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L.O.Q.Shun - CLESOL Conference 2016
Get PDF2015 | 04:00 | HD Video | 16:9 | Stereo | Director: Dan Inglis | Music: Jeremy Mayall | Soprano: Julia Booth
An experimental digital collage film exploring ideas of communication and comprehension.
Based around text from a nineteenth century elocution manual by A. M. Bell. With music by Jeremy Mayall and soprano Julia Booth
L.O.Q.Shun - Conversations Short Film Evening 2016
Get PDF2015 | 04:00 | HD Video | 16:9 | Stereo | Director: Dan Inglis | Music: Jeremy Mayall | Soprano: Julia Booth
An experimental digital collage film exploring ideas of communication and comprehension.
Based around text from a nineteenth century elocution manual by A. M. Bell. With music by Jeremy Mayall and soprano Julia Booth
On Satisfying the Android OS Community: User Feedback Still Central to Developers’ Portfolios
No full textEnd-users play an integral role in identifying requirements, validating software features’ usefulness, locating defects, and in software product evolution in general. Their role in these activities is especially prominent in online application distribution platforms (OADPs), where software is developed for many potential users, and for which the traditional processes of requirements gathering and negotiation with a single group of end-users do not apply. With such vast access to end-users, however, comes the challenge of how to prioritize competing requirements in order to satisfy previously unknown user groups, especially with early releases of a product. One highly successful product that has managed to overcome this challenge is the Android Operating System (OS). While the requirements of early versions of the Android OS likely benefited from market research, new features in subsequent releases appear to have benefitted extensively from user reviews. Thus, lessons learned about how Android developers have managed to satisfy the user community over time could usefully inform other software products. We have used data mining and natural language processing (NLP) techniques to investigate the issues that were logged by the Android community, and how Google’s remedial efforts correlated with users’ requests. We found very strong alignment between end-users’ top feature requests and Android developers’ responses, particularly for the more recent Android releases. Our findings suggest that effort spent responding to end-users’ loudest calls may be integral to software systems’ survival, and a product’s overall success
Movement, maps, mnemonics and music: teaching fiction and poetry writing using sight and sound
Get PDFMovement, maps, mnemonics and music: teaching fiction and poetry writing using sight and sound
Literary terminology is littered with visual and aural references but so often in the teaching of writing or the analysis of texts, attention is placed more on the cerebral than the sensual elements of language. We refer to an image in analysis, but the critical process of identification blocks our ability to recognise the visual range of the meaning of a word. We note the “music “of a line of poetry, but lose the rhythm and colour of a stanza in the disinterment of its parts.
In my teaching of creative writing in New Zealand for the last twenty years, a great deal of time has been spent in getting my students to see what is great about great writing. Have I done them a disservice in only introducing them to the cannon? I have included reading and research components in their assessments in recognition of the value I place on their extending their knowledge and range whilst producing thoroughly beautiful work for me to read. But sometimes this has not been enough and even I have become bored with being clever. Sometimes we simply need to rediscover play, to delight in more unexpected ways into writing, to extend our boundaries, stretch the membrane of our imaginations.
Pedagogic theory reminds us that not all students are linguistic or verbal learners. There are many “intelligences” to nurture in the delicate arts of education; visual, spatial, kinaesthetic, musical and rhythmic intelligence are also part of the profile of any person. This paper is an account of work developed in 2011-2013 to use music, maps, mnemonics and movement to generate enthusiasm, passion, diversity and above all, please God, just a tiny amount of great writing
Introducing a Dental Caries Marking Software and Evaluate Radiologists’ Disagreement in Caries Detection Using this Software
No full textStatement of Problem: Bitewing radiograph is the main reference for diagnosis of proximal and recurrent caries. There is no software for gathering and analyzing radiologists’ opinion in the field of caries detection on digital bitewing radiograph (DBR). Objectives: The main aim of this study is to introduce the first windows application that could be used for marking caries on DBR. This software is called Dental Caries Marking Software (DCMS). The second aim is to create the first DBR caries dataset to be used for future software development projects in the field of automatic caries detection; also gathering and documenting the disagreements and critiques regarding DCMS. Materials and Methods: DCMS has been designed and implemented by the researchers of this study. This software is divided into two parts. The first part is DCMS writer that is used for gathering the user’s opinion and The second part is DCMS analyzer that is used for reading and analyzing the user’s opinion file. Eight radiologists with different experiences used DCMS for marking dental caries on 200 DBR, 50 of which were repeated twice for assessing the accuracy of each radiologist. Results: A total of 3833 points were marked by 8 users on 150 non repetitive DBR. Only 35 points were marked similarly by 8 users; in other words, 8 users totally agreed with 4% of the caries points. According to 50 repetitive DBR, the maximum accuracy of users was 69% and the minimum was 50%. Conclusions: There is significant debate over the diagnosis of caries on DBR; therefore, for unifying the radiologist’s opinions, the need for intelligent caries detection software is apparent. DCMS is useful software for gathering caries data. Moreover, the use of conventional display monitor has negative impacts on accurate diagnosis of caries on DBR
Participate in stage performance of theatre work "The Events" at Silo Theatre
No full textParticipation as chorister and actor in stage performance of "The Events" at Silo Theatre with Handel Consort and Quire and N.S. Camera Sept 3 2015
Study of the scores and rehearsal with the choir provided invaluable information towards the continued development of my own choral writing and my lecturing to composition students
Seminar on mortality for CHASP
Get PDFThe seminar focussed on the work of Atul Gawandi and attitudes to death and dying. For example, the problem medicine has with acknowledging that no further treatment is possible for some patients and the delay in having open conversations about end-of-life decisions
Don Driver Magician - Screening at Govett-Brewster Art Gallery/Len Lye Centre, 8 August, 2015
No full textOriginally planned as a short documentary of the 1999 retrospective at the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, Paul Judge’s film has grown incrementally in the years since to take its place as a thorough record and eloquent posthumous tribute to a major New Zealand artist.
We meet Driver at home and in his studio in New Plymouth, tearing up movie posters and reconstituting them into intimations of primal dread no film studio ever dreamt of, at least, not knowingly. Driver’s weirdly animate assemblages took many forms and sizes – those dolls and animal skulls, the prams erupting with plastic tubing – and their stockyard surrealism sent shivers down the spines of the unprepared. It is amusing to hear his flat disavowals of sinister intent, completely apiece with his way of letting the art do the talking. Judge adds in a little later material and earlier footage from as far back as a The South Tonight piece in 1972, and a formative 1965 visit to the US. Elizabeth Smither narrates and interviews Driver, while diverse artists and commentators pepper analysis with anecdote.
NZ, 2013, Colour, 67 min., Exempt
Directors Paul Judge and Bridget Sutherland
8 Aug | 3:30 pm
Free entry
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Breakery - Hudson Valley Comedy Film Festival 2016
No full textOn his release from the Treemore Correctional Facility for Men, career burglar Karl Plunkett Jr. is determined to make amends for his earlier life of crime. Enlisting the help of younger brother Brian, Karl embarks on a quest for redemption – through the unconventional method of breaking into his former victim’s homes and replacing earlier stolen household items with goods of equal value