22 Result(s)
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Creative Voices
This chapter examines ‘madness’ and creative practice, including fictional and personal experiences, dissecting ‘madness’ and its relationship with voice, creativity, and the transrational. Philosopher Emmanue...
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The Unhappiness Industry
This chapter examines the histories and theories of ‘madness’, including psychological, historical, and sociological approaches. The importance and meaning of the transrational are explained. Post-institutiona...
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Gender, Sexuality, Celebrity
This chapter evaluates ‘madness’, gender, sexuality, and adolescence, investigating influential female writers and contemporary film. How women have been demonized in literature, film, and celebrity culture is...
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Reality and Narration
Ethnographic interviews with those impacted by ‘madness’ personally and professionally are employed in this chapter. Real-life experiences of ‘madness’ are personal frameworks within mediated and remediated na...
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Cults, Leaders, Groups
This chapter analyses ‘madness’, leaders and gurus explaining how great leaders possess a ‘madness’ so they can function well in a crisis. This counteracts one definition of ‘madness’, that it means the inabil...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Using Whole Slide Image Representations from Self-supervised Contrastive Learning for Melanoma Concordance Regression
Although melanoma occurs more rarely than several other skin cancers, patients’ long term survival rate is extremely low if the diagnosis is missed. Diagnosis is complicated by a high discordance rate among pa...
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Media and Culture
This chapter assesses the culture of ‘madness’, including film, television, and theatre. We find culture, especially film, can be a transrational mechanism for healing and wellbeing, given the heightened affec...
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Race
This chapter interrogates ‘madness’ and race through a focus on colonialism, post-colonialism, and psychiatry, delineating the development of black ‘madness’ and white ‘madness’. Insanity was viewed as a break...
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Conclusions: Transrational Hope
This chapter concludes by furthering an understanding of the creative value of transrationality, and through examining the politics of self and its adaptivity with regards to ‘madness’. Social media, video gam...
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Ion Chromatography with Mass Spectrometry for Metabolomic Analysis
Ion chromatography (IC) represents an important technique for separation of charged and polar compounds. Traditionally, IC is often used for the analysis of small inorganic ions. Due to the development of elue...
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Smile, Hitler? Nazism and Comedy in Popular Culture
This piece examines the relationship between Nazism and comedy in popular culture, from film and television, to fashion and YouTube. Does comedy in this context serve a useful political purpose, or does it jus...
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Robot Culture
Chapter 2 analyses the culture of sex robots, and looks at the often-humorous incarnations of sex robots, such as those within the Austin Powers film series. How books and films, such as The Stepford Wives, refle...
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Science Fact & Conclusion
Chapter 4 ascertains where we are now, examining science fact, with robots such as Pepper now becoming popular in the home, especially in Japan. Cultural differences are explored. The work of Žižek, Lacan, Leo...
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Robotic Evolution
Chapter 1 examines the myths, legends and history of robots, emphasising how the desire for robots has always been with us. We see where these desires for sex robots stemmed from, and what they mean in a globa...
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Further Science Fictions
Chapter 3 enters more deeply into the realm of science fiction and sex robots. A large range of examples are explored, primarily from the 1980s and 1990s. How the sex robot morphs into other forms is analysed....
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Chapter and Conference Paper
An Effect of Korean Wave on Domestic Cosmetics Industry of Korea Boryeong Mud
Korean wave is intangible cultural product for foreigners visiting Korea and continuous development of Korean wave products are required to foreign accepters who want new stimulation. This study started becaus...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Efficient Bulk Data Replication for the EarthSystem Grid
The Earth System Grid (ESG) community faces the difficult challengeof managing the distribution of massive data sets to thousands of scientistsaround the world. To move data replicas efficiently, the ESG has d...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
The NIDS Cluster: Scalable, Stateful Network Intrusion Detection on Commodity Hardware
In this work we present a NIDS cluster as a scalable solution for realizing high-performance, stateful network intrusion detection on commodity hardware. The design addresses three challenges: (i) distributing t...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
PLATCOM: Current Status and Plan for the Next Stages
We have been develo** a web-based system for comparing multiple genomes, PLATCOM, where users can choose genomes of their choice freely and perform analysis of the selected genomes with a suite of computatio...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
TCP Behavior on Transatlantic Lambda’s
Recent research in the area of high speed TCP has revealed that the protocol can misbehave in cases of high bandwidth long delay networks. Here we present work that clearly demonstrates this behavior of TCP fl...
