1,231 research outputs found
From the Editor-in-Chief: Changes to Enhance the Author Experience
No full textJMBE Editor-in-Chief, Dr. Samantha Elliott, thanks past volunteers for their efforts and discusses several new author enhancements related to the recently expanded scope, including video tutorials, a self-assessment tool, and a thematic issue
Death Writes: Microbursts & The Clearing: a discussion on text, subject and craft with Elizabeth Reeder and Amanda Thomson - collaborators on microbursts and with Samantha Clark author of The Clearing
No full textDeath Writes is part of the University of Glasgow's interdisciplinary Arts-Lab, Reading and Writing Death and Dying.
Elizabeth Reeder, Amanda Thomson (collaborators on Microbursts) and Samantha Clark (author of The Clearing) will read and talk about their books and the writing, design and editorial processes they underwent. Both books deal with the intense time of being within parental illness, and consider experiences of illness, mental health, parental death, and various types of grief in ways that weave through and utilise artistic and multi-modal processes
Laboratory Exercises for Weather and Climate: Open Education Resource
No full textOER textbook created for PHS 111 by Samantha Langton, PhD.NASUNY DutchessPhysical Sciences, Engineering & TechnologyN/
198 - Samantha Mosier
No full textIncludes bibliographical references.Using pre-commercial thinnings in pine plantations has the potential to deliver sustainable biofuels. However, the removal of biomass from these plantations could reduce C inputs belowground and overall C storage. This study analyzes soil C and N stocks to estimate stock changes, as a function of soil type and different management systems. Soil cores were taken from 12 different southern pine plantations, representing 4 different soil types. Each site had 2 silvicultural regimes across 3 levels of pre-commercial thinning. Soils were separated into meaningful fractions to understand how much soil organic matter is bioavailable and how much is stabilized
Elaborative feedback: Engaging reward and task-relevant brain regions promotes learning in pseudoword reading aloud
No full textAlthough much is known about the cognitive and neural basis of establishing letter-sound mappings in learning word forms, relatively little is known about what makes for the most effective feedback during this process. We sought to determine the neural basis by which elaborative feedback (EF), which contains both reward-related and content-specific information, may be more helpful than feedback containing only one kind of information (simple positive feedback, PF) or the other (content feedback, CF) in learning orthography-phonology (spelling-sound) mappings for novel letter strings. Compared to CF, EF activated the ven- tromedial prefrontal cortex, implicated in reward processing. Compared to PF, EF activated the posterior middle temporal, superior temporal, and supramarginal gyri—regions implicated in orthography-phonology conversion. In the same comparison, EF also activated the left fusiform gyrus/visual word form area—implicated in orthographic processing. Also EF, but not CF or PF, modulated activity in the caudate nucleus. In a postscan questionnaire, EF and PF were rated as more pleasant than CF, suggesting that modulation of the caudate for EF may be due to the coupling of reward and skill content. These findings suggest the enhanced effectiveness of EF may be due to concurrent activation of reward-related and task-relevant brain regions.Peer reviewe
Reversing the Standard Neural Signature of the Word–Nonword Distinction
No full textThe distinction between letter strings that form words and those that look and sound plausible but are not meaningful is a basic one. Decades of functional neuroimaging experiments have used this distinction to isolate the neural basis of lexical (word-level) semantics, associated with areas such as the middle temporal, angular, and posterior cingulate gyri that overlap the default-mode network. In two functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) experiments, a different set of findings emerged when word stimuli were used that were less familiar (measured by word frequency) than those typically used. Instead of activating default-mode network areas often associated with semantic processing, words activated task-positive areas such as the inferior prefrontal cortex and supplementary motor area, along with multi-functional ventral occipito-temporal cortices related to reading, while nonwords activated default-mode areas previously associated with semantics. Effective connectivity analyses of fMRI data on less familiar words showed activation driven by task-positive and multi-functional reading-related areas, while highly familiar words showed bottom-up activation flow from occipito-temporal cortex. These findings suggest functional neuroimaging correlates of semantic processing are less stable than previously assumed, with factors such as word frequency influencing the balance between task-positive, reading-related, and default-mode networks. More generally, this suggests results of contrasts typically interpreted in terms of semantic content may be more influenced by factors related to task difficulty than is widely appreciated.Peer reviewed"© 2016 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Expose your transoms
No full textwritten by Samantha Gordon.Title from PDF caption (viewed on May 26, 2020)."Tips, Ideas & More to Help Preserve Oregon's Heritage."This archived document is maintained by the State Library of Oregon as part of the Oregon Documents Depository Program. It is for informational purposes and may not be suitable for legal purposes.Mode of access: Internet from the Oregon Government Publications Collection.Text in English
Duality of Function: Activation for Meaningless Nonwords and Semantic Codes in the Same Brain Areas
No full textStudies of the neural substrates of semantic (word meaning) processing have typically focused on semantic manipulations, with less consideration for potential differences in difficulty across conditions. While the idea that particular brain regions can support multiple functions is widely accepted, studies of specific cognitive domains rarely test for co-location with other functions. Here we start with standard univariate analyses comparing words to meaningless nonwords, replicating our recent finding that this contrast can activate task-positive regions for words, and default-mode regions in the putative semantic network for nonwords, pointing to difficulty effects. Critically, this was followed up with a multivariate analysis to test whether the same areas activated for meaningless nonwords contained semantic information sufficient to distinguish high- from low-imageability words. Indeed, this classification was performed reliably better than chance at 75% accuracy. This is compatible with two non-exclusive interpretations. Numerous areas in the default-mode network are task-negative in the sense of activating for less demanding conditions, and the same areas contain information supporting semantic cognition. Therefore, while areas of the default mode network have been hypothesized to support semantic cognition, we offer evidence that these areas can respond to both domain-general difficulty effects, and to specific aspects of semantics.I paid the open access fee, so this article should be "open access" from the journal.Peer reviewe
I disegni di Stella Bloch al confine tra danza e scrittura
No full textThe essay examines the artistic adventure of Stella Bloch, an American dancer active in the 1920s,author of drawings and theoretical contributions on dance. In her experience the practice isintertwined with the visual translation of the movement and with the development of a thought ondance, suggested by three revelations. Isadora Duncan, which constitutes the first impulse to dance.Bloch will study with her pupils and collaborate with their company. The East culture, that sheknows thanks to her mentor and husband Ananda Coomaraswamy, who introduces her to theknowledge of Asian art. African American culture, which revives the link between dance andcommunity that the West had lost. Through drawing, Stella Bloch will deeply knows these dancesby creating a border area between body techniques and writing processes.The essay examines the artistic adventure of Stella Bloch, an American dancer active in the 1920s,author of drawings and theoretical contributions on dance. In her experience the practice isintertwined with the visual translation of the movement and with the development of a thought ondance, suggested by three revelations. Isadora Duncan, which constitutes the first impulse to dance.Bloch will study with her pupils and collaborate with their company. The East culture, that sheknows thanks to her mentor and husband Ananda Coomaraswamy, who introduces her to theknowledge of Asian art. African American culture, which revives the link between dance andcommunity that the West had lost. Through drawing, Stella Bloch will deeply knows these dancesby creating a border area between body techniques and writing processes.Il saggio prende in esame l’avventura artistica di Stella Bloch, danzatrice americana attiva negli anni Venti, autrice di disegni sulla danza e di contributi teorici. Nella sua esperienza la pratica si intreccia con la traduzione visiva del movimento e con lo sviluppo di un pensiero sulla danza, forgiati da tre rivelazioni. Isadora Duncan, che costituisce il primo impulso alla danza. Bloch studierà con le sue allieve e farà parte del loro gruppo sposandone la filosofia. L’Oriente, che visita seguendo il suo mentore e marito Ananda Coomaraswamy, che la inizia alla conoscenza dell’arte e della cultura asiatica. La cultura afroamericana, che fa rinascere quel legame tra danza e comunità che l’Occidente aveva perduto. Attraverso il disegno, Stella Bloch farà sue queste danze creando una zona di confine tra le tecniche del corpo e i processi di scrittura
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