24 research outputs found
AHC interview with Hannah Kit Ellenbogen.
No full textSeptember 11, 2009Hannah Bettina Ellenbogen, née Kauders was born on Feb. 4, 1931 in Vienna, Austria. She went to the Protestant Elementary School in Vienna until March 1938. After Anschluss, her parents sent her and her siblings to Italy, to board with Notre Dame Sion in Trieste. Soon after the parents joined their children and the family left for Palestine. Upon receiving their affidavits they immigrated to the United States via Baghdad and Bombay. In the US she concluded her high school education and went to college, before setting on a career as an educator and consequently as a lawyer.Austrian Heritage Collectio
Frances and Gustave Kauders family collection 1829-2001 1925-1942
No full textThe Frances and Gustave Kauders family collection holds the papers of this couple, as well as of members of the Kauders family, and correspondence from the Schostal family. Topics found in the collection include the immigration of Frances (Franziska) and Gustave (Gustav) Kauders, some details of their early lives as expressed in family correspondence, and the failed emigration and subsequent deportation of members of the Schostal family. The collection includes family correspondence, official and educational documents, and correspondence with official agencies regarding immigration and restitution with related documentation.Franziska Schostal was born in Brünn (today Brno, Czech Republic) on November 20, 1904, the daughter of Otto Schostal and his wife Paula (also called Pauline, née Wildner). She had an older brother, Karl. Otto Schostal was proprietor of Schostal and Mendl, a banking and commission business.Gustav Kauders was born October 3, 1894 in Vienna to Siegmund Kauders and his wife Regine (née Schlesinger). Siegmund Kauders had founded a wine wholesale business in Vienna in 1868 and was an imperial councilor, as well as a recipient of the Order of Franz Joseph's Knight's Cross. After finishing his secondary education, Gustav Kauders studied at trade school and took 3 semesters of legal studies at the University of Vienna. With the permission of his father, he volunteered for the Austrian military in 1913 as an artillery officer on the Italian front and achieved the rank of Oberleutnant, with eight commendations. After the war he worked in his father's wine wholesale firm, responsible for the export and import of wine to other European countries, including frequent travel in this capacity.In 1921 Franziska Schostal married Gustav Kauders; they had three children, Heinz (later Henry), Georg (later George), and Hanna (later Hannah). In December 1938 they traveled to Italy, and by 1939 the family were living in Tel Aviv. After they received their affidavits for American visas they traveled to the United States via Baghdad and Bombay. By 1941 the family was living in the Forest Hills neighborhood of Queens, New York. Franziska and Gustav became American citizens in 1946; their names were Americanized to Frances and Gustave Kauders.Finding aid available onlineSee also the oral history interview with Hannak Kit Ellenbogen, AHC 4005.Processeddigitize
Audio signal processing in iOS for smart phone
No full textMany low-end speakers cannot produce good bass (low frequency) effect due to their physical size limitation and cost constraint. Simply equalizing low frequency audio components is usually undesirable because it may cause overload or damage to the speakers.
Virtual bass system is a psychoacoustic bass enhancement to produce a virtual bass into human auditory system and trick our brain to perceive the bass, which is physically absent. Currently, the theory and algorithm of this system is well studied.
The aim of this project is to allow the author to familiarize with the iOS system development kit, XODE and to implement the algorithm in a iOS application.Bachelor of Engineerin
Employee Involvement in Strategy Realization: Designing a tool to motivate employees for strategy realization by creating a win-win between the organization's objectives and employees' interest
No full textStrategy is used by organizations to adjust to emerging challenges and opportunities in the market environment. Due to a more rapidly changing market caused by globalization, strategy has become increasingly important. Organizations often struggle to implement strategy successfully caused by difficulties with the transition from the strategy formulation phase into the realization phase. Fully involving the employees in this phase appears to be challenging, they are often not properly informed or do not understand the strategy. The main objective of this thesis was to create a holistic and practical solution which improves the realization of strategy by motivating employees to contribute. The solution was designed to be usable by Strategiemakers (the client) as well as by organizations themselves. In order to design the solution, a theoretical research and empirical research were conducted to create an holistic understanding of the strategic process and triangulate insights. In literature three main phases of the strategic process were identified: Strategy forming – Guiding policies – Realization. These phases were specified by researching the strategic process of four highly varying organizations, which uncovered six challenges in the realization phase. From these challenges was decided to focus on the troublesome activity of triggering the employee to contribute to the strategy, since a solution for this lied in the reach of this master thesis.Insight into the perspective of the employee on the strategic realization phase provided knowledge on how to improve their motivation for strategy realization. Three parts of this perspective were researched: the influence of the organizational context the employee functions in, the employees' experience of the strategy and general motivators of the employee. With these insights, a holistic and practical solution was designed to facilitate organizations in triggering their employees to adventure in strategy realization. This solution is based on the idea of enhancing the employees' intrinsic motivation by creating a win-win situation for them and the organization. Through six steps the organization is facilitated in linking the personal development of the employee to the strategic objectives which addresses the intrinsic motivation of the employee. In the designed trajectory, the organization is aided in the specification of their strategy by determining which skills and capabilities are needed for the realization. Next, the employees are guided in the discovery of their desired skills and ambitions. Lastly, the canvas kit facilitates the process of making a connection between the employees' desires in development and the skills required for the realization of the strategy
Detection of condom lubricants and starches in the presence of biologicals by diffuse reflectance infrared fourier transform spectroscopy and polarized light microscopy
No full textThesis (M.S.F.S.) PLEASE NOTE: Boston University Libraries did not receive an Authorization To Manage form for this thesis or dissertation. It is therefore not openly accessible, though it may be available by request. If you are the author or principal advisor of this work and would like to request open access for it, please contact us at [email protected]. Thank you.Condoms have been used in sexual assaults as a means of preventing the transmission of biological fluids. Current sexual assault evidence collection kit processing protocols do not regularly take advantage of the information that can be gathered by examining residues left by condoms during intercourse. A biphasic liquid-liquid extraction technique was developed to separate polar and non-polar condom residues, which had been collected on cotton tipped swabs. This research involved the examination of twenty condom brands by Diffuse Reflectance Infrared Fourier Transform Spectroscopy. Five brands were selected to examine the consistency of this technique when the lubricants were exposed to body and storage temperature conditions for various times and in the presence of oral, vaginal, and blood samples. Additionally, starches collected from the condoms under each of the above conditions were examined. Although all lubricants were identifiable using this IR technique, the nonoxynol-9 (spermicide) containing samples produced spectra which were not identical to those produced by nonoxynol-9 standards. Although there was a decrease in the percent transmittance within IR spectra as the time between the collection and the extraction of the swabs increased, the condom residues of interest remained identifiable at all time points examined. The use of vaginal and oral swabs in the collection caused a negligible amount of background interference, which could be eliminated through spectral subtraction of the swab.2031-01-0
Repeated Narration of the Transition to College
No full textPre-Registration: The Repeated Narration of the Transition to College
January 30, 2021
Proposed Author Order:
Kate C. McLean
David Dunlop
Aubrie Patterson
Abby Peterson
Nathan Payne
Kody Tiemersma
Kit Turner
Hannah Wolin
Jennifer P. Lilgendahl
Background.
This paper utilizes a longitudinal dataset, with which we have a great deal of familiarity. We have analyzed portions of the dataset, and have engaged in extensive coding of the narratives. Thus, we detail here what we have done, and what we expect, but this is not a fully pre-registered paper, given our prior knowledge of the dataset. We also refer the reader to the overall OSF page for the project, and the grant proposal, which includes many of our hypotheses prior to data collection.
The present project is an exploratory examination of the repeated narration of the transition to college. We asked the same questions about the transition to college at 4 time points, one year apart.
We engaged in extensive bottom-up coding of these transition narratives, developing a codebook to capture the themes of the transition. The narratives of the transition were coded with the same codebook for each year, allowing us to examine change and stability in the themes and how the transition was narratives over time. We also solicited one specific memory of the transition at each time point, and we coded whether that specific event was repeated.
Primary Questions
RQ1: How is the transition to college narrated?
1. RQ1a: What are the main themes? (W2 only)
2. RQ1b: Do those themes differ by campus? (W2 only)
RQ2: How does this narration of the transition to college change over time?
1. RQ2a: What are the frequencies of those who remain stable for each code, those who increase for each code, those who decrease for each code, and those who show non-linear patterns for each code?
• We plan to do this for overall statement, connectedness, and autonomy. If we have decent sample sizes of the groups in #1 above, we will examine if they differ by mental health, marginalization
2. RQ2b: We plan to conduct qualitative analyses on cases that represent the varying trajectories identified above. We will update the pre-registration once we determine the frequencies and aa mechanism for identifying cases.
Codes and they will be used:
• Repeated Event – this will be categorical (at least one repetition v. no repetition)
• Mental Health - this will be categorical (brought up at least once v. never raised)
• Marginalized - this will be categorical (brought up at least once v. never raised)
• Overall Statement – those who have at least 3 waves coded will be categorized into groups of stable (positive or negative ), increasing, decreasing, non-linear
• Connectedness - those who have at least 3 waves coded will be categorized into groups of stable (positive or negative ), increasing, decreasing, non-linear
• Autonomy - those who have at least 3 waves coded will be categorized into groups of stable (positive or negative ), increasing, decreasing, non-linear
Analysis Plan
1. Descriptives and Preliminary Analyses:
1. Attrition analyses will be conducted on those who completed W2 v nothing further for: gender, campus, SES, conscientiousness, and W2 repeated narration codes
2. We will examine associations between autonomy, connectedness, overall statement, marginalization (linear), and mental health (linear) at each Wave.
2. Main Analyses:
1. RQ1:
1. Descriptives on all codes at W2 (RQ1a)
2. Chi-Square analyses on campus and for mental health and marginalization (RQ1b)
3. T-tests for campus for overall statement, connectedness, autonomy, and mental health and marginalization (if present) (RQ1b)
2. RQ2: Frequencies for groups of stable (positive or negative ), increasing, decreasing, non-linear for all codes, as long as cell sizes exceed 20
The Moral Self in Eighteenth-Century Poetry: A Study in the Poetics of Gray, Goldsmith, Cowper and Yearsley
No full textThis thesis explores one aspect of the ‘inward turn’ that is a significant feature of English poetry in the later eighteenth century. It claims that a representative group of poets construct an authorial ‘self’ in which the personal pronoun ‘I’ becomes an authoritative guarantor of social and moral judgements. It suggests that this move was a response to Lockeian ideas of personal identity and economic individualism which were subsequently refined and developed by theoreticians such as David Hume and Adam Smith such that the ‘self’ was conceived not merely as the site of the sensorium but also the site of moral judgement.
It identifies Thomas Gray as the initiator of this development, arguing that his earlier poems, and particularly his Elegy, were revolutionary in their attempts to accommodate Locke’s ideas as a means of combating both the fissiparous nature of the literary market place and the hegemonic practices of the aristocratic class. The reception of the Elegy led Gray to believe he had failed, but his construction of the ‘swain’s’ dual identity who both judges and is judged was to resonate in the persona of Goldsmith’s narrator of The Deserted Village. Goldsmith’s essentially conservative outlook meant that this poem was fractured and it was not until Cowper’s The Task that a fully coherent realisation of Gray’s poetics was achieved.
The thesis finally considers Ann Yearsley’s work, arguing that her construction of a ‘self’ as narrator and social judge was fraught with difficulty both because of her position as a female labouring-class poet, and because of the repressive response to the French Revolution. The concluding chapter draws together the implications of the preceding chapters
The clinical and biological consequences of different FLT3 mutations in patients with AML
No full textCharacterisation of pathogenic markers in acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) may benefit
patients through refinement of risk stratification, application of molecularly targeted
therapy and improved understanding of AML biology. Whilst the presence of an
internal tandem duplication (ITD) within the fms-like tyrosine kinase-3 (FLT3) gene is
known to predict adverse outcome in young adults with AML, the clinical significance
of activating mutations in the tyrosine kinase domain (TKD) of FLT3 is unclear.
Therefore, a highly sensitive and specific denaturing-HPLC technique was developed to
screen for FLT3/TKDs in 1339 young adult patients with AML. Mutations were
detected in 161 (12%) cases, with a high incidence in patients with inv(16) (24%;
P=.009), a group in which FLT3/ITDs are uncommon. Unlike FLT3/ITDs, FLT3/TKDs
were associated with a favourable long-term outcome with a 10-year overall survival
(OS) of 36% for FLT3 WT, 51% for FLT3/ITD-TKD+ and 24% for FLT3/ITD+TKDpatients
(P<.001). The relative FLT3/TKD mutant level was highly variable with the
favourable prognosis residing in those patients with greater than 25% mutant alleles
(10-year OS of 59%), possibly reflecting the stage at which the mutation is acquired.
The mechanism of FLT3 activation also influenced sensitivity to FLT3-inhibitor
induced cytotoxicity, with FLT3/ITD+ blast cells more sensitive than FLT3/TKD+ cells.
Following lentiviral transduction, FLT3/ITD-transduced 32Dcl3 and Ba/F3 cells
demonstrated more rapid proliferation than FLT3/TKD-transduced cells. In an NB4 cell
line model of ATRA-induced myeloid differentiation, the presence of a FLT3/ITD
inhibited differentiation unlike a FLT3/TKD mutation which increased differentiation.
Furthermore, FLT3/ITD-transduced CD34 positive haematopoietic stem cells showed
greater cytokine-free survival of colony forming cells than FLT3/TKD-transduced cells.
Signalling studies also revealed that a FLT3/ITD induced stronger STAT5 activation
than a FLT3/TKD mutation. This unexpected genotype-phenotype relationship is of
direct relevance to current clinical decision making in AML, and may also provide
insights into mechanisms of chemoresistance
Program design : ways of doing digital
No full textCette thèse interroge le design depuis les pratiques de programmation en montrant qu'elles ne se réduisent pas à une industrie des programmes, qui empêche les inventions de naître tout à fait. Pour cela, elle confronte au sein d'une lecture non linéaire cinq moments de l'histoire du numérique (depuis Vannevar Bush en 1945, dont une traduction inédite est proposée en appendice, jusqu'aux usages contemporains du site web GitHub) à quatre formulations conceptuelles issues d'un corpus philosophique. Le choix d'auteurs qui n'ont pas directement voué leurs réflexions au design (comme Jacques Derrida, Hannah Arendt ou Walter Benjamin) permet de déconstruire un certain nombre de discours entourant la réception des technologies dites nouvelles. Critiquant nombre d'usages faits des notions de conception et de projet et s'appuyant finalement sur Gilbert Simondon, cette thèse s'intéresse à ce qui n'est pas prévisible dans les programmes. Elle soutient cinq axes ou directions pour une recherche dans le champ concerné: décentrer, authentifier, appareiller, traduire et désarticuler. La plausibilité de ces façons de faire du numérique, encore à l'état d'ébauche dans les productions contemporaines, peut intéresser les designers au-delà des spécialistes. Elle est avérée en fin d'ouvrage dans la description d'une fiction curatoriale.This dissertation questions design through programming practices, showing how they cannot be summed up in program industries which prevent inventions from happening. To this end, it confronts, by a non-linear reading, five periods in the Digital History (since Vannevar Bush in 1945, including a new unpublished translation available as an appendix, to the contemporary use of the website GitHub) with four concepts extracted from a philosophical corpus. The choice of author who have not directly dedicated their writings to Design (such as Jacques Derrida, Hannah Arendt and Walter Benjamin) can deconstruct a number of discourses regarding the arrival of so-called new technologies. After redefining concept and project in design practices and project, and then supported by Gilbert Simondon, this dissertation focuses on what is not predictable in programs. It defends five lines or directions for researches in the relevant field: decentralize, certify, kit or translate and dislocate. The plausibility of these ways to make digital, still in draft form in contemporary productions, may interest designers beyond specialists. A demonstration is made at the end of the dissertation with the description of curatorial fiction
Le design des programmes : des façons de faire du numérique
No full textThis dissertation questions design through programming practices, showing how they cannot be summed up in program industries which prevent inventions from happening. To this end, it confronts, by a non-linear reading, five periods in the Digital History (since Vannevar Bush in 1945, including a new unpublished translation available as an appendix, to the contemporary use of the website GitHub) with four concepts extracted from a philosophical corpus. The choice of author who have not directly dedicated their writings to Design (such as Jacques Derrida, Hannah Arendt and Walter Benjamin) can deconstruct a number of discourses regarding the arrival of so-called new technologies. After redefining concept and project in design practices and project, and then supported by Gilbert Simondon, this dissertation focuses on what is not predictable in programs. It defends five lines or directions for researches in the relevant field: decentralize, certify, kit or translate and dislocate. The plausibility of these ways to make digital, still in draft form in contemporary productions, may interest designers beyond specialists. A demonstration is made at the end of the dissertation with the description of curatorial fiction.Cette thèse interroge le design depuis les pratiques de programmation en montrant qu'elles ne se réduisent pas à une industrie des programmes, qui empêche les inventions de naître tout à fait. Pour cela, elle confronte au sein d'une lecture non linéaire cinq moments de l'histoire du numérique (depuis Vannevar Bush en 1945, dont une traduction inédite est proposée en appendice, jusqu'aux usages contemporains du site web GitHub) à quatre formulations conceptuelles issues d'un corpus philosophique. Le choix d'auteurs qui n'ont pas directement voué leurs réflexions au design (comme Jacques Derrida, Hannah Arendt ou Walter Benjamin) permet de déconstruire un certain nombre de discours entourant la réception des technologies dites nouvelles. Critiquant nombre d'usages faits des notions de conception et de projet et s'appuyant finalement sur Gilbert Simondon, cette thèse s'intéresse à ce qui n'est pas prévisible dans les programmes. Elle soutient cinq axes ou directions pour une recherche dans le champ concerné: décentrer, authentifier, appareiller, traduire et désarticuler. La plausibilité de ces façons de faire du numérique, encore à l'état d'ébauche dans les productions contemporaines, peut intéresser les designers au-delà des spécialistes. Elle est avérée en fin d'ouvrage dans la description d'une fiction curatoriale
