950 research outputs found
Early Risk, Attention, and Brain Activation in Adolescents Born Preterm
No full textThe relations among early cumulative medical risk, cumulative environmental risk, attentional control, and brain activation were assessed in 15 – 16-year-old adolescents who were born preterm. Functional magnetic resonance imaging found frontal, temporal, and parietal cortex activation during an attention task with greater activation of the left superior-temporal and left supramarginal gyri associated with better performance. Individual differences in early cumulative risk are related to patterns of brain activation such that medical risk is related to left parietal cortex activation and environmental risk is related to temporal lobe activation. The findings suggest that early risk is related to less mature patterns of brain activation, including reduced efficiency of processing and responding to stimuli.This is the accepted version of the following article: Carmody, D. P., Bendersky, M., Dunn, S. M., DeMarco, J. K., Hegyi, T., Hiatt, M. and Lewis, M. (2006), Early Risk, Attention, and Brain Activation in Adolescents Born Preterm. Child Development, 77: 384–394, which has been published in final form at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-8624.2006.00877.x/abstract.Peer reviewe
Oral history of Kevin E. Taylor
No full textKevin E. Taylor is working on his greatness while he inspires you to walk in yours! He's a noted author (JADED, UNCLUTTER, BECAUSE HE LIVES, IT'S TIME FOR SOME ACTION, ENVY: the darkest shade of green, GET OFF YOUR ASS AND DO SOMETHING and MEET THE HENDERSONS). He's a pastor (Senior Pastor of Unity Fellowship Church NewArk now and Unity Fellowship Church New Brunswick for 12 years). He's a writer and producer for television (22 years in television and more than 20 years running TaylorMadeMultiMedia (TM3), his own video production company. He is a lecturer/empowerment speaker, who has spoken at colleges, universities and community groups for the last 20 years, and he has also been conducting a series of workshops on everything from pitching a TV show idea to uncluttering your life. "It seems like I'm a multi-tasker who's got too much on his hands, but I'm successful at it because I don't try to do it all at one time. I know how to focus on each task at hand. It's about balance."
Brought up in and raised well by his mother in the projects of Washington, DC, but directly across the street from condos housing powerful lawmakers and business owners, the juxtaposition made him a dreamer. From an early age, Kevin E. Taylor knew that better was available for him. "I remember finding a pocket dictionary in the trash. I would learn a new word everyday. People thought it was crazy, but I knew I would need those words. I knew that there was a power in those words. Those words came in handy when Taylor applied for college and his English essay is what got in him into several schools."
Those words helped the English student, who also studied primarily in Accounting and Spanish. Those words helped when he transitioned from a safe municipal position as a Budget Analyst to Black Entertainment Television (BET) and soon became a producer, where he interviewed such icons as Tina Turner, Maxwell, Stevie Wonder, Luther Vandross, Sade, Diana Ross, Lenny Kravitz, Patti Labelle and later her reunited group Labelle and his personal favorite Natalie Cole, with whom Taylor developed a personal relationship and later did research for and wrote the discography to her 2000 "Angel On My Shoulder" autobiography, which later became an award-winning NBC made-for-TV movie. During his tenure at BET, Kevin created such shows as ACCESS GRANTED, TESTIMONY, LYRICALLY SPEAKING and NOTARIZED, which gave the network its highest day-ratings in its history in 1999 and where he won a Gold World Medal for International Programming for a special (24 HOURS WITH DRU HILL) and a pair of NAACP Image Award nominations, competing against himself in 2001 for his Aaliyah episode of ACCESS GRANTED and his interviews with Mariah Carey and Mary J. Blige for TESTIMONY. Taylor also wrote biographies for projects or featured articles on Anita Baker ("Rhythm of Love" and "My Everything" cd releases), Shai, Jon B., Jennifer Holliday (cover story for REAL magazine), Rachelle Ferrell (The Black Guide) and Tina Turner for the 1996 cover feature of Sister2Sister magazine. Taylor has also done EPKs (electronic/video press kits) for various record labels and recording artists.
Now, Taylor is hosting his own show/webseries (with the help of Kickstarter and a strong following) called NOW WHAT?! WITH KEVIN E TAYLOR. The crowdfunded online series has featured the likes of singers Rachelle Ferrell, B.Slade, Kenny Bobien, Jessica Betts and Kelly Price, actor and playwright Keith Hamilton Cobb, RHOA stars Cynthia Bailey and Peter Thomas, renowned choreographer Desmond Richardson, model/actor/fitness expert Garrain (Steph) Jones, author Victoria Schmidt, wellness icon Queen Afua and many more. The new season of the show will take Taylor on a cross-country tour and will be a series of speaking engagements with featured live interviews and community engagement. Taylor recently released his own autobiography, titled NEVER TOO MUCH: this is my story of big words, big dreams and an audacious big life
Music for classical guitar by South African composers : a historical survey, notes on selected works and a general catalogue
No full textIncludes abstract.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 296-309).This is the first comprehensive investigation of music for, or including, the classical guitar by South African composers. The focus of this research has been, firstly, to uncover as much of the repertoire as possible, and, secondly, to collate, study, catalogue and report on the information. A brief historical survey of the guitar in South Africa provides the context within which this study was conducted. The primary sources of quantitative data collection were through the archival catalogues of the South African Music Rights Organisation and through personal contact with guitarists, composers and guitar teachers. Other sources consulted were publishers, broadcasting corporations, recording companies, libraries and the internet. The body of the dissertation comprises biographical sketches, background notes, analyses and technical notes on 17 selected solo and chamber works dating from 1947 to 2007 by some of South Africa's most prominent composers and guitaristcomposers. The repertoire ranges in style from the traditional and ethnically inspired to the experimental and abstract. As this is an empirical survey, each selected entry includes details on instrumentation, duration, level of difficulty, number of pages, scordatura, commissions or requests, sources or publishers, premières and recordings. A biography of each composer is provided as well as background notes which offer an overview of the selected work. The notes discuss historical, cultural, musical and extra-musical influences, and frequently include references to interview material. The commentaries on the selected works, with musical examples, include an analytical component describing structure, form, stylistic and compositional elements, while the technical observations include performance suggestions and a grading for each work
Harpur Palate, Volume 2 Number 2, Winter 2002
No full textContributors: Leah Umansky | Scott Wolven | Knute Skinner | Ryan G. Van Cleave | Kevin Frazier | Sommer Sterud | Sheree Renee Thomas | Rich Kenney | Melinda Tromara Kirstein | Phillip S. Mandel | Benjamin Gebhardt | B. H. Fairchild | Lydia Davis | John Poch | D. C. Gonzales-Priesto | Jaimee Wriston Colbert | Jennifer L. Holle
Thomas Merton and the Monastic Vision
No full textAuthor: Cunningham, Lawrence S. Title: Thomas Merton and the monastic vision xii. Publisher: Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1999. Series: Library of religious biography
Continuous metadata flows for distributed multimedia
No full textThe practical use of temporal multimedia has increased markedly in recent years as enabling technologies for the distribution and streaming of media have become available. As a part of this trend, hypermedia systems and models have adapted accordingly to incorporate such distributed multimedia for presentation. Structured interpretation of information has long been a fundamental feature of both open hypermedia systems and knowledge systems. Metadata, in its many forms, has become the cornerstone for providing this structured knowledge above and beyond basic data and information. This thesis presents the rationale and requirements for continuous metadata, which supports the metadata accompanying distributed multimedia throughout the lifecycle of streamed media, from generation, through distribution, to presentation. Throughout this process it is the temporal and continuous nature of the metadata which is paramount. A conceptual framework for continuous metadata is proposed to encapsulate these principles and ideas. Continuous metadata and the associated framework enable the development, in particular, of real-time, collaborative, semantically enriched distributed multimedia applications. Experience building one such system using continuous metadata is evaluated within the framework. An ontology is developed for the system to enable the collation, distribution, and presentation of structure aiding navigation of multimedia, and it is shown how continuous metadata utilising the ontology can be distributed using multicas
Thomas Aquinas on the Principle Omne Agens Agit Sibi Simile
No full textThomas Aquinas on the Principle Omne Agens Agit Sibi SimileDaniel J. Pierson, Ph.D.Director: Kevin White, Ph.D.This dissertation is a comprehensive study of the principle omne agens agit sibi simile in Aquinas's writings. This axiom, which appears over 220 times in the Thomistic corpus, is sometimes referred to as the principle of similarity or similitude, since it states that every agent produces something like itself.Chapter One begins with a consideration of previous studies that have discussed the principle of similitude in Aquinas's writings. This chapter also includes a discussion of the dissertation's methodology, which explains how search parameters were formulated for the Index Thomisticus--an online searchable database of Aquinas's writings--to locate every instance of the principle of similitude in the Thomistic corpus. From the results of these searches, three philosophical contexts in which Aquinas employs the principle come to light: natural theology, natural philosophy, and philosophy of knowledge.The middle chapters of the dissertation study in detail Aquinas's uses of the principle in each of these three areas of his thought. Chapter Two examines his uses of the principle in natural theology, where he applies the principle to God's creative agency and employs the principle to justify ascribing analogical names to God. Chapter Three, which concerns Aquinas's application of the principle to the beings studied in natural philosophy, highlights Aquinas's view that a lower agent imitates God's efficient causality by producing something like itself. Chapter Four examines Aquinas's uses of the principle in philosophy of knowledge, where he applies the principle to the various types of agencies involved in the achievement of intellectual knowledge.Chapter Five considers the justification that Aquinas offers for the principle of similitude. In this discussion, it is shown that Aquinas's justification of the principle is connected to a hierarchy of various types of agents, each of which produces something like itself in some way.The conclusion states that the principle of similitude is a fundamental element of Aquinas's metaphysical thought, since he uses it to express the dynamism of being.Two appendices provide a catalog of Aquinas's uses of the principle of similitude, organized both chronologically and topically.Degree awarded: Ph.D. Philosophy. The Catholic University of Americ
The Meaning of "Beauty" and Its Transcendental Status in the Metaphysics of Thomas Aquinas
No full textDegree Awarded: Ph.D. Philosophy. The Catholic University of AmericaThis dissertation investigates whether "beauty" is a transcendental in the metaphysics of Thomas Aquinas. For Thomas, a transcendental is a term that expresses a distinct attribute of every being insofar as it exists, and which therefore reveals something unique about the nature of all reality. Hence, the question of whether beauty is a transcendental for Thomas has important implications not only for his metaphysics, but for his thought in general. The Introduction argues that the question we are investigating actually consists of two questions, a historical one and a systematic one: "Did Thomas himself consider beauty to be a distinct transcendental?" and "Does Thomas's thought imply or entail that beauty is a distinct transcendental?" Furthermore, since beauty cannot be a distinct attribute of every being for Thomas unless it has a distinct meaning, neither question can be answered in isolation from a third question: "What is the meaning of 'beauty' in Thomas's thought?" Chapter One examines the historical question regarding beauty's transcendental status, namely whether Thomas himself considered beauty a transcendental. The chapter proceeds by extracting from his writings the characteristics that distinguish the transcendentals from all other terms, and then determining whether he attributes these marks to beauty. Chapter Two begins our investigation of the systematic question regarding beauty's transcendental status, namely whether Thomas's metaphysics implies or entails that beauty is a transcendental. The chapter examines the attempts of certain contemporary Thomists to prove either that beauty is a transcendental or that it is not. Our examination of the systematic question concerning beauty's transcendental status continues with an analysis of Thomas's opinions on both the subjective factors of aesthetic experience, i.e. a person's perception of and delight in beauty, and the objective factors of that experience, i.e. the ontological conditions for beauty in a being. Hence, we investigate the nature of aesthetic perception in Chapter Three, the nature of aesthetic pleasure in Chapter Four, and the nature of beauty's conditions in Chapter Five. The sixth and final chapter uses these findings to formulate a conclusion regarding the meaning of beauty and its transcendental status in Thomas's metaphysics
Thomas Mann y el retorno de lo reprimido: vida u obra
No full textEste ensayo explora el constante motivo fundamental que da cohesión a toda la obra de Thomas Mann: el «desplome de una actitud trabajosamente obtenida y cultivada a través de la inteligencia y la renuncia» y el «ululante triunfo del mundo de los instintos». Dicho de otro modo: el retorno de lo reprimido. Detrás de la extraordinaria congruencia y organicidad del universo poético manniano laten angustias eróticas que acuciaron al hombre de carne y hueso. Estas páginas exploran la transfiguración poética de tales pulsiones, en esencia homoeróticas, en obras como El pequeño señor Friedemann, El payaso, Tonio Kröger, Muerte en Venecia y La montaña mágica, entre otras, donde su autor alcanza admirables cúspides de silencio velado.This essay explores the basic motif which to some extent holds together Thomas Mann’s literary work: «the collapse of a highly cultivated poised attitude, laboriously won by judgement and renunciation» and the «triumph of the suppressed world of instinct». In other words: the return of the repressed. Behind the extraordinary congruence and organicity of Mann’s poetic universe lie erotic anguishes that beset the author. These pages explore the poetic transfiguration of such drives, essentially homoerotic, in works such as Der kleine Herr Friedemann, Der Bajazzo, Tonio Kröger, Der Tod in Venedig and Der Zauberberg, among others, where the author reaches admirable peaks of veiled silence.Este ensayo explora el constante motivo fundamental que da cohesión a toda la obra de Thomas Mann: el «desplome de una actitud trabajosamente obtenida y cultivada a través de la inteligencia y la renuncia» y el «ululante triunfo del mundo de los instintos». Dicho de otro modo: el retorno de lo reprimido. Detrás de la extraordinaria congruencia y organicidad del universo poético manniano laten angustias eróticas que acuciaron al hombre de carne y hueso. Estas páginas exploran la transfiguración poética de tales pulsiones, en esencia homoeróticas, en obras como El pequeño señor Friedemann, El payaso, Tonio Kröger, Muerte en Venecia y La montaña mágica, entre otras, donde su autor alcanza admirables cúspides de silencio velado
S12 | NORMANEWS | NormaNEWS for Retrospective Screening of New Emerging Contaminants
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<p>Alygizakis et al 2018, DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.8b00365</p>For more author details see associated publication: DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.8b0036
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