1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910816356003321

Autore

Wilce James MacLynn <1953->

Titolo

Crying shame : metaculture, modernity, and the exaggerated death of lament / / James M. Wilce

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Malden, MA ; ; Oxford, : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009

ISBN

9786612026324

9781282026322

1282026321

9781444306248

1444306243

9781444306255

1444306251

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource  (xv, 274 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

306.44

393.9

393/.9

Soggetti

Crying

Laments

Mourning customs

Weepers (Mourners)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [222]-252) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Acknowledgments; Preface; 1 Introduction; Part I Locating Lament as Object; Introduction; 2 For Crying Out Loud: What is Lament Anyway?; 3 Lament and Emotion; 4 Antiquity, Metaculture, and the Control of Lament; Part II Losing Lament: Modernity as Loss; Introduction; 5 Cultural Amnesia and the Objectification of Lament in Bangladesh; 6 Modern Transformations; 7 How Shame Spreads in Modernity; 8 Crying Backward: Primitivist Representations of Lament; Part III Reviving Lament: Lament as Key Trope of Modernity; Introduction; 9 Mourning Becomes the Electron's Age: Lamenting Modernity(ies); 10 Lament's (Post)Modern Vertigo: Floating in a Deterritorialized Media Sea; 11 Lament in a Postmodern World of "Revivals"; 12 Conclusion; Notes;



References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Building on ethnographic fieldwork and extensive historical evidence, Crying Shame analyzes lament across thousands of years and nearly every continent. Explores the enduring power of lament: expressing grief through crying songs, often in a collective ritual context Draws on the author's extensive ethnographic fieldwork, and unique long-term engagement and participation in the phenomenon Offers a startling new perspective on the nature of modernity and postmodernity An important addition to growing literature on cultural globalization

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911006779403321

Autore

Abut Huseyin

Titolo

Towards Human-Vehicle Harmonization

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin/Boston : , : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, , 2023

©2023

ISBN

9781523154715

1523154713

9783110981223

311098122X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (274 pages)

Collana

Intelligent Vehicles and Transportation ; ; v.3

Altri autori (Persone)

SchmidtGerhard

TakedaKazuya

LambertJacob

HansenJohn H. L

Disciplina

629.2046

Soggetti

Technology & Engineering / Automotive

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- In Memory of Pınar Boyraz-Baykaş (1981–2020) -- Contents -- Contributing authors -- Preface -- 1 Agile Data Analysis -- 2 Driver Attention Modeling Through Evidence Accumulation and Gaze Fixation -- 3 Driver Distraction Processive Recognition by Fusing Causal Reasoning with Deep Learning -- 4 Robotic Human–Machine



Interface Towards Driving Behavior Improvement for Elderly Drivers -- 5 Risk Analysis for Vehicle–Pedestrian Interaction with Extended Sensing -- 6 Exploration of Effective Car-to-Pedestrian Interaction for Autonomous Vehicles -- 7 Enhancing Driver Visual Guidance Through Mobility Digital Twin -- 8 Enhancing Mobile-UTDrive Capacity for Onboard Driver Assessment -- 9 In-Vehicle Infotainment and UX Improvement -- 10 A Multichannel Spatial Hands-Free Application for In-Car Communication Systems -- 11 Spatial Telephony: Spatial Fidelity and Quality of Experience -- 12 A Recording Setup for Clean Lombard Speech Based on Acoustic Ambiance Simulation and Noise Suppression -- 13 Voice Activity Detection for In-Car Communication Systems -- 14 Generalized Theory of Spectral Refinement and Application to Speech Enhancement for In-Car Communication Systems -- 15 Driver Behavior-Aware Cooperative Ramp Merging for Intelligent Vehicles -- 16 Personalized Lane Changes Using Subjective Risk-Sensitive Framework -- 17 Human-Interpretable Learning-Based Automated Driving Systems -- 18 On the Importance of Quantifying Visibility for Autonomous Vehicles Under Extreme Precipitation -- About the editors -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book features works from world-class experts from academia, industry, and national agencies focusing on a wide spectrum of automotive fields towards humanvehicle harmonization covering in-vehicle signal processing, driver modeling, systems and safety. The essays collected in this volume present cutting-edge studies on safety, driver behavior, infrastructure, and human-to-vehicle interfaces.