409 research outputs found
The nature of domestic electricity-loads and effects of time averaging on statistics and on-site generation calculations
No full textWright was lead author. Firth is a Research Assistant, supervised by Wright
Storegga Slide
No full textGlasgow-based author of short stories and psychological thrillers, Louise has developed a poetic statement about our shared origins and culture, accompanied by a series of words translated between Scots and European mainland languages which demonstrate that though our dialects are different we can still be understood.
Emlyn Firth will use a typographic approach to illustrate Louise’s work, playing with themes of language and communication
Marine Spatial Planning in Action: Pentland Firth and Orkney Waters case study
No full textNo abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author. The Marine (Scotland) Act 2010 makes provision for statutory marine planning in Scotland’s seas. • Regional marine spatial planning is being piloted in the Pentland Firth & Orkney Waters area (Figure 1). • This non statutory process will be used to inform the statutory Regional Marine Plans
Inanimation
No full textMy practice borrows from early material processes of animation. The tools and techniques I primarily use were developed for commercial entertainment but are now obsolete outside of education and experimentation. The demanding labor process of producing cel animation independently applies technical constraints to my practice and forces a close examination of motion. I find my technique of tracing acute changes in images to be generative because the action of drawing and redrawing creates unexpected and unnatural movements. The motion created by unedited hand-drawn animation is slippery and constantly appears on the verge of transformation. My animations are short compiled loops of subjects which endlessly repeat small gestures and actions. Animating compact loops creates a perpetual anticipation of change while always rejecting progression. The movement produced in my loops refuses classification under the dichotomy of still and moving and instead calls for a more complex understanding of motion. My looping animations are primarily made for non-theater settings like galleries and web-based settings. In the current internet landscape, time-based media are regularly encountered in perpetual forms like gifs or endlessly scrolling websites. These new forms recall a history of cinema and early cinema devices where emerging technologies restricted media viewing to short repeating clips. Linear timelines as well as beginnings and ends in media have become unfamiliar with the new pervasiveness of looped forms. Working within a late-capitalist context where political power and resistance seem to operate in terms of perpetuity, my work examines a complex kind of movement where endless motion and stillness are simultaneously depicted. My practice involves animating scenes where constrained depictions of movement, change and progress are complicated by unusual treatments of space and time
Exploring the Hoard: Constructing New Maps of Understanding
No full textHow do images and diagrams inform cultural identity and the navigation of social space? This is a core question motivating my art practice.
To produce my artwork, I glean images and texts from magazine collections, which I deconstruct and reconfigure into new iconographies. My goal in this process is to simultaneously destabilize knowledge systems that pretend to obscure uncertainty, even while hinting at possible new understandings. Building on the history of collage as a critical strategy, I explore the role of technical images in identity formation, knowledge production, and expressions of power and authority. In this way, my work maps contextual frameworks that span disparate image cultures and identity systems.
The ‘hoard’, as a type of collection, is an important space for my practice; I see the hoard as an archive and active site of social and political possibilities — a physical manifestation of the excess of capitalist culture (In this text, I will refer to the hoard as a metaphor for the overwhelming volume of cultural imagery at large as well as, a specific collection of print imagery that I see as physical symptom of the pressure of image culture). I mine these archives for veins of source materials, looking for patterns that emerge through formal aesthetic similarities. Colour and line speak from within images to reveal possible hybrid visualizations and derive new trajectories of meaning. In this work, I am exorcising my suspicion of a tendency to slip into a passive viewing position; in this way, my work is calling to (and being beckoned by) Vilém Flusser’s cautionary writings on the inherent perils of technical images in mass media.
My works traverse image and objecthood. I transform print materials into photographs, then into pixels, and finally to printed-paper structures. In this way I usher meanings from objecthood to image and back again, questioning visual language along the way. With each work, I engage in a struggle to decipher and map historical traces of print images. At the same time, I am actively trying to confuse, question, and re-code visual tropes, questioning the impact of images on identity construction and broader ontologies. I bury my tracks knee-deep in scrap
Intensive Interaction: a Research Review
No full textIntensive Interaction is a socially interactive approach to supporting and developing the pre verbal communication and sociability of people with severe or profound learning disabilities, or severe autism. Developed in the 1980’s from the psychological model of ‘augmented mothering’ the approach currently has an increasing number of proponents who make claims for increased social responsiveness due to the use of the approach. This short paper aims to evaluate some of the evidential claims of consequential increased social responses from people with severe and profound and multiple learning disabilities due to the use of Intensive Interaction techniques. Thus the paper presents a review of findings presented in relevant research papers which have been published in generally recognised academic journals.
From this review the author concludes that although expanding, the current body of research has been limited in scope and scale, and has generally been conducted by a small number of Intensive Interaction practitioners and advocates. However, increased client social responsiveness was consistently reported across the research projects reviewed.
In conclusion, this paper advocates for further systematic research into the approach by the wider research community to further develop the evidential base of the approach
John Rupert Firth historian of linguistics and founder of the "London school"
No full textEtudié principalement pour ses travaux en phonologie, John Rupert Firth (1890-1960) occupe une place clé en linguistique anglo-saxonne. Il est un représentant éminent des études philologiques qui ont prévalu jusqu’au début du XXᵉ siècle, par sa culture du passé et son attachement à l’histoire des langues etdes sciences, qui font écho à sa formation d’historien. Paradoxalement, il a orienté ces savoirs et expériences vers l’avenir, en donnant une nouvelle impulsion aux sciences du langage en Grande-Bretagne,avec l’avènement de la linguistique en tant que discipline académique. Ses écrits dénotent un horizon de rétrospection très riche dans le temps et dans l’espace. Il s’y inscrit dans la continuité des expérimentations phonétiques du XIXᵉ siècle (Sweet, Bell). Ces références participent à la constitution de ce que l’on nomme la « linguistique firthienne », dont l’objet de la présente thèse est précisément d’étudier les contours. Ses concepts linguistiques (contexte de situation, sens par collocation, colligation ou langue restreinte) et phonologiques (phonesthésie, analyse prosodique) sont étudiés et mis en perspective au fil de cette thèse. Ils s’appuient sur le fonctionnalisme et la transdisciplinarité dans une approche plurilingue où les langues asiatiques jouent un rôle majeur pour la prise de conscience d’un eurocentrisme que l’auteur a cherché à dépasser. Firth est le fondateur de la London School, l’initiateur d’un héritage porté par plusieurs générations de linguistes anglo-saxons (Robins, Halliday, Crystal). Notre étude se donne pour but d’évaluer quelles ont été sa place et sa contribution réelles dans l’histoire des idées linguistiques.Mainly studied for his work in phonology, John Rupert Firth (1890-1960) played an outstanding role in English linguistics. He stands in line with the philological studies that prevailed up until the beginning of the 20th century through his culture of the past and his commitment to the history of languages and of sciences, both echoing his academic education in history. However, he turned these knowledge and experiences towards the future, giving a new impetus to language sciences in Great Britain and eventually leading to the recognition of general linguistics as an independent academic discipline. His writings show a wide retrospective horizon both in time and space. He defined himself as in continuity with 19thcentury phonological experiments (Sweet, Bell). These references contribute to the formation of what is known as “Firthian linguistics”, whose contours this dissertation aims at defining. His linguistic and phonological concepts (context of situation, meaning by collocation, colligation, restricted languages as well as phonaesthesia and prosodic analysis) are studied here and put into perspective. They rely on functionalism and transdisciplinarity in a multilingual approach where Asiatic languages foster the awareness of a eurocentrism the author tried to overcome. Firth was the founder of the London School,initiating a legacy embodied by many generations of English linguists (Robins, Halliday, Crystal). Our study aims thus at assessing his real place and contribution to the history of linguistic thought
A biophysical model for seedling establishment in mangrove forests
No full textMangrove seedling establishment is crucial to the long-term development of mangrove forests. This study incorporates a process-based approach for seedling establishment in a process-based hydrodynamic model. The biophysical model is used to simulate seedling establishment in the Firth of Thames estuary (New Zealand). The results are compared to a random seedling establishment approach that has been often-used in long-term mangrove forest development models. While small differences were observed in terms of the seaward extent of seedling establishment, larger differences were found for the patchiness and density of the establishing seedlings. The results of the process-based approach showed a more localized pattern of seedling establishment, in line with field observations in the Firth of Thames. This pattern was opposed to the more spatially uniform establishment patterns predicted with the random establishment approach. These differences reveal that the implemented seedling establishment approach may affect long-term mangrove forest development models. Moreover, the process-based approach is more easily setup and calibrated with physical parameters that can be measured in the field
Exercise as Medicine for Mental and Substance Use Disorders: A Meta-review of the Benefits for Neuropsychiatric and Cognitive Outcomes
No full textBACKGROUND: Exercise may improve neuropsychiatric and cognitive symptoms in people with mental disorders, but the totality of the evidence is unclear. We conducted a meta-review of exercise in (1) serious mental illness (schizophrenia spectrum, bipolar disorder and major depression (MDD)); (2) anxiety and stress disorders; (3) alcohol and substance use disorders; (4) eating disorders (anorexia nervosa bulimia nervosa, binge eating disorders, and (5) other mental disorders (including ADHD, pre/post-natal depression). METHODS: Systematic searches of major databases from inception until 1/10/2018 were undertaken to identify meta-analyses of randomised controlled trials (RCTs) of exercise in people with clinically diagnosed mental disorders. In the absence of available meta-analyses for a mental disorder, we identified systematic reviews of exercise interventions in people with elevated mental health symptoms that included non-RCTs. Meta-analysis quality was assessed with the AMSTAR/+. RESULTS: Overall, we identified 27 systematic reviews (including 16 meta-analyses representing 152 RCTs). Among those with MDD, we found consistent evidence (meta-analyses = 8) that exercise reduced depression in children, adults and older adults. Evidence also indicates that exercise was more effective than control conditions in reducing anxiety symptoms (meta-analyses = 3), and as an adjunctive treatment for reducing positive and negative symptoms of schizophrenia (meta-analyses = 2). Regarding neurocognitive effects, exercise improved global cognition in schizophrenia (meta-analyses = 1), children with ADHD (meta-analyses = 1), but not in MDD (meta-analyses = 1). Among those with elevated symptoms, positive mental health benefits were observed for exercise in people with pre/post-natal depression, anorexia nervosa/bulimia nervosa, binge eating disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder and alcohol use disorders/substance use disorders. Adverse events were sparsely reported. CONCLUSION: Our panoramic meta-overview suggests that exercise can be an effective adjunctive treatment for improving symptoms across a broad range of mental disorders.sponsorship: Brendon Stubbs holds a Clinical Lectureship supported by Health Education England and the NIHR Integrated Clinical Academic (ICA) Programme (ICA-CL-2017-03-001). Brendon Stubbs is also part supported by the Maudsley Charity and the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care South London at King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. The views expressed are those of the author[s] and not necessarily those of the NHS, the NIHR or the Department of Health and Social Care. John Firth is supported by a Blackmores Institute Fellowship. Rebekah Carney is funded by the Research Capability Fund via Greater Manchester West Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust. Garcia Ashdown-Franks is funded by a Mitacs Globalink Research Award. (Health Education England, NIHR Integrated Clinical Academic (ICA) Programme|ICA-CL-2017-03-001, Maudsley Charity, National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care South London at King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Blackmores Institute Fellowship, Research Capability Fund via Greater Manchester West Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust, Mitacs Globalink Research Award)status: Publishe
The Shapes of Senses
No full text24 p.In the artist’s statement for the installation, the author writes “I have created a multisensory, participatory, art installation. As a psychology major I have learned how reflecting on one’s senses can be therapeutic and I created an installation that would engage senses. This installation is made out of mass produced objects such as bowls, traffic cones, egg cartons, and plastic Easter eggs which convey a feeling of familiarity and comfort. I created seven pieces, most of which are hung from the ceiling, and each piece is made out of one repeated item. Different senses are engaged throughout the installation and viewer participation is encouraged.
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