357 research outputs found
An Intervention to Monitor and Reduce Fall Rates Among Adults with Intellectual Disability (ID)
No full textCourtney Noblett-Dutra, Alexandra Bonardi, Emily Lauer and Sharon Oxx present their research on fall rates among adults with intellectual disabilities and possible ways to reduce them. Presented at the 2012 International Association for the Scientific Study of Intellectual Disability (IASSID) World Congress
AUT855795_Lay_Abstract – Supplemental material for In-hospital mortality among adults with autism spectrum disorder in the United States: A retrospective analysis of US hospital discharge data
No full textSupplemental material, AUT855795_Lay_Abstract for In-hospital mortality among adults with autism spectrum disorder in the United States: A retrospective analysis of US hospital discharge data by Ilhom Akobirshoev, Monika Mitra, Robbie Dembo and Emily Lauer in Autism</p
Emily Lauer and Courtney Dutra on Person-Centered Evaluation: Aging and Disability Services
No full textBlog post to AEA365, a blog sponsored by the American Evaluation Association (AEA) dedicated to highlighting Hot Tips, Cool Tricks, Rad Resources, and Lessons Learned for evaluators. The American Evaluation Association is an international professional association of evaluators devoted to the application and exploration of program evaluation, personnel evaluation, technology, and many other forms of evaluation. Evaluation involves assessing the strengths and weaknesses of programs, policies, personnel, products, and organizations to improve their effectiveness
César Vallejo y la vanguardia en las fronteras del idioma (Dossier: Literaturas de la integración, el Sur y su diversidad)
No full textEl autor explora el efecto poético, en el caso de los vanguardistas peruanos, que tiene la inclusión de palabras extranjeras en un texto literario. Puesto que se trata de palabras ininteligibles o apenas inteligibles, tal uso remite al tipo de afasia como desorden del eje metafórico, que afecta la similitud/diferencia del lenguaje. Lauer se pregunta por qué los poetas vanguardistas recurrieron al uso de palabras de origen extranjero. En este sentido, interesa al autor destacar los cruces entre modernidad, “tecno terminología” y “extranjería del discurso”, entre cosmopolitismo y conocimiento local. Sostiene Lauer que adoptar una palabra de otro idioma “expresa el deseo de cortar con las fuentes mismas de una tradición, y constituye una crítica a una sensibilidad dada”. El autor indaga en torno a los usos poéticos de palabras de origen extranjero, desde una visión que atiende los sentidos que ellas despliegan, así como también sus aspectos gráficos, sonoros y comunicacionales.The author explores the poetic effect that has the inclusion of foreign words in a literary text in the case of the Peruvian vanguard writers. Since they are unintelligible or barely intelligible words, their usage refers us to the type of aphasia that comes from a disorder in the metaphoric axis, which affects the similarity/difference of language. Lauer reflects on why the vanguard poets resorted to the use of foreign words. In this sense, he is interested in highlighting the overlapping among modernity, “techno terminology” and “foreignicity of discourse”, and between cosmopolitanism and local knowledge. Lauer holds that taking on a word from another language “expresses the desire of severing from the sources of a tradition, and is a criticism to a given sensitivity”. The author reflects about the poetic uses of foreign words from a point of view that focuses on the senses they unfold, as well as the graphic, sound, and communicational aspects
The Level-Set Flow of the Topologist’s Sine Curve is Smooth
No full textAbstract
In this note we prove that the level-set flow of the topologist’s sine curve is a smooth closed curve. In Lauer (Geom Funct Anal 23(6): 1934–1961, 2013) it was shown by the second author that under the level-set flow, a locally connected set in the plane evolves to be smooth, either as a curve or as a positive area region bounded by smooth curves. Here we give the first example of a domain whose boundary is not locally connected for which the level-set flow is instantaneously smooth. Our methods also produce an example of a nonpath-connected set that instantly evolves into a smooth closed curve
Managing Dynamics of Power and Learning in Community Development: A Case Study of Iowan Farmers in Uganda
No full textExtension professionals facilitate community development through the strategic manipulation of learning and power in peer-to-peer learning partnerships. We discuss the relationship between empowerment and power, highlight relevant literature on the difficulties power presents to learning and the efficacy of service learning tools to facilitate mutual learning and present original findings from our research on an international development partnership in which Extension professionals had partial success in creating opportunities for mutually empowering learning among farmers from Iowa and Uganda. We recommend that Extension professionals encourage learning across power gradients by providing opportunities for informal conversations and encouraging reflection by participants.This article is published as “Managing Dynamics of Power and Learning in Community Development: A Case Study of Iowan Farmers in Uganda” Journal of Extension June 2015, Vol 53, No. 3 (co author Stephen Lauer). Posted with permission.</p
Judith Cohen, art historian and author of Cowtown Moderne
No full textAuthor and art historian Judith (Judy) Cohen sits on a reproduction Le Corbusier chaise from her personal collection of Art Deco style pieces. The railing seen behind her is made from a decorative grill from the restaurant in the Striplings building and the grate on the wall in the background is from the Aviation Building, which was located at Seventh and Main streets. She is the author of the book Cowtown Moderne.https://mavmatrix.uta.edu/specialcollections_startelegram1990s/1123/thumbnail.jp
A Stylistic Analysis of Complexity in William Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily"
No full textApplying a stylistic analysis on certain texts refers to the identification of patterns of usage in writing. However, such an analysis is not restricted just to the description of the formal characteristics of texts, but it also tries to elucidate their functional importance for the interpretation of the text. This paper highlights complexity as a hallmark of a stylistic analysis in A Rose for Emily, a short story by William Faulkner (1897-1962). The analysis is done by adopting Halliday's (1985) approach to analyzing complexity in sentence structure; and Lauer, et al's (2008) approach to analyzing narrative from a macro perspective in relation to the story acts. The analysis rests upon the assumption that since form conveys meaning, Faulkner's multilayer usage of complexity is extremely functional. This paper tries also to detect and prove that stylistic complexity is manipulated to convey the main themes, events, and successfully leads to identify the distinctive structure of this story. Keywords: Style, Stylistic Complexity, Hypotactic, Paratactic, Functiona
Stream Restoration Toolbox [2007]
No full textSeveral tools for applied stream restoration.The Stream Restoration Toolbox consists of current basic research cast into the form of tools that can be used by practitioners. The toolbox contains models, code, websites, and small applications that are useful for applied stream restoration Tools are free to download and use. The Toolbox is not limited to NCED but is open to all contributors. Tools are listed in alphabetical order.
Tool title: Bank Stabilization Diagnosis
Tool purpose: Determination as to whether or not bank stabilization should be a part of a river restoration scheme
Primary tool author: J. Wesley Lauer
File(s): BankStabilizationDiagnosisTool(ppt)
Tool title: The Dam Remover: Mark I
Tool purpose: Models the morphodynamics of the channel that incises reservoir sediments following dam removal.
Primary tool author: Alessandro Cantelli
File(s): DamRemoverMARK1(ppt)
DamRemoverMARK1_front_view(mpg)
DamRemoverMARK1_plan_view(mpg)
Tool title: The Gravel River Bankfull Channel Estimator
Tool purpose: This tool consists of a set of regression relations for predicting bankfull geometry of mobile-bed single-thread gravel bed streams in terms of bankfull discharge and bed surface median grain size.
Primary tool author: Gary Parker
File(s): BankfullChannelEstimator_v2(ppt) & GravelBankfullData(xls)
Tool title: The Gravel River Bankfull Discharge Estimator
Tool purpose: This tool consists of an equation to estimate bankfull discharge in an undisturbed (reference) reach of a single-thread, mobile-bed gravel-bed stream from measured channel characteristics.
Primary tool author: Gary Parker
File(s): BankfullDischargeEstimator_v2(ppt) & GravelBankfullData(xls)
Tool title: Planform Statistics
Tool purpose: Tools to assist in calculating planform statistics (width, curvature, channel migration rate).
Primary tool author: J. Wesley Lauer
File(s): PlanformStatisticsTools(ppt)
Planform_statistics_tools_v91(mxd) Note - download to same directory
Planform_statistics_tools_v91_2
Tool title: Sand Bed Calculator
Tool purpose: Calculator to estimate bed geometry and bedload transport from sand bed surveys.
Primary tool author: Brandon McElroy
File(s): SandBedCalc(ppt)
SandBedCalc(xls)
Ebook: 1D Sediment Transport Morphodynamics with applications to: Rivers and Turbidity Currents
Tool Purpose: This ebook is an amazing resource containing fundamental and applied lectures on rivers and turbidity currents as well as many other geomorphic processes. The main lectures are in PowerPoint. These lectures are linked to Excel files, most of which serve as graphical user interfaces for code in Visual Basic for Applications. Extended explanation is given in Word. Phenomena are illustrated with mpeg video clips.
Author: Dr. Gary Parker, University of Illinois, Urbana
Status: In development.
Tool title: Spawning Habitat Integrated Rehabilitation Approach (SHIRA)
Tool purpose: This website provides a comprehensive introduction to the issues and concepts surrounding spawning habitat rehabilitation on regulated rivers. The website includes description of the SHIRA framework, case studies, and reference list.
Primary tool author: Professer Greg Pasternack, University of California-Davis
Tool title: The Spawning Gravel Refresher
Tool purpose: Allows design of controlled flood releases from dams combined with gravel feeding to restore over-coarsened and immobile former gravel spawning grounds.
Primary tool author: Gary Parker
Status: In development.
Tool title: The Threshold Channel Calculator
Tool purpose: Design of a threshold channel in an e.g., urban setting, for which the sediment supply has been cut off.
Primary tool author: Peter Wilcock
Status: In development.Marr, Jeff; Cantelli, Alessandro; McElroy, Brandon; Parker, Gary; Lauer, Wesley. (2024). Stream Restoration Toolbox [2007]. Retrieved from the Data Repository for the University of Minnesota (DRUM), https://hdl.handle.net/11299/263574
- …
