523 research outputs found
An Analysis of Parents’ Descriptions of Feeding Strategies Used for Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder
No full textAbstract
Date Presented 3/30/2017
Parent descriptions of feeding strategies that have worked for children with autism spectrum disorder are analyzed. Separating strategies learned on their own from strategies learned from therapists provides insight into the need to take an occupational approach to addressing feeding concerns.
Primary Author and Speaker: Aaron Bonsall
Additional Author and Speaker: Brittney Stevenson
Contributing Author: Matthew Thullen</jats:p
Knowledge norms: assertion, action, and belief
No full textOver the last decade epistemology has seen an explosion of interest in the idea that knowledge provides a normative constraint on actions or mental state (such as belief). Typically, appeal is made to a norm or rule of permission such that knowledge is required, as a necessary condition, for permissibly acting or being in that state: one must act, or be in that state, only if one knows a relevantly specified proposition. The three most prominent proposals have been that knowledge is the norm of assertion, the norm of action generally, and the norm of belief. Chapters 1, 2, and 4 center on assertion: chapter 1 considers the literature for and against the Knowledge Account of Assertion (KAA), on which one may assert that p only if one knows that p. I argue for it and defend it against prominent objections. Chapter 2 examines how we should understand the nature of KAA’s knowledge-norm by contrasting the early "descriptivist" view of G.E. Moore and Peter Unger with the recent "prescriptivist" and constitutive view of Timothy Williamson. Chapter 4 considers the assertability conditions for epistemic modals such as “might” and “possible.” Recently some philosophers have argued that knowledge normatively governs actions more generally: that is, that one may act on a proposition p only if one knows that p. I take up this view in Chapter 3, alongside a related and interesting "action-rule" for assertion. Finally, knowledge as a norm of belief has been lately endorsed by several prominent philosophers; on most formulations of the view, one may believe that p only if one knows that p. I argue against (most versions of) this view in Chapters 5 and 6.Ph. D.Includes bibliographical referencesIncludes vitaby Matthew Aaron Bento
the churches of lalibela: erosion and encrustation as transformative musical processes
No full textThis thesis outlines a new compositional grammar for my recent compositional practice as demonstrated by the collection of original musical work supplied in the accompanying folio of compositions, itself collectively titled the churches of lalibela. The grammar here outlined and explored presents developments in compositional procedure resulting from re-considering acts of musical transformation in terms of erosion and encrustation. Within the terminologies of this thesis, erosion and encrustation are understood as classes of compositional action (applied to musical materials) defined by operations of erasure/removal and addition/accrual respectively. Using examples from the visual arts as a mechanism for discussion, the thesis develops a wider conceptual understanding of these terms, allowing them to be considered no
longer as opposites but as intertwined mechanisms mutually achieving a state of material distortion. A compositional scenario is thus derived in which the sonic surface of a given instance of a composition can be understood as being comprised of the debris resulting from such processes. To develop an understanding of this scenario, the thesis further explores ideas concerning ambiguity of material definition and the role such ambiguity can play in relation to material comparison within the experience of a musical discourse. As such, the grammar here derived can be said to exposit a preoccupation with comparison of material debris of different classes and/or degrees of distortion within the listening experience. The thesis also explores the nature and function of material consistency with regard to definition, illustrating the difference between two terms with a notion of consistency achieved through inconsistency
Characterization of the roles of Xrn1p in small-RNA-mediated gene-silencing pathways
No full textThis electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.Thesis: Ph. D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Biology, 2019Cataloged from student-submitted PDF version of thesis. Vita.Includes bibliographical references.RNA interference (RNAi) is a small-RNA-mediated gene-silencing pathway that is involved in viral defense, transposon silencing, heterochromatin formation, and post-transcriptional gene silencing. Most RNAi pathways are initiated by long, dsRNA which is processed by Dicer into small interfering RNAs (siRNAs). These siRNAs are then loaded into an effector protein Argonaute forming the RNA-induced silencing complex (RISC). RISC is then able to silence its target RNAs in a variety of fashions, including by slicing them. RNAi is ubiquitous in eukaryotes with pathways found in plants, animals and fungi, suggesting its early origins and importance. Despite the usefulness of this pathway as a mechanism of genomic defense, the model budding yeast species, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, does not possess an RNAi pathway. Although S. cerevisiae does not possess an RNAi pathway, several related budding yeast species do, including Naumovozyma castellii and Vanderwaltozyma polyspora.Each of these species possesses orthologs of Dicer and Argonaute and has a population of 21-23-nt siRNAs that map to repetitive regions of the genome, including Ty transposable elements and Y' subtelomeric repeats. Disrupting either Dicer or Argonaute causes the loss of these small RNA populations. Additionally, RNAi in N. castellii can silence an exogenous GFP gene. Over-expressing Dicer and Argonaute in S. cerevisiae restores a functioning RNAi pathway that can silence endogenous transposable elements and an exogenous GFP gene. To identify other factors that act in the budding-yeast silencing pathway, we performed an unbiased genetic selection in N. castellii. This selection identified Xrn1p, the cytoplasmic 5'-to- 3' exoribonuclease, as a cofactor of RNAi in budding yeast. Deletion of XRN1 impaired gene silencing in N. castellii and this impaired silencing was the result of multiple functions of Xrn1p.These functions include affecting the amount of different siRNA species in the cell, influencing the efficiency of loading these siRNAs into Argonaute, degradation of cleaved passenger strand, and degradation of cleaved target RNA. XRN1 has also been implicated in miRNA-mediated silencing in human cells. We found that disrupting XRN1 in a human cell line had no effect on the levels of mature miRNAs or their passenger strands but did de-repress miRNA targets, suggesting that in the miRNA pathway, XRN1 functions to degrade target mRNAs.by Matthew Aaron Getz.Ph. D.Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Biolog
The Science of Home Automation
No full textThesis (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Washington State UniversitySmart home technologies and the concept of home automation have become more popular in recent years. This popularity has been accompanied by social acceptance of passive sensors installed throughout the home. The subsequent increase in smart homes facilitates the creation of home automation strategies. We believe that home automation strategies can be generated intelligently by utilizing smart home sensors and activity learning.
In this dissertation, we hypothesize that home automation can benefit from activity awareness. To test this, we develop our activity-aware smart automation system, CARL (CASAS Activity-aware Resource Learning). CARL learns the associations between activities and device usage from historical data and utilizes the activity-aware capabilities to control the devices. To help validate CARL we deploy and test three different versions of the automation system in a real-world smart environment.
To provide a foundation of activity learning, we integrate existing activity recognition and activity forecasting into CARL home automation. We also explore two alternatives to using human-labeled data to train the activity learning models. The first unsupervised method is Activity Detection, and the second is a modified DBSCAN algorithm that utilizes Dynamic Time Warping (DTW) as a distance metric. We compare the performance of activity learning with human-defined labels and with automatically-discovered activity categories.
To provide evidence in support of our hypothesis, we evaluate CARL automation in a smart home testbed. Our results indicate that home automation can be boosted through activity awareness. We also find that the resulting automation has a high degree of usability and comfort for the smart home resident.Washington State University, Computer Scienc
Fugue Spring 2002 (No. 23)
No full textLetter from the Editor 6
Letter from the Prose Editor 8
Letter from the Poetry Editor 9
Andrea Dmgay
Go Sailing Delete Us 11
Fallen 12
Erica Olsen
Eye ExanJ 20
Oliver Rice
On the ExpHcation of Maps 21
Darren Kerr
Le voyage dans la June 22
Richard Bentley
Omon Variallon 49
Victoria Tolbert
She 50
Amy Elenor Parker - First Place Poem
Thomas Edison Films the Electrocullon of an
Elephant 52
Gina Tabasso
My Mother 73
Christian Horlick
Alief 74
Pamela Yenser- Third Place Poem
On the Road with Howdy Doody 75
Ellen Wheale
Letter to my Younger Self 76
E.M. Schorb
The Crow and the Scarecrow 85
Margaret Walther
Mask of the Owl 86 Elizabeth B. Thomas
UndeTwater 90
Ander Monson - Second Place Poem
Everything Has Two Uses 91
Terrance Hayes
A Poem !Or WJsdom 104
Serenade117
Greg
Seagle
Dead Fathers 13
Suzy Spraker
The Cook and the Cashier39
Ander Monson - First Place Story
Other Electricities 60
Sean Aden Lovelace
Crow Hunting 87
Nathan Oates - Second Place Story
On the Cutting Board 92
Sarah Dickerson
The Clock Would Drop 23
Tora Triolo
The Small Details ofThings 77
Terrance Hayes
More Tbeones of the Duende106
John Bennett
Untitled No.1 10
Untitled No.2 118
Contributors' Notes 119 Spring 2002, VoL. 23
Managing Editor
Scott McEachern
Prose Editor
Matthew Vadnais
Poetry Editor
Mary Ann Hudson
Staff
Paul Cockeram
jennifer Ilirt
Taya Noland
Jessamyn Birrer/Schnakenberg
Melissa Montgomery
Darlene Jones
Aaron Stanton
Stephanie Lenox
Ryan Myers
Kristin Rigsby
Layout
Sarah Wichlacz
Cover Design
Sarah Wichlacz
Faculty Advisor
Ron McFarlan
Fugue -Fall 2001 (No. 22)
No full textLetter from the Editor 6
Mary Winters
I'm Saying This Now So I Won't Be Tempted 8
JefferyBahr
Raku 22
Meg Files
W1ute 23
Dianna Henning
Under Construction 31
Kathleen McGookey
Glamorous Joan 34
Georgia Tiffany
Seven Poems for HoUy 35
Rob Cook
Buried Zirpoli 86
Robert Wrigley
weal Myth of a Kiss 96
Sally Proutz
Ba1ren Shed 106
Barbara
Stewart
.Landrover 10
Geary Danihy
Beer Stories 24
j ames Grinwis
Blowhole 32
Christine Farnan
The Searchers 40 Brad Gottschalk
.Eating the .Egg 77
David Curry
Let Some Time Go By 87
Lynn Sadler
Cuna Sundays 96
Charles
Baxter
~'You're Really Something"" Inflection and the
Breath of Lik 54
Brian Charles Clark
Fiction Eyes: Baxter's Burning Down the House 72
Richard Kostelanctz
Wordship 108
Contributors' Notes 110 FALL 2001, VOL. 22
Manag1i1g Editor
Scott McEachern
Prose Editor
Mattl1ew Vadnais
Poetry Ed1ior
Mary Ann Hudson
Stair
Paul Cockerarn
Jennifer Ilirl
Taya Noland
Jessan1yn Birrer
Melissa Montgomery
Molly Drumps
Darlene Jones
Aaron Stanton
Layout
Sarah Wichlacz
Cover Design
Sarah Wichlacz
Faculty Advisor
Ron McFarlan
Climate change in Malawi: Household level impacts and adaptations
No full textUsing three waves of national representative household level panel data from Malawi, we estimate a structural model to study how households make production decisions in response to climate change. In doing so, we examine two forms of adaptation: 1) adopting improved maize varieties and 2) adjusting input and output quantities. Our results indicate that climate change induces both forms of adaptation, though only the second appears relevant in determining climate change impacts. Accounting for these expected adjustments in input and output mix, we estimate that net household income increases 0.86% for a 1% increase in the historical variability of total growing season precipitation, while income decreases by 2.09% for every 1% increase in the historical variability of monthly precipitation within the growing season. The impacts associated with higher rainfall variability are more favorable for households with greater levels of asset ownership. Specifically, we observe that the extent to which households diversify income sources in response to intra-seasonal rainfall variability depends on asset ownership, suggesting that assets enhance a household\u27s capacity for adaptation to climate change
Class of 2011, Indiana University Maurer School of Law
No full textPictured: Aaron Aft, Felipe Alexandre, Brandon Almas, Nanafrema Ananeh-Firempong, Jonathan Armiger, Caridad Austin, Jessica Baumi, Whitney Beck, Jessica Bergman, Martine Bernard, Rebecca Billick, Michelle Bird, Kyle Borkenhagen, Brielle Bovee, Amanda Brewster, Chenese Brown, Gregory Buhl, Jamie Burnett, Sarah Caldwell, Kristen Cameron, Thomas Cameron, Michael Carlston, Shaina Carmichael, Kyle Cassidy, Richard Chasney, Christina Clark, Kelli Colbert, Katelyn Conroy, Aileen Cook, Thomas Cook, Sean Crotty, Joseph Dages, Matthew Day, Allison Diercks, Lauren Dimmitt, Katie Dittelberger, Jalil Dozier, Amanda Elizondo, Jennifer Ellis, Katherine Erbeznik, Jessica Farley, Kathryne Feary, Greg Fick, Alison Finkelmeier, Margaret Flores, Timothy Flowers, Elizabeth Fox, John Frenk, Kimberly Furrer, Evelyn Gentry, Nathan George, John Georgievski,Sean Giambattista, Lisa Gibson, Amanda Glowacki,Kevin Grande, Kendal Gulbrandsen, Chip Habegger, Jana Hageman, Shane Hageman, Stephen Harper, Alec Hass, Jason Henderson, Kathryn Hiddle, Christopher Edwin Hopkins-Gillispie, Benjamin Hugon, Jesse James, Julie Jansen, Matthew Jenner, Amy Jensen, Kara Jensen, Daniel Johns, Lydia Johns, Jacob Johnson, Benjamin Jones, Randall Jones, Joseph Kassab, Caitlin Kerr, David Kim, Larissa Koshatka, Katherine LaBeau, Kurt Laird, Adebola Lamikanra, Krystal Lechner, Xinran Li, Winston Lin, Lance Lindeen, Brian Lohnes, Jonathan Long, Jesse Lothamer, Lacee Louderback, Austin Lumbard, Mehek Manawalia, Anthony Marek, Andrei Marks, Erin McAdams, Alison McCormick, Colin McCready, Jonathan McPike, Misty Mercer, Jessica Meredith, Ashley Michael, Jason Mizzell, Yoni Moise, Michael Morris, Megal Mullett, Christopher Nevels, Ryan Nicholson, Christopher Nusbaum, David Oberly, Ann O\u27Connor, Kevin O\u27Neill, Benjamin Parmet, Andrew Pendexter, Ryann Perlinski, Katherine Peterson, Matthew Petra, Andrew Pittman, Alexander Platte, Jonathan Postema, Gregory Pottorff, Amy Price, Zachary Raibley, Timothy Renfro, Joshua Robare, Justin Roddye, David Rosenberg, Sarah Ruhlen, Samantha Salisbury, Alicia Sanders, Melissa Sauer, Ashley Schneider, David Schwarz, Jesal Shah, Megan Shipley, Catherine Siebecker, Alexander Simpson, Conor Slocum, Deirdre Lynch Smith, Jessica Smith, Patrick Smith, Jessica Sosa, Aaron Spolarich, Elizabeth Steele, Abbey Stamler, Christopher Stoker, Gregory Sturm, Andrew Tan, Michelle Tanyhill, Macey Thompson, Gregory Touney, Christopher Lloyd Tucker, Gina Venturelli, Jason Wallace, Zhuhao Wang, Allison Weimer, Rachel Wetzel, Alanna Whybrew, Luke Williams, Seth Williams, Therese Williams, Ingrid Winston, Sarah Yusuf, Jing Zhang, and Christine Zook.
Not pictured:
Amir Raza Ali, Jacob Atz, Elizabeth Ann Baldwin,Jeffrey Block, Syed Bokhari, Jessica Boyd, Daniel Bradley, Allison Cardinal, Robert Clark, Noah Ellenberg, Lori Anne Johnston, Kiersten Ann Kamman, Jessica Ann Kruse, Douglas Line, Rodan Luo, Lauren Outlaw, Jonathan Powers, Leslie Prill, Noah Priluck, Joshua Radicke, Hudson Thomas Rowland, Matthew Ruher, Stephen Schwartz, Renee Skeeta, Mia So, Abbey Rae Stemler, Andrew Williams, and Noah Williams.
The Recognition Ceremony Program for the Class of 2011 can be found here.https://www.repository.law.indiana.edu/composite/1035/thumbnail.jp
Class of 2011, Indiana University Maurer School of Law
No full textPictured: Aaron Aft, Felipe Alexandre, Brandon Almas, Nanafrema Ananeh-Firempong, Jonathan Armiger, Caridad Austin, Jessica Baumi, Whitney Beck, Jessica Bergman, Martine Bernard, Rebecca Billick, Michelle Bird, Kyle Borkenhagen, Brielle Bovee, Amanda Brewster, Chenese Brown, Gregory Buhl, Jamie Burnett, Sarah Caldwell, Kristen Cameron, Thomas Cameron, Michael Carlston, Shaina Carmichael, Kyle Cassidy, Richard Chasney, Christina Clark, Kelli Colbert, Katelyn Conroy, Aileen Cook, Thomas Cook, Sean Crotty, Joseph Dages, Matthew Day, Allison Diercks, Lauren Dimmitt, Katie Dittelberger, Jalil Dozier, Amanda Elizondo, Jennifer Ellis, Katherine Erbeznik, Jessica Farley, Kathryne Feary, Greg Fick, Alison Finkelmeier, Margaret Flores, Timothy Flowers, Elizabeth Fox, John Frenk, Kimberly Furrer, Evelyn Gentry, Nathan George, John Georgievski,Sean Giambattista, Lisa Gibson, Amanda Glowacki,Kevin Grande, Kendal Gulbrandsen, Chip Habegger, Jana Hageman, Shane Hageman, Stephen Harper, Alec Hass, Jason Henderson, Kathryn Hiddle, Christopher Edwin Hopkins-Gillispie, Benjamin Hugon, Jesse James, Julie Jansen, Matthew Jenner, Amy Jensen, Kara Jensen, Daniel Johns, Lydia Johns, Jacob Johnson, Benjamin Jones, Randall Jones, Joseph Kassab, Caitlin Kerr, David Kim, Larissa Koshatka, Katherine LaBeau, Kurt Laird, Adebola Lamikanra, Krystal Lechner, Xinran Li, Winston Lin, Lance Lindeen, Brian Lohnes, Jonathan Long, Jesse Lothamer, Lacee Louderback, Austin Lumbard, Mehek Manawalia, Anthony Marek, Andrei Marks, Erin McAdams, Alison McCormick, Colin McCready, Jonathan McPike, Misty Mercer, Jessica Meredith, Ashley Michael, Jason Mizzell, Yoni Moise, Michael Morris, Megal Mullett, Christopher Nevels, Ryan Nicholson, Christopher Nusbaum, David Oberly, Ann O\u27Connor, Kevin O\u27Neill, Benjamin Parmet, Andrew Pendexter, Ryann Perlinski, Katherine Peterson, Matthew Petra, Andrew Pittman, Alexander Platte, Jonathan Postema, Gregory Pottorff, Amy Price, Zachary Raibley, Timothy Renfro, Joshua Robare, Justin Roddye, David Rosenberg, Sarah Ruhlen, Samantha Salisbury, Alicia Sanders, Melissa Sauer, Ashley Schneider, David Schwarz, Jesal Shah, Megan Shipley, Catherine Siebecker, Alexander Simpson, Conor Slocum, Deirdre Lynch Smith, Jessica Smith, Patrick Smith, Jessica Sosa, Aaron Spolarich, Elizabeth Steele, Abbey Stamler, Christopher Stoker, Gregory Sturm, Andrew Tan, Michelle Tanyhill, Macey Thompson, Gregory Touney, Christopher Lloyd Tucker, Gina Venturelli, Jason Wallace, Zhuhao Wang, Allison Weimer, Rachel Wetzel, Alanna Whybrew, Luke Williams, Seth Williams, Therese Williams, Ingrid Winston, Sarah Yusuf, Jing Zhang, and Christine Zook.
Not pictured:
Amir Raza Ali, Jacob Atz, Elizabeth Ann Baldwin,Jeffrey Block, Syed Bokhari, Jessica Boyd, Daniel Bradley, Allison Cardinal, Robert Clark, Noah Ellenberg, Lori Anne Johnston, Kiersten Ann Kamman, Jessica Ann Kruse, Douglas Line, Rodan Luo, Lauren Outlaw, Jonathan Powers, Leslie Prill, Noah Priluck, Joshua Radicke, Hudson Thomas Rowland, Matthew Ruher, Stephen Schwartz, Renee Skeeta, Mia So, Abbey Rae Stemler, Andrew Williams, and Noah Williams.
The Recognition Ceremony Program for the Class of 2011 can be found here.https://www.repository.law.indiana.edu/composite/1035/thumbnail.jp
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