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Report on Meteorological Research March 1, 1935 (m-1)
No full textThe object of the report was to elucidate in detail the various features of the research program in meteorology being carried on at the Daniel Guggenheim Airship Institute in Akron, Ohio. Mr. L. J. Fangman, of the U.S. Weather Bureau, was collaborating with the author in carrying out work such as a study of autographic records of the various meteorological elements during frontal passages with a view to the possible prediction of the intensity of the accompanying disturbance as it may affect the operation of aircraft and a study of atmospheric gustiness with a view to finding the dependence between frequency end amplitude of velocity fluctuations and the vertical temperature and velocity gradients
(Fourth) Report on Meteorological Activities at the DGAI (8-1-36)(Weather Bureau Copy)
No full textThis report is on the investigations of frontal phenomena at the Daniel Guggenheim Airship Institute in Akron, Ohio from January 1, 1935 through August 1, 1936. The investigation was carried out with the cooperation of the U.S. Bureau of Aeronautics, the U.S. Weather Bureau, the California Institute of Technology, and the Guggenheim Airship Institute. Mr. R.C. Robinson of the Weather Bureau cooperated with the author in carrying out the investigation. The object of the investigation was to determine the intensity of the atmospheric disturbances (i.e. rapidity of wind shift and gustiness) accompanying the passage of cold fronts, along with a study of the characteristics of the air masses involved and other features which might affect the intensity of the disturbance. The report treated thirty cold fronts which passed the station during 1935 to 1936
Archives and Images as Repositories of Time, Language, and Forms from the Past: A Conversation with Daniel Eisenberg
No full textThe impact of team preferences on soccer-offside judgments in laypersons
No full textVersion 1.1.0: Wir haben die Rohdaten von Experiment 4 (das im Appendix von Wühr, Fasold & Memmert, 2020, berichtet wird) eingestellt. Version 1.1.0: We added the raw data from Experiment 4 (which is reported in the Appendix to Wühr, Fasold & Memmert, 2020). --------------------------------------------------------- The present study investigates the impact of team preferences on the accuracy of offside judgments. In Experiments 1 and 2, supporters of two German soccer clubs (i.e. Borussia Dortmund and FC Schalke 04) judged offside in artificial scenes from a match between the clubs. We expected that supporters of both clubs would less frequently report the offside position of a forward from the preferred team. The results of Experiment 1 partly confirmed the predictions. Both groups reported the offside position of a yellow forward less frequently than that of a blue forward, and this effect was much larger for supporters of Borussia Dortmund than for supporters of Schalke 04. The difference between groups could be attributed to team preferences. The fact that team preferences had a weaker effect in supporters of Schalke 04 was attributed to an unexpected perceptual effect that increased the accuracy of offside judgments for blue forwards in both groups. Experiments 2 and 3 demonstrated the effect of team preferences and the perceptual effect, respectively, in isolation. In summary, the results of our experiments provide evidence for (a) an effect of team preferences and (b) an effect of shirt-background contrast on offside judgments in soccer.Version 1.1.0: Wir haben die Rohdaten von Experiment 4 (das im Appendix von Wühr, Fasold & Memmert, 2020, berichtet wird) eingestellt. Version 1.1.0: We added the raw data from Experiment 4 (which is reported in the Appendix to Wühr, Fasold & Memmert, 2020). --------------------------------------------------------- The present study investigates the impact of team preferences on the accuracy of offside judgments. In Experiments 1 and 2, supporters of two German soccer clubs (i.e. Borussia Dortmund and FC Schalke 04) judged offside in artificial scenes from a match between the clubs. We expected that supporters of both clubs would less frequently report the offside position of a forward from the preferred team. The results of Experiment 1 partly confirmed the predictions. Both groups reported the offside position of a yellow forward less frequently than that of a blue forward, and this effect was much larger for supporters of Borussia Dortmund than for supporters of Schalke 04. The difference between groups could be attributed to team preferences. The fact that team preferences had a weaker effect in supporters of Schalke 04 was attributed to an unexpected perceptual effect that increased the accuracy of offside judgments for blue forwards in both groups. Experiments 2 and 3 demonstrated the effect of team preferences and the perceptual effect, respectively, in isolation. In summary, the results of our experiments provide evidence for (a) an effect of team preferences and (b) an effect of shirt-background contrast on offside judgments in soccer
Daniel Akech
No full textabstract: Daniel was a little boy when the war came to his village. He witnessed people being shot and running for shelter. There was no food or water so he drank urine and ate tree leaves.
“Lost Boys Found” is an ongoing, interdisciplinary project that is collecting, recording and archiving the oral histories of the Lost Boys/Girls of Sudan. The collection is a work-in-progress, seeking to record the oral history of as many Lost Boys/Girls as are willing, and will be used in a future book.Age: 24Region: Upper NileThis picture and bio was donated to the "Lost Boys Found" oral history project from The Arizona Lost Boys Cente
Daniel Emmett postcard
No full textPostcard of Daniel Emmett and his home in Mount Vernon, Ohio. Emmett is considered to be the author of the antebellum song "Dixie," written in 1859, which became the unofficial song of the Confederate soldiers during the American Civil War. He was born in Mount Vernon in 1815 and taught himself the fiddle, and later became associated with minstrel shows and helped to define that genre. Minstrel shows traveled around the United States, presenting skits and musical performances. Emmett also composed many other songs, including "Old Dan Tucker," "Turkey in the Straw," and "The Blue Tail Fly." He died in 1904
Daniel Jau Maper
No full textabstract: Daniel Jau Maper was herding cattle when Arabs attacked his village.
“Lost Boys Found” is an ongoing, interdisciplinary project that is collecting, recording and archiving the oral histories of the Lost Boys/Girls of Sudan. The collection is a work-in-progress, seeking to record the oral history of as many Lost Boys/Girls as are willing, and will be used in a future book.Age: 27Region: Upper NileThis picture and bio was donated to the "Lost Boys Found" oral history project from The Arizona Lost Boys Cente
Daniel A. Ngor
No full textWhen Daniel was five years old Arab soldiers attacked his village.
“Lost Boys Found” is an ongoing, interdisciplinary project that is collecting, recording and archiving the oral histories of the Lost Boys/Girls of Sudan. The collection is a work-in-progress, seeking to record the oral history of as many Lost Boys/Girls as are willing, and will be used in a future book.Age : 23Region: Upper NileThis picture and bio was donated to the "Lost Boys Found" oral history project from The Arizona Lost Boys Cente
The role of individual creativity levels in the cognitive and emotive evaluation of complex multimedia stimuli. A study on behavioral data and psycho-physiological indexes
No full textThe main aim of this research was to investigate if and how different individual levels of creativity can influence, together with other moderating variables like personality traits and gender, the emotional and cognitive elaboration of complex multimedia stimuli, intended in this study as creative commercials built on narrative association of images and music.
We worked with a sample of 25 individuals, university students (date of birth, Mean = 1985, SD = 9.51), 10 males and 15 females.
We chose 4 commercials that had these characteristics: were not broadcasted in our country, so that participants could not be familiar with them, had a narrative format but were composed only by images and music. The selected videos (Axion, Mc Donalds, Nissan and Vodafone) were pre tested with a sample of 40 students in order to assess that they were able to convey different emotional states, but were equivalent under any other aspect (cognitive complexity, perceived complexity).
While participants’ watched the videos their behavioural indexes were recorded used Eye-tracking technology, while their psycho-physiological activation was recorded by bio-feedback equipment set in order to measure skin conductance level, temperature, blood pressure, blood pulse rate.
After watching the videos, individuals were also asked to rate them on an affective rating scale (assessing their activation with respects to 18 different emotive states), also their incidental memories about details of each commercial was measured.
Individual differences were measured using Torrance TTCT (figural sub-test) and ITAPI-G (Italian Personality Inventory – General form).
Results highlighted how different videos actually elicited different reactions both an emotive and cognitive level. These data, already emerged from the post-test were confirmed by behavioural and psycho-physiological indices.
Creativity levels appear to be a relevant variable to better explain differences in video processing. Less creative individuals are more activated by all videos, while extremely creative individuals appear to be able to anticipate the cognitive structure of the artefact and are less activated during the fruition. It is also interesting to highlight how this difference, well mirrored by both psycho-physiological data and self- report data does not emerge in the behavioural data. So apparently both creative and not creative individuals explore the videos using the same visual strategies, but then process the information differently.
The moderating effects of gender and personality traits on these main effects are also discussed in the chapter
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