seule une métaphysique de l’immanence serait en mesure de lui donner consistance. Par ailleurs, le champ esthétique semble offrir un point de vue privilégié pour refonder le questionnement. Trois grandes directions sont alors proposées : un figure, d’abord, vient donner à la grâce quelque chose comme son schème fondamental, comme sa fonction naturelle : l’inflexion ; une allégorie, ensuite, lui fournit son iconographie : la ronde des Trois Grâces (selon Sénèque et Botticelli) ; un concept, enfin, tente de lui conférer une nature propositionnelle : la sprezzatura, telle que Balthassar Castiglione en élabore la notion dans le Livre du courtisan (1527).
Deconstructing Lucariello
Authors: Cometti Jean-Pierre
Published: February 2024

L’univers que Lucariello laisse entrevoir est pour une large part celui de notre “ monde de l’art”, de ses lubies et de ses conventions. L’humanité qui lui correspond, dans ses formes les plus grotesques, figure une “ humanité quadrupède” qui ne se redresse que pour mieux s’incliner ou s’affaisser, devant de grandiloquentes idoles. Dans un tel monde, les seules souverainetés sont rhétoriques, baroques ; elles justifient, s’agissant de l’artiste et de ses doubles, ce mot de Manganelli : “ J’habite une hallucination fastueusement décorée”. Entre les images d’un soi toujours autre et les étranges figures peintes qui pérorent sur les toiles de saverio Lucariello, il y a plus d’une symétrie qui, comme dans le film de Woody Allen : “ Deconstructing Harry”, opère une déconstruction dont le présent texte explore quelques aspects.
Du solide au fluent
Authors: Lageira Jacinto
Published: February 2024

Les œuvres d’Antony McCall sont simultanément inversibles et réversibles. Optiquement et corporellement. En se retournant sur elle-mêmes, elles changent et nous font changer de topologie spatio-temporelle, donnant lieu à une expérience où nous apportons à notre tour l’envers et l’endroit de notre corps dans l’oeuvre, redoublant pour ainsi dire son envers et son endroit en même temps que nous donnons sens et direction à ses envers et endroits, les faisant exister de notre point de vue, du lieu spatio-temporel dans lequel s’inscrit notre être. Les “lumières solides” ne prennent littéralement consistance et forme, inconsistance et fluence que relativement au dédoublement de notre perception.
Les Opéras de Klaus Michael Grüber : la scène et le peintre Gilles Aillaud
Authors: Lafond Natacha
Published: February 2024

Les trois opéras mis en scène par Grüber et le peintre Aillaud représentent des périodes fondatrices pour la musique et l’alliance des arts, consacrée par ce genre : sa naissance, avec Monteverdi et l’aube de la modernité, avec le Triptyque Boulez. La peinture trouve sa place dans cette consécration artistique et intellectuelle, tout en désignant une esthétique plus générale pour ce metteur en scène, attaché à sa présence en scène (toiles, motifs picturaux et esthétique du tableau dans la direction des chanteurs-acteurs). Elle relève de différentes périodes, tissant un fil entre l’époque des livrets (Antiquité, pour Le Couronement de Poppée et Le Retour d’Ulysse de Monteverdi), et la modernité, sans la provocation de certaines des mises en scène théâtrales de Grüber, (avec le peintre Arroyo par exemple). L’esthétique est désignée pleinement comme une finalité en soi, dans une recréation qui repose sur le temps (mémoire et couronnement d’une naissance). Surtout, la peinture est au centre des livrets de ces opéras puisque tout est mis en oeuvre pour renouer avec elle à chaque mise en scène, tant par le motif de l’amour que par celui de la fonction des Arts au sein d’une cité. Le Triptyque Boulez s’ouvre ainsi dans une galerie des masques vers un hommage final qui est aussi un salut vers et de la salle, outre les grilles nées à partir des tableaux de G. Aillaud et de T. Maselli.
Quelle conservation-restauration pour les œuvres éphémères et/ou performatives ? Ou la place du scénographe
Authors: Durand Anita
Published: February 2024

À l’heure où les manifestations artistiques proposent de plus en plus d’oeuvres “évènementielles” de type installations ou performances, quel rôle concret le conservateur-restaurateur peut-il jouer dans la transmission de ces créations plastiques quelques fois éphémères, voire immatérielles ? Y a-t-il une alternative à la conservation de ces oeuvres audelà de leur sauvegarde à travers le seul document photo ou vidéo ? La conservation-restauration en tant que telle, est-elle compatible avec les créations évènementielles ? Si cette contradiction apparente émane des institutions et des artistes eux-mêmes (dès lors que les uns et les autres créent un marché pour ce type d’œuvres), il apparaît alors nécessaire de se pencher sur la question de la transmission de ces œuvres, ainsi que sur la mise en commun des compétences du conservateur, du conservateur-restaurateur et du scénographe au service d’un patrimoine fugace.
La mise en œuvre de la photographie dans les dispositifs de type scénographique
Authors: Méaux Danièle
Published: February 2024

La mode est aux vues de grand format qui rivalisent avec le modèle pictural pour investir les galeries et les musées. Cependant un certain nombre de photographes contemporains se tournent vers la conception de dispositifs intégrant les clichés au sein d’une organisation complexe. L’agencement des images dans l’espace, leur combinaison avec d’autres éléments, déterminent dès lors une circulation physique du visiteur, une temporalité de la découverte ainsi qu’une interprétation d’ensemble. Ces dispositifs de type scénographique exploitent pleinement la “minceur” des images photographiques – d’où découle leur singulière aptitude à se conjuguer à d’autres composants pour faire sens.
Que faire du sang versé de manière immonde ?
Authors: Puyou Christophe
Published: February 2024

En intégrant des éléments organiques au sein d’une proposition plastique cohérente et efficace, la mexicaine Teresa Margolles et le russe Molodkine confirment que, pour l’artiste, faire un monde ne consiste pas à exclure l’immonde. Evitant les écueils de la simple complaisance morbide pour les reliquats et de la fascination narcissique pour leurs propres résidus considérés comme des reliques, ils donnent à leurs oeuvres la forme d’une communauté interrogative. Loin d’être un avatar postmoderne des Vanités ou l’expression à la fois lyrique et angoissée de l’enflure de l’ego, leur art est proprement politique.
La déterritorialisation selon Pascale Marthine Tayou
Authors: Toussaint Evelyne
Published: February 2024

Plusieurs oeuvres présentées dans le cadre de «Fare mondi/ Making worlds » semblent, à plus d’un titre, s’inscrire dans un mouvement de pensée que l’on pourrait, après Gilles Deleuze, qualifier de «déterritorialisation » . L’installation de Pascale Marthine Tayou,

Human Being@ Work, relève ainsi, loin de tout essentialisme, d’une pratique du décentrement, de la mobilité, du décloisonnement. Pour penser ce village-capharnaüm, à fort coefficient d’interculturalité et d’intermédialité, Gilles Deleuze, Guy Debord, Homi Bhabha, John Cage ou Peter Sloterdijk ne seront pas de trop.
Contes ordinaires de l’urbanité africaine selon Esther Mahlangu, Calixte Dakpogan, Yinka Shonibare, Pascale Marthine Tayou, Jean-Baptiste Nguetchopa et Romuald Hazoumé
Authors: Leprun Sylviane
Published: February 2024

L’exposition Mutations réalisée (2001-2002) 1 sous la responsabilité de Rem Koolhaas et Jean Nouvel a permis de découvrir, parmi d’autres cités, la richesse sémantique de la ville de Lagos. Complexité sociologique et anthropologique d’une Afrique mise en images dans la grande nef du CapcMusée de Bordeaux. Rappeler cet événement fondé sur les nouvelles urbanités dans le monde actuel, c’est proposer dans le cadre de Fare Mundi, une lecture interdisciplinaire de l’oeuvre du camerounais Pascal Marthine Tayou, replacée dans un questionnement plus global sur le devenir urbain des pays émergents. En corollaire, il s’agit d’interroger la pratique de l’installation comme medium transculturel. L’article au-delà du projet de Pascal Marthine Tayou propose une interprétation spatiale fondée sur une interface socio-esthétique et architecturale dont les artistes des diasporas sont les héritiers. Dans cette perspective, l’enjeu de l’installation Human Being serait de contribuer à la connaissance des idéologies et/ ou utopies des nouvelles métapoles.
La biennale d’art contemporain : un événement culturel de moins en moins culturel, et de moins en moins événementiel
Authors: Ardenne Paul
Published: February 2024

Dans le champ de la médiation des arts plastiques, les années 1990 ont consacré le règne de la «biennale » . Encore peu nombreuses voici vingt ans, les biennales d’art contemporain sont aujourd’hui pléthore. Phénomène culturel d’importance, la biennale est une exposition d’un genre particulier. Plus qu’un simple «showroom » , c’est une machine de guerre sociopolitique venant asseoir un double pouvoir : celui d’États désireux de se faire prescripteurs ; celui de l’industrie culturelle et de ses agents, les « curateurs » .
Épigraphes et quatrains errants
Authors: Pichon Alban
Published: February 2024

Intolerance (Griffith, 1915) s’ouvre sur un vers de Whitman. À l’image de cet exemple fondateur, nombre de films débutent par une citation poétique ou proverbiale. L’usage de l’épigraphe est ainsi passé de l’architecture à la littérature, puis au cinéma. Elle reste dans tous les cas un «seuil » (G. Genette) ; mais d’autres analogies, issues des études littéraires (A. Compagnon), se révèlent aussi pertinentes pour la décrire. En retenant l’image du «quatrain errant » , ce texte analyse la mise en scène et la teneur des citations inaugurales afin de mettre en évidence le rapport des épigraphes au temps et au lieu commun – tout en rappelant la fantaisie qu’elles recèlent parfois.
Un design comme la vie, pour une pragmatique de la pensée faible
Authors: Azéma Claire
Published: February 2024

À l’appui de la pragmatique de l’art développée par John Dewey dans L’art comme expérience, nous cherchons à montrer qu’il existe une contribution esthétique de l’usager dans l’activité qu’il mène avec les produits du design faible. Nous distinguons deux tendances du design en rapport avec la relation usager/ technique, l’une que nous nommons forte cherche à produire du standard, l’autre que nous nommons faible – en référence à la pensée de Gianni Vattimo – en lien avec l’art contemporain chercherait à produire de la particularité. L’expérience conceptualisée par Dewey nous révèle comment dans le design faible, les rapports intimes entre l’art et l’existence motivent l’individu dans sa transformation quotidienne au sein d’un environnement artificiel en perpétuelle évolution.
H-Sang Seung : le design est non-design
Authors: Botz-Bornstein Thorsten
Published: February 2024

L’architecte coréen H-Sang Seung dérive les nécessités architecturales de deux sources : la tradition coréenne et les impératifs liés aux qualités territoriales qu’il appelle « écritures territoriales » (teomune). Seung et son équipe de la Biennale du design de Gwangju affirmèrent la nécessité de repenser la définition du design en lançant le thème paradoxal inspiré du confucianisme du « Design est le design est non-design » . Le thème rappelle les réflexions de Heidegger qui suggérait que la technique fonctionnait « toujours-déjà » à l’intérieur d’un «projet » . Il est possible de comprendre le concept heideggérien de « Gestell » (arraisonnement) comme «design » . Le problème du design devient alors qu’il fonctionne à l’intérieur de limites tracées par son propre processus de design. « L’écriture territoriale » de Seung apparait donc comme un non-design dépassant le design conventionnel.
L’élargissement de soi. Vers un design immersif de la vibration
Authors: Andrieu Bernard
Published: February 2024

La vibration dans le corps est devenue un art immersif par le design des objets techniques qui se branchent sur la peau et dans nos orifices pour élargir la définition de nous-mêmes. En se plurigenrant, le sujet contemporain n’en reste pas au dérangement des sens, mais s’engage dans une découverte sensorielle plus inédite en fonction de la forme, de la matière et de l’intensité des émerseurs sexuels
Designer des possibles : prolégomènes à l’expérience curatoriale
Authors: Boutan Nicolas
Published: February 2024

Engagé au sein de l’institution culturelle, le curator s’emploie à féconder des réunions d’oeuvres d’art en de spectaculaires événements. Maître-étalon, il donne la mesure de l’air du temps en rejoignant une autre figure clé de la gestion de projet : le designer. L’un dans l’autre, ces deux belligérants se disputent sur la scène contemporaine les faveurs d’un public aussi rapidement conquis que lassé.
Le cinéma 3D : entre immersion et théâtralité
Authors: Barrère Florent
Published: February 2024

Où l’on analyse l’ancienne fracture entre essence et reflet, icone et indice, réalité et image à l’aune de la simulation stéréoscopique du cinéma 3D des années 2000, dans laquelle on distingue une veine immersive (Avatar de James Cameron) et une veine théâtrale (Alice in Wonderland de Tim Burton), dont les frontières sont plus poreuses qu’il n’y paraît.
Alla Turca, the Origin of the main Percussion Instruments in Symphony Orchestras and the Romanian Principalities
Authors:   National Romanian Opera House of Iași, RUSU Eduard
Published: February 2024

Alla turca, percussion instruments of a symphony orchestra and the Romanian Principalities are, at first glance, a strange and inappropriate combination of words. Yet, if one goes deeper into the subject, one may easily find a silver thread running through them all, which facilitates the understanding of these combinations of words and especially the reason for their combination. In this case, the culture of mobility is extremely visible and interesting. Alla turca was a cultural phenomenon specific to Western Europe since the 17th century, which was due to the interest shown by Europeans in the oriental culture gradually brought to Europe by the Ottomans. The increasingly powerful Ottoman Empire, its incursions towards the West and frequent military, diplomatic and cultural contacts piqued the Europeans’ interest in the exoticism of the new world with which they came in contact, music being one of the main areas of influence. This is due to Ottoman military music (mehterhane), consisting mainly of percussion musical instruments, which produced extremely loud music accompanying the Ottoman armies on the battlefield and supporting the efforts of the soldiers through its marches. At the same time, the effect of this music on their opponents was the complete opposite, as they were not used to such sonorities and were easily intimidated by it. The effectiveness of Ottoman military music proven on the battlefield and its physical appearance impressed the European monarchs who tried to imitate it in various forms and by various methods and implement it both in their armies and in their ceremonial music, as a symbol of political power, since the mehterhane was also a powerful political symbol in the Ottoman Empire. Starting from here, various European composers, the most important being Mozart, were also influenced by the exotic features of this music and by its novelty and used it in their own creations, at first playing it using Western musical instruments and then gradually adopting in the orchestra instruments specific to mehterhane, the so-called “Turkish drums”, thus developing the symphony orchestra to the form in which it is present today. As far as the Romanian Principalities are concerned, their connection with the elements mentioned above consists precisely in the fact that their geo-political location allowed the contact between the West and the East and the occurrence of alla turca influences, since the mehterhane had been present in the Romanian Principalities since the 15th century and foreign Western travellers crossing these regions listened to it and described it in their memoirs, making it known to the West, its most important promoter being Franz Joseph Sulzer.
Sources of Inspiration in Composer Tudor Chiriac’s Creations. “Miorița” the Poem
Authors:   “George Enescu” National University of Arts Iași, PACIURCA Aliona
Published: February 2024

Tudor Chiriac has had numerous sources of inspiration in his creations. While the composer has been consistent in terms of composition principles and key concepts, his sources of inspiration have varied greatly showing his inexhaustible originality and endless imagination. Tudor Chiriac has noticed the beauty, originality and virtues of folklore and popular music since his early childhood, and still is to this day fond of the specific national ethos and melos. Tudor Chiriac followed into Constantin Brăiloiu's footsteps when he supported the development of Romanian academic music in its own musical genres. Thus, due to his clear vision of the development of Romanian music and of the background against which the composition techniques specific to the 20th and 21st centuries have evolved, Tudor Chiriac has refined folklore suggestions in his own, unmistakable manner. Myths, fairy tales and legends are another highly attractive source of inspiration for many creators. Their value lies in the connection to the primordial archetypal meaning endowed with a rich, often esoteric symbolism. Tudor Chiriac has used several themes and symbols inspired by Romanian mythosophy. An edifying example is the poem Miorița, generally acknowledged as a masterpiece in terms of the symbiosis of a ballad theme with the most modern compositional techniques. Tudor Chiriac emphasized the semantics of musical works and the creation of an original ideational concept perceptible by the listener. Therefore, he made a rigorous selection of literary creations from poets/writers from both banks of the Prut River, thus enhancing and further emphasizing the message behind his works.
The Other’s Silence – between Complementarity and Distancing
Authors:   “George Enescu” National University of the Arts, Iași, DIACONIȚA Alexandra
Published: February 2024

Silence is an universal language. If there is anything that crosses multiple cultures, in ways that seem so familiar to anyone, this can be achieved by silence. The concept of silence does not need grammatical forms, declinations or accents, although it includes them on a subtle level, silence does not need, most of the time, translation, it goes without saying, because its peculiarities are predominantly emotional, and emotions are universal. Of course, there can be cultures of noise, just as, for example, there are cultures of silence, inclined towards an expression that includes to a very large extent the need for silence. In theatrical art, we cannot get rid of the “other” or the “others” – stage partner, audience, director, etc. The profile of a so-called “other” is a hypostasis that seems to offer a more intimate setting, a direct connection, without witnesses, that moment of wholeness to which a man, from time to time, aspires. The silent being attracts the being in need of an answer. Is “the other” a foreign, separate, culturally or metaphorically distanced formula? This study aims to x-ray moments where the other (either a character, a state, a world, etc.) meets another and decides to “complete” him, to adhere to each other's world, or, on the contrary, to cause him to distance himself and close himself in his own world. The gaze cast at the “other” is a glance thrown beyond the boundaries of one's own person – the gaze of one is silently linked to the gaze of the other.
Dancing to Talk about Yourself. The Character is me. Case Study: Pina Bausch
Authors:   “George Enescu” National University of the Arts, Iași, VELICHE Alice
Published: February 2024

From the corpus of our doctoral research, an essential place in the development and analysis of the theatrical elements of contemporary dance is the subject of Pina Bausch. The choreographic world has been and will remain strongly guided by the well-implemented corporeal principles of Pina Bausch, also called the choreographer of souls. The corporeal rigors imposed by the artistic system and classical working techniques are not the only methods by which we can access a complete final product, to the surprise of many practitioners or theorists. The proof that emotion and corporality can be accessed and directed through multiple variants lies in the work exercises created by Pina Bausch. I will not use the term method or technique because “there is no method, no technique to follow: What remains is a process, and to build from this process becomes the highest quality of Pina Bausch, moving in your own direction and taking advantage of the available resources.” The esthetics of the movement occupied a leading place in the ranking of choreographic priorities until the emergence of the precursors of modern dance, which exposed new meanings of corporeality. Pina Bausch supported the move by stating that “I am not so interested in how they move as in what moves them.” The purpose of the study is to analyze the work processes and to classify them in distinct stages, meant to help in forming a direction that will bring us as close as possible to the nature of the theatre.
(At) Home and (On) the Road: Contemporary Photography Techniques of Documenting the Migration Phenomenon
Authors:   “George Enescu” National University of Arts, Iași, NECHIFOR Oana
Published: February 2024

The current presentation includes several queries regarding the interaction of migration and globalization – one of the most significant phenomena of social transformation in recent decades, as well as the meanings that this interaction presents for artistic research and practice. The major social and cultural transformations that have taken place in recent decades following more intense migratory movements have sparked an interest among artists for creating visual discourses, which, by using languages specific to different genres and environments, contribute to the dissemination of knowledge about migrants and migratory experiences different from the discourses generally offered and exploited by the media and public opinion. In cultural studies, the mobility turn also influences how contemporary art reflects on the direct and indirect implications of migration. The selection of works we analysed (which mainly use the medium of documentary photography) challenges the way we understand the notions of space and time, by exploring ideas regarding the concepts of (at)home and road, which are, moreover, two of the notions that undergo most changes during migratory experiences. The artistic projects selected reconsider defining the concept of (at)home as the place where the individual builds his sense of belonging, referring only to the physical house and not just to a single house set in an immovable place, but considering multiple connotations of the idea of home. Migrants' personal narratives reveal the ways in which individuals move between multiple homes, developing attachments and reinventing their identities along the way. Considering both the international context of migration and the particular case of Romanian economic migration as a recent phenomenon with important socio-cultural implications, I sought to investigate through my own artistic practice how documentary photography can become an environment for reflection on the topic, by combining autobiographical elements and a subjective discourse added to the objective dimension.
İçme Suyu Kalitesinin İstatistiksel Olarak Değerlendirmesi: Bursa Doburca Arıtma Tesisi Örneği
Authors: Yılmaz Damla , Aras Egemen , Vaheddoost Babak
Published: February 2024

Kentsel sağlık standartlarını sağlamak ve bu standartları sürdürebilmek için içme sularının kalitesini değerlendirmek öncelikli adımdır. Farklı kirletici faktörlerin (iklim, ağır metaller, bitki örtüsü, beşeri faaliyetler vs.) su kaynaklarını tehdit etmesi neticesinde günden güne kalitenin düşmesi kaçınılmaz olmaktadır. Bu bağlamda, ülkemizin dördüncü büyük şehri olan Bursa'ya içme suyu sağlayan tesisin Ocak 2021 ile Haziran 2021 tarihleri arasında alınan 21 su numunesine ilişkin verileri, çeşitli ilişki analizi yöntemiyle incelenmiştir. Öncelikle, değerlendirilmek üzere olan 10 farklı (elektrik iletkenliği (EC), bakır (Cu), nikel (Ni), nitrat (〖NO〗_3^-), arsenik (As), demir (Fe), toplam çözünmüş maddeler (TDS), toplam alkalinite (TA), toplam sertlik (TH) ve çözünmüş oksijen (DO)) parametre arasındaki ilişkinin gücü ve yönü ilişki analizi, su kalite indeksi ve polinom eğri uydurma yöntemine tabi tutularak irdelenmiştir. Doğrusal korelasyon ilişki bulunmayan parametrelerin ilişkisi yorumlanmış ve son olarak ağırlıklı aritmetik su kalitesi indeksi (WAWQI) neticesinde tahsis edilen su deposundaki su kalitesinin içilebilirliğinin 'mükemmel' seviyede olduğu ve gereklilikleri karşıladığı tespit edilmiştir.
El futuro de la Congregación de la MisiónEn Camino con Vicente de Paúl hacia el V Centenario
Authors: Campuzano Guillermo
Published: February 2024

The worldly context of today is a place and time wherein what we need to do seems more significant than our capacity and commitment. The future of the Congregation of the Mission has always been in the hands of God’s loving providence. Entering the fifth centenary of the Congregation of the Mission is an opportunity to intuit where the Spirit will take humanity, the Church, the Vincentian Family, and our Congregation. In this space of vital discernment, the Congregation of the Mission and its charism has not reached an end. Our creativity is not exhausted, but we must renew ways of living our charism. Today we must give birth to these ideas. Our confidence is based upon the common knowledge expressed within our constitutions. Our constitutions are interested in the person of Jesus, and the centrality of the Kingdom was the engine of his earthly existence. The Revitalization and future of the Congregation is not an Escape from the “festival of uncertainties” of history. With Jesus, we have to walk through in the certainty of His divine providence.
Treatment and Handling of Hydraulic Shock Load of Urea Fertilizer Wastewater in Sequencing Batch Reactor
Authors: Budiastuti Herawati - , Nurazizah Annisa , Apriyanti Fitri , Sudarman Robby , Ramadhani Laily Isna , Pullammanappalil Pratap
Published: February 2024

The production process in the urea fertilizer industry produces wastewater with a very high ammonia content, which exceeds the quality standards for fertilizer wastewater. Therefore, it is necessary to treat urea fertilizer wastewater, which has a high ammonia content. One of the technologies that can be used to treat this type of wastewater is the Sequencing Batch Reactor (SBR) technology. The SBR technology was chosen because it only requires one reactor for the entire process, in which in conventional activated sludge systems it occurs in several reactors. Shock loading often occurs in wastewater treatment plants, including both organic shock loads and hydraulic shock loads. The waste used in the SBR operation in this research is urea fertilizer wastewater originating from a urea fertilizer industry in West Java, Indonesia. The parameters to be tested were COD, MLVSS, DO, pH, temperature, turbidity, and ammonia concentration. The results showed that the efficiency of reducing ammonia levels under normal loading with a flow rate of 300 mL/day was 99.5%, whereas when given a shock load of 600 mL/day, an efficiency of 98% was obtained. This proves that SBR can handle shock loads even though its efficiency slightly decreases.