3,169 research outputs found
Porter Bagley (Data Science Student and Youtuber) on Data Literacy
No full textDid you know Data Scientist was named the Sexiest Job of the 21st Century by a 2012 Harvard Business Review article? As the author of our most downloaded article for Winter 2020, Porter Bagley—a BYU Senior in the Applied and Computational Math program—shares his experience in the hot field of data science. Join Porter and Andrea Cabrera in their dynamic discussion about data science, followed by Porter\u27s experience with Working with Lemons —a popular YouTube Channel with over 3 Million subscribers that brings Disney, Star Wars, and Broadway favorites to life
Morrill Hall
No full textOverall view, south end and facade facing Arts Quad; Morrill Hall was named after Sen. Justin Morrill of Vermont, author of the Land Grant Act of 1862. It was opened on October 7, 1868 and cost $70,111. The Second Empire French structure was divided into three sections to represent the three original functions of the building. The center section contained classrooms, a library, and a large auditorium, while the north section contained student residences arranged in suites and the south side professors' and the President's offices. An interesting historical note is that these three sections were not interconnected within the building itself until much later, so movement from section to section required going outside of the building. The building was originally named South University Building, and is made of bluestone quarried from the base of Libe Slope. Along with White Hall and McGraw Hall, it reveals the original plan to have the University face the valley and western slopes of Ithaca. Cyrus Kinne Porter (1828-January 30, 1910) was a prominent architect in Buffalo, New York. In 1865 Porter moved to Buffalo, entering into partnership with H. M. Wilcox as Wilcox & Porter. Source: Cornell University [website]; http://www.cornell.edu/ (accessed 4/21/2011
[Letter] Sunday Morning, Weymouth Street [to] Chinnery[?], Manchester Square / Jane Porter.
No full textPorter thanks the recipient for her letter and states that nothing but extreme illness could have kept her from responding "and even now I write from my Bed. I am sufficiently better not to be confined within it, but I am not strong enough to remain off it." She hopes to be able to receive her visitor as her illness is nothing to alarm: a combination of nervousness and rheumatism, "both of which torments wreaked their utmost malice on my unhappy head." Porter wishes her friend a pleasant two-month stay on the Continent and asks about her traveling companions. She promises to present her friend to her brother upon his return from his travels in 18 months and makes some observations on society and human nature. Porter is remembered as the author of novels like _Thaddeus of Warsaw _ (1803) and _The Scottish Chiefs_ (1804) about William Wallace. The brother referred to here may be Robert Ker Porter, the painter, to whom Jane was devoted
Finding Aid to the Bern Porter Collection of Contemporary Letters
No full textBern Porter (1911–2004) was an artist, writer, philosopher, and scientist who was involved in the development of the cathode ray tube, the Saturn V rocket, and the Manhattan Project, which he renounced upon learning of the bombing of Hiroshima. Also a pioneer in the arts, he is known for his landmark work as an author and publisher. He was an early practitioner of mail art and found and performance poetry and experimented with typography, sculpture, photography, artists’ books, and collage throughout his life. Porter lived and worked in New Jersey, New York, Tennessee, California, Guam, Alabama, and Tasmania. He finally settled in his native Maine, where he ran for governor and established the Institute for Advanced Thinking. In 1979, Porter was given a major retrospective at Franklin Furnace in New York City, and a show of Porter’s work in the The Museum of Modern Art Library was shown at MoMA in 2010. - Mark Melnicove, 2010
Unpublished materials (approx. 70 linear feet) include correspondence between Porter and his contemporaries, scrapbooks and other works “of, by or about” Porter, and manuscripts given to him. There is a small amount of material related to Porter\u27s childhood in Houlton, Maine
Gene Stratton Porter
No full textIn 1886, author, naturalist and photographer, Geneva Grace Stratton, married Charles D. Porter, a druggist and banker from Geneva. She wrote several popular novels including Freckles, A Girl of the Limberlost, Laddie, and A Daughter of the Land
Profile of Portland resident Jessica Porter, author of The Hip Chicks Guide to
No full textProfile of Portland resident Jessica Porter, author of The Hip Chicks Guide to Macrobiotics, a light-hearted guide to a macrobiotic diet and lifestyle. Porter, who is co-host of the WMPG radio show Cinema Hits and Misses, as well as an actress and stand-up comic, reads at Longfellow Books in Portland, on Dec. 16
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
Vizling: Accessibility through visual language
No full textPresented to the 19th Annual Symposium on Graduate Research and Scholarly Projects (GRASP) held at the Rhatigan Student Center, Wichita State University, April 14, 2023.Research completed in the Department of English, Fairmount College of College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.Vizling is an app created by Darren DeFrain and Aaron Rodriguez, meant to make comics and graphic novels accessible to individuals who are blind and low-vision. This is accomplished via haptic feedback and audio playback, with plans to hire more voice actors as content is added. Vizling uses Comic Book Markup Language (CBML), a Text-Encoded Initiative (TEI)-based XML vocabulary and is a means for encoding graphic narratives. We use CBML to annotate the graphic narrative, dialogue, bibliographic information, character details, and much more in a text-based form. The software distinguishes between dialogue, narration, scene description, etcetera and utilizes an organization code to decipher which content to assess as per user input. We have been working on translating graphic narratives into three different styles: global narrative mode, panel-to-panel mode, and free exploration mode. We've also been working with different aspects of translation, including domesticating (in which some aspects are changed for fluidity) and foreignizing (aspects remain the same, but the distance between the audience and author is more apparent). Making these translation decisions requires much thought as to the goal of our translations. The rise of new technology presents new opportunities for the humanities as a whole. Vizling will have options for comic creators to add their own work into the software, adding the potential for a larger collection of works. Furthermore, the entire collection will be available for free to readers. Accessibility should be free, and Vizling uses all the resources at its disposal to make that happen.Graduate School, Academic Affairs, University Librarie
Travels in Georgia, Persia, Armenia, Ancient Babylonia, etc during the years 1817, 1818, 1819, and 1820. By sir Robert Ker Porter with numerous engravings of portraits costumes, antiquities, etc in two volumes. London printed for Longman, Hurst, Orme and
No full textPreface.Appendix.Dedication: by the author to king George the fourthContent description: Detailed contentsIllustration: 60 (Maps ,Views ,portraits ,varia ,)Pagination: PP24+720PVolumes: 2Text Genre:ProseIllustration: 60 (χάρτες ,τοπία ,πορτραίτα ,άλλα θέματα ,
Place and Native American Indian history and culture
No full textReview«Place remains a native concept rich with political meaning for North American culture as a whole, and for the world as a whole. This volume undertakes a broad and deep exploration of what the sense of place has meant in specific Indian cultures, in the works of particular native artists, and in the religious outlook that binds North American indigenous cultures inwardly and connects them to a place in the natural landscape in the outward forms of tribal life.» (From the foreword by Alan Trachtenberg)«It is not hard to feel, think, and say that Indigenous land, culture, and community are the foremost elements in the life of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas. The past and future depend upon those elements, and nothing can be sustained without the acceptance of these elements as foremost. Literature as the practical and rhetorical expression of land, culture, and community therefore is essential in order to fully understand the cultural existence of the Indigenous world of the Americas. Because Indigenous literature is understood to be derived from Indigenous oral tradition, at times it may seem removed from the cultural life of Indigenous American people. But it is not removed. Many Indigenous authors of poetry, fiction, plays, essays, etc. are fluent in today’s mass languages including English, Spanish, and French which are also obviously colonial languages, and so they publish their works in such languages. This does not mean they are speaking from positions of only being colonized subjects necessarily but it does mean they are recognizing the efficacy of such languages – and they presume it is the best way to reach the largest public audience. And it is also the way they express their sovereignty as Indigenous cultural beings who are cognizant of their role in leading the world to a better place and time. Indigenous literature concerned with land, culture, and community of the Indigenous Americas is the clearest direction toward a better place and time.» (Simon J. Ortiz, July 2006)About the AuthorThe Editor: Joy Porter is Associate Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities and lecturer on American and Native American history and literature within the Department of American Studies at the University of Wales, Swansea, U.K. She is the author of To Be Indian: The Life of Seneca-Iroquois Arthur Caswell Parker, 1881-1955 and co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to Native American Literature
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