296 research outputs found
Studies in Creative Collaborative Models and Paradigms: Investigating and Constructing Environments for Audience Interaction and Participation
No full textFor four years, intermedial artists Bethany Engstrom, Richard Corey, and John Bell have collaborated to produce immersive performances as The Core 5 Incident. This dissertation is a tripartite self-examination of the working methods they have developed to help address the specific creative, organizational, and personal challenges involved in artistic collaborations. The methods they describe are then applied to teaching a series of creative collaboration classes within a Master of Fine Arts program, with the resulting techniques further refined and contextualized for pedagogical use.
Using a version of Grounded Theory techniques that they have modified for self-study, the three authors identify several properties of collaborations that influence the effectiveness and appropriateness of different collaboration styles for creative work. The collaboration styles themselves are classified based on the balance between group will and personal creative agency and the degree to which the work generated by the group can be clearly broken back down into recognizable individual contributions. The strengths and weaknesses of each style are described, and it is concluded that a hybrid style dubbed emergent collaboration best fits The Core 5 Incident\u27s working method. The authors then review their own history to classify the significant concerns within a creative collaboration and the ways in which The Core 5 Incident handles those concerns that make emergent collaboration appropriate for their group.
Having developed a framework for examining creative collaborations, the authors then apply that framework to examining four iterations of a collaboration class in a Master of Fine Arts program-two taught by the authors, and two taught by other faculty. They conclude that, once extended to include topics specific to the classroom, the concerns they have described provide appropriate facets for examining contributing factors to the successes and failures within each of the classes. Based on these observations, they provide a number of suggestions and a recommended syllabus to use for teaching large-scale intermedial collaborations at the graduate level. Finally, the results of the study are contextualized by the lead author into her area of expertise, the construction of environments designed for audience interaction
Mary of Bethany: Creation through Conversation
No full textThe author uses the story of Mary of Bethany anointing Jesus’s feet in John 12 as a jumping-off point for considering the prophetic role of artistic conversation, in the Gospel of John, in the whole Bible and in her own artistic life
Judicial Selection Methods, Tribal Politics, and Strong Government: Navajo Nation at the Crossroads
No full textThis article by Bethany Sullivan examines the judicial selection methods of the Navajo Nation and its impact on the Navajo Nation. After surveying the various methods of judicial selection by both the United State and Navajo Nation, the author explores potential changes to the existing selection methods of the Navajo Nation. Ultimately, however, the author argues for the maintenance of the existing selection methods and warns against future efforts to reform the Navajo appointive system
Perception-based generalization in model-based reinforcement learning:
No full textIn recent years, the advances in robotics have allowed for robots to venture into places too dangerous for humans. Unfortunately, the terrain in which these robots are being deployed may not be known by humans in advance, making it difficult to create motion programs robust enough to handle all scenarios that the robot may encounter. For this reason, research is being done to add learning capabilities to improve the robot's ability to adapt to its environment. Reinforcement learning is well suited for these robot domains because often the desired outcome is known, but the best way to achieve this outcome is unknown.
In a real world domain, a reinforcement-learning agent has to learn a great deal from experience. Therefore, it must be sample-size efficient. To do so, it must balance the amount of exploration that is needed to properly model the environment with the need to use the information that it has already obtained to complete its original task. In robot domains, the exploration process is especially costly in both time and energy. Therefore, it is important to make the best possible use of the robot's limited opportunities for exploration without degrading the robot's performance.
This dissertation discusses a specialization of the standard Markov Decision Process (MDP) framework that allows for easier transfer of experience between similar states and introduces an algorithm that uses this new framework to perform more efficient exploration in robot-navigation problems. It then develops methods for an agent to determine how to accurately group similar states. One proposed technique clusters states by their observed outcomes. To make it possible to extrapolate observed outcomes to as-yet unvisited states, a second approach uses perceptual information such as the output of an image-processing system to group perceptually similar states with the hope that they will also be related in terms of outcomes. However, there are many different percepts from which a robot could obtain state groupings. To address this issue, a third algorithm is presented that determines how to group states when the agent has multiple, possibly conflicting, inputs from which to choose. Robot experiments of all algorithms proposed are included to demonstrate the improvements that can be obtained by using the approaches presented.Ph.D.Includes bibliographical references (p. 100-104)by Bethany R. Leffle
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No full textPhotograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Slght-seeing Friday in Oklahoma City meant a visit to the Kirkpatrick Planetarium on the fairgrounds for these wives of members of the society of American Foresters, left to right, Mrs. Albert Engstrom, Bethany; Mrs. John Koen, Hot Springs, Ark., and Mrs. O. B. Capps, Jefferson City, Mo.
Peabody research confirms value of parents being excellent listeners during child's homework
No full textIncludes descriptive metadata provided by producer in MP3 file: "Research by two Peabody College professors shows that children learn the solution best to a problem when they explain it to a parent or other interested adult. Bethany Rittle-Johnson was the lead author for a study being published by the Journal of Experimental Child Psychology.
A model of shared-servant style pastoral care leadership for lay leaders of Greater Bethany Baptist Church (Georgia), 2000
No full textThe opportunity existed in the Greater Bethany Baptist Church to develop and implement a Lay Pastoral Care Ministry. The pastor had participated in a two-year clinical experience in the past and was eager to equip and empower lay leaders and potential leaders through training for the Pastoral Care Ministry. Presented in this dissertation are the design, implementation, and evaluation of a group of lay leaders' training experience. It is my hope that the results of this study may be used as a training manual for shared-servant style pastoral care leadership for lay leaders
Disability and the Way of Jesus Holistic Healing in the Gospels and the Church
No full textWhat does healing mean for people with disabilities? Bridging biblical studies, ethics, and disability studies with the work of practitioners, Bethany McKinney Fox examines healing narratives in their biblical and cultural contexts. This theologically grounded and winsomely practical resource helps us more fully understand what Jesus does as he heals and how he points the way for relationships with people with disabilities.Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication Page -- Contents -- Foreword by John Swinton -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Bridging the Gap -- 2 The First Century Context of Jesus the Healer -- 3 Physicians Interpret the Gospels' Healing Narratives -- 4 Honoring the Lived Experience of Disability in the Gospel Healing Narratives -- 5 Pastors Discuss Their Churches' Healing Practices and the Healing Activity of Jesus -- 6 The Seven Marks of Healing in the Way of Jesus -- 7 The Seven Marks of Healing in Action -- Author Index -- Subject Index -- Scripture Index -- Praise for Disability and the Way of Jesus -- About the Author -- More Titles from InterVarsity PressWhat does healing mean for people with disabilities? Bridging biblical studies, ethics, and disability studies with the work of practitioners, Bethany McKinney Fox examines healing narratives in their biblical and cultural contexts. This theologically grounded and winsomely practical resource helps us more fully understand what Jesus does as he heals and how he points the way for relationships with people with disabilities.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
Addiction recovery stories: Bethany Holmes in conversation with Lisa Ogilvie
No full textPurpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine recovery through lived experience. It is part of a series that explores candid accounts of addiction and recovery to identify important components in the recovery process. Design/methodology/approach: The G-CHIME model comprises six elements important to addiction recovery (growth, connectedness, hope, identity, meaning in life and empowerment). It provides a standard to against which to consider addiction recovery, having been used in this series, as well as in the design of interventions that improve well-being and strengthen recovery. In this paper, a first-hand account is presented, followed by a semi-structured e-interview with the author of the account. Narrative analysis is used to explore the account and interview through the G-CHIME model. Findings: This paper shows that addiction recovery is a remarkable process that can be effectively explained using the G-CHIME model. The significance of each component in the model is apparent from the account and e-interview presented. Originality/value: Each account of recovery in this series is unique, and as yet, untold
Encountered Spaces: The Perception of the Uncomfortably Strange in the 21st Century
No full textIn 1906 Ernst Jentsch first considered the idea of the uncanny in his essay, On the Psychology of the Uncanny in which he wrote, The production of the uncanny can indeed be attempted in true art, by the way, but only with exclusively artistic means and artistic intention . Jentsch\u27s essay introducing an exploration of the experience and psychology of the uncanny was later followed by Sigmund Freud\u27s influential essay The Uncanny from 1919 in which he felt impelled to engage in aesthetic investigations, even when aesthetics is not restricted to the theory of beauty, but described as relating to the qualities of our feeling . These ideas of the uncanny paired with a consideration the influence of fiction on life experiences has expanded and led to the formation of a research method and practice presented in this thesis that looks at how created uncanny spaces are experienced. The research presented here describes a method of research that begins with observation of a space and experience followed by a review of literary sources from multiple disciplines including psychology, philosophy, cultural anthropology, literature and visual arts leading to the formation of the question of how uncanny spaces are perceived and results in a creative practice that produces an intermedial work. In particular of this thesis project, the research presented here looks at the the idea of how one perceives a space that hinders sight and emphasizes sound based on a similar experience I had when immersed in a dense winter fog. After researching qualities of uncanny spaces similar to the one experienced through the means explained above and through experimentation, the result was realized through the construction of an installation space that uses audio to direct the experience
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