565 research outputs found
Pervasive, disruptive, seductive, enabling: Designing technologies for learning and social innovation
No full text"There are no technological revolutions without cultural transformations." This is a quote from the book “The Internet Galaxy: Reflections on the Internet, Business, and Society” by Manuel Castells, in which the author explores the complexity of the social problems generated by the spread of the Internet.
Nowadays the Internet is no longer simply a means for connecting people through computers. The digital components of the network have materialized in things. Information has ceased to travel exclusively on the computer screen and moved onto physical objects, now able to talk to each other and with the environment.
The challenge is that this technological innovation will become a social innovation, and that individuals, society, institutions and companies will appropriate it, modifying it, transforming it, and experimenting with it.
This paper is a reflection on the role of technology in supporting social innovation. We will approach this topic from the perspective of interaction design, a discipline that studies social practices connected with use of technologies, and imagines new possibilities as well as new activities enabled by them.
The reflection will develop by presenting the outcomes of Light through Culture, an international educational project that aims to create a meaningful context for learning in which students reflect on socio-cultural issues together by building interactive installations
Presentation by Salvador Levy at the 2017 Jose Marti Breakfast
No full textLecture by Salvador Levy, Cuban author, actor and political prisoner.
Introduction by Sebastian Arcos, Associate Director, FIU Cuban Research Institute.
This is the 17th annual José Marti Scholarship Breakfast held at the BBC Wolfe University Center Ballrooms. This annual event was founded and led by FIU Vice Provost Emeritus, Dr. Raul Moncarz and is organized by the BBC José Martí Scholarship Breakfast Committee
New Marti Headmaster Appointed; School is Reorganized, Renamed
No full textAn article from the Journal Herald discussing the reorganization of The Marti School to what would become The Miami Valley School. In the article, the author speaks with the new headmaster of the school, Walter Truslow, regarding the changes at the school, tuition, and the elimination of the high school
Poetry in design
No full textThis paper describes an attempt to use poetry in design as an access door to experience cultural elements and embed them in the design of meaningful aesthetic interactions. Not only do poems tell a story, but their language and the way they play with the subtleties of that language also tell us a lot about cultural values, feelings, beliefs and judgments. This approach is exemplified by reporting on an educational activity carried out in the “Cultural Sensitivity” module of the Master’s Degree Program in Industrial Design at Eindhoven Uni-versity of Technology (TU/e). By illustrating and discussing actual implement-ed students’ projects, a conceptual framework for employing poetry in design is provided
Mario Marti e gli studi su Ludovico Ariosto
No full textEnOver the course of thirty-five years, from the mid-1950s to 1989, Mario Marti devoted constant attention to Ludovico Ariosto, probing in depth and with the usual methodological rigor the vast production of the Emilian writer. In this contribution we retrace the salient phases of this constant and lasting research work, underlining the particular ideological-spiritual consonance between the critic and the poet, especially with reference not so much to the Furioso as to the author of the Satire.ItNel corso di trentacinque anni, dalla metà degli anni '50 del Novecento e fino al 1989, Mario Marti dedicò attenzione costante a Ludovico Ariosto, scandagliando in profondità e con il consueto rigore metodologico la vasta produzione dello scrittore emiliano. Si ripercorrono in questo contributo le fasi salienti di tale costante e duraturo lavoro di ricerca, sottolineando la particolare consonanza ideologico-spirituale tra il critico e il poeta, specie con riferimento non tanto al Furioso, quanto all'autore delle Satire
Marti\u27s Song for Freedom: Book Presentation by Author Emma Otheguy
No full textHe found freedom in the river that rushed to the sea and peace in the palmas reales that swayed in the wind. Freedom, he believed, was the inherent right of all men and women. But his home island of Cuba was colonized by Spain, and some of the people were enslaved by rich landowners. Enraged, Marti took up his pen and fought against this oppression through his writings. By age seventeen, he was declared an enemy of Spain and forced to leave his beloved island.
Marti traveled the world, speaking out for Cuba\u27s independence. But throughout his exile, he suffered from illness and homesickness. He found solace in New York\u27s Catskill Mountains, where nature inspired him once again to fight for independence. As he wrote in his seminal book Versos sencillos (1891),
Yo soy un hombre sincero De donde crece la palma, Y antes de morirme quiero Echar mis versos del alma.
I am a sincere man From where the palm tree grows, And before I die I want To say the verses of my soul.
Written in verse, Marti\u27s Song for Freedom is a beautiful tribute to a brilliant political writer and courageous fighter of freedom for all men and women.https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/cri_events/1376/thumbnail.jp
Mentored by Arrington
No full textMentored by Arrington
Moderated by Marti Bradley, Associate VP, University of Utah
Christine Rigby Arrington, Publisher and Editor
Kenneth and Audrey Godfrey, Historical Writers
Dwight Israelsen, Huntsman School Professor
Susan Arrington Madsen, Author and Arrington\u27s Daughter
Arthur Woodbury, Arrington Neighbor and Frien
The principles of pump-work : illustrated, and applied in the construction of a new pump without friction, or loss of time, or water, in working...
No full textby Benj. Marti
RNA structure alignment by a unit-vector approach
No full textMotivation: The recent discovery of tiny RNA molecules such as μRNAs and small interfering RNA are transforming the view of RNA as a simple information transfer molecule. Similar to proteins, the native three-dimensional structure of RNA determines its biological activity. Therefore, classifying the current structural space is paramount for functionally annotating RNA molecules. The increasing numbers of RNA structures deposited in the PDB requires more accurate, automatic and benchmarked methods for RNA structure comparison. In this article, we introduce a new algorithm for RNA structure alignment based on a unit-vector approach. The algorithm has been implemented in the SARA program, which results in RNA structure pairwise alignments and their statistical significance. Results: The SARA program has been implemented to be of general applicability even when no secondary structure can be calculated from the RNA structures. A benchmark against the ARTS program using a set of 1275 non-redundant pairwise structure alignments results in ∼6% extra alignments with at least 50% structurally superposed nucleotides and base pairs. A first attempt to perform RNA automatic functional annotation based on structure alignments indicates that SARA can correctly assign the deepest SCOR classification to > 60% of the query structures. © The Author 2008. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved
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