611 research outputs found
Review of The Osage Ceremonial Dance I\u27n-Lon-Schka
No full textThe Osage Ceremonial Dance l\u27 n-Lon-Schka, by Alice Anne Callahan, is a fascinating look at contemporary (1970s) Osage ceremonialism. Acquired from the neighboring Kaws and Poncas in the 1880s, the I\u27n-Lon-Schka is reportedly the only surviving Osage ceremony that contains both song and dance. Drawing heavily from oral interviews, the author presents a composite picture of the dance that honors the eldest son
Design for new media
No full textNew media is like a giant jigsaw puzzle. We know all about the separate pieces : sound, animation, text, video . . . but the challenge is putting the pieces together to give us the big picture of new media design. In this book Lon Barfield takes the reader on a journey through the fundamentals of interaction design for the web an cd-rom, dealing with these key ingredients and the ways in which they are brought together into an interactive whole.
Design for New Media will be essential reading for students examining design and interaction design principles in their studies. It is suitable for courses and course modules in multimedia design, interaction design, web design and any design discipline that involves design for use.
Lon Barfield is a new media designer and consultant. He is the author of the User Interface ; Concepts And Design published in 1993 by Addison Wesley and the real world design column in the SIGCHI Bulletin (now online at www.DesigningTheRealWorld.com
Emerg Infect Dis
No full textWe observed multidrug resistance in 10 (91%) of 11 Shigella isolates from a diarrheal surveillance study in Cambodia. One isolate was resistant to fluoroquinolones and cephalosporins and showed decreased susceptibility to azithromycin. We found mutations in gyrA, parC, \u3b2-lactamase, and mphA genes. Multidrug resistance increases concern about shigellosis treatment options
Low, degraded broots? Industry and entrepreneurialism in Melbourne's Little Lon, 1860-1950
No full textDeposited with permission of the author. © 2003 Dr. John Anthony LeckeySince C J Dennis wrote The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke in 1915 the Little Lonsdale Street precinct has been a symbol of rough, immoral inner Melbourne working-class community life. Scholars and journalists have perpetuated this negative image, and the major archaeological survey conducted by Justin McCarthy in 1989 confirmed the impression of a "lowlife slum". The only industry of substance that was acknowledged by these writers was prostitution. The Museum of Victoria has erected an exhibition, and prepared a web-site, about Little Lon based on McCarthy’s report. In recent years Alan Mayne, Tim Murray and Susan Lawrence have published research questioning the slum image and have argued instead that the precinct was, essentially, a residential neighbourhood. My hypothesis is that Little Lon was much more than a poor, working-class area. Over a long period it contained a significant enclave of successful family firms engaged in manufacture and other diverse activities.
My research has involved a macro-survey of all the industries in the precinct from 1860-1950 and micro-surveys of seven individual firms. Careful note has been taken of the manner in which Nonconformist, Lebanese and Chinese entrepreneurs clustered separately, but within the same small precinct. The influence within Little Lon of Chinese cabinetmakers between about 1905 and 1925, both industrially and residentially, was strong indeed. Preceding the Chinese was a cluster of Lebanese traders (some later becoming clothing manufacturers) and, throughout the century the Nonconformist industrialists consolidated their respective positions. Research questions concerning their motivation and effectiveness have been asked of each entrepreneur. The impact of religion has been noted. My research has produced a set of commercial histories of relatively long-term small enterprises, located within a defined city area. The development of each firm has been monitored by comparison with its respective industry as a whole
Culture and infrastructure in Kamloops: Implications for the small cities initiative for Atlantic Canada
No full textOne key factor that contributed to starting the Kamloops initiative was the very recognition of it as a small city, and as noted, one that is relatively isolated. Small cities in Atlantic Canada may not be as remote geographically but there are several of them - St. John's, Moncton, Saint John, and to a lesser degree, in terms of population, Fredericton, Sydney and Charlottetown. That these cities have remained small, i.e. not over 150,000 and not become mid-size, such as Halifax, may be regarded as a lack of economic progress. Yet smallness is increasingly becoming a virtue. As we are discovering in Kamloops, this kind of scale has a better chance at translating into more livability, and especially as large cities continue to expand and are beset by more sprawl.Not peer reviewedResearch articleCommunity-University Research Alliances (CURA
Culture and Infrastructure in Kamloops: Implications for the Small Cities Initiative for Atlantic Canada
No full textOne key factor that contributed to starting the Kamloops initiative was the very recognition of it as a small city, and as noted, one that is relatively isolated. Small cities in Atlantic Canada may not be as remote geographically but there are several of them - St. John's, Moncton, Saint John, and to a lesser degree, in terms of population, Fredericton, Sydney and Charlottetown. That these cities have remained small, i.e. not over 150,000 and not become mid-size, such as Halifax, may be regarded as a lack of economic progress. Yet smallness is increasingly becoming a virtue. As we are discovering in Kamloops, this kind of scale has a better chance at translating into more livability, and especially as large cities continue to expand and are beset by more sprawl.Not peer reviewedResearch articleCommunity-University Research Alliances (CURA
Session T1A Work-in-Progress – Using Information Technology to Author, Administer, and Evaluate Performance-Based Assessments
No full textAbstract- Performance-based assessment (PBA) require students to construct responses in an “authentic ” problemsolving context. However, PBAs are traditionally labor intensive to create, administer, and score. We are extending previous work using information technology (IT) to author, create, and deliver PBAs by incorporating this functionality into an existing open-source learning management system (LON-CAPA.) The LON-CAPA system permits the delivery of individualized PBAs to the students ’ desktops, where they use other computer software to create files (e.g., spreadsheets, word-processing files, etc.) as solutions to the PBA and electronically submit those files to the system. The system then provides Teaching Assistants with the students ’ files and the individualized scoring rubrics used to assess each student’s performance. This hybrid use of IT permits the use of complex, authentic tasks that cannot be evaluated by a computer, by providing a cost-effective means to leverage TA resources
A moralidade do direito como condição de liberdade em Lon Fuller
No full textO presente trabalho tem como finalidade procurar demonstrar que a moralidade do Direito pode favorecer a liberdade, e, consequentemente, a comunicação social, a partir da proposta de Lon Fuller. Para tal, optamos primeiramente, por dá-lo a conhecer, através de sua biografia e escritos, pois, além de tratar-se de um autor ainda pouco divulgado em nosso país, esse passo pareceu-nos facilitar a compreensão de sua teoria. Em seguida, definimos antropologicamente os conceitos de moralidade e liberdade a partir do realismo jurídico, que entendemos servir de base filosófica para o autor. Após delinear sua postura com relação ao Direito, entramos no cerne da questão a ser confirmada a partir de seus escritos: se há um vínculo entre moralidade e Direito; se promovê-lo favorece a liberdade ou a limita, e se contribui efetivamente para a ordenação social fundamentada na comunicação, a partir de relações livres. Por fim, concluimos com uma breve avaliação crítica e uma sugestão prática para a formação dos estudantes de Direito, de forma a tornar efetiva sua teoria, já que esta sempre foi uma preocupação majoritária para o autor.The present work has the purpose of demonstrating that the morality of Law can favour freedom, and, consequently, the social communication, in the studies of Lon Fuller. For this target, we opted to show him off through a brief biography and writings, because this step seemed to us a way of making his comprehension easier, and also because the author is still not much known in our country. Following, we bring up the antropological concepts of morality and freedom from the juridical realism, for it seems to be the author ́s philosophical basis. After outlining his concept of Law, we get to the central point of the question to be confirmed through his writings: if there is any link between morality and Law; if promoting this link help freedom or constraint it, and if it really contributes to a social order based on communication, departing from free relations. Ending, we conclude with a brief critical valuation and a practical suggestion for the education of Law’s students, which has always been a major concern for the author
Low-technology cooling box for storage of malaria RDTs and other medical supplies in remote areas
No full textAbstract Background With the increase in use of point-of-care diagnostic tests for malaria and other diseases comes the necessity of storing the diagnostic kits and the drugs required for subsequent management, in remote areas, where temperatures are high and electricity supply is unreliable or unavailable. Methods To address the lack of temperature-controlled storage during the introduction of community-based malaria management in Cambodia, the Cambodian National Centre for Parasitology, Entomology and Malaria Control (CNM) developed prototype evaporative cooling boxes (Cambodian Cooler Boxes - CCBs) for storage of perishable medical commodities in remote clinics. The performance of these CCBs for maintaining suitable storage temperatures was evaluated over two phases in 2005 and 2006-7, comparing conditions in CCBs using water as designed, CCBs with no water for evaporation, and ambient storage room temperatures. Temperature and humidity was monitored, together with the capacity of the RDTs recommended for storage between 2 to 30 degree Celsius to detect low-density malaria parasite samples after storage under these conditions. Results Significant differences were recorded between the proportion of temperatures within the recommended RDT storage conditions in the CCBs with water and the temperatures in the storage room (p Discussion and Conclusions The CCB was an effective tool for storage of RDTs at optimal conditions, and extended the effective life-span of the tests. The concept of evaporative cooling has potential to greatly enhance access to perishable diagnostics and medicines in remote communities, as it allows prolonged storage at low cost using locally-available materials, in the absence of electricity.</p
Evolving Biologically Inspired Classifiers
No full textThis thesis argues that natural complex systems can provide an inspiring example for creating software which incorporates emergent, self-organizing and adaptive properties. The advantages of complex sys- tems are their natural resilience, redundancy and adaptivity. A generalization of neural networks and boolean networks called computational networks is presented as a model for complex systems. It is argued that this model satisfies the required properties for modeling complex systems. Furthermore, it is asserted that a computational network, being a network of mathematical functions, is appropriate for solving classification problems. For the design of computational networks an evolutionary design algorithm is constructed. Additionally, four extensions of this algorithm are presented. Each extension is inspired by natural evolution and theories from the evolutionary computing literature. An impor- tant component is a novel generative representation which can reuse substructures of computational networks. Experiments with this component have shown that it facilitates a higher level of complexity in the solution space, improving the computational network performance for more complex problems. Other components steer the evolutionary process towards a desired solution, either by introducing spe- cial stages during evolution, or by smoothing the fitness landscape. The experiments show that complex systems can be evolutionary designed to act as a classifier. The resulting computational network has a better performance on the Iris dataset compared to every classifier in the Weka classifier collection. Furthermore, an experiment was conducted using the TIMIT read speech dataset, the classifier was evo- lutionary designed using only 13 MFCC features, and a very small train set. Although the performance is not good enough to be of any practical use, the results are adequate given the limitations of the train data.Man-Machine InteractionDepartment of MediamaticsElectrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Scienc
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