156 research outputs found
Martin Opitz’ "New Year’s Gift with Song”
No full textAt the turn of the year 1623/24, Martin Opitz published a song of praise honouring Christ’s birth in German Alexandrine verse: Lobgesang Uber den Frewdenreichen Geburtstag Unseres Herren und Heilandes Jesu Christi [Song of praise about the joyous birthday of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ]. This example of erudition is also very personal: The author speaks about his troubles during the gruesome Thirty Years War. It concludes with a Latin Sapphic ode petitioning for absolution and peace. Scholars have never appreciated the ode’s function: It derives its full meaning from the intended melody, which was well-known to the dedicatee.
Amazingly, many poets copied Opitz in writing epic-dramatic poems including song(s) to honour friends or superiors with a New Year’s dedication; they imitated his motifs and even his title by way of “aemulatio”. When Opitz’ tendency towards dramatic representation and visualisation is enhanced, we find the work comes close to another musical epic-dramatic genre, the actus. We encounter this in several academic communities, its finest example being a hardly known musical composition by Johann Rosenmüller to words by Johann Ziegler.Non UBCUnreviewedFacult
Hypothesizing about Reading Recovery
No full textProfessor Opitz\u27s article is one of two in this special issue not written by a Reading Recovery trained teacher. The author has examined the literature on Reading Recovery and attempted to puzzle out the reason(s) for its success. Trained Reading Recovery teachers will find both points of agreement and disagreement, and many points on which to establish a discussion. Opitz writes, ...we do not, I believe, know why the program works. Yet as Clay suggests in this issue, answers are learned in the year-long and continuing contact training sessions. Our understanding of why the program works does not come from information or research alone, but from reflec tive practice. Reading Recovery teachers continue to re flect on their learning and practice, and implicit in the whole Reading Recovery process is ongoing research and evaluation. We have chosen the article because it reflects questions raised by those who have searched the literature on Reading Recovery and are contemplat ing involvement in the program. Professor Opitz\u27s hy pothesizing is based on wide reading in the literature about Reading Recovery, and should generate many powerful questions for the dialogue between trained Reading Recovery personnel and educators considering program implementation
THE DIGITAL O&P WORKSHOP
No full textDigitalisation is the megatrend in healthcare, not only since the pandemic. We are two European digital health experts and industry leaders in the field of orthotics and prosthetics (O&P) and in this article we explored what are the underlying trends driving the adoption of digitalisation for customisation of prosthetics & orthotics. We showed that several trends in 3D image capture (input step), 3D modelling (processing step) and 3D printing (output step) currently converge and thus fuel the rapid transformation of the O&P industry. In short outlooks, we rated the probability and timing of adoption rates across the upcoming couple of years. We furthermore reviewed the impact of boundary conditions set by regulators as well as the reimbursement system. Towards the end of this article, we outlined a digital scenario of the near future by following around an orthotist during her work. We finished with a call-to-action targeting regulators, payors, prosthetists/orthotists, and patients to enable such a desirable future.
Article PDF Link: https://jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/cpoj/article/view/36349/28332
How To Cite: Opitz M, Fröhlingsdorf P. The digital O&P workshop. Canadian Prosthetics & Orthotics Journal. 2021; Volume 4, Issue 2, No.15. https://doi.org/10.33137/cpoj.v4i2.36349
Corresponding Author: Manuel Opitz, MECURIS GmbH, Lindwurmstraße 11, 80337 München, Germany.E-Mail: [email protected] number: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6098-188
Hemaodynamic results after transcatheter aortic valve implantation: Survey of 486 patients up to three years
No full textDie Katheter gestützte Aortenklappenimplantation ist eine noch junges Verfahren zur Behandlung betagter Patienten mit hochgradiger Aortenklappenstenose. Die entsprechenden Klappenprothesen sind seit 2007 in Deutschland zugelassene Medizinprodukte. Im Deutschen Herzzentrum München wurde bei insgesamt 486 Patienten zwischen Juni 2007 und Dezember 2010 eine Katheter gestützte Aortenklappenimplantation durchgeführt.
Zur Beobachtung der hämodynamischen Effizienz der Aortenklappenprothesen und des klinischen Verlaufs wurden die Patienten bis zu drei Jahre nachuntersucht. Echokardiographisch konnte eine signifikante und konstante Verbesserung der hämodynamischen Parameter festgestellt werden. Klinisch konnte eine Verbesserung des subjektiven Gesundheitsempfindens der Patienten und der Herzinsuffizienzkriterien nach NYHA beobachtet werden.Transcatheter aortic valve implantation is an emerging therapy for geriatric patients with severe aortic valve stenosis. Accordant valve prostheses are CE certified since 2007. 486 transcatheter aortic valve implantations were performed between June 2007 and December 2010 at the German Heart Center Munich.
Hemodynamic performance and clinical results were surveyed up to three years.
We found a significant and sustained improvement of echocardiographic hemodynamic parameters, NYHA class and state of health
Begründung statt Begrenzung absolutistischer Macht: Thomas Hobbes' Abkehr vom dualistischen Vertragsmodell
No full textRehm M. Begründung statt Begrenzung absolutistischer Macht: Thomas Hobbes' Abkehr vom dualistischen Vertragsmodell. In: Ferdowsi MA, Herz D, Schattenmann M, eds. Von himmlischer Ordnung und weltlichen Problemen. Festschrift zum 65. Geburtstag von Peter J. Opitz. Paderborn: Fink; 2003: 117-132
Recollection reduces unitised familiarity effect
No full textTwo types of encoding tasks have been employed in previous research to investigate the beneficial effect of unitisation on familiarity-based associative recognition (unitised familiarity effect), namely the compound task and the interactive imagery task. Here we show how these two tasks could differentially engage subsequent recollection-based associative recognition and consequently lead to the turn-on or turn-off of the unitised familiarity effect. In the compound task, participants studied unrelated word pairs as newly learned compounds. In the interactive imagery task, participants studied the same word pairs as interactive images. An associative recognition task was used in combination with the Remember/Know procedure to measure recollection-based and familiarity-based associative recognition. The results showed that the unitised familiarity effect was present in the compound task but was absent in the interactive imagery task. A comparison of the compound and the interactive imagery task revealed a dramatic increase in recollection-based associative recognition for the interactive imagery task. These results suggest that unitisation could benefit familiarity-based associative recognition; however, this effect will be eliminated when the memory trace formed is easily accessed by strong recollection without the need for a familiarity [email protected]
Montesquieu und die gefährlichen Genüsse des Orients
No full textMomente des Genusses lassen sich in einer Vielfalt von - mitunter überraschenden - Kontexten antreffen. Der Blick auf gesellschaftliche Normvorstellungen, Praxen und Akteur*innen zeigt lohnende - und genussvolle! - Perspektiven für die Forschung auf. Genuss ist in seiner warenförmigen Gestalt in der Alltagskultur ebenso zu finden, wie er als Statussymbol fungieren oder mit Widerständigkeit verbunden sein kann. Gabriella Hauch - eine der anerkanntesten österreichischen Geschlechterhistorikerinnen - befasst sich bereits in frühen Forschungen mit widerständigen Praxen, die immer wieder auch »genüssliche« Transgressionen sind. Im Sammelband zur Feier von Gabriella Hauchs 60. Geburtstag und wissenschaftlichem Schaffen denken Weggefährt*innen, Kolleg*innen und Freund*innen über Genuss in seiner historischen und aktuellen Erscheinungsform nach: von Subkulturen und Feiern über Reisen, Rausch und Exzess bis zu Fragen der Reglementierung und Verwissenschaftlichung von Genuss
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No full textPhotograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Second annual Mayflower lecture scheduled for Tuesday will feature a New York Educator clergyman author. Rev. Edmund Opitz a senior staff member of the Foundation of Economic Education at Irvington on Hudson will lecture at 8 p.m.
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