97 research outputs found
Louis Mandler, (1868-1944), purchased by Kate Mandler on April 12, 1945.
No full textDocuments regarding the headstone for Louis Mandler, (1868-1944), purchased by Kate Mandler. The marker was placed at Forest Cemetery, Lot 176 N 1/2, Section VR-1 in Toledo, Ohio. The stone is duplicate of Nancy T. Causey, (1829-1903) and made of Barre-R.O.A. with Sand Blast letters. Rubbings is included
Rolston, Holmes (1932- ): American environmental and religious philosopher (Causey)
No full textReprinted in 2nd edition (1998): 898-899. Reprinted in Environmental Encyclopedia, 3rd edition, 2, N-Z: 1224-1225, Bortman, Marci, Peter Brimblecombe, Mary Ann Cunningham, William P. Cunningham, and William Freedman, eds. Detroit: Thomson/Gale, 2003.Includes bibliographical references.Rolston is the father of environmental ethics. As such he occupies a singular place of importance in modern philosophy. He has devoted his distinguished career to plausibly and meaningfully interpreting the natural world from a philosophical perspective and is regarded as one of the world's leading scholars on the philosophical, scientific, and religious conceptions of nature
Global effects of COVID-19 on routine childhood immunizations
No full textThesis (Master's)--University of Washington, 2020In 2020 the COVID-19 pandemic and policies to reduce social contact have impacted health service delivery across the world. Interruptions in routine childhood immunizations without catch-up vaccination are likely to lead to outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases. We estimated the short-term effects of COVID-19 on vaccine coverage for the first does of measles-containing-vaccine (MCV1) and the third dose of diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis (DTP3) in 2020 in 204 countries and territories. Utilizing mobility data from mobile phone users as a proxy for COVID-19 disruptions and various sources of vaccine coverage data including caregiver surveys, administrative data, and electronic medical records, we implemented a 2-stage spline modelling approach. For the second half of 2020 we generated estimates of vaccine disruptions based on projections of the COVID-19 pandemic and continued mobility reductions. Paired with estimates of expected 2020 vaccine coverage in the absence of COVID-19, we calculated the estimated 2020 coverage of DTP3 and MCV1 among 1-year-olds. In the absence of COVID-19, we estimated that 83.9% and 86.3% of children under 1 would receive vaccinations for DTP3 and MCV1; we expect COVID-19 related health-delivery interruptions to decrease 2020 global coverage to 72.7% (95% UI 69.1 – 74.7) and 72.7% (95% UI 69.2 – 74.8) for each of these antigens, far below the 2020 Global Vaccine Action Plan goal of 90% coverage. Disruptions are nearly universal, affecting nearly every country, with the highest disruptions in South Asia, Latin American and Caribbean, and High-income countries. In order to prevent outbreaks of measles and other vaccine-preventable diseases, national governments must act quickly to restore routine immunization programs for children and perform catch-up vaccinations for those missing vaccines including adapting data information systems to capture these efforts
USE OF ONE INSTEAD OF TWO OBSERVATIONS
No full textThis series contains research reports, written by or in cooperation with staff members of the Statistical Research Division, whose content may be of interest to the general statistical research community. The views re-flected in these reports are not necessarily those of the Census Bureau nor do they necessarily represent Census Bureau statistical policy or prac-tice. Inquiries may be addressed to the author(s) or the SRD Report Serie
Finding Visual Music in its Twentieth Century History
No full textVisual fine art and music are typically considered to be separate disciplines and separate art forms. This, however, is not the case for visual music. Visual music straddles both visual art and music. Visual music has come to prominence in both contemporary arts practice activity and research, but it evolved out of a series of historical developments by artists, theorists and commentators who explored forms of an integrated art of music and visual art through the invention, application and/ or use of science, theories of colour, technology, painting, cinema, video, music technology and early digital computers. This thesis examines visual music in its 20th century history, taking into consideration important precursors to visual music in the colour-tone analogies and experiments in natural science of the eighteenth century, the ensuing birth of the colour organ and colour music tradition of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and that continues on in the twentieth century to today, as one vein of visual music, in the real-time performance of colour, light and video in music performance works. The development of abstract art and absolute film of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries also played a significant role in the evolution of visual music, so much so that certain trends within visual music today are not entirely understandable without reference to this particular historical period of art and film. Development in music in the twentieth century likewise had a major impact on the shape of the content of much visual music, not only in terms of atonal music compositions but also in the particular efforts in creating musique concrète (Pierre Schaeffer et al.), for the purpose of television broadcasting. In a very important yet much overlooked respect, this thesis argues that visual music concrète is one way in which many composers (including the author of this thesis) has generated visual music.
The author has engaged in arts practice in the field of visual music and has contributed to the field since 1997. Her entry into visual music came from the perspective of music and music technology. The motivation for this research was to place the author s early visual music arts practice work in an art-historical context of the evolution of a visual music art in the twentieth century. The thesis has found that artworks described as visual music have two main characteristics that denotes its visual music status. The content of an art work can be a form of visible music in terms of the mathematical basis of vibratory phenomenon and its resultant visual patterns. Or, the visual music is a form of artistic expression that comprises an artist s desire to work with a relation between visual and music in the gathering together of the means, forms, conceptions of both visual art and music and related technologies and creating art works. The research relates some exciting discoveries, such as the experimental television work of the musique concrète composers and the television studios in France in the 1960s and their collaborative films and the innovative data approaches to a shared expression of visual and music in the Global Visual Music Project at the end of the twentieth century
Clinician perspectives of telehealth (Douglass et al., 2023)
No full textPurpose: The purpose of this study was to describe clinicians’ attitudes and beliefs about telehealth prior to the COVID-19 pandemic and establish a baseline measure for change.
Method: This study is a qualitative systematic review and meta-synthesis, using the Enhanced Transparency in Reporting the Synthesis of Qualitative Research guideline. Seven databases were searched. Studies were included if they used interviews or focus groups, included at least one or more rehabilitation professions in the sample, and addressed attitudes toward telehealth as a service delivery model.
Results: Nine studies met the inclusion criteria. Data were extracted and coded by the first author using thematic synthesis. Six primary themes were formed: (a) constant comparison of telehealth with in-person guides attitude and acceptance, (b) telehealth presents barriers and opportunities for communication, (c) lack of telehealth education and training impacts clinician confidence, (d) the flexibility of telehealth changes service delivery options and access for patients, (e) the telehealth environment creates challenges with safety and engagement, and (f) technical components and support are influential to the telehealth delivery process.
Discussion: This study provides evidence that clinician perceptions of telehealth are similar across disciplines within rehabilitation and other allied health fields. Views were generally positive. However, less experienced clinicians were more likely to have reservations about telehealth, indicating a need for more education and training. Clinical, research, and educational implications are discussed. It is recommended that these themes be utilized to support methods for increasing clinician acceptance of telehealth and achieving sustainable telehealth programs. The overall strength of the recommendation is moderate.
Supplemental Material S1. Study characteristics.
Supplemental Material S2. Search strategies.
Supplemental Material S3. Meta-synthesis themes.
Douglass, H., Lowman, J., & Causey-Upton, R. (2023). Clinician perspectives of telehealth pre-COVID-19: A systematic review and qualitative meta-synthesis. Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1044/2022_PERSP-22-00074
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Five New Arkansas Millipeds of the Genera Eurymerodesmus and Paresmus (Xystodesmidae)
No full textAuthor Institution: Fayetteville, Arkansa
Prescribed Szlenk index of separable Banach spaces
No full textInternational audienceIn a previous work, the first named author described the set P of all values of the Szlenk indices of separable Banach spaces. We complete this result by showing that for any integer n and any ordinal α in P, there exists a separable Banach space X such that the Szlenk of the dual of order k of X is equal to the first infinite ordinal ω for all k in {0, .., n − 1} and equal to α for k = n. One of the ingredients is to show that the Lindenstrauss space and its dual both have a Szlenk index equal to ω
Kilka uwag o wartości bursztynu dla ludzkości dawniej i dziś
No full textThis paper summarizes two areas of recent scholarship by the author concerning human appreciation and its various uses of amber from the Neolithic to the present and how they were intertwined in the research. As part of the University of Pennsylvania Human Flourishing project, amber was considered in light of its sourcing, artisanal approaches, manufacture, usages, and manners of sharing including bodily display and both private and public exhibition. For the subject of Amber, Africa and the African Diaspora, the focus was on two recent archaeological finds from an historic cemetery in New York (wherein were buried both freed and enslaved persons) and from the closed Rio di Janeiro Valongo Wharf site associated with the transatlantic trade in enslaved people. The analysis included the millennia-long trade to and usage in Africa as well as in the African diaspora.This paper summarizes two areas of recent scholarship by the author concerning human appreciation and its various uses of amber from the Neolithic to the present and how they were intertwined in the research. As part of the University of Pennsylvania Human Flourishing project, amber was considered in light of its sourcing, artisanal approaches, manufacture, usages, and manners of sharing including bodily display and both private and public exhibition. For the subject of Amber, Africa and the African Diaspora, the focus was on two recent archaeological finds from an historic cemetery in New York (wherein were buried both freed and enslaved persons) and from the closed Rio di Janeiro Valongo Wharf site associated with the transatlantic trade in enslaved people. The analysis included the millennia-long trade to and usage in Africa as well as in the African diaspora.Niniejszy artykuł podsumowuje dwa obszary ostatnich badań autorki dotyczących wartości oraz różnych zastosowań bursztynu na przestrzeni wieków – od neolitu po czasy współczesne – i ich przenikanie się w toku badań. W ramach projektu “University of Pennsylvania Human Flourishing” bursztyn został przeanalizowany pod względem jego pozyskiwania, podejścia artystycznego, produkcji, zastosowań i sposobów dzielenia się nim, w tym eksponowania go na ciele oraz wystaw – prywatnych i publicznych. W kontekście wykorzystania bursztynu w Afryce i przez afrykańską diasporę skupiono się na dwóch ostatnich znaleziskach archeologicznych z historycznego cmentarza w Nowym Jorku (na którym chowano zarówno ludzi wolnych, jak i pozbawionych wolności) oraz z zamkniętego dawnego nabrzeża Rio di Janeiro Valongo Wharf, związanego z transatlantyckim handlem niewolnikami. Analiza obejmuje trwający od tysiącleci handel i wyzyskiwanie Afryki, jak również afrykańskiej diaspory
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