That obscure object of desire

That Obscure Object of Desire : Multimedia Metadata on the Web

This article discusses the state of the art in metadata for audio-visual media in large semantic networks, such as the Semantic Web. Our discussion is predominantly motivated by the two most widely known approaches towards machine-processable and semantic-based content description, namely the Semantic Web activity of the W3C and ISO's efforts in the direction of complex media content modeling, ...

The Obscure Object of Hallucination

a individuated by their constituent properties, where the constituent properties are those the subject is inclined to predicate on the strength of his hallucination.38 Charles, who starts out as real and then is evidently unreal, (if I may put it that way) is not to be found among such this-worldly abstracta. Once again, even an abstract entity that includes the property of being first real and...

Symbols of Desire and Entrapment: Decoding Hardy’s Architectural Metaphor in Jude the Obscure

Desire and Desire Regulation

A good deal of people’s waking time is, more or less directly, spent thinking about and dealing with desire. There is no question that desires are often benign, functional, and evolutionary adaptive for the individual. However, there are cases where desire stands in conflict with important (selfregulatory) goals or (moral) values. Prime examples include the exsmoker who, upon seeing other peopl...

Etiology of Obscure Fever

Obscure fever is not an uncommon problem in Thailand. We studied 25 children with obscure fever admitted to Srinagarind (university) Hospital in Northeast Thailand. The etiology was identified in 52% of the cases: dengue (40%), leptospirosis (8%), and micrococcus septicemia (4%). Two cases with primary dengue infection developed dengue shock syndrome. The case with leptospirosis developed infec...