629 research outputs found
sj-docx-2-nnr-10.1177_15459683231164787 – Supplemental material for Differential Associations of Mobility With Fronto-Striatal Integrity and Lesion Load in Older Adults With and Without Multiple Sclerosis
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-2-nnr-10.1177_15459683231164787 for Differential Associations of Mobility With Fronto-Striatal Integrity and Lesion Load in Older Adults With and Without Multiple Sclerosis by Mark E. Wagshul, Frederick W. Foley, Kapil Chaudhary, Michael L. Lipton, Robert W. Motl, Meltem Izzetoglu, Manuel E. Hernandez, Mary Ann Picone and Roee Holtzer in Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair</p
sj-docx-1-nnr-10.1177_15459683231164787 – Supplemental material for Differential Associations of Mobility With Fronto-Striatal Integrity and Lesion Load in Older Adults With and Without Multiple Sclerosis
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-1-nnr-10.1177_15459683231164787 for Differential Associations of Mobility With Fronto-Striatal Integrity and Lesion Load in Older Adults With and Without Multiple Sclerosis by Mark E. Wagshul, Frederick W. Foley, Kapil Chaudhary, Michael L. Lipton, Robert W. Motl, Meltem Izzetoglu, Manuel E. Hernandez, Mary Ann Picone and Roee Holtzer in Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair</p
Acousmaticity of Film Sound Effects: Media Mystification of <i>Foley</i> in the Context of <i>Sound Design</i>
No full textThe text is about the foley profession, an important specialty performed as part of film sound design, at the post-production stage. What’s important here is both, the foley artist’s body, which becomes an instrument, and the ontology of created sounds, which are inserted into the finished film and synchronized with the picture. The author wonders if there is still a place for foley artists in the digital reality and common computerization of work. But the most important issue concerns the nature of sounds themselves, in the context of their production, acousmatics and the ubiquitous sound design. What is the sound implemented into the picture, does the picture give credence to the sound, even though the sound is “substituted” because it is produced in the studio? The situation is debatable, in the context of acousmatic listening (i.e. without the context of the source), because the picture provides a substitute context for the sound, and the viewer (listener) accepts this audio-visual relationship without reservation (as long as the sound is prepared well). Especially since by going to the cinema, the viewer agrees to a form of manipulation in the name of entertainment. Usually he or she is not aware of the mystification in the field of sound, which - within the oculocentric perception ‒ for him or her is only a complement to the picture, although, in fact, it plays a fundamental role in understanding what is happening on the screen. Other topics discussed in the text concern the communicativeness of sound and the historical background of the foley profession. Also important are the interrelations between foley and sound design and other areas of sound activity, as part of the preparation of all the audio layers of a film
Raw footage of University of Mississippi Jamie Whitten Dinner in Washington, D.C.
No full textRaw, unedited footage of University of Mississippi Jame Whitten Diner in Washington, D.C. used in creation of final product, Whitten VHS 8. Introduction by Chancellor R. Gerald Turner. Tributes by W. Frederick Smith (Chairman of Federal Express Corporation); Ray Mabus (Governor of Mississippi); Mary Ann Mobley (National Chairperson of the Ole Miss Annual Fund). Miss Mississippi Toni Seawright sings Mississippi, I Love My Home. William F. Winter (former governor of Mississippi) discusses the University of Mississippi Law School. Will Hickman (Board of Trustees, Mississippi Institutions of Higher Learning) outlines Whitten\u27s education and career. Tributes by U.S. Representative Bob Michel and Speaker of the House Jim Wright. University of Mississippi documentary saluting the career of Jamie L. Whitten, including clips with U.S. Representative Thomas S. Foley; Whitten; U.S. Representative Edward P. Boland; U.S. Representative William H. Natcher; U.S. Representative Silvio Conte. Remarks of Jamie Whitten. Howard McMillan (President of the Ole Miss Alumni Association) presents Centennial Alumni medallion to Jamie Whitten
Author Co-Citation Analysis (ACA): a powerful tool for representing implicit knowledge of scholar knowledge workers
No full textIn the last decade, knowledge has emerged as one of the most important and valuable organizational assets. Gradually this importance caused to emergence of new discipline entitled ―knowledge management‖. However one of the major challenges of knowledge management is conversion implicit or tacit knowledge to explicit knowledge. Thus Making knowledge visible so that it can be better accessed, discussed, valued or generally managed is a long-standing objective in knowledge management. Accordingly in this paper author co- citation analysis (ACA) will be proposed as an efficient technique of knowledge visualization in academia (Scholar knowledge workers)
Review of \u3ci\u3eFather Francis M. Craft: Missionary to the Sioux\u3c/i\u3e By Thomas W. Foley
No full textThe bland title of this biography might not attract the many readers the book deserves since Craft\u27s name is known only from occasional footnotes related to the Ghost Dance religion that ended with tragic bloodletting at Wounded Knee in 1890. Using the priest\u27s journals and researching references contained within them, the author draws from obscurity a life that should inspire scholars to tap similar material reposited in Marquette University\u27s Catholic Indian mission archives. Diaries and journals stored there are a treasure trove of ethnographic and historical information that still awaits baring. Biographers can use Foley\u27s work as a standard to imitate.
Until this work, Craft appeared as a kind of itinerant Irish-Catholic priest who happened to be present (for unknown reasons) at Wounded Knee. He becomes substantially more complex as Foley shows he also bore the titles of soldier, physician, convert to Catholicism, and, of special significance, a priest of Mohawk descent. In the Jesuit Order for six years, Craft was later ordained for the Diocese of Omaha where he served as a missionary to the Sioux of North and South Dakota. He was adopted by the family of Spotted Tail and spoke Lakota fluently.
Craft\u27s later presence at Wounded Knee was to people among whom he once served as priest but who were now under military arrest. Unlike many later historians, Craft commended the soldiers for their restraint on this occasion. Were he to be fatally wounded, however, he asked to be buried with the Lakota who died there and were placed in a mass grave that now marks the site.
Foley reveals a late nineteenth-century world of religious sectarianism that influenced the actions of many who converged upon the American frontier. When not contending with Protestant government officials, Craft regularly confronted the hierarchy of his own Church who showed more interest in Katherine Drexel\u27s well-funded evangelistic efforts than in his founding of a devout, but penniless, congregation of Lakota nuns. In the end, the veteran of five wars and missionary to several Lakota agencies found his much-deserved respite as a parish pastor in Pennsylvania.
Readers will not be sympathetic to the priest\u27s Catholic opponents and non-Catholic detractors with whom he regularly skirmished. Unlike many who contended with Craft in his lifetime, they probably will identify with the hundreds who attended his funeral to mourn a heartfelt loss. So compelling is Foley\u27s larger-than-life portrait that readers may wish to see it brought to the movie screen
Co-creative publics and publication design practice
No full textThis study is situated in the practice of publication design. I characterise publication design as the act of bringing thoughts, opinions, information and stories into the public realm. A publication artefact in this study refers to the material and non-material form that the communication takes, such as print, web, audio, or discourse and event.Through this study I make the case that the professional, mainstream practice of publication design will change in relation to the way a public for it changes. In this, design practice is likely to be transformed in a way that is similar to the transformation in other related practices such as media and commerce.On completion of this study, I believe it can be argued that publication design is moving from a broadcast medium to a social and relational one, where the audience participates in the production of meaning (or sense-making) by attaining a closer relationship to the production of design. I use the term co-creative public to describe this audience. The characteristics of this public are that it is self-organised, freely associated and forms in response to attention (Warner 2002).As the relationship between designer and audience evolves reciprocally, it is possible to reinterpret the role of the professional designer and to identify the new opportunities presented
The Effect of Oral Laxatives on Rectal Distension and Image Quality in Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Prostate.
No full textThis is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License CC-BY 4.0., which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.Introduction Increasing rectal size is associated with increased artefacts on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the prostate and has the potential to degrade image quality. The objective of this study was to analyse the effect of oral laxative medication on rectal distension and image quality in prostate MRI. Methods Eighty patients prospectively received either 15 mg of oral senna (laxative group) or no medication (control group). Patients underwent prostate MRI according to standard local protocol and seven rectal dimensions on axial and sagittal images were measured. A subjective assessment of rectal distension was also made using a five-point Likert scale. Finally, artefacts on diffusion-weighted sequences were assessed using a four-point Likert scale. Results There was a small reduction in rectal diameter on sagittal images in the laxative group compared to the control group, with mean diameters of 27.1 mm and 30.0 mm respectively, p=0.02. There was no significant difference in rectal measurements of anteroposterior diameter, transverse diameter, or rectal circumference on axial imaging. Subjective scoring also demonstrated no significant difference in diffusion-weighted imaging quality between the laxative group and control group, p=0.82. Conclusion Bowel preparation with the oral laxative, senna, provided only a marginal decrease in rectal distension on one measure and no reduction in artefacts on diffusion-weighted sequences. The findings of this study do not support the routine use of this medication in patients undergoing prostate MRI
University of Mississippi Jamie L. Whitten Dinner in Washington, D.C., The
No full textThe Jamie L. Whitten Dinner in Washington D.C. to honor U.S. Representative Jamie L. Whitten and to celebrate the creation of the Jamie L. Whitten Chair of Law and Government at the University of Mississippi. Introduction by Chancellor R. Gerald Turner. Tributes by W. Frederick Smith (Chairman of Federal Express Corporation); Ray Mabus (Governor of Mississippi); Mary Ann Mobley (National Chairperson of the Ole Miss Annual Fund). Miss Mississippi Toni Seawright sings Mississippi, I Love My Home. William F. Winter (former governor of Mississippi) discusses the University of Mississippi Law School. Will Hickman (Board of Trustees, Mississippi Institutions of Higher Learning) outlines Whitten\u27s education and career. Tributes by U.S. Representative Bob Michel and Speaker of the House Jim Wright. University of Mississippi documentary saluting the career of Jamie L. Whitten, including clips with U.S. Representative Thomas S. Foley; Whitten; U.S. Representative Edward P. Boland; U.S. Representative William H. Natcher; U.S. Representative Silvio Conte. Remarks of Jamie Whitten. Howard McMillan (President of the Ole Miss Alumni Association) presents Centennial Alumni medallion to Jamie Whitten
PREDICTORS OF COPING AND STRESS INOCULATION TRAINING IN MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS
No full textThe present study evaluated a Stress Inoculation training program designed to augment coping in multiple sclerosis (MS). It was predicted that, compared to a waiting list control group, the MS patients who received the intervention would demonstrate at post test significantly less depression, anxiety, and perceived distress, as well as significantly more problem-focused coping efforts. It was expected that compliance with the procedure would be related to treatment outcome, so it was hypothesized that compliance would be correlated negatively with depression, anxiety, and perceived distress, and positively correlated with problem-focused coping. A secondary purpose of the research was to investigate the coping process among these patients, specifically by describing predictors of psychological distress in MS. Demographic (educational background), disease related (duration and severity of illness), and trait (locus of control) variables were hypothesized to be predictors of psychological distress. Forty volunteer MS outpatients from Albert Einstein College of Medicine were randomly assigned to either the treatment or waiting list control group. The dependent variables were assessed via the Beck Depression Inventory, State-Trait Anxiety Inventory, Hassles Scale, Ways of Coping Checklist, Internal-External Locus of Control Scale, Kurtzke Disability Status Scale for Multiple Sclerosis, and the Stress Record Diary. The hypotheses that addressed the efficacy of the intervention were largely supported by the data. The subjects who received the treatment were significantly less anxious, utilized significantly more problem-focused coping, and demonstrated tendencies towards lower depression and perceived distress than the control group. Contrary to expectations, correlations between compliance with treatment and treatment outcome were not significant on depression, state anxiety, or perceived distress. The results of the hypotheses that investigated the predictors of psychological distress in MS were partially confirmed, as distress was found to be significantly correlated with external locus of control, trait and state anxiety, but not with educational background or duration of illness. The current results suggest that a Stress-Inoculation procedure can significantly assist patients with MS cope more efficaciously with subjective stress. Instrumental limitations included the reliance on self-reports, and the failure to assess qualitative aspects of treatment compliance. Future research should standardize alternative conditions offered, and assess for the comparability of patient expectations between groups
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