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This paper explores the significance of female representation in Lee Jang-ho’s film adaptation of Choi In-ho’s novel, Byeoldeul-ui gohyang, within the context of 1970s South Korean literature and film. Both the novel and the film gained immense popularity as symbols of emerging youth culture, contributing significantly to the history of Korean popular culture. They played a crucial role in revitalizing the struggling film industry by catalyzing the hostess literature and film boom of the 1970s. However, despite their cultural impact, assessments of the novel and film remain mixed. This study focuses on analyzing the portrayal of the female character, O Gyeong-a, who has been both the source of their popularity and the subject of various criticisms. This paper particularly highlights the innovative elements introduced by director Lee Jang-ho, demonstrating that, contrary to popular and even academic belief that the film objectifies Gyeong-a to the extent of exploitation, it instead effectively problematizes and challenges the prevalent objectification of women in 1970s patriarchal Korean society. Furthermore, this study argues that the film marks a seminal moment in Korean cinema, showcasing the cultural adaptability and vibrancy of Korean visual media. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Car trailers are quite a popular means of transport and are offered in many versions, from single axle light trailers with a maximum permissible weight of 750 kg, through two- or more-axle specialized trailers. The issues of research car trailers focus on two directions: testing the driving properties and analysing the strength of the supporting frame system. Issues related to the construction of light trailers are often common to trailers used in agriculture or general transport. In this article, based on a mass-produced car trailer, an analysis was carried out regarding the choice in the technology of making the supporting structure consisting of a lower frame and an upper frame. The term upper frame should be understood as the structure on which the lifted load box rests. The costs of materials, assembly and technological possibilities of small-scale production were taken into account. In addition, strength analyses of the numerical models were carried out for critical areas of the frame during operation. After considering the unit costs for each of the analysed assembly technologies, it was shown that riveting would be the cheapest. However, the most suitable method of assembly is welding, as it allows the use of standard profiles.

This article examines the role of the female film editor in the production of German silent cinema, turning to the depiction of editing in a little-known short comedy from 1926, Wenn die Filmkleberin gebummelt hat (When the Film Editor Dawdled, dir. O. F. Mauer), also known as Tragödie einer Uraufführung (Tragedy of a World Premiere). This film, about a distracted editor who mixes revue film and newsreel footage to produce an avant-garde montage film, hands authority over the film to the editor while suggesting that the film she has produced is simply a mistake. Situating the film within discourse on silent-film production practices and Weimar-era montage techniques, the article uses the film as a magnifying glass through which to consider female labor and its relationship to mediation and aesthetic form. It shows how the film offers a remarkable—and relatively early—feminist theory of montage as disruption that hinges on unruly women workers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Assembly influences on the long‐term load‐bearing capacity of glass/PTFE fabrics Membrane structures are designed for a service life of between 20 and 25 years. In Germany, a combined ZiE/vBG is required for every membrane structure – whether small or large – which is based on strength and stiffness parameters that are determined on the new material depending on each individual batch. Hereby, strength‐reducing influences are certainly taken into account via reduction factors, but effects from assembly are not sufficiently covered. Glass/PTFE fabrics in particular are sensitive to installation influences such as handling during transport, handling and temperature during the laying of the fabric and weathering, so that long‐term damages in form of cracks in glass/PTFE membrane structures might occur, which (can) result in premature replacement of the entire covering. Investigations into the influence of weathering in combination with handling/installation‐related creases in glass/PTFE fabrics have shown that certain types of creases in glass/PTFE fabrics must be avoided, while others do not (necessarily) have a detrimental effect on the long‐term load‐bearing capacity of the fabric itself. This contribution provides an overview of the current state of knowledge on the influence of weathering and creases on the long‐term load‐bearing capacity of glass/PTFE fabrics as well as recommendations for the correct installation of such membrane structures in order to avoid long‐term damages. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper proposes a comparative study of Edoardo Sanguineti's poem Novissimum Testamentum (1982) and Luciano Berio's musical work Canticum Novissimi Testamenti (1989-1991). In order to do so, this research takes as its of departure the relevance given to montage, both as a compositional procedure and as a critical tool. This exposition identifies some key aspects of the poetics of montage conceived, respectively, by Sanguineti and Berio during the Seventies and Eighties. Along with it, it studies the textual and thematic manifestations of montage all along the poem as well as the sonic elaborations of montage in the musical piece. Lastly, it proposes an assesment of the artistic and critical timeliness of both works. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Car trailers are quite a popular means of transport and are offered in many versions, from single axle light trailers with a maximum permissible weight of 750 kg, through two- or more-axle specialized trailers. The issues of research car trailers focus on two directions: testing the driving properties and analysing the strength of the supporting frame system. Issues related to the construction of light trailers are often common to trailers used in agriculture or general transport. In this article, based on a mass-produced car trailer, an analysis was carried out regarding the choice in the technology of making the supporting structure consisting of a lower frame and an upper frame. The term upper frame should be understood as the structure on which the lifted load box rests. The costs of materials, assembly and technological possibilities of small-scale production were taken into account. In addition, strength analyses of the numerical models were carried out for critical areas of the frame during operation. After considering the unit costs for each of the analysed assembly technologies, it was shown that riveting would be the cheapest. However, the most suitable method of assembly is welding, as it allows the use of standard profiles. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Just a mystery box? Curtain wall of the Ronald O. Perelman Center of Performing Arts in New York A new New York landmark – the Ronald O. Perelman Center for the Performing Arts – rises in stony elegance alongside the World Trade Center. A unique, four‐sided facade of 7200 m2 encloses the ascetic, box‐shaped building. Rolled structural steel beams, split in two locations, were used for this purpose. Lap joint plates, secured with countersunk screw connections are mounted on the roof in order to comply with the architectural intention. All strap joints are designed at the limit of feasible edge distances and without raised contours, in order to bridge the substantial tolerance jump between the massive main structure and the filigree facade. But what questions arise when planning and manufacturing such an exposed building envelope? For steel production, the team not only had to overcome bureaucratic hurdles between DIN and ASTM/AWS, but also met the highest requirements for assembly quality, since all visible areas are mercilessly exposed. A first test setup in Germany helped to unmask significant pitfalls. The identified tolerances in the holes could be minimized in the structure with noteworthy precision and attention to detail. Thanks to this effort, almost 5000 individual glass panes, mounted on mega panels, reached their individual and pre‐planned final positions on the building surface – a logistics chain from the quarry where the marble stone was cut to the construction site in Lower Manhattan. Only the following essay shows where the devil is in the detail of such an architecturally challenging project. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article, I consider the philosophical question of chance in the context of a comparative discussion of two early twentieth-century intellectuals, Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951) and Walter Benjamin (1892–1940), contemporaries who deliberately involved themselves in the risks of chance in the time of a hazardous historical epoch. In different ways they chose or liked to live on the edge, which invites us to consider how within that context they responded to chance in their own work. This might encourage us to think of their work not in terms of biography as narrative or the life-work made meaningful, but to consider something of the dialectical relation between the two as the irruption of chance moves in and out of their lives, their writing, the roles that it plays there and in our reading of them, starting with chance's most intimate, intimidating and ineffaceable effect, the destruction of meaning itself. The essay concludes by arguing that Benjamin conceived the Passagen Werk as his retranslation of Proust into the realm of history, employing the method developed by Eisenstein for his film of Marx's Capital. Wittgenstein, in turn, offers a model of how to read the Passagen Werk as if it were a film. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This introductory text unfolds and interprets some key elements from Eisenstein's Paris Diary, contextualizing his encounters and providing further details for understanding the filmmaker's fragmentary and sometimes cryptic diary as an autotheoretical practice. Written from the perspective of one immersed in the artistic and intellectual Paris of 1929 and 1930—as evidenced by Eisenstein's encounters with Colette, Tristan Tzara, Gertrude Stein, André Malraux, Filippo T. Marinetti, Abel Gance, Jean Cocteau, Louis Aragon, Paul Éluard, Kiki de Montparnasse, Darius Milhaud, and others—the diary highlights the importance of his exchange with the avant-garde micro-cinematographer Jean Painlevé, as well as his theoretical and political kinship with the heterodox Surrealist group around the journal Documents. The introduction investigates the way in which Eisenstein's Paris Diary both documents daily events and serves as an ephemeral depository for the author's theoretical ideas on filmmaking and montage, seeing these in terms of such late works as Method, Montage, and Disney. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The author discusses his translation of Sergei Eisenstein's Capital Diaries, focusing on such topics as Eisenstein's reflections on his own writing, the context of literary modernism in which he wrote, and the strains on psyche and syntax that the diaries reveal. It discusses the range of literary sources that Eisenstein made use of in the diaries, in particular the works of James Joyce and Velimir Khlebnikov. Also discussed are the challenges of translating the diaries, which constitute, all at once, a record of daily life, a series of cultural and political critiques, and a compendium of material the Soviet filmmaker planned to use in his (ultimately unrealized) film based on Karl Marx's Das Kapital. The diaries served as a workshop for refining various concepts and methods such as montage and dialectical thinking, and this too is addressed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An efficient and dynamic role-based access-control (RBAC) model is presented in this work which utilizes access-control for internet of things (IoT) nodes while minimizing storage and computational overhead. Also, for the identification of the malicious packets at the gateway server, a machine learning method has been presented. In addition, a framework for data management techniques in the IoT environment is designed to ensure efficient and secure storage, management, and processing of IoT data. The results have been evaluated by using the Montage and Cybershake workload in terms of energy consumption, processing time, detection accuracy and misclassification rate. The results show that the proposed secure framework for effective workload resource management (SFE-WRM) attains better performance in comparison to the reliable and energy-efficient route selection (REERS) and FTA-WRM method. Also, by using the security method, the proposed method provides better security to the IoT nodes during the data aggregation and processing of the workload. The ultimate aim of this work is to provide a solution for the development of a secure and efficient IoT environment that can address critical security challenges and enable the widespread adoption of IoT devices and services. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Cloud computing (CC) is a popular distributed computing technology that is virtualized, scalable, and provides resources and services on demand through subscription-based models. Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) deliver these services, primarily catering to a vast range of business and scientific applications. CC is used to evaluate large-scale scientific applications, often implemented as scientific workflows (SWs). This paper highlights the wide range of applications using CC, including image processing, data mining, and healthcare systems, all of which require efficient and accessible cloud services. These applications often have strict deadlines and consume significant energy, emphasizing the need for low-energy resource utilization. The paper proposes a Replication-based Resource Provisioning and Constrained-aware Task Scheduling (R2PCT) Framework for Cloud Workflows to address these challenges. The framework aims to manage resources efficiently in a multilevel environment and schedule tasks using replication-based fault-tolerant techniques while considering deadline and budget constraints. To evaluate its effectiveness, simulations were conducted on WorkflowSim for Montage and CyberShake workflows. The proposed R2PCT strategy performs better than the existing state-of-the-art strategy, reducing execution time by an average of 52%, minimizing execution cost by 34%, and decreasing energy consumption by 35% compared to the existing R-DEAR strategy for Montage SWs. For CyberShake workflows, the proposed R2PCT strategy performs better than existing methods, reducing execution time by an average of 59%, minimizing execution cost by 38%, and decreasing energy consumption by 60% compared to the existing R-DEAR strategy.

Background: Transcranial alternative current stimulation (tACS) refers to a promising non-invasive technique to improve brain functions. However, owing to various stimulation parameters in the literature, optimization of the stimulation is warranted. In this study, the authors aimed to compare the effect of tACS electrode montages on occipital responses. Methods: In three montage sessions (i.e., Oz-Cz, Oz-cheek, and sham), 10 healthy young adults participated, receiving 20-min 2-mA alpha-tACS. Pattern- reversal visual evoked potentials (VEPs) were measured before tACS (T0), immediately after (T20), and 20 min (T40) after tACS. Normalized changes in time-domain features (i.e., N75, P100 amplitudes, and P100 latency) and frequency-domain features [i.e., power spectral density in alpha (PSDα) and beta (PSDβ) bands] were evaluated. Results: In contrast to our hypothesis, the occipital response decreased immediately (T20) after receiving the 20-min tACS in all montages in terms of P100 amplitude (p = 0.01). This reduction returned to baseline level (T0) in Oz-cheek and sham conditions but sustained in the Oz-Cz condition (T40, p = 0.03) after 20 min of tACS. The effects on N75 amplitude and P100 latency were statistically insignificant. For spectral analysis, both PSDα and PSDβ were significantly increased after tACS at T20, in which the effect sustained until T40. However, there was no differential effect by montages. There was no significant difference in the occurrence of sensations across the montages. The effectiveness of the blinding is supported by the participants' rate of guessing correctly. Conclusion: This study revealed an immediate inhibitory effect of tACS, regardless of the montages. This inhibitory effect sustained in the Oz-Cz montage but faded out in other montages after 20 min. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Traffic clearance of the river Rhine bridge Schierstein, an environmentally friendly and sustainable building On 13. August 2023, the second superstructure of the river Rhine bridge Schierstein was approved for traffic by Federal Minister Volker Wissing. The longest Hessian road bridge over the Rhine with a length of 1285 m connects the state capitals Wiesbaden and Mainz. This bridge has an important function in the development of the economic areas of Hesse and Rhineland‐Palatinate. The building forms the so‐called Mainzer Ring as part of the A643 with the A60 from highway triangle Mainz together with the federal motorways A671 and A66. The fulfillment of the special boundary conditions with regard to nature conservation, design, robustness, entertainment, traffic, assembly and economy placed the highest demands on all parties involved. The following report explains the measures taken to implement these requirements. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Mill Bridge in Besigheim In the small town of Besigheim, north of Stuttgart, a footbridge was built over the river Enz in front of the historic, heritage‐listed cityscape. With a curved span of approximately 70 m and inclined hanger cables only connected to the outer edge of the superstructure, the one‐sided, self‐anchored suspension bridge offers pedestrians a direct connection from the Enz Park to the medieval city‐centre, and cyclists a smoothly transfer from one river bank to the other. Although the new footbridge is a highly technical lightweight structure, it takes account of the local context and carefully embraces the adjacent historic watermill. As a result, the bridge enhances the park and associated riverside playground in both form and function, allowing visitors to experience the river and the historic cityscape in a new way. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Basic and detail design of the Ruhr‐ und Harborcanal bridge in Duisburg The Oberbürgermeister Karl Lehr bridgesection in Duisburg is one of the four Ruhr crossings and has an overarching function for urban traffic and in particular for the industrial location around the port of Duisburg. As a result of the increased load from general traffic and freight traffic from the port, the bridge turned into a bottleneck. In order to cope with the increasing traffic load and increase its capacity, the existing traffic areas of the bridges needed to be expanded. A basic overhaul and extension of the existing, partly very old bridge structures, was ruled out due to their design and structural condition. Therefore, all structures along the bridge section will be replaced by new structures in the same position. This article explains the key aspects of the design and execution planning of the Ruhr and Harborcanal bridges, provides insights into the structural implementation and provides compact information about the overall project. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article introduces the concepts and becomings that arise from the idea of collage as a loving and creative journey that has as its aim the composition and re-composition of the self and the world. The meanings of collage are exposed; We review the main names of collage in modern art, combining the thoughts of different authors who embrace difference as a tenet based on the fragments and splinters created by modernity. The similarities and differences between collage and montage are made explicit, as well as the way that collections of objects connect with the motion of cutting, searching and pasting, knowing that the process is as or more significant than the final product. This article also outlines and proposes a review of concepts and historiographical dependencies, even from Amerindian and African knowledge, which precede the establishment of collage as a technique in the field of art. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The method developed by Sergei Eisenstein, through which he manages to chain and give meaning to a series of cinematographic shots, reveals the importance of editing, as it allows us to reveal sensations and affectations, that is, a pathos that refers to interests. vitals, fears, desires and nostalgia from different places and times that burst forth in a dazzling way in the form of an image. In terms of memory, there is similarly a montage of images, through which the past is represented. Therefore, this article develops some reflections about the film Battleship Potemkin, and at the same time raises the possibility of transferring a series of characteristics of the Eisenstenian montage to memory processes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In web service composition, the combination of multiple individual services to create complex workflows introduces additional challenges, and task scheduling is a crucial aspect that significantly impacts the overall system performance. The main challenge in web service composition task scheduling arises from the varying nature of services, which may have diverse processing requirements, data dependencies, and execution times. Hence, to address these challenges, the existing work have proposed many methods. But, as cloud environments often host these web services, the dynamic nature of cloud resources and the unpredictability of workloads add another layer of complexity to the task scheduling process. Due to this the existing works have attempted very less work on providing an efficient replanning task based on real-time changes in resource availability. Hence, this paper proposes a novel approach to cloud workload task scheduling in web service composition that incorporates efficient replanning and time complexity analysis called as Web service composition-efficient re-planning (WSC-ERP). The proposed approach takes into account various factors, such as task dependencies, and resource availability, to generate an optimized schedule that minimizes execution time and maximizes resource utilization. The WSC-ERP has been evaluated using the Montage scientific workload. The results show that the WSC-ERP provides better performance in terms of executional time, power sum, power average, energy consumption and reliability when compared with the Energy-Minimized Scheduling (EMS), and Evolutionary Computing based Web Service Composition (EC-WSC). The results show that the WSC-ERP has showed an improvement of 80.27% and 78.45% for average execution time, 89.98% and 87.49% for average power sum, 63.44% and 41.93% for average power average, 92.58% and 87.87% for average energy consumption, 4.97% and 4.07% for average reliability when compared with the existing EMS and EC-WSC models respectively. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article investigates the politics of the image and montage in the literature and filmmaking as an experimentation with an ethical bet on research in Human Sciences. In the light of Walter Benjamin’s concept of montage, as well as DidiHuberman’s analysis of image as taking a position, it problematizes the insurmountable distance between the subject and the object, the fracture between form and content, ethics and aesthetics in research in the face of the intolerable of an ordinary world. The questions are presented through fragments that deal with the intertwining between body, memory, revolt, and creation, to emphasize the ethical bet of the montage not only as a balm for the body suffocated by the abject, but as the oxygen necessary for the multiplication of paths, senses, overcoming limits for the creation of resistance to the numbness of thought.

Drawing on findings from an ethnographic study, the paper at hand provides an example of a pronounced way of working with montage as a means of mobilizing knowledge in the architectural design process. With reference to a specific design project, the paper follows architecture students systematically exploring and structuring the problem's space of possibilities by applying montage. Highlighting the methodological rigor and logical coherence their procedure involves, the paper elaborates on montage as an effective method and traceable exploratory process. Presenting and discussing this empirical data, the paper aims at showing how montage allows for apprehending a problem in a holistic manner while at the same time facilitating its analysis into separate parts. In this way, montage engenders the mobilization of knowledge, which can be implicated to the case at hand., Competing Interests: No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author., (© 2024 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.)

Background: Transcranial alternative current stimulation (tACS) refers to a promising non-invasive technique to improve brain functions. However, owing to various stimulation parameters in the literature, optimization of the stimulation is warranted. In this study, the authors aimed to compare the effect of tACS electrode montages on occipital responses., Methods: In three montage sessions (i.e., Oz-Cz, Oz-cheek, and sham), 10 healthy young adults participated, receiving 20-min 2-mA alpha-tACS. Pattern-reversal visual evoked potentials (VEPs) were measured before tACS (T0), immediately after (T20), and 20 min (T40) after tACS. Normalized changes in time-domain features (i.e., N75, P100 amplitudes, and P100 latency) and frequency-domain features [i.e., power spectral density in alpha (PSDα) and beta (PSDβ) bands] were evaluated., Results: In contrast to our hypothesis, the occipital response decreased immediately (T20) after receiving the 20-min tACS in all montages in terms of P100 amplitude ( p  = 0.01). This reduction returned to baseline level (T0) in Oz-cheek and sham conditions but sustained in the Oz-Cz condition (T40, p  = 0.03) after 20 min of tACS. The effects on N75 amplitude and P100 latency were statistically insignificant. For spectral analysis, both PSDα and PSDβ were significantly increased after tACS at T20, in which the effect sustained until T40. However, there was no differential effect by montages. There was no significant difference in the occurrence of sensations across the montages. The effectiveness of the blinding is supported by the participants' rate of guessing correctly., Conclusion: This study revealed an immediate inhibitory effect of tACS, regardless of the montages. This inhibitory effect sustained in the Oz-Cz montage but faded out in other montages after 20 min., Competing Interests: The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest. The author(s) declared that they were an editorial board member of Frontiers, at the time of submission. This had no impact on the peer review process and the final decision., (Copyright © 2024 Wang, Choi, Thompson, Chan and Cheong.)