The Object At Hand

Author : Beth Py-Lieberman
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2023-09-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781588347503

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The Object at Hand by Beth Py-Lieberman Pdf

From Dorothy's ruby slippers to a speech that saved Teddy Roosevelt from assassination, this authoritative guide delivers in-depth reportage on the history of remarkable objects from the Smithsonian's collections For American history, pop culture, and museum enthusiasts With charm and exuberance, The Object at Hand presents a behind-the-scenes vantage point of the Smithsonian collections. Veteran Smithsonian magazine editor Beth Py-Lieberman weaves together adaptations of the magazine's extensive and compelling coverage and interviews with scholars, curators, and historians to take readers on an unforgettable journey through the Smithsonian museums. Objects are grouped into the themes audacity, utopia, fierce, haunting, deception, lost, desire, triumph, scale, optimism, playful, rhythm, and revealing to engage with the emotional dimensions of each object, how they relate to each other, and how they fit into the larger American story. A sampling includes: The Star-Spangled Banner Frida Kahlo's love letter to Diego Rivera Amelia Earhart's Lockheed Vega 5B Nat Turner's Bible An AIDS quilt panel honoring Roger Gail Lyon A signpost from the Standing Rock protest A glass-plate portrait of Abraham Lincoln Life-sized model of a Megalodon The Hope Diamond Chuck Berry's Cadillac Portrait of Henrietta Lacks Py-Lieberman reflects on the profound connections between even outwardly dissimilar objects, and offers insight and stories from Smithsonian experts. The book explores artworks, scientific specimens, historical artifacts, airplanes, spacecraft, plants, and so much more, contemplating how each item represents different facets of humanity and resonates with cultural meaning in surprising ways. Whimsical, affecting, and insightful, The Object at Hand offers an intimate and exclusive tour of the Smithsonian collections.

Author : Beth Py-Lieberman
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2023-09-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781588347497

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The Object at Hand by Beth Py-Lieberman Pdf

From Dorothy's ruby slippers to a speech that saved Teddy Roosevelt from assassination, this authoritative guide delivers in-depth reportage on the history of remarkable objects from the Smithsonian's collections For American history, pop culture, and museum enthusiasts With charm and exuberance, The Object at Hand presents a behind-the-scenes vantage point of the Smithsonian collections. Veteran Smithsonian magazine editor Beth Py-Lieberman weaves together adaptations of the magazine's extensive and compelling coverage and interviews with scholars, curators, and historians to take readers on an unforgettable journey through the Smithsonian museums. Objects are grouped into the themes audacity, utopia, fierce, haunting, deception, lost, desire, triumph, scale, optimism, playful, rhythm, and revealing to engage with the emotional dimensions of each object, how they relate to each other, and how they fit into the larger American story. A sampling includes: The Star-Spangled Banner Frida Kahlo's love letter to Diego Rivera Amelia Earhart's Lockheed Vega 5B Nat Turner's Bible An AIDS quilt panel honoring Roger Gail Lyon A signpost from the Standing Rock protest A glass-plate portrait of Abraham Lincoln Life-sized model of a Megalodon The Hope Diamond Chuck Berry's Cadillac Portrait of Henrietta Lacks Py-Lieberman reflects on the profound connections between even outwardly dissimilar objects, and offers insight and stories from Smithsonian experts. The book explores artworks, scientific specimens, historical artifacts, airplanes, spacecraft, plants, and so much more, contemplating how each item represents different facets of humanity and resonates with cultural meaning in surprising ways. Whimsical, affecting, and insightful, The Object at Hand offers an intimate and exclusive tour of the Smithsonian collections.

Author : Martin Pfanne
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2022-08-31
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783031069673

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In-Hand Object Localization and Control: Enabling Dexterous Manipulation with Robotic Hands by Martin Pfanne Pdf

This book introduces a novel model-based dexterous manipulation framework, which, thanks to its precision and versatility, significantly advances the capabilities of robotic hands compared to the previous state of the art. This is achieved by combining a novel grasp state estimation algorithm, the first to integrate information from tactile sensing, proprioception and vision, with an impedance-based in-hand object controller, which enables leading manipulation capabilities, including finger gaiting. The developed concept is implemented on one of the most advanced robotic manipulators, the DLR humanoid robot David, and evaluated in a range of challenging real-world manipulation scenarios and tasks. This book greatly benefits researchers in the field of robotics that study robotic hands and dexterous manipulation topics, as well as developers and engineers working on industrial automation applications involving grippers and robotic manipulators.

Author : Michael Owen Jones
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Chairs
ISBN : IND:39000005888297

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The Hand Made Object and Its Maker by Michael Owen Jones Pdf

Author : Waechter, Mirko
Publisher : KIT Scientific Publishing
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-21
Category : Electronic computers. Computer science
ISBN : 9783731507499

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Learning and Execution of Object Manipulation Tasks on Humanoid Robots by Waechter, Mirko Pdf

Equipping robots with complex capabilities still requires a great amount of effort. In this work, a novel approach is proposed to understand, to represent and to execute object manipulation tasks learned from observation by combining methods of data analysis, graphical modeling and artificial intelligence. Employing this approach enables robots to reason about how to solve tasks in dynamic environments and to adapt to unseen situations.

Author : Colin McGinn
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780262029322

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Prehension by Colin McGinn Pdf

"This book is a hymn to the hand. In 'Prehension,' Colin McGinn links questions from science to philosophical concerns to consider something that we take for granted : the importance of the hand in everything we do. Drawing on evolutionary biology, anatomy, archaeology, linguistics, psychology, and philosophy, among other disciplines, McGinn examines the role of the hand in shaping human evolution. He finds that the development of our capacity to grasp, to grip, to take hold (also known as 'prehension') is crucial in the emergence of Homo sapiens'"--Book jacket.

Author : Jos van Beurden
Publisher : CLUES no. 3
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Colonies
ISBN : 9088904391

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Treasures in Trusted Hands by Jos van Beurden Pdf

This pioneering study charts the one-way traffic of cultural and historical objects during five centuries of European colonialism. Former colonies consider this as a historical injustice that has not been undone.

Author : Matt Weisfeld
Publisher : Pearson Education
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2008-08-25
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780132704687

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The Object-Oriented Thought Process by Matt Weisfeld Pdf

The Object-Oriented Thought Process Third Edition Matt Weisfeld An introduction to object-oriented concepts for developers looking to master modern application practices. Object-oriented programming (OOP) is the foundation of modern programming languages, including C++, Java, C#, and Visual Basic .NET. By designing with objects rather than treating the code and data as separate entities, OOP allows objects to fully utilize other objects’ services as well as inherit their functionality. OOP promotes code portability and reuse, but requires a shift in thinking to be fully understood. Before jumping into the world of object-oriented programming languages, you must first master The Object-Oriented Thought Process. Written by a developer for developers who want to make the leap to object-oriented technologies as well as managers who simply want to understand what they are managing, The Object-Oriented Thought Process provides a solution-oriented approach to object-oriented programming. Readers will learn to understand object-oriented design with inheritance or composition, object aggregation and association, and the difference between interfaces and implementations. Readers will also become more efficient and better thinkers in terms of object-oriented development. This revised edition focuses on interoperability across various technologies, primarily using XML as the communication mechanism. A more detailed focus is placed on how business objects operate over networks, including client/server architectures and web services. “Programmers who aim to create high quality software–as all programmers should–must learn the varied subtleties of the familiar yet not so familiar beasts called objects and classes. Doing so entails careful study of books such as Matt Weisfeld’s The Object-Oriented Thought Process.” –Bill McCarty, author of Java Distributed Objects, and Object-Oriented Design in Java Matt Weisfeld is an associate professor in business and technology at Cuyahoga Community College in Cleveland, Ohio. He has more than 20 years of experience as a professional software developer, project manager, and corporate trainer using C++, Smalltalk, .NET, and Java. He holds a BS in systems analysis, an MS in computer science, and an MBA in project management. Weisfeld has published many articles in major computer trade magazines and professional journals.

Author : H. L. Pick, Jr.,E. Saltzman
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-18
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781317768913

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Modes of Perceiving and Processing Information by H. L. Pick, Jr.,E. Saltzman Pdf

First published in 1978. Since World War II the field of perception has developed in two major directions. The first evolved out of the traditional psychophysical approach and is manifest today in the new psychophysics. The second direction is in the increasing bond between the fields of perception and cognition. This volume grew out of the context of this second direction, a particular product of two workshops (held in the Spring of 1974 and 1975), organized by the Committee on Cognitive Research of the Social Science Research Council. The Committee on Cognition was organized in 1971 to encourage communication and interaction on specific problems in the area of cognition among the various social sciences.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 622 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1925
Category : Health
ISBN : UOM:39015070323079

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American Physical Education Review by Anonim Pdf

Includes abstracts of magazine articles and "Book reviews".

Author : Friedhelm Schwenker,Stefan Scherer,Louis-Philippe Morency
Publisher : Springer
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2015-01-03
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783319148991

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Multimodal Pattern Recognition of Social Signals in Human-Computer-Interaction by Friedhelm Schwenker,Stefan Scherer,Louis-Philippe Morency Pdf

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the Third IAPR TC3 Workshop on Pattern Recognition of Social Signals in Human-Computer-Interaction, MPRSS 2014, held in Stockholm, Sweden, in August 2014, as a satellite event of the International Conference on Pattern Recognition, ICPR 2014. The 14 revised papers presented focus on pattern recognition, machine learning and information fusion methods with applications in social signal processing, including multimodal emotion recognition, user identification, and recognition of human activities.

Author : Giovanni Cioni,Giuseppina Sgandurra
Publisher : Elsevier Inc. Chapters
Page : 892 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-24
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780128077061

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Pediatric Neurology Part I by Giovanni Cioni,Giuseppina Sgandurra Pdf

“Psychomotor” development refers to changes in a child's cognitive, emotional, motor, and social capacities from the beginning of life throughout fetal and neonatal periods, infancy, childhood, and adolescence. It occurs in a variety of domains and a wide range of theories makes understanding children's development a challenging undertaking. Different models have tried to interpret the origins of human behavior, the pattern of developmental changes over time, and the individual and contextual factors that could direct child development. No single theory has been able to account for all aspects of child development, but each of them may contribute an important piece to the child development puzzle. Although theories sometimes disagree, much of their information is complementary rather than contradictory. The knowledge of child typical development and related theories and models is greatly useful for clinical practice, leading to recognition of developmental disorders and the ways in which they can be approached and treated. In this chapter, traditional and more modern concepts around functional development of psychomotor abilities are reported, firstly more in general and then specifically in the motor domain.

Author : Tom Eyers,Graham Harman,Adrian Johnston,Guy Le Gaufey,Todd McGowan,Duane Rousselle,Jelica Šumič Riha,Rado Riha
Publisher : Umbr(a) Journal
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780979953965

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Umbr(a): The Object by Tom Eyers,Graham Harman,Adrian Johnston,Guy Le Gaufey,Todd McGowan,Duane Rousselle,Jelica Šumič Riha,Rado Riha Pdf

Author : Kasimir Twardowski
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789401010504

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On the Content and Object of Presentations by Kasimir Twardowski Pdf

Twardowski's little book - of which I here offer a translation - is one of the most remarkable works in the history of modern philosophy. It is concise, clear, and - in Findlay's words - "amazingly rich in ideas. "l It is therefore a paradigm of what some contemporary philosophers approvingly call "analytic philosophy. " But Twardowski's book is also of considerable historical significance. His views reflect Brentano's ear lier position and thus shed some light on this stage of Brentano's philo sophy. Furthermore, they form a link between this stage, on the one hand, and those two grandiose attempts to propagate rationalism in an age of science, on the other hand, which are known as Meinong's theory of entities and HusserI's phenomenology. Twardowski's views thus point to the future and introduce many of the problems which, through the influence of Meinong, HusserI, Russell, and Moore, have become standard fare in contemporary philosophy. In this introduc tion, I shall call attention to the close connection between some of Twardowski's main ideas and the corresponding thoughts of these four philosophers. 1. IDEAS AND THEIR INTENTIONS Twardowski's main contention is clear. He claims that we must dis tinguish between the act, the content, and the object of a presentation. The crucial German term is 'V orstellung. ' This term has a corresponding verb and allows for such expressions as 'das V orgestellte.

Author : Bozena Shallcross
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2011-02-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780253005090

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The Holocaust Object in Polish and Polish-Jewish Culture by Bozena Shallcross Pdf

In stark contrast to the widespread preoccupation with the wartime looting of priceless works of art, BoÅ1⁄4ena Shallcross focuses on the meaning of ordinary objects -- pots, eyeglasses, shoes, clothing, kitchen utensils -- tangible vestiges of a once-lived reality, which she reads here as cultural texts. Shallcross delineates the ways in which Holocaust objects are represented in Polish and Polish-Jewish texts written during or shortly after World War II. These representational strategies are distilled from the writings of Zuzanna Ginczanka, WÅ‚adysÅ‚aw Szlengel, Zofia NaÅ‚kowska, CzesÅ‚aw MiÅ‚osz, Jerzy Andrzejewski, and Tadeusz Borowski. Combining close readings of selected texts with critical interrogations of a wide range of philosophical and theoretical approaches to the nature of matter, Shallcross's study broadens the current discourse on the Holocaust by embracing humble and overlooked material objects as they were perceived by writers of that time.