Modernism's traffic-sense

Comparative Modernisms: the Global South (ccs 3356/wcl 3397)

Sense and Sense-ability

The five basic senses of vision, taste, smell, hearing, and touch form the very crux of our ability to perceive, process, and integrate external cues. Is there, however, a sixth sense? Thoughts of a grimacing Bruce Willis aside, evidence suggests that pheromones may regulate instinctive behaviors in awide range of organisms, but whether this truly represents a distinct ‘‘sense’’ remains to be e...

Chinese and Other Asian Modernisms: A Comparative View of Art-Historical Contexts in the Twentieth Century

Using a comparative analysis approach, this article examines the development, characteristics and issues concerning the discourse of modern Asian art in the twentieth century, with the aim of bringing into picture the place of Asia in the history of modernism. The wide recognition of the Western modernist canon as centre and universal displaces the contribution and significance of the non-Weste...

Making sense of Arctic maritime traffic using the Polar Operational Limits Assessment Risk Indexing System (POLARIS)

Maritime traffic volume in the Arctic is growing for several reasons: climate change is resulting in less ice in extent, duration, and thickness; economic drivers are inducing growth in resource extraction traffic, community size (affecting resupply) and adventure tourism. This dynamic situation, coupled with harsh weather, variable operating conditions, remoteness, and lack of straightforward ...

Sense Proximity versus Sense Relations

It has been widely assumed that sense distinctions in WordNet are often too fine-grained for applications such as Machine Translation, Information Retrieval, Text Classification, Document clustering, Question Answering, etc. This has led to a number of studies in sense clustering, i.e., collapsing sense distinctions in WordNet that can be ignored for most practical applications [1,5,6]. At the ...