12,813 research outputs found
The Magazine Women Believed in: "Marriage Advice" 1950-1955
No full textIn the United States society, the 1950s is seen as a time of great conservatism where both men and women were placed into specific gender roles that dictated much of how they lived their lives. One institution that verified these gender roles and stereotypes to be true was women's magazines. These magazines contained sections such as fashion segments, helpful cooking guidelines, advertisements, and advice columns that seemed to target middle class, white, suburban married housewives. One advice column that seemed to particularly focus on the idea of a happy housewife and married life was the column Making Marriage Work, which appeared in the magazine Ladies Home Journal during this 1950s time period. The author of this column, Clifford R. Adams, idealized the 1950s perfect housewife existence and through his advice he encouraged women to strive for this lifestyle, while there were other sources demonstrating that this perceived notion of the perfect housewife did not exist during the 1950s time period
A measurement of the photonuclear interactions of 180 GeV muons in iron
No full textThe energy spectrum and the cross section of photonuclear interactions of 180 GeV muons in iron were measured at the CERN SPS using prototype modules of the ATLAS hadron calorimeter. The differential cross section (NA/A)vdσ/dv for a muon fractional energy loss v = ΔEμ/Eμ was measured in the range 0.1<1. The integrated cross section (NA/A) ∫0.11 vdσ/dv is (0.26 ± 0.03stat ±.03stat) · 10-6 cm2g-1 in agreement with the theoretical prediction of 0.267 · 10-6 cm-2g-1. The best adjustment of the data to the theory is achieved for the value of σγN = (115 ± 18stat ± 15syst)μb of the photon-nucleon cross section for photons with energies in the range from 18 to 180 GeV
The construction of Karen Karnak: The multi-author-function
No full textThis thesis is situated within the comparatively recent developments of Web 2.0 and the emergence of interactive WikiMedia, and explores the mode of authorship within a Read/Write culture compared to that of a Read/Only tradition. The hypothesis of this study is that the role of the audience has become merged with the author, and as such, represents new functions and attributes, distinct from a more conventional concept of authorship, in which the roles of audience and author are more separate. Read/Write and participatory culture, as defined by this study, is focused on collaboration, and includes the influences of D.I.Y. culture, Open-Source practices and the production of text by multiple authors. Multi-authorship presents a re-thinking of several concepts which support the notion of the individual author, since the focus of multi-authorship is not on attribution and ownership of a finished text, but on the continued malleability of a text. Modes of multi-authorship, demonstrated in the use of the pseudonyms Alan Smithee and Karen Eliot, represent declarative authors whose names signify multiple origins, whilst concurrently indicating a distinct body of work. The function of these names form an important context to this study, since primary research involves the construction of an experimental mode of multi-authorship utilising WikiMedia technology and the interaction of thirty nine participants, who are invited to create a body of work under the collective pseudonym Karen Karnak. The data generated by this experiment is analysed using aspects of Michel Foucault's author-function to identify and determine power structures inherent in the WikiMedia context. The interplay of power structures, including concepts such as identity, ownership and the body of work, affect the resulting mode of authorship and contribute to the construction of Karen Karnak, suggesting further areas of research into the emerging multi-author
The Blotted Line | An Interview with Alexa Huang
No full texthttp://theshakespearestandard.com/blotted-line-interview-alexa-huang-professor-english-theatre-east-asian-languages-literatures-international-affairs-george-washington-university-washington-d-c/ "I am proud to have answered my calling to tell stories and to show others how to listen for silenced voices. Story-telling makes us human because it helps us understand the human condition in different contexts. For all my life, I have been looking for a place to call home, which is why I became interested in how narratives are transformed when they move across boundaries of all kinds.
Do People Perceive Alexa as Gendered? A Cross-Cultural Study of People’s Perceptions, Expectations, and Desires of Alexa
No full textMainly, the scholarly debate on Alexa has focused on sexist/anti-woman gender representations in the everyday life of many families, on a cluster of themes such as privacy, insecurity, and trust, and on the world of education and health. This paper takes another stance and explores via online survey methodology how university student respondents in two countries (the United States, n = 333; and Italy, n = 322) perceive Alexa's image and gender, what they expect from this voice-based assistant, and how they would like Alexa to be. Results of a free association exercise showed that Alexa's image was scarcely embodied or explicitly gendered. Rather, Alexa was associated with a distinct category of being-the VBA, virtual assistant, or digital helper-with which one talks, and which possesses praiseworthy technical and social traits. Expectations of Alexa and desires regarding Alexa's ideal performance are presented and compared across the two country samples
Alexa Discussion Board Skill
No full textabstract: A common challenge faced by students is that they often have questions about course material that they cannot ask during lecture time. There are many ways for students to have these questions answered, such as office hours and online discussion boards. However, office hours may be at inconvenient times or locations, and online discussion boards are difficult to navigate and may be inactive. The purpose of this project was to create an Alexa skill that allows users to ask their Alexa-equipped device a question concerning their course material and to receive an answer retrieved from discussion board data. User questions are mapped to discussion board posts by use of the cosine similarity algorithm. In this algorithm, posts from the discussion board and the user’s question are converted into mathematical vectors, with each term in the vector corresponding to a word. The values of these terms are computed based on the word’s frequency within the vector’s corresponding document, the frequency of that word within all the documents, and the length of the document. After the question and candidate posts are converted into vectors, the algorithm determines the post most similar to the user’s question by computing the angle between the vectors. With the most similar discussion board post determined, the user receives the replies to the post, if any, as their answer. Users are able to indicate to their Alexa device whether they were satisfied by the answer, and if they were unsatisfied then they are given the opportunity to either rephrase their question or to have the question sent to a database of unanswered questions. The professor can view and answer the questions in this database on a website hosted by use of Amazon’s Simple Storage Service. The Alexa skill does well at answering questions that have already been asked in the discussion board. However, the skill depends heavily on the user’s word choice. Two questions that are semantically identical but different in phrasing are often given different answers. This is because the cosine algorithm measures similarity on the basis of word overlap, not semantic meaning, and thus the application never truly “understands” what type of answer the user desires. Improving the performance of this Alexa skill will require a more advanced question answering algorithm, but the limitations of Amazon Web Services as a development platform make implementing such an algorithm difficult. Nevertheless, this project has created the basis of a question answering Alexa skill by demonstrating a feasible way that the resources offered by Amazon can be utilized in order to build such an application
Let Us Create an Alexa-Enabled IoT Device Using C#, AWS Lambda and ESP Module
No full textPurpose: Voice-operated query is becoming popular. Alexa Such a device that is now widely used. Several vendors provide built-in Alexa services to their devices. In our fast day-to-day life, it is the most relevant Technology. It is safe and convenient also. Doing multiple work at a time is a common scenario. We can quickly get weather updates while cooking. We use our voice to operate AC, Fan, light, and electronic gadgets. Several tech giants like Amazon made Technology easy for us. Our non-Alexa devices can easily convert into Alexa enabled. We can operate our device or electric equipment just over voice. Here we provide the procedure for creating an Alexa-enabled device quickly. Using several AWS services like Alexa Skill, Lambda, and IoT, We can quickly build an Alexa-enabled custom device for us.
Design/Methodology/Approach: The Alexa-enabled devices can be built following a series of processes. To create the Alexa-enabled device, we develop Alexa skills inside the Alexa developer console, write and upload command processor Lambda function using C# language inside the Microsoft visual studio, and configure the IoT profile inside the AWS IoT cloud server. Furthermore, finally, create ESP firmware to operate the equipment. To send the voice command, we need any Alexa-enabled devices. It may be an echo dot, mobile phone, or PC application.
Findings/Result: Combining Amazon Alexa with IoT devices presents a potent synergy, bringing immense potential for improved user experiences and expanded automation and control capabilities. Developing an Alexa-enabled IoT device with C# and AWS Lambda is relatively uncomplicated, provided you possess some programming skills and familiarity with cloud computing. The device gains internet connectivity by leveraging an ESP module, facilitating seamless communication with the Alexa Voice Service, and empowering voice-based commands and responses. The versatility of this device spans a wide array of applications, encompassing the management of lights, switches, appliances, and more, all of which can be further tailored to specific user requirements.
Originality/Value: Several documents are available to create Alexa-enabled devices. Here we provide the procedure with a block diagram and data flow so that the researcher can easily create and integrate it into their research work. All information is practical-oriented. We can quickly build Alexa-enabled devices using the practical example following this work.
Paper Type: Experimental-based Research
Author Correction: Hippocampal oxytocin receptors are necessary for discrimination of social stimuli
No full textThe original version of this Article contained an error in the spelling of the author Alexa H. Veenema, which was incorrectly given as Alexa Veenema. This has now been corrected in both the PDF and HTML versions of the Article.</jats:p
The Activity of CDT Holotoxin Labeled with Alexa Fluor 488
No full text<div><p>(A) The toxicity of CDT holotoxin labeled with Alexa Fluor 488. HeLa cells were treated with 1 ng/ml (black) or 10 ng/ml (gray) concentration of unconjugated or Alexa Fluor 488−conjugated CDT for 3 hr at 37°C, 5% CO<sub>2</sub>. Cells were processed 48 hr after holotoxin treatment, and DNA content was measured by flow cytometry. The calculated percentages of cells in G0/G1, S, and G2/M are shown.</p><p>(B) Binding of CDT-Alexa Fluor 488 to cells. Harvested HeLa cells were exposed for 2 hr to 5 and 10 μg/ml concentration of wild-type or mutant CDT-Alexa Fluor 488. The histogram shows the binding of 5 or 10 μg/ml concentration of wild-type and mutant CDT-Alexa Fluor 488 conjugates to HeLa cells. Mock represents cells in buffer only (2% FCS in PBS), and control is goat anti-mouse IgG conjugated with Alexa Fluor 488, which does not bind to HeLa cells. The level of fluorescence was analyzed by flow cytometry. The relative levels of fluorescent labeling of wild-type and mutant CDT holotoxin was maintained to be nearly equivalent, with the mutant holotoxins (groove and aromatic patch) possessing a slightly higher level of labeling than the wild-type (Materials and Methods).</p></div
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