278 research outputs found
Declaration of Intention of Joseph Bock
No full textDeclaration of Intention to become a citizen of the United States, as filled out and signed by: Joseph Bock
Applicant age:28
Occupation: Baker
Country of Origin: Germany
Date of Birth: 24 November 1888
Sailed to the US aboard the vessel: Prinz Friedrich Wilhelm
City of residence at time of declaration: Atlantic City, NJ
Declaration submitted and sworn on date: 12 January 191
HARD ENGINEERING Propositions for Future Ruins
No full textMaterial products, no matter how grandiose or technologically advanced, are invariably subject to physical decay. This exhibition explores sites of urban transformation, development and decline to consider how we navigate and repurpose the future ruins of our urban surroundings.
Increasingly produced and experienced outside the gallery, art often takes the form of interventions in public spaces to create critical responses and insights into urban change. These practices explore how the urban environment is produced by everyday acts and how the city is constructed from material and immaterial structures of civic organisation, representation, power and control. Hard Engineering addresses this broad range of issues with critical cartographies that explore how we think about navigating the city. These take the form of maps, charts and urban guides that assess how counter-narratives, contested histories and overlooked memories can be revived and redeployed within a range of urban contexts undergoing rapid transformation.
The exhibition at Museu Nacional De Historia Natural e da Ciencia includes six visual and text guides to Lisbon that are the result of new collaborations across disciplines (Art, Architecture, Civic Engineering, Physical and Human Geography and Social Anthropology). The guides set out to reimagine the contemporary urban environment by exploring overlooked livelihoods, traces of profound social mutation, and the scars of past natural disasters (earthquakes, climate change), economic crisis (industrial decline, poverty) and human conflict (the aftermath of war, migration). They address sites whose relation to the past is now unclear, focusing on fragments of architecture and municipal ruins to suggest possible future models of use. The film installation, situated in the main riding hall, extends these themes and approaches with a series of short films made by each of the artists involved in the city guides. The films are projected onto a large tarpaulin sheet, the ubiquitous temporary dressing of any city that is undergoing ‘regeneration’. This installation offers short movingOimage episodes of transformation and decline, thoughts and propositions for identifying and navigating the future ruins of the city.
Included in the exhibition are a series of readings from the publication TEGEL: Speculations and Propositions. In 2012, Tegel airport in Berlin became the point of speculation for a group twentysix artists and writers, who were invited to consider the geometry of Meinhard von Gerkan’s 1964 design, reflect on the history of the building and imagine its future following its proposed decommissioning after the construction of nearby Brandenburg International Airport. The seven readings explore the material, political and imaginary future of the airport through short stories, infrastructural critique and Sci-Fi narratives – a future further complicated by the fact that it continues to operate long after the construction of Brandenburg, originally intended to replace it
É a teoria do sentimentalismo construtivo de Jesse Prinz de fato construtivista?
No full textRecently, the constructivist position in metaethics has attracted and inspired a number of comments, both those who share its main thesis and see it with enthusiasm, as those who see it with some skepticism. One of the important constructivist theories in this area is that of Jesse Prinz. The central thesis of the author is that if morality depends on feelings, then it is a building, and if it is a building, then it can vary across time and space. The theory of constructive emotionalism, so called Prinz relies on two key assumptions which are a basis for the other. The first idea is that the feelings are the basis for all value judgments that are made and that these values can be studied historically and anthropologically to explain why some of them persist and because others have disappeared. The second idea is that feelings create the moral, and that moral systems can be created in space and time in different ways. Thus, the problem of work to be explored in this paper is to verify to what extent the theory Prinz agrees with the main theses of other constructivist theories and this is not the case, why she does not.Recentemente, a posição construtivista em metaética tem atraído e inspirado uma série de comentários, tanto daqueles que compartilham de suas principais teses e veem-na com entusiasmo, quanto daqueles que a veem com certo ceticismo. Uma das importantes teorias construtivistas nessa área é a de Jesse Prinz. A hipótese central do autor é de que se a moralidade depende dos sentimentos, então ela é uma construção, e se ela é uma construção, então ela pode variar através do tempo e do espaço. A teoria do sentimentalismo construtivo, assim chamada por Prinz, baseia-se em duas premissas centrais, as quais são uma fundamento para a outra. A primeira ideia é de que os sentimentos são a base para todos os juízos de valor que são formulados e que estes mesmos valores podem ser estudados histórica e antropologicamente de modo a explicar porque alguns deles persistem e porque outros têm desaparecido. A segunda ideia é de que os sentimentos criam a moral, e que os sistemas morais podem ser criados espaço-temporalmente de diferentes maneiras. Assim sendo, o problema de trabalho a ser explorado nesse paper é verificar em que medida a teoria de Prinz está de acordo com as principais teses das demais teorias construtivistas e esse não for o caso, por que ela não o faz
Supporting Effective Online Learning Groups for eLearning Systems
No full textLearning in groups has been advocated to increase learning based on the social constructivist learning theory. ICT has been preferred to bridge the gap between distance learning students for possibilities to enhance the benefits of learning groups.
However, although learning groups can bring about meaningful learning, learning groups in online environments are often not working. To solve this problem, this study uses design science approaches to establish methods and factors that support effective online learning groups. Within design science three case studies were used. These case studies were used under three research areas: context of online learning groups, processes to support effective online learning groups and tools to support effective online learning groups. The study adopted mixed methods in the evaluation stage of the adopted design science.
Establishing the context of online learning groups laid a foundation for this study. This was done using a survey approach that covered the five regions in Uganda, semi-structured interviews with experienced online learning facilitators and observation of interaction logs of online courses at both the University of Agder and Makerere University. Initially, preliminary findings of effective online learning groups were established. The preliminary findings consist of the need for: study guide, trained online tutors, motivating and sustaining interaction, high levels of cognitive interactions, peer assessment based activities and ICT.
From the context of online learning groups, the Methods and Factors for Effective Online Learning Groups (FEOLG) were established. FEOLG include: supporting institutional online learning group policy; supporting institutional online learning group technology; quality of online learning group activity; quality of the online learning group; and quality of online learning group facilitation. The factors were evaluated using online learning courses based on existing Makerere University eLearning Environment (MUELE) and online learning group design.
The thesis contributes: methods for creating online learning groups, methods for structuring online learning group activities, methods for facilitating online learning groups, and the establishment of factors for supporting effective online learning groups
Konegens Kinderbücher #29
No full textHere is a pamphlet with a shepherd-clad wolf on its orange cover. That cover illustration was done by Mela Köhler. 36 pages. Full-page illustrations include Das Eiche und das Schwein (9); wolf and shepherd for Die Geschichte des Alten Wolfes (17); Die Gans (23); and Das Heupferd (33). Particular fables are not attributed to particular fabulists. The jewel of this pamphlet is, I believe, the cover picture.Language note: German11. bis 20. Tausen
PURE WATER VAPOR ABSORPTION MEASUREMENTS IN 6.3 MICRON BAND
No full textAuthor Institution: National Environmental Satellite Center, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; Astronomy Research Facility, University of MassachusettsSeven strong isolated lines in the pure water vapor absorption band at 6.3 have been measured at low pressures (1-3 mm of Hg) in the ONR 100-foot absorption cell with a path length of 93 meters, about one-half the path length of previous observations by Prinz. Different methods for determination of equivalent widths have been investigated and used to calculate strength-half-width products
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Patents and Technological Progress in a Globalized World ::Liber Amicorum Joseph Straus /
No full textIn the last two decades, accelerating technological progress, increasing economic globalization and the proliferation of international agreements have created new challenges for intellectual property law. In this collection of articles in honor of Professor Joseph Straus, more than 60 scholars and practitioners from the Americas, Asia and Europe provide legal, economic and policy perspectives on these challenges, with a particular focus on the challenges facing the modern patent system. Among the many topics addressed are the rapid development of specific technical fields such as biotechnology, the relationship of exclusive rights and competition, and the application of territorially limited IP laws in cross-border scenarios
Change in patellar height in medial and lateral unicompartmental knee arthroplasty: a clinical trial
No full textIntroduction: Evidence on patellar height changes following unicompartmental knee arthroplasty (UKA) is lacking. Therefore, this study compared the patella height in patients who underwent medial versus lateral UKA. Moreover, a subgroup analysis was conducted to investigate whether sex, age, and BMI of the patients exert an influence on the postoperative patellar height. Methods: Radiographs and hospital records of patients undergoing UKA were prospectively collected. Surgeries were performed by one author with long experience in UKA in a highly standardised fashion. The implants were fixed-bearing medial PPK (Zimmer Biomet, Warsaw, Indiana, USA) and fixed-bearing lateral ZUK (Lima Corporate, Udine, Italy). The patellar height was measured using the Insall-Salvati and Caton-Deschamps indices. Results: A total of 203 patients were included: 119 patients were included in the medial and 84 in the lateral UKA. The mean age of the patients was 68.9 ± 6.7 years, and the mean BMI was 28.1 ± 4.1 kg/m2. 54% (110 of 203 patients) were women. On admission, between-group comparability was found in age, BMI, sex, and length of the follow-up. No between-group and within-group difference was detected pre- and post-operatively in the Insall-Salvati and Caton-Deschamps indices in patients who have undergone medial versus lateral UKA. Concerning the subgroup analyses, no between-group and within-group difference was detected pre- and post-operatively in all comparisons according to sex, age, and BMI. Conclusion: No difference was found in patella height in patients who have undergone medial compared to lateral UKA. Furthermore, there was no evidence of an association between patient characteristics (sex, age, BMI) and patella height between medial and lateral UKA
Conférence : "The reception of antiquity in Early Modern Times: Historiography and Antiquarianism in Britain and Germany compared"
No full textJoseph Mallord William Turner, Dido building Carthage, or The Rise of the Carthaginian Empire, 1815, oil on canvas, 155.5 x 230 cm, London, National Gallery. Type : Conférence Dates : 31 août - 2 septembre 2017 Lieu : University of Bayreuth, History Department/Prinz-Albert-Society, Coburg, Germany The different views of antiquity, of one’s own, regional or local classical history and of 'antique‘ remains in various parts of Europe – and, in a comparative perspective, beyond – have received a ..
Conférence : "The reception of antiquity in Early Modern Times: Historiography and Antiquarianism in Britain and Germany compared"
No full textJoseph Mallord William Turner, Dido building Carthage, or The Rise of the Carthaginian Empire, 1815, oil on canvas, 155.5 x 230 cm, London, National Gallery. Type : Conférence Dates : 31 août - 2 septembre 2017 Lieu : University of Bayreuth, History Department/Prinz-Albert-Society, Coburg, Germany The different views of antiquity, of one’s own, regional or local classical history and of 'antique‘ remains in various parts of Europe – and, in a comparative perspective, beyond – have received a ..
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