Images Of Excellence

Author : Christopher Janaway
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1995-05-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191519550

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Images of Excellence by Christopher Janaway Pdf

Plato was the first great figure in Western philosophy to assess the value of the arts; he famously argued in the Republic that traditionally accepted forms of poetry, drama, and music are unsound, claiming they are conducive to warped ethical standards, detrimental to the psyche, and purveyors of illusions about important matters in human life. This view has been widely rejected; but Christopher Janaway here argues that Plato's hostile case is a more coherent and profound challenge to the arts than has sometimes been supposed. Denying that Plato advocates `good art' in any modern sense, Dr Janaway seeks both to understand Plato's critique in the context of his own philosophy and to locate him in today's philosophy of art, showing how issues in aesthetics arise from responses to his charges. Plato's questions about beauty, emotion, representation, ethical knowledge, artistic autonomy, and censorship are of contemporary relevance as formerly secure assumptions about the value of art and the aesthetic come under scrutiny. Images of Excellence gives a new and original view of a famous issue in the history of philosophy; it is written not only for readers working in ancient philosophy, but for all who are interested in aesthetics, art theory, and literary theory.

Author : Sigrid Weigel
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-16
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781531500160

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Grammatology of Images by Sigrid Weigel Pdf

Grammatology of Images radically alters how we approach images. Instead of asking for the history, power, or essence of images, Sigrid Weigel addresses imaging as such. The book considers how something a-visible gets transformed into an image. Weigel scrutinizes the moment of mis-en-apparition, of making an appearance, and the process of concealment that accompanies any imaging. Weigel reinterprets Derrida’s and Freud’s concept of the trace as that which must be thought before something exists. In doing so, she illuminates the threshold between traces and iconic images, between something immaterial and its pictorial representation. Chapters alternate between general accounts of the line, the index, the effigy, and the cult-image, and case studies from the history of science, art, politics, and religion, involving faces as indicators of emotion, caricatures as effigies of defamation, and angels as embodiments of transcendental ideas. Weigel’s approach to images illuminates fascinating, unexpected correspondences between premodern and contemporary image-practices, between the history of religion and the modern sciences, and between things that are and are not understood as art.

Author : Stella Souvatzi,Athena Hadji
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135042899

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Space and Time in Mediterranean Prehistory by Stella Souvatzi,Athena Hadji Pdf

Space and Time in Mediterranean Prehistory addresses these two concepts as interrelated, rather than as separate categories, and as a means for understanding past social relations at different scales. The need for this volume was realised through four main observations: the ever growing interest in space and spatiality across the social sciences; the comparative theoretical and methodological neglect of time and temporality; the lack in the existing literature of an explicit and balanced focus on both space and time; and the large amount of new information coming from prehistoric Mediterranean. It focuses on the active and interactive role of space and time in the production of any social environment, drawing equally on contemporary theory and on case-studies from Mediterranean prehistory. Space and Time in Mediterranean Prehistory seeks to break down the space-time continuum, often assumed rather than inferred, into space-time units and to uncover the varying and variable interrelations of space and time in prehistoric societies across the Mediterranean. The volume is a response to the dissatisfaction with traditional views of space and time in prehistory and revisits these concepts to develop a timely integrative conceptual and analytical framework for the study of space and time in archaeology.

Author : Grahame Dowling
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2000-12-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780191588921

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Creating Corporate Reputations : Identity, Image and Performance by Grahame Dowling Pdf

Recent research in business strategy suggests that corporate reputations are a valuable strategic asset for every company. Good reputations have been shown to help firms attain and sustain superior financial performance in their industry. This book outlines how high-status companies become corporate super brands, and it present managers with a framework to proactively enhance their corporation's desired reputation. While many books concentrate on advertising or corporate identity as the primary tools for reputation enhancement, this book provides a more expansive and realistic picture of what it takes to build a corporate super brand. One of its key contributions is that it emphasizes the roles of customer value and organizational culture in the reputation-building process and exposes the limitations of corporate advertising, sponsorships, and minor corporate identity change. Drawing on more than fifteen years of academic research, executive seminars, and consulting experience, Grahame Dowling suggests ways to improve the corporate reputations that different groups of stakeholders hold of your company. He also describes how to avoid many of the traps that catch unwary managers who try to improve their company's desired reputation.

Author : Bas C. Van Fraassen
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1985-10-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780226106540

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Images of Science by Bas C. Van Fraassen Pdf

"Churchland and Hooker have collected ten papers by prominent philosophers of science which challenge van Fraassen's thesis from a variety of realist perspectives. Together with van Fraassen's extensive reply . . . these articles provide a comprehensive picture of the current debate in philosophy of science between realists and anti-realists."—Jeffrey Bub and David MacCallum, Foundations of Physics Letters

Author : Rachmael ben Avram
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Acting
ISBN : STANFORD:36105012083106

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The Act and the Image by Rachmael ben Avram Pdf

Author : Alan Skelton
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : College teaching
ISBN : 9780415333276

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Understanding Teaching Excellence in Higher Education by Alan Skelton Pdf

Alan Skelton considers what constitutes excellence in higher education teaching, the central case study being the practice of the UK's most excellent university teachers, as judged by the National Teaching Fellowship Scheme.

Author : Christopher DeLuca,Sandra Johnson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-13
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781351029087

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Developing Teachers’ Assessment Capacity by Christopher DeLuca,Sandra Johnson Pdf

Given the academic benefits of assessment-driven teaching, and the growing accountability context of educational systems around the world, there is a rapidly developing need to educate teachers in effectively using assessments to promote, monitor, and report on student learning. However, assessment has historically been a neglected area in teacher education programmes, and empirical research has consistently shown assessment as an area of challenge for many teachers. While there is an increased focus across teacher education and professional literature on enhancing the assessment capacity of educators, there remains little empirical research on innovative and data-based strategies to effectively achieve this goal. The purpose of this text is to consolidate existing research on assessment education and to provoke innovative and effective approaches to educating teachers and teachers-in-training about assessment. Given the dearth of relevant research, this text also considers the matter of retention and extension of initial assessment learning into teaching careers. Combined, the articles in this text provide a foundation for novel thinking about developing teachers’ assessment capacity from pre-service to in-service contexts. This book was originally published as a special issue of Assessment in Education.

Author : Al Jaber, Ahmed Odeh
Publisher : River Publishers
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 9788793609556

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Toward Quality Assurance and Excellence in Higher Education by Al Jaber, Ahmed Odeh Pdf

Quality Assurance is not a new concept in the education sector in general, and higher education in particular, though it is becoming increasingly more relevant and important. Higher education helps to improve an individual's quality of life by enabling them to inflate their knowledge and expertise, to grasp abstract concepts and theories, and to raise their awareness of the world and their community, and as such the assurance of quality is becoming more pivotal in the whole education process. There is no simple definition of the concept of quality in education, though numerous models and theories have been devised. Toward Quality Assurance and Excellence of Higher Education is a new episode of the Quality Assurance perception in higher education, which identifies the quality culture and orientation from the beginning, integrating crucial factors to build a “pyramid” of higher education excellence. The book compares concepts from the main theories of Quality Assurance, management and control when they are applied to educational systems in higher education. The book also presents a new model of excellence in higher education. Excellence is an architecture of building blocks that includes process performance, effectiveness, harmony and collaboration, and these bocks should be incorporated in a quality-oriented concept for sustainable excellence of higher education. The model integrates four main facets: the Educational System, Quality Assurance Managing and Control, Strategic Planning and Globalization. Also presented are international “best-practices” in quality assurance in higher education, from Japan and Finland.

Author : Daniel Wade,Paul Hellard
Publisher : Ballistic Media Pty Ltd
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781921002243

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Elemental 2 by Daniel Wade,Paul Hellard Pdf

ELEMENTAL 2 showcases the world's best digital artwork created with Autodesk software. The book is packed with exciting imagery from artists in the fields of visual effects, animation, game development, and architectural and design visualization. ELEMENTAL 2 was created in partnership with Autodesk and includes a foreword by Carol Bartz, CEO of Autodesk, Inc.

Author : Carolyn Dewar,Scott Keller,Vikram Malhotra
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781982179670

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CEO Excellence by Carolyn Dewar,Scott Keller,Vikram Malhotra Pdf

"Based on extensive interviews with today's . . . corporate leaders, this look at how the best CEOs do their jobs focuses on the mindsets and actions that foster an environment of excellence"--

Author : Donald R. Stoll,Educational Press Association of America,International Reading Association
Publisher : Glassboro, N.J. : Educational Press Association of America ; Newark, Del. : International Reading Association
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015018996184

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Magazines for Children by Donald R. Stoll,Educational Press Association of America,International Reading Association Pdf

This publication lists 123 current magazines for children, arranged in alphabetical order. A concise description of each magazine is provided, along with information on target audience, subject, distribution method, editor, publisher, editorial address, ordering address, and how to obtain a sample issue. The publication also contains an explanatory essay, a subject index, and an age/grade index. (NKA)

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1456 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Technology
ISBN : STANFORD:36105009015731

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NASA Tech Briefs by Anonim Pdf

Author : Rodrigo De Louis García
Publisher : Presses univ. de Louvain
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Computers
ISBN : 2874630926

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New Insights on Multidimensional Image and Tensor Field Segmentation by Rodrigo De Louis García Pdf

Extracting knowledge from images through feature extraction is a topic of paramount importance for the Image Processing and Computer Vision communities. Within this general objective, this thesis focuses on the combination of the intensity and texture information, encoded by means of the local structure tensor (LST), for the segmentation of images. The LST is a well-stablished tool for the representation of oriented textures, and its incorporation to the segmentation process has reported to improve the segmentation performance. However, its combined use with the intensity is a complex issue that must be tackled carefully. This dissertation explores various alternatives to achieve this combination, and besides studies the problem of the balance of both sources of information. Within a level set framework, the segmentation is first performed in the tensor domain based on the definition of novel LST tensor variants that incorporate intensity information. A different approach is also considered based on a common energy minimization framework that allows the usage of both the insensity and the LST respecting their most adequate representation forms and suitable metrics. Besides, an adaptive procedure for the determination of the weighting parameters is proposed that takes into account the respective discriminant power of both features. The segmentation of tensor fields is also addressed in this dissertation. In this direction, an extension to the state-of-the-art approaches for the segmentation of tensor data has been derived which is based on the modeling of tensor data using mixtures of Gaussians. The application of this scheme can be devoted to the combined use of the intensity and texture as introduced before, as well as for the stand-alone segmentation of tensor fields. The methods proposed in this dissertation are applied to three medical image applications. The first two are performed using both the intensity and the LST in a combined approach as proposed in this thesis. Specifically, the segmentation of hand bones from radiographs is first addressed, related to the problem of the automated determination of the skeletal age in children. Next, the endocardium of the left ventricle is extractred from 3D+T cardiac MRI images. The third application is devoted to the segmentation of the corpus callosum from diffusion tensor MRI, and is thus an application of the Gaussian mixtures model for tensor field segmentation.

Author : Dale Parnell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Education
ISBN : 1555027040

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Why Do I Have to Learn This? by Dale Parnell Pdf

"The views of Dale Parnell on contextual learning have become an important component of any comprehensive educational reform. When implemented will make the teaching -learning process more appealing and meaningful for both teachers and students." Book jacket