51 research outputs found
Corrigendum to ‘Surgical Outcomes in Patients with Congenital Cervical Spinal Stenosis’ [World Neurosurgery 141 (2020) e645-e650] (World Neurosurgery (2020) 141(e645-e650) (S1878875020312250), (10.1016/j.wneu.2020.05.252))
No full text© 2020 Elsevier Inc. The authors regret that the author Bryan S. Lee, M.D. was incorrectly omitted from the final publication. The author list should read as follows: Karam Atli, Vikram Chakravarthy, Aleem I. Khan, Bryan S. Lee, Don Moore, Michael P. Steinmetz, Thomas E. Mroz. The authors would like to apologise for any inconvenience caused
Technology Portal for Energy Efficient Buildings
No full textProject: Technology Portal for Energy Efficient Buildings
Date: August 2, 2012
Author: Larry Hermanson
Mentor: Daniel Studer
Cohort: Annie Mroz
Lab site: National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)
Buildings account for 71% of the electricity demand and 39% of the primary energy consumption in the United States. The Commercial Buildings Group at NREL provides builders, designers and building owners accurate information to significantly improve the energy efficiency of new and existing buildings. The Technology Portal for Energy Efficient Buildings will increase the accessibility of standardized and credible energy performance data for all building systems, thereby allowing building owners to better evaluate energy efficient design options and manufacturers to showcase their technology. We developed data entry forms (DEFs) for Packaged Roof Top HVAC Units and Heating Boilers for use in the Technology Portal. The DEFs define all of the pertinent performance data needed to evaluate performance in a broad range of applications. The DEF process involves a study of industry standards, performance codes, standard testing procedures, manufacturer literature, and research papers to find the relevant parameters needed to define performance. The DEF defines the standard units and test methods for each performance category. Each DEF is peer reviewed by industry experts. The DEFs must apply to multiple building use patterns in any climate zone. DEFs must not be biased toward a certain manufacturer or technology and must also allow flexibility for new innovation. NREL staff and contractors are concurrently working on web design, database development and additional DEFs for the Technology Portal. Initial release is scheduled for February 2013
Consumerism vs. sustainability: the emergence of new consumer trends in Poland
No full textThe emergence of market economy in Poland has created fertile ground for the development of consumerism. After decades of living in shortage economy environment Polish consumers have plunged into magic, colourful world of consumption. The basic objective of the paper is to determine if consumption patterns and consumer behaviour of Poles under new, market-driven economic regime are compatible with the tenets of sustainable consumption promoted by European Union (EU) agencies and international institutions. To this end the author conducted questionnaire research among Polish consumers in Warsaw; its findings are presented and interpreted in the paper.consumerism; consumption patterns; sustainable consumption; consumer trends; consumer behaviour; Poland; market economy.
Tàolù – The Mastery of Space
No full textThis paper explores the experience of space afforded by the practice or liàn of tàolù 练套路, the prearranged movement patterns of the Chinese martial arts. It examines the roots of tàolù in Chinese martial preparation, religious self-consecration and theatrical performance. It develops the structure and phenomenology of this practice with special attention to its exponents’ perceptions of negative space. Following an interdisciplinary approach, the author contextualizes embodied, martial knowledge in terms of Chinese social history, theatre and religious praxis
My name is Mróz. Remigiusz Mróz. On the creation of an author / literary brand in the Polish literary / cultural field
No full textPrzedmiotem artykułu jest analiza funkcjonowania w polskim polu kultury Remigiusza Mroza jako autora mającego na celu wykreowanie identyfikowanej z nim własnej marki literackiej. Celem przeprowadzonych badań było prześledzenie mechanizmów służących autokreacji marki literackiej w przestrzeni kultury mainstreamu z uwzględnieniem: uwarunkowań funkcjonowania polskiego rynku wydawniczego, sposobów wykorzystania mediów społecznościowych i opiniotwórczych w celach autoprezentacji oraz dyskursu krytycznego jego twórczości. Wnioski sformułowano w kontekście wyników badań współczesnego polskiego pola literackiego prowadzonych z perspektywy badań kulturowych.The subject of the article is the analysis of the functioning in the Polish cultural field of Remigiusz Mroz as an author aiming to create his own literary brand identified with it. The aim of the conducted research was to follow the mechanisms for self-creation of the literary brand in the mainstream culture, including: conditions of the Polish publishing market, ways of using social media and opinion-making media for self-presentation and critical discourse of his work. The conclusions were formulated in the context of the results of the research of the contemporary Polish literary field conducted from the perspective of cultural research
Speaking in a Visceral Language: From performer preparation to performance composition
No full textThis article presents the hypothesis that sophisticated psychophysical training is vital for the development of the creative relationship between the performer and the director. Using a fragment of original performance and with reference to training practices drawn from the Chinese martial arts this presentation explains how the author and his collaborator use psychophysical training to facilitate the creation "theatrical opposition." Originally a live lecture/demonstration, the article is supplemented by numerous illustrations of practical examples of original performance and Chinese martial arts training.
Résumé
Cet article, qui était à l’origine une conférence/démonstration en direct, montre en quoi l’entraînement psychologique et physique de haut niveau est d’une importance vitale pour le développement de la relation de création entre comédien et metteur en scène. À l’aide d’un extrait tiré de la représentation originale et d’exemples puisés des pratiques d’entraînement d’arts martiaux chinois, cette présentation explique comment l’auteur et son collaborateur se sont servis de l’entraînement physique et psychologique pour faciliter l’« opposition théâtrale » créative
The Sensitivity of an Empirical Model of Married Women's Hours of Work to Economic and Statistical Assumptions.
No full textThis study undertakes a systematic analysis of several theoretic and statistical assumption s used in many empirical models of female labor supply. Using a singl e data set (PSID 1975 labor supply data) the author is able to replic ate most of the range of estimated income and substitution effects fo und in previous studies in this field. He undertakes extensive specif ication tests and finds that most of this range should be rejected du e to statistical and model misspecifications. The two most important assumptions appear to be the Tobit assumption used to control for sel f-selection into the labor force and exogeneity assumptions on the wi fe's wage rate and her labor market experience. Copyright 1987 by The Econometric Society.
The integration of optical and InSAR data for land subsidence monitoring and its impact on environment of the Upper Silesian Coal Basin
No full textABSTRACT: It was demonstrated in many articles that interferometric satellite data (InSAR) from ERS-1/2 SAR sensor give the products from which a Digital Terrain Model can be extracted. A three-pass interferometry (DiffSAR) is a strong and crucial remote sensing technique to monitor of terrain movements like land subsidence. The practical results of InSAR technique application for land subsidence monitoring for the Upper Silesian Coal Basin, a densely urbanised, heavily industrialised area were demonstrated in many papers of second author. Mining subsidence causes damage to buildings and other structures, changes surface drainage patterns and can be associated to deep fracturing of the ground. Knowledge of the spatial distribution of the endangered area may help in landuse planning and compensation strategies. The main aim of the work presented in the paper was to demonstrate the synergism of optical and SAR data for environmental monitoring, precisely for land subsidence monitoring caused by coal mining activity and its impact on environment. The space maps in the form of color compositions were elaborated based on Landsat 5 optical data. To monitor the impact of coal mining activity on environment the maps showing land movements (subsidence) were elaborated from ERS SAR SLC data using Atlantis InSAR Workstation. Next, two remote sensing technologies (interferogram and multitemporal composition from ERS also with multispectral compositions from Landsat) were fused for improvement of the interpretation of land cover in the regions of subsidence. This kind of multisource spacemaps can be useful not only for environmental monitoring "ex post" but also for future urban and regional planning purposes
Thermionic emission microscopy of scandium thin film dewetting on W(100)
No full text© 2018 Author(s). Scandium thin films of 5-30 nm thickness deposited on clean W(100) surfaces de-wet from the tungsten surface when heated to temperatures \u3c 0.5 Tmelt. The dewetting temperature and the resulting droplet size are a function of the initial scandium film thickness
The impact of self-reflection and integrated pronunciation instruction on the intelligibility of Generation Z learners of French: A mixed methods study
No full textResearch in second language (L2) teaching and learning has shown that very early in the learning process, developing intelligible pronunciation is a paramount goal for students. This becomes clear in the way they describe their wish to communicate successfully with others (Hoyt-Oukada, 2003; Huensch & Thompson, 2017). Yet, in 2018, Ranta and Lyster showed that learners were rarely ready to be understood by native speakers due to lack of linguistic accuracy, including pronunciation. Indeed, with increasing constraints, like overcrowded curricula (Darcy, 2018; Gordon, Darcy & Ewert, 2013; Sicola & Darcy, 2015), it has been logistically difficult for foreign language (FL) instructors and administrators to attend to their students’ pronunciation individually and formatively. Yet, aiming for our students to achieve successful communication through intelligible speech is a realistic and attainable goal that can be addressed by research-based, innovative teaching methods. However, our current method of teaching foreign languages, the communicative method, tends to focus on whether students can understand, but not on whether they can be understood by native speakers unaccustomed to dealing with language learners. This is not a question of accent per se — some people have very strong accents, but are relatively easy to understand, and the converse is true as well. Students, thus, may display low levels of linguistic accuracy resulting in limited intelligibility (Ranta & Lyster, 2018). Ranta and Lyster (2018) thus argued for the re-integration of some form-focused instruction specific to pronunciation in the foreign language classroom and curriculum [by which learners are guided to pay attention to linguistic form in their pronunciation]. Indeed, explicit pronunciation instruction has been shown to foster intelligibility raising learners’ awareness to the sounds of the language (Derwing, 2018; Kennedy & Trofimovich, 2010).
Yet, according to Sturm (2019), no study has “addressed the way in which learners’ pronunciation improves over […] the courses that students need to […] fulfill most university language requirements” (pp. 35-36). This study aimed at addressing these pressing issues and at filling this research gap by longitudinally tracking students of French as a foreign language over the course of four semesters, as they advance in their foreign language requirement sequence. This research investigated the students’ learning process and outcomes related to their pronunciation. More generally, because of its innovative mixed methods design -merging quantitative and qualitative data collection and analysis - this study also advances research methodology in the field of Second Language Acquisition Teacher Education (SLATE).
The study built on research in foreign language teaching and learning methods, theories of L2 phonological acquisition and pronunciation assessment, as well as awareness theories. It was based on Levis’s (2005) Intelligibility principle, which promotes a more efficient and egalitarian approach to pronunciation teaching and learning. This thesis argues that reaching intelligibility should be a primary learning goal in the FL requirement classroom, and that learners should be able to be understood by native speakers unaccustomed to L2 learners even if an accent is retained.
This dissertation comprised two phases: first, a pilot study intended to test the research instruments, explore the use of self-evaluation for pronunciation purposes on intermediate learners, establish whether learners were able to self-assess reliably, and investigate if self-evaluations could help learners perceive and produce three phonological features of French. Second, based on the limitations from the pilot study, a four-semester-long experimental mixed-methods study on Generation Z French learners (born after 1995) was designed and implemented with the goal to examine whether and how self-reflection could complement integrated explicit instruction and support the development of perception and intelligible production of the two contrastive oral vowels /y/ and /u/, and liaisons. These two features were considered critical for intelligibility in French. Indeed, differentiating between the vowels /y/ and /u/ is crucial for many semantic contrasts (e.g., rousse = redhead / russe = Russian) (Violin-Wigent & Ruellot, 2018), while producing appropriate liaisons - a high-frequency phenomenon consisting in linking words together that appear every ten words on average (Adda-Decker, Fougeron, Gendrot, Delais-Roussarie, & Lamel, 2012) - is also important for both semantic and syntactic contrasts (e.g., ils ont = they have vs. ils sont = they are).
Results on perception tests and pre/post read-aloud production tests surrounding spelling-to-sound pronunciation lessons were compared between a Treatment group – exposed to instruction combined with self-reflection – a comparison group – only exposed to instruction– and a control group – exposed to neither instruction nor self-reflection. Moreover, responses by students from the Treatment group to open-ended self-reflection questionnaires were explored to document their learning process based on an Awareness Continuum theory positing a relationship between attention, noticing, introspection and understanding, and their influence on L2 pronunciation learning. Findings revealed that overall self-reflection combined with explicit instruction led to better learning outcomes and production gains when compared to explicit instruction alone and to oral natural input particularly in the first two semesters of the FL requirement sequence. This demonstrates that self-reflection is critical at the onset of learning a language for stable acquisition of intelligible pronunciation. The study concluded that a link between attention critical to Generation Z as they only have 8 seconds to decide what is worth their attention (Egnatz, 2018) and understanding may exist, but when this link is absent, learners using self-reflection may not linearly progress with their pronunciation. finally, pedagogical implications are drawn on how to attend to French learners’ pronunciation in the FL requirement classroom in an individual and formative manner.Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2022-05-01The student, Camille Meritan, accepted the attached license on 2020-04-26 at 19:40.The student, Camille Meritan, submitted this Dissertation for approval on 2020-04-26 at 19:43.This Dissertation was approved for publication on 2020-04-29 at 09:55.DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #15049 on 2020-08-25 at 17:40:47Made available in DSpace on 2020-08-27T00:50:00Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 13
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