911 research outputs found
Jonathan Ned Katz Author Event: The Daring Life and Dangerous Times of Eve Adam
No full text“The Daring Life and Dangerous Times of Eve Adams,” interview with author, Jonathan Ned Katz, moderated by Emily Weiner (WWU) and organized by Congregation Beth Israel
Ned Rorem
No full textNed Rorem is a distinguished author and composer. He won a Pulitzer Prize for his 1976 orchestral suite, "Air Music." He has written several books and was the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, an award from the National Institute of Arts and Letters, and three times received the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers Deems Taylor Award.Mr. Rorem is seated at a piano. He is wearing a corduroy jacket and dark shirt
Paradoxical facilitation after depotentiation protocol can precede dyskinesia onset in early Parkinson’s disease
Full text linkLoss of dopamine, a key modulator of synaptic signalling, and subsequent pulsatile non-physiological levodopa replacement is believed to underlie altered neuroplasticity in Parkinson’s disease (PD). Animal models suggest that maladaptive plasticity (e.g. deficient depotentiation at corticostriatal synapses) is key in the development of levodopa-induced dyskinesia (LID), a common complication following levodopa replacement in PD. Human studies using transcranial magnetic stimulation protocols have shown similar depotentiation deficit in patients with LID. We hypothesized that subtle depotentiation deficits should precede LID if these deficits are mechanistically linked to LID onset. Moreover, patients on pulsatile levodopa-based therapy may show these changes earlier than those treated with levodopa-sparing strategies. We recruited 22 early non-dyskinetic PD patients (</p
The non-verbal emotional dictionary NED
No full textA human face is an extremely important source of information during human communication. We learn to recognize facial expressions long before we learn to communicate verbally. Facial expressions are the most effective way to communicate our emotions. For years most researchers centred their attention in the automatic recognition of facial expressions and the most important for them was the recognition of the shape of mouth, eyes and eyebrows. Nowadays, researchers are getting more interested in the automatic generation of facial expressions using an input text. This approach can be of a big importance in many disciplines, such as human communication through computer interfaces and games. Based on this approach, my Master thesis will be focused on building a Non-verbal Emotional Dictionary (NED) where the most important aspect is the relation between from one side an emotional word, and from the other side its corresponding facial expression coded by Action Units (AU) representation and facial expression. This dictionary can then be used as a bridge between an emotional text analyzer and a 3D Talking face system to mimic humane conversations using emotions in a virtual world. To accomplish this, the database of the NED system should include a number of the most used emotional words with there corresponding AU’s. Of course this database will not include all existing emotional words, but will use another database, the Dictionary of Affect Language (DAL) to find the link between the words that are not listed in my database to words that are listed in it. This database (NED) will help, when combined with a 3D talking face system with a text as its input, in the automatic generation of facial expressions. The idea consists of, given an input text, the system should be able to recognize the different emotions and the mood that this input text contains. In this way the “3D face” system should be, in the future, able to read a text or a story as emotionally as a human would do. Using such technology we will achieve a big step in the future of the human communication in the digital world.Media and Knowledge EngineeringElectrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Scienc
The Lynching and Rebirth of Ned Buntline: Rogue Authorship during the American Literary Renaissance
Full text linkThough largely unknown today, “Ned Buntline” (Edward Zane Carroll Judson) was one of the most influential authors of 19th-century America. He published over 170 novels, edited multiple popular and political publications, and helped pioneer the seafaring adventure, city mystery and Western genres. It was his pirate tales that Tom Sawyer constantly reenacted, his “Bowery B’hoys” that came to define the distinctive slang and swagger of urban American characters, and his novels and plays that turned an unknown scout into Buffalo Bill, King of the Border Men. But before “Ned Buntline” became a mainstay of the popular press, he had been on his way to becoming one of the nation’s highbrow literary elites. He was praised by the leading critics, edited an important literary journal, and his stories appeared in the era’s most prestigious publications. This study examines how and why “Ned Buntline” moved from prestigious to popular authorship and argues that the transformation was precipitated by one very specific event: in 1846, Edward Z. C. Judson was lynched. A close examination of Judson’s life, writing, and the coverage of him in the newspapers of the day (including the remarkable story of how he survived a lynching) demonstrates that the same issues that led to his lynching also led to his rebirth as a new kind of American author
Enhancing motor performance in the healthy and Parkinsonian brain: adaptation, oscillations, and electrical stimulation
Full text linkParkinson's disease (PD) is characterized by debilitating impairments in motor control arising from pathophysiological alterations in basal ganglia circuitry and function. In this research thesis two main approaches, namely electrical recording and stimulation, are combined in order to better understand motor performance in Parkinson's disease and ways it might be improved. Three main types of motor behaviors are studied: discrete ballistic movement, repetitive movement, and motor adaptation. First, deep brain stimulation (DBS) of the subthalamic nucleus (STN) was shown to improve the velocity of discrete, ballistic movements in PD. The neural correlates of ballistic movements were then studied by recording from the STN of PD patients, revealing onset of beta-range desynchronization prior to, and gamma-range frequency synchronization during, performance of fast arm reaches. To determine a causal role for these oscillatory frequencies in motor behavior, the motor cortex of healthy humans was stimulated at either beta or gamma frequency during a 'go/no-go' grip force task. Beta stimulation resulted in slower force generation on 'go' trials but enhanced inhibition during 'no-go' trials, whereas gamma stimulation resulted in faster force generation on 'go' trials. Second, STN DBS resulted in improved repetitive tapping performance in PD patients through a reduction in variability. Recordings from the STN demonstrated that repetitive movement was accompanied by a substantial and persistent suppression of beta oscillatory activity. Third, Parkinson's patients were tested on a motor adaptation task, revealing intact learning but impaired retention of a visuomotor rotation. Application of direct current stimulation of the motor cortex resulted in enhanced adaptation during both learning and retention in PD patients and healthy controls. These results causally implicate the basal ganglia and oscillatory activity in motor control, provide insight into the neuronal mechanisms of motor performance and adaptation, and demonstrate promising new avenues for enhancing motor control in Parkinson's disease
Systems analysis & design fundamentals: a business process redesign approach
No full textSystems Analysis & Design Fundamentals: A Business Process Redesign Approach uniquely integrates traditional and modern systems analysis with design methods and techniques. By using a business process redesign approach, author Ned Kock enables readers to understand, in a very applied and practical way, how information technologies can be used to significantly improve organizational quality and productivity
The Song Cycles of Ned Rorem: a Technical Survey.
Full text linkThis monograph includes a brief history of the development of the song cycle genre in general, Ned Rorem\u27s definition of the genre in particular, and a brief history of Ned Rorem\u27s contributions to song cycles. Each of Ned Rorem\u27s published song cycles has been inspected for the following: poet(s) and literary theme(s); excerptability of individual songs; difficulty of individual songs (rated easy, moderately easy, or difficult); accompanimental instrument(s); and apparent cyclic interval(s), motive(s), or melody(ies). These data are compiled in a concise form for each song cycle and is followed by explanations of the determination of excerptability and difficulty, and the composer\u27s comments on each cycle taken from the composer\u27s notes which precede some of the cycles and/or a personal interview with the composer. The survey yielded the following information about the song cycles. Seventeen use a single poet or author, and eight use a variety of poets. Eleven have a consistent poetic theme, three create a narrative, and eleven have unrelated themes. Sixteen are accompanied by piano, four are accompanied by a small group of instruments (four or less instruments), four are accompanied by orchestra, and one is unaccompanied. Twenty-one contain excerptable songs (with forty-eight excerptable songs rated easy, sixty-seven excerptable songs rated moderately difficult, and forty-two excerptable rated difficult), and four contain unexcerptable songs. Twenty-one contain no apparent cyclic melody of melodic motive, and four contain a cyclic melody or motive. All of the cycles contain songs of varying difficulty, and all meet most definitions of song cycle. The typical song cycle composed by Ned Rorem has a single poet or author, has a consistent poetic theme, is accompanied by piano alone, contains individual songs which are excerptable and which vary in difficulty, contains no apparent cyclic melody or motive, and meets the requirements for most definitions of song cycle
Richard Ned Lebow: Essential Texts on Classics, History, Ethics, and International Relations [electronic resource] /
No full textThis last one out of four volumes by Richard Ned Lebow in this book series focuses on various fields of social sciences and their connection to international politics. The author writes about topics in psychology, tragedy, and ethics. All of these fields are being put into relation with political aspects, especially international relations.Introduction -- Understanding Tragedy and Understanding International Relations -- Learning from Tragedy and Refocusing International Relations -- German Jews and American Realism -- Nixon in Hell.This last one out of four volumes by Richard Ned Lebow in this book series focuses on various fields of social sciences and their connection to international politics. The author writes about topics in psychology, tragedy, and ethics. All of these fields are being put into relation with political aspects, especially international relations
Visualising the impact of changes to precision grammars
Full text linkDeposited with permission of the author © 2010 Ned LetcherThe development of precision grammars is an inherently resource intensive process. In this thesis we investigate approaches for providing grammar engineers with greater feedback on the impact of changes made to grammars. We describe two different visualisations which are created by comparing parser output from two different states of the grammar. The first involves the ranking of features found in parser output according to their magnitude of change so as to provide a low-level picture of the affected parts of the grammar. The second involves performing clustering over sentences whose parsability has changed in an attempt to find related groups of changes and accompanying sentences which exemplify each locus of change. These approaches provide complimentary avenues of feedback which can hopefully improve the efficiency of the grammar engineering development process
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