Tag: Frames

Free Download Natalie Gold, Robert Sugden, "Beyond Individual Choice: Teams and Frames in Game Theory"
English | 2006 | ISBN: 0691120056 | PDF | pages: 240 | 25.7 mb
Game theory is central to modern understandings of how people deal with problems of coordination and cooperation. Yet, ironically, it cannot give a straightforward explanation of some of the simplest forms of human coordination and cooperation-most famously, that people can use the apparently arbitrary features of "focal points" to solve coordination problems, and that people sometimes cooperate in "prisoner’s dilemmas." Addressing a wide readership of economists, sociologists, psychologists, and philosophers, Michael Bacharach here proposes a revision of game theory that resolves these long-standing problems.

Free Download Relativity in Rotating Frames: Relativistic Physics in Rotating Reference Frames by Guido Rizzi, Matteo Luca Ruggiero
English | PDF | 2004 | 462 Pages | ISBN : 1402018053 | 3 MB
Even if the subject is a long-standing one, this is the first monograph on this field. On the one hand, this book is intended to give a rather wide review on this field, both in a historical and pedagogical perspective; on the other hand, it aims at critically re-examining and discussing the most controversial issues. For instance, according to some authors the celebrated Sagnac effect is a disproval of the theory of relativity applied to rotating frames; according to others, it is an astonishing experimental evidence of the relativistic theory. In order to give the reader a deeper insight into this research field, the contributing authors discuss their opinions on the main subjects in an enthralling virtual round table: in this way, the reader can get a direct comparison of the various viewpoints on the most controversial and interesting topics. This is particularly expedient, since the differences in the various approaches are often based upon subtleties that can be understood only by a direct comparison of the underlying hypotheses.

Free Download Andrea Bianchi, "International Law’s Invisible Frames: Social Cognition and Knowledge Production in International Legal Processes"
English | ISBN: 0192847538 | 2021 | 336 pages | EPUB, PDF | 712 KB + 23 MB
What is international law, and how does it work? This book argues that our answers to these fundamental questions are shaped by a variety of social cognition and knowledge production processes. These processes act as invisible frames, through which we understand international law. To better conceive the frames within which international law moves and performs, we must understand how psychological and socio-cultural factors affect decision-making in an international legal process. This includes identifying the groups of people and institutions that shape and alter the prevailing discourse in international law, and unearthing the hidden meaning of the various mythologies that populate and influence our normative world.

Free Download Vito Adriaensens, "Velvet Curtains and Gilded Frames: The Art of Early European Cinema "
English | ISBN: 147440698X | 2023 | 224 pages | PDF | 35 MB
Velvet Curtains and Gilded Frames explores the intermedial context of early cinema. It tackles the first European feature films’ intricate relationship with its sister arts to reveal that the period referred to by historians as the "long nineteenth century" was one in which Bourgeois Realism reigned supreme. The nineteenth-century rise of the middle class coincided with realism becoming the dominant artistic mode in both form and content, leading to a revival of genre painting in the art academies; the supremacy of the social melodrama on the stage; and the advent of Pictorialism in photography. In its quest for artistic legitimacy, European filmmakers sought to win over middle-class audiences with films based on popular works of art – the first "art films" – by employing similar visual and narrative strategies as its artistic counterparts.

Free Download News Frames And National Security: Covering Big Brother By Douglas M. McLeod, Dhavan V. Shah
2015 | 237 Pages | ISBN: 0521113598 | PDF | 3 MB
Did media coverage contribute to Americans’ tendency to favor national security over civil liberties following the 9/11 attacks? How did news framing of terrorist threats support the expanding surveillance state revealed by Edward Snowden? Douglas M. McLeod and Dhavan V. Shah explore the power of news coverage to render targeted groups suspicious and to spur support for government surveillance. They argue that the tendency of journalists to frame stories around individual targets of surveillance – personifying the domestic threat – shapes citizens’ judgments about tolerance and participation, leading them to limit the civil liberties of a range of groups under scrutiny and to support ‘Big Brother’.

Free Download Success Frames: Why learning from success is the key to understanding what motivates and inspires us by Rob Hatch
English | December 5th, 2023 | ISBN: 1788604237, 1788605748 | 212 pages | True EPUB | 1.80 MB
The long-held notion of learning from our failures doesn’t work.

Free Download Johannes C.P. Schmid, "Frames and Framing in Documentary Comics "
English | ISBN: 3030633020 | 2021 | 307 pages | PDF | 10 MB
Frames and Framing in Documentary Comics explores how graphic narratives reframe global crises while also interrogating practices of fact-finding. An analog print phenomenon in an era shaped by digitalization, documentary comics formulates a distinct counterapproach to conventional journalism. In what ways are ‘facts’ being presented and framed? What is documentary honesty in a world of fake news and post-truth politics? How can the stories of marginalized peoples and neglected crises be told? The author investigates documentary comics in its unique relationship to framing: graphic narratives are essentially shaped by a reciprocal relationship between the manifest frames on the page and the attention to the cognitive frames that they generate. To account for both the textuality of comics and its strategic use as rhetoric, the author combines theories of framing analysis and cognitive narratology with comics studies and its attention toward the medium’s visual frames.

Free Download Steven Rybin, "Playful Frames: Styles of Widescreen Cinema "
English | ISBN: 1978815948 | 2023 | 198 pages | PDF | 6 MB
A widescreen frame in cinema beckons the eye to playfully, creatively roam. Such technology also gives inventive filmmakers room to disrupt and redirect audience expectations, surprising viewers through the use of a wider, more expansive screen. Playful Frames: Styles of Widescreen Cinema studies the poetics of the auteur-driven widescreen image, offering nimble, expansive analyses of the work of four distinctive filmmakers – Jean Negulesco, Blake Edwards, Robert Altman, and John Carpenter – who creatively inhabited the nooks and crannies of widescreen moviemaking during the final decades of the twentieth century. Exploring the relationship between aspect ratio and subject matter,

Free Download Copilots for Linguists: AI, Constructions, and Frames
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1009475908 | 122 Pages | PDF (True) | 3 MB
AI can assist the linguist in doing research on the structure of language. This Element illustrates this possibility by showing how a conversational AI based on a Large Language Model (AI LLM chatbot) can assist the Construction Grammarian, and especially the Frame Semanticist. An AI LLM chatbot is a text-generation system trained on vast amounts of text. To generate text, it must be able to find patterns in the data and mimic some linguistic capacity, at least in the eyes of a cooperative human user. The authors do not focus on whether AIs "understand" language. Rather, they investigate whether AI LLM chatbots are useful tools for linguists. They reframe the discussion from what AI LLM chatbots can do with language to what they can do for linguists. They find that a chatty LLM can labor usefully as an eliciting interlocutor, and present precise, scripted routines for prompting conversational LLMs.

Free Download Structural Analysis of Plane Frames: Solved Examples with Force and Displacement Methods by Isabella Giorgia Colombo , Matteo Colombo , Marco di Prisco , Anna Magri , Paolo Martinelli , Letizia Mazzoleni , Giulio Zani
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2023 | 352 Pages | ISBN : 3031352661 | 55.2 MB
This textbook presents applicative examples of the main methods of structural analysis of statically indeterminate frame structures. It begins with a brief description of the kinematic analysis for plane frames. The Force Method, the Displacement Method and the Mixed method are applied for the solutions of statically indeterminate plane structures. The book first deals with the solution of simple reference cases where the most common structural situations, such as inclined rods, extensional and rotational springs, thermal variations, symmetry and anti-symmetry (just to mention some of them) are treated singularly. It then reports the complete solution of complex plane frames where the most common structural situations, individually analyzed in the previous chapter, are combined.