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Supplemental Material, lowe.etal.supplement.rev_(3) - Quantifying Thematic Saturation in Qualitative Data Analysis
No full textSupplemental Material, lowe.etal.supplement.rev_(3) for Quantifying Thematic Saturation in Qualitative Data Analysis by Andrew Lowe, Anthony C. Norris, A. Jane Farris, and Duncan R. Babbage in Field Methods</p
Oral history interview with Jane Hauser Pejsa
No full textTranscript, 39 pp.Jane Hauser Pejsa grew up in Minneapolis and graduated from Carleton College in 1951 with a degree in mathematics, then took an engineering position with Northwestern Bell Telephone in downtown Minneapolis. Her supportive math professor, Kenneth O. May, helped her land a position with Remington Rand Univac at the original Engineering Research Associates factory in St. Paul. At Univac she worked with Earl Joseph, then later worked in General Mills’ government computing division with Francis Alterman, founder of the short-lived Advanced Scientific Instruments. After briefly working for a book publisher, she took a position as a FORTRAN specialist with Honeywell Systems and Research developing computing and guidance systems for the Space Shuttle. She offers numerous character sketches and anecdotes, which she has written down in an essay entitled Memoir of a Fortran Queen (2016).
This material is based on work funded by theAlfred P. Sloan Foundation award B2014-07 “Tripling Women’s Participation in Computing (1965-1985).”Pejsa, Jane Hauser. (2016). Oral history interview with Jane Hauser Pejsa. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/188568
THE SCIENTIFIC LIBRARY OF CHARLES BABBAGE
No full textA description of the history, contents, and present
location of the scientific library of Charles Babbage. The contents are classified
under 21 headings. Babbage is shown to have had an interest in the collection
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Charles Babbage: theology, technique, and economy in the Ninth Bridgewater Treatise
No full textCharles Babbage (1791-1871) foi um polímata, economista e engenheiro formado pela Universidade de Cambridge, hoje reconhecido por ser o primeiro a projetar máquinas de cálculo programáveis. Seu renome, comumente associado à história da computação, no entanto, acabou por ofuscar as outras facetas do autor, de tal modo que a diversidade de temas de sua obra passou despercebida pela maioria de seus comentadores. Neste trabalho, propomos uma interpretação ampla dessa menos explorada diversidade do pensamento babbageano, adotando como ponto de partida a sua teologia natural, presente em The Ninth Bridgewater Treatise (1837). Através da articulação de suas reflexões teológicas, de sua experiência como designer de máquinas de cálculo programáveis e de suas propostas para o desenvolvimento econômico e tecnológico enfatizamos, ao longo do trabalho, as linhas guias da obra do matemático de Cambridge. A fim de melhor fundamentar nossa hipótese interpretativa geral, na primeira e segunda parte desta dissertação, contextualizamos tanto o período histórico de Babbage quanto a relação entre a teologia natural babbageana e aquela adotada pela coleção dos Tratados de Bridgewater. Passamos, em seguida, ao comentário de trechos importantes do Nono tratado e, por fim, à conclusão, na qual apresentamos as possíveis críticas ao projeto teológico e econômico babbageano.Charles Babbage (1791-1871) was a polymath, economist and engineer graduated from the University of Cambridge, today recognized for being the first to design programmable calculating machines. His reputation, commonly associated with the history of computing, however, ended up overshadowing the other facets of the author, in such a way that the diversity of themes in his work went unnoticed by most of his commentators. In this work, we propose a broad interpretation of this less explored diversity of the Babbagean thought, taking as its starting point its natural theology, present in The Ninth Bridgewater Treatise (1837). Through the articulation of his theological reflections, his experience as a designer of programmable calculus machines, and his proposals for economic and technological development, we emphasize, throughout the work, the guidelines of the work of the Cambridge mathematician. In order to better base our general interpretive hypothesis, in the first and second part of this dissertation, we contextualize both the historical Babbage period and the conflicting relationship between Babbagean natural theology and that adopted by the Bridgewater Treaties collection. We then proceed to comment on important passages from the Ninth treaty and, finally, to the conclusion, in which we present possible criticisms of the Babbagean theological and economic project
An Oral History Interview with Meg Leta Jones
No full textAn Oral History Interview with Meg Leta Jones conducted by Gerardo Con DiazThis oral history interview is sponsored by NSF 2202484, “Mining a Usable Past: Perspectives, Paradoxes, and Possibilities with Security and Privacy,” at the Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota. The interview is with Meg Leta Jones, Provost’s Distinguished Associate Professor in the Communication, Culture, and Technology program at Georgetown University. Jones discusses her upbringing in rural Illinois, her education in engineering, law, and communication studies, and her path to interdisciplinary privacy scholarship. She reflects on her work on the right to be forgotten, data deletion, and comparative privacy regimes. Then she discusses her engagement with design, infrastructure, and information ethics, as well as her roles as author, mentor, and public scholar.National Science FoundationLeta Jones, Meg. (2025). An Oral History Interview with Meg Leta Jones. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/274361
Re-visioning myth : feminist strategies in contemporary theatre
No full textThis thesis examines the strategy of re-visioning myth within contemporary European
feminist theatre, a strategy which has proved popular over time and across cultures but
which has received insufficient critical attention. This study seeks to fill that gap by
offering a framework through which this practice can be considered, exploring the
diverse motivations of individual playwrights, and evaluating the achievements of
particular plays in context. Twelve case studies are included, grouped together to
demonstrate a variety of approaches to re-visioning ranging from utilisation of myth as
pretext for examination of social issues, to an apparent abandonment of contemporary
reality for a utopian otherworld. However, it is argued first that mythical, social and
psychological strands remain intertwined, and second that the diversity of approaches
reflects the importance for feminist theatre of selecting strategies to meet specific needs,
and that these strategies can thus be viewed as complementary rather than in conflict.
Chapter One introduces selected critical perspectives on myth, re-visioning and feminist
theatre, framing these within Rita Felski's model of the feminist counter-public sphere.
Chapter Two discusses plays by Hella Haasse, Franca Rame and Sarah Daniels, which
examine myth as ideological narrative. Plays by Maureen Duffy, Caryl Churchill and
David Lan, and Timberlake Wertenbaker, considered in Chapter Three, investigate
myths of female violence. Chapter Four looks at plays by Andree Chedid and Angela
Carter which use myth to confront women's complicity in maintaining the status quo.
Plays by Serena Sartori, Renata Coluccini and Helene Cixous, discussed in Chapter
Five, offer psychological investigations into women's relationships with myth,
language and power. The thesis concludes with a summary of the research findings,
and assesses their significance
Investigations into the Effects of Middle Ear Surgery on Inner Ear Function
No full textMiddle ear surgical procedures are typically associated with a high rate of improvement in air-conduction thresholds and a low rate of sensorineural hearing loss in the conventionally assessed frequency range (0.25 – 8 kHz). Hearing loss in the extended high-frequency (EHF) range (8 – 16 kHz), however, may be common, although its characteristics are not well understood. To elucidate the effects of middle ear surgery on auditory function, prospective investigations were performed to provide data that allowed transient and permanent changes in EHF hearing to be distinguished, and to establish the nature of EHF hearing loss.
Changes in hearing at 0.25 to 16 kHz were documented in 88 patients following stapedectomy, ossiculoplasty, and tympanoplasty. Hearing was measured preoperatively, and 1 week, 1, 3, 6, and 12 months postoperatively. Results showed that elevation of EHF air-conduction thresholds occurred frequently following all three surgeries and was most severe one week postoperatively. Although significant recovery of hearing was recorded by three months, 12 months after surgery, 50% of patients who underwent stapedectomy, 42% who had a tympanoplasty and 20% who underwent ossiculoplasty retained a reduction in their highest audible frequency. A TEAC HP-F100 bone-conduction transducer was modified for use in EHF audiometry and used in a small pilot study to demonstrate that EHF hearing loss following stapedectomy may be composed of both conductive and sensorineural elements.
It was hypothesised that changes to utricular responses reflective of trauma to the vestibular portion of the inner ear may also occur following middle ear surgery. Measurements of tap-evoked ocular vestibular evoked myogenic potentials (oVEMPs) were performed in the same group of patients in which audiometric data was collected. Overall, the oVEMP data provided no evidence of a postoperative change in utricular responses.
To assess clinical importance of EHF hearing loss, its role in one aspect of auditory function, localisation ability, was investigated in 46 participants; 23 with EHF hearing loss and 23 with normal EHF hearing. Overall, the results agreed with previous studies that localisation accuracy decreased when was EHF spectral content was removed by filtering, however the difference between hearing groups was significant only when speakers were positioned in the lateral vertical orientation.
Regardless of the clinical consequences, the increased vulnerability of EHF hearing acuity to the effects of middle ear surgery provides a useful model which could be used to efficiently assess the effect of technical factors of surgery or the efficacy of ototherapeutic treatments on hearing outcomes
Early postoperative delayed hearing loss: Patterns of behavioural and electrophysiological auditory responses following vestibular schwannoma surgery
No full textFollowing vestibular schwannoma excision, a subset of cases has been reported in which hearing is present immediately after surgery, but is lost in the early postoperative period. Such cases have rarely been reported, and the postoperative audiological data collected from patients in these cases lacks the time resolution necessary to determine the pathophysiological mechanism responsible for the pattern of hearing loss. The present study aimed to more clearly define delayed hearing loss by collecting detailed data documenting changes in behavioural and electrophysiological auditory responses following vestibular schwannoma surgery. In particular, we aimed to use this data to determine the time course of changes in auditory function and to identify whether the site of impairment was cochlear or neural.
Preoperative and daily postoperative monitoring of auditory function was performed in 19 patients undergoing vestibular schwannoma excision via the retrosigmoid approach at Christchurch Public Hospital. The pre- and postoperative assessment battery included pure-tone and speech audiometry, tympanometry, tone decay, distortion product otoacoustic emissions (DPOAEs), and auditory brainstem response (ABR) measurement. Intraoperative ABR was performed in four cases in which clear preoperative waveforms were present. Transtympanic electrocochleography (ECochG) was carried out if wave I was lost in the early postoperative period.
Thirteen of the 19 patients suffered immediate anacusis following surgery and six had measurable hearing postoperatively. The behavioural and electrophysiological data collected in each case is discussed with regard to the likely pathophysiology of pre- and postoperative hearing loss.
No patients demonstrated behavioural evidence of delayed hearing loss, however a gradual deterioration of ABR in the early postoperative period was observed in Case 16. ECochG and DPOAEs in this case indicated the presence of cochlear function although the patient presented with immediate postoperative anacusis in the ipsilateral ear. These results are consistent with postoperative retrograde degeneration of the cochlear nerve
BACK TO BABBAGE
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"A real actress": Theatre and selfhood in Antonia White's Frost in may quartet
No full textThe novels of British author Antonia White (1899–980) have been mined primarily for themes of psychosis, sexual trauma, and spiritual faith and doubt, whilst simultaneously marginalized as “autobiographical fiction.” This chapter freshly illuminates her work by analysis through the lens of theatre, revealed as a trope shaping the Frost in May quartet: theatre manifests in formal productions and, metaphorically, to express a profoundly unstable sense of self. I argue that theatre's intertwining of supposed “oppositions”—self and role, real and pretended, felt and faked—explains its fascination for the author, synthesizing qualities she found terrifyingly antithetical. White's own encounters with the stage also reflect the changing face of British theatre in the twentieth century: from conservatism to experiment, towards a more holistic model joining realism and abstraction, creativity and technique, corporeality and the text
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