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Wong Kar-wai
Called the leading heir to the great directors of post-WWII Europe and lavished with awards, Wong Kar-wai has redefined perceptions of Hong Kong's film industry. Wong's visual brilliance and emphasis on atmosphere over action have set him apart from peers while earning him an admiring international audience. In the Mood for Love regularly appears on lists of the twenty-first century's greatest films while critics and filmgoers recognize works like Chungking Express and Happy Together as modern classics. Peter Brunette describes the ways in which Wong's supremely haunting visual films create a new form of cinema by telling a story with stunning, suggestive visual images and audio tracks rather than character, dialogue, and plot. As he shows, Wong's early background in genre film offers fascinating insights on his more studied later works. He also delves into Wong's perennial themes of time, love, and loss and examines the political implications of his films, especially concerning the handover of former British colony Hong Kong to the People's Republic of China.
Second Generation Expert Systems
Second Generation Expert Systems have been a very active field of research during the last years. Much work has been carried out to overcome drawbacks of first generation expert systems. This book presents an overview and new contributions from people who have played a major role in this evolution. It is divided in several sections that cover the main topics of the subject: - Combining Multiple Reasoning Paradigms - Knowledge Level Modelling - Knowledge Acquisition in Second Generation Expert Systems - Explanation of Reasoning - Architectures for Second Generation Expert Systems. This book can serve as a reference book for researchers and students and will also be an invaluable help for practitioners involved in KBS developments.
Fault Detection & Reliability
Provides an up-to-date review of the latest developments in system reliability maintenance, fault detection and fault-tolerant design techniques. Topics covered include reliability analysis and optimization, maintenance control policies, fault detection techniques, fault-tolerant systems, reliable controllers and robustness, knowledge based approaches and decision support systems. There are further applications papers on process control, robotics, manufacturing systems, communications and power systems. Contains 36 papers.
From Tian'anmen to Times Square
From Tian'anmen to Times Square: Transnational China and the Chinese Diaspora on Global Screens, 1989-1997 explores the important interconnections involving questions of race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality on world screens by examining a range of films, videos, and digital works associated with global Chinese culture. The ways in which the world has imagined China and the images the Chinese have used to depict themselves have changed dramatically since 1989. The media spotlight placed on Beijing during the spring of 1989 created repercussions that continue to affect how China is seen globally, how it sees itself, and how the Chinese outside the People's Republic see themselves. The films ...
The Fire of Roses
1212. Twenty thousand children embark on a journey across France. Led by Stephen of Cloyes, a peasant boy with a professed letter from God, they aspire to liberate the Holy Land from the Saracens. Jean-Marc, a French peasant boy, joins the crusade even though he lacks faith in God. Together with his sister, Marie Christina, and a saintly nun, Sister Sophie, Jean-Marc embarks on one of the most infamous events in history. When tragedy upon tragedy strikes the children’s army, will faith be enough to get them to their goal? And once there, will they become liberators or prisoners? Will Jean-Marc ever discover the fire missing within? Based upon the true historical event of the Children’s Crusade, The Fire of Roses is a dynamic novel of faith, history, and awakening. It also presents invaluable historical insight into Christian/Islamic relations.
A Future for Knowledge Acquisition
In the last few years rapid advances have been made in reproductive medicine, making it necessary for those involved to regularly update their knowledge. The purpose of this book is to describe the state of the art in this field, making it possible for the reader to gain an orientation among all the diagnostic and therapeutic potentials of modern reproductive medicine in order to advise patients fully. Chapters from the fields of gynecology, and reproductive medicine in a specific sense provide knowledge about these subjects. Authors of international standing have contributed chapters on their specialties. These chapters together form a book describing the state of the art in the diagnosis and therapy of sterility in gynecology and andrology.
Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
The knowledge-based management of medical acts in NUCLEUS -- Knowledge Acquisition, Representation & Learning -- Knowledge Representation and Modelling in HYBRIKON -- Knowledge Organisation in Medical KBS Construetion -- A Framework for Modular Knowledge Bases in the Domain of Hypertension Diseases -- KAVAS-2: Knowledge Acquisition, Visualisation and Assessment System -- KAVAS's Framework for quality assessment of medical knowledge -- KAVAS's Conditioning of the Induction Algorithm -- Clinical decision-support in the field of TETANUS serology using an associative storage model implemented in LISP -- Model based learning support to knowledge acquisition: A clinical case study -- MODELS FOR ME...
Melancholy Drift
Ma offers an innovative study of three provocative Chinese directors: Wong Kar-wai, Hou Hsiao-hsien, and Tsai Ming-liang. Focusing on the highly stylized and monlinear configurations of time in each director's films, she argues that these dirctors have brought new global respect for Chinese cinema in amplifying motifs of loss, nostalgia, hauntin, absence and ephemeral poetices Hou, Tsai, and Wong all isist on the significance of being out of time, not merely out of place, as a condition of global modernity. Ma argues that their films collectively foreground the central place of contemporary Chinese films in a transnational culture of memory, characterized by a distinctive melancholy that hig...
