7 resultados para character narration
em Aston University Research Archive
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Many attempts have been made to overcome problems involved in character recognition which have resulted in the manufacture of character reading machines. An investigation into a new approach to character recognition is described. Features for recognition are Fourier coefficients. These are generated optically by convolving characters with periodic gratings. The development of hardware to enable automatic measurement of contrast and position of periodic shadows produced by the convolution is described. Fourier coefficients of character sets were measured, many of which are tabulated. Their analysis revealed that a few low frequency sampling points could be selected to recognise sets of numerals. Limited treatment is given to show the effect of type face variations on the values of coefficients which culminated in the location of six sampling frequencies used as features to recognise numerals in two type fonts. Finally, the construction of two character recognition machines is compared and contrasted. The first is a pilot plant based on a test bed optical Fourier analyser, while the second is a more streamlined machine d(3signed for high speed reading. Reasons to indicate that the latter machine would be the most suitable to adapt for industrial and commercial applications are discussed.
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L’analyse des temps de la narration n’est pas chose nouvelle. Souvent, ce sont les narrations orales ‘de tous les jours’ qui ont préoccupé les linguistes (Labov & Waletzky 1967, Bres 1994). Mais qu’en est-il de l’usage des temps dans les narrations écrites telles qu’on les trouve dans la presse sportive? On se fondera ici sur un corpus d’articles du 1er juillet 2002, tirés de la presse francophone (parisienne, régionale, belge et algérienne) et consacrés à la finale de la Coupe du Monde de football (Labeau 2002b). A quels temps a-t-on recours pour narrer ces exploits sportifs ? Le passé simple a-t-il toujours sa place dans ce genre « épique », ou s’est-il vu supplanter par d’autres formes telles le passé composé, le présent ou l’imparfait de narration… ? (Engel 1990) Nous allons nous concentrer sur deux aspects de l’emploi des temps. D’une part, la presse sportive constitue-t-elle un sous-genre distinct ? D’autre part, des différences régionales apparaissent-elles ? Nous tenterons de voir si les approches textuelles se reflètent dans l’emploi des temps des narrations étudiées. Termes clefs Narration - presse sportive – temps - presse régionale – presse francophone - genre
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Juridical Review. Looks at the question of whether an individual shareholder has title to bring an action on the company's behalf in exceptional circumstances, as considered in the cases of Anderson v Hogg and Wilson v Inverness Retail & Business Park Ltd. Examines the difference between English and Scottish law in this area, notwithstanding the reliance on English case law in Scotland due to the small number of Scottish cases decided. Looks at progress towards the reform of company law and the impact it will have on a shareholder's title to sue.
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Cette étude s’intéressera à deux questions majeures : 1. Dans quel cotexte trouve-t-on ce type d’IMP ? Quelles sont les marques syntaxiques, lexicales voire pragmatiques qui régissent cet emploi ? On passera en revue les critères répertoriés dans Labeau (à paraître) et on tentera de voir si d’autres peuvent être identifiés. 2. Comment la forme est-elle traduite en anglais ? Recourt-on principalement au simple past (Chuquet, 2000), ce qui suggèrerait peut-être une perfectivisation de la forme puisque l’IMP serait perçu équivalent à des formes perfectives ? D’autres équivalences sont-elles proposées ? Compte tenu de la fréquence présumée de l’IMP en contexte narratif dans les romans policiers de Simenon, notre corpus bilingue comprendra deux Maigret: L’Affaire Saint-Fiacre (SF) et Le chien jaune (CJ). Pour tester si cet emploi est restreint au genre policier, nous prendrons en compte deux autres romans du même auteur racontant une histoire d’adultère : Le train (LT) et La chambre bleue (CB).
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Classical and contemporary scholarship on leadership has referred to political performance and the ability of political actors to deploy the self to political purpose. Literature on contemporary British politics (Hennessy, 2001; Marquand, 2008, King, 2009) has highlighted the qualitative shift in political leadership from the mid-1990s towards a focus upon the image, style, celebrity and performance of political leaders, and the shift towards the presidentialisation or semi-presidentialisation of the prime minister (Foley, 2001). However, the literature has lacked a focus upon political performance and a methodology for assessing leadership performance within cultural and institutional contexts. This thesis assesses British political leadership performance from 1997-2010 through the proposal of a framework of political performance to suit comparative purpose. The framework consisting of culture, institutions and performance is used to assess the performance of the case studies (Tony Blair, Gordon Brown and David Cameron, and Gordon Brown, David Cameron and Nick Clegg in the televised Leaders’ Debates of 2010). The application of the framework to the case studies will allow us to a) analyse political performance within given cultural and institutional contexts; b) establish the character traits and other aspects of a politician’s political persona; and c) appraise the role and effects of performance and persona upon the political process.