Victorian Pantomime
A Collection of Critical Essays
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Actor Migration to and from Britain in the Nineteenth Century
This chapter focuses on two aspects of migration impacting on nineteenth-century actors. The first is on the migration to Britain of the black American actor Ira Aldridge. Despite his success in the British pr...
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Learning When to Say “I Don’t Know"
We propose a new Reject Option Classification technique to identify and remove regions of uncertainty in the decision space for a given neural classifier and dataset. Such existing formulations employ a learne...
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Revisiting Batch Norm Initialization
Batch normalization (BN) is comprised of a normalization component followed by an affine transformation and has become essential for training deep neural networks. Standard initialization of each BN in a netwo...
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Open Problems in the Topology of Manifolds
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‘A Wretched Caricature…Unworthy of America’: Charles Mathews’s Representation of the Yankee
From 1818 to 1834, Charles Mathews created a series of At Homes for the British stage, in the course of which he represented a range of different nationalities. While his representation of African-Americans in hi...
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A Framework for Collecting and Classifying Objects in Satellite Imagery
A major issue with data-hungry deep learning algorithms is the lack of annotated ground truth for specific applications. The high volume of satellite imagery available today, coupled with crowd-sourced map da...
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Hierarchical Semantic Labeling with Adaptive Confidence
In real-world applications with semantic classification labels (‘dog’, ‘car’, ‘chair’, etc.), it would be advantageous to identify any unconfident classification and then determine if a less specific label co...
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Introduction: Victorian Pantomime
In 1897 Bernard Shaw claimed that pantomime ‘abuse[s] the Christmas toleration of dullness, senselessness, vulgarity, and extravagance to a degree utterly incredible to people who have never been inside a thea...
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A Web-based Environmental Decision Support System for Environmental Planning and Watershed Management
Many of the largest problems faced by local governments such as cities and counties involve issues associated with urbanization. The increased rate of urbanization has led to haphazard growth, increased infras...
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‘Only an Undisciplined [Nation] would have done it’: Drury Lane Pantomime in the Late Nineteenth Century
In the 1880s and 1890s the most spectacular pantomimes on the English stage could be found at Drury Lane, under the management of Sir Augustus Harris, whose policy of presenting a spectacular melodrama every a...
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‘Auntie, can you do that?’ or ‘Ibsen in Brixton’: Representing the Victorian Stage through Cartoon and Caricature
From the mid to late-eighteenth century English satirical prints and caricatures frequently represented not only the performers and spectators of theatrical events in their own right, but also depicted the wor...
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Boxing Day
Throughout the nineteenth century the Boxing Day performances of the annual pantomime at theatres throughout Britain were a highlight of the theatrical calendar. Traditionally, the Christmas festivities spille...
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A Web-based environmental decision support system (WEDSS) for environmental planning and watershed management
Local governments often struggle to balance competing demands for residential, commercial and industrial development with imperatives to minimize environmental degradation. In order to effectively manage this ...
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Successful Customer Relationship Management: Why, ERP, Data Warehousing, Decision Support, and Metadata Matter
A CRM system is only as successful as the quality of data and data-management processes supporting it. Organizations planning wisely beyond the next millennium are thinking beyond process automation and are fo...
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HP Workflow Research: Past, Present, and Future
Workflow research at HP Labs has evolved through three stages during the past four years. Our effort started with the enhancement of an existing HP workflow product — WorkManager. Then, based on customers’ fee...
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PAA Annual Reports Report of the Treasurer (1988–1989)
