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Boxer III officially unveiled
No full textPacific University students, staff and alumni presenting the "Boxer III" statue to the Pacific community. This picture was taken during its official unveiling at a pep rally held on the patio of Washburn Hall on Homecoming and Reunion weekend, October, 19, 2018. From left to right, those pictured are: Adam Louie (Class of 2021), Vicki Lee (Class of 2019), Coach Keith Buckley, President Lesley Hallick, Monica Wolf Marvin (Class of 1968), and Scott Pike (Class of 1968, OD 1970). Boxer III was a replica of the university's original "Boxer" statue, which had been missing for nearly 50 years when this event took place
Official unveiling of Boxer III
No full textPacific University students, staff and alumni lifting the cover off the "Boxer III" statue during its official unveiling. This event took place at a pep rally held on the patio of Washburn Hall on Homecoming and Reunion weekend, October, 19, 2018. From left to right, those pictured are: Adam Louie (Class of 2021), Vicki Lee (Class of 2019), Coach Keith Buckley (barely visible behind the cover), President Lesley Hallick, Monica Wolf Marvin (Class of 1968), and Scott Pike (Class of 1968, OD 1970)
Persistent Hematuria in an Eleven Year Old Boxer
No full textFinancial constraints, end of life decisions and urinary tract disease manifested through persistent hematuria come together in a case of presumptive renal neoplasia for an eleven-year-old Boxer, Urinmy tract disease diagnostic work up and renal neoplasia will be discussed in the context of incidences, prioritizing diagnostic procedures and maximizing quality of life through palliative pain management therapy
Boxer Rebellion
No full textCílem této bakalářské práce je analyzovat události boxerského povstání, jeho počátky, průběh a důsledky. Začátek práce je věnován analýze situace Číny po konci první čínsko-japonské války a procesu tzv. Sta dní reforem a jejich dopadu na vznikající boxerské hnutí. V hlavní části se autor zabývá vznikem boxerského hnutí v letech 1897-1898 a jeho následným působením. Boxeři se během své existence zaměřovali především na pronásledování cizinců a drancování křesťanských vesnic. Jejich činnost se v roce 1900 stala předmětem krize ve vztahu mezi císařským dvorem a cizími vyslanectvími. Napětí přerostlo až ve válku mezi Čínou a koalicí osmi velmocí, během které se dvůr rozhodl spojit s boxerským hnutím. To se však začalo během konfliktu rozpadat a válka záhy skončila dobytím Pekingu koaličními vojsky. Závěr práce je pak věnován následným diplomatickým jednáním a podmínkám tzv. Boxerskému protokolu, který značí definitivní konec boxerského povstání.ObhájenoThe aim of this bachelors' thesis is to analyze the events of the Boxer Uprising, its origins, course and consequences. The beginning of the work deals with the analysis of the China's situation after the First Sino-Japanese War, with the events of the Hundred Days' Reform, and with their effect on the rising Boxer movement. In the main part the author concerns himself with the origin of the Boxers between 1897-1898 as well as their subsequent activity. The Boxers had blamed the Christians and foreigners for their poor situation and gradually started to attack them and loot Christian villages. In the year 1900, they caused a crisis in the relations between the Imperial Court and the foreign ministers in Beijing. The tensions escalated to a war between China and the Eight-Nation Alliance, during which the Imperial Court decided to ally itself with the Boxers. However, the Boxer movement began to disintegrate during the conflict. The war soon ended after the coalition forces had been able to capture Beijing. The end of the work deals with the subsequent diplomatic negotiations and with the terms and signing of the Boxer Protocol which marks the end of the Boxer Rebellion
The personality of Czechoslovak boxer Bohumil Němeček
No full textThis thesis focuses on the biography elaboration of the successful Czechoslovak boxer Bohumil Němeček. In terms of content, the thesis is primarily focused on his personality, secondarily on a brief mapping of the boxing history in the world, Czech lands and Czechoslovakia and the rules of boxing are also described there. In terms of time, the thesis is mainly focused on the 60s - 70s, in a broader context the period of the beginning of boxing in our country and in the world is covered. Excerpts from periodicals and literary memoirs can be found in the thesis too. The thesis is also supplemented with a large amount of period photographs and pictures
The boxer
No full textThe Boxer is a novella that pits metaphysics against New Age shallowness. It weaves together the surreal comedy of Flann O'Brien’s The Third Policeman with Faulknerian stream of consciousness all set atop highly Westernized ‘60s mysticism in the style of Alan Watts.
While on the job, Heather, a Starbucks Barista, witnesses the aftermath of an accidental death and enters into a period of private mourning. As the spiritual bankruptcy of her current condition fails to offer her guidance, she experiences a psychological break and encounters her own subconscious, which torments her in the form of a seemingly meaningless green box. Her sanity dwindles, forcing her to reevaluate her relationships, goals, and sense of self.
The story is told in a close third-person point of view, granting access to Heather’s consciousness without relying upon the monologuing style common to texts such as As I Lay Dying. This, when paired with affectionate nods towards ‘60s nostalgia and New Age imagery, attempts to critique the modern American landscape as one of plastic spirituality without departing too far from the central character’s voice or sense of humor.M.F.A.Includes bibliographical reference
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Neural Sources of Multitasking Interference Revealed in a Complex Continuous Multitasking Environment
No full textOur brains are limited in their ability to process all information it receives thus requiring cognitive control mechanisms to modulate information and responses. Previous attempts to characterize multitasking costs in the neuropsychological literature largely study two-discrete-task paradigms. For my project, we studied the use of a complex continuous task punctuated by a second discrete task, more comparable to real-world tasks as well as the possibility that these well-characterized discrete approaches may be missing neural mechanisms critical to multitasking costs. In the first study, we use this paradigm's advantages to study embedded stimuli whose inter-task timing of stimuli are jittered in a controlled way to replicate many of the effects studied in previously the multitasking literature to demonstrate a novel perceptual bottleneck of interference in addition to the well-characterized response bottleneck. In the second study, this task was taken into the scanner to study the multitasking versus single-tasking differences, using a perceptually identical environment to control for potential perceptual sources of dual-tasking. This study demonstrated the superior parietal lobule, a region previously characterized for cognitive control over motor preparation as well as multitasking to not only show differential activity between the conditions, but to demonstrate individual activity differences correlating with individual multitasking performance costs. The significance of this finding is that we identified a specific control region relevant to individual multitasking costs in our complex continuous tracking paradigm. The studies above (in combination with its validation as a training platform (Anguera et al., 2013)) identifies our novel task as a robust, complex neurocognitive platform to study human performance deficits. We replicate previously characterized timing-dependent phenomena (i.e. PRP effect) and dual-tasking neural control centers (superior parietal lobule) without the need for the traditionally constrictive laboratory demands of response ordering and with a higher user engagement in a more real-world relevant task
Reflection of the Holocaust in the graphic novels Der Boxer and Maus
No full textStudie v první části analyzuje pojmy "komiks" a "židovský komiks". V druhé části provádí podrobnou analýzu zobrazení holokaustu v grafických románech Boxer (2012) německého autora Reinharda Kleista a Maus I-II (1986-1991) amerického autora polského původu Arta Spiegelmana. Dochází k závěru, že oba texty se vyznačují explicitním antipsychologismem a emocionálním racionalismem a svou estetickou hodnotu nezakládají na originalitě námětu, ale na formě výtvarného díla. Zatímco Boxer je realistický komiks o boxu jako prostředku přežití v mezní situaci koncentračního tábora, postmoderní Maus zachycuje traumatickou zkušenost genocidy prostřednictvím alegorického ztvárnění hlavních postav jako zvířecích bytostí. Téma holokaustu v obou komiksech i přes svou žánrovou odlišnost zprostředkovává citlivé otázky židovské identity a poukazuje na dvě legitimní možnosti uměleckého uchopení materiálu.In the first part, the study analyzes the terms "comics" and "Jewish comics". In the second part, it provides a detailed analysis of the depiction of the Holocaust in the graphic novels Der Boxer (2012) by the German author Reinhard Kleist and Maus I-II (1986-1991) by the American author of Polish origin Art Spiegelman. It concludes that both texts are explicit in their anti-psychologism and emotional rationalism and base their aesthetic value not on the originality of the subject matter but on the form of the artwork. While Boxer is a realistic comic about boxing as a means of survival in the liminal situation of a concentration camp, the postmodern Maus captures the traumatic experience of genocide through the allegorical presentation of the main characters as animal beings. Despite their genre-thematic differences, the Holocaust themes of both comics convey sensitive issues of Jewish identity, pointing to two legitimate possibilities of artistic grasp of the material
Literary Representation of Sport in Historical Turmoil: On Józef Hen’s “The Boxer and The Death”
No full textThe present article strives to analyze a sporting war short story The Boxer and The Death by Józef Hen as an exemplary piece of sports writing immersed in a historical context. Although there is no entrenched tradition of sports writing in the Polish literary expression, the story offers a very classic sports narrative anchored in the Holocaust reality. Following the presentation of the figure of Hen and providing historical background for sport in concentration camps, the author analyzes the story, focusing on its two main characters: Janusz Kominek and Walter Kraft, as well as the values and symbols they represent. It is also argued that The Boxer and The Death fulfills the criteria of a traditional western, melodramatic narrative, and conforms to Robert J. Higgs’s Adonic model of an athlete in literature.The present article strives to analyze a sporting war short story The Boxer and The Death by Józef Hen as an exemplary piece of sports writing immersed in a historical context. Although there is no entrenched tradition of sports writing in the Polish literary expression, the story offers a very classic sports narrative anchored in the Holocaust reality. Following the presentation of the figure of Hen and providing historical background for sport in concentration camps, the author analyzes the story, focusing on its two main characters: Janusz Kominek and Walter Kraft, as well as the values and symbols they represent. It is also argued that The Boxer and The Death fulfills the criteria of a traditional western, melodramatic narrative, and conforms to Robert J. Higgs’s Adonic model of an athlete in literature
Correction to: Uncovering spatiotemporal patterns of atrophy in progressive supranuclear palsy using unsupervised machine learning
No full textThis is a correction to: William J Scotton, Cameron Shand, Emily Todd, Martina Bocchetta, David M Cash, Lawren VandeVrede, Hilary Heuer, PROSPECT Consortium, 4RTNI Consortium, Alexandra L Young, Neil Oxtoby, Daniel C Alexander, James B Rowe, Huw R Morris, Adam L Boxer, Jonathan D Rohrer, Peter A Wijeratne, Uncovering spatiotemporal patterns of atrophy in progressive supranuclear palsy using unsupervised machine learning, Brain Communications, Volume 5, Issue 2, 2023, https://doi.org/10.1093/braincomms/fcad04
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