201 research outputs found
Mixing Methods: Practical Insights from the Humanities in the Digital Age
No full textDigitality is a cause and a consequence of different data cultures. It applies to the 10 research projects that are included in this volume. They are rooted in various humanities disciplines such as art history, philosophy, musicology, religious studies, architectural history, media studies, and literature studies. As diverse as the disciplines are the objects and their formats, which are the subject of this book. The cultural data of the projects include recordings of music and spoken word, photographs and other types of images, handwriting, typoscripts and maps. The oldest material dates back to 500 BCE, followed by medieval times, the 18th and 19th centuries, early 20th century and the present. All projects share that they study their material with digital methods, although digitality comes into play at different moments and layers in each of the projects. Hardly readable manuscripts from the 18th century have to be treated with specialized OCR-methods while Plato’s texts are already available in digital form, and therefore open up other affordances for analysis. Special analysis possibilities had to be developed for certain image sources. For all projects, however, it is equally true that only the digitization of the objects makes them accessible to the methods that are the subject of this book.History, Form & Aesthetic
The Nurse\u27s Role in Promoting Optimal Health of Older Adults: Thriving in the Wisdom Years
No full textDiana Mager is a contributing author, Chapter 16 - Living safely in the community.
Book description: Why focus on the negative aspects of growing old while most older adults are leading positive, fulfilling, and active lives even while dealing with the changes associated with aging and chronic illnesses? Promote healthy aging; learn what it means to age successfully; and develop the tools and resources that can optimize well-being during the later years in life with the guidance you\u27ll find inside. The author, a nationally recognized expert in the field of gerontology addresses the physical, psychosocial, and spiritual needs of older adults based on a holistic, mid-range nursing theory of successful aging. Contributions from healthcare professionals in exercise physiology, nutrition, pharmacy and elder law help you understand how these disciplines work together to benefit patients.https://digitalcommons.fairfield.edu/nursing-books/1034/thumbnail.jp
Computer Vision and Architectural History at Eye Level:Mixed Methods for Linking Research in the Humanities and in Information Technology
No full textInformation on the history of architecture is embedded in our daily surroundings, in vernacular and heritage buildings and in physical objects, photographs and plans. Historians study these tangible and intangible artefacts and the communities that built and used them. Thus valuable insights are gained into the past and the present as they also provide a foundation for designing the future. Given that our understanding of the past is limited by the inadequate availability of data, the article demonstrates that advanced computer tools can help gain more and well-linked data from the past. Computer vision can make a decisive contribution to the identification of image content in historical photographs. This application is particularly interesting for architectural history, where visual sources play an essential role in understanding the built environment of the past, yet lack of reliable metadata often hinders the use of materials. The automated recognition contributes to making a variety of image sources usable for research.</p
Correction de fronts d'onde de faisceaux lasers impulsionnels par mélange d'ondes photoréfractif.
No full textNous avons démontré que la correction de fronts d'onde de faisceaux lasers impulsionnels (nanoseconde) pouvait être réalisée par mélange d'ondes dans un cristal photoréfractif. Nous avons commence par déterminer le matériau photoréfractif le mieux adapte pour cette application. Pour des raisons d'efficacité photoréfractive et de tenue en puissance, notre choix s'est porte sur le titanate de baryum. Cela a conditionne le choix de la longueur d'onde utilisée (532 nm) pour cette démonstration. Nous avons étudié un premier dispositif de correction base sur le transfert d'énergie d'un faisceau fort vers un faisceau faible qui, par mélange d'ondes photoréfractif, peut être obtenu sans qu'il y ait de transfert de phase. Dans cette étude nous avons mesure les variations de l'amplification en fonction de différents paramètres (cohérence temporelle, rapport des énergies des faisceaux) et observe les variations de l'effet photorefractif en fonction de la densité de puissance dans le titanate de baryum. Nous avons aussi démontré la correction des déformations introduites par un objet de phase et cela pour différentes densités d'énergie incidente. Une deuxième méthode de correction est basée sur la compensation d'un aberrateur de phase par double passage. On a commence par préciser la notion de conjugaison de phase. Puis, nous avons étudié en particulier un miroir a conjugaison de phase auto pompe, l'oscillateur a boucle de réaction, qui fonctionne sur le principe du mélange a quatre ondes dans un cristal photoréfractif. Nous avons montre expérimentalement que des transformations des faisceaux dans la boucle de réaction améliorent la qualite de la conjugaison de phase et nous avons réalisé la compensation d'objets de phase par double passage en régime impulsionnel. La dernière partie est consacrée a l'étude comparative des deux dispositifs tels qu'ils pourront être mis en oeuvre pour la correction dynamique des lentilles thermiques dans les amplificateurs lasers solides
Correction de fronts d'onde de faisceaux lasers impulsionnels par mélange d'ondes photoréfractif.
No full textNous avons démontré que la correction de fronts d'onde de faisceaux lasers impulsionnels (nanoseconde) pouvait être réalisée par mélange d'ondes dans un cristal photoréfractif. Nous avons commence par déterminer le matériau photoréfractif le mieux adapte pour cette application. Pour des raisons d'efficacité photoréfractive et de tenue en puissance, notre choix s'est porte sur le titanate de baryum. Cela a conditionne le choix de la longueur d'onde utilisée (532 nm) pour cette démonstration. Nous avons étudié un premier dispositif de correction base sur le transfert d'énergie d'un faisceau fort vers un faisceau faible qui, par mélange d'ondes photoréfractif, peut être obtenu sans qu'il y ait de transfert de phase. Dans cette étude nous avons mesure les variations de l'amplification en fonction de différents paramètres (cohérence temporelle, rapport des énergies des faisceaux) et observe les variations de l'effet photorefractif en fonction de la densité de puissance dans le titanate de baryum. Nous avons aussi démontré la correction des déformations introduites par un objet de phase et cela pour différentes densités d'énergie incidente. Une deuxième méthode de correction est basée sur la compensation d'un aberrateur de phase par double passage. On a commence par préciser la notion de conjugaison de phase. Puis, nous avons étudié en particulier un miroir a conjugaison de phase auto pompe, l'oscillateur a boucle de réaction, qui fonctionne sur le principe du mélange a quatre ondes dans un cristal photoréfractif. Nous avons montre expérimentalement que des transformations des faisceaux dans la boucle de réaction améliorent la qualite de la conjugaison de phase et nous avons réalisé la compensation d'objets de phase par double passage en régime impulsionnel. La dernière partie est consacrée a l'étude comparative des deux dispositifs tels qu'ils pourront être mis en oeuvre pour la correction dynamique des lentilles thermiques dans les amplificateurs lasers solides
Simulation scenarios for nurse educators: Making it REAL
No full textDiana Mager is a contributing author: Diabetic Home Care Patient with Elevated Blood Sugars, Post Operative Care Following an Appendectomy (with Jean Lange), and Building a Learning Resource Center (with Karen Daley and Suzanne Campbell).
Book description: Computerized patient simulation is an exciting and innovative pedagogical method that allows nurse educators to prepare student nurses for the challenges of clinical practice. This book serves as a step-by-step guide to designing and developing simulated scenarios, and integrating them into nursing curriculums. The authors provide concrete information about the use of simulation in a variety of programs, courses, and schools with flexible simulator uses, including live actors and static mannequins. This book also provides options for building a learning resource center, and offers guidance on faculty development. Additionally, the contributors present 17 exemplars of actual scenarios in multiple clinical areas, as well as testimonies of practicing faculty.https://digitalcommons.fairfield.edu/nursing-books/1035/thumbnail.jp
Mathematics and/as Humanities: Linking Humanistic Historical to Quantitative Approaches
No full textThe article reflects the state of mathematics between the natural sciences and the humanities. By arguing that mathematics is a humanities subject, it suggests a close connection between mathematics and urban morphology studies. This also applies to the discrepancy between quantitative and qualitative methodological approaches. New types of research based on quantitative methods reveal previously unknown aspects of urban phenomena. They will play an increasingly important role in future research, and it is a challenge for the humanities to effectively integrate mathematical perspectives on the human habitat.Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.History, Form & Aesthetic
Neither past nor present : Authenticity and late twentieth-century architectural heritage
No full textIt was the present moment. No one need wonder that Orlando started, pressed her hand to her heart, and turned pale. For what more terrifying revelation can there be than that it is the present moment? That we survive the shock at all is only possible because the past shelters us on one side and the future on another. But we have no time now for reflections.(Virginia Woolf, Orlando)How long does the present moment last? Where and when does the past begin and how does the present end? In physics-or more precisely in the special theory of relativity-the present can be defined as the coordinate origin in a spacetime diagram- A n unextended point that separates an observer's past and future light cones. From that point of view, the present has no duration at all; the past instantly assimilates the future without any hesitation in between. However, time perception tells us that we actually experience a 'here and now'. Psychologists believe that the time range we perceive as the present, the socalled specious present, lasts about three seconds-the interval duration after which the brain may be said to reset its attention. This is already infinitely more than no duration at all but this recognition is still not enough to explain concepts like the present time or 'today' as an indicator of the contemporary. In the domain of history, the present seems to be a much more complex construction. When we speak of phenomena as contemporary, we place them in an extended present. We concede that the present encompasses the recent past and the near future- A temporal range that provides a stage for the actions and reactions that shape our world.History, Form & Aesthetic
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