124 research outputs found
What Can Heritage Professionals Learn from Open World Games?
No full textWhat can real-world cultural heritage sites learn from the video games industry about presenting a coherent story, while giving visitors freedom to explore and allowing them to become participants in the story-making? How do cultural heritage professionals have to change their storytelling practices to properly take advantage of new digital technologies? A review of the literature, including analysing the narrative of three “open world” style video games shows that cultural heritage sites manage to provide analogues of many ludic emotional triggers except one – story.The bulk of the work is auto-ethnographical: how might cultural heritage professionals, like me, translate linear interpretations such as histories, guidebooks, exhibition texts and other sources, into a network of narrative atoms (natoms) that an algorithm, rather than a human, might deliver to visitors? What should they consider along the way? The first prototype was a responsive heritage narrative, this was an on-screen text “adventure” rather than a real-world environment. Taking learning from that experiment to Chawton House Library, an on-line data-base of natoms was built, which included environmental effects such as lighting, sound and music. Visitors participated in an “Untour” simulating a responsive environment, triggered by their movement around the spaces of the house. The output of this research is an analysis of the recordings and observations made during the Untours, which proves that it is possible to author coherent narratives by tagging individual natoms. However consideration should be given to the transitions between natoms, and heritage professionals should be challenged to take more risks with fiction
Yon Little Toddler: Becoming Pierre Glendinning
No full textThis essay explores themes of failure, labor, and what it means for a hobby to become a profession in Herman Melville’s 1852 novel, Pierre; or, The Ambiguities. The essay is also a reflection on the author’s path into academia. Through a close engagement with Melville’s text, as well as with a selection of scholarship, the author examines his own experience completing a Master’s thesis in light of the fictional career of Pierre Glendinning as author and the real-life career of his creator, Herman Melville
A partial state collocation method for covariance optimal control
No full textThesis: S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2018.This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.Cataloged student-submitted from PDF version of thesis.Includes bibliographical references (pages 121-123).An overview is presented for two methods of incorporating the covariance in an optimal control problem. Including the covariance in the optimal control problem can be beneficial in the field of navigation where it is desirable to design trajectories which either minimize navigation error or maximize observability for instrument calibration. The full state collocation method uses Legendre Gauss Radau collocation to discretize the deterministic states and controls as well as the unique elements of the covariance matrix. The problem is then transcribed to a nonlinear progamming problem (NLP) and is solved with an NLP solver. This method, however, results in problems with many constraints and variables, which is computationally expensive. The partial state collocation method, the main focus of this thesis, collocates the deterministic states and controls but uses a shooting method to incorporate the covariance matrix. The problem is then transcribed to a nonlinear programming problem, which has fewer constraints and variables than the full state collocation method. Both of these methods are demonstrated by solving for the trajectory that minimizes the final position uncertainty for a spacecraft reentering Earth's atmosphere. The problem is tested with different sized covariance matrices, which shows how the time it takes to solve the problem increases as the covariance matrix increases in size. The partial state collocation method is generally faster and converges in fewer NLP iterations than the full state collocation method. As the covariance matrix increases in size, the time it takes to solve the problem increases at a smaller rate for the partial state collocation method.by Tyler J. Kapolka.S.M
The reception of Qoheleth in a selection of rabbinic, patristic and nonconformist texts
No full textThe purpose of this thesis is to examine the reception of the text of Qoheleth in a selection of rabbinic, patristic and nonconformist literature. The differences in the act of reading, reception and response to this text in discrete
Judaic and Christian locations is examined. The source texts that are considered are Qoheleth Rabbah, Targum Qoheleth, Gregory of Nyssa's homilies and Matthew Henry's exposition on Ecclesiastes. The thesis further investigates historical and theological experiential influences on the reception of Qoheleth as portrayed by the source texts. The text of Qoheleth and its history of interpretation, and the value of
examining the reception of the text by specific readers from a variety of contexts are discussed in the first chapter. In the consecutive chapters the reception of Qoheleth by each source text is examined individually. The historical and
theological contexts of each source text are described, including literary traditions and exegetical principles.
In the detailed examination of the source texts, the textual structural challenges that Qoheleth poses and how and why
they are responded to by the author(s) of the source texts are analysed. The final chapter compares and contrasts the main issues raised by the differing readings of Qoheleth, including the identity of Solomon and the view of God, and also, the differing contextual perspectives in which the reception process took place. Finally, a brief examination of a modem reader's (Michael V Fox') reception of Qoheleth is contrasted with that of earlier readers of the text. The manner in which the potential effects of Qoheleth are actualised and the process of meaning production varies between readers, being conditioned by their historical horizon
The Political Economy of Fair Housing Laws Prior to 1968
No full textThe confluence of the Great Migration and the Civil Rights Movement propelled the drive for fair-housing' legislation which attempted to curb overt discrimination in housing markets. This drive culminated in the passage of the federal Civil Rights Act of 1968. By that time, 57 percent of the U.S. population and 41 percent of the African-American population already resided in states with a fair-housing law. Despite laying the political and administrative groundwork for the federal Fair Housing Act of 1968, the origins and diffusion of these state laws have not received much attention from scholars, let alone been subject to statistical efforts to disentangle multiple influences. This paper uses hazard models to analyze the diffusion of fair-housing legislation to shed new light on the combination of economic and political forces that facilitated the laws' adoption. Ceteris paribus, outside the South, states with larger union memberships, more Jewish residents, and more NAACP members passed fair-housing laws sooner than others. The estimated effects are not undermined by including controls for a variety of competing factors and are supported by historical accounts of the legislative campaigns.
Remembering the teacher: An autobiographical reflective journey through the memories of a teacher and his former students
No full textThis study explores how interviewing and gathering feedback from former students can benefit in the professional development of a teacher. Although there is an extensive amount of literature concerning teacher reflection focusing on the perspective of the teacher, this study places importance on both the perspectives of the teacher and his former students. Building on the works of Dewey, Tyler and Aoki concerning educational experiences, Korthagen's approach to teacher reflection, Eakin and Graham's ideas concerning autobiography and Barone and Yoder and Strong-Wilson's views on learning from the stories of others, the author takes existing literature and builds on it, suggesting a unique approach to further his own development as a teacher. Using an autobiographical narrative approach, the author represents the memories of both the teacher and student(s) in a series of vignettes. The sample of students interviewed covers a spectrum of six years of experience that the teacher has been teaching. These vignettes highlight the memories of the teacher concerning his former students and the memories/feedback of the students concerning their former teacher and the time spent in his class. Furthermore, each vignette is written in the third person to create some distance between the author and the data gathered. The analysis consists of looking for common themes that arose while gathering the data among the nine former students interviewed, and aims to describe what the teacher learned during the research process to better himself for future experiences in his teaching. By conducting the research in this way, the teacher can dwell in a rich reflective practice that combines unique perspectives of firsthand accounts belonging to those who his teaching affected directly: himself and his students.Cette étude explore comment des entrevues avec d'anciens élèves de même que la collecte de leurs commentaires peuvent être bénéfiques au dévelopement professionnel d'un enseignant. Malgré le fait qu'il y ait une très grande quantité de litérature qui concerne ce sujet du point de vue de l'enseignant, cette étude met l'emphase autant sur le point de vue de l'enseignant que sur celui des anciens étudiants. S'appuyant sur les travaux de Dewey, Tyler et Aoki portant sur les expériences éducatives, sur l'approche de Korthagen face à la rélexion de l'enseignant, sur les idées de Eakin et Graham concernant l'autobiographie de même que sur les points de vue de Barone, Yoder et Strong-Wilson sur ce qu'on peut apprendre des histoires des autres, l'auteur prend la litéraure existante et propose une approche unique afin d'approfondir sa propre évolution en tant qu'enseignant. Utilisant une approche narrative autobiographique, l'auteur présente les souvenirs de l'enseignant et des élèves dans une série de vignettes. L'échantillon d'élèves interviewés couvre un spectre de six années d'expérience de l'enseignant dans son domaine. Ces vignettes mettent en lumière les souvenirs de l'enseignant face à ses anciens élèves de même que ceux que les étudiants ont par rapport à leur ancien enseignant et à leur temps passé en classe. De plus, chaque vignette est rédigée à la troisième personne de façon à créer une certaine distance entre l'auteur et les informations recueillies. L'analyse consiste à rechercher des thèmes communs qui sont ressortis durant la collecte de données effectuées avec les neuf anciens élèves interviewés et aussi à décrire ce que l'enseignant a appris durant le processus de recherche qui pourra par la suite l'aider à s'améliorer dans de futures expériences d'enseignement. En effectuant la recherche de cette façon, l'enseignant se retrouve dans une pratique réfléchie qui combine les perspectives uniques de ceux qui ont été directement touchés par son enseignement: lui-même et ses élèves
Inter-agency Cooperation and New Approaches to Employability
No full textThis article examines the role of inter-agency cooperation, which is one form of ‘partnership’, in new approaches to employability in the UK. The article articulates a ‘model for effective partnership working’ on employability. This model is applied first in a general review of employability policy and then to discuss case study research on the recent ‘Pathways to Work’ and ‘Working Neighbourhoods’ pilots. It is argued that successful partnerships need a clear strategic focus based on a necessity for inter-agency cooperation and institutional arrangements that allow for shared ownership, trust and mutualism, and flexibility in resource-sharing. While some of these factors are apparent in UK employability services, an over-reliance on contractualism and centralized organizational structures may undermine partnership-based approaches. Many of the success factors associated with effective partnership working appeared to be in place, even though the role of the Public Employment Service was fundamentally different in each case (as a key actor in implementing the first pilot, but largely withdrawing from the implementation role in the second). The article concludes by outlining the relevance of this model and the case study findings to discussions of the future development of employability policies and related partnership working
Author Correction:SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python (Nature Methods, (2020), 10.1038/s41592-019-0686-2)
No full textIn the version of this article initially published online, the corresponding author designation was missing for Matt Haberland and Tyler Reddy. The affiliation for Evgeni Burovski was given as Higher School of Economics; the correct affiliation is National Research University, Higher School of Economics. In Box 1, “SciPy is an open-source package that builds on the strengths of Python and Numeric, providing a wide range of fast scientific and numeric functionality” was used as the box title; this has been moved to the beginning of the box text and a new title has been provided: “Excerpt from the SciPy 0.1 release announcement (typos corrected), posted 20 August 2001 on the Python-list mailing list.” From the original first sentence of this box, “(text following the % symbol indicates that a typo in the original text has been corrected in the version reproduced here)” has been deleted, and “% hanker to Hankel” and “% Netwon to Newton” have been deleted from the ends of the special functions row and the optimization row, respectively. In the first sentence of the ndimage section of Box 2, “nonlinear filter” has been changed to plural. At the end of the first paragraph of the section “SciPy matures,” “The library was expanded carefully, with the patience affordable in open-source projects and via best practices common in industry” has been changed to “The library was expanded carefully, with the patience affordable in open-source projects and via best practices, which are increasingly common in the scientific Python ecosystem and industry.” In Table 2, “Inequality constraint” has been changed to plural. In the “Nonlinear optimization: global minimization” section, “scipy.optimize.differentialevolution” had been changed to “scipy.optimize.differential_evolution.” In the first sentence of the section “Maintainers and contributors,” “SciPy developer guide” has been changed to “SciPy contributor guide” and the URL has been changed from http://scipy.github.io/devdocs/dev/core-dev/index. html to https://scipy.github.io/devdocs/dev/contributor/contributor_toc.html. In Table 2, entries in the first column have been changed from capitalized to lower-case. Finally, a URL in the second paragraph of the Discussion has been changed from https://scholar.google. com/scholar?q=SciPy to https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cites=2086009121748039507. The errors have been corrected in the print, HTML and PDF versions of the article. SciPy 1.0 Contributors Aditya Vijaykumar, Alessandro Pietro Bardelli, Alex Rothberg, Andreas Hilboll, Andreas Kloeckner, Anthony Scopatz, Antony Lee, Ariel Rokem, C. Nathan Woods, Chad Fulton, Charles Masson, Christian Häggström, Clark Fitzgerald, David A. Nicholson, David R. Hagen, Dmitrii V. Pasechnik, Emanuele Olivetti, Eric Martin, Eric Wieser, Fabrice Silva, Felix Lenders, Florian Wilhelm, G. Young, Gavin A. Price, Gert-Ludwig Ingold, Gregory E. Allen, Gregory R. Lee, Hervé Audren, Irvin Probst, Jörg P. Dietrich, Jacob Silterra, James T Webber, Janko Slavič, Joel Nothman, Johannes Buchner, Johannes Kulick, Johannes L. Schönberger, José Vinícius de Miranda Cardoso, Joscha Reimer, Joseph Harrington, Juan Luis Cano Rodríguez, Juan Nunez-Iglesias, Justin Kuczynski, Kevin Tritz, Martin Thoma, Matthew Newville, Matthias Kümmerer, Maximilian Bolingbroke, Michael Tartre, Mikhail Pak, Nathaniel J. Smith, Nikolai Nowaczyk, Nikolay Shebanov, Oleksandr Pavlyk, Per A. Brodtkorb, Perry Lee, Robert T. McGibbon, Roman Feldbauer, Sam Lewis, Sam Tygier, Scott Sievert, Sebastiano Vigna, Stefan Peterson, Surhud More, Tadeusz Pudlik, Takuya Oshima, Thomas J. Pingel, Thomas P. Robitaille, Thomas Spura, Thouis R. Jones, Tim Cera, Tim Leslie, Tiziano Zito, Tom Krauss, Utkarsh Upadhyay, Yaroslav O. Halchenko and Yoshiki Vázquez-Baeza.</p
A Recording, Performance Guide, and Composer Interviews: Six New Original Works for Trios Involving Saxophone, Commissioned for the Rogue Trio and Lotus
No full textabstract: This project includes a recording, composer biographies, performance guides, and composer questionnaires for seven original works commissioned for either the Rogue Trio or Lotus. The members of the Rogue Trio are violinist Kathleen Strahm, saxophonist Justin Rollefson, and pianist Mary Cota. Lotus’s members include Samuel Detweiler, Justin Rollefson, and Kristen Zelenak on saxophone. Both ensembles are based in Tempe, Arizona. All seven original compositions were recorded at Tempest Recording in February of 2018.
The first piece, Four Impersonations (2016), was commissioned by the Rogue Trio and written by Theo Chandler (b.1992) for violin, soprano saxophone and piano. The second piece was written by Spencer Arias (b. 1990) titled He Said There Was No Sound (2015) for violin, alto saxophone, and piano. The final work is titled Cabinet Meeting (2017), composed by Zachary Green (b. 1993) for violin, alto and tenor saxophone, and piano.
The first piece commissioned by Lotus and composed by Spencer Arias is titled As I escape, the water calms (2017) for soprano saxophone, alto saxophone, and tenor saxophone. The second piece was composed by Graham Cohen (b. 1999), titled Introduction and Toccata (2017), written for soprano, alto, and baritone saxophones. The third piece, titled Everything that rises, was written by David “Clay” Mettens (b. 1990) in 2014 for three soprano saxophones. Samuel Detweiler, Justin Rollefson and Tyler Flowers originally commissioned this piece. The final piece commissioned by Lotus was written by Matthew Kennedy (b. 1987) titled Triceratops: tasty grooves for saxophone trio (2017) for alto, tenor, and baritone saxophones.Dissertation/ThesisFour Impersonations, Movement I: An outwardly-confident adolescent demanding recognition - Theo ChandlerFour Impersonations, Movement II: A grumpy hermit ignoring the attention of a suitor - Theo ChandlerFour Impersonations, Movement III: A skinny, shy boy standing in the rain - Theo ChandlerFour Impersonations, Movement IV: Subordinates mocking an authority figure - Theo ChandlerHe Said There Was No Sound - Spencer AriasCabinet Meeting, Movement I: Introduction - Zachary GreenCabinet Meeting, Movement II: Jared Kushner, mysterious robot - Zachary GreenCabinet Meeting, Movement III: Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, lonesome cowboy - Zachary GreenCabinet Meeting, Movement IV: Anthony "The Mooch" Scaramucci, in candid conversation with the New Yorker - Zachary GreenCabinet Meeting, Movement V: Betsy DeVos Secretary of Education - Zachary GreenCabinet Meeting, Movement VI: Ben Carson Secretary of Housing and Urban Development - Zachary GreenCabinet Meeting, Movement VII: Attorney General Jeff Sessions, responding to questions from the Senate Intelligence Committee - Zachary GreenAs I escape, the water calms - Spencer AriasIntroduction and Toccata - Graham CohenEverything that rises - David “Clay” MettensTriceratops - Matthew KennedyDoctoral Dissertation Music 201
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