Technology, not as a collection of devices, but as a disinterested, scientifically based process of management system, provided a framework for "thinking about" the identification and solution to a predefined problem. Behind the mask of neutrality, disinterest, and a modernist notion of "truth," an ideology of control and a consciousness of process earmarked the development of western thinking ...

We present an approach to the extraction of family relations from literary narrative, which incorporates a technique for utterance attribution proposed recently by Elson and McKeown (2010). In our work this technique is used in combination with the detection of vocatives — the explicit forms of address used by the characters in a novel. We take advantage of the fact that certain vocatives indic...

Why did machine-age modernist architecture diffuse to Latin America so quickly after its rise in Continental Europe during the 1910s and 1920s? Why was it a more successful movement in relatively backward Brazil and Mexico than in more affluent and industrialized Argentina? After reviewing the historical development of architectural modernism in these three countries, several explanations are t...

To obtain the SVA objective from the parametric MJP model, we begin by scaling the exponential distribution f(t;λ) = λ exp(−λt), which is an exponential family distribution with natural parameter η = −λ, log-partition function ψ(η) = − ln(−η), and base measure ν(dt) = 1 [1]. To scale the distribution, introduce the new natural parameter η̃ = βη and log-partition function ψ̃(η̃) = βψ(η̃/β). The new ...