Imperial Capitals at War: A Comparative Perspective

Enemies and friends: Arendt on the imperial republic at war

Hannah Arendt’s existential, republican concept of politics spurned Carl Schmitt’s idea that enmity constituted the essence of the political. Famously, she isolated the political sphere from social conflict, sovereign regimes, and the realm of military violence. While some critics are now interested in applying Arendt’s more abstract political ideas to international affairs, it has not been ack...

Women at War: An Evolutionary Perspective

[Breastfeeding in two Brazilian State capitals: a comparative analysis].

This paper describes rapid assessment of infant feeding practices based on surveys conducted on National Immunization Day in the cities of Florianópolis and João Pessoa, Brazil. Two different infant feeding patterns emerge clearly in the data analysis. Most infants begin breastfeeding, but exclusive breastfeeding (EBF) from 0-4 months (46.3% in Florianópolis and 23.9% in João Pessoa) and timely...

Leo Tolstoy′s anti-war perspective

The article considers the representation of war in Leo Tolstoy's artistic and journalistic work. The concept of "War" is a key notion in the writer's works. The paper describes the lexicon embodying the topic. To express the essence of the concept, Leo Tolstoy uses such words as sumasshestviye (madness), zlo (evil), and nasiliye (violence). The article analyzes the evolution of attitu...

1 Imperial College at TRECVID

We describe our experiments for the shot boundary detection, high-level feature extraction and search. In the shot boundary detection task, we employ our proven method based on the calculation of distances between colour histograms of frames over a range of timescales. For the search task, we tested a different system. This year, content based search is complemented with a new relevance feedbac...