755 research outputs found
The Augmented Movement Platform For Embodied Learning (AMPEL): development and reliability
No full textThere was an error in the affiliations of the co-authors Dr. Thomas Vervust and Prof. Peter Feys. Their correct affiliations are given in this correctionMoumdjian, L (corresponding author),
.Univ Ghent, IPEM Inst Psychoacoust & Elect Mus, Fac Arts & Philosophy, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium.
UMSC Hasselt, Pelt, Belgium.
Hasselt Univ, Fac Rehabil Sci, REVAL Rehabil Res Ctr, B-3500 Hasselt, Belgium.
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An open reply to "What is going on at the Library of Congress?" by Thomas Mann
No full textThis is an open response to a report by Thomas Mann at the Library of Congress concerning changes in cataloging. The author contends that, although the current changes at the Library of Congress are suspect, changes are imminent and experienced catalogers must offer positive suggestions for change, otherwise they will be ignored by management
Sourcing Southerne: origins of the tragic plot in Thomas Southerne's Oroonoko
No full textAlthough certainly indebted to Aphra Behn’s novella of the same name, Thomas Southerne’s Oroonoko draws inspiration for its Restoration hero, as well as additional characters and themes, from Marc Antony as depicted in John Dryden’s All for Love and Nathaniel Bacon as in Behn’s The Widdow Ranter.M.A.Includes bibliographical referencesby Heidi Duga
Musikstädte as real and imaginary soundscapes: urban musical images as literary motifs in twentieth-century German modernism
No full textPhDThis study examines German literary images of musical life as part of the wider sound identity of the modern German city at the turn of the twentieth century. Focussing on a forty-year period from 1890 to 1930, synonymous with the emergence of the modern German metropolis as an aesthetic object, the project assesses, compares and contrasts how musical life in the Musikstädte was perceived and portrayed by writers in an increasingly noisy urban environment. How does urban musical life influence and condition city writings? What are the differences and similarities between the writings on various musical cities? Can an urban textual sound identity be derived from these differences and similarities? The approach employed to answer these questions is a new, cross-disciplinary one to urban sound in literature, moving beyond reading the key sounds of the urban soundscape using urban musicology, sensorial anthropology and cultural poetics towards a literary contextualisation of the urban aural experience.
The literary motifs of the symphony, the gramophone and urban noise are put under the spotlight through the analysis of a wide range of modernist works by authors who have a special relationship with music. At the centre of this analysis are the Kaffeehausliteratur authors Hermann Bahr, Alfred Polgar and Peter Altenberg, the then Munich-based author Thomas Mann and the lesser known René Schickele. The analysis of these particular works is framed in the music-geographical context of the Musikstadt and literary underpinnings of this topos, ranging from Ingeborg Bachmann to Hans Mayer and, once again, Thomas Mann. In analysing these texts, the methodological approach devised by Strohm, who identifies the blending of a range of urban sounds as a definition of urban space and identity, is applied. His ideas combine historical literary
analysis, musical history and urban sociology. They are rarely used in the analysis of the auditory environment.Arts and Humanities Research Council
Westfield TrustWestfield Trust Studentship
Arts and Humanities Reseach Council (AHRC
Identifizierung von Morbus Alzheimer Kandidatengenen auf Basis der Einzelnukleotid-Polymorphismus Genotypisierung
No full textMetadata initiatives and emerging technologies to improve resource discovery
No full textThis paper discusses some emerging issues on metadata as a mechanism of resource discovery and its impact on precision of search results in a distributed network environment. It presents a brief account of the recent major developments related to metadata across the globe. Highlights a consistent growth of multiple metadata standards to meet the variety of needs in a hierarchy of complexity. Examines various metadata-harvesting tools and related technologies that fulfill the task implicit in a user’s search. Brings out popular standards, useful protocols, and open-source harvesters along with their intrinsic capabilities for harvesting and presenting metadata and introduces a variety of metadata services viz., OCLC’s catalogue service, UKOLN metadata editor service, OAIster harvester service, DP9 gateway service, etc. explores the underlying principles of metadata-harvesting in DSpace and web search engines. Discusses use of multiple metadata formats in DSpace archives for exposing domain-specific metadata; and the inherent mechanism for extensibility and interoperability functions. Proposes methods for creating metadata that can pursue high-precision document retrieval in dynamic collections. Also discuses semantic web technologies and use of specialized metadata for long-term management and preservation of digital objects
ASO Author Reflections : Distal Pancreatectomy With and Without Portomesenteric Venous Resection for Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma: A Transatlantic Evaluation of Patients in North America, Germany, Sweden, and The Netherlands (GAPASURG)
No full textn/aThomas F. Stoop is granted by (1) Dutch Cancer Society (KWF) and (2) Deltaplan Alvleesklierkanker for the Dutch PREOPANC-4 trial on multidisciplinary management of LAPC (NCT05524090). Thomas F. Stoop is granted by (3) the Cultuur-fonds (Jan de Ruijsscher / Pia Huisman Fonds) and (4) Cancer Center Amsterdam.</p
Unbiasedness and efficiency of non-parametric and UMVUE estimators of the probabilistic index and related statistics
No full textIn reliability theory, diagnostic accuracy, and clinical trials, the quantity P(X>Y)+1/2P(X=Y), also known as the Probabilistic Index (PI), is a common treatment effect measure when comparing two groups of observations. The quantity P(X>Y)-P(Y>X), a linear transformation of PI known as the net benefit, has also been advocated as an intuitively appealing treatment effect measure. Parametric estimation of PI has received a lot of attention in the past 40 years, with the formulation of the Uniformly Minimum-Variance Unbiased Estimator (UMVUE) for many distributions. However, the non-parametric Mann-Whitney estimator of the PI is also known to be UMVUE in some situations. To understand this seeming contradiction, in this paper a systematic comparison is performed between the non-parametric estimator for the PI and parametric UMVUE estimators in various settings. We show that the Mann-Whitney estimator is always an unbiased estimator of the PI with univariate, completely observed data, while the parametric UMVUE is not when the distribution is misspecified. Additionally, the Mann-Whitney estimator is the UMVUE when observations belong to an unrestricted family. When observations come from a more restrictive family of distributions, the loss in efficiency for the non-parametric estimator is limited in realistic clinical scenarios. In conclusion, the Mann-Whitney estimator is simple to use and is a reliable estimator for the PI and net benefit in realistic clinical scenarios.sponsorship: The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This work is partly funded by an unrestricted grant provided by the European Cardiovascular Research Institute (ECRI). BB is postdoctoral fellow at the Fund for Scientific Research of Flanders (FWO). (European Cardiovascular Research Institute (ECRI))status: Publishe
The land question in South Africa - a society`s touchstone
No full textDie Masterarbeit “The land question in South Africa – a society`s touchstone” ist von Thomas Marc Krizek, B.A. im Jahr 2019 geschrieben und behandelt die Landfrage in Südafrika. Die zentrale Frage ist: Welche Ansätze wurden bisher gemacht, um die Landfrage im post-Apartheid Südafrika zu lösen und weshalb ist die Landfrage bis heute nicht gelöst? Die eigentliche Arbeit beginnt mit den Methoden, welche im Rahmen der für diese Studie durchgeführten Interviews genutzt werden. Hiernach gibt es eine Einführung in die südafrikanischen Provinzen Gauteng und Western Cape (wo die Forschung getätigt wurde). Der Autor präsentiert dem Leser die lokale Bevölkerung und die Besonderheiten der Regionen. Die nächsten Teile der Arbeit behandeln hauptsächlich die Entwicklungen, welche der Autor als verantwortlich für die gegenwärtige Landverteilung erachtet. Hier behandelt er, unter anderem, die einzelnen Präsidentschaften seit 1994.
Um die Hauptfrage dieser Arbeit zu behandeln, hat der Autor Interviews in der Republik Südafrika im Juli/ August 2018 durchgeführt. Daher ist dies eine qualitative Studie. Die Interviews umfassen Gespräche mit verschiedenen Partnern aus dem landwirtschaftlichen Sektor und anderen Bereichen. Der Fokus der Interviews und der literatur- und quellengestützten Forschung (und damit der Arbeit) liegt auf Konflikten zwischen dem südafrikanischen Staat und seinen Bürgern. Diesbezüglich ist eine der wichtigsten Fragen, wie Südafrikaner die staatlichen Maßnahmen, um die Landfrage zu lösen, wahrnehmen und wahrnahmen. Der Fokus liegt dabei auf den Emotionen der Bürger und der Autor versucht die Ängste oder Erwartungen der Menschen zu zeigen. Dadurch will er beispielsweise die Diskrepanzen zwischen den Erwartungen der Südafrikaner und den staatlichen Maßnahmen anschaulich machen.
Diese Arbeit hat zum Beispiel zum Ergebnis, dass es massives Mißtrauen gegenüber dem Staat und seinen Repräsentanten gibt. Dies macht eine Lösung der Landfrage noch schwieriger. Das massive Mißtrauen der Bürger muss als (versteckter) Konflikt im Staat Südafrika gesehen werden. Auch besteht die Tatsache, dass der südafrikanische Staat, beziehungsweise die gegenwärtige Regierung und ihre Vorgänger, nichts tun (oder taten), um das Vertrauen der südafrikanischen Massen in sich zu stärken. In dieser Arbeit zeigt der Autor, dass es eine gemeinsame Ansicht der Interviewpartner ist, dass der Staat inkompetent ist, leere Versprechungen macht und nichts tut, um die allgemeine Situation im Land zu verbessern.
Letztendlich zeigen diese Fakten, dass der südafrikansiche Staat zuerst Vertrauen erwecken muss, bevor er die Lanfrage löst. Daher muss er für fundamentale Verbesserungen im Land sorgen.The master`s thesis “The land question in South Africa – a society`s touchstone” is written by Thomas Marc Krizek, B.A. in 2019 and deals with the land issue in South Africa. The central question is: How did the approaches to solve the land question in post-Apartheid South Africa develop and why is the land question not solved until now?
The actual work starts with the methods which are used for the interviews conducted for this study. After this, there is an introduction of the South African provinces of Western Cape and Gauteng (where the research was done). The author presents the local people and the specifics of the regions to the reader. The next parts of the thesis mainly deal with the developments which the author classifies as responsible for the current land distribution situation. There, he deals with, inter alia, the single presidencies since 1994.
To deal with the thesis` main question the author has been doing interviews in the Republic of South Africa during July/ August 2018. So this is a qualitative study. The interviews include talks with different partners from the agricultural branch and other ones. The focus of the interviews and the literature- and sources-based research (and thereby of the thesis) is on conflicts between the South African state and its citizens. In this respect, one of the most important questions is how South Africans perceive(d) the state`s measures to solve the land issue. The focus is on the citizens` emotions and the author tries to show the fears or expectations of people. Thereby, he wants to make visible the discrepancies between the expectations of South Africans and the state`s measures, for instance.
Resulting from this thesis, there is, for example, the fact that there is a huge amount of distrust towards the state and its representatives. This makes a solution to the land question even more difficult. The citizens` massive distrust needs to be seen as a (hidden) conflict within the state of South Africa. Also, there is the fact that the South African state, respectively the current government and the former ones, do (did) nothing to create trust in itself among the broad mass of South Africans. In this work the author shows that it is a common view among the interviewees that the state is incompetent, makes empty promises and does nothing to improve the general situation in the country.
Finally, these facts prove that the South African state has to solve the trust issue before the land issue. Therefore, it has to make substantial improvements happen in the country
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